On 12/13/2011 09:18 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> The gist of the limitation is this- if you need to support decent
> encryption in a cross-realm environment on Windows XP-age systems, you
> need MIT KRB5. If you're on Windows 7 or something else recent, the
> built-in Windows stuff w/ AES works fine.
>
This answers Lionel's question, but I'm curious for a more user impact
opinion from you. Given that pgAdmin III has given up on MIT KRB5,
would you feel doing the same is appropriate for LibreOffice too? It
sounds like they really shouldn't take on either the build cruft or the
potential security issues of pulling that in at this point.
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