In article <3c1e590c$0$19995$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Heiko Hund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could it be that the guys at MIT chose the name Kerberos because there are >three Parties involved in the authentication process No. The name ``Kerberos'' was originally conceived when the project was still attempting to develop a unifying framework for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. By the time the scope of the project was restricted to just authentication, the name Kerberos was already too well-entrenched to change. This is described in one of the original Kerberos documents. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
