GSSExtras

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Is gss_context_query_attributes on the track for standardization?  If
>  not, does it conflict with functionality provided somewhere in
>  kitten?
> 
> I think the answer is no and not that much.  The conflict I'm aware of
> is the mechanism attributes stuff, but that seems sufficiently
> different.

The answers are "no" and "no".  There's no conflict as far as the APIs
go.  Some specific security context attributes may be best seen as name
attributes, but that does not a conflict make.  And some security
context attributes cannot be seen as name attributes (e.g., session
keys), which is why we need a standard gss_context_query_attributes().

I'd use "inquire" instead of "query" though, for consistency.

Nico
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