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authentication-article-on-searchsoftwarequality

I forgot to mention that I have an article up on SearchSoftwareQuality: Stronger authentication needed for Web applications. Here's the gist:

In this article we consider three authentication processes in a typical complex Web application that requires security, such as online banking or brokerage transactions:

  • Session authentication -- validating the user to the site
  • Mutual or host authentication -- adding validation of the site to the user
  • Transaction authentication -- validating that the correct user is requesting the transaction
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