Inspired by Michael B Allen's writeup of the keytab file format posted to this list a few months ago, which allowed me to implement support for reading keytab's in Shishi, I became interested in documentation of the ccache file format.
I didn't find much documentation, but the format was pretty straight-forward, so I wrote the following description of it. If someone is looking for the same thing, I'd thought I'd share this. To read it, it probably helps to have read Michael's keytab.txt first. As you'd might suspect, this is the first step towards reading (and possibly writing) ccache files in Shishi... Enjoy, Simon The Kerberos Credential Cache Binary File Format Copyright (C) 2006 Simon Josefsson <simon josefsson.org> http://josefsson.org/shishi/ccache.txt Last updated: Wed Sep 13 17:11:53 CEST 2006 Like the MIT keytab binary format (see Michael B Allen's reverse engineered description in keytab.txt), the credential cache format is not standard nor documented anywhere. In C style notation, the MIT credential cache file format is as follows. All values are in network byte order. All text is ASCII. ccache { uint16_t file_format_version; /* 0x0504 */ uint16_t taglen; /* only if version is 0x0504 */ header tags[]; /* only if version is 0x0504 */ principal primary_principal; credential credentials[*]; }; credential { principal client; principal server; keyblock key; times time; uint8_t is_skey; /* 1 if skey, 0 otherwise */ uint32_t tktflags; uint32_t num_address; address addrs[num_address]; uint32_t num_authdata; authdata authdata[num_authdata]; countet_octet_string ticket; countet_octet_string second_ticket; }; keyblock { uint16_t keytype; uint16_t etype; /* only present if version 0x0503 */ counted_octet_string keyvalue; }; times { uint32_t authtime; uint32_t starttime; uint32_t endtime; uint32_t renew_till; }; address { uint16_t addrtype; counted_octet_string addrdata; }; authdata { uint16_t authtype; counted_octet_string authdata; }; header { uint16_t tag; /* 1 = DeltaTime */ uint16_t taglen; uint8_t tagdata[taglen] }; DeltaTime { uint32_t time_offset; uint32_t usec_offset; }; principal { uint32_t name_type; /* not present if version 0x0501 */ uint32_t num_components; /* sub 1 if version 0x501 */ counted_octet_string realm; counted_octet_string components[num_components]; }; counted_octet_string { uint32_t length; uint8_t data[length]; }; Permission to copy, modify, and distribute this document, with or without modification, for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include this copyright notice in ALL copies of the document or portions thereof, including modifications. ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
