RFC 7861: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Security Version 3
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document specifies version 3 of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) security protocol (RPCSEC_GSS). This protocol provides support for multi-principal authentication of client hosts and user principals to a server (constructed by generic composition), security label assertions for multi-level security and type enforcement, structured privilege assertions, and channel bindings. This document updates RFC 5403.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC7861
- Published
- November 2016
- Authors
- A. Adamson; N. Williams
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- wit
- Pages
- 26
- Also known as
- —
- Updates:
- RFC 5403
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