[517] in Kerberos
Miscellaneous low level Kerberos questions
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Ted Anderson)
Fri Oct 21 13:09:03 1988
From: Ted Anderson <ota+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
What does Kerberos do about byte order for machines that are neither purely
little or big endian? For instance the 286 just byte swaps the halfwords of a
long or something. How about if such a machine converts to one or the other of
the existing machine types on output? This seems much better than teaching all
existing implementations about yet another machine type.
I gather that the ticket flags field encodes the byte order but it isn't clear
from the documentation which bit of the flag it used for this. LSB?
Am I correct in assuming that the kvno of the key used to encrypt a ticket is
always passed around with the ticket? Can a ticket be interpreted with out one
(perhaps by trying all plausible keys)?
