Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 14:08:16 -0400 From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, krb5-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, Cc: krbdev@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU The members of the Kerberos V5 Development Team at MIT are proud to announce the first Beta release of MIT's implementation of the Kerberos V5 protocol. This version is available for anonymous FTP FOR US SITES ONLY from ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU (18.71.0.38), in the directory pub/kerberos5. This implementation of the Kerberos V5 protocol is copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Export of this software from the United States of America is assumed to require a specific license from the United States Government. It is the responsibility of any person or organization contemplating export to obtain such a license before exporting. WITHIN THAT CONSTRAINT, permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. Export of the documentation is not restricted. If you find bugs, please mail them to krb5-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU is a mailing list set up for discussing Kerberos issues. It is gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroup 'comp.protocols.kerberos'. If you prefer to read it via mail, send a request to kerberos-request@ATHENA.MIT.EDU to get added. Appreciation Time!!!! Thanks to the members of the Kerberos V5 development team: Jay Berkenbilt, John Carr, Don Davis, John Kohl, Cliff Neuman, Jon Rochlis, Jeff Schiller, Ted Ts'o. Thanks to Dan Berstein, for providing the replay cache code. Thanks to Paul Borman from Cray for writing the Kerberos v4 to v5 glue layer and the Kerberos v5 subroutines for telnet. Thanks to Bill Sommerfeld from HP for commenting on early Kerberos interface drafts, suggesting improvements in later coding interfaces, and finding and fixing many bugs. And finally, thanks to all of our Alpha testers for being brave enough to try wading through green code. :-) Theodore Ts'o MIT Information Systems/Kerberos Development Team