Areas in authentication: user-to-machine, machine-to-user, user-to-user, machine-to-machine

[dbosk]

The area of authentication that we are interested in can be divided into these categories:

• user-to-machine,
• machine-to-user,
• machine-to-machine (Add machine-to-machine coverage #22),
• user-to-user (through machine).

[dbosk]

User--machine and machine--user authentication are discussed in overview. The machine-to-machine authentication is basically the main topic of fverifprotocols, that should move here.

[dbosk]

Machine-to-machine might also be covered by keyauth.

[dbosk]

These are usually chained when using crypto and involving hardware.

[dbosk]

User-to-user (through-machine) will probably require distance bounding in some cases.