[3339] in Kerberos
Re: GSS-API - part of Kerberos ???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Axel-Stephane C. Smxrgrav)
Sat May 28 14:08:26 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 26 May 1994 11:33:38 +0200
From: axelstep@ifi.uio.no (Axel-Stephane C. Smxrgrav)
In article <davidsonCqDyF5.HKv@netcom.com>, davidson@netcom.com (Jeff Davidson) writes:
>
> I spoke to a vendor (OpenVision) regarding their *Secure* product
> for login/password security, and he mentioned something about this
> GSS (Generic Security System) API. He didn't have any info on it
> at the time, but suggested that it might be part of some Kerberos
> documentation. Anyone out there heard of/know about this GSS API ?
> Also, is there a FAQ (or other good info source on the net) for
> Kerberos which might talk about this ? Any help is appreciated.
> Please email me directly as I don't read this newsgroup often.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
> INTERNET: davidson@netcom.com
John Linn: "Generic Security Service Application Program Interface"
Proceedings of the 1990 USENIX Conference, Portland (Or), 1990
GSS is not a part of Kerberos, but has been implemented on top of
Kerberos, among other authentication systems such as KryptoKnight.
You'll find more about the subject in the above mentioned article.
-ascs
