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<title abbrev='GSS-API'>Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1</title>
<author initials='J.' surname='Linn' fullname='John Linn'>
<organization>RSA Laboratories</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>20 Crosby Drive</street>
<city>Bedford</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>01730</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 781 687 7817</phone>
<email>jlinn@rsasecurity.com</email></address></author>
<date month='January' year='2000' />
<abstract>
<t>The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), Version 2, as defined in, provides security services to callers in a generic fashion, supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms and technologies and hence allowing source-level portability of applications to different environments. This specification defines GSS-API services and primitives at a level independent of underlying mechanism and programming language environment, and is to be complemented by other, related specifications:</t>
<t>documents defining specific parameter bindings for particular language environments</t>
<t>documents defining token formats, protocols, and procedures to be implemented in order to realize GSS-API services atop particular security mechanisms</t>
<t>This memo obsoletesmaking specific, incremental changes in response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is intended, therefore, that this memo or a successor version thereto will become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API specification on the standards track.</t></abstract></front>

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