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Re: [DotGNU]Next version of This Year
From: |
Mario D. Santana |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]Next version of This Year |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:42:57 -0500 |
OK, you asked for it!
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* address@hidden *
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* by Mario D. Santana *
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MACS is the Modular Access Control System. It acts as a sort of plexer
for different security mechanisms, allowing several independent and
incompatible authentication, authorization, and user profiling
back-ends to be used as one multi-faceted system. This scheme allows
for centralized management of decentralized user stores, to the point
that the individual user stores need not be aware of MACS. See
http://macs.sf.net/ for more.
MACS is being developed and licensed under the GPL by Mario D. Santana
and Blake Mitchell, under the auspices of Medley Software Corporation.
Medley aims to sell installation, development and support services
around MACS. In the last year, MACS has come a long way, maturing in
its design and implementation. By year's end, 0.7 should be released --
the projects first beta.
FrePort is a scheme to give users total control over their personal
information, where it's stored, and who may access it, with as little
inconvenience to the user as possible. John Le'Brecage has led the
development of this project.
[Note: John's FrePort page (http://users.ids.net/~nightspd/freport/)
seems to be down. Does anyone happen to have mirrored it? John?]
The FrePort project lost much of its code in a catastrophe a while
back. Because of this, the coding phase needs to fairly begin anew.
The union of these projects is address@hidden It promises to deliver
secure, private, distributed and convenient online identity management
capability to DotGNU. And it will improve the fit of your shoes.
(Really.)
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Enjoy!
mds