A Comparison of Authentication Protocols for Unified Client Applications

Floris Breggeman, Mohammed El-hajj, Florian Hahn

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Abstract

OAuth, LDAP, forward authentication, and proxy authentication are protocols that allow a service to use a third party for user authentication. We compare these protocols on a variety of aspects, concluding that OAuth offers the greatest end-user convenience, forward and proxy authentication are the easiest to implement for the client application, and LDAP puts restrictions on how to identify the end-users. We then demonstrate a single data structure that can be used to store a client application in all four protocols, overcoming their disparate ways of functioning.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)
PublisherIEEE
Pages1-7
Number of pages7
Volume10
ISBN (Electronic)979-8-3503-3559-0
ISBN (Print)979-8-3503-3560-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Nov 2023

Keywords

  • 2024 OA procedure

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