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 RFC 1510(bis)
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 RFC 1510. Shishi contains a
11 command line utility ('shishi') that is used by users to interface
12 with the library, to acquire and manage tickets (and more). Included
13 are also a TELNET client and server (based on GNU InetUtils) for
14 remote network login, and a PAM module for host security. A
15 rudimentary key distribution center (KDC) daemon is included. Of
16 course, a manual documenting user aspects as well as the programming
19 Shishi currently supports AS/TGS exchanges for acquiring tickets, the
20 AP exchange for performing client and server authentication, and SAFE
21 for integrity protected application data exchanges. Shishi is
22 internationalized; error and status messages can be translated into
23 the users' language; user name and passwords can be converted into any
24 available character set (normally including ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) and
25 also be processed using an experimental Stringprep profile. The
26 des-cbc-md4, des-cbc-md5, des3-cbc-sha1-kd, aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96,
27 and aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 encryption types, and the rsa-md4-des,
28 rsa-md5-des, hmac-sha1-des3-kd, hmac-sha1-96-aes128,
29 hmac-sha1-96-aes256 checksum types are supported.
31 Shishi is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20
32 platforms including most major Unix platforms and Windows, and many
33 kind of devices including iPAQ handhelds and S/390 mainframes.
35 Shishi is free software licensed under the GNU Public License.
38 http://josefsson.org/shishi/
40 For more information see:
41 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt
42 http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/krb-wg-charter.html
43 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
44 http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html
46 Further information including paid contract development:
47 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
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