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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:31:56 +0200
From:      "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh
Message-ID:  <67613AC6-7B42-11D7-B4E5-000393754B1C@vangelderen.org>
In-Reply-To: <200304301917.h3UJH4Yj054706@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, at 21:17 Europe/Amsterdam, Garrett Wollman 
wrote:

> <<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:16:03 -0700, Kris Kennaway 
> <kris@obsecurity.org> said:
>
>> Hmm, is it really a good idea to combine crypto and krb5?  krb5 is, I
>> suspect, a rarely-used feature in the wild.
>
> ``The wild'' contains lots and lots of Windows Active Directory
> implementations.
>
> For any operation larger than a few dozen hosts, Kerberos is a great
> deal easier to manage than n^2 SSH key combinations.

Where does the number n^2 come from?

-J

>   (This presumes
> that you have a working version of Kerberized SSH, which at present
> means OpenSSH 3.4 with the patches.)  Even for relatively small
> installations, the convenience factor can be significant, particularly
> when integrated with other operating systems infrastructure.
>
> -GAWollman
>
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