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using kerberos for secure mail

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From: Ben Cranston
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 23:36
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I have been looking at the Davis and Swick paper with an eye to using the
Kerberos protocols (or an extension of same) to generate encryption keys
for secured mail messages.  I see how their scheme could be used as stands
to generate a user-to-user session key, but this would require that both the
sender and receiver have valid TGS keys (i.e. actually be signed on).
I would like to design a scheme under which the receiver would generate
some cookie and transfer it to the sender, who could then generate encrypted
messages autonomously.

I have also done a paper on using (an extension to) Kerberos to generate
digital signatures (basically sealing a checksum for the user).  Since both
of these schemes touch upon the idea of session keys (tickets) that last
longer than the 8 hours or so of a maximal workstation session, they are
somewhat related.

If anybody is currently working in this area or has good ideas I would like
to know about it.  (But, but, but it's MY wheel!  And, and, and it's just
big enough to reach the ground!  :-)
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