Wednesday, May 16, 2012

AAA... Battries or yet another practice in networking?

When we say "AAA" infront of someone, the first thought is often:

Triple A Batteries, which look somewhat like this:



Right, enough fooling around, lets get to business.


AAA is acronym of three processes that is usually done by a Network Access Server (NAS for short). The three As represents:


ProcessExplaination: How it works
AuthenticationAn entity is identified through variables given by the entity that uniquely specifies the entity. Such variables include password, username and one-time passwords (or tokens)
AuthorizationAn entity's permission to access or operate within the network is defined. This is done after the authentication phrase and is enforced to prevent unintentional damage to the network by restricting access to part of the network to the general users.
AccountingUsed to take note or log a entity's behaviour and actions.

6 comments:

  1. First of all I would like to say that I love your table. The information stated is short and sweet, and easy to read.
    Regarding whether or not it needs further elaboration, depends on who is reading this article (:
    Awesome job.

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  2. Maybe you can add by which protocol uses it?
    You could probably add more explanation to everything, but i guess its not compulsory to do that. If people would like to know more, they could ask, right? haha.
    Its straight and direct. (Y)

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  3. I like your introduction here. Heheh. Sounds similar to mine. I have also read your post and found it easy to understand, inspiring me to simplify my post as well to ensure all readers, irregardless of their technical knowledge, would be able to comprehend the entire post.

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  4. Great post you've got there! Great humour with your batteries. I almost got fooled there. Your post is similar to mine, except mine is way more awesome. Easy to read table, great information nice background. Nonetheless, good post.

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  5. Wow nicely done there with the humour on the batteries, you're doing a very good job, hope you can keep up with such a good work thank you for all the hard work that you've put in over the few weeks, you've done a very good job there. Once again thank you for all that you've done, you deserve so much gratitude from all of the readers.

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  6. Wow what a joke. I actually thought this post was going to be about triple A batteries. Good starting the post with a joke rather than talking about the topic straight away. But your background is indeed quite irritating. But overall Good job with the post!

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