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Re: wrong checksum type for arcfour-hmac-md5

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Howard)
Wed Sep 15 12:25:33 2010

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From: Luke Howard <lhoward@mit.edu>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
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That's a lot of deployed samba though. Is it Windows or Heimdal that's  
not accepting the keyed checksum?

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On 15/09/2010, at 18:16, Nicolas Williams  
<Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:12:53PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
>>> Why isn't this considered a bug in the server??
>>
>> All we know so far (assuming all of the given information is  
>> correct) is
>> that the server will accept a GSSAPI authenticator with an rsa-md5
>> checksum--which is not valid--but won't accept one with an hmac-md5
>> checksum.
>>
>> That's not a bug in the server; if anything, the server is being  
>> overly
>> permissive by accepting rsa-md5.  It's a bug in the "home-grown  
>> GSSAPI"
>> client that it's not jusing a GSSAPI authenticator checksum.
>
> Fine, then I'd say the bug is in the home-grown initiator.
>
>> If there are other circumstances where the server will accept rsa- 
>> md5 in
>> an authenticator and not hmac-md5, that's worth knowing about.
>>
>>
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