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Re: DCE and Kerberos V5

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Ramus)
Wed Sep 25 14:39:37 1996

To: mullan_s@apollo.hp.com (Sean Mullan)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ramus@es.net
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:22:40 -0700
From: "Joe Ramus" <ramus@es.net>

>> Good news. The DCE 1.2.2 release from OSF will provide
>> secure versions of rsh and rlogin which do not expose
>> the password to the network along with optional forwarding 
>> of credentials and encrypted sessions (encrypted sessions are
>> supported in domestic source only). These also interoperate
>> with the secure rutils from MIT.
>> 
>> Sean Mullan
>> HP

Will these secure versions of rsh and rlogin also work with
the  Configurable Authentication Path  developed by Doug Engert at
Argonne National Lab for MIT Kerberos 5?

The Configurable Authentication Path enhances Authentication
capability between multiple sites working on a common project.

For additional information on related issues, check these pages:

http://www.es.net/hypertext/authtf/authtf.html
http://www.es.net/pub/dccc/taskforce/authtf/documents/cross.realm.notes.txt

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