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Re: Make krb5int_check_clockskew() public?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linus Nordberg)
Sun Oct 30 10:24:58 2011

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From: Linus Nordberg <linus@nordu.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:24:48 +0100
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Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> wrote
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:35:08 -0400:

| Your ASN.1 decoder is mighty strange if it produces a structure
| depending on size of the armor key from an encrypted timestamp preauth.

The timestamp we're verifying here is not standardised and is hiding in
the nonce field of the PA-OTP-CHALLENGE.  The definition of the nonce
field was changed (in -18 IIRC) to make it possible to include a
timestamp in the nonce.  This relieves the KDC from holding state for
this.

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