GENERIC SECURITY SERVICE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE


Meaning of GENERIC SECURITY SERVICE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE in English

< 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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