Implementing other authentication services

The Lotus Quickr connectors provide a custom authentication framework to handle special cases that may come up in some Enterprise deployments. This API framework is based on a set of extension points within the connector code base.

Due to the fact that the connectors are built in both Java (Eclipse-based products) and C++ (Microsoft Windows Native Connectors, that is Microsoft Explorer, Microsoft Office, and so on) if an extension point is required two implementations of the authentication handler must be constructed.

These custom authentication handlers are very specific to your environment. It is the experience of the authors of this book that the term "standard" configuration, has a wide range of meanings when it comes to single sign-on infrastructures in use today. For example, it is possible to provide an authentication framework that uses X509 certificates stored on USB key fobs or RSA tokens, that display an ever changing set of values. The...