Wang Shouhua <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2 April 2014 20:45, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:

>> With Kerberos, it's always worth being aware that it's a trusted
>> central authentication system.

> Isn't there a distributed version of Kerberos5 which avoids this
> problem?

Trusted third party is inherent in the Kerberos protocol, and indeed
inherent in Needham-Schroeder.  If it didn't use trusted third party, it
wouldn't be Kerberos, it would be something else.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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