Patent ID: 7712129

Claim:
A method for recording server authentication information, said method comprising: establishing, by a first server of a plurality of servers in a federated computing environment, a trusting relationship between the first server and a second server of the plurality of servers, wherein said establishing the trusting relationship comprises exchanging, by the first server, an electronic certificate of the first server with an electronic certificate of the second server in accordance with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) method; after said establishing the trusting relationship, obtaining by the first server an authentication policy of the second server, wherein an authentication policy for each server of the plurality of servers is defined as at least one rule of each server for authenticating users of the federated computing environment; and after said obtaining the authentication policy of the second server, registering by the first server the authentication policy of the second server within the first server, wherein the at least one rule consists of four rules, said four rules consisting of a number of alphabetic characters of a user identification (ID), a number of numeric characters of the user ID, a data size for fingerprint authentication, and a data size for voice print authentication.