Testing patch to enable AES in Samba3 Kerberos

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Jul 16 10:28:29 MDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:17:32AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 16:58 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > I've been testing interop with Samba3 and AD using AES, as part of some
> > > interop work I was doing with Samba4's Kerberos code.  I attach a patch
> > > (not to be applied) to help demonstrate the problem.
> > > 
> > > In short, Samba3 must not blindly remove the fixed list of enc types
> > > without performing extensive interop to ensure it works against all
> > > servers.
> > 
> > So currently this code is preventing S3 client code
> > from using AES, correct ? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > It's pretty old code, so
> > we can probably work on updating it to be W2K8
> > compatible.
> > 
> > Just want to clarify the problem.
> 
> No worries.  Have a good chat with me about it before you start hacking.

Thanks, I'll definately bug you to learn what's going
on before I start messing with anything :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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