On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> SSH is nice, but unless you fork out $500 (or whatever datafellows is
> charging this week) for a license for RSA, it is illegal to use in a
> commercial context.
>
Not all that pricey if the cost is only $500 to make one feel a bit warm
and comfy...
> We are moving to Kerberos, and I for one love it. ftp://athena-dist.mit.
> edu/pub/kerberos/README for instructions on how to get it.
>
My limited understnading and reading about kerberos is that it is NOT an
all-in-one solution. It's not the way to make one machines deamons talk
with anothers, and, in multi-user machine environs, the kerberos tickeyts
are plaintext and stealable by someone other than the owner...
Later,
Ron DuFresne
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"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart
***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!***
OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.
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