
4.3 DCE Security Services
Figure 56. DCE Security Services
Key Points
This foil shows a simplified view of how the DCE security services and facilities
interact to provide a secure distributed computing environment. These services
are based on the third party authentication single signon issuing “tickets” to
application servers.
Presentation Script
The DCE Security Service is composed of several services:
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The Authentication Service
The Authentication Service enables two processes on different machines to
be certain of one another′s identity. On a timesharing system, this function
is provided in part by the operating system kernel. However, because a
local ...