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Re: Kerberos Weakness (COAST Findings)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Lodin)
Sat Feb 17 17:52:13 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 17 Feb 1996 17:17:18 -0500
From: swlodin@cs.purdue.edu (Steve Lodin)


In article <4g5jdd$iv4@umbc7.umbc.edu>, pauld@umbc.edu (Paul Danckaert) writes:
> I am somewhat concerned about this.. does anybody have any more information
> on the extent of the problems here, or the status on any bug-fixes?
> 

Contact your Kerberos vendor or MIT for fixes.  Further details will be
released later.

My first suggestion is don't use any kerberos based on MIT Kerberos
Version 4 for military-grade security requirements.

Steve
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