cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Apr 30 12:44:03 PDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:08:17PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Kris Kennaway writes:
> > >   KerberosIV removal. Also crunch down the "krb5" distribution into
> > >   "secure".
> > 
> > Hmm, is it really a good idea to combine crypto and krb5?  krb5 is, I
> > suspect, a rarely-used feature in the wild.
> 
> It will be a box on-the side.

I don't understand this sentence.

> Simplifies installations, and if folks
> dont want to use the applets, they won't have to.

But they are still there, and having a bunch of kerberos stuff
installed by default (as crypto is) is an additional security hazard
to the system.

Kris
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