Re: Adding a PRF to GSSAPI V3

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:52:45PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Hi.  Larry, Niico and I would support the idea of adding some sort of
> PRF to the  GSSAPI.  
> 
> The intent of this would be that you have gss_prf that takes a context
> and some goop as input and returns some psuedo-random goop as output.
> The output would be constant for a given context and given input goop.
> This would presumably be a optional feature of GSSAPI.
> 
> If the list believes that this would be a good idea, I request any
> changes that are necessary be made to the proposed charter.

I particularly like the ease with which this extension can be defined,
both generically and for the Kerberos V mechanism specifically.

Cheers,

Nico
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