On 2011-06-21 6:34 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
The GSS-API has been growing extensions to deal with these situations
by exposing more information to the application.  There's also some
extensions by which to specify policies/profiles to apply.

Creating a whole *new* API to layer above the GSS-API would be OK IFF
the new API were effectively a simplified profile of the GSS-API.

The GSS-API has Kerberos implicitly baked into it - symmetric encryption, central trusted authority, function call oriented rather than message oriented.

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