Authentication Update: Short Reports from the Field

[Tom Klingler]

6-22-99

A final reminder...

At the ALA Annual Meeting, Monday, June 28, 1999, 9:30 -- 11:00 a.m.,
at the Marriott New Orleans, Balcony M, the LITA SSSIG (Secure Systems
& Services Interest Group) will present:

"Authentication Update:  Short Reports from the Field."

1.  Remote Patron Authentication: the low-tech, free approach.
    Monica King, Ouachita Parish Public Library, Monroe, Louisiana, will
    describe a  Perl cgi-script  that authenticates users via their
    barcodes and sends a web page with instructions for remote
    access to the users' browsers.

2.  "Just Good Enough" Security.
    Dan Lester, of Boise State University, will describe how they
    authenticate off-campus users against their OPAC patron database and
    conceal the redirection of the user to the vendor's site, thus
    avoiding the hassles of a proxy server.

3.  Certificate-based Access Management of Web Resources, or, Welcome
    to the Bleeding Edge.
    Ariel Glenn, Columbia University, will describe several CGI-based
    and certificate-based projects at Columbia.

4.  John Stromquist of Obvia Corporation will describe his company's
    Remote Database Access (RDA) Service.


These four, 15-minute informal presentations will precede a brief
business meeting of the Interest Group, during which the membership of
the SSSIG (defined as anyone-who-shows-up) will:

a.  elect/draft/kidnap a vice-chair-elect, and

b.  begin planning for a program or preconference at Annual 2000 on
    authentication and security issues in conjunction with the LITA
    Distributed Systems IG.

All are welcome to attend.  Please mark your calendars and tell your
friends.



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Tom Klingler
Chair, LITA SSSIG
<tk at kent.edu>

Kent State University