Shishi ANNOUNCE -- Overview to attract interest.
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Simon Josefsson
See the end for copying conditions.

Shishi is a (still incomplete) implementation of the RFC 1510(bis)
network authentication system.  Shishi can be used to authenticate
users in distributed systems.

Shishi contains a library ('libshishi') that can be used by
application developers to add support for RFC 1510.  Shishi contains a
command line utility ('shishi') that is used by users to interface
with the library, to acquire and manage tickets (and more).  Included
are also a TELNET client and server (based on GNU InetUtils) for
remote network login, and a PAM module for host security.  A
rudimentary key distribution center (KDC) daemon is included.  Of
course, a manual documenting user aspects as well as the programming
API is included.

Shishi currently supports AS/TGS exchanges for acquiring tickets, the
AP exchange for performing client and server authentication, and SAFE
for integrity protected application data exchanges.  Shishi is
internationalized; error and status messages can be translated into
the users' language; user name and passwords can be converted into any
available character set (normally including ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) and
also be processed using an experimental Stringprep profile.  The
des-cbc-md4, des-cbc-md5, des3-cbc-sha1-kd, aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96,
and aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 encryption types, and the rsa-md4-des,
rsa-md5-des, hmac-sha1-des3-kd, hmac-sha1-96-aes128,
hmac-sha1-96-aes256 checksum types are supported.

Shishi is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20
platforms including most major Unix platforms and Windows, and many
kind of devices including iPAQ handhelds and S/390 mainframes.

Shishi is free software licensed under the GNU Public License.

The project web page:
http://josefsson.org/shishi/

For more information see:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/krb-wg-charter.html
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html

Further information including paid contract development:
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>

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