Kerberos for Wireless Authentication

Sam Hartman hartmans-ietf at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 3 15:06:59 EDT 2005


>>>>> "Saber" == Saber Zrelli <zrelli at jaist.ac.jp> writes:

    Saber> Hi ,

    Saber> * On 12:13, Thu 02 Jun 05, Sam Hartman wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Saber" == Saber Zrelli <zrelli at jaist.ac.jp> writes:
    >> 
    Saber> There is however a draft called "IAKERB" that provides
    Saber> pass-through authentication using kerberos
    Saber> (http://watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-ietf-cat-iakerb-08.txt),
    Saber> that can do the trick.
    >> Note that this draft has been rejected by this working group
    >> and is no longer an ongoing effort.  Some party could choose to
    >> fix the problems in that draft and attempt to bring it back,
    >> but last time this came up no one offered to do that work.

    Saber> I think that the problem tagetted by IAKERB are a big
    Saber> obstacle that limit the scenarions where Kerberos can be
    Saber> used.

True, but it's not going to happen unless someone has time to do it.
The people currently involved in the kerberos wg don't have that time.



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