Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 19:25:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Castor Fu" <castor@geocast.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDSA ? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.10.10007291924020.24039-100000@swamp.sfo.geocast.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007291512530.59800-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway 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 :-) If you look at the web page, the win32 reference implementation is BSD licensed. There were some comments about require 4.5 gigabytes to build it though. . . It seems to provide a lot more services than GSSAPI. . . -castor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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