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Re: zephyr at MIT using Kerb5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Hurley)
Tue Dec 19 13:16:31 1995
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:06:47 EST."
<199512191706.MAA25349@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 13:07:44 -0500
From: Ed Hurley <hurley@mama-bear.lcs.mit.edu>
Zephyr is not. Zephyr is supposed to be only 7-bit clean, which means
binary data needs to be encoded into 7-bit characters. The problem is
that the original zephyr binary to ascii converter was a 4->11, versus
something like radix64 (3->4) or uuencode (7->8). This bloat is the
reason that krb5 doesn't work directly with zephyr 2.0.2.
this sounds (to me) like a shortcoming in the original zephyr design.
if so, i have two questions:
1. what, if anything, will be changed in future zephyr releases to correct
this?
2. ideally, what *should* be changed...
-ed
