draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-04.txt [plain text]
INTERNET-DRAFT Brian Tung
draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-04.txt Clifford Neuman
Updates: RFC 1510 ISI
expires January 31, 1998 John Wray
Digital Equipment Corporation
Ari Medvinsky
Matthew Hur
CyberSafe Corporation
Jonathan Trostle
Novell
Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
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1. Abstract
This document defines extensions (PKINIT) to the Kerberos protocol
specification (RFC 1510 [1]) to provide a method for using public
key cryptography during initial authentication. The methods
defined specify the ways in which preauthentication data fields and
error data fields in Kerberos messages are to be used to transport
public key data.
2. Introduction
The popularity of public key cryptography has produced a desire for
its support in Kerberos [2]. The advantages provided by public key
cryptography include simplified key management (from the Kerberos
perspective) and the ability to leverage existing and developing
public key certification infrastructures.
Public key cryptography can be integrated into Kerberos in a number
of ways. One is to associate a key pair with each realm, which can
then be used to facilitate cross-realm authentication; this is the
topic of another draft proposal. Another way is to allow users with
public key certificates to use them in initial authentication. This
is the concern of the current document.
One of the guiding principles in the design of PKINIT is that
changes should be as minimal as possible. As a result, the basic
mechanism of PKINIT is as follows: The user sends a request to the
KDC as before, except that if that user is to use public key
cryptography in the initial authentication step, his certificate
accompanies the initial request, in the preauthentication fields.
Upon receipt of this request, the KDC verifies the certificate and
issues a ticket granting ticket (TGT) as before, except that instead
of being encrypted in the user's long-term key (which is derived
from a password), it is encrypted in a randomly-generated key. This
random key is in turn encrypted using the public key from the
certificate that came with the request and signed using the KDC's
private key, and accompanies the reply, in the preauthentication
fields.
PKINIT also allows for users with only digital signature keys to
authenticate using those keys, and for users to store and retrieve
private keys on the KDC.
The PKINIT specification may also be used for direct peer to peer
authentication without contacting a central KDC. This application
of PKINIT is described in PKTAPP [4] and is based on concepts
introduced in [5, 6]. For direct client-to-server authentication,
the client uses PKINIT to authenticate to the end server (instead
of a central KDC), which then issues a ticket for itself. This
approach has an advantage over SSL [7] in that the server does not
need to save state (cache session keys). Furthermore, an
additional benefit is that Kerberos tickets can facilitate
delegation (see [8]).
3. Proposed Extensions
This section describes extensions to RFC 1510 for supporting the
use of public key cryptography in the initial request for a ticket
granting ticket (TGT).
In summary, the following changes to RFC 1510 are proposed:
--> Users may authenticate using either a public key pair or a
conventional (symmetric) key. If public key cryptography is
used, public key data is transported in preauthentication
data fields to help establish identity.
--> Users may store private keys on the KDC for retrieval during
Kerberos initial authentication.
This proposal addresses two ways that users may use public key
cryptography for initial authentication. Users may present public
key certificates, or they may generate their own session key,
signed by their digital signature key. In either case, the end
result is that the user obtains an ordinary TGT that may be used for
subsequent authentication, with such authentication using only
conventional cryptography.
Section 3.1 provides definitions to help specify message formats.
Section 3.2 and 3.3 describe the extensions for the two initial
authentication methods. Section 3.4 describes a way for the user to
store and retrieve his private key on the KDC, as an adjunct to the
initial authentication.
3.1. Definitions
The extensions involve new encryption methods; we propose the
addition of the following types:
dsa-sign 8
rsa-priv 9
rsa-pub 10
rsa-pub-md5 11
rsa-pub-sha1 12
The proposal of these encryption types notwithstanding, we do not
mandate the use of any particular public key encryption method.
The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we propose the
addition of the following types:
PA-PK-AS-REQ 14
PA-PK-AS-REP 15
PA-PK-AS-SIGN 16
PA-PK-KEY-REQ 17
PA-PK-KEY-REP 18
The extensions also involve new error types; we propose the addition
of the following types:
KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62
KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63
KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG 64
KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65
In many cases, PKINIT requires the encoding of an X.500 name as a
Realm. In these cases, the realm will be represented using a
different style, specified in RFC 1510 with the following example:
NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions
For a realm derived from an X.500 name, NAMETYPE will have the value
X500-ASN1-BASE64. The full realm name will appear as follows:
X500-ASN1-BASE64:Base64Encode(DistinguishedName)
where Base64 is an ASCII encoding of binary data as per RFC 1521,
and DistinguishedName is the ASN.1 encoding of the X.500
Distinguished Name from the X.509 certificate.
