Hi Shivu! Thanks for your interest. The TODO items in the manual may not be the most relevant or most useful stuff to work on -- I can think of other things such as getting GSS to work with more applications by default as one important work item.
To answer your specific questions, there are no explicit plans to implement more mechanisms, but they are very welcome. I intend to implement my own password-based GSS mechanism in the library. I don't have any plans to work on public-key based mechanisms myself, but if you want to do, that could be useful. Nobody is working on any of those work items right now. If you want to help, just getting Shishi + GSS up and running and trying to use it in various applications that use GSS would be the most helpful. I don't think it has been tested a lot yet. Btw, please discuss this on the help-gss list. I've cc'ed the list now. You can find subscription instructions at <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gss>. /Simon Shivalingayya Chikkanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Simon, > > I have gone through the GSS library code (version 0.0.22) and would like to > contribute to the planned features mentioned in section 1.9 of document GNU > Generic Security Service Library. Currently the "todo" list mentioned in the > document is as follows: > > • Support non-blocking mode. This would be an API extension. It could work by > forking a process and interface to it, or by using a user-specific daemon. > E.g., h =START(accept sec context(...)), FINISHED(h), ret = FINISH(h), > ABORT(h). > • Compute MD5 of non-empty channel bindings. > • Support loadable modules via dlopen, a’la Solaris GSS. > • Port to Cyclone? CCured? > > Could you please help me in clarifying following questions? > 1>I would like to know if there are any plans to add more mechanism to the > existing GSS library. > 2>Could you please let me know if I can work on one of the above listed > activities? > > Thanks, > Shivu. > > > --------------------------------- > Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! > FareChase. _______________________________________________ Help-gss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gss
