Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.427 (Entity 5.427) RT-Send-CC: X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 459 A user asked if the KDC could check preauth attempts against old keys and avoid incrementing the failed authentication counter if they match: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2014-December/020409.html I mention that here because (1) this issue would save the KDC from having to keep around the history key in order to do this, and (2) we would have to keep around the old keys, not a specific transform of the old password, in order to do this.