gss-api

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gss-api - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
  GSS-API
  
     <security, programming> (GSS-API) An application level
     interface (API) to system security services.  It provides a
     generic interface to services which may be provided by a
     variety of different security mechanisms.  Vanilla GSS-API
     supports security contexts between two entities (known as
     "principals").
  
     GSS-API is a draft internet standard which is being developed
     in the Common Authentication Technology Working Group
     (cat-wg) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
  
     Initial specifications for GSS-API appeared in RFC 1508 and
     RFC 1509.  Subsequent revisions appeared in several draft
     standards documents.
  
     (http://dstc.qut.edu.au/~barton/work/project.html).
  
     (1996-05-19)
  

gss-api - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  GSSAPI
         Generic Security Service API (RFC 2078, API), "GSS-API"