[Ssc-dev] Authentication, Authorization and Architecture

[Bryan Nunez]

I'm not sure if there are existing libraries, but if we are looking for an
advanced math/cs person I can ask the people at the AAAS volunteer
scientists program, who've offered to help in the past.

-b

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
> Aren't there existing libraries for this kind of thing?  A new, complex
> auth
> API that needs to be secure sounds like a very large project.
>
> .hc
>
> On 03/06/2013 04:22 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:
> > Barbra and I met today about the problems we're facing with
> > authentication, authorization and architecture for the InformaCam
> > backend.
> >
> > We decided to continue on two concurrent paths. She'll design both the
> > public and private APIs and I'll design the security using the APIs as
> > a black box.
> >
> > Due to the potential complexity, specifically around authorization, I
> > would like to propose bringing in an advanced math/CS expert in
> > authorization rules for large scale distributed systems. Is this a
> > possibility? A candidate would be someone with complex transaction
> > processing experience in a distributed environment under the
> > constraints of hundreds of access rules.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lee
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