Securing Messages Using G-RAD

The GSS-API transport allows secure messaging for RAD applications.

The GSS-API transport leverages environments that have deployed secure authentication protocols, such as Kerberos. A URI transport element is added to the existing schema to indicate the GSS-API RAD (G-RAD) transport as follows:

radg://[user@]host[:port]

radg specifies the transport indicating G-RAD support.

If the user is not specified, then the invoking user is utilized. In the case of Kerberos, the user is mapped into a user principal.

If the host is not specified, then failure is returned.

If the port is not specified, then the default port is 6789.