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In addition to cryptographic techniques, identify and explain the suite of techniques that are increasingly used to provide authentication to hospital information systems.
Answer. Beside cryptographic techniques, the other technologies used to provide authenticated information to the hospital systems are :-
Kerberos Organisation- This organisation is capable of practically managing the secret keys for secure communications among thousands of workstations of health care system. This organisation functions without public-key encryption technology and also maintain the limits of number of secret keys that must be used in an interconnected system, within the distributed environment. The number of keys that are time limited and without password is directly proportional to the number of users in the organization. This organisation has secured communication and strong authentication in its purpose and is widely used in health care systems.
With this, 'Biometric authentication technologies' and 'Smart card tokens are the upcoming new techniques with much advanced and easy accessible ways to provide information to the health care systems.