The service ensures client authentication in accordance with SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile 2.0 requirement SWIM-TIYP-0042 by implementing username and password authentication using HTTP Authorization headers with Basic scheme for HTTPS based interfaces, and using SASL PLAIN for AMQP. Users connecting to the public interfaces must present a valid EACP client certificate, which must be further whitelisted in the service based on the details of the Distinuished Name portions of the client certificate such as Common Name, Organisation, Email. The service ensures server authentication in accordance with SWIM-TIYP-0042.</p>