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Re: Intent to package kth kerberos (krb4 or heimdal, not sure which)



On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> IMO, once ipsec is deployed, kerberos (and to a lesser extent SSL and
> ssh) will be a lot of dead weight - an annoying maintenance burden.
> 
> Even the -authors- of kerberos acknowledge that it's a bit of a hack
> designed to work around some obnoxious patents - patents which will
> expire in the near future (D-H' has already).
> 
> That said, ipsec isn't perfect.  EG, it probably won't help RPC
> applications much.

Not sure why you say this.  We plan on deploying SKIP exactly for this
reason, via CORBA which is basically OO RPC.  Can you elaborate?

-- 
Jean Pierre



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