We're wanting to port MIT Kerberos client to the Android platform
as an open-source project under the MIT License,
and maintain it going forward (synchronized to each release of MIT Kerberos).

There are some implementations of Java-GSSAPI (eg. the Sun/Oracle Java
GSS-API under JAAS), but these are usually under a different licensing model
which prevents us from redistributing.

Part of the project is to find the best answer to your questions (eg.
which server provider API).

/thomas/


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Brian Carlstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I searched http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list and don't see any
> outstanding requests for Kerberos support.
> In my own work I'd seen references to some Kerberos cipher suites, but they
> obviously can't be implemented on their own without other Kerberos
> infrastructure.
> Is there some specific java.* or javax.* API or server provider API you are
> specifically targeting?
> I'm somewhat familiar with Kerberos having ported it across
> more traditional OS's in my youth, but have little experience with it in a
> Java environment, and have not thought out the general issues that might be
> present when each app runs in an independent UID with regard to how ticket
> management etc might work.
> -bri
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Thomas Hardjono <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Brian,
>>
>> We are starting a new project at the MIT-KC to develop Kerberos
>> support for Dalvik (eg. Java-GSSAPI bindings).  Would this be of
>> interest to Dalvik and the broader Android-security community?
>>
>> /thomas/
>>
>> ____________________
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Brian Carlstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Hardjono <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I was wondering if Dalvik has built-in support for Kerberos (v5).
>> >
>> > No.
>> > -bri
>
>

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