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Chuck Lever authored
Other common Kerberos implementations use a fully random confounder for encryption. The reason for this is explained in the new comment added by this patch. The current get_random_bytes() implementation does not exhaust system entropy. Since confounder generation is part of Kerberos itself rather than the GSS-API Kerberos mechanism, the function is renamed and moved. Note that light top-down analysis shows that the SHA-1 transform is by far the most CPU-intensive part of encryption. Thus we do not expect this change to result in a significant performance impact. However, eventually it might be necessary to generate an independent stream of confounders for each Kerberos context to help improve I/O parallelism. Reviewed-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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