GSS Summer of Code

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi all!

GSS participate, through the GNU project, in the Google Summer of
Code, see:

http://code.google.com/soc/

You can earn USD 4500 for working on a GSS project!

The ideas I had are available from:

http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html#gss

and currently include:

1. Make the library modular, so that each mechanism is in a separate
   library that is dlopen()'d. Have it be able to multiplex GSS-API
   services between Shishi, MIT Kerberos, and Heimdal, as per a
   configuration file. This would make it possible for all
   applications that support GSS-API to depend on GNU GSS, and the
   actual Kerberos implementation can be selected by the administrator
   on a host. This is useful for Linux distributions which today ship
   separate packages for popular applications, e.g. OpenSSH, one
   without GSS-API support, one with GSS-API support for MIT Kerberos,
   and one with GSS-API support for Heimdal.

2. Implement the Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism, see RFC 2025.

3. Implement the The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation
   Mechanism, see RFC 2478

I'm open to hear about other neat ideas, even if you are not
volunteering to be either mentor or student.

Cheers,
Simon