On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:20:41 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/08/2010 10:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]>
> > 
> > 
> > Defining per smb connection structures, sdesc, ntlmssp_auth, cifs_secmech,
> > and cphready.
> > 
> > Fields tilen and tilbob are session specific.
> > 
> > sdesc holds security descriptor, ntlmssp_auth holds secondary key which
> > is a nonce that gets used as a key to generate signatures,
> > ciphertext is genereated by rc4/arc4 encryption of secondary key using
> > ntlmv2 session key and sent in the session key field of the type 3 message
> > sent by the client during ntlmssp negotiation/exchange
> > These are per session structures and secondary key and cipher text 
> > get calculated only once per smb connection, during first smb session setup
> > for that smb connection.
> > 
> > Field cphready is used to mark such that once secondary keys and ciphertext
> > are calculated during very first smb session setup for a smb connection
> > and ciphertext is sent to the server, the same does not happen during
> > subsequent smb session setups/establishments.
> > 
> > if key exchange is negotiated between client and server, hmacmd5 and md5 
> > hold
> > respective crypto function/algorithm.
> > 
> > tilen and tiblob hold the length and blob that is target info or 
> > attribute value (av) pairs, which is part of the authentication blob.
> > These are per smb session fields.
> > 
> > Various defines are defined such as values used in AV pairs/Target Info 
> > pairs.
> > And various key and hash sizes are also defined.
> > 
> > The reason mac_key was changed to session key is, this structure does not 
> > hold
> > message authentication code, it holds the session key (for ntlmv2, ntlmv1 
> > etc.).
> > mac is generated as a signature in cifs_calc* functions.
> > 
> 
> wondering whether making mac_key => session_key change a separate patch
> would help/make it simpler..?
> 

+1

That would definitely help the signal to noise ratio.

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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