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Re: What happened to PKCROSS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nico Williams)
Tue Jul 1 16:13:10 2014

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I'll add that it's really shocking that we don't yet have PKCROSS.
Lack of PKCROSS greatly hurts Kerberos' scalability.

Also, Kerberos w/ PKCROSS is much closer to something like what PKI
should have been: short-lived credentials, no need for revocation
protocols (CRLs, OCSP).

Nico
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