Module: Authentication (auth)

This is a learning module on Authentication. Traditionally authentication is introduced through password-based authentication. However, there are many alternatives available. This learning module intends to provide students with a wide understanding of the possibilities for authentication, e.g. using attributes or anonymous credentials.

The module is part of the Open Security Education project and the maintainer is Daniel Bosk. The latest release can be found under releases. You can safely link directly to the PDFs found there.

Progression

The suggested progression of the contents is as follows:

• intro (recording)
• bootstrapping (recording)
• user-machine (recording)
• something-you-know (recording)
• something-you-have (recording)
• machine-user (recording)

File Structure and Building

To build the PDFs, after cloning the repository you must clone its required submodules:

$ git submodule update --recursive --init

Then you can go into the desired directory and run make. If you issue make all in the root directory, you will recurse into each directory and compile.

In each directory the files are structured as follows:

• <name>.tex is the main LaTeX file.
• aims.tex is an itemized list of the intended learning outcomes, as such it can be included in another document summarizing the list of intended learning outcomes.
• abstract.tex is an abstract containing a summary, intended learning outcomes and references to reading material. It is suitable to include in a study guide containing all reading instructions for the course.
• <name>.bib contains the bibliography entries, thus this file can be included along with the reading instructions.

To contribute, please fork the repository, make your changes, commit them and then create a pull request in the original repository.