Jacques A. Vidrine 6710968492 [Dug this out of an email I sent November 2002.] ...

Currently, if the AS exchange uses PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP, a Heimdal client
will transmit the AS-REQ with one PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP for every supported
encryption type.  This is bad because:

   (1) An eavesdropper collecting this information for dictionary
       attacks will have his life made easier, since he can use
       DES (rather than a stronger crypto system).
   (2) Waste of CPU cycles on client.
   (3) (Maybe) cryptanalysis is assisted by capturing ciphtertexts
       that are known to be the same plaintext encrypted with the
       same key in several algorithms (though the confounder confounds
       this).

The KDC provides the list of etypes supported in PA-ETYPE-INFO in the
KRB-ERROR reply ... let's use the first one, eh?


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