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        RFC 1507:

        Title:      DASS - Distributed Authentication Security Service
        Author:     C. Kaufman
        Mailbox:    kaufman@zk3.dec.com
        Pages:      119
        Characters: 287,809
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


Authentication is a security service. The goal of authentication is to
reliably learn the name of the originator of a message or request. The
classic way by which people authenticate to computers (and by which
computers authenticate to one another) is by supplying a password.
There are a number of problems with existing password based schemes
which DASS attempts to solve.  The goal of DASS is to provide
authentication services in a distributed environment which are both
more secure (more difficult for a bad guy to impersonate a good guy)
and easier to use than existing mechanisms.

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
It does not specify an Internet standard.  Discussion and suggestions
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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute