RE: GSS-API Documentation and help

[Tadoori (EXT), Vilas]

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:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:09 PM
To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help

GNU GSS support the C bindings both as client and server.

/Simon

"Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <address@hidden> 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:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:13 PM
> To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help
>
> "Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <address@hidden> 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:address@hidden
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:31 PM
>> To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 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" <address@hidden> 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:address@hidden
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:32 PM
>>> To: Tadoori (EXT), Vilas
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>> Subject: Re: GSS-API Documentation and help
>>>
>>> "Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <address@hidden> 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