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<h1>About Network Identity Manager</h1>
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This is strictly an informative page about the origins of Network
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<h3>In the beginning</h3>
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Network Identity Manager was conceived as an identity management
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solution to make up for the shortcomings of Leash32 (distributed with
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MIT Kerberos for Windows) and AFSCreds (distributed with OpenAFS).
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The work started as Unified Credentials Manager, a final project for
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the MIT course 6.831 : User Interface Design and Implementation,
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taught by <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/rcm/">Professor Rob
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Miller</a>. By the time actual code was written, it was named
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Khimaira (which was later changed to Network Identity Manager around
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October, 2005). Traces of the name Khimaira might still exist in the
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Khimaira was presented at the <a
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href="http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw05/">AFS and Kerberos Best Practices
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Workshop 2005</a>. The slides can be found on the workshop website and <a
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href="http://web.mit.edu/asanka/www/misc.shtml">here</a>.
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The work on Network Identity Manager was supported by <a
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href="http://web.mit.edu">MIT</a> <a
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href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/">Information Services and
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Technology</a>, <a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>,
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and <a href="http://www.secure-endpoints.com">Secure Endpoints Inc.</a>.
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A plugin based architecture was chosen so that support for additional
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credential types and features could be added without making changes to
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the mainline code. In addition to making the application easily
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extensible, this also allows the AFS plugin to be maintained within
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the OpenAFS code base and separates the code supporting Kerberos 5 and
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Kerberos 4. Furthermore, it is anticipated that this would encourage
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third party developers to develop plugins for NetIDMgr.
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More information about the concepts used in the design of Network
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Identity Manager can be found <a href="concepts.htm">here</a>.
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