What happened to the "XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2" authentification scheme ?

mcnichol at austin.ibm.com mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
Fri Mar 18 10:56:07 PST 2005


As I remember, the initial design work was done, but it has
not yet been implemented.

Dan


> From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org>
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
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> 
> While reading http://www.x.org/IPV6_Review.html I saw that
> XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 was superset with XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 to provide
> IPv6 support and stronger (AES-based) authentification...
> ... but when I search for that in the xc/ source tree the only
> references to XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 are:
> -- snip --
> % fgrep -r XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 xc
> xc/programs/Xserver/Xserver._man:XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2, SUN-DES-1, and
> MIT-KERBEROS-5.  See the 
> xc/programs/Xserver/Xserver.man:XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2, SUN-DES-1, and
> MIT-KERBEROS-5.  See the 
> xc/programs/Xserver/Xserver.1x.html:XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1,
> XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2, SUN-DES-1, and MIT-KERBEROS-5.  See the
> -- snip --
> What happened to the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2 authentification scheme ? Was
> it dropped later, just forgotten or something else ?
> 
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> 
> Bye,
> Roland



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