Question

In 2021, this company began requiring the use of a PAT or S·S·H key instead of a password to authenticate certain user requests. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this company, a competitor of Bitbucket, that provides the largest online version control platform.
ANSWER: GitHub [or GitHub.com; prompt on Microsoft Corporation; reject “Git”]
[10h] Organizations can control access to their GitHub repositories by requiring S·S·O with a SAML (“SAM-ul”), or “security assertion [this type of language],” identity. GitHub READ·ME files are in this type of language exemplified by XML and YAML (“YAM-ul”).
ANSWER: markup languages [accept lightweight markup languages; prompt on Markdown or md by asking “what type of language is Markdown?”]
[10e] The SAML format borrows XML’s specifications for signing and this property. The RSA algorithm gives data this property, which exists “end-to-end” for many messaging apps.
ANSWER: encrypted [accept word forms, like encryption; accept XML encryption or RSA encryption; or end-to-end encryption]
<David Bass, Science - Computer Science&gt; ~23887~ &lt;Editor: David Bass>

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