Re: What form is the timestamp in the KRB5_TRACE log (and why)

Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.general
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Whoops, I copied the wrong name; the public interface has docs at
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.18/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_us_timeofday.html
and peeking at the source it's a gettimeofday()-like on unix-like systems.
So the unix epocy conversion ought to be working, in my reading, yes.

-Ben

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:21:39AM -0600, Todd Grayson wrote:
> Ok but does that mean Unix Epoch time conversion should be working, or is
> there some other form of secret decoder ring that is used to translate to
> system time?  In troubleshooting/debugging scenarios, being able to
> associate the timestamps from the KRB5_TRACE that has been running over an
> extended period with external services integrating with kerberos would
> be... handy?  I can find no real references on krb5_crypto_us_timeofday()
> other than a select set of developer comments within the source code, and a
> whole bunch of spam advertising sites representing it and other source code
> segments?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:09 PM Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Todd Grayson wrote:
> > > Is this some form of specialized unix epoch time timestamp or something?
> > > And more importantly... why?  How do I convert it, normal epoch time
> > > conversion is yielding insane values.
> >
> > It looks to just be the seconds.microseconds output from
> > krb5_crypto_us_timeofday().
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> 
> 
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> Todd Grayson
> Principal Customer Operations Engineer
> Security SME
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