[1634] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos Tech Info Request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Sullivan)
Fri Nov 8 15:55:24 1991
Date: 8 Nov 91 19:12:03 GMT
From: tom@kether.webo.dg.com (Tom Sullivan)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
Several people asked me to post the responses I got to this request,
so here they are:
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From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: tom (Tom Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Kerberos Tech Info Request
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 10:12:17 GMT
Have you got the documentation available via anonymous ftp from
athena-dist.mit.edu? I would start with
/pub/kerberos/doc/usenix.{txt,ps} and look at the tech plan if that
isn't detailed enough.
-- Jon
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From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: tom (Tom Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Kerberos Tech Info Request
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 11:59:14 GMT
The software is also available from athena-dist, no license, no $$$
(unless you want a tape cut).
-- Jon
Here's the standard blurb ...
The Project Athena network services are:
Kerberos, the authentication service
Hesiod, the naming service
Zephyr, the notification service
Moira, the services management service
All the software shown above is available now by using anonymous FTP to the
host ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU (ip#18.71.0.38); cd to the "pub" directory and look
there for subdirectories named after the particular software components.
When retrieving Kerberos, get the file pub/kerberos/README before attempting
to retrieve the software; special instructions are required to retrieve the
Kerberos software distribution.
ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU is the only software repository which is guaranteed to
have the latest version of the Athena Network Services; other systems on the
Internet may have older copies available. If being current is important for
your work, then you should get your software this way.
This software (along with selected applications in daily use at Project
Athena) is also available on magnetic media (both QIC-24 and 9-track tape
formats) in UNIX 'tar' format for those users who are not able to copy the
software via anonymous FTP. Either tape format is available for US$300 for
North American shipment and US$400 elsewhere. If your tape is to be shipped
to an address outside the United States of America then your tape will have
"Bones" ... a Kerberos-like system with the DES calls removed. Bones is not
useful for authentication as supplied; you will have to add the DES calls to
the code we supply.
To order send a check drawn on a U.S. bank payable to "Massachusetts
Institute of Technology" along with a letter providing a shipping address to:
MIT Software Center
Building E32-300
28 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Telephone: +1 617 253 6966
The MIT Software Center cannot accept purchase orders as payment. The MIT
Software Center cannot accept the terms and conditions upon the reverse side
of purchase orders. Please send only a check and a letter if you must order
a tape.
Questions about Project Athena can be directed by electronic mail on the
Internet to the address <info-athena@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>. By postal mail, we can
be reached at the following address:
Information Officer
MIT Project Athena
E40-300 MIT
One Amherst Street
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139
USA
Telephone contact between 1000 and 1600 can be made by dialing +1 617 253
0194; telefax transmissions can be received between 0000 and 2359 at +1 617
258 8736.
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Note also that the X Window System is also a Project Athena network service;
the X Consortium now produces and distributes this software. Contact
<xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu> for details.
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If you require more information, feel free to contact us.
-- Project Athena
External Relations Group
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From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: tom
Subject: Re: Kerberos Tech Info Request
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 91 14:43:51 -0500
Look in ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU:/pub/kerberos/doc via anonymous FTP. There
is a collection papers which describe Kerberos and its design.
If you don't have access to FTP, you can send mail to
archive-server@ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU. A message with the two lines
"index" and "send help" should get you enough information to get you
started.
- Ted
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From: smb@ulysses.att.com
To: tom (Tom Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Kerberos Tech Info Request
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 91 19:43:12 EST
Let me refer you to a paper by myself and Michael Merritt, on the
limitations of Kerberos. You can ftp it from research.att.com,
in dist/kerblimit.usenix.ps.
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So, these are the responses I received. I retrieved the doc from the
address/directory listed above at MIT, and this was exactly what I was
looking for. Good luck...Tom
