Samizdat is a toolkit for Java for building Kerberos secured distributed, message-oriented applications. The toolkit contains base classes that simplifies the management of Kerberos login contexts as well as flexibly sign and seal messages between principals using the Java GSS API. The toolkit contains Transformation classes for Kerberizing JMS traffic as well as a super-lean HTTP based protocol stack that supports both Synchronous (RPC) and Asynchronous modalities.
The project consist in an open source implementation of the W3C Recommendation of the XML Key Management Specification 2.0 XKMS 2.0. It is compound of a XKMS Server and a Client API to access to the Server via Web Service.