Wow, I never saw any license agreement.
I refuse to run random executables, so I just
opened it with WinZip. WinZip didn't indicate
that there was any other content besides that.
It's copyright Microsoft, of course, so perhaps
I shouldn't forward it to the list. Still, if I delete
*my* copy before the email leaves my machine,
then I guess I'm not really copying it, am I?
Are you _sure_ that nonsense was in every
copy of kerberos.exe?
Not to worry, the document didn't reveal
one snippet of information that wasn't already
in the public domain. Nice introduction to how
Kerberos works, but I hope they don't claim
*that* as trade secret. Well, the cat's out of the
bag now, isn't it?
The only interesting question I know of, namely,
what is the format of the authorization fields in the
MS ticket, was explicitly not answered. It was stated
that the fields were signed, but not what the signature
algorithm is, or what the key is.
Oh, there was a very high-level overview of how they
use public-key smartcards for logon, but no details
Pretty worthless.
----- Original Message -----
From: William H. Geiger III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David R. Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Grant Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: "Microsoft to publish details of Kerberos Authorisation Data
inWindows 2000"
>It's even worse. The morons are trying to claim "trade secret" status for
>a specification that they are publishing on the internet. Too bad the
>Justice Dept can't just dissolve these SOB's rather than split them up.
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