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Re: maximum principal length?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt J. Lidl)
Sat Jan 20 00:34:41 1996

To: Mark London <MRL@PFC.MIT.EDU>
Cc: KERBEROS@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:46:10 EST."
             <960119144610.21842c75@PFC.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:01:12 -0500
From: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>


>I've searched the web without luck in trying to find out the answer to this
>question:  What is the maximum principal length?  As a second question, where
>can I find a web page which talks about this?  Thanks.  

Under kerberos V4, you should look in the krb.h file.

Here's the relevant piece:

/* The maximum sizes for aname, realm, sname, and instance +1 */
#define 	ANAME_SZ	40
#define		REALM_SZ	40
#define		SNAME_SZ	40
#define		INST_SZ		40
/* include space for '.' and '@' */
#define		MAX_K_NAME_SZ	(ANAME_SZ + INST_SZ + REALM_SZ + 2)
#define		KKEY_SZ		100
#define		VERSION_SZ	1
#define		MSG_TYPE_SZ	1
#define		DATE_SZ		26	/* RTI date output */

-Kurt

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