Difference between revisions of "Release 1.11"

Revision as of 17:03, 25 October 2012

Timeline

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

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

Code quality

• Improve ASN.1 support code, making it table-driven for decoding as well as encoding (done)
• Refactor parts of KDC, to better support libKDC and Projects/Trust KDC-local name resolution

Developer experience

• Projects/APIs_for_keytab_and_cccol_content
• Projects/Keytab_initiation -- Use default keytab for gss_init_sec_context when available (done)
• Projects/Export_import_cred -- Importing and exporting of GSS creds (useful for async GSS proxy) (done)
• Projects/Interposer_Mechanism
• Projects/Responder
• Projects/Password_response_item
• Documentation consolidation

End-user experience

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

Administrator experience

• Projects/Keytab_ccache_name_parameters
• FAST OTP client in libkrb5 (maybe excluding second-level plugins hardware OTP tokens)
• Documentation consolidation

Performance

• Improve (or eliminate) KDC lookaside cache (done)

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)