[cifs-protocol] RE: How to validate the PAC in NETLOGON

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Aug 27 22:15:46 GMT 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:23 -0700, Richard Guthrie wrote:
> Andrew,

> To verify the KDC signature, the keyed hash MUST be generated over the
> version of the server signature received in the
> KERB_VERIFY_PAC_REQUEST structure [MS-APDS] (section 2.2.2.1) using
> the algorithm specified in the SignatureType field in the
> KERB_VERIFY_PAC_REQUEST structure. The resulting hash is compared with
> the KDC signature value in the Signature value field in the
> KERB_VERIFY_PAC_REQUEST structure; if they match, the signature MUST
> be considered valid.

Thankyou very much.  This makes *much* more sense now (the subtle
re-wording made me re-read our PAC implementation, and realise that the
KDC checksum is over the sever checksum, not the whole PAC).   

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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