Introduction to the Kerberos Products and GSS-API

KRB5 Client Software

 

KRB5 Client Software

 

This section presents an overview of the KRB5-Client software, which

 

consists of libraries, header files, manpages, and Kerberos utilities. The

 

section is divided into two parts. The following subsection, “Libraries and

 

Header Files”, discusses the libraries and header files supplied with the

 

KRB5-Client software. The second subsection,“Kerberos Utilities” on

 

page 56, discusses the Kerberos utilities.

 

Libraries and Header Files

 

This section lists and describes the libraries and header files supplied

 

with the KRB5-Client software.

 

You can use the KRB5-Client libraries to develop secure client/server

 

applications for either 32-bit or 64-bit environments on any of the

 

HP-UX 11.X platforms.

 

The client libraries are based on MIT Kerberos V5 1.1.1 release. This

 

release is compatible with MIT Kerberos 1.2 and interoperable with

 

Microsoft Windows 2000.

 

 

NOTE

On HP-UX 11i v3, the KRB5-Client libraries are based on MIT Kerberos

 

V5 1.3.5 release. These KRB5-Client libraries support the DES, AES,

 

3DES and RC4 encryption types.

 

The Kerberos Client Library (libkrb5.so) replaces the KRB-Support

 

 

Library (libsis.sl) from the HP-UX 11i v1.6 release onwards.

 

The KRB5-Client libraries support Data Encryption Standard (DES) as

 

specified in RFC 1510 of the IETF.

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