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From: "Eric L. Green" <exec@softdisk.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:50:09 +0000
Organization: Executive Consultants
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Tim Smith wrote:
> 
> Vincent F. Scarafino <Scarafino@multics-a.pms.ford.com> wrote:
> >> >: What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't?

Transmit files using an authenticated encrypted connection, i.e.
Kerberos 5 or ssh. 

Billy Boy is promising Kerberos in the next release of NT. I need it
now -- we sell educational administration systems, and we cannot put
confidential student data onto the Internet to transmit it to the
state department of education unless it is in encrypted form. I guess we
could use Netscape and a secure web server, but I don't want to make
my users have to start up a piggish program in order to transmit their
students to the state. 

-- 
Eric Lee Green   exec@softdisk.com          Executive Consultants
Systems Specialist                 Educational Administration Solutions