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and when MIT community members need to access MIT services from public

Wiki MarkupInternet Cafe's and other public machines such as those found at airports \ [ZEST:We

can have a separate conversation about the wisdom of people accessing sensitive

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protected access has the end-user's password going over the network unencryptedunmigrated-wiki-markup

on every web transaction. \ [Note: "Basic" authentication obscures the password

by base64 encoding it. Some vendors call this "encryption" and claim that

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at risk. This is also true of websites that use their own password database.

Wiki MarkupHowever in that situation only the passwords for that website are at risk \ [ZEST:yes, I

know people often use the same password, but at least in the simple password

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Web Authentication Comparisons Page 6 DRAFT 0.9 (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
*KX509 (aka "Junk Certificates")*KX509 (http://x509.org^{Image Removed}) is a combination of certificate based authentication and
password (or Kerberos) based authentication. It was developed by the University

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test implementation).
*"Pub Cookie" approaches*Pubcookie (http://pubcookie.org^{Image Removed}) is a project of the University of Washington.
The basic idea is to provide the simplicity of username/password login combined

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