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Re: [kitten] GSS-API and timeouts

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Wed, 04 April 2012 17:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] GSS-API and timeouts
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Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> writes:

> If you don't want to tackle async init/accept_sec_context now then I
> suggest that you use threads and thread cancellation.

And not have any timeout in the implementation of the mechanism itself?

/Simon

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