Functions for Manipulating OIDs

The Sun implementation of GSS-API provides the following functions for convenience and for backward compatibility. However, these functions might not be supported by other implementations of GSS-API.

• gss_delete_oid()

• gss_oid_to_str()

• gss_str_to_oid()

Although a mechanism's name can be converted from a string to an OID, programmers should use the default GSS-API mechanism if at all possible.