Paternity leave
Apoligies for the lack of content. I was on paternity leave celebrating the birth of my first child from January 23 until February 25. I’m still catching up from the backlog.
View ArticleGrand Vision, Grand Future
So far, consortium priority setting has focused on short and medium term goals. The consortium proposal itself talks about long term visions of Kerberos and about where we want to move things. We’ve...
View ArticleBoard Meeting and Roadmap
Monday, the consortium board met at Google. As I discussed, I presented a plan for the consortium road map. The road map presentation went reasonably well. The board generally seemed to support the...
View ArticleIntegrating Kerberos into your Application Released
Painless Security has been working with The Interisle Consulting Group and the MIT Kerberos Consortium on the consortium’s paper on how to integrate Kerberos into applications. The paper is now...
View ArticleDNS Forgery Threatens Kerberos
DNS Forgery attacks have been in the news recently in a big way: a story in the New York Times said that details of a new DNS attack will be released this week. The basic idea is that it is possible to...
View ArticleKerberos and Active Directory
The Kerberos Consortium, Padl Software, Interisle and Painless Security have been working on adding support for various Active Directory features into MIT Kerberos’s upcoming 1.7 release. I think this...
View ArticleKerberos 1.7
MIT Kerberos 1.7 is released. I think this release really takes MIT Kerberos forward both for end sites and for system integrators. There are a lot of code quality improvements and bug fixes. For...
View ArticleKerberos 1.8: Anonymous and the Cloud
The Kerberos team recently released Kerberos 5 1.8. This is the first of a couple of posts talking about features in the new release and how they significantly enhance what you can do with Kerberos....
View ArticleMoonshot at Kerberos
At The MIT Kerberos Consortium‘s 2010 conference, Josh Howlett and Sam Hartman delivered a talk on Moonshot. Slides should be up in a day or so. We reported on status and gave a brief overview. The new...
View ArticleBad Hair Day for Kerberos
Tuesday, MIT Kerberos had a bad hair day—one of those days where you’re looking through your hair and realize that it’s turned to Medusa’s snakes while you weren’t looking. Apparently, since the...
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