[2155] in Kerberos
Re: New User Accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert G. Moskowitz)
Thu Sep 3 06:54:58 1992
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 10:39 GMT
From: "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921@mcimail.com>
To: kerberos <kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Ganesan writes:
>What problem does it NOT solve?
>Type 2. Password weakness problems:
> - password guessing
> - dictionary attacks
From the Kerberos class that I took at spring INTEROP, it would seem that the
dictionary in v5 will pretty much stop these two.
Nothing will stop intentional password sharing. Even with a SecureID. It is
just more limited with SecureID.
Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corp.
