WebSphere Commerce security model -- long description

This diagram shows the WebSphere Commerce authentication model. It depicts the three major pieces of this model, which are the:

• Challenge types,

• Authentication mechanism

• User registries.

The challenge types are either X.509 or HTML form-based. For form-based challenge type, the information is passed over SSL to the WebSphere Commerce Server.

The authentication mechanism is implemented by the various WebSphere Commerce commands such as LogonCmd and RegistrationCmd.

The supported user registries are the WebSphere Commerce database and LDAP.