Kerberos Question

[Richard Scott]

Having started looking at the kerberos implementation (and wondering where the best place is to begin to start sorting out what's what), I actually started at one of the ends where I'm most comfortable -- the crypto code.  It appears that three algorithms are supported:  DES, TripleDES, and AES.  TripleDES and AES are both fine, but support for DES is being phased out by the entire known universe (as it well should be.  It had a predicted useful life of 20 years, and that was 30 years ago -- and now some gameboys have sufficient processing power to mount a serious attack on the keyspace!!)  Anyway, MIT's kerberos is dropping support, and NIST (US National Institute of Standards & Technology for anybody unfamiliar with the acronym) is effectively "de-certifying it" by withdrawing the FIPS [standard] for it.  So, my question (to whomever it should be addressed - and I have no clue who has been working in this area!) is are there plans underway to drop support for DES in this implementation as well?   Who are the folks working on Kerberos? Thanks, Richard