Bear with me, still somewhat a newbie to Kerberos...

Could a Kerberos V5-Telnet server do authentication only, with no encryption
support for interactive sessions?

-Ralph Young

Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:

> The data encryption types negotiated as described by RFC 2946 are
> completely separate from the Kerberos encryption types that
> Kerberos uses to create keys, etc.  You may have a KDC that only
> supports DES-CBC types but a telnet client (and server) that
> support completely different encryption types for the actual
> telnet session.
>
> In fact, a telnet client and server may support RFC-2946 but
> not necessarily support Kerberos.  Though I've never seen
> such a situation, the RFC does not require the use of Kerberos
> for keys or authentication.
>
> The MIT telnet client and server may only support the DES_CBC types,
> the rest is an exercise left up to the reader :)
>
> -wyllys
>
> Ralph Young wrote:
>
> > The Telnet Data Encryption Option - as defined by RFC 2946 - shows the
> > following encryption types:
> >
> > NULL             0
> > DES_CFB64        1
> > DES_OFB64        2
> > DES3_CFB64       3
> > DES3_OFB64       4
> > CAST5_40_CFB64   8
> > CAST5_40_OFB64   9
> > CAST128_CFB64   10
> > CAST128_OFB64   11
> >
> > Kerberos V5, however, appears to support just the DES_CBC encryption
> > types... it appears to me a telnet client may request one of the above
> > encryption types, not a K5 encryption type.
> >
> > Therefore, my question:  for a Kerberos 5 Telnet Server application, how
> > would the Kerberos encryption types be negotiated?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Ralph Young
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >

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