The Channel Conjunction Mechanism (CCM) for GSS
draft-ietf-nfsv4-ccm-03
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (nfsv4 WG) | |
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| Authors | Mike Eisler , Nevin E. Williams | ||
| Last updated | 2004-07-12 | ||
| Stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
| Document shepherd | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
This document describes a suite of new mechanisms under the GSS [RFC2743]. Some protocols, such as RPCSEC_GSS [RFC2203], use GSS to authenticate every message transfer, thereby incurring significant overhead due to the costs of cryptographic computation. While hardware-based cryptographic accelerators can mitigate such overhead, it is more likely that acceleration will be available for lower layer protocols, such as IPsec [RFC2401] than for upper layer protocols like RPCSEC_GSS. CCM can be used as a way to allow GSS mechanism- independent upper layer protocols to leverage the data stream protections of lower layer protocols, without the inconvenience of modifying the upper layer protocol to do so.
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