Importing and Exporting a Context

As noted in Context Export and Import, the GSS-API allows you to export and import contexts. The usual reason for doing this is to share a context between different processes in a multiprocess program.

sign_server() contains a proof-of-concept function, test_import_export_context(), which illustrates how exporting and importing contexts works. This function doesn't pass a context between processes. It only displays the amount of time it takes to export and then import a context. Although rather an artificial function, it does indicate how to use the GSS-API importing and exporting functions, as well as give an idea of how to use timestamps with regard to manipulating contexts. test_import_export_context() can be found in test_import_export_context().