On Sep 24, 15:45, Peter Beckman sent the following to the NSA's mail archives:
Subject: Kerberos || We are studying kerberos, the security system implemented by MIT's Athena network. || Has anyone started, considered, imagined or completed any similar security || systems, preferably using public key cryptography (as opposed to a single 56-bit || DES key)? ||
The Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment has the concept of a central security registry (which is currently based on Kerberos). I haven't delved too deeply into them, but the OSF website has some DCE RFCs about adding public key capabilities to the registry. They should be off the OSF home page somewhere at <http://www.osf.org>. David -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Phone: (804) 446-9060 Fax: (804) 446-9061 Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco@itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/