Re: I have some new FormAuthenticator code for Tomcat.

2005-06-29 Thread D M
Mark, Thanks for the reply. Sorry it took me a bit to get back to you on this. Comments inline. >>OK. I see this as just being a password that is so long that it has >>to be written down (eg on the USB key) and physically carried around >>by the user. There is an interesting debate here as to

Re: I have some new FormAuthenticator code for Tomcat.

2005-06-27 Thread D M
Hi Mark, Thanks for your comments. My responses inline. >1. Your reference to sending an encrypted user certificate file to the >server demonstrates a lack of understanding of PKI that undermines my >confidence that you know what you are doing when it comes to security. I think I wasn't being

I have some new FormAuthenticator code for Tomcat.

2005-06-27 Thread D M
Hi, I've been working on some code for Form authentication in Tomcat that I think you all might be interested in. In addition to implementing the current J2EE/Servlet spec for authentication (i.e. j_security_check with two keys: j_username, j_password authenticated with the Realm), it also off