Encryption algorithm in DCE

Hi,

I hope this guestion is not misplaced in this forum, if so I apologise
and I'd be much obliged to know which other forum would be
appropriate.

We are migrating our users from DCE to LDAP and we've already exported
user names and passwords from DCE to PWD and GROUP files and the next
step ist to get them into LDAP.
Does anyone know what encryption algorithm DCE actually uses? We'd
like to know, so we could encrypt passwords from applications which
would now communicate with LDAP and no longer with the combination of
CICS and DCE. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

alka

On 14 okt, 12:15, alka <ali.kardo...@hvb.sozvers.at> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I hope this guestion is not misplaced in this forum, if so I apologise
> and *I'd be much obliged to know which other forum would be
> appropriate.
>
> We are migrating our users from DCE to LDAP and we've already exported
> user names and passwords from DCE to PWD and GROUP files and the next
> step ist to get them into LDAP.
> Does anyone know what encryption algorithm DCE actually uses? We'd
> like to know, so we could encrypt passwords from applications which
> would now communicate with LDAP and no longer with the combination of
> CICS and DCE. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
>
> alka[/color]

As you probably know DCE is based on Kerberos.
And I think the only supported encryption type for DCE is DES (Data
Encryption Standard)

Thanks for the response! We managed to find that the algorithm is
indeed DES! And actually the passwords are generated with crypt.

alka







On 16 Okt., 14:01, Miguel Sanders <miguelsand...@telenet.be> wrote:[color=blue]
> On 14 okt, 12:15, alka <ali.kardo...@hvb.sozvers.at> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Hi,[/color]
>[color=green]
> > I hope this guestion is not misplaced in this forum, if so I apologise
> > and I'd be much obliged to know which other forum would be
> > appropriate.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > We are migrating our users from DCE to LDAP and we've already exported
> > user names and passwords from DCE to PWD and GROUP files and the next
> > step ist to get them into LDAP.
> > Does anyone know what encryption algorithm DCE actually uses? We'd
> > like to know, so we could encrypt passwords from applications which
> > would now communicate with LDAP and no longer with the combination of
> > CICS and DCE. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance[/color]
>[color=green]
> > alka[/color]
>
> As you probably know DCE is based on Kerberos.
> And I think the only supported encryption type for DCE is DES (Data
> Encryption Standard)[/color]