Re: master key type in kdc.conf

Greg Hudson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/3/21 3:36 AM, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
> We're in the process of rolling our mkey to get off 3des, and we found 
> that someone in the before-times has put this line in our kdc.conf:
> 
> master_key_type = des3-hmac-sha1
[...]
> Would things break if I just took this line out?  Or would the kdc fail to 
> start because a K/M of the default enctype isn't present yet?

>From a review of the code, I am pretty sure that this setting is only
used when the mkey is entered from the keyboard (including during KDB
creation).  Assuming you are using a stash file, you should be able to
remove this setting.
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