Title: Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
Author(s): J. Wray.
Status: PROPOSED STANDARD
Date: Jan 2000
Length: 218572
Obsoletes: RFC1509
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 RFC2743 [GSSAPI]. It obsoletes RFC1509, 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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