On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:01 -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Balazs" == Balazs Scheidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>     Balazs> Although not strictly related to this discussion, but TLS
>     Balazs> does support kerberos based authentication, see RFC 2712
> 
> 
> I just knew someone was going to bring that up.
> 
> I really need to right draft-hartmans-tls-2712-historic.  Briefly, the
> major Kerberos implementations do not provide APIs necessary to
> implement RFC 2712, the spec provides insufficient detail to be
> implemented, the Kerberos vendors believe that providing the APIs
> would be a bad idea from an abstraction standpoint, RFC 2712 only
> supports DES, and RFC 2712 fails to use Kerberos in a manner that is
> compatible with ongoing work in the Kerberos working group.

While it is true that I only used kerberos5 and TLS separately, but
openssl 0.9.7e (the version I have on my notebook in source format) has
a file named ssl/kssl.c which seems to be an implementation of RFC2712.
But again this is probably not relevant.

-- 
Bazsi


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