[7398] in Kerberos
Re: K5 Zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bobby G. Pham)
Thu Jun 6 09:14:58 1996
From: "Bobby G. Pham" <bgp@unity.ncsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 09:05:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
"Re: K5 Zephyr" (Jun 5, 7:23pm)
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
On Jun 5, 7:23pm, Marc Horowitz wrote:
>
> Does any one know whether or not Zephyr has been ported to Kerberos V5
yet?
> If not, any plan in the future? Thanks.
>
> Making zephyr work with krb5 will require a change to the wire
> protocol, because zephyr's wire encoding is horribly inefficient, and
> krb5 AP_REQ messages are big enough that a zgram will no longer fit in
> a UDP packet.
>
> There has been talk amongst the zephyr developers of a protocol bump
> to fix this problem and some others, but there isn't a schedule I
> know of.
Are there any drafted documents on what needs to be done to make this
change? Any other suggestions? Thanks.
>-- End of excerpt from Marc Horowitz
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