Design and Implementation of Enhanced Single Sign on System for Education Systems

Abstract

Consider a college education portal needs to provide access to different domain courses and tutorials to it’s students. But to incorporate numerous resources and tutorials onto one education portal can be tedious and space constraint. Multiple systems typically require multiple sign-on dialogues to access the resources. Users need to register on multiple portals to access the contents and courses and it indulge the headache of remembering multiple sets of credentials. Users also have to present credentials multiple times they login to these portals/websites. With these scenarios, when there are more security domains, the more sign-ins required. It also requires to restrict access to unauthorized users when log-ins are authenticated. If there are redundancy of resources across multiple websites, users may show lack of interest due to redundancy and authorization. headache. Single sign on system is the proposed method to provide access to the educational learning resources/contents. In this approach, one-time login is required and the logged in user can access the relevant authorized service provider’s resources without need to login to their UI facing. This approach provides a secure way to authenticate users by the unique hash password validation and time stamp validation. If both the validation are performed, the requesting user will be provided access to other website resources as well where the user’s authorization is done with the valid token and access key. Hence, the other websites can share common resources across multiple domains without the technology barrier.