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diff --git a/roms/edk2/CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl/krb5/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst b/roms/edk2/CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl/krb5/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..34fc9e484 --- /dev/null +++ b/roms/edk2/CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl/krb5/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +GSSAPI mechanism interface +========================== + +The GSSAPI library in MIT krb5 can load mechanism modules to augment +the set of built-in mechanisms. + +.. note: The GSSAPI loadable mechanism interface does not follow the + normal conventions for MIT krb5 pluggable interfaces. + +A mechanism module is a Unix shared object or Windows DLL, built +separately from the krb5 tree. Modules are loaded according to the +``/etc/gss/mech`` or ``/etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf`` config files, as +described in :ref:`gssapi_plugin_config`. + +For the most part, a GSSAPI mechanism module exports the same +functions as would a GSSAPI implementation itself, with the same +function signatures. The mechanism selection layer within the GSSAPI +library (called the "mechglue") will dispatch calls from the +application to the module if the module's mechanism is requested. If +a module does not wish to implement a GSSAPI extension, it can simply +refrain from exporting it, and the mechglue will fail gracefully if +the application calls that function. + +The mechglue does not invoke a module's **gss_add_cred**, +**gss_add_cred_from**, **gss_add_cred_impersonate_name**, or +**gss_add_cred_with_password** function. A mechanism only needs to +implement the "acquire" variants of those functions. + +A module does not need to coordinate its minor status codes with those +of other mechanisms. If the mechglue detects conflicts, it will map +the mechanism's status codes onto unique values, and then map them +back again when **gss_display_status** is called. + + +Interposer modules +------------------ + +The mechglue also supports a kind of loadable module, called an +interposer module, which intercepts calls to existing mechanisms +rather than implementing a new mechanism. + +An interposer module must export the symbol **gss_mech_interposer** +with the following signature:: + + gss_OID_set gss_mech_interposer(gss_OID mech_type); + +This function is invoked with the OID of the interposer mechanism as +specified in ``/etc/gss/mech`` or in a ``/etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf`` +file, and returns a set of mechanism OIDs to be interposed. The +returned OID set must have been created using the mechglue's +gss_create_empty_oid_set and gss_add_oid_set_member functions. + +An interposer module must use the prefix ``gssi_`` for the GSSAPI +functions it exports, instead of the prefix ``gss_``. + +An interposer module can link against the GSSAPI library in order to +make calls to the original mechanism. To do so, it must specify a +special mechanism OID which is the concatention of the interposer's +own OID byte string and the original mechanism's OID byte string. + +Since **gss_accept_sec_context** does not accept a mechanism argument, +an interposer mechanism must, in order to invoke the original +mechanism's function, acquire a credential for the concatenated OID +and pass that as the *verifier_cred_handle* parameter. + +Since **gss_import_name**, **gss_import_cred**, and +**gss_import_sec_context** do not accept mechanism parameters, the SPI +has been extended to include variants which do. This allows the +interposer module to know which mechanism should be used to interpret +the token. These functions have the following signatures:: + + OM_uint32 gssi_import_sec_context_by_mech(OM_uint32 *minor_status, + gss_OID desired_mech, gss_buffer_t interprocess_token, + gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle); + + OM_uint32 gssi_import_name_by_mech(OM_uint32 *minor_status, + gss_OID mech_type, gss_buffer_t input_name_buffer, + gss_OID input_name_type, gss_name_t output_name); + + OM_uint32 gssi_import_cred_by_mech(OM_uint32 *minor_status, + gss_OID mech_type, gss_buffer_t token, + gss_cred_id_t *cred_handle); + +To re-enter the original mechanism when importing tokens for the above +functions, the interposer module must wrap the mechanism token in the +mechglue's format, using the concatenated OID. The mechglue token +formats are: + +* For **gss_import_sec_context**, a four-byte OID length in big-endian + order, followed by the mechanism OID, followed by the mechanism + token. + +* For **gss_import_name**, the bytes 04 01, followed by a two-byte OID + length in big-endian order, followed by the mechanism OID, followed + by the bytes 06, followed by the OID length as a single byte, + followed by the mechanism OID, followed by the mechanism token. + +* For **gss_import_cred**, a four-byte OID length in big-endian order, + followed by the mechanism OID, followed by a four-byte token length + in big-endian order, followed by the mechanism token. This sequence + may be repeated multiple times. |