[anonsec] IPsec Application Programming Interfaces

[Miika Komu]

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.


Title : IPsec Application Programming Interfaces
Author(s) : M. Komu
Filename : draft-komu-btns-api-00.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 2006-10-9


Usually network layer security through IPsec is transparent for
applications. Usually, they cannot detect the presence of IPsec or
affect its security properties. This document specifies extensions
to increase the visibility of IPsec to applications through a low
level sockets API. In addition, a higher layer APIs based on GSS is
also defined. The GSS based APIs increase security level of the
application through the dual use of both transport and network layer
security. It can be also used to improve protocol performance by
reducing redundant authentications.


A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-komu-btns-api-00.txt