/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif / ºÝºÝߣShare feed for ºÝºÝߣshows by User: OlivierPeters https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-OlivierPeters-48x48.jpg?cb=1521725936 ECAS stands for European Commission Authentication Service. ECAS is based on the Central Authentication Service (CAS) developed at Yale University. CAS became a JA-SIG project in December 2004 -1) Protection of the user password: Only ECAS collects the user’s password and this only over a secure channel (SSL). This means that the user’s password is known only by ECAS and cannot be hijacked by any other application. . It is an authentication service to protect Web-based applications. The main features are: -2) Homogenization of security policies: they are now defined in only one place. -3) Web Single Sign-on: the user authenticates only once for all the applications protected via E...