Re: [kitten] RFC2743 errata 4251

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Tue, 16 December 2014 19:07 UTC

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Meta question: if it requires so much discussion is this
really suited as an erratum? Just wondering:-)

S.


On 16/12/14 16:50, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:44:26AM -0600, Nico Williams wrote:
>> Of course, the thought occurs that a re-key context token would elicit a
>> GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN major status code from GSS_Process_context_token(),
>> so maybe there's no real problem here (since the "should generally" text
>> above does not apply in that case).
> 
> The further thought occurs that a v2u1 app might be using a v2u1+N
> GSS-API implementation (there's no version negotiation between the two).
> 
> For the case of re-keys (if we ever implement re-key with extra async
> context tokens) we must then... what? introduce a new major status code
> for GSS_Process_context_token()?  I think that would do.
> 
> Nico
>