[4121] in Kerberos
Re: What is NetSP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anish Mahesh Mathuria)
Tue Nov 1 00:44:27 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 1 Nov 1994 15:34:41 +1100
From: g9312439@copper.cs.uow.edu.au (Anish Mahesh Mathuria)
dmccarty@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>In <01HI7XSDT5R80000KH@MR.STANFORD.EDU>, SADLER_C@HOSP.STANFORD.EDU (Connie Sadler 415725-7703) writes:
>>
>> What is NetSP? How does it compare to Kerberos? What does it support?
>> Any info would be greatly appreciated - thanks!
>>
>> Connie
>>
IBM maintains a web page on NetSP at:
http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/oi/ann/alet/294502.html
Hope this helps.
-Anish
>Network Security Product allows Single Signon, supports the
>Generic Security Services(GSS) APIs, RFCs 1508 and 1509, and
>Third Party Authentication.
>NetSP provides Single Signon to RACF applications,
>OS/2 LAN Servers, NetWare Servers, and GSS Client/Server
>applications.
>The GSS APIs allow clients and servers to share a security
>context. Once a context is established, i.e., the client and
>server have proved their identities, data can be passed between
>the two. This data can be either masked or integrity checked.
>Parts of the GSS API is mechanism specific, NetSP's data masking
>is based on CDMF which is a 40 bit DES implementation. CDMF
>can be exported from the United States.
>NetSP's third party authentication is designed to use smaller
>messages than Kerberos. Furthermore, NetSP allows either the
>Client or Server to communicate with the third party authenticator.
>NetSP V1R2 runs on AIX, OS/2, HP-UX, Sun, DOS, and Windows.
>Hope this helps....
>Dan McCarty
>IBM Network Security Product
