April through June 2010
In the second Quarter of 2010, the Kerberos Consortium begun work on the features of MIT Kerberos Release 1.9 (slated for release in December 2010). Notable features include tools to aid in the testing of Kerberos installations and for configuration validations by administrators. Another feature to be added is an automatic lock-out of accounts when a user fails authentication multiple ties. This feature was introduced as response to a request from one of the Members of the MIT Kerberos Consortium from the financial sector.
One significant progress in the evolution of MIT Kerberos will be the introduction of a new architecture for plugins in Rel 1.9, which would allow third-party plugin-developers to add new plugins that implement specific features. This architecture would also help developers in activating or deactivating features of interest when they compile MIT Kerberos as part of their application.
Since the developer and user communities around MIT Kerberos is international in composition, Release 1.9 will include the Camellia encryption algorithm which is popular in Japan and which may soon be mandated by the Japanese government for all products it acquires. This effort was the result of a close working relationship with the NTT software group in Japan.
January through March 2010
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