Re: [kitten] GSS-API and timeouts

Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> Wed, 04 April 2012 17:30 UTC

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From: Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com>
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> When implementing the GSS-API part of OPENID20/SAML20 I noticed that the
> processes can hang waiting for a long time.  Server may want to wait one
> minute or more to allow a user to finish the IdP authentication.

What kind of waiting are you thinking of here?

Isn't this waiting for the initiator to send outstanding context tokens,
which by itself is asynchronous, rather than the server blocking on
a gss_accept_sec_context() call?

-Martin