krb5-1.7.1 is released

[Stephen Buckley]

Is this worth spamming the sponsors?

And congrats!

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Stephen C. Buckley
Director, Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture (Interim)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology




On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Tom Yu wrote:

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> The MIT Kerberos Team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5
> Release 1.7.1.  Please see below for a list of some major changes
> included, or consult the README file in the source tree for a more
> detailed list of significant changes.
> 
> RETRIEVING KERBEROS 5 RELEASE 1.7.1
> ===================================
> 
> You may retrieve the Kerberos 5 Release 1.7.1 source from the
> following URL:
> 
>        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/
> 
> The homepage for the krb5-1.7.1 release is:
> 
>        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.7/
> 
> Further information about Kerberos 5 may be found at the following
> URL:
> 
>        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
> 
> and at the MIT Kerberos Consortium web site:
> 
>        http://www.kerberos.org/
> 
> DES transition
> ==============
> 
> The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is widely recognized as weak.  The
> krb5-1.7 release will contain measures to encourage sites to migrate
> away from using single-DES cryptosystems.  Among these is a
> configuration variable that enables "weak" enctypes, but will default
> to "false" in the future.  Additional migration aids are planned for
> future releases.
> 
> Major changes in 1.7.1
> ======================
> 
> This is primarily a bugfix release.
> 
> * Fix vulnerabilities: MITKRB5-SA-2009-003 [CVE-2009-3295],
>  MITKRB5-SA-2009-004 [CVE-2009-4212].
> 
> * Restore compatibility for talking to older kadminds and kadmin
>  clients for the "addprinc -randkey" operation.
> 
> * Fix some build problems and memory leaks.
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