krb5_pac_verify and server key enctype extraction

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Tue Aug 4 14:11:38 EDT 2009


http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-naming-exts-05

On 04/08/2009, at 8:05 PM, Natalie Li wrote:

> Luke,
>
> Could you please send out a pointer to the GSS naming extensions  
> draft?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Natalie
>
> Luke Howard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yeah, it took me a while to realise that that was I had always done.
>>> But yes, we should do what Sam suggests for 1.8.
>>
>> So: Sam's suggestion is to expose the verified PAC via the recently  
>> published GSS naming extensions draft. This sounds reasonable to me.
>>
>> Love: did Heimdal always verify the PAC in  
>> gss_accept_sec_context()? This is an issue for MIT, because 1.7 we  
>> shipped APIs for extracting authorisation data. An application  
>> unaware of which GSS-API implementation it is using cannot be sure  
>> whether the PAC was verified after calling gss_accept_sec_context().
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> -- Luke
>

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