[1326] in Kerberos
Re: Smartcards and version 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Fri Apr 5 13:46:37 1991
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 13:16:21 -0500
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: jyg@beta.lanl.gov
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John Greer's message of Thu, 4 Apr 91 15:25:06 -0700,
Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 15:25:06 -0700
From: jyg@beta.lanl.gov (John Greer)
Someone from Security Dynamics claims the version 5 of Kerberos has "hooks"
built in that allows the use of smartcard with Kerberos. Is this true?
Well, yes and no. The protocol specification of Kerberos V5 makes it
possible that a smart card system could be integrated with Kerberos V5
authentication. However, as far as I know, no one has written the code
to actually do this. Certainly the MIT implementation (which will be
released to the public when it enters beta-test) has no "hooks" in the
code to support Security Dynamic's smartcards.
- Ted
