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  2. Central Authentication Service - Wikipedia

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    The Central Authentication Service ( CAS) is a single sign-on protocol for the web. [1] Its purpose is to permit a user to access multiple applications while providing their credentials (such as user ID and password) only once. It also allows web applications to authenticate users without gaining access to a user's security credentials, such as ...

  3. Public key infrastructure - Wikipedia

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    A public key infrastructure ( PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facilitate the secure electronic transfer of information for a range of network activities such as e ...

  4. Single sign-on - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, single sign-off or single log-out (SLO) is the property whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to multiple software systems. As different applications and resources support different authentication mechanisms, single sign-on must internally store the credentials used for initial authentication and translate them to ...

  5. 2-Step Verification with a Security Key - AOL Help

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    Call paid premium support at 1-800-358-4860 to get live expert help from AOL Customer Care. A security key is a physical device that gets uniquely associated with your AOL account after you enable it. Discover how to enable, sign in with, and manage your security key.

  6. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security - AOL Help

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    Sign in to your Account Security page. 2. Next to "2-Step Verification," click Turn on. 3. Select Phone number for your 2-step verification method. 4. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the process. Sign in with 2-step for phone. 1. Sign in to your AOL account with your password. 2. Enter the verification code sent to your phone. 3. Click ...

  7. Security pattern - Wikipedia

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    The policy pattern is an architecture to decouple the policy from the normal resource code. An authenticated user owns a security context (erg. a role) that is passed to the guard of resource. The guard checks inside the policy whether the context of this user and the rules match and provides or denies access to the resource.

  8. Security Assertion Markup Language - Wikipedia

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    SAML is an XML-based markup language for security assertions (statements that service providers use to make access-control decisions). SAML is also: A set of XML-based protocol messages; A set of protocol message bindings; A set of profiles (utilizing all of the above) An important use case that SAML addresses is web-browser single sign-on (SSO).

  9. Federated identity - Wikipedia

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    Federated identity. A federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems. [1] Federated identity is related to single sign-on (SSO), in which a user's single authentication ticket, or token, is trusted across multiple IT ...