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[PATCH 0/2] Change from GSS to MIT-KRB5.

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Message #23 received at 34632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mbakke <at> fastmail.com, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 34632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#34632] [PATCH 0/2] Change from GSS to MIT-KRB5.
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:27:05 -0400

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:43:26PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Unmaintained on what ground? The website doesn't list fresh news,
> but the latest release was made in 2014 [1], and the maintainer has made
> changes to the Debian package last time in 2017 [2]. I wouldn't say it's
> unmaintained until the maintainer says so or CVEs pile up unfixed (which
> there aren't).

Considering the rate of vulnerability discovery in MIT Kerberos [0] I
think that, if GSS was being examined to the same degree, we would learn
of many serious bugs. Any significant C codebase of this age will have
such bugs. But unfortunately GSS hasn't received as much scrutiny.

[0]
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=krb5

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