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From: mts@TERMINATOR.CC.UMICH.EDU (Michael T. Stolarchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: costs of kerberos and X.500
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Date: 18 Dec 89 21:10:58 GMT
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I'm suprised to hear X.509 is already in the same
stage of development as kerberos.  When do we
get our 'free' copy of the source code to integrate
into our unix sources?  Is it written in C?  Does
it use ASN1? Is it integrated into pringing services already?
Pretty neat.  

At our institution we have about 20,000 accounts we will
have to migrate.  When, at some point, we decide to migrate
to some other mechainsm for accounts, 
that would be $12.5 * 20,000 -> 240,000.

When we go to administration and really compare two systems
and ask for money to support a centralized support mechaism
for authentication...

Besides, aren't there standards that are never used?

mts. the snail.
I'm on Jeff's side.