On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:19:32PM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 
> >But that's not Kerberos doing that, it's whatever application has been 
> >taken
> >to with a bandsaw to make it do the Kerberos Dance.
>
> The point here is having a connection ( established through kerberised 
> telnet), and once
> that connection is established, the messages exchanged between the two 
> computers are
> encrypted.

Not necessarily.  Only if both ends of the connection negotiated some sort
of stream encryption after the authentication has taken place.

> >Please feel free to use your sexy Kerberized telnet service to connect to
> >your server next time I'm nearby with dsniff.
> >
> I do now believe you do not know what Kerberos is, what it does, what it 
> can do,
> and why people love it.

I do know what Kerberos is, I know what it does, I certainly know what it
can do.  However, I have a bit of a hard time working out why people love
it.

- Matt

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