Re: GSSAPI and Java

Roland Schemers (Roland.Schemers@Eng)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 15:04:02 -0800 (PST)

Message-Id: <199803062304.PAA22985@crypto.eng.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 15:04:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Roland Schemers <Roland.Schemers@Eng>
Subject: Re: GSSAPI and Java
To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com

For the archives, Sun's current intentions are to submit an
I-D (internet-draft) to the IETF for the Java GSSAPI bindings.
The draft is being worked on.

roland

> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:52:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: Roland Schemers <Roland.Schemers@Eng>
> Subject: Re: GSSAPI and Java
> To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com, ghudson@MIT.EDU
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> I will forward your message to Mike.
>
> roland
>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:44:31 -0500
> > From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> > To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com
> > Subject: GSSAPI and Java
> >
> > Based on some mail from Mike Eisler and Mayank Upadhyay to cat-ietf in
> > September of last year, it looks like Sun was working on a Java GSSAPI
> > layer. Unfortunately, the cat-ietf archives on bitsy don't go past
> > January of this year, and there is no mention of GSSAPI in any of the
> > Sun documentation I've seen.
> >
> > Did this effort go anywhere, even if only at the specification level?
> > (Since Sun might not release its source code publicly, specifications
> > are probably of greater interest to me anyway.) Is it still being
> > worked on? I just don't want to go off in my own direction if Sun or
> > some other group is close to having their own specification done.
>