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<p><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Information
Services and Technology (IS&T), in collaboration with IT colleagues across
campus, has officially begun the Kerberos for Windows (KfW) 3.2 release
project. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>KfW 3.2 is an integrated Kerberos release for the
Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes the Kerberos v4 library,
Kerberos v5 library version 1.6.1, Kerberos v5 GSS API library, Kerberos 524
library, KClient API library, Leash API library, Network Identity Manager,
kinit/klist/kdestroy/krb524init/ms2mit/aklog command-line credentials managers,
and an in-memory credentials cache.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>Applicability:<br>
Kerberos is required to access many computing resources at MIT. If you
work or study here, you need it. This version contains improvements and
security updates since 2004, and it installs on <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>KfW 3.2 is designed for 32-bit versions of Windows XP,
2003, 2003 R2, <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place> and WOW64
environments. There is no native 64-bit process support at the current
time. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>Timeline: <br>
IS&T anticipates availability and support for KfW 3.2 will be ready in
August 2007. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt;color:windowtext'>New Features and Improvements to
Kerberos for Windows 3.2: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt;color:windowtext'>- Network Identity Manager GUI
replaces Leash. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt;color:windowtext'>- Clients will now be prompted for
tickets with all GSSAPI applications. For example, when users launch
SAPgui without Kerberos tickets having been initialized, they are prompted will
a Kerberos login window. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt;color:windowtext'>- The Kerberos logon dialogs seen from
TechTime, SAPgui, etc. is the same as the standard logon dialog for
Network Identity Manager.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>For a complete list of new features, please reference
the release notes for KfW 3.2: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/kfw-3.2/kfw-3.2/relnotes.html">http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/kfw-3.2/kfw-3.2/relnotes.html</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>The Kerberos for Windows 3.2 Release Team will send
updates throughout the process. For additional information on KfW 3.2 and
the release </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>project,</span></font>
see the Kerberos for Windows 3.2 release notebook located at <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/kfw">http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/kfw</a>.
<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>IS&T will communicate to the MIT community
throughout the release process as needed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>If you have any questions, suggestions, or would like
to participate in the release of KfW 3.2, please contact the team via email at <a
href="mailto:kfw-release@mit.edu">kfw-release@mit.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.5pt'>Kevin Koch <br>
Kerberos for Windows Lead Software Engineer <br>
Information Services & Technology <br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology <br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue W92-140 <br>
Cambridge, MA 02139 <br>
617-324-8949 <br>
<a href="mailto:kpkoch@mit.edu">kpkoch@mit.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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