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Re: Fwd: Implications of Debian OpenSSL flaw for MIT PKINIT



Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here is the confirmation and analysis from upstream, forwarded with
> permission.  Another person (not publicly, so I won't mention his name
> just in case he didn't wish to be mentioned) also pointed out that since
> you can break the encryption used to protect the TGT, you can also then
> use that Kerberos TGT to obtain further tickets until it expires (which in
> the Kerberos world is usually some locally-configured time period between
> eight hours and two weeks, usually on the shorter end of that range).
> 
> Any sessions started via a Kerberos TGT issued by a vulnerable Kerberos
> KDC should be considered suspect, although the key space isn't, I believe,
> quite as small as it is for some of the other affected software.

Could you summarise the changes that should be made to the key-rollover
page (or provide a patch)?

-- 
see shy jo

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