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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!info.ucla.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bone.think.com!paperboy.osf.org!rsalz From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.soft-sys.dce Subject: Re: DCE secure core and DFS for BSDi? Date: 27 Jul 1996 11:19:12 GMT Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4tctvg$fg1@paperboy.osf.org> References: <4rumio$qhc@news.more.net> <glvITFG00iWZI8aH5x@andrew.cmu.edu> <DuqpA8.29n@wiz.com> <w5w687dysyo.fsf@mantis.austin.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sulphur.osf.org Cc: Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4397 comp.soft-sys.dce:3558 In <w5w687dysyo.fsf@mantis.austin.ibm.com> Chris Cowan <cc@mantis.austin.ibm.com> writes: >There is nothing that would prevent someone from writing a >"work-alike" based on the OSF RFCs, is there? Primarily the AES volumes, not the RFC's. Nope. The only thing getting in the way is that it is almost impossible to write the specs correctly enough, and with enough detail, so that it is practical to do this. But it's always been OSf's stated policy that doing this is a goal. >I have always harbored the hope that someone would do this. Me too. /r$