Article 34531 of alt.security: Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lead.zk3.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!caen!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!news.alcatel.fr!usenet From: Kare Presttun Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security Subject: SESAME is available Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:02:44 +0100 Organization: Alcanet International Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31171934.4ECE@ansf.alcatel.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: nsfhh5.alcatel.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win16; I) Xref: nntpd.lkg.dec.com sci.crypt:49540 alt.security:34531 HI, SESAME is available from: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/sesame.html You can regard it as a kind of enhanced Kerberos, that supports a mix of public and secret key cryptography, delegation of rights, separation of the authentication method from the rest of the system, multiple security domains , cross domain security. It can directly replace Kerberos in DCE. It has an enhanced GSS-API to take advantage of the enhanced services. It is in the public domain (as of today), and Internet drafts are filed to progress it to an RFC. It is an ECMA standard. For more information and source code, check out the above URL. Regards, Kare -- ---------------------------------------------------------- | Kare Presttun Alcanet International | | Tel: +33 1 4058 5614 33, rue Emeriau | | Fax: +33 1 4058 5945 F-75015 Paris | | Kare.Presttun@ansf.alcatel.fr FRANCE |