[103] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: GSS API (as a DLL)...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean P. Jagels)
Tue Aug 23 10:56:09 1994
From: "Dean P. Jagels" <dpj@sware.com>
To: jeff@spyglass.com (Jeff Hostetler)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 08:17:21 -0500 (EDT)
Cc: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9408191344.AA15821@fido.spyglass.com> from "Jeff Hostetler" at Aug 19, 94 08:44:17 am
> > Now that I've said that, I'll be a hypocrite. This is www-security,
> > not random-os-security. There are other lists for that.
>
> I quite agree. I think we've been missing the
> (important-for-this-list) point. The original
> point was that we want/need a modular architecture
> which would allow 'drop-in' security modules for
> new security protocols and new encryption techniques
> as they become available or necessary.
>
> We need to keep this as a requirement. Then the
> design can focus on the necessary API's -- that
> is, ''design this thing *as if* we are going to
> dynamically link or use shared libraries''.
> But dynamic linking or shared libraries is NOT
> a requirement.
Bravo!
--
Dean Jagels
SecureWare, Inc.
dpj@sware.com
