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Re: [kitten] draft-perez-krb-wg-gss-preauth

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Mon, 02 August 2021 01:47 UTC

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 18:46:51 -0700
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [kitten] draft-perez-krb-wg-gss-preauth
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On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 11:37:57PM +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
> I’m working on an implementation of draft-perez-krb-wg-gss-preauth-02.txt for Heimdal.
> 
> Is this something the working group would consider adopting?

It doesn't seem fundamentally like a bad idea, but since we typically
recommend that applications should use the GSS-API rather than Kerberos
directly, it's not entirely clear to me what situations will require
the GSSAPI->Kerberos bridge as opposed to using GSS-API natively.

-Ben

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