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Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
or queries over the network.
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.95 2006/11/17 23:25:17 tgl Exp $ -->
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.96 2006/11/23 05:39:17 momjian Exp $ -->
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<chapter id="client-authentication">
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<title>Client Authentication</title>
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<ulink url="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/">MIT Kerberos page</ulink>
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can be good starting points for exploration.
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Several sources for <productname>Kerberos</> distributions exist.
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<productname>Kerberos</productname> provides secure authentication but
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does not encrypt queries or data passed over the network; for that
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use <acronym>SSL</acronym>.
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