[3368] in Kerberos
Re: BEST PRODUCTS FOR OPEN SYSTEMS SECURITY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Lesieur)
Fri Jun 3 05:38:41 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 14:18:12 GMT
From: robl@cbis.com (Rob Lesieur)
Jonathan Bines (jonbines@panix.com) wrote:
[cut to the chase]
: C. PRIVILEGE DEFINITION
: Kerberos is the premier product for defining and maintaining levels of
: user privilege. The software provides authentication of a user to various
: resources in a computing environment. Developed at MIT, various
: implementations are currently available, including a number of commercial
: implementations. Difficulties with Kerberos include the lack of support
: from key applications, continued reliance on passwords (it is not an user
: identification/authentication product) complexity of implementation (and
: problems with scalability), and lack of interoperability among competing
: versions (DCE vs. MIT, for example). Commercial Kerberos providers
: include CyberSAFE (formerly Open Computing Security Group), and Cygnus
: Network Security.
The problem here is finding V5 with WinSock API compatability.
: D. DATA INTEGRITY PRODUCTS
: Data integrity products include backup and storage management products (If
Depends on your requirements for the scale of work. Some products are cost
effective for massive amounts of data, others for small amounts.
--
Rob Lesieur
robl@cbis.com
=> My opinions and statements do not necessarily <=
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