interested in discussing some Kerberos improvements

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Fri Apr 3 00:42:15 EDT 2026


On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 10:20:07PM -0400, Ken Hornstein via Kerberos wrote:
> I can think of situations where you might be issued X.509 certificates
> that you would want to use for authentication, rather than a keytab.

Like a TPM.  Just in time to be obsoleted by the move to PQC.

(Though, still, if you treat the public keys as secrets then it can be
safe should we get a CRQC.)

Nico
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