Description

Circumference is an implementation of a WebAuth client and server by the 2008Q1/Q2 Network Telematics Practical Course of University of Göttingen to showcase the Diameter WebAuth subprotocol, also called a Diameter application.

Circumference uses a radically different approach compared to other Diameter implementations; it supplies a client-server architecture to the Diameter protocol that was originally intended to be a peer-to-peer protocol.

The software package is comprised of a library API, client programs and a modularized standalone server.

WebAuth specifies an extension to the Diameter protocol and provides means to let clients, predominantly web servers, perform authentication against a Diameter server using the common HTTP authentication schemes: Basic and Digest-MD5. The specification also includes authorization against service identifiers such as URI, username, etc. WebAuth may also be used by non-web based clients as a lightweight authentication and authorization application.

Resources

• Project Overview page
• Mailing lists
• Downloads
• Source code repository (Gitweb)
• git://git.code.sf.net/p/circum/circum (Clone URL)

Documentation

• Administrator’s Guide (installation, setup)
• Developer’s Guide

Specifications

• RFC 6733: The Diameter Base Protocol
• WebAuth draft version 01

This page was last modified: 2016-11-20 21:03 UTC