[JDEV] Distributed Authentication - thoughts people?

Gregor J. Rothfuss rothfuss at abstrakt.ch
Thu Sep 27 05:37:25 CDT 2001


> What problem are you trying to solve that isn't solved by Kerberos/GSSAPI 
> or DCE?

because frankly, kerberos was not designed with http in mind. ms will
have to come up with ugly hacks to make this work.

this was discussed at length on the decentralization mailing list, see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/messagesearch?query=kerberos

so i think there is some merit to this proposal.

-gregor

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