[7953] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos 5 and S/Key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dug Song)
Fri Sep 13 18:38:31 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 13 Sep 1996 22:22:58 GMT
From: dugsong@umich.edu (Dug Song)
Michael Stein (mas@ucla.edu) wrote:
: What was the purpose of using S/Key instead?
To avoid reliance on a long-lived secret (such as a reusable
password), which provides a little more protection from trojaned
client software. Support for OTP schemes is already in the latest V5
code, as outlined in Cliff Neuman's old internet draft, I believe...
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Douglas Song dugsong@{umich.edu,monkey.org}
University of Michigan ITD GPCC Unix Services
www: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dugsong
keyid: C2263445 fingerprint: BF F5 20 EA DA 2F C4 F4 7D 68 4A 50 E4 35 D1 17
