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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xlock small fix, X security
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Date: 19 Jul 88 16:41:41 GMT
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Athena will (eventually) write the glue to use our network authentication
service, Kerberos (see Steiner et. al., Usenix Conference roceedings,
Winter, 1988), under the connection authorization hook provided by
the X protocol.  This is one way to provide increased security at the
Display level.