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Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings

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Network Working Group                                             J. Wray
Request for Comments: 2744                                Iris Associates
Obsoletes: 1509                                              January 2000
Category: Standards Track


          Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document specifies C language bindings for Version 2, Update 1
   of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-
   API), which is described at a language-independent conceptual level
   in RFC-2743 [GSSAPI].  It obsoletes RFC-1509, making specific
   incremental changes in response to implementation experience and
   liaison requests.  It is intended, therefore, that this memo or a
   successor version thereof will become the basis for subsequent
   progression of the GSS-API specification on the standards track.

   The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
   provides security services to its callers, and is intended for
   implementation atop a variety of underlying cryptographic mechanisms.
   Typically, GSS-API callers will be application protocols into which
   security enhancements are integrated through invocation of services
   provided by the GSS-API. The GSS-API allows a caller application to
   authenticate a principal identity associated with a peer application,
   to delegate rights to a peer, and to apply security services such as
   confidentiality and integrity on a per-message basis.











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