Re: GSS-API Documentation and help

[Simon Josefsson]

"Tadoori (EXT), Vilas" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

I'm not that familiar with what they offer, but GNU GSS currently only
support the Kerberos GSS-API mechanism.  I think Sun (and maybe others)
supports other mechanisms too, but they are likely to be non-standard
and proprietary.  GNU GSS is also cross-platform, so you should be able
to use it on any of those platforms if you want.

/Simon

>   
>
> -----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