1 Shishi ANNOUNCE -- Overview to attract interest.
2 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Simon Josefsson
3 See the end for copying conditions.
5 Shishi is a (still incomplete) implementation of the Kerberos 5
6 network authentication system. Shishi can be used to authenticate
7 users in distributed systems.
9 Shishi contains a library ('libshishi') that can be used by
10 application developers to add support for Kerberos 5. Shishi contains
11 a command line utility ('shishi') that is used by users to acquire and
12 manage tickets (and more). The server side, a Key Distribution
13 Center, is implemented by 'shishid'. Of course, a manual documenting
14 usage aspects as well as the programming API is included.
16 Shishi currently supports AS/TGS exchanges for acquiring tickets, the
17 AP exchange for performing client and server authentication, and
18 SAFE/PRIV for integrity/privacy protected application data exchanges.
20 Shishi is internationalized; error and status messages can be
21 translated into the users' language; user name and passwords can be
22 converted into any available character set (normally including
23 ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) and also be processed using an experimental
26 Most common encryption types and checksum types are supported, such as
27 DES, 3DES, AES and MD4, MD5, HMAC-SHA1.
29 Shishi is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20
30 platforms including most major Unix platforms and Windows, and many
31 kind of devices including iPAQ handhelds and S/390 mainframes.
33 Shishi is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
36 http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/
38 For more information see:
39 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt
40 http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/krb-wg-charter.html
41 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
42 http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html
44 Further information including paid contract development:
45 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
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