1.2 Features
`KSBA' has a couple of advantages over other libraries doing a similar job,
and over open coding the protocols in your application directly.
- It's Free Software
- Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (see Copying).
- It hides the low level stuff
- `KSBA' a high level interface to the implemented protocols and presents
the data in a consistent way. There is no more need to worry about all
the nasty details of the protocols. The API gives the C programmer a
more usual way of interacting with the data.
- It copes with the version details
- X.509 protocols tend to have many different versions and dialects.
Applications must usually cope with all of this and it has to be coded
over and over again. `KSBA' hides this by providing just one API which
does the Right Thing. Support for new versions and features of the
protocols will be added over time.