Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) 0.1.3 (original) (raw)

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From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) 0.1.3
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:30:35 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

GSSLib is an implementation of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API). GSS-API is used by network servers to provide security services. For example, GSS can be used to authenticate a client against SMTP or IMAP servers. GSS consists of a library, a manual, and a command line tool for debugging purposes.

Noteworthy changes since the last version:

** KRB5: Add support for channel bindings.

** Build fixes and code cleanups.

** i18n: Added Finnish translation, thanks to Jorma Karvonen.

** i18n: Added Italian translation, thanks to Sergio Zanchetta.

** API and ABI modifications. No changes since last version.

While written to be flexible with regards to different GSS mechanisms, the only currently supported mechanism is Kerberos 5 via GNU Shishi. Mutual and non-mutual authentication, as client and server, is supported. Message privacy protection using DES and 3DES is supported.

GSS aims to be internationalized, thread safe and portable. GSS is written in ANSI/ISO C89, and has been ported to numerous platforms, even cross compiled to embedded platforms such as Motorola Coldfire.

GSS is a GNU project, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

Improving GSS is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find GSS useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate money or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GSS are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GSS maintenance. We are always looking for interesting development projects.

The project's web page is available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/

All manuals are available from: http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/manual/

Specifically, the following formats are available.

The main manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/manual/gss.html - HTML format http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/manual/gss.pdf - PDF format

Also useful are code coverage charts which indicate parts of the source code that needs to be tested better by the included self-tests: http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/coverage/

If you need help to use GNU GSS, or want to help others, you are invited to join our help-gss mailing list, see: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gss>.

Here are the compressed sources of the entire package: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gss/gss-0.1.3.tar.gz (2.0MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gss/gss-0.1.3.tar.gz.sig (OpenPGP signature)

Here are the build reports for various platforms: http://autobuild.josefsson.org/shishi/

Daily builds of the package are available from: http://daily.josefsson.org/gss/

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an OpenPGP key identified by the following information:

pub 1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2011-03-30] Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F uid Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> uid Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2011-03-30]

The key is available from: http://josefsson.org/key.txt dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT

Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-224 checksums:

85a1eb2ece45605b7874962203902a8d8388ef04 gss-0.1.3.tar.gz

7cbdb9729128eb47e41d5cd51d4f8aeb04ed157c0151cb5dbc520d58 gss-0.1.3.tar.gz

Happy hacking, Simon

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