Max SMB signing key length

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Mar 18 14:47:04 MDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 18:03 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> do you know what the maximum length of the SMB signing key could be?
> 
> I know with extended security (NTLMSSP 16 bytes or krb5 8-32 bytes)
> it's easy.
> 
> But without extended security we calculate the signing key
> out of the user_session_key and the nt or lm response blob.
> I assume the user_session_key is always 16 byte, but what is the max
> size of the response blob?

There isn't really one.  It's as big as the NTLMv2 response can get
(which includes user and domain names etc). 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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