Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-API) Naming Extensions
RFC 6680
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) N. Williams
Request for Comments: 6680 Cryptonector, LLC
Category: Standards Track L. Johansson
ISSN: 2070-1721 SUNET
S. Hartman
Painless Security
S. Josefsson
SJD AB
August 2012
Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-API)
Naming Extensions
Abstract
The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
(GSS-API) provides a simple naming architecture that supports name-
based authorization. This document introduces new APIs that extend
the GSS-API naming model to support name attribute transfer between
GSS-API peers.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Name Attribute Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Name Attributes/Values as ACL Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Naming Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Representation of Attribute Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.1. SET OF OCTET STRING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2. Const Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.3. GSS_Display_name_ext() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.3.1. C-Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.4. GSS_Inquire_name() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.4.1. C-Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.5. GSS_Get_name_attribute() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.5.1. C-Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.6. GSS_Set_name_attribute() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.6.1. C-Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.7. GSS_Delete_name_attribute() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.7.1. C-Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.8. GSS_Export_name_composite() . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.8.1. C-Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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