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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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