[16101] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Adding Fortuna as a new prng
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Fri Aug 20 20:34:59 2010
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:33:57 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:26:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Anyway, I think the deciding factor here is not so much the theoretical
> argument about how this might play out, but the practical argument that
> some of the consumers of MIT Kerberos are probably not going to be happy
> with a simple public domain dedication, and I think we're in agreement
> there.
I can't speak for Oracle, but that's the sort of thing that makes you
want pluggable (at least build-time pluggable) interfaces, so that you
can choose which modules to distribute.
Nico
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