X Core Protocol Scheme

Ilya Anfimov ilan at astelecom.ru
Sat Dec 12 07:40:50 PST 2015


On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:17:56AM +0100, Michael Titke wrote:

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>    The first surprise was the "magic" of the MIT Magic Cookie which needs
>    that little deviation from the protocol encoding where you have to put
>    the padding bytes at the end. Now I really made it to open a window and

 BTW,  protocol  specifies that MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
string requires two bytes of padding, don't know why you  are  OK
with one -- probably, miss-by-one somewhere else.



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