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Not that the original article has anything to do with Kerberos other than design-by-analogy (not to knock the article, it's describing an interesting thing, and I'm always up for 90s nostalgia regardless of cause :-) but I think that version was more "MIT figured out that the change from ITAR to BXA and the published-code category made it reasonably safe for them to put anything up with a warning and possibly a registration". (CNS is the v4 release we shipped, which mostly got folded back in as an MIT krb4 patch release as well; we then shipped KerbNet which was V5 based, until we dropped the project entirely.)


Mark, you probably remember this project from your time at Cygnus and maybe you even were involved in it? I sorry I can't remember any more.

As we both know MIT gets away with a lot simply due to its deep interdependence with literally every department in the federal government.


Yeah, I went to Switzerland in one of your followup trips to meet with the arms-length-contract cryptographers. (Which was legal at the time, but a loophole that got closed a year or two later because Sun's "ELVIS+" project for funding a russian team to do non-US crypto got too much attention...)




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