PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania today announced that it has chosen QUALCOMM's Eudora® email software with native Kerberos support as its primary recommended mail client program. Kerberos, a network authentication protocol, is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. Penn sees this as a major step in its ongoing efforts to provide enhanced information security for systems and services throughout the University.

Within Penn's distributed environment, one of the keys to success in this ini-tiative will be selecting and recommending a limited set of supported software appli-cations that can make use of Kerberos 5, Penn's campus authentication system. Recognizing e-mail as a critical University application, Penn worked with QUALCOMM on the specifications for a version of their Eudora mail client that can use Kerberos 5 authentication for POP, IMAP and SMTP on both MacOS and Windows. QUALCOMM produced a new version of Eudora to meet these specifications.

"Eudora will now provide us with very tight integration with our campus authentication system," said Mark Aseltine, executive director of technology support services at Penn. "Eudora already has a strong following among users at Penn, and the new version supports our strategic direction for increased security."

Penn anticipates that many of the users on their largest mail servers will make the move to the new version of Eudora during the next few months.