Kerberos/LDAP/SASL central authentication server howto

Markus Moeller huaraz at moeller.plus.com
Tue Aug 10 09:47:14 EDT 2004


Andreas, 
 
how does this translate to GSSAPI sasl mechanism ? Does it depend on the implementation or is there any clarification ? 
 
Thanks 
Markus 
 
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:52 , Andreas <andreas at conectiva.com.br> sent: 
 
>On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:17:38PM +0200, Markus Moeller wrote: 
>> Nikola,  
>>   
>> I think you are right, SASL only protects the authentication exchange. I found also that cysus-sasl hard codes SSF 56 for GSSAPI.  
> 
>Check out RFC 2831, section 2.3: (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2831.txt\?number=2831) 
> 
>(This is the digest-md5 sasl mechanism rfc) 
> 
>2.4   Confidentiality Protection 
> 
>   If the server sent a "cipher-opts" directive and the client responded 
>   with a "cipher" directive, then subsequent messages between the 
>   client and the server MUST be confidentiality protected.  
> 
>Section 2.3 is about integrity protection. 
> 
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Markus Moeller <huaraz at moeller.plus.com> 




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