Definition of Generic security service application programming interface

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Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
<securityprogramming> (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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generic security service application programming interface
(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").