better network filesystems

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Tue Dec 7 07:55:28 GMT 2004


On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:31:36AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
:
> Actually I've been reading the Kerberos5 RFC was pleasantly surprised. I
> went into it thinking it was this really complicated beast. Yeah, the crypto
> is beyond me but I understand the high level stuff and it's very elegant.
> RFC 1510 is also pretty well written (unlike GSS-API which is a long-winded
> way of describing read()/write().

For the crypto part you probably want to add Applied Cryptography to your 
bookshelf.  I've implemented a few algorithms and have had to have 
multiple sources at hand in order to get things right, but AC was one of 
the sources I always had on hand.

Chridz -)-----

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