[3976] in Kerberos
Re: I need comment on Kerberos vs. NetSP (IBM)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W. Donald Rolph III)
Mon Oct 3 06:46:17 1994
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 1994 06:40:16 -0400
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: w-rolph@ds.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph III)
I know the answers to a few of these questions (I believe :-) )
>A. Kerberos :
>
>1. it requires that all parties be concurrently connected -> no suppor
>for dial-in
it should work fine over slip or ppp dialin. If you are dialing in as just
a terminal, then kerberos would be supported by you dial in host.
>2. it can only use TCP/IP
True.
>4. is it available on DOS, OS/2 and AIX, MVS and VM ?
It is certainly available for DOS (ftp pc/tcp at least), OS/2 (ftp pc/tcp at
least), AIX and MVs. No knowledge directly of VM although the MIT
documentation indicates it is.
Note - as kerberos 5 in the form of DCE becomes more widely available, it
would seem reasonable to assume all platforms.
>Thanks for any comments.
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It would not seem prudent to me to bet on a proprietary technology for
requirments in distributed security which in virtually all environments will
have to be highly standards based and heterogeneous.
Regards.
Don Rolph w-rolph@ds.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
