[Samba] Encryption

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Apr 19 13:03:31 MDT 2010


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:49:52PM -0400, David Magda wrote:
> On Mon, April 19, 2010 11:13, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > This is RPC encryption, not SMB transport encryption. This can
> > be negotiated on the traffic being carried within the SMB
> > transport.
> 
> Are OpenSSL's routines for all of this? If you have hardware support for
> encryption (add-in card, CPU a la UltraSPARC-T2), is it possible to use
> OpenSSL's engine support for acceleration?

Nope. The code either uses the GSSAPI encryption code (for krb5) or
Samba's own arc4 code.

Jeremy.


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