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Re: interested in discussing some Kerberos improvements

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Sat Apr 4 20:29:13 2026

From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> writes:

> As Geoff explained in his reply, the idea is that the KDC can synthesize
> a KDB entry for any principal that doesn't exist in the KDB but for
> which a client certificate is presented (with a PKINIT SAN, issued by a
> CA trusted for that and the realm in question) and issue a ticket.

Ah, yes, right, of course. I had completely forgotten about that.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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