Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
<security, programming> (GSS-API) An application level interface (API) to
system security services. It provides a generic interface to services which may
be provided by a variety of different security mechanisms. Vanilla GSS-API
supports security contexts between two entities (known as "principals").
GSS-API is a draft internet standard which is being developed in the Common
Authentication Technology Working Group (cat-wg) of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF).
Initial specifications for GSS-API appeared in RFC 1508 and RFC 1509. Subsequent
revisions appeared in several draft standards documents.
http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/~barton/work/project.html.
(1996-05-19)
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