Deprecation of DES in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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The version of krb5-libs shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 does not support the usage of DES encryption keys in new deployments. There always have been compatibility issues with Microsoft Active Directory and this resurfaced again with the introduction of FAST into Kerberos’s protocol.

DES is deprecated and has been left into the product only as a compatibility option (it...

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