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From: pato@APOLLO.COM (Joe Pato)
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Subject: Re: Future of Kerberos and Vendor support
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Date: 19 Feb 91 19:19:17 GMT
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    Chris Riddick writes :
    
    >	Both techniques are valid authentication mechanisms.  One may
    >choose Kerberos over Sphinx because of its public availability and use
    >of DES and passwords.  Shinx requires licensing RSA public key technology
    >in order to use the system.  However, Sphinx provides an advantage over
    
    Sphinx will be publicly available.

kannan, 

Is Sphinx a DEC product for VMS and Ultrix or is Digital going to support
Sphinx on HP/UX, Sun OS, AIX, MVS, MS DOS, Domain/OS etc.?  The public
availability of Kerberos exists because MIT will freely distribute the Kerberos
source code and because a number of vendors have independently chosen to
support commercial version.  In addition the OSF DCE will provide a common
industrial version of Kerberos V5 with generic interfaces for implementing
authenticated RPC applications.

                    -- Joe Pato
                       Cooperative Computing Division
                       Hewlett-Packard Company
                       pato@apollo.hp.com

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