Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> In practice, 3DES has no problems here, but AES keys can confuse really
>> old clients.
> 
> A slight expansion on this.
> 
> Clients from the MIT 1.0.x era would reject service tickets if they were
> encrypted with an enctype they didn't know about (since clients don't
> decrypt service tickets they shouldn't need to care about the enctype).
> The exception to this was the TGT (it used a different codepath).  So
> you could have an AES TGT (for example) and it would work fine even though
> AES keys for service principals would not (3DES had the same issue from
> what I remember).
> 
> I believe this was fixed in the 1.1 or 1.2 timeframe.
> 
> --Ken

Java clients prior to one of the 1.5 releases has this same problem.

Jeffrey Altman

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Reply via email to