The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), as defined in RFC-1508, provides security services to callers in a generic fashion, supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms and technologies and hence allowing source-level portability of applications to different environments. [STANDARDS-TRACK]| IETF Datatracker
This document describes a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols. [STANDARDS-TRACK]| IETF Datatracker