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Re: Beta 7 release plans

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sat Aug 31 21:42:03 1996

To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Aug 1996 21:41:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:50:58 EDT

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU> writes:

    Marc>       barry suggests storing multiple records and not
    Marc> bothering to optimize the database would work.  marc
    Marc> suggests storing a keytype field in the enctype record, for
    Marc> internal comparison use.

    Marc>       the md5 support is, in fact, a complete mess wrt to
    Marc> backward compatibility.  we should figure out what the
    Marc> actual semantics are, and document them clearly.

	I think both of these suggestions are unreasonable for Beta 7.  I'm really tempted to just remove the md5 bit support because it won't break anything and will still work with the default config files (although not using md5).

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