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Re: kerberos + X-windows

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Thu Mar 16 21:13:04 1995

Date: Thu, 16 Mar 95 21:00:11 -0500
To: rrr6399@cfdd60.boeing.com
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Rob Ratcliff's message of 16 Mar 95 19:38:17 GMT <693@cfdd60.boeing.com>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>

>Date: 16 Mar 95 19:38:17 GMT
>From: rrr6399@cfdd60.boeing.com (Rob Ratcliff)
>
>Can kerberos be used as a method to encrypt 
>X-windows' commands being sent over a 
>network? If not, what's the best way 
>to do that?

I added krb5 user-to-user authentication support to X11R6.  I am
thinking of adding a stream encryption option this summer if there is
time.  Keep in mind the finished product probably will not be
exportable.

---Tom

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