The problem with this approach is that we end up reimplementing RFC 3961. It's 
possible now to build an enctype-agnostic implementation, and this would make 
that harder, at least with the APIs provided by shipping Kerberos 
implementations.

-- Luke

On 01/04/2011, at 9:35 AM, Nico Williams wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2011 5:32 PM, "Luke Howard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Note with GSS EAP we don't need to negotiate the hash function inside our 
> > mechanism because it falls out of the enctype, and that in turn from the 
> > mech OID, so GSS negotiates for us. Assuming you only want to use the 
> > mandatory checksum type, of course.
> 
> In that case I'd just bite the bullet and use a hash function and a MIC of 
> the hash.  There's costs to this approah, but it seems likely that those will 
> be more acceptable than the alternatives'.
> 
> Nico
> --
> 

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