JANET has asked us to develop a web plugin for Moonshot. We're
soliciting people who have experience with Javascript APIs and who could
help us review the resulting API. If you or someone you know would be
interested please drop a line to [log in to unmask]
We're designing a Javascript API to allow web applications to use
Project Moonshot (http://www.project-moonshot.org/) for
authentication. Moonshot is a mechanism to allow users at one
organization to authenticate themselves into systems at a separate
organization, using their credentials from their home organization.
This works across a range of protocols, from desktop login to SMB/CIFS
to SSH, and now we're implementing this for a web environment. We
will provide our users a consistent interface for authentication
across a wide range of applications as well as stronger authentication
than exists in many web environments today. We'd like to get together
with some web developers to discuss what to provide in this
environment.
We're hoping to get people to answer some questions about what's
desirable in a Javascript authentication API and to review the API we
produce.
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