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Title : Generally Useful Authentication Mechanisms (GUAM)
Author(s) : J. Salowey
Filename : draft-salowey-guam-00.txt
Pages : 31
Date : 2005-6-27
Generic Security Services API (GSS-API), the Simple Authentication
and Security Layer (SASL), the Extensible Authentication Protocol
(EAP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are examples of four
different security frameworks within the IETF. Each of these
frameworks have evolved separately towards a common goal of
authentication and establishing a cryptographic context. They
support different types of security mechanisms and have historically
evolved to integrate with different security infrastructures. This
document discusses their similarities and differences and how these
security mechanisms might start to converge into a more uniform
approach involving generally useful authentication mechanisms that
can be used in any of these frameworks with a variety of different
security infrastructures.
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