在本論文提出了一個網路架構的應用，這個架構是基於1996所建置於全國中小學的校園網路之內。在這個應用中，包含了資料下載伺服功能與使用者個人身份認證功能兩大項目。而在使用者個人端中，則為了要節省管理上的人力，因而被簡化成只安裝作業系統的環境，所有使用者需要用到的應用軟體則被包裝成可以不需要繁複的安裝程序而以自動執行的模式，被存放在伺服器中，以便被下載使用。另外，在這個網路架構中，集中式軟體管理系統控制著這個網路架構，以致於軟體的維護與管理就變成在伺服器上而不是在使用者個人端。在維修經費不充裕的情況之下，這些當年所建購的設施中，不管是軟體或是硬體設施並沒有得到良好的維護與應有的升級。因此，如何在這些屬於過時且低階的設備之下，提供必要的資訊教育環境，就變得非常重要了。在本論文中提出的應用正適用於前面所提的設備，並且具有良好效能。在本論文中顯示，集中式軟體管理的網路結構應用於目前在中小學使用的網路設施上，可以提升目前來說屬於低階的硬體的性能。而在軟體和硬體的維護與管理的人力上，也可以降到最低，並且可以得到更高的安全。
另外，為了保護整個網路架構而採用的使用者身份認證架構中，在密碼學中的訊息摘要演算法也被發展以便應用於改進密碼認證架構。而為了更高安全性著想，在本論文中設計了性能與架構類似於MD5的MD-160的訊息摘要演算法，以便提供更長的訊息摘要的輸出。因為更長的演算輸出，它可以提供更好的安全性。

The national information infrastructure project in 1998 aimed at establishing a basic network facility for junior high and primary schools in Taiwan. As in many of the government initiated project, the hardware and software of the network facility once functioning has never been upgraded due to insufficient maintenance funding. Consequently, the facility can not meet the requirements for nowadays application. To provide sustaining educational environment under existing obsolete facility becomes the most important issue. This dissertation proposes an effective and innovation network architecture applicable to the existing network in primary school.
The network structure consists of a server for data download service, another server for authentication service to provide the confirmation mechanism for client users, and the client, simplified with only operating system, is to download the application softwares in an auto-executable form from the server. A centralized software management governs the network structure such that the software maintenance is operated on the server instead of on the clients. A message digest algorithm, MD5-160, for cryptography is also developed to improve password authentication. The computation performance of MD5-160 is similar to MD5, but provides longer message digest output and hence better security. The network structure installed on present network facility of grade schools shows that the performance of the existing low-end facility can be improved, the maintenance efforts for both hardware and software can also be minimized, and higher security can be achieved.

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