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[deryck at samba.org]

Author: deryck
Date: 2005-04-29 18:42:30 +0000 (Fri, 29 Apr 2005)
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Adding news item on abartlet's GENSEC paper.

deryck

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+    <h3><a name="abartlet_gensec_paper">An Introduction to GENSEC</a></h3> 
+        
+    <div class="article">
+    <p>Samba Team member <a href="http://samba.org/~abartlet/">Andrew 
+    Bartlett</a> has written a paper on Samba4's GENSEC security subsystem and
+    client credentials interfaces.  Andrew will be presenting the information
+    in this paper at <a href="http://sambaxp.org/">sambaXP</a> next week.</p>
+
+    <p>From Andrew's introduction:</p>
+
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>The series of subsystems presented in this paper are the culmination 
+      of four years of thought and development, since the first 'Authentication
+      rewrite' work on the then Samba HEAD development branch back in 2001.</p>
+
+      <p>Because Samba takes the challenge to match Microsoft's latest 
+      releases exactly, the issues surrounding Active Directory and modern 
+      security technologies quickly came to the fore.  It is no longer possible 
+      to just pretend to be NT4 and hope that the clients did not expect any 
+      particularly difficult behaviour.  With this incarnation of Samba these 
+      challenges are being tackled, not just worked around.</p>
+    </blockquote>
+
+    <p>As he did with Active Directory in his 
+    <a href="/samba/news/team/#abartlet_thesis">Samba4 thesis</a>, 
+    Andrew does a nice job of detailing the various GENSEC components.
+    For the complete paper (in PDF), see 
+    <a href="/samba/news/articles/gensec-white-paper.pdf">GENSEC - Designing 
+    a security subsystem</a>.</p>
+    </div>
+        
+