"best" enctype?

[Russ Allbery]

Luke Howard <lukeh at padl.com> writes:
> On 15/08/2011, at 5:27 AM, Chris Hecker wrote:

>> I have a closed system that doesn't need to interoperate with any other
>> kerberos servers.  Shuld I just force everything to
>> ENCTYPE_AES256_CTS_HMAC_SHA1_96?  Is there a downside to doing this?

> In configuration files, do what you like but -- if you're writing code,
> I would try and be a little more flexible. e.g. you could call
> krb5_get_permitted_enctypes() and select the first (I'm sure Greg will
> have a better idea).

Yes, for configuration it's not a horrible idea, but in your code, if
someone breaks AES and you want to switch to Camellia or something else,
you don't want to have to do code patches.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>