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Re: Best practices inquiry: tracking SSH host keys


From: sandy () tislabs com
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:27:47 -0400 (EDT)


If a deployed kerberos environment has a single point of failure then its
been deployed poorly.  Kerberos has replication mechanisms to provide
redundancy.

This concentrates on the "what if it fails" worst case scenario of
a single point of failure.

This doesn't answer the "what if it is subverted" worst case scenario
of a single point of failure.

(Other posters have noted the requirement to lock down the kerberos
server tightly, but seemingly more with a view to keeping the server
functioning, rather than keeping its data safe from exposure and corruption.
The lock down mechanisms probably do both, but you need to keep both
views in mind.)


--Sandy


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