{
  "number": 912,
  "title": "Authentication service",
  "authors": [
    "M. St. Johns"
  ],
  "published": "1984-09",
  "status": "Unknown",
  "stream": "Legacy",
  "pages": 3,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "This memo describes a proposed authentication protocol for verifying the identity of a user of a TCP connection. Given a TCP port number pair, it returns a character string which identifies the owner of that connection on the server's system. Suggested uses include automatic identification and verification of a user during an FTP session, additional verification of a TAC dial up user, and access verification for a generalized network file server.",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC912",
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC931"
  ],
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc912/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc912.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc912",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc912/"
  },
  "text_modified": "1992-09-22T20:58:32Z"
}