[Pfif] [cifs-protocol] Clarify AEAD behaviour for GSSAPI with AES

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Aug 27 11:23:39 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 08:50 -0700, Hongwei Sun wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> In this case, you provided a diagram for us to add to the  document and metze added some comments.  Thanks for your contribution to our documentation and continued feedback.
> 
> The product team reviewed the diagram and comments provided.  We believe that the diagrams imply interaction between elements and without detailed notes they are subject to multiple interpretation and hence confusion.    We believe that as a matter of providing deterministic documentation, we would prefer to provide specific examples.
> 
> We'll be happy to get your  feedback on creating examples and  send them for your review  once they are ready.

A visual description of how the RRC interacts with the AEAD behaviour
and the subsequent placement of the trailer in the header will be
critical.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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