The Kerberos Credential Cache Binary File Format Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Simon Josefsson http://josefsson.org/shishi/ccache.txt Last updated: Sat Sep 23 12:04:11 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 headerlen; /* only if version is 0x0504 */ header headers[]; /* 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; /* stored in reversed byte order */ uint32_t num_address; address addrs[num_address]; uint32_t num_authdata; authdata authdata[num_authdata]; counted_octet_string ticket; counted_octet_string second_ticket; }; keyblock { uint16_t keytype; uint16_t etype; /* only present if version 0x0503 */ uint32_t keylen; /* [drankye]: corrected, before it was uint16_t */ uint8_t keyvalue[keylen]; }; 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]; }; Permission to copy, modify, and distribute this document, with or without modification, for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include this copyright notice in ALL copies of the document or portions thereof, including modifications.