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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance
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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

by Zeal Vora
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Authentication with the help of an asymmetric key

In this approach, the server uses a public key authentication instead of a traditional password-based authentication.

The server has three users and an associated public key for each of them:

  1. User zeal wants to log in to the server. Since the server uses a public key authentication, instead of taking the password from the user, the server will verify if the User claiming to be zeal actually holds the right private key.
  2. The server creates a simple challenge, 2+3=? and encrypts this challenge with the Public Key of the User and sends it back to the User. The challenge is sent in an encrypted ...
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ISBN: 9781788299558