[1170] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: conversion patches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Mon May 13 21:45:36 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 21:44:37 -0400
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9605140003.AA00085@dcl.MIT.EDU>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
Sam needed the conversion patches...
I figured someone who might want to change the Kerberos master key from
something silly to at least something pseudo-real might want it to
(e.g. from a DES key representing "test" to "lks89423,.xci4w5").
On Mon, 13-May-1996, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote to
"Richard Basch, hartmans@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU" saying:
> Do you really think anyone else is using a 3DES-MD5 master key?
> Your comments seem to imply that you think someone else might need to
> use the conversion code. After all, 3-DES support was only added in
> this development cycle, and none of the people whom I know of who got
> pre-release snapshots were actually exercising 3-des support, except for
> you (as the developer of 3-des).
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