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RFC 2078: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 2743.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 2743 — Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), as defined in RFC-1508, 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. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID: RFC2078
Published: January 1997
Authors: J. Linn
Status: PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream: IETF
Area: sec
Pages: 85
Also known as: —

Obsoletes:: RFC 1508
Obsoleted by:: RFC 2743

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This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

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RFC 2743Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1Updated
January 2000

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