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Re: kerberos outside US

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Claude Lecommandeur SIC-SII")
Thu Oct 3 11:16:50 1991

Date: 3 Oct 91 13:31:44 GMT
From: lecom@siihp1.epfl.ch ("Claude Lecommandeur SIC-SII")
Reply-To: lecom@siihp1.epfl.ch ("Claude Lecommandeur SIC-SII")
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU

In article <1991Oct01.133511.11918@watson.ibm.com>, galina@watson.ibm.com_ (Galina Kofman) writes:
> 
> We also need kerberos 5 without encryption.  Is there a simple (or not so simple) way to
> build one?  Any hints will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Galina Kofman

  According to tytso@athena.mit.edu :

> Algorithms besides DES are not supported in the beta distribution of
> Kerberos, although the code has been written such that it will easy to
> add alternative algorithms.

..

> Well, actually, if you had read the README file (which was necessary to
> figure out how to FTP the actual tar files), permission to obtain the
> Kerberos distribution was only granted for US sites, so you shouldn't
> have gotten a copy of it.  As I've said above, the null algorithm is not
> supported in the current version.

   So, you'll (we'll) have to wait sometime.

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