[19109] in Kerberos
range of bandwidth of universities using Kerberos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hillel Weintraub)
Wed Apr 23 06:04:54 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:03:56 +0900
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From: Hillel Weintraub <hillel@fun.ac.jp>
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During a visit to Stanford University recently, I was surprised to see
users entering the campus network from a variety of places, both inside
and outside the campus. At my university in Japan, the security is very
strict, and I can't access most of our data from outside of our
firewall and our single building campus.
How, I wondered , could Stanford manage to let their users log
in from anywhere? The security to do this was provided by Kerberos, I
was told. When I returned to my university, I recommended that we look
into using a system like Kerberos which would allow our faculty and
students (about 1300 members, each with at least one computer) to
utilize more of the network from outside of campus through a safe
password encryption system.
The response I received was that most American universities have
a bandwidth of 1G, while our university is operating on a bandwidth of
6 M. I'm wondering, is this lack of bandwidth a reason for not
installing a password encryption system allowing us to use our network
from outside the firewall. Are there any examples of universities using
Kerberos with a limited bandwidth?
Any information would be appreciated.
Hillel Weintraub
Future University - Hakodate
Hokkaido, Japan
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