[krbdev.mit.edu #6086] dump wrong-endian krb5 gssapi mech support
Ken Raeburn via RT
rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Wed Aug 20 12:04:28 EDT 2008
The krb5 mechanism code in our gssapi library has support for an acceptor to interact with an
initiator that uses big-endian encoding for some integer values, contrary to the spec (RFC
1964). It looks like this is for backwards compatibility with versions of the mechanism
implemented by OpenVision prior to the 1.0 beta 4 release. (From the logs in subversion, the
update to support both byte orders was checked in before beta4.)
I think it's time to delete that code. Getting rid of the conditionals will clean up the
accept_sec_context, wrap and unwrap code.
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