[457] in Kerberos
new beta test site
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner)
Tue Jul 26 13:04:15 1988
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Dan Kolkowitz (Stanford)
Stanford's total network based environment consists of more than one thousand
computers inter-connected on Stanford SUNeT network. Most of the computers
are Unix based workstations and minicomputers, the exceptions being DEC
System 20's running TOPS-20. The principal workstation vendors are Sun,
DEC, IBM, and HP.
We are looking to provide vendor independent secure services across
Stanford. The proposed model is similar enough to Kerberos' that we
hope to use substantial components from it. The major component of the
application would be authentication of a user requesting a resource. We
intend to first use this for secure login and to later extend it to
general network services. The version of secure login would be
implemented on all of the above mentioned architectures, including the
20's. In addition we hope to incorporate the secure protocols in our
ethernet terminal servers to provide secure login on any ethernet
access.
