[5694] in Kerberos
Re: Krb 5.5 Encrypted Login Sessions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil A. Rubin)
Sun Aug 13 23:57:14 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 13 Aug 1995 22:33:44 -0500
From: nrubin@MCS.COM (Neil A. Rubin)
Shawn Mamros (mamros@ftp.com) wrote:
: Speaking for only myself here...
: I for one find it highly ironic that somebody posting from a *.gov
: site is complaining about MIT not being "willing to use the tools
: that we have today to improve network security", when it is the
: US government that has done more to restrict and impede the progress
: of worldwide network security (through its ridiculous and outdated
: export restrictions) than any other organization on the planet.
: Thanks to you, I can't "use the tools that we have today" to help
: my overseas customers, no matter how much they (and I) might want to.
Though I certainly understand your frustration and agree that the U.S.
Government's attempts to limit the export of cryptography are ridiculous, I
think that this attack is rather unreasonable. While the U.S. Congress and
several cabinet departments are responsible for export restrictions and
for the prosecution of Phil Zimmerman, I would hardly hold the
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (nersc.gov from which the
original poster posted) responsible for any of this. As a matter of fact,
while the actions of parts of the U.S. Government have hampered "worldwide
network security," without the actions of some other parts of the U.S.
Goverment ([D]ARPA, NSF, etc.) there would likely be no "worldwide network"
to secure.
I don't mean to be an apologist for the U.S. Government. Hopefully its
stance on cryptography will soon change. Remind me never to take this kind
of flamebait again...
--
Neil A. Rubin
nrubin@imsa.edu
