Messages in this thread |  | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: Alternate solutions | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:07:29 -0400 (EDT) |
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From: warlord@mit.edu
> Sun Microsystems is currently working on using GSSAPI (using the > Kerberos V5 mechanism, but that can be changed) to authenticate and > protect (integrity and confidentiality) ONC RPC. In fact, someone > from Sun is presenting this at the Usenix Security Symposium in San > Jose next week. > > This new security method could then be used to protect NFS (v2 or v3). > I think this might be the best course of action: embrace this > technology and be the first non-Sun platform to support it! That > would be a coup, wouldn't it?
Has Sun released the specification but not the product? Linux could be _the_first_ if they are slow to release the product.
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