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Foil 103 The GSS-API Security Interface

From Basic Principles of Java and Internet Security CPS616 Web Technologies -- Spring 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Generic Security Services Application Program Interface (GSS-API) hides from its callers the details of the specific underlying security mechanism, leading to better application portability, and moving generally in the direction of a better interworking capability.
The GSS-API also completely separates the choice of security mechanism from choice of communications protocol.
A GSS-API implementation is viable across virtually any communications method.
GSS_API is an Internet and X/Open standard.



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