[1546] in bugtraq
Re: Kerberos availability (Re: NIS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Azuelos)
Wed Apr 19 20:07:06 1995
From: Daniel Azuelos <dan@pasteur.fr>
To: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu (Dan Riley)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:49:10 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
Reply-To: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199504191454.KAA29981@lns598.lns.cornell.edu> from "Dan Riley" at Apr 19, 95 10:54:30 am
Dan Riley wrote:
| der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> writes:
| > The kerberos implementation is not exportable
|
| There is the "bones" version of Kerberos version 4, which has the
| encryption routines and all the encryption calls stripped out. This
| is exportable, and I believe the work of combining the bones version
| with a non-US implementation of DES has been done (at least once).
Bag of "bones": no value. And worse than Kerberos v4. Der Mouse is
perfectly right.
| > and I've never heard of an exportable spec being available and thus
| > code potentially redeveloped somewhere in the civilized part of the
| > world.
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dan +If looks could kill, they probably will, ....;