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In article <haase-161292215606@mac_dialin1.meediv.lanl.gov>,
haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase) wrote:
> 
> In article <brady-161292075059@jbrady.aero.org>, brady@osiapps.aero.org
> (John Brady) wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone tried using an in-line authentication box (like the
> > Digital Pathways Defender 5000) with ARA?
> > 
> > An in-line authentication box would sit between the answering
> > modem and the ARA server.  The user would have to prove his or her
> > identity before the authentication box would complete the connection
> > to the ARA server.  I guess the real question is can the ARA client
> > software support this dialog prior to completion of the ARAP connection.
> > 
> Why would you want to do that since on an ARA dial-in the user has to
> provide a valid username and password. Seems kind of redundant.
> 
> *******************************************************************
> Peter Haase                                   haase@meediv.lanl.gov
> Los Alamos National Laboratory                Applelink: HAASE
> Mechanical Electronic Engineering Division    505-667-2684

Reasons for needing external authentication:

1 -- We provide five different dial-in services for our employees and
would prefer not to enter and maintain account information in more that
one place.  That one place is the Defender 5000.

2 -- Simple passwords have been deemed unacceptable (by our security
folks),
so we use a little calculator-like device to generate a psuedo-random
sequence of passwords which is matched against an identically seeded
psuedo-random sequence.

3 -- Bureaucratic policy.

Enough reasons... Can any ARA experts out there pass judgement on whether
or not ARA will support in-line authentication?

John Brady                  **  brady@osiapps.aero.org
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