Sign & Seal vs. MAC signing.

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Thu Jan 30 07:15:11 GMT 2003


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:26:16PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> > The SNIA doc provides information on Message Authentication Codes (MACs).
> > These are signatures contained in the SMB header.
> > 
> > Are these the same as "Sign and Seal" or are we talking about two 
> > different basilisks altogether?
> 
> TDB.
> 
> Sign and seal, AFAIK, relates to the DCE-RPC headers, while MAC signing 
> is, as you say, in the SMB header.

Ahh.  That does make sense.  Thanks!

Chris -)-----

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