recommended encryption types

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Fri Mar 29 21:55:21 EST 2002


>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Johnson <rjohnson at dogstar-interactive.com> writes:

    Rich> Does anyone have a summary of the pros and cons of the
    Rich> various kerberos encryption types?

des3-hmac-sha1-kd (des3-hmac-sha1 in the MIT implementation): What you
should be using; 168-bit keys, fairly standardized.

des-cbc-crc: What you probably end up using if you want
interoperability or krb4.

There's also RC4 used by Microsoft and des-cbc-md5, which is somewhat
better than des-cbc-crc, but MIT consistently messed up the
implementation.




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