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Re: MIT krb5 release 1.18 will remove single-DES support

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth MacDonald)
Fri May 31 08:59:45 2019

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From: Kenneth MacDonald <Kenneth.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk>
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Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:59:15 +0100
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On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 15:01 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> This is advance notice that the MIT krb5 1.18 release, planned for
> near
> the end of this year, will remove support for the single-DES
> encryption
> types (chiefly des-cbc-crc) and their associated checksum types and
> salt
> types.  Setting "allow_weak_crypto = true" will no longer re-enable
> single-DES.
> 
> If your Kerberos environment still makes use of single-DES, please
> see
> 
https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/admin/advanced/retiring-des.html
> for documentation on how to transition to the AES encryption types.

Does this impact on the kadmin/history key as documented at


https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/admin/database.html#updating-the-history-key

Cheers,

Kenny.




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