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The Channel Conjunction Mechanism (CCM) for GSS
draft-ietf-nfsv4-ccm-03

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Authors Mike Eisler , Nevin E. Williams
Last updated 2025-03-15 (Latest revision 2004-07-12)
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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.

Authors

Mike Eisler
Nevin E. Williams

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