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Re: [kitten] draft-perez-krb-wg-gss-preauth

Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com> Mon, 02 August 2021 09:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] draft-perez-krb-wg-gss-preauth
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>> Good point. Our use case is supporting existing applications where it’s not feasible to install a new GSS-API mechanism on the acceptor (for reasons of local policy, platform limitations, etc).
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> Thanks, that makes the motivation a bit more clear.

I suppose another use case might be a fast re-authentication mechanism for GSS mechanisms that involve a lot of round trips (such as EAP). Of course this could be handled within the mechanism itself or as a pseudo-mechanism but, in practice, neither have been deployed.

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