Kerberos5 ticket to ascii converter?

Tomas Kuthan tomas.kuthan at oracle.com
Tue Sep 30 15:13:09 EDT 2014


On 09/30/14 20:56, Wendy Lin wrote:
> On 30 September 2014 18:32, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Wendy Lin <wendlin1974 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 30 September 2014 17:55, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Wendy Lin <wendlin1974 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 30 September 2014 15:25, Rick van Rein <rick at openfortress.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does Kerberos5 have a ticket to ascii converter so someone can see
>>>>>>>>> what a ticket looks like in plain text?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You might use any ASN.1 parser to see the structure, without it actually being spelled out in terms of the Kerberos field names.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is the file format of the ticket cache in ASN.1?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That would depend on its implementation.
>>>>>
>>>>> MIT kerberos 1.12, DIR: cache
>>>>>
>>>>>> You asked for tickets ;-) which are defined in ASN.1 in the RFCs.  I think the WireShark suggestion is better than mine, but it won’t do what you are asking.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why?
>>>>
>>>> One reason is because most of the ticket are encrypted blobs. Without
>>>> decryption these blobs will just look like huge piles of random bytes,
>>>> so there is not really much interesting to see in the ticket.
>>>> If you want to look at the interesting parts of a ticket you really
>>>> want to decrypt these blobs.
>>>
>>> OK
>>>
>>> is there a C function in libkrb5 which takes a keytab and the data
>>> blob as parameter, and returns the decrypted data blob?
>>
>> In wireshark I use krb5_c_decrypt(). It takes a key, not a keytab, so
>> you may need to iterate over all keys in the keytab.
>>
>> See:
>> https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob;f=asn1/kerberos/packet-kerberos-template.c;h=9eb82ab37f8d89ef57f691df656e063d8ad6c713;hb=HEAD#l400
>>
>> (We iterate over all the keys in wireshark and try them one by one
>> because it was easier than tracking SPN->key mappings.)
>>
>>
>
> What is a SPN?

Service Principal Name

>>
>>
>>>
>>> Wendy
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>
> Wendy
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