1With the way technology has been advancing over the past few years, people have begun to take care of all of their business online. Among many other things, people manage their bank accounts, pay their bills, communicate, shop and conduct financial transactions online. Each of these actions requires a separate and often unique username and/or password. Managing the specific usernames and passwords that correlate with these actions often becomes a task in itself. The …showed first 75 words of 1420 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1420 total…and widely used solution that has been used for distributing authentication tasks for the past ten years. Todd Sundsted speculates that the Liberty Alliance Project will also use Kerberos, He states, "The solution developed by the Liberty Alliance Project will affect Java developers in the same way the creation of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) affected them: it will reduce the number of APIs that a programmer must know to build applications" (Sundsted).