Kerberos availability (Re: NIS)

[dsr () lns598 lns cornell edu (Dan Riley)]

der Mouse <mouse () Collatz McRCIM McGill EDU> writes:
> The kerberos implementation is not exportable

There is the "bones" version of Kerberos version 4, which has the
encryption routines and all the encryption calls stripped out.  This
is exportable, and I believe the work of combining the bones version
with a non-US implementation of DES has been done (at least once).

> and I've never heard of an exportable spec being available and thus
> code potentially redeveloped somewhere in the civilized part of the
> world.

For Kerberos version 5, see RFC1510.

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