[2875] in Kerberos
Re: A secure login scheme?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Brown)
Wed Oct 27 18:32:51 1993
To: "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921@mcimail.com>,
From: Kevin Brown <Kevin_Brown@netcomm.ie>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 21:34:46 GMT
Hi Robert,
If can, look at the scheme used by Sun for NIS+ which uses Secure RPC to
authenticate all logins. When a user is set up, the secret key is used to
generate the public key, and use is made of the NIS+ table structure for
storage.
I am vaugely aware that there is an API to using NIS+ for storage of other
things ( like Database Data ) in a fully secure fashion.
Try and get details re the implementation of NIS+ and secure RPC, as it
sounds like what you want.
Sun use a process called the Keyserv to store the local credential....
If you cannot access more info, come back to me and I will root out where
you can get the inside scoop, which might give you better ideas :-)
regards,
Kevin
ps I can never really understand Public Key Encryption :-( my brain is far
to small.....
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