Tech Bytes: Software Firm in Bid To ID Mobile Net User

Funk Software Inc. said it has demonstrated a method for authenticating Internet users away from their home bases.

Funk bases its approach on Steel-Belted Radius, an application of the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, or Radius standard.

In the first "real world" example, Funk said, Steel-Belted Radius provided user authentication to a system of MigraLynx, the Cincinnati-based developer of the LynxPC software and the LynxXchange electronic commerce network.

The MigraLynx systems let mortgage lenders, title agents, and other real estate professionals distribute documents among lenders and others in a transaction, in this case over BBN Corp.'s Dialinx remote access service.

With networks replacing courier services, it became crucial to "make sure the people who were using the service were actually authorized to use it, which we could achieve by installing a Radius server," said MigraLynx vice president Phil Huff.

Traditional, Unix-based Radius servers could not work on the company's Windows NT software, but Steel-Belted Radius does.

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