From: "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 15:43:16 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: GUCAPI (Grand Unified Crypto API)
Message-ID: <199412062348.SAA16082@bb.hks.net>
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Derek Atkins writes:
 > Why do all this?  There already exists a Generic Security System API,
 > GSSAPI, which is an Internet standard (or there is at least an Internet
 > Draft -- I'm not sure what the current status is right now, and given
 > that the IETF is going on this week, it's status may change).

Ah, I knew of the GSSAPI's existence but hadn't realized that its scope
included what I wanted.  I'll read the draft on the internic and see
if it does what I want.  If so, the next logical step is to wrap RSAREF
in it and to make a PGPish-wraparound.

I'd certainly be up to the former;  Would anybody else be interested in
ponying up their time and effort for the PGP instance?  (The draft
is ftpable from ftp.internic.net,
/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-00.txt)
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Todd Masco     | "'When _I_ use a word,' Humpty-Dumpty said, in a rather
cactus@hks.net |  scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -
cactus@bb.com  |  neither more nor less.'"   - Lewis Carroll
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