Common Authentication Technology
The goal of the Common Authentication Technology (CAT) Working Group is to provide distributed security services to a variety of protocol callers in a manner which insulates those callers from the specifics of underlying security mechanisms.
Protocol SPKM-LIPKEY (13), the Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM) and LIPKEY, A Low Infrastructure Public Key Mechanism Using SPKM, [8,61], provide a method to supply a secure channel between a client and server, authenticating the client with a password, and a server with a public key certificate. This is analogous, but not identical, to the common usage of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol [54].
Protocol SPKM-LIPKEY should provide Fresh Key Agreement (G1-3,7,10,12).