SSH EN 301 261-3 V1.2.1:1999

Telecommunications Management Network (TMN); Security; Part 3: Security services; Authentication of users and entities in a TMN environment

Scope

The present document specifies the authentication service for all kind of users involved in a TMN. Normally, one can distinguish between three types of authentication: (human) user authentication, peer-to-peer entity authentication and data origin authentication. The main scope of the present document is peer-to-peer entity authentication, even if human user authentication is also partly addressed. Data origin authentication will not be addressed as an explicit TMN authentication service for reasons described later in the present document.