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gss_wrap: To encrypt a message for Conﬁdentiality Service.

gss_unwrap: To decrypt a message for Conﬁdentiality Service.

Name Manipulation APIs

Names identify principals. Names are represented in printable form (for presentation to an application)

or in internal for (canonical form) that is used by the API and is opaque to applications. The following are

the APIs that are used manipulate the names:

gss_import_name

: Convert a contiguous string name to a internal form.

gss_display_name

: Convert a internal form name to a text.

gss_compare_name

: Compare two internal form names.

gss_release_name

: Discard an internal form name.

gss_inquire_names_for_mech

: List the name types supported by a speciﬁc mechanism.

gss_inquire_mechs_for_name

: List mechanisms that support the speciﬁed name type.

gss_canonicalize_name

: Convert an internal name to a mechanism speciﬁc Mechanism Name

(MN).

gss_export_name

: Convert an MN to ﬂat name representation suitable for bitwise comparison.

gss_duplicate_name

: Create a copy of an internal name.

Miscellaneous Operation APIs

Besides the above mentioned category of APIs, there are APIs which are used for miscellaneous opera-

tions like creating and deleting list of mechanism OIDs, display the GSSAPI error status codes in text for-

mat, releasing the memory for the buffer etc. as given below: as

gss_add_oid_set_member

: Add object identiﬁer to a set of OIDs.

gss_release_oid_set

: Release the memory of a set of OID’s.

gss_create_empty_oid_set

: Create an OID set with no OID’s.

gss_test_oid_set_member

: Determine whether an OID is a member of a set.

gss_release_buffer

: Release the memory of a buffer.

gss_release_oid: Release the memory of an OID structure.

gss_release_name

: Release the memory of a nametype.

gss_display_status

: Convert GSSAPI status code to text.

gss_indicate_mechs

: Determine available underlying security mechanisms.

AUTHOR

libgss.sl was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.