Similarly, PKINIT may require the encoding of an X.500 name as a
PrincipalName. In these cases, the name-type of the principal name
shall be set to NT-X500-PRINCIPAL, and the name-string shall be set
as follows:
Base64Encode(DistinguishedName)
as described above.
[Similar description needed on how realm names and principal names
are to be derived from PGP names.]
3.1.1. Encryption and Key Formats
In the exposition below, we use the terms public key and private
key generically. It should be understood that the term "public
key" may be used to refer to either a public encryption key or a
signature verification key, and that the term "private key" may be
used to refer to either a private decryption key or a signature
generation key. The fact that these are logically distinct does
not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys.
All additional symmetric keys specified in this draft shall use the
same encryption type as the session key in the response from the
KDC. These include the temporary keys used to encrypt the signed
random key encrypting the response, as well as the key derived from
Diffie-Hellman agreement. In the case of Diffie-Hellman, the key
shall be produced from the agreed bit string as follows:
* Truncate the bit string to the appropriate length.
* Rectify parity in each byte (if necessary) to obtain the key.
For instance, in the case of a DES key, we take the first eight
bytes of the bit stream, and then adjust the least significant bit
of each byte to ensure that each byte has odd parity.
RFC 1510, Section 6.1, defines EncryptedData as follows:
EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
etype [0] INTEGER,
kvno [1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
cipher [2] OCTET STRING
-- is CipherText
}
RFC 1510 suggests that ciphertext is coded as follows:
CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
confounder [0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(conf_length)
OPTIONAL,
check [1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length)
OPTIONAL,
msg-seq [2] MsgSequence,
pad [3] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length)
OPTIONAL
}
The PKINIT protocol introduces several new types of encryption.
Data that is encrypted with a public key will allow only the check
optional field, as it is defined above. This type of the checksum
will be specified in the etype field, together with the encryption
type.
In order to identify the checksum type, etype will have the
following values:
rsa-pub-MD5
rsa-pub-SHA1
In the case that etype is set to rsa-pub, the optional 'check'
field will not be provided.
Data that is encrypted with a private key will not use any optional
fields. PKINIT uses private key encryption only for signatures,
which are encrypted checksums. Therefore, the optional check field
is not needed.
3.2. Standard Public Key Authentication
Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
compliance with PKINIT.
It is assumed that all public keys are signed by some certification
authority (CA). The initial authentication request is sent as per
RFC 1510, except that a preauthentication field containing data
signed by the user's private key accompanies the request:
PA-PK-AS-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 14
signedAuthPack [0] SignedAuthPack
userCert [1] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL,
-- the user's certificate chain
trustedCertifiers [2] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName OPTIONAL
-- CAs that the client trusts
}
SignedAuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
authPack [0] AuthPack,
authPackSig [1] Signature,
-- of authPack
-- using user's private key
}
AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
-- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
}
PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
kdcName [0] PrincipalName,
kdcRealm [1] Realm,
cusec [2] INTEGER,
-- for replay prevention
ctime [3] KerberosTime,
-- for replay prevention
nonce [4] INTEGER
}
Signature ::= SEQUENCE {
signedHash [0] EncryptedData
-- of type Checksum
}
Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
cksumtype [0] INTEGER,
checksum [1] OCTET STRING
} -- as specified by RFC 1510
SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
algorithm [0] AlgorithmIdentifier,
subjectPublicKey [1] BIT STRING
-- for DH, equals
-- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
-- as payload of BIT STRING)
} -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [9]
AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
algorithm [0] ALGORITHM.&id,
-- for DH, equals
-- dhKeyAgreement
-- ({iso(1) member-body(2) US(840)
-- rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs-3(3)
-- 1})
parameters [1] ALGORITHM.&type
-- for DH, is DHParameter
} -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [9]
DHParameter ::= SEQUENCE {
prime [0] INTEGER,
-- p
base [1] INTEGER,
-- g
privateValueLength [2] INTEGER OPTIONAL
}
Certificate ::= SEQUENCE {
certType [0] INTEGER,
-- type of certificate
-- 1 = X.509v3 (DER encoding)
-- 2 = PGP (per PGP specification)
certData [1] OCTET STRING
-- actual certificate
-- type determined by certType
}
The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks,
to bind the request and response, and to optionally pass the
client's Diffie-Hellman public value (i.e. for using DSA in
combination with Diffie-Hellman). The PKAuthenticator is signed
with the private key corresponding to the public key in the
certificate found in userCert (or cached by the KDC).
