Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface: Difference between revisions

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[[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]].

The SSPI API found in [[Microsoft Windows]] is a competing (and slightly different) implementation of the same logical model behind GSSAPI (RFC 15082743). The extension to RFC 15082743 that stands out the most is the capability to turn client credentials into a security subject (a token, in Windows parlance) that the server can temporarily use to impersonate the client.

== Key concepts of the GSSAPI ==