What happened to the "XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2" authentificationscheme ?

[Roland Mainz]

mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> As I remember, the initial design work was done, but it has
> not yet been implemented.

;-(

Does IBM have any good crypto people who may be interested to finish the
job ? :)

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Bye,
Roland

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