Hi Michael,

I did not contribute this work; I merely obliquely helped integrating it.
If I recall correctly, there was a reasonable case made for it, but I don't
remember what it wasy.

Karl


On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 5:50 PM Michael Osipov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I just have discovered that CredSSP has been added with (NTLM, yuck)
> some time ago. Can someone point me to a valid use case for this over
> HTTP? Karl? As far as I understand CredSSP [1] it is simply not
> compatible with/designed for HTTP and duplicates the transport
> encryption. The main purpose is to securely transport the Kerberos UPN
> and password of the user to the target server, e.g., for RDP to obtain a
> TGT on the remote machine as if someone is physically in front of the
> remote machine.
>
> This makes sense if you work on raw sockets, but on HTTP?
> The CredSspScheme also says that it should work with GSS, but I believe
> that this is impossible because as soon as yo have the GSSCredential,
> you don't have access to the UPN and password, you have the TGT only.
> Neither with JGSS, Heimdal, nor MIT Kerberos unless you acquire them
> again, like the RDP login dialog does.
>
> So again, what does it better than HTTPS + SPNEGO with credential
> delegation or contraint delegation also given that this works on the
> Windows backend only?!
>
> Michael
>
> [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc226794.aspx
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