Tim Alsop wrote:
> 
> Oliver,
> 
> The design seems to be asymmetric in that the need to store a secret long-term key 
> at the client has been avoided (the client only needs to store its TGT), but a 
> secret long-term key at the server is still necessary.  I am afraid our customer 
> will complain about this ...

If you customers are using a Windows domain, and login to the workstation using the 
domain, 
the workstation has a long term secret, setup by the AD administrator at some time.
Microsoft stores the machine password and derives a key from this rather then just 
storing
a key. AD uses Kerberos under the covers. 

> 
> This is not the case if you use user-to-user GSS since the server uses a secret 
> derived from a userid/password logon. Please read my earlier reply on this subject.
> 
> Tim.
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