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== Code quality ==
 
== Code quality ==
   
* Improve ASN.1 support code
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* Improve ASN.1 support code, making it table-driven for decoding as well as encoding (done)
* Refactor parts of KDC
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* Refactor parts of KDC, to better support libKDC and [[Projects/Trust KDC-local name resolution]]
   
 
== Developer experience ==
 
== Developer experience ==

Revision as of 19:35, 23 April 2012

Timeline

This is only an approximate timeline. Dates are subject to change.

  • Oct. 2012 -- make release branch
  • Dec. 2012 -- final release

Code quality

Developer experience

  • Use default keytab for gss_init_sec_context
  • Interposition for GSS mechglue
  • Documentation consolidation
  • gss_export_cred (useful for async GSS proxy) -- expecting contribution

End-user experience

  • Documentation consolidation

Administrator experience

Performance

Protocol evolution

  • Authorization data container with multiple verifiers
  • POSIX directory info in authorization data (PAD)
  • Level of Assurance in authorization data
  • Site-defined string-keyed claims in authorization data
  • X.509 attributes in authorization data
  • FAST preauth sets (e.g. OTP + long-term password)