Kerberos Client v1.12 Release Notes for HP-UX 11.0

What's in This Version

Chapter 18

What's in This Version

The KRB5-Client software is based on MIT Kerberos V5 1.1.1 with all

the major ﬁxes to the buffer overrun vulnerabilities detected in MIT

Kerberos V5 1.1.1 release. It consists of libraries, header ﬁles, manpages

and Kerberos utilities, which help in performing command-line or

programmatic authentication. Data encryption APIs can be used to

protect data transmitted over the net. Kerberos Client version 1.12

supports both 32-bit and 64-bit development, as shown in Table 1-2.

Table 1-2 Kerberos Client Libraries

32 Bit 64 Bit Functionality

/usr/lib/libkrb5.sl /usr/lib/pa20_64/libkrb5.sl Authenticate

users, verify

tickets, create

authenticator, and

manage the

context

/usr/lib/libcom_err.sl /usr/lib/pa20_64/libcom_err.sl Print appropriate

error messages to

stderr based on

the error code

returned by

kerberos APIs.

/usr/lib/libk5crypto.sl /usr/lib/pa20_64/libk5crypto.sl Encrypt (DES)

and decrypt all of

their

communications to

assure privacy and

data integrity