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SmartJAAS SmartJAAS, a Smart Card Login Module for Java Authentication and Authorization Service.
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The latest JavaTM security package
JAAS
gives developers a way to control the behaviour of an applet and its
access to the local resources on a per-user basis in addition to the
classical per-origin and per-signature basis. This authorisation
service is supported by an authentication component which decides who
is the current user of the JavaTM
Virtual Machine. Fortunately, the JAAS designers have carefully disconnected the authentication task from other parts of the package: this task is performed by a login module and custom ones can be added when needed. This is the classical concept of Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM). In this paper [16 kB, PDF format] we describe an implementation of a JAAS login module which provides a strong authentication of users by smart cards. GDC 2000 Presentation [1.3 MB, PDF format] Sample programThis sample performs user authentication by smart card. The
dialog with the Gemplus card reader and the GPK 8000 smart card is
managed using OCF and GPK 8000 card services.
InstallTo install this sample, read the note. |