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Re: beta 6 -- enctype vs keytype

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Kovara)
Tue Jun 11 18:34:37 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:53:16 GMT
From: joek@CyberSafe.com (Joe Kovara)

michael shiplett <walrus@ans.net> in comp.protocols.kerberos wrote:
>[...] Where can I find the answers to
>    what is the difference between a keytype & an enctype?
>    if they are the same, why did keyblock have both a keytype & a etype?
>    why was keytype deleted?

k-types and e-types are now effectively the same.  See the posting:
    From: bcn@ISI.EDU (Clifford Neuman)
    Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
    Subject: Proposed change: etype and keytype in V5 Kerberos
    Date: 27 Jun 1995 16:55:43 -0400

Regards,
Joe Kovara / CyberSafe Corp. / joek@cybersafe.com


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