Generic Security Service Application Programming I




<security, programming> (GSS-API) An application level interface (API) to system security services.

It provides a generic interface to services which may be provided by a variety of different security mechanisms.

Vanilla GSS-API supports security contexts between two entities (known as "principals").

GSS-API is a draft internet standard which is being developed in the Common Authentication Technology Working Group (cat-wg) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Initial specifications for GSS-API appeared in RFC 1508 and RFC 1509.

Subsequent revisions appeared in several draft standards documents.

(http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/~barton/work/project.html).



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