In the swedish part of AMPRNet, which has an agreement with ARDC to announce its allocated adress space via the points of presence of the Swedish University Netwok (www.sunet.se), we are working on implementing the edugain framework, used by research and education organisations and many public authorities all over the world, for authentication. Edugain is based on Identity Federations (https://wiki.geant.org/display/eduGAIN/Identity+Federations+and+eduGAIN). We have an agreement with SSA, the Swedish national ham organisation to use the official database for an Identity Provider authenticating hams.
Once we have this operational we will be able not only to authenticate hams, but also be able to negotiate access to great services like Eduroam (https://www.eduroam.org/) https://www.eduroam.org/, have a model for single sign on (SSO) to all services complying with this standard, etc.
Any ohers that are working on this?
One good method might not have to exclude another though.
Bjorn, sa0bxi
On 2020-02-23 07:08, Steve L via 44Net wrote:
John,
Some time back the concept of authenticating hams using the P12 certificates such as the ARRL's Logbook of the World was discussed on this list. I'm bringing that up again in light of this recent issue, and also in case you weren't around when that was discussed on this list.
In my mind, it kind would kind of alleviate the manual scrutiny part, as it would be the certificate issuer's responsibility. (The ARRL typically mails a post card with a code to the license address) It might help filter out some of the bogus requests.
Steve, KB9MWR