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Common Authentication Technology Working Group of the IETF.

       Title     : Generic Security Service Application Program 
                   Interface                                          
       Author(s) : John Linn
       Filename  : draft-ietf-cat-genericsec-01.txt, .ps
       Pages     : 61

This Internet-Draft proposes a Generic Security Service Application 
Program Interface (GSS-API) definition, providing security services to
callers in a generic fashion which is supportable with a range of 
underlying mechanisms and technologies.  Security contexts are 
established between peers, accomplishing peer entity authentication 
and providing the basis for subsequent per-message data origin 
authentication, integrity, and confidentiality protection services in 
conjunction with those contexts.                                      

This memo defines GSS-API services and primitives at a level which is 
independent of underlying security mechanism and programming language 
environment, and is to be complemented by related documents defining 
parameter bindings for particular language environments and defining 
token formats, protocols, and procedures to be implemented in order to
realize GSS-API services atop a variety of underlying security 
mechanisms.                                                           

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