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Date:      11 Jan 2000 01:59:42 +0100
From:      Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/heimdal - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <5lwvphbeyp.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: "Matthew N. Dodd"'s message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:44:30 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001101942290.911-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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"Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> writes:
> All my MIT Krb5 API docs are at work in a binder somewhere but I don't
> recall them being all that spare.

The biggest problem I think is that they've not been updated in a long
while I think.

> Granted there was little in the way of big picture text (ie: you
> need to do these 5 things before you can accept a connection and
> verify a principle) but the sample source was helpful for that.

The sample source might be good enough for writing an application but
not necesarilly for writing an implementation.  And Heimdal is a
re-implementation done outside the US.

> So long as Heimdal isn't off inventing new APIs I'm happy.  1 API for
> Kerberos is enough.

It's stated goal to be `reasonably' API-compatible, at least enough so
that you can build applications.  (Apart from that, we might do a
better API but that hasn't happened yet.)

/assar


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