Can you authenticate Voyager using SecurID over Radius?

[BarryStiefel]

Can you authenticate Voyager using SecurID over Radius?



I am implementing IPSO 3.6 authentication with SecurID for HTTPS and SSH services. The Nokia Support site says that on IPSO 3.6 HTTP is not recommended, but it does not state the reason. The reason for this is quite simple: in IPSO 3.6 and before, authentication is done using the standard authentication present in HTTP. This means every single element in a page requires authentication information to be sent along with that request. Since IPSO does not cache authentication information, each one of those requests would have to be authenticated by the SecurID server.

Since your SecurID passcode changes every 60 seconds, this effectively means that you would have to type in your SecurID code for authentication every sixty seconds, perhaps in the middle of a page load. This is one reason why it is not recommended.

In IPSO 3.7 and above, authentication is done with cookies, which means you may be able to use SecurID, though I haven't personally tested it.

-- PhoneBoy - 01 Jan 2004

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