User's Manual

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Table of contents
1 PREFACE .................................................................................................................................................................7
1.1 A BOUT THIS MANUAL ..........................................................................................................................................7
1.2 E NVIRONMENTS SUPPORTED BY VERSION 5.0 ......................................................................................................7
1.3 H OW TO USE THIS MANUAL ..................................................................................................................................7
1.4...................................................................................................................................................................................7
1.5...................................................................................................................................................................................7
1.6 A SSUMPTIONS ......................................................................................................................................................7
1.7 F ONT CONVENTIONS ............................................................................................................................................7
1.8 I NTERRELATED D OCUMENTS ...............................................................................................................................8
1.8.1 Software components ..................................................................................................................................8
1.8.2 Documentation............................................................................................................................................9
1.8.3 Distribution...............................................................................................................................................10
1.9 F EEDBACK .........................................................................................................................................................10
2 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................11
2.1 W EB I DENTITY DL: T HE NEW MODEL .................................................................................................................11
2.2 S ECURE AUTHENTICATION IN WEB - BASED APPLICATIONS ..................................................................................11
2.3 T HE W EB I DENTITY SOLUTION ...........................................................................................................................11
2.4 F IELDS OF APPLICATION .....................................................................................................................................12
2.5 USB T OKENS .....................................................................................................................................................12
2.6 A UTHENTICATION .............................................................................................................................................. 12
2.7 C RYPTOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................................................12
2.8 R EMOTE CONTROL .............................................................................................................................................13
3 REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................................................................................14
3.1 C LIENT ..............................................................................................................................................................14
3.2 S ERVER ..............................................................................................................................................................14
3.3 C OMPATIBILITY BETWEEN 5.0 AND 4.0 VERSIONS .............................................................................................15
4 INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION ......................................................................................................16
4.1 C LIENT ..............................................................................................................................................................16
4.1.1 Example – installation of a web page.......................................................................................................16
4.1.2 EXPLORER USERS IN POSSESSION OF A WEBIDENTITYDL DEVICE .............................................16
4.1.3 EXPLORER USERS IN POSSESSION OF A WEBIDENTITY3P DEVICE..............................................17
4.1.4 FIREFOX (or Mozilla and Netscape) USERS IN POSSESSION OF A WEBIDENTITYDL....................17
4.1.5 FIREFOX (or Mozilla and Netscape) USERS IN POSSESSION OF A WEBIDENTITY3P..................... 17
4.1.6 WINDOWS 98SE USERS IN POSSESSION OF A WEBIDENTITYDL DEVICE .....................................17
4.1.7 LINUX USERS ..........................................................................................................................................17
4.1.8 MAC OS X USERS....................................................................................................................................17
4.1.9 AMINISTRATOR’S PERMITS FOR INSTALLATION ..............................................................................18
4.2 S ERVER ..............................................................................................................................................................18
5 FEATURES.............................................................................................................................................................19
5.1 I NTEGRATED FEATURES .....................................................................................................................................19
5.2 W EB I DENTITY CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................................20
5.2.1 Server Secret.............................................................................................................................................22
5.3 O PERATION ........................................................................................................................................................23
5.4 A UTHENTICATION .............................................................................................................................................. 23
5.4.1 Esample – log-in from a web page............................................................................................................25
F UNCTION ......................................................................................................................................................................27
M ETHOD ........................................................................................................................................................................27
D ESCRIPTION .................................................................................................................................................................27
C OMPONENT ..................................................................................................................................................................27
C HALLENGE G ENERATION .............................................................................................................................................27
I NIT R ND S ESSION S TRING .............................................................................................................................................. 27
G ENERATION OF TIME - VARIABLE R ANDOM S ESSION S TRING ........................................................................................27