wrong checksum type for arcfour-hmac-md5

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at oracle.com
Wed Sep 15 12:16:25 EDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:12:53PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Why isn't this considered a bug in the server??
> 
> All we know so far (assuming all of the given information is correct) is
> that the server will accept a GSSAPI authenticator with an rsa-md5
> checksum--which is not valid--but won't accept one with an hmac-md5
> checksum.
> 
> That's not a bug in the server; if anything, the server is being overly
> permissive by accepting rsa-md5.  It's a bug in the "home-grown GSSAPI"
> client that it's not jusing a GSSAPI authenticator checksum.

Fine, then I'd say the bug is in the home-grown initiator.

> If there are other circumstances where the server will accept rsa-md5 in
> an authenticator and not hmac-md5, that's worth knowing about.
> 
> 



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