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- Must be stable
- Must be secure
- Maximum FTE required to operate must be less than (TBD) unless new staff is funded
- Must be scalable
- Must include suffcient diagnostic information for operations to determine cause of problem quickly and easily under adverse circumstances
- Should be easy to reinstantiate
- Source code should be readily accessible and buildable so that "emergency" patches can be applied.
Evolving issues
Technology Requirements
In choosing a base package for web authentication, ISDA was most interested in evaluating packages based on the following criteria:
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- Linux platform (preferred)
- Apache 2.0.46+
- OpenSSL 0.9.7+
- cURL 7.10.2+
- Kerberos v5
- Perl 5.6.1+
- Perl modules:
- *- *-- HTML::Template
- *-- FCGI
- Crypt:SSLeay
- *-- FCGI
- mod_fastcgi (optional)
- WebAuth has the following requirements for participating Application web servers (for initial version):
- Linux or Solaris operating system
- Apache 2.0.43+ or Apache 1.3+ (with SSL and DSO support)
- OpenSSL v0.9.7+
- Kerberos v5 (for authenticated communication with central server)
- cURL 7.10.2+
- OpenLDAP (for eventual optional LDAP support)
- Cyrus SASL (for eventual optional LDAP support)
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