[28] in GSSAPI Development
Re: Towards a compromise on addresses in channel bindings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Apr 30 22:55:21 1991
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 18:51:39 -0400
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: kannan@sejour.lkg.dec.com
Cc: gssapi-dev@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: kannan@sejour.lkg.dec.com's message of Tue, 30 Apr 91 17:52:10 EDT,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 17:52:10 EDT
From: kannan@sejour.lkg.dec.com
Just curious ... why is the appl_specific in an #ifdef statement?
It's in an #ifdef because I don't think it's necessary, but if everyone
else is clamoring for it (which it seems that they are), this is where
it would go.
Regarding the appl_specific buffer, we should specify that 1) it should
not contain any sensitive keying information, and 2) it should be in
network byte order.
1) is implied by saying it is merely signed, not sealed; I think for 2)
all we need to say is that it should be byte-order independant.
Also, doesn't the application need to pass the sender_address and
receiver_address in network byte order?
That's implied by saying that they are passed in BSD's network address
format, I believe.
- Ted
