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Re: Client Software

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Jul 22 21:29:27 1996

To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: Adam Kaupisch <kaupisch@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 1996 21:21:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ken Hornstein's message of Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:00:58 -0400

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

    >> Ok, I am wanting to do this on Kerberos v5 b6.  I want to piggy
    >> back the kerberos ticket in with our own data transportation.
    >> What needs to be transmited and how is it obtained?  And also,
    >> how would it be verified at the other end?  Any help would be
    >> appreciated.

    Ken> A good starting point would be the telnet source code
    Ken> (although it is admittedly icky).  It does all of that stuff
    Ken> already.  Your other choice is to figure out what
    Ken> krb5_sendauth() and krb5_recvauth() do, and just duplicate
    Ken> it.

	This is not quite sufficient.  You should also use some
mechanism to attach a checksum to the data you send, or encrypt the
data; the sample applications in appl/sample demonstrate this.  The
GSSAPI interface may be more convenient.  

--Sam

    Ken> --Ken

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