1 | SESAME uses the widely accepted Generic Security Service API (GSS-API). |
2 | The user gets mechanism transparency. |
3 | To access the distributed system, a user first authenticates to an Authentication Server to get a cryptographically protected token used to prove his or her identity. |
4 | The user then presents the token to a Privilege Attribute Server to obtain a guaranteed set of access rights contained in a Privilege Attribute Certificate (or PAC). The PAC is a specific form of Access Control Certificate that conforms to ECMA and ISO/ITU-T standards. |