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Re: Please send me SSL problems...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Wed Sep 20 13:36:24 1995

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:15:11 -0400
To: fair@clock.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com

>From what I can see, GSSAPI has broad acceptance and will soon have broad
use.

I've heard that Digital, HP, and IBM have all mandated that all security
code (except keymgmt and other things that are out of scope) must go
through the GSSAPI:  no writing your own stuff.  I heard, less
authoritatively, that Microsoft has the same rules, except they use a
FunnyLookingVariant(far) of an earlier GSSAPI draft.
	/r$


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