I believe there are commercial OEMs such as Microsoft, Apple, Sun, IBM and HP who ship native libgss in support of RFC2743/RCF2744 . When comparing those version with GNU, are there any meaningful gaps in what OEMs support?
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:09 PM To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help GNU GSS support the C bindings both as client and server. /Simon "Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi... > > I have read in wikipedia about gssapi and they have said that the > gssapi bindings are in c and java. > Most of the server programming is done on c++. > > Will these bindings are supported > > Rgds > Vilas. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:13 PM > To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help > > "Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Few questions >> >> 1)What are the logical services of GSS-API? > > GSS-API is described in RFC 2743 which is also the most complete > answer for that question, please see: > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2743.txt > >> 2) Is it possible via GSS-API for an applciation server to "cache" a >> public key for a Ticket granting authority and conduct "is authentic" >> checks on native authorization tickets it receives? > > I don't think there are APIs to do that in GSS-API today, but I may be > wrong -- I haven't used certificate-based mechanisms with GSS-API. > > /Simon > >> Vilas >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:31 PM >> To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help >> >> GNU GSS is currently only distributed as a source code package, so >> there are no binary Windows packages available. You should be able >> to > >> build it yourself using MinGW though. I provide Windows packages for >> GnuTLS and GSASL, and you may find the makefile to build those >> helpful > >> when trying to build GSS for Windows as well: see >> <http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/>. >> >> /Simon >> >> "Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I need the GSS-API packages for the windows xp professional. >>> Where would I get the same? >>> >>> I checked the same on http://josefsson.org/gss/releases/ >>> But I don't seem to find for the windows. >>> >>> Pleas advice! >>> >>> Best Regards >>> Vilas >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:32 PM >>> To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help >>> >>> "Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> Dear Listers, >>>> >>>> We are using the GSS-API standards in our product so that our >>>> security methodology works hand in glove with the other commercial >>>> Security products. >>>> In short, I am new to the feild of GSS-API and want to learn more >>>> about it and Implement the same at my end. >>>> I would also appriciate if I can be given some material as a >>>> starting >> >>>> point to read first and later proceed on the same. >>> >>> The GNU GSS manual is available from: >>> >>> http://josefsson.org/gss/manual/gss.html >>> >>> Most of it describes generic GSS-API. Sun's GSS-API manual is also >>> pretty good: >>> >>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-1331 >>> >>> /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-gss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gss
