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From: jdimpson@newstand.syr.edu (Jeremy D. Impson)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
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Date: 17 Apr 1997 00:11:41 GMT
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Eric L. Green (exec@softdisk.com) wrote:
: 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. 

Don't hold your breath.  Here at Syracuse University Computing Services
machine room/office building, there is a Lab for a magazine called Network
Computing.  (It's a trade rag.)  I've done a little bit of testing for
them.  Last month we had one of NT's product managers in, along with a
really annoying PR guy (How permutations of "How may I serve you?" are
there in the English Language?). 

They talked about the kerberos support like it would solve all security
problems.  But when the editor who was writing the article about some
microsoft product or another asked about interoperability with the real
kerberos, the MS guys kind of clammed up and eventually admitted that it
probably won't work with 'Standard' Kerberos.  Where do they get off even
calling it Kerberos is what I'd like to know...

--
Jeremy Impson		       http://web.syr.edu/~jdimpson/

	Undergraduate, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	Computer Science and Spanish Literature & Language		
	SysAdmin, Orange Source On-Line Publication