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The GSS-API-Easy Mechanism
draft-ietf-cat-gsseasy-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (cat WG)
Expired & archived
Author Denis Pinkas
Last updated 1999-10-20
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

This document provides a description of a GSS-API mechanism usable through the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (as specified in Internet-Drafts [GSSV2] and [GSSV2-C]) that is easy to deploy since it does not rely on the existence of a security infrastructure nor the existence of a security server. The GSS-API-Easy mechanism enables unilateral and mutual authentication of peers as well as per-message protections. It is based on the use of an identifier and a SharedSecret shared between the client and the server and uses a protocol where the passphrase (i.e. a long phrase used like a password) is never sent in the clear. In addition, this document describes a protocol to change the SharedSecret.

Authors

Denis Pinkas

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