TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblogThoughts and experiences from an enterprise software architect. This is a personal weblog by Jorgen Thelin, a Senior Program Manager for Windows Live Identity Services at Microsoft in Redmond. The opinions expressed here represent my own views and not those of my current, prior or future employer(s).Delegated Authentication or Delegated Authorization- May 30, 2008 Some people think that the Live ID Team accidentally chose the wrong name when we released the Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication (DelAuth) SDK back in February, but in actuality a lot of thought and consideration went into that choice of name. For the public record, let me explain the reasons (in no particular order below) for why we ended up calling it authentication (authN) rather than authorization (authZ). In reality, DelAuth covers aspects of both authentication (authN) and...http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2008/05/000498.html reCAPTCHA- May 4, 2008 With the increasing encroachment of spam bots and other automated programs written to generate spam on the Internet, there are a growing number of occasions when a web site needs a CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a program that can tell whether a user is a human or a computer, and has a variety of uses including: Preventing comment spam in blogs Protecting web site registration Protecting online poll integrity Preventing rapid...http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2008/05/000497.html |