-
+
Client Authentication
GSSAPI is an industry-standard protocol
- for secure authentication defined in RFC2743.
+ for secure authentication defined in RFC 2743.
- authentication according to RFC1964.
GSSAPI
+ authentication according to RFC
1964.
GSSAPI
provides automatic authentication (single sign-on) for systems
that support it. The authentication itself is secure, but the
data sent over the connection will be in clear unless
The Identification Protocol
is described in
- RFC 1413. Virtually every Unix-like
+ RFC 1413. Virtually every Unix-like
operating system ships with an ident server that listens on TCP
port 113 by default. The basic functionality of an ident server
is to answer questions like What user initiated the
-
+
pgcrypto
PGP encryption functions
- The functions here implement the encryption part of the OpenPGP (RFC2440)
+ The functions here implement the encryption part of the OpenPGP (RFC 2440)
standard. Supported are both symmetric-key and public-key encryption.
Whether to convert \n into \r\n when
encrypting and \r\n to \n when
- decrypting. RFC2440 specifies that text data should be stored using
+ decrypting. RFC 2440 specifies that text data should be stored using
\r\n line-feeds. Use this to get fully RFC-compliant
behavior.
Do not protect data with SHA-1. The only good reason to use this
option is to achieve compatibility with ancient PGP products, predating
- the addition of SHA-1 protected packets to RFC2440.
+ the addition of SHA-1 protected packets to RFC 2440.
Recent gnupg.org and pgp.com software supports it fine.
-
New version of RFC2440.
+
New version of RFC 2440.