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List:       freebsd-security
Subject:    Re: CDSA ?
From:       "Castor Fu" <castor () geocast ! com>
Date:       2000-07-30 2:25:31
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> > > > Anyone take a look at this ? Supposedly coming to LINUX by the end of
> > > > August as open source ( http://developer.intel.com/ial/security/faq.htm 
> > > for
> > > > more info.) I guess it kinda reminds me of PAM, but much more
> > > > comprehensive... From the FAQ,
> > >
> > >Give them a few years to work out all of the security vulnerabilities :-)
> > 
> > No doubt.  But are there any security initiatives similar to this one out 
> > there already ?
> 
> GSSAPI sounds similar in concept, but I don't know about coverage.
> 
> It will be interesting to see what license they choose for the reference
> implementation: if they care about getting this adopted as a defacto
> standard they'd be stupid to GPL it :-)

If you look at the web page, the win32 reference implementation is
BSD licensed.  There were some comments about require 4.5 gigabytes to
build it though. . . 

It seems to provide a lot more services than GSSAPI. . . 

	-castor



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