GSSAPI
       Generic Security Service API (RFC 2078, API), "GSS-API"
       

Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
GSS-API

    (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://dstc.qut.edu.au/~barton/work/project.html>.

   (1996-05-19)