kerberos and smartphone clients

Nikolay Shopik shopik at inblock.ru
Fri Feb 5 08:50:49 EST 2010


Hello everyone,

	I'm in middle of process making my mail server Kerberized. Currently my 
infrastructure is only password based, but I plan move to PKINIT thus 
using certificate based authentication. Afterward I though about my 
smartphone clients who use email on their phones this is exclusively 
iPhone users.
	So this makes me think I should leave regular password based 
authentication for these mobile clients, which isn't great because you 
have to manage two separate db for logins/passwords. In same time I 
though every mobile phone have smart card already which is SIM card, 
there even EAP-SIM allowing use it to authenticate to wireless networks. 
So what best way to accomplish this task, without making huge pain when 
managing logins/passwords?




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