[7246] in Kerberos
OpenVision donates Kerberos admin system to MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Fri May 10 16:50:21 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:34:36 -0400
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
[ The following press release comes from OpenVision's web site,
http://www.ov.com. I am posting it here because it directly affects
the entire Kerberos community. Note that the code described below
WILL NOT be included in the shortly-upcoming krb5 beta 6 release, but
will be available in a release later this summer; integration of the
code is already underway and progressing nicely. Disclaimer: I do not
work for OpenVision, but I used to and I own stock in the company.
--Barry]
OpenVision Technologies, Inc. Donates Kerberos Enhancements to MIT Enhances
Kerberos Manageability and Facilitates Application Integration
May 1, 1996. Pleasanton, Ca -- OpenVision Technologies, Inc., a leading
supplier of client/server systems management solutions and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the donation by OpenVision of
its enhancements to MIT's network security technology, Kerberos V5. The
enhancements, which will be incorporated into the official MIT release of
Kerberos, include an Administration Server that enhances the manageability
of the Kerberos technology and a secured RPC mechanism that facilitates
client/ server application integration with Kerberos.
"Managing the security of large networks is a challenge faced by most major
corporations today," said Theodore Ts'o from MIT Information Systems.
"Kerberos has been widely adopted as a solution to these security issues,
and the OpenVision Kerberos enhancements will help increase its commercial
appeal."
OpenVision's donation includes an Administration Server which represents a
significant enhancement over previous distributed administration facilities
in the MIT release of Kerberos. In particular, for the first time in the MIT
version, administrators will be able to set and administer password policies
on individual users in the Kerberos system.
The OpenVision enhancements also include a secured RPC, based on industry-
standard ONC-RPC. An RPC is a remote procedure call that allows operations
requested by one machine to be performed by another, thus creating a
distributed computing environment. OpenVision's secured RPC protects the
communication between the two machines, providing the capability for the
large community of distributed applications based on ONC-RPC to become
security-aware without major modifications to the application.
The OpenVision donation represents another step in the on-going cooperation
and partnership between OpenVision and MIT to provide users with the most
effective network security solution available. Previously, OpenVision had
donated an implementation of the GSS-API, a security service interface
authored by John Linn, Principal Architect at OpenVision, and subsequently
adopted by the Open Group (formerly X/Open).
The incorporation of the OpenVision enhancements is expected to be completed
and available by the end of Summer, 1996.
OpenVision Technologies, Inc. is a leading supplier of systems management
applications and services focused on automating the management of business
applications within complex, distributed computing environments. The company
provides systems management solutions for automated operations, application
availability and performance, enterprise backup and network and system
security on leading platforms including UNIX, Digital OpenVMS, Microsoft
Windows, Windows NT, and Novell NetWare. The company has over 190 employees
in 12 cities worldwide and an impressive list of customers at Fortune 500
companies and government agencies.
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Kathy Salvano Paul Forecki
OpenVision Technologies, Inc. Sterling Communications, Inc.
510-426-6477 408-441-4100
Bob Di Iorio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
617-253-2700
