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Whereas SSL uses visual cues to indicate to the user it is safe to type your password, IWA has no such visual cues. Some users have recently raised valid concerns that there are no visual cues for GLAST web pages that use IWA, so this article is an attempt to reassure those users that IWA is a secure way to authenticate a user to a web server over the internet.

How IWA works

Web browsers use a dialog box to prompt

While SSL visual cues are convenient, they don't remove the responsibility from the user of trusting the web server they are sending their credentials to.

aren't necessary. It is imporant to Browsers use the same

introduces IWA to users, and

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