Paper: Feasibility of attacking Windows 2000 Kerberos Passwords

[Nicolas Williams]

Your paper is about the usage of keys derived from weak passwords in
Kerberos V. It is not specific to Windows 2000.

q.e.d.

Nico


On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:55:41PM +0000, Frank O'Dwyer wrote:
> "Nicolas Williams" <Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com> wrote in message
> news:20020306094804.C27171 at sm2p1386swk.wdr.com...
> > You know it's not just Windows 2000 that uses PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP.
> >
> > So why the title?
> 
> I couldn't see any reason to break with the tradition of naming the paper
> after what it is about, hence the title :)
> 
> The paper is not about PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP, or other implementations of it,
> it's about the feasibility of getting somewhere in a real-world situation
> against W2K Kerberos. It's not even exhaustive as far as that scope goes.
> 
> Obviously the attack does apply to, in fact has been derived from, attacks
> on other krb5 implementations using the timestamp with other encryption
> methods. Actually I did not know for sure that W2K used PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP, or
> even if it used the standard AS protocol at all until I looked into it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank.
> 
> > Nico
> 
> 
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