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6 zmq_gssapi - secure authentication and confidentiality
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9 The GSSAPI mechanism defines a mechanism for secure authentication and
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11 the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSSAPI).
12 The GSSAPI mechanism can be used on both public and private networks.
13 GSSAPI itself is defined in IETF RFC-2743:
14 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2743. The ZeroMQ GSSAPI mechanism is
15 defined by this document: http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:38.
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18 A socket using GSSAPI can be either client or server, but not both.
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20 To become a GSSAPI server, the application sets the ZMQ_GSSAPI_SERVER
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23 To become a GSSAPI client, the application sets the
24 ZMQ_GSSAPI_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL option to the name of the principal on the
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27 On client or server, the application may additionally set the
28 ZMQ_GSSAPI_PRINCIPAL option to provide the socket with the name of the
29 principal for whom GSSAPI credentials should be acquired. If this
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33 By default, the GSSAPI mechanism will encrypt all communications
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36 setting the ZMQ_GSSAPI_PLAINTEXT option. Both the client and server
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40 Principal names specified with the ZMQ_GSSAPI_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL or
41 ZMQ_GSSAPI_PRINCIPAL options are interpreted as "host based" name types
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43 ZMQ_GSSAPI_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_NAMETYPE options may be used to change the
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46 ZMQ_GSSAPI_NT_HOSTBASED
47 The name should be of the form "service" or "service@hostname",
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52 The name should be a local username, which will parse into a
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