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Re: Getting single DES TGT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Huckabee)
Fri Apr 8 14:15:14 2005

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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:14:13 -0400
From: Craig Huckabee <huck@spawar.navy.mil>
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Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thursday, April 07, 2005 05:35:59 PM -0400 Sam Hartman 
> <hartmans@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The best you can do is use the -e argument of the kvno program to
>> request a des-cbc-crc ticket for the appropriate oracle service
>> principal before you start Oracle.
> 
> 
> 
> The other thing you should do is file a TAR with Oracle on this issue, 
> describing the security and interoperability issues it causes for you 
> and asking them to fix the problem.  The more people who report problems 
> caused by the use of such ancient Kerberos, the higher likelyhood they 
> will fix it.
> 


I've got two TARs in the system right now, both of which are on this 
issue.  They have a bug on file from ~11/2004 from someone else.


> 
> 
> If you felt it was appropriate, you might point out that NIST is in the 
> process of withdrawing FIPS 46-3, after which federal agencies will not 
> be permitted to use single DES for the protection of federal 
> information.  The full notice was published in the July 26, 2004 Federal 
> Register (vol. 69, no. 142, pp. 44509-44510) as docket number 
> 040602169-4169-01.
> 
>

Anything helps - I'll add this to the TARs.

Thanks,
Craig


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