[ntpwg] [ntp:hackers] MS-SNTP

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 18:50 +0000, David L. Mills wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> Gawd, I have enough trouble with the IETF to go boil in some other 
> standards ocean.

The beauty of the WSPP process is that we have purchased the right to
make Microsoft boil the ocean until our satisfaction :-).  But yes, it
takes time and effort. 

> Somewhen on the bugs list I was told th key ID would be a hash of the 
> RID with possibly the top bit stolen for the key selector. The key 
> selector is used to select which of two preloaded keys to use and s 
> small state machine used to remember the last selected by the server.

The RID is not hashed.  The 'key selector' is because each RID has an
old and new password, and a number of similar protocols in this area
permit use of the old password, to cope with replication delays. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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