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11 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David Woodhouse
9ad282b1ae Remove all traces of FBOpenSSL SPNEGO support
This is just fundamentally broken. SPNEGO (RFC4178) is a protocol which
allows client and server to negotiate the underlying mechanism which will
actually be used to authenticate. This is *often* Kerberos, and can also
be NTLM and other things. And to complicate matters, there are various
different OIDs which can be used to specify the Kerberos mechanism too.

A SPNEGO exchange will identify *which* GSSAPI mechanism is being used,
and will exchange GSSAPI tokens which are appropriate for that mechanism.

But this SPNEGO implementation just strips the incoming SPNEGO packet
and extracts the token, if any. And completely discards the information
about *which* mechanism is being used. Then we *assume* it was Kerberos,
and feed the token into gss_init_sec_context() with the default
mechanism (GSS_S_NO_OID for the mech_type argument).

Furthermore... broken as this code is, it was never even *used* for input
tokens anyway, because higher layers of curl would just bail out if the
server actually said anything *back* to us in the negotiation. We assume
that we send a single token to the server, and it accepts it. If the server
wants to continue the exchange (as is required for NTLM and for SPNEGO
to do anything useful), then curl was broken anyway.

So the only bit which actually did anything was the bit in
Curl_output_negotiate(), which always generates an *initial* SPNEGO
token saying "Hey, I support only the Kerberos mechanism and this is its
token".

You could have done that by manually just prefixing the Kerberos token
with the appropriate bytes, if you weren't going to do any proper SPNEGO
handling. There's no need for the FBOpenSSL library at all.

The sane way to do SPNEGO is just to *ask* the GSSAPI library to do
SPNEGO. That's what the 'mech_type' argument to gss_init_sec_context()
is for. And then it should all Just Work™.

That 'sane way' will be added in a subsequent patch, as will bug fixes
for our failure to handle any exchange other than a single outbound
token to the server which results in immediate success.
2014-07-16 17:26:08 +02:00
Dan Fandrich
3427bece89 Mention axTLS in some more documentation 2011-01-21 14:27:10 -08:00
Dan Fandrich
f6e892b1b6 Added a libssh2 section. 2007-03-29 21:01:07 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
7f70dbcad5 Rob Crittenden added support for NSS (Network Security Service) for the
SSL/TLS layer. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
2007-02-12 22:32:37 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
e5cf6a20a7 yassl can be used now 2006-07-07 20:48:51 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
e236a1c99b corrected factual mistake about BSD license in the krb4.c code 2006-01-19 09:53:33 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
51a4493add Added GNU GSS and separate sections for MIT GSS and Heimdal and added info
about what each single lib may be used for.
2005-08-29 13:58:25 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
6d8a208df2 mention the exception only once ;-) 2005-07-07 05:43:04 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
893cbaaf2f added some blurb about the GnuTLS license 2005-04-07 15:28:56 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
543ab6f331 added URL to the exception paragraph in the GPL FAQ 2004-09-19 22:37:26 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
630b73bfa8 Added LICENSE-MIXING to the release archive 2004-04-27 18:31:35 +00:00