[3657] in Kerberos
Re: S/KEY integrated with Kerberos?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Mon Aug 8 01:05:13 1994
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Aug 1994 21:01:00 EDT."
<CMM.0.90.0.776221260.tls@panix3.panix.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 00:49:03 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@cam.ov.com>
I want to underscore one part of your
commentary:
An S/KEY TGT server would eliminate the "dumb terminals can't speak
Kerberos" problem (or rather do an end-run on it), wouldn't it? It
seems to me that there must be an enormous demand for that, both at
MIT and outside.
I submit that there is soon to be a mass
market for security technology, driven
differently for different classes:
1) amongst the computing class, mobile
computing cannot be mission critical
computing without authenticity
guarantees, which will drive demand
2) amongst the merchant class, electronic
commerce cannot progress without
message integrity and non-repudiation
suitable for broadcast media (e.g.,
CATV), which will drive demand
3) amongst the non-computing class,
concerns about privacy, such as
might come from a national health
service's propagation of one's
medical record, will drive demand
It is coming.
--dan
