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Re: Kerberos availability (Re: NIS)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Newsham)
Thu Apr 20 19:49:48 1995

From: newsham@aloha.net (Timothy Newsham)
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:13:36 -1000 (HST)
Cc: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu
In-Reply-To: <199504192149.XAA01697@mendel.sis.pasteur.fr> from "Daniel Azuelos" at Apr 19, 95 11:49:10 pm

> 
> 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.

Are you saying that only us clever americans are capable of 
writing software from spec of adding functionality to stripped
software?  Boy... and I thought america's educational institutions
were bad...

                                     Tim N.

> dan                 +If looks could kill, they probably will, ....;


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