Re: [kitten] Finding Kerberos Realm Descriptors in secure DNS

Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> Wed, 16 September 2015 07:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] Finding Kerberos Realm Descriptors in secure DNS
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>> So... it may be reasonable to assume that any KREALM client could work with multiple realms, because they will normally be KDCs.  And that'd mean we wouldn't need this priority or go-for-this-one flag.  Agreed?
> A KDC can only return one referral, so I'm not sure what it would do
> with multiple realms, with or without priorities.  Perhaps I'm missing
> something.
The referral that the KDC returns is one for which it succeeded to construct a TGT.  Having multiple realms gives an opportunity to try multiple paths in constructing that TGT.  I wouldn't be surprised if there are use cases that want to exploit this, even if it puts a strain on the client's KDC.

-Rick