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Re: appl/simple/client/sim_client.c uses internal APIs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Fri Feb 24 16:11:52 2023

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 13:07:01 -0800
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 02:50:35PM -0600, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:19:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> writes:
> > > If you're just trying to set up a GSS context between a client and a
> > > server, then GSS is really simple, and much simpler than the krb5 API.
> > 
> > I'm very dubious about this statement.  The requirement to handle
> > negotiation and potential multiple round trips and all the complexity with
> > major and minor status codes makes the equivalent GSS code complicated and
> > annoying.
> 
[...]
> 
> RFC 7546 exists.

And https://github.com/kaduk/gssdoc/blob/master/gss-sample.c has the
un-processed version of the sample code from the RFC; I did compile and run
it during development of the RFC.

-Ben
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