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Re: motivation for multiple keys per principal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Wed May 8 13:57:17 1996

Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 13:54:56 -0400
To: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9605081744.AA18118@starkiller.MIT.EDU>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>

On Wed, 8-May-1996, "Barry Jaspan" wrote to "krbdev@MIT.EDU" saying:

> What was the motivation for supporting multiple keys per principal?
> Is there a reason other than a smooth migration from DES to 3-DES?

Such as a V4 to V5 migration... Also, sometimes it is necessary to
support multiple enctypes for awhile, until all the clients are updated.
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