Title: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2
Author(s): J. Linn.
Status: PROPOSED STANDARD
Date: Jan 1997
Length: 185990
Obsoletes: RFC1508
Obsoleted by: RFC2743
The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), as defined in RFC1508, provides security services to callers in a generic fashion, supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms and technologies and hence allowing source-level portability of applications to different environments. This specification defines GSS-API services and primitives at a level independent of underlying mechanism and programming language environment, and is to be complemented by other, related specifications:
documents defining specific parameter bindings for particular
language environments
documents defining token formats, protocols, and procedures to be
implemented in order to realize GSS-API services atop particular
security mechanisms
This memo revises RFC1508, making specific, incremental changes in response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is intended, therefore, that this memo or a successor version thereto will become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API specification on the standards track.
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