In the PKAuthenticator, the client may specify the KDC name in one
of two ways:
* The Kerberos principal name krbtgt/<realm_name>@<realm_name>,
where <realm_name> is replaced by the applicable realm name.
* The name in the KDC's certificate (e.g., an X.500 name, or a
PGP name).
Note that the first case requires that the certificate name and the
Kerberos principal name be bound together (e.g., via an X.509v3
extension).
The userCert field is a sequence of certificates, the first of which
must be the user's public key certificate. Any subsequent
certificates will be certificates of the certifiers of the user's
certificate. These cerificates may be used by the KDC to verify the
user's public key. This field may be left empty if the KDC already
has the user's certificate.
The trustedCertifiers field contains a list of certification
authorities trusted by the client, in the case that the client does
not possess the KDC's public key certificate.
Upon receipt of the AS_REQ with PA-PK-AS-REQ pre-authentication
type, the KDC attempts to verify the user's certificate chain
(userCert), if one is provided in the request. This is done by
verifying the certification path against the KDC's policy of
legitimate certifiers. This may be based on a certification
hierarchy, or it may be simply a list of recognized certifiers in a
system like PGP.
If verification of the user's certificate fails, the KDC sends back
an error message of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. The e-data
field contains additional information pertaining to this error, and
is formatted as follows:
METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
method-type [0] INTEGER,
-- 1 = cannot verify public key
-- 2 = invalid certificate
-- 3 = revoked certificate
-- 4 = invalid KDC name
method-data [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
} -- syntax as for KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD (RFC 1510)
The values for the method-type and method-data fields are described
in Section 3.2.1.
If trustedCertifiers is provided in the PA-PK-AS-REQ, the KDC
verifies that it has a certificate issued by one of the certifiers
trusted by the client. If it does not have a suitable certificate,
the KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to
the client.
If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
signature on PKAuthenticator. If that fails, the KDC returns an
error message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses
the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator to assure that the request is
not a replay. The KDC also verifies that its name is specified in
the PKAuthenticator.
If the clientPublicValue field is filled in, indicating that the
client wishes to use Diffie-Hellman key agreement, then the KDC
checks to see that the parameters satisfy its policy. If they do
not (e.g., the prime size is insufficient for the expected
encryption type), then the KDC sends back an error message of type
KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. Otherwise, it generates its own public and
private values for the response.
The KDC also checks that the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator is
within the allowable window. If the local (server) time and the
client time in the authenticator differ by more than the allowable
clock skew, then the KDC returns an error message of type
KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW.
Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510, except as
follows: The user's name in the ticket is as represented in the
certificate, unless a Kerberos principal name is bound to the name
in the certificate (e.g., via an X.509v3 extension). The user's
realm in the ticket shall be the name of the Certification
Authority that issued the user's public key certificate.
The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
with a random key generated only for this particular response. This
random key is sealed in the preauthentication field:
PA-PK-AS-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 15
encSignedReplyKeyPack [0] EncryptedData,
-- of type SignedReplyKeyPack
-- using the temporary key
-- in encTmpKey
encTmpKeyPack [1] EncryptedData,
-- of type TmpKeyPack
-- using either the client public
-- key or the Diffie-Hellman key
-- specified by SignedDHPublicValue
signedKDCPublicValue [2] SignedKDCPublicValue OPTIONAL
-- if one was passed in the request
kdcCert [3] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL,
-- the KDC's certificate chain
}
SignedReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
replyKeyPack [0] ReplyKeyPack,
replyKeyPackSig [1] Signature,
-- of replyEncKeyPack
-- using KDC's private key
}
ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
-- used to encrypt main reply
nonce [1] INTEGER
-- binds response to the request
-- must be same as the nonce
-- passed in the PKAuthenticator
}
TmpKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
tmpKey [0] EncryptionKey,
-- used to encrypt the
-- SignedReplyKeyPack
}
SignedKDCPublicValue ::= SEQUENCE {
kdcPublicValue [0] SubjectPublicKeyInfo,
-- as described above
kdcPublicValueSig [1] Signature
-- of kdcPublicValue
-- using KDC's private key
}
The kdcCert field is a sequence of certificates, the first of which
must be the KDC's public key certificate. Any subsequent
certificates will be certificates of the certifiers of the KDC's
certificate. The last of these must have as its certifier one of
the certifiers sent to the KDC in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. These
cerificates may be used by the client to verify the KDC's public
key. This field is empty if the client did not send to the KDC a
list of trusted certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty).
Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
certificate is essentially a separate realm, the name of each
certifier shall be added to the transited field of the ticket. The
format of these realm names is defined in Section 3.1 of this
document. If applicable, the transit-policy-checked flag should be
set in the issued ticket.
