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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CDSA ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007291512530.59800-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000729021637.03da10c0@mail.sentex.net>

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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 11:14 PM 7/28/2000 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone take a look at this ? Supposedly coming to LINUX by the end of
> > > August as open source ( http://developer.intel.com/ial/security/faq.htm 
> > for
> > > more info.) I guess it kinda reminds me of PAM, but much more
> > > comprehensive... From the FAQ,
> >
> >Give them a few years to work out all of the security vulnerabilities :-)
> 
> No doubt.  But are there any security initiatives similar to this one out 
> there already ?

GSSAPI sounds similar in concept, but I don't know about coverage.

It will be interesting to see what license they choose for the reference
implementation: if they care about getting this adopted as a defacto
standard they'd be stupid to GPL it :-)

Kris

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