On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:54:32PM -0800, John Rudd wrote:
> 1) the keys are encrypted in the KDC, not plain text
> 
> 2) the mechanism is 'shared secret' based

If I understand correctly, physical access to the KDC is sufficient to break
all user accounts.

In other words, the shared secret material on the KDC disks is equivalent to
cleartext passwords - take a copy of those disks and you can impersonate any
user.

Or has that been changed in a new version of Kerberos? I would be interested
to know how.

Regards,

Brian.


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