[16064] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Windows future
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Howard)
Tue Aug 17 09:52:19 2010
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:52:16 +0200
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> The saddest part is that one of the most important benefits that the
> Consortium could have provided its members was a consistently available
> krb5 and gss api. As more organizations choose to develop for the SSPI
> on Windows, there will be a substantial reduction in the cross-platform
> availability of those applications, at least until someone decides to
> provide an SSPI compatibility API for UNIX.
Well, SSPI is cross-platform at the token layer.
Do GSS wrappers around SSPI exist -- didn't Martin Rex have one?
-- Luke
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