[1251] in Kerberos
Re: Future of Kerberos and Vendor support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Pato)
Tue Feb 19 15:13:11 1991
From: pato@apollo.com (Joe Pato)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 91 14:19:17 EST
To: kannan@sejour.nac.dec.com
Cc: nss1!cjr@uunet.uu.net, kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: kannan@sejour.nac.dec.com, tue, 19 feb 91 13:21:54
Chris Riddick writes :
> Both techniques are valid authentication mechanisms. One may
>choose Kerberos over Sphinx because of its public availability and use
>of DES and passwords. Shinx requires licensing RSA public key technology
>in order to use the system. However, Sphinx provides an advantage over
Sphinx will be publicly available.
kannan,
Is Sphinx a DEC product for VMS and Ultrix or is Digital going to support
Sphinx on HP/UX, Sun OS, AIX, MVS, MS DOS, Domain/OS etc.? The public
availability of Kerberos exists because MIT will freely distribute the Kerberos
source code and because a number of vendors have independently chosen to
support commercial version. In addition the OSF DCE will provide a common
industrial version of Kerberos V5 with generic interfaces for implementing
authenticated RPC applications.
-- Joe Pato
Cooperative Computing Division
Hewlett-Packard Company
pato@apollo.hp.com
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