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Kerberos Outside the US?

v1z asks: "I'm administrating a small LAN with semi-public terminals and have been trying to locate a usable version of kerberos, that is available for use in Norway (ie outside the US). I've been looking for the bones, and e-bones package without success, and I'm wondering what I've missed? Is there no working kerberos.v5-like system available outside the US? Kerberos is appealing because it uses secret-key cryptocraphy within a good design, simplifying and removing many concerns with asymetric encryption, and because most ppl more easyily grasp the security-issues involved. On a side note: windows 2000 is said to incorporate kerberos.v5 - how does this relate to US-export-regualtions?"

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  1. eBones by Detritus · · Score: 5
    FreeBSD has a version of Kerberos that is available outside the US. From the FreeBSD 3.3 release notes:

    The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites:

    South Africa

    ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
    ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD

    Brazil

    ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD

    Finland

    ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt

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