From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jul 28 23: 7:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A5937B545 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA02731 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:07:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000729015307.033b94a8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:01:49 -0400 To: security@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: CDSA ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anyone take a look at this ? Supposedly coming to LINUX by the end of August as open source ( http://developer.intel.com/ial/security/faq.htm for more info.) I guess it kinda reminds me of PAM, but much more comprehensive... From the FAQ, "CDSA eases the process of adding security to software products. By writing to one common API, a software developer can add authentication services (such as smart card readers), encryption services (such as DES) and the ability to manage security processes (key recovery, export restrictions, prevention of attacks on the internal software pieces). Application developers can focus on a single API for all security services, instead of a potentially conflicting collection of individual APIs from multiple toolkit vendors. This provides application developers with flexibility, consistency, and portability when implementing security solutions within their products." ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message