Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:29:47 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh Message-ID: <20030501222947.GA25911@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <67613AC6-7B42-11D7-B4E5-000393754B1C@vangelderen.org> References: <200304301917.h3UJH4Yj054706@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <67613AC6-7B42-11D7-B4E5-000393754B1C@vangelderen.org>
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > >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? When you want n computers to be able to talk to n other computers, each of the n computers needs to know n SSH keys. With Kerberos, you just have to set up the authentication server right.
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