IP Authentication (ipauth) -------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 07/27/1997 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Jeffrey Schiller Security Area Director(s): Jeffrey Schiller Steve Bellovin Security Area Advisor: Jeffrey Schiller Mailing Lists: General Discussion:awg@bitsy.mit.edu To Subscribe: awg-request@bitsy.mit.edu Archive: Description of Working Group: To brainstorm issues related to providing for the security and integrity of information on the Internet, with emphasis on those protocols used to operate and control the network. To propose open standard solutions to problems in network authentication. Goals and Milestones: OCT 88 RFC proposing A Key Distribution System (emphasis on ``A'' as opposed to ``THE''). MIT's Kerberos seems the most likely candidate here. OCT 88 Document to act as a protocol designers guide to authentication. OCT 88 RFC specifying an authentication format which supports multiple authentication systems. OCT 88 Document discussing the cost/benefit tradeoffs of various generic approaches to solving the authentication problem in the Internet context. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: None to date.