Marcus Watts wrote:
> Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Incidentally, the particular problem Marcus posits here is one we
>>> considered, and for which rxgk has an obvious solution in the form of its
>>> combine-tokens operation.  I do not think it would be appropriate at this
>>> point in time to attempt to add this functionality to rxkad.
>> Oh, BTW, this approach lends itself quite easily to situations in which the 
>> individual client hosts do not have keys, by giving the server a public key 
>> and authenticating rxgk token establishment with PKU2U instead of GSS-krb5.
> 
> Is this
>       draft-zhu-pku2u-01.txt ?
> 
> If so, besides the obvious problems, this seems to depend on
> x509 certificates on both sides.  So far, nobody else here has
> sounded at all enthusiastic about x509 certificates for either side.
> 
>                               -Marcus Watts

PKU2U uses Krb5 PK-INIT and PK-INIT does not require the use of X.509
certificates; it can also support raw public/private key pairs.

Jeffrey Altman


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