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        RFC 2853

        Title:      Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java
                    Bindings 
        Author(s):  J. Kabat, M. Upadhyay
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       June 2000
        Mailbox:    jackk@valicert.com, mdu@eng.sun.com
        Pages:      97
        Characters: 199512
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-javabind-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2853.txt


The Generic Security Services Application Program Interface (GSS-API)
offers application programmers uniform access to security services
atop a variety of underlying cryptographic mechanisms. This document
specifies the Java bindings for GSS-API which is described at a
language independent conceptual level in RFC 2743 [GSSAPIv2-UPDATE].
 
The GSS-API allows a caller application to authenticate a principal
identity, to delegate rights to a peer, and to apply security
services such as confidentiality and integrity on a per-message
basis. Examples of security mechanisms defined for GSS-API are The
Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism [SPKM] and The Kerberos Version 5
GSS-API Mechanism [KERBV5].

This document is a product of the Common Authentication Technology
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
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