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From: kannan@SEJOUR.NAC.DEC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: Future of Kerberos and Vendor support
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Date: 19 Feb 91 18:21:54 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.  Digital has already licensed RSA
public key technology and Sphinx embodies the RSA patent.  Therefore
users don't need to license RSA for Sphinx.

However, Sphinx users are not authorized to use the RSA algorithm beyond
the intended use in the Sphinx (SPX) software.

	-kannan