[3371] in Kerberos
Re: BEST PRODUCTS FOR OPEN SYSTEMS SECURITY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Glatting)
Fri Jun 3 12:38:33 1994
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 08:58:08 -0700
From: Dennis Glatting <war04!dennisg@kerby.ocsg.com>
To: robl@cbis.com (Rob Lesieur)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dpg@ocsg.com
> : 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.
>
I'm confused. What does this mean?
-dpg
