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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:44:02 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh
Message-ID:  <20030430194402.GB84924@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200304301908.h3UJ8HQL016143@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References:  <20030430181603.GD84302@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200304301908.h3UJ8HQL016143@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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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".
> >=20
> > Hmm, is it really a good idea to combine crypto and krb5?  krb5 is, I
> > suspect, a rarely-used feature in the wild.
>=20
> 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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