Network Security And Authentication Technologies

As the Internet evolves from an academic and research network into a commercial network , more and more organizations and individuals are connecting their internal networks and computers to it and the applications based on the network are utilizing widely . All kinds of information are shared anmong governments and corporations . But along with the great benefit of internet comes new threat . The problem on security of internet is very serious and internet security these days is becoming quite a scary proposition for most businesses.The technologies of internet security are the most important part of network applications . With the increasing security consciousness and popularisation of internet, various technologies about security are released . Although authentication , access control , encryption and decryption and so on are used widely to protect the resources which are transmitted over the network , the threat against internet security don't die out at all.With the analysis of some security technologies' requirement and specialty , this thesis , at first , discuss how to make use of GINA of window operation system to embed the Third-Party technology - Two Factor Authentication . At the same time , we design and implement authentication module based on TDI to confirm the users who request some resource or service through internet . In addition , this paper also reviews how to improve on GINA using middleware technology .