LESSO: Legacy Enabling SSO

Author

Nishimura, Takeshi ; Sato, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. Center, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo

fYear

2008

fDate

July 28 2008-Aug. 1 2008

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

304

Abstract

Today, designing a complex information service system in a working organization has become a challenging problem especially in authentication. An SSO (single sign-on) system is designed to solve this problem. However, it is time and cost consuming to build an SSO that covers legacy software packages because each legacy package mostly has its own authentication engine and it is required to be restructured. We propose LESSO, legacy enabling SSO, to enable these legacy Web applications. LESSO provides certificate authentication and protocols to share authentication information among servers. We show that in LESSO, legacy applications are enabled without any modification to them, which implies its cost effectiveness.

Keywords

information services; message authentication; software maintenance; software packages; certificate authentication; information service system; legacy Web application; legacy enabling SSO; legacy software package; protocol; single sign-on system; working organization; Application software; Authentication; Costs; Engines; Information technology; Packaging; Protocols; Software packages; Web and internet services; Web services; PKI; SSO; authentication; web application;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet, 2008. SAINT 2008. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Turku

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3297-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT.2008.76

Filename

4604596