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== Developer experience ==
 
== Developer experience ==
   
* Use default keytab for gss_init_sec_context when available
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* Use default keytab for gss_init_sec_context when available (done)
* Importing and exporting of GSS creds (useful for async GSS proxy)
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* Importing and exporting of GSS creds (useful for async GSS proxy) (done)
 
* Documentation consolidation
 
* Documentation consolidation
   

Revision as of 13:20, 18 September 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 when available (done)
  • Importing and exporting of GSS creds (useful for async GSS proxy) (done)
  • Documentation consolidation

End-user experience

  • Documentation consolidation
  • Store metadata in the ccache about how a credential was acquired, to improve the user's experience when reacquiring (expecting contribution)
  • Support distinct client time offsets per realm (expecting contribution)

Administrator experience

Performance

  • Improve (or eliminate) KDC lookaside cache

Protocol evolution

  • Authorization data -- conditional on IETF consensus
    • Authorization data container with multiple verifiers (CAMMAC)
    • 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)