On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:57:19PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:41:01PM +0000, Michal Pryc wrote:
> > Could you be more specific in this question? I am not sure if you want to 
> > know the whole process for RC4 symmetric algorithm, which includes 
> > generating and storing keys on the server side (Microsoft Windows Terminal 
> > Server services)? The RC4 symmetric algorithm uses the same key stored on 
> > the server side do encrypt/decrypt data.
> 
> Right -- that's the definition of a symmetric encryption algorithm.  What
> I'm wondering is, if you want to use encryption, how do you generate the
> key?  What command do you type?  Since both sides need to have the same
> key, how do you transport that key from the side that generated it to the
> other side in a secure fashion?
> 
> >> Is there any authentication available?
> > There is domain authentication during the remote connection attempt, which 
> > queries domain servers for user authentication. This is possible with 
> > rdesktop CLI parameters.
> 
> "Domain authentication" is like doing user/password lookup against a server
> (like we do with NIS here)?

Sounds like either NTLM or Kerberos V.  It'd be nice to know for sure.
Security considerations need to be documented.

Nico
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