Heikki,
* Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka@iki.fi) wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds facetious, but:
>
> What is the point of this patch? What's the advantage of GSSAPI encryption
> over SSL? I was hoping to find the answer by reading the documentation
> changes, but all I can see is "how" to set it up, and nothing about "why".
If you've already got an existing Kerberos environment, then it's a lot
nicer to leverage that rather than having to also implement a full PKI
to support and use SSL-based encryption.
There's also something to be said for having alternatives to OpenSSL.
Thanks!
Stephen
