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Re: [kitten] Use of GSS_Get_name_attribute() to obtain further attributes

Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com> Mon, 13 April 2015 09:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] Use of GSS_Get_name_attribute() to obtain further attributes
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I think 1) is fine.

> On 13 Apr 2015, at 6:25 pm, Alejandro Perez Mendez <alex@um.es> wrote:
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> In my opinion, approach 1) seems to offer a better solution. I don't see a reason by which a GSS Acceptor cannot call the GSS_Get_name_attribute() to obtain the value of a name attribute that does not appear in the results of GSS_Inquire_name(). This is something that can be handled by the mechanism (or the specific implementation of the mechanism). 

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