> > Last chance for any Kerberos 4 users to speak up --- otherwise I'll 
> > apply this soon.
> 
> If you just want someone to test it I can do that. I don't 
> actually use it normally though.

I don't think "just testing" is enough - somebody needs to actually
maintain it... 


> As far as security issues the only issues I'm aware of is a) 
> it uses plain DES which is just a 56 bit key and crackable by 
> brute force and b) cross-domain authentication is broken. 

Yeah. But it has been declared dead by the Kerberos folks
(http://www.faqs.org/faqs/kerberos-faq/general/section-7.html. And this
document is from 2000, an dit was declared already then)...


//Magnus

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