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Cosign - Single sign-on system

'cosign' is a Web single sign on system that allows users to authenticate once per session and access any protected Web resources at the institution. If used, passwords are sent only to a single, central URL.

Sessions have both idle and hard timeouts, and users can logout of all protected services by visiting a single URL. The use of public key cryptography ensures that a compromise of a protected Web server has no impact on the security of other participating servers.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://weblogin.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.umich.edu/~umweb/downloads/cosign-1.5.0.tar.gz
Version 1.5 (stable) released on 2004-02-05
Licensed under an X11-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

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Project contacts

Maintainers
  • The University of Michigan Web Team
Developers
  • The University of Michigan Web Team
Sponsors
  • University of Michigan
  • National Science Foundation (USA)

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://cvs.web.itd.umich.edu/chora/cvs.php?f=/cosign
Interfacesweb
Source languagesC
Use requirementsOpen SSl 0.9.7a orlater
Related programsWdm

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-02-05
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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