MIT Launching Kerberos Consortium

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 17, 2007 @10:34AM from the passing-the-torch dept.

alphadogg writes to tell us that next week MIT will be throwing a 20th birthday party for their Kerberos authentication system. In celebration of this milestone they will also be launching a new consortium dedicated to preserving and evolving this standard for years to come. "Kerberos, originally created for MIT's Project Athena, is used mainly by enterprises and MIT's goal is to see the IETF security standard develop into a universal system for single sign-on. [...] 'Kerberos has.... become successful beyond MIT's internal capacity to respond to the world's demands for development, testing and support. So we need a new organizational structure that can accommodate the demand.'"

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Someone has to ask it... by erroneus · 2007-09-17 10:53 · Score: 4, Interesting

...so why not me?

Long ago, people were all upset when Microsoft did the ole embrace and extend thing with Kerberos. I haven't heard much about that for years. Has it been a problem for anyone? Will the Kerberos consortium take whatever Microsoft did into account so as not to break what other people have done to work with and around Microsoft?