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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 16 September 2015 19:26 UTC

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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:26:52 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 08:14:51AM +0200, Rick van Rein wrote:
> > Would this proposal (or variants discussed) really solve a _pressing_
> > problem?  Or a problem we believe will be pressing?
> 
> Realm crossover outside a fixed KDC set or federation needs KREALM or
> a variation on that theme; and could then be used to connect arbitrary
> domains using something like PKCROSS -- which is my hope and
> intention.

The default host->realm mapping (strip left-most label, upcase the rest)
works well enough for 99% of cases, no?

Nico
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