[7188] in Kerberos
Kerberos and JAVA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DeScribe, Inc.)
Wed May 1 23:39:57 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 2 May 1996 02:20:55 GMT
From: deinc@ibm.net (DeScribe, Inc.)
Reply-To: deinc@ibm.net (DeScribe, Inc.)
We are very interested in using Kerberos but are also concerned about our need
to implement it in a JAVA application at the end user's "client" workstation.
User's perfer not to have to download software "JAVA Applications" just to
access someone's Web page. Since a JAVA applet(vs an application) is loaded
as part of the Web page "get", Kerberos looks very attractive if it were
available as a JAVA Applet.
This may be a closed loop situation with no practical answer other than to
require the user to load "native code" on the workstation. If that is the only
way kerberos can be implemented for JAVA, its widespread acceptance will be
limited for Web apps.
Could I get some comments?
Jim Lennane
