B.6 The Credential Cache Binary File Format

The credential cache file format is described in the file keytab.txt, included in verbatim below.

The Kerberos Credential Cache Binary File Format
Copyright (C) 2006 Simon Josefsson <simon josefsson.org>
http://josefsson.org/shishi/ccache.txt
Last updated: Wed Sep 13 18:09:52 CEST 2006

Like the MIT keytab binary format (see Michael B Allen's reverse
engineered description in keytab.txt), the credential cache format is
not standard nor documented anywhere.

In C style notation, the MIT credential cache file format is as
follows.  All values are in network byte order.  All text is ASCII.

ccache {
          uint16_t file_format_version; /* 0x0504 */
          uint16_t taglen;              /* only if version is 0x0504 */
          header tags[];                /* only if version is 0x0504 */
          principal primary_principal;
          credential credentials[*];
};

header {
       uint16_t tag;                    /* 1 = DeltaTime */
       uint16_t taglen;
       uint8_t tagdata[taglen]
};

The ccache.taglen and ccache.tags fields are only present in 0x0504
versions, not in earlier.  Both MIT and Heimdal appear to correctly
ignore unknown tags, so it appears safe to add them (although there is
no central place to "register" tags).

Currently only one tag is widely implemented, DeltaTime (0x0001).  Its
taglen is always 8, and tagdata will contain:

DeltaTime {
       uint32_t time_offset;
       uint32_t usec_offset;
};

After reading the file_format_version, header tags, and default
principal, a list of credentials follow.  You deduce from the file
length when there are no more credentials.

credential {
           principal client;
           principal server;
           keyblock key;
           times    time;
           uint8_t  is_skey;            /* 1 if skey, 0 otherwise */
           uint32_t tktflags;
           uint32_t num_address;
           address  addrs[num_address];
           uint32_t num_authdata;
           authdata authdata[num_authdata];
           countet_octet_string ticket;
           countet_octet_string second_ticket;
};

keyblock {
         uint16_t keytype;
         uint16_t etype;                /* only present if version 0x0503 */
         counted_octet_string keyvalue;
};

times {
      uint32_t  authtime;
      uint32_t  starttime;
      uint32_t  endtime;
      uint32_t  renew_till;
};

address {
        uint16_t addrtype;
        counted_octet_string addrdata;
};

authdata {
         uint16_t authtype;
         counted_octet_string authdata;
};

principal {
          uint32_t name_type;           /* not present if version 0x0501 */
          uint32_t num_components;      /* sub 1 if version 0x501 */
          counted_octet_string realm;
          counted_octet_string components[num_components];
};

counted_octet_string {
    uint32_t length;
    uint8_t data[length];
};


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