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Re: Kerberos Weakness (COAST Findings)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Lodin)
Sun Feb 18 22:00:28 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 18 Feb 1996 21:22:17 -0500
From: swlodin@cs.purdue.edu (Steve Lodin)

In article <4g7pel$md8@jik.datasrv.co.il>,
Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com> wrote:
>Is an MIT Kerberos V5 KDC running with Kerberos V4 compatibility (i.e.,
>responding to V4 requests) vulnerable to this attack?
>
>I suppose another way to ask the same question is, "Does the attack exploit a
>vlunerability in the V4 protocol or its implementation?"

It is an implementation issue, not a protocol design issue.

Steve

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