Preannounce: Kroupware Project started

[Matthias Kalle Dalheimer]

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 04.15, George Staikos wrote:
> On September 10, 2002 21:08, Martin Konold wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 10:58 pm, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 22.57, Tim Jansen wrote:
> > > > Can you tell us anything about authentication? I am asking because
> > > > KDE does not have any mechanism for network authentication, and I am
> > > > planning to write Kerberos/GSSSAPI support - I need it for the
> > > > desktop sharing apps. But if you are going to come up some net
> > > > authentication mechanism...
> > >
> > > I have to leave that for the Erfrakon guys. Martin?
> >
> > We are going to authenticate against LDAP with regards to the IMAP and
> > the SMTP operations. In addition we use SSL/TLS for the transport
> > security.
>
>    Would you guys be interested/planning on enhancing and fixing the client
> certificate support in KDE?  It's quite close, especially thanks to
> Daniel's work, but I just haven't had time to work on it much this year.  I
> would lend a hand where I can though.

We'd certainly be interested! We can't probably do much before our Oct. 15 
deadline, but this is obviously an area which is very important for the 
groupware stuff.

Kalle

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Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
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