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Re: Tickets in XML

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Mon Aug 6 09:58:48 2001

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:53:58 -0400
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@ubsw.com>
To: Lindy Carter <g98c6270@campus.ru.ac.za>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
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Kerberos messages are encoded in ASN.1/DER. I think an XML encoding for
ASN.1 would be neat and interesting, and useless unless widely adopted.

Embedding Kerberos messages in XML ones should not be too hard though --
just treat the Kerberos messages as opaque byte strings...

Nico


On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:10:29AM +0200, Lindy Carter wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find descriptions of Kerberos
> tickets and message exchanges done in XML.....
> 
> Lindy
> 
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