[1247] in Kerberos
Future of Kerberos and Vendor support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert G. Hollingsworth)
Mon Feb 18 16:30:32 1991
Date: 18 Feb 91 20:24:21 GMT
From: gregh@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Robert G. Hollingsworth)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
Several months ago, I sent out a query to this group about vendor
support for Kerberos. I'd like to run Kerberos on some of our hosts,
but this requires that Kerberized client software on a variety of
hosts. The only way I'm going to be able to run Kerberos here is if I
can I can get 'out of the box' Kerberos clients that require minor
configuration changes.
I received some feedback from my original posting that hinted that I
might someday be able to obtain Kerberized client software for Macs
and PC's, and that Ultrix 4.0 was being shipped with Kerberos. Sounded
like there might be a chance of running it here someday.
Recently I have heard that DEC is taking Kerberos, incorporating RSA
into it, and redistributing it widely. I read through their
literature (I'm no cryptography expert), it sounded like a
reasonable addition to me.
Now I fear that I'm going to have a set of DEC hosts that run RSA
Kerberos, and a set of client systems that run standard Kerberos. Can
anyone comment on what I can expect to see in the future in the
Kerberos arena. Will we ever be able to use Kerberos in our large
heterogeneous network?
Greg
