AFS and tokenforwarding

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Fri Oct 5 07:04:03 EST 2001


On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:00:44PM -0400, Dug Song wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:49:42PM +0200, Bjoern Groenvall wrote:
> 
> > You can use the real server to increment the challenge for you. The
> > kerberos session key is only used for this. The kerberos session key
> > should really really be used to change the ssh session key so that the
> > tunnel between client and masquerading server breaks.
> 
> yes, there's been argument over this before as well, and whether to
> just GSSify all of SSH anyhow, since there's so much overlap. :-/
> 
> hrr, an easy interim solution would be to encrypt the SSH session key
> (or an HMAC of the challenge with the key) with the Kerberos session
> key however nasty this is...
> 
> -d.
> 
> ---
> http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/

One of the two competing GSS-in-SSH proposals as an option to do just
this as a GSS-protected Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Nico
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