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rfc-4757

The RC4-HMAC Kerberos Encryption Types Used by Microsoft Windows

K. Jaganathan, L. Zhu, J. Brezak
date2006-12 streamIETF wgnon working group statusHISTORIC pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4757 doi10.17487/RFC4757 errataview
The Microsoft Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos introduces a new encryption type based on the RC4 encryption algorithm and using an MD5 HMAC for checksum. This is offered as an alternative to using the existing DES-based encryption types. The RC4-HMAC encryption types are used to ease upgrade of existing Windows NT environments, provide strong cryptography (128-bit key lengths), and provide exportable (meet United States government export restriction requirements) encryption. This document describes the implementation of those encryption types. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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