Technical Study: Security in Federated Naming
Technical Study: Security in Federated Naming
Copyright © 1997 The Open Group

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Technical Study
Security in Federated Naming
X/Open Document Number: E605


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This document is a Technical Study (see above). It analyses the Federated Naming specification (see referenced document Federated Naming) in relation to computer security. In particular, it describes the threats associated with naming services in general and relates these to the referenced Federated Naming Application Programming Interface (API).
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Referenced Documents

The following documents are referenced in this technical study:

Base GSS-API

CAE Specification, December 1995, Generic Security Service API (GSS-API) Base (ISBN: 1-85912-131-4, C441).

XDSF

Guide, December 1994, Distributed Security Framework (ISBN: 1-85912-071-7, G410).

Federated Naming

CAE Specification, July 1995, Federated Naming: The XFN Specification (ISBN: 1-85912-052-0, C403).

Readers may also be interested to refer to:

COAST

Schuba and Spafford, "Countering Abuse of Name-Based Authentication", COAST Laboratory, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University

DNSSEC

IETF, RFC 2065, Domain Name System Security Extensions.

IDUP

IETF, Internet-Draft, Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Application Program Interface.

IPSEC

IETF, Internet-Draft, IP Security Protocol.

SSL

IETF, Internet Draft and Netscape Communications Corporation, Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

Readers may refer to the IETF WWW site (http://www.ietf.org) to access further information on these Internet drafts.


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