Review of AEAD Encryption API Project; concluding December 5, 2008

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Mon Nov 24 15:26:29 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:17:32PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Love" == Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha at kth.se> writes:
> 
>     Love> I find this very un-important since what matters is the
>     Love> gss-api interface.
> 
> Well, if we're going to have any hope of doing the gss-api interface,
> we need a krb5 layer interface for the gss-api library to call.
> 
> I split these into two projects because the krb5 layer code reached
> stability faster than the gss-layer code.
> The gss project has not been sent out for review yet because the write-up is not quite ready.

Understood, but it will not be possible to complete a review of the krb5
API until the details of the GSS-API in-place crypto extensions are
published.

Nico
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