GNU Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) 0.0.9 alpha released

[Simon Josefsson]

GSS is an implementation of the Generic Security Service Application
Program Interface (GSS-API).  GSS-API is used by network servers to
provide security services, e.g., to authenticate SMTP/IMAP clients
against SMTP/IMAP servers.  GSS consists of a library, a manual, and a
command line tool for debugging purposes.

While written to be flexible with regards to different GSS mechanisms,
the only currently supported mechanism is Kerberos 5 via GNU Shishi.

The project page of the library is available at:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/
  http://josefsson.org/gss/

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gss/gss-0.0.11.tar.gz         (1.3MB)
  http://josefsson.org/gss/releases/gss-0.0.11.tar.gz   (1.3MB)

Here are GPG detached signatures using key 0xB565716F:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gss/gss-0.0.11.tar.gz.sig
  http://josefsson.org/gss/releases/gss-0.0.11.tar.gz.sig

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
  http://josefsson.org/autobuild/gss.html

Here are the MD5/SHA1 checksums:

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5976f62d6171c8c5f7188abf4f5a07716ad362f2  gss-0.0.11.tar.gz
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Noteworthy changes (since 0.0.9, last version announced here):

* Changes in 0.0.11 (released 2004-04-18)

** Minor cleanups to the core header file.
Using xom.h is no longer supported (the file doesn't exist on modern
systems).

** Kerberos 5 sequence number handling fixed.
First, gss_init_sec_context set the sequence numbers correctly, before
the incorrect sequence numbers prevented gss_(un)wrap from working
correctly.  Secondly, gss_unwrap now check the sequence numbers
correctly.  This was prompted by the addition of randomized sequence
numbers by default in Shishi 0.0.15.

** The compatibility files in gl/ where synced with Gnulib.

** Various bugfixes and cleanups.

** Polish translation added, by Jakub Bogusz.

* Changes in 0.0.10 (released 2004-01-22)

** A command line tool "gss" added in src/.
The tool can be used to split up an GSS-API error code into the
calling error, the routine error and the supplementary info bits, and
to print text describing the error condition.

** gss_display_status can return multiple description texts (using context).

** The Swedish translation has been updated.

** Various cleanups and improvements.