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Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:22:40 +0200
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address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>       * Rework Kerberos support, separating Kerberos4 code
>       from KerberosV code, and make proper implementation
>       of Shishi code that works on all platforms we want
>       to support.
>
> Maybe Simon could do this? Simon, do you have time?  I'm not at all
> familiar with Kerberos.

I don't have a lot of time, but I have some interest in seeing this
done.  I think that we should drop all Kerberos 4 code.  Nobody should
care about Kerberos 4 anymore since it is insecure (based on DES).  The
Kerberos V5 stuff in InetUtils worked fine both with MIT/Heimdal/Shishi
not so long ago, but we could certainly improve documentation so that it
becomes easier to setup and test.

However, I agree that we should postpone this for the next release.  I
think we should get a new release out soon, it was too long ago since
the last release, and maybe even try to speed up the process so that we
have more frequent releases.

/Simon



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