[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] shishi want to be a GNU package

[Simon Josefsson]

FYI, I had a discussion with RMS about Shishi and the conclusion was
that I should wait until it is more mature (implement all existing
Kerberos features plus maybe some more that may be useful to the GNU
project).

So please consider this a dormant GNU wannabe package meanwhile.

address@hidden writes:

> Hi,
>
> The following project was submitted to Savannah. It needs evaluation to
> become a GNU package, can you give it a look, please ? 
>
> Submitter: <address@hidden>
> Project Full Name:  Shishi - A RFC 1510(bis) implementation
> Project System Name:  shishi
> License:  gpl
> Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=3605
> Description: Shishi is a (still incomplete) implementation of the RFC 1510 
> and RFC 1510bis network authentication system.  RFC 1510 can be used to 
> authenticate users in distributed systems.
>
> Shishi contains a library ('libshishi') that can be used by application 
> developers to add support for RFC 1510.  Shishi contains a command line 
> utility ('shishi') that is used by users to interface with the library, to 
> acquire and manage tickets (and more).  Included are also a TELNET client and 
> server (based on GNU InetUtils) for remote network login, and a PAM module 
> for host security.  Of course, a manual documenting user aspects as well as 
> the programming API is included.
>
> Shishi currently supports AS/TGS exchanges for acquiring tickets, and the AP 
> exchange for performing client and server authentication. Shishi is 
> internationalized; error and status messages can be translated into the 
> users' language; username and passwords can be converted into any available 
> character set (normally including ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) and be processed 
> using an experimental Stringprep profile.  The des-cbc-md4, des-cbc-md5, 
> des3-cbc-sha1-kd, aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96, and aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 
> encryption types, and the rsa-md4-des, rsa-md5-des, hmac-sha1-des3-kd, 
> hmac-sha1-96-aes128, hmac-sha1-96-aes256 checksum types are supported.
>
> Shishi is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20 platforms 
> including most major Unix platforms and Windows.
>
> Shishi is free software licensed under the GNU Public License.
>
> The project web page:
> http://josefsson.org/shishi/
>
> For more information see:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/krb-wg-charter.html
> http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
> http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html
>
>
>  -- the Savannah admin