Engineering Trustworthy Systems: Get Cybersecurity Design Right the First Time

CHAPTER

11   Authentication

Overview

•   11.1 Entity Identification: Phase 1 of Authentication

•   11.2 Identity Certification: Phase 2 of Authentication

•   11.3 Identity Resolution: Phase 3 of Authentication

•   11.4 Identity Assertion and Identity Proving: Phases 4 and 5 of Authentication

•   11.5 Identity Decertification: Phase 6 of Authentication

•   11.6 Machine-to-Machine Authentication Chaining

Learning Objectives

•   Explain the authentication problem and how cryptography is applied to solve it.

•   Discuss the phases of authentication and how they relate to one another.

•   List and describe the three types of unique identifying schemas.

•   Compare and contrast strengths and weaknesses of identity schemas.

•   Explain the value of ...