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From: jon@athena.mit.edu (Jon A. Rochlis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: New ISO Authentication ASE
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Date: 6 Mar 90 02:57:07 GMT
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There are some very good reasons for wanting to be able to use
Kerberos.  The issue is not one of "not invented here" at all.  Some
of the issues only effect the US (like having to pay royalties for the
use of public key technology), and others are not addressed well at
all by the ISO standards (revocation, for example).  There is also the
trivial point that Kerberos has been shown to work in production use
for several years.  It works.