# Package io.undertow.security.api

Interface Summary
AuthenticatedSessionManager: Interface that represents a persistent authenticated session.
AuthenticationMechanism: The interface to be implemented by a single authentication mechanism.
AuthenticationMechanismContext: An Undertow `SecurityContext` that uses Undertow `AuthenticationMechanism` instances for authentication.
AuthenticationMechanismFactory: Factory for authentication mechanisms.
GSSAPIServerSubjectFactory: The GSSAPIServerSubjectFactory is a factory responsible for returning the `Subject` that should be used for handing the GSSAPI based authentication for a specific request.
NonceManager: A NonceManager is used by the HTTP Digest authentication mechanism to request nonces and to validate the nonces sent from the client.
NotificationReceiver: The interface to be interested by classes interested in processing security related notifications.
SecurityContext: The security context.
SecurityContextFactory: Deprecated Instead extend AbstractSecurityContextAssociationHandler to provide alternative contexts.
SessionNonceManager: An extension to the `NonceManager` interface for Nonce managers that also support the association of a pre-prepared hash against a currently valid nonce.

Class Summary
AuthenticatedSessionManager.AuthenticatedSession
AuthenticationMechanism.ChallengeResult: Simple class to wrap the result of requesting a mechanism sends it's challenge.
SecurityNotification: Notification representing a security event such as a successful or failed authentication.

Enum Summary
AuthenticationMechanism.AuthenticationMechanismOutcome: The AuthenticationOutcome is used by an AuthenticationMechanism to indicate the outcome of the call to authenticate, the overall authentication process will then used this along with the current AuthenticationState to decide how to proceed with the current request.
AuthenticationMode: Enumeration to indicate the authentication mode in use.
SecurityNotification.EventType