II: Security architectures: Generic interface to security services

  • Authors:

  • John Linn

  • Affiliations:

  • Open Vision, Technologies, Security Business Unit, One Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper describes the features of a Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), examines its underlying assumptions, and evaluates lessons learned during its evolution. The GSS-API is designed to support architects of distributed protocols by providing them with a 'toolkit' for integration of security features (peer entity authentication, data origin authentication, data integrity and data confidentiality) into those protocols. It has been implemented atop a variety of technologies, including both secret-key and public-key approaches.