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Does anybody know why they are dropping support for kerberos?

I didn't even know there was support for Kerberos in OpenSSl, but it's also under the LibreSSL bullet points as well.



Nobody uses it and it's a lot of code to audit.

  Log message:
  Remove SRP and Kerberos support from libssl. These are complex protocols
  all on their own and we can't effectively maintain them without using them,
  which we don't. If the need arises, the code can be resurrected.
Or in Theo's words:

  It is crap.  Eventually we recognize the risk is to high.
Another relevant commit message, with a fun quote:

  Log message:
  The complexity and quality of kerberosV and the fact that almost
  nobody is using it doesn't justify to have it in base - disable and
  remove it.  If the 2 two people who use it still want it, they can
  make a port or recompile OpenBSD on their own.

  There is a quote in theo.c from August 2010: "basically, dung beetles
  fucking.  that's what kerberosV + openssl is like".

  Discussed with many.  Tests by henning@ reyk@ and others.
  ok deraadt@ henning@
I recommend you take a look at the whole message, it'll give you a vague idea of how big the code base was. Keep in mind that this particular commit was followed by a lot of smaller commits removing remnants of kerberos that had kinda spread all over the system...

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139816103911227&w=2




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