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== List of GSSAPI implementations ==

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*Shishi [http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/],

*SSPI [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/secauthn/security/authentication_functions.asp] (wire-compat only),

*SAP [ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/ietf-work/gssapi/gsskrb5/],

**SAP is not a GSS-API implementation; it simply uses GSS-API [[User:SamHartman|SamHartman]] 21:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

but who else?

- [[User:Dleonard|DLeonard]] 04:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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application. I don't know how many of them (if any) are or have

ever participated in IETF activities. Here's a quick list of companies:

ietf mechanism: Company (Country)

Kerberos 5 MIT, CyberSafe, CA/Platinum, Microsoft, heimdal

SPKM Entrust (CA), Shym (US), Baltimore (US)

proprietary mechanisms:

AM-DCE Bull (FR)

(propr.) Sagem (FR)

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kobil Kobil GmbH (DE)

T-Secure secunet/Telekom (DE)

how many do you recognize?

==Problems With the Article==

I read the article and noticed several problems that I don't have time to work on now so I decided to document them.

* I don't understand how [[RADIUS]]is a competing technology

* I think the proper abbreviation is GSS-API not GSSAPI; see RFC 2743.

* I'm not convinced that impersonationa is incompatible with IETF GSS-API. in particular GSS-API does provide a credential delegation mechanism. The only interisting thing behind impersonation is that you are able to tell the local OS to use the credential for everything including local access checks. For every GSS-API operation you can use the delegated credential just as in Windows. However you need a specific OS call to use that for local operations and that is in fact outside the scope of GSS-API.