Re: [9fans] Foundation new releases question

["Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021, at 3:39 PM, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> > Yep. I might be able to understand that change, but less so the later breaking change to 9p auth.
> 
> What 9p change for auth are you talking about?
> 
> The dp9ik implementation in 9front just uses p9any to negotiate
> it and p9sk1 is still supported; tho by default we have p9sk1
> disabled at the authentication server now to prevent the offline
> dictionary attack on the DES encrypted tickets that p9sk1 uses
> (tho it can be enabled by a flag in the authservers startup script).
> 
> The code changes to have both auth protocols work concurrently
> was actually the thing that took the most work and it took
> over a year of transition period until we could disable
> p9sk1 by default.
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone changing 9p.

I'm confused now. I'm sure someone official bypassed the existing mechanism to add a new auth protocol. I thought the existing mechanism was p9any, but perhaps I was wrong.

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