daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner) Thu Jul 14 10:43:19 1988 To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Peter_King@NeXT.COM The NeXT corporate internet consists of several Ethernets, an Apollo ring net, several Appletalk nets, and a factory floor network. These networks are located at two sites in Palo Alto, California and the Fremont, California factory. T1 links connect these three sites. Numerous gateways tie the whole thing together. On these networks we have NeXT machines, SUN 3/50's and 3/60's, and Apple Macintoshes. We will be using Kerberos to authenticate access to a variety of network services, some of which are remote file systems (including NFS), and name services.
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner) Tue Jul 26 13:04:15 1988 To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Dan Kolkowitz (Stanford) Stanford's total network based environment consists of more than one thousand computers inter-connected on Stanford SUNeT network. Most of the computers are Unix based workstations and minicomputers, the exceptions being DEC System 20's running TOPS-20. The principal workstation vendors are Sun, DEC, IBM, and HP. We are looking to provide vendor independent secure services across Stanford. The proposed model is similar enough to Kerberos' that we hope to use substantial components from it. The major component of the application would be authentication of a user requesting a resource. We intend to first use this for secure login and to later extend it to general network services. The version of secure login would be implemented on all of the above mentioned architectures, including the 20's. In addition we hope to incorporate the secure protocols in our ethernet terminal servers to provide secure login on any ethernet access.
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner) Thu Jul 28 10:39:33 1988 To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Patrick Powell <papowell@julius.cs.umn.edu> University of Minnesota We are currently running a site with an ENCORE Multimax, SEQUENT Symmetry (in Sept.), Sun 2s, Sun3s, Sun4s, HP 300 workstations, VAXen (VMS, 4.3, and ULTRIX), MicroVaxes, and a couple of hundred personal computers. We have 3 major nets: the fibre net backbone, which connects the Univerisity, the CS net, which interconnects the CS department, and several subnets. In addition there are several other subnets which we actively communicate with. What we want to do is to implement a secure mail/news/lineprinter spooler system that will allow us to use our current network AND have some reasonable control over it.