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Title:   Identity Management and Authorization Framework for Web-based Applications
Type:   Master's thesis
Student:   Niklas Neumann
Supervisor:   Xiaoming Fu, Hannes Tschofenig
Status:   completed

Description
Identity management is recently a hot topic for web-based applications. There are various means and objectives for identity management: single sign-on, user authentication and accounting, automated provisioning or role-based access control. Today standardization organizations (SDOs) and companies developed solutions like SAML, Open ID, CardSpace however none of them is secure, flexible and light-weight. This thesis studies the existing solutions and the possibility of extending today's network authentication and authorization framework for identity management. This is a joint work with Nokia-Siemens Networks.

Requirements
Good programming skills in C/C++/Java; good understanding of computer networking and knowledge of web clients and servers. Completion of a Computer Networks lecture and practical course preferred.

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