On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:50:49PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: [...] > > If I were eligible. ;o) > > (Just (successfuly) left university and looking around for > > a PhD place.) > > If you are still enrolled at the university, I think you would still > be eligible...
I am not 100% sure, if I am enrolled still (long story, hopefully final meeting with administrative division tomorrow. Current prediction: I'm not enrolled any more.) > http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html#8 I have read most of the student and mentor faq. > > Acting as a full-time mentor doesn't look like it's paid at > > all, so I can't offer that now. > > There is a USD 500 fee for mentoring organization, but I've forgotten > what the decision was whether GNU wanted to keep it or if the mentor > gets it. There was a long discussion about it. I should ask, I'm > less interested if GNU wants to keep the money. Right, same here. Without paying, _I_ decide, where I help. :) [...] > I'm working on the TLS extensions instead, which allow X.509, OpenPGP, > SRP, TLS-PSK, etc authentication. I have received funding to complete > the OpenPGP integration, but haven't had much time to work on it. :( I didn't know, that OpenPGP integreates with kerberos. I surely like that idea. (My last contacts with x509 were not so nice. Maybe I just got the wrong HOWTOs.) > > >> 3. Implement cross-realm authentication logic. > > > > That sounds like a tough job to me. > > > > If you get a "student" for that one, I surely want to get > > in touch with her/him to learn about it. > > (windows does _transitive_ cross-realm auth somehow > > internally too. And I don't yet know much about it.) > > Cross-realm logic is described in RFC 4120 and isn't that difficult, > you'll only have to query for an additional service with TGT, and then > use it to talk with the next KDC. The transitive point is the interesting one. [...] > > > > semi-mentor for some projects. > > I can also help a bit with the GSS/spnego project. (I just > > hacked 25% of spnego for TNG a few days ago. ;) ) > > Thanks! I'll remember this if anyone signs up for it. I'd wish you'd > sign up as student and did it though. :) :-) I don't really have 3 months full time fot the soc. That and the enrollment issue excludes me really. (and I doubt, that spnego alone will get through as a single job. It doesn't feel "big" enough.) Elrond _______________________________________________ Help-shishi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-shishi
