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Re: Kerberos question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 21 17:09:54 2010

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Blaz Primc <expertmeant@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 14:36 -0400, Blaz Primc wrote:
> Couldn't an attacker do a known-plain-text attack on the second part of 
> the message, because he knows what the "random key" is and by doing that 
> acquire the service's long term key...?

By "known-plain-text attack" you mean a brute-force key search?


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