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<reference anchor='RFC1509'>

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<title abbrev='GSSAPI - Overview and C bindings'>Generic Security Service API : C-bindings</title>
<author initials='J.' surname='Wray' fullname='John Wray'>
<organization>Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>550 King Street</street>
<street>LKG2-2/AA6</street>
<city>Littleton</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>01460</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 508 486 5210</phone>
<email>Wray@tuxedo.enet.dec.com</email></address></author>
<date month='September' year='1993' />
<abstract>
<t>This document specifies C language bindings for the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), which is described at a language-independent conceptual level in other documents.</t>
<t>The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-API) provides security services to its callers, and is intended for implementation atop alternative underlying cryptographic mechanisms. Typically, GSS-API callers will be application protocols into which security enhancements are integrated through invocation of services provided by the GSS-API. The GSS-API allows a caller application to authenticate a principal identity associated with a peer application, to delegate rights to a peer, and to apply security services such as confidentiality and integrity on a per-message basis.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1509' />
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