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RFC 8353
Title: Generic Security Service API Version 2:
Java Bindings Update
Author: M. Upadhyay,
S. Malkani,
W. Wang
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: May 2018
Mailbox: m.d.upadhyay+ietf@gmail.com,
seema.malkani@gmail.com,
weijun.wang@oracle.com
Pages: 96
Characters: 204802
Obsoletes: RFC 5653
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-kitten-rfc5653bis-07.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8353
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8353
The Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface
(GSS-API) offers application programmers uniform access to security
services atop a variety of underlying cryptographic mechanisms. This
document updates the Java bindings for the GSS-API that are specified
in "Generic Security Service API Version 2: Java Bindings Update"
(RFC 5653). This document obsoletes RFC 5653 by adding a new output
token field to the GSSException class so that when the initSecContext
or acceptSecContext methods of the GSSContext class fail, it has a
chance to emit an error token that can be sent to the peer for
debugging or informational purpose. The stream-based GSSContext
methods are also removed in this version.
The GSS-API is described at a language-independent conceptual level
in "Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2,
Update 1" (RFC 2743). The GSS-API allows a caller application to
authenticate a principal identity, to delegate rights to a peer, and
to apply security services such as confidentiality and integrity on a
per-message basis. Examples of security mechanisms defined for
GSS-API are "The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM)"
(RFC 2025) and "The Kerberos Version 5 Generic Security Service
Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Mechanism: Version 2"
(RFC 4121).
This document is a product of the Common Authentication Technology Next Generation Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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