[4999] in Kerberos
Rumor Control: "Kerberos cracked?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Omand)
Thu Apr 20 10:37:55 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 10:13:41 EDT
From: Steve Omand <omand@athena.tay.dec.com>
Folks,
I received the following inquiry from one of our sales folk.
> Date: 19-Apr-1995
> The story is: some students at MIT have been playing with
> Kerberos and have "cracked" the logic. This tale has been going
> around for over a month. Fact of fiction, it has upset everyone
> that is using a security product that is based on Kerberos.
> I was just curious if any of you have heard this? You guys are
> a lot closer (geographically too) than we are.
> Paul H
If the source of this rumor has already been discussed somewhere/sometime,
can someone give me a pointer to the relevant articles. In my kerberos
archives I saved part of the thread "Re: Bellovin and Merritt ('91) question".
Could this be it?
thanks,
Steve.
