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The Brazil project is a
web-based infrastructure
that links people securely to information, computers and other devices
leveraging existing standards and protocols.
Our framework
enables stand alone systems to work together within the Web space. A strong
authentication architecture allows extranets to access intranets in an
open environment without compromising security. Our approach extends the
endpoints to new applications and smaller devices; yet at the same time
we can adapt legacy applications into this architecture. Corporations can
take advantage of web-based computing to dynamically control access to,
and management of, corporate information systems and other digital data
that represents for example: state in physical space, door status, room
temperatures, camera inputs, etc. Each of our initiatives explores the
possibilities expressed by this infrastructure.
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The core component of the Brazil project is the
Brazil web application framework.
It began as an extremely small footprint http stack, originally
designed to provide a URL based interface to smartcards, so the
smartcards could be accessed more easily from an ordinary web browser.
Along the way it grew to provide a more flexible architecture for
adding URL based interfaces to arbitrary applications and devices.