Pretty Good Authentication

A tutorial seminar by Vinnie Moscaritolo vinnie@vmeng.com
Presented at Southern Oregon University - Nov 1, 2002

Abstract:

A discussion of the limitations of traditional user authentication
and authorization methods to control access of services over the
Internet. Why passwords are risky; attacks and exploits.
As an alternative, how to use OpenPGP to create a lightweight
but very secure authorization protocol to grant and transfer user
access privileges using authorization certificates signed with
strong public key cryptography.

Length: 60 minutes

Notes are available in PDF format.

Biography:

See Vinnie's Resume