The KDC's certificate must bind the public key to a name derivable
from the name of the realm for that KDC. For an X.509 certificate,
this is done as follows. The certificate will contain a
distinguished X.500 name contains, in addition to other attributes,
an extended attribute, called principalName, with the KDC's
principal name as its value (as the text string
krbtgt/<realm_name>@<realm_name>, where <realm_name> is the realm
name of the KDC):
principalName ATTRIBUTE ::= {
WITH SYNTAX PrintableString(SIZE(1..ub-prinicipalName))
EQUALITY MATCHING RULE caseExactMatch
ORDERING MATCHING RULE caseExactOrderingMatch
SINGLE VALUE TRUE
ID id-at-principalName
}
ub-principalName INTEGER ::= 1024
id-at OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {joint-iso-ccitt(2) ds(5) 4}
id-at-principalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id-at 60}
where ATTRIBUTE is as defined in X.501, and the matching rules are
as defined in X.520.
[Still need to register principalName.]
[Still need to discuss what is done for a PGP certificate.]
The client then extracts the random key used to encrypt the main
reply. This random key (in encPaReply) is encrypted with either the
client's public key or with a key derived from the DH values
exchanged between the client and the KDC.
3.2.1. Additional Information for Errors
This section describes the interpretation of the method-type and
method-data fields of the KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED error.
If method-type=1, the client's public key certificate chain does not
contain a certificate that is signed by a certification authority
trusted by the KDC. The format of the method-data field will be an
ASN.1 encoding of a list of trusted certifiers, as defined above:
TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
If method-type=2, the signature on one of the certificates in the
chain cannot be verified. The format of the method-data field will
be an ASN.1 encoding of the integer index of the certificate in
question:
CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
-- 0 = 1st certificate,
-- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
If method-type=3, one of the certificates in the chain has been
revoked. The format of the method-data field will be an ASN.1
encoding of the integer index of the certificate in question:
CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
-- 0 = 1st certificate,
-- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
If method-type=4, the KDC name or realm in the PKAuthenticator does
not match the principal name of the KDC. There is no method-data
field in this case.
3.3. Digital Signature
Implementation of the changes in this section are OPTIONAL for
compliance with PKINIT.
We offer this option with the warning that it requires the client to
generate a random key; the client may not be able to guarantee the
same level of randomness as the KDC.
If the user registered, or presents a certificate for, a digital
signature key with the KDC instead of an encryption key, then a
separate exchange must be used. The client sends a request for a
TGT as usual, except that it (rather than the KDC) generates the
random key that will be used to encrypt the KDC response. This key
is sent to the KDC along with the request in a preauthentication
field, encrypted with the KDC's public key:
PA-PK-AS-SIGN ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 16
encSignedRandomKeyPack [0] EncryptedData,
-- of type SignedRandomKeyPack
-- using the key in encTmpKeyPack
encTmpKeyPack [1] EncryptedData,
-- of type TmpKeyPack
-- using the KDC's public key
userCert [2] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL
-- the user's certificate chain
}
SignedRandomKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
randomkeyPack [0] RandomKeyPack,
randomkeyPackSig [1] Signature
-- of keyPack
-- using user's private key
}
RandomKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
randomKey [0] EncryptionKey,
-- will be used to encrypt reply
randomKeyAuth [1] PKAuthenticator
-- nonce copied from AS-REQ
}
If the KDC does not accept client-generated random keys as a matter
of policy, then it sends back an error message of type
KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. Otherwise, it extracts the random key as
follows.
Upon receipt of the PA-PK-AS-SIGN, the KDC decrypts then verifies
the randomKey. It then replies as per RFC 1510, except that the
reply is encrypted not with a password-derived user key, but with
the randomKey sent in the request. Since the client already knows
this key, there is no need to accompany the reply with an extra
preauthentication field. The transited field of the ticket should
specify the certification path as described in Section 3.2.
3.4. Retrieving the User's Private Key from the KDC
Implementation of the changes described in this section are OPTIONAL
for compliance with PKINIT.
When the user's private key is not stored local to the user, he may
choose to store the private key (normally encrypted using a
password-derived key) on the KDC. In this case, the client makes a
request as described above, except that instead of preauthenticating
with his private key, he uses a symmetric key shared with the KDC.
For simplicity's sake, this shared key is derived from the password-
derived key used to encrypt the private key, in such a way that the
KDC can authenticate the user with the shared key without being able
to extract the private key.
We provide this option to present the user with an alternative to
storing the private key on local disk at each machine where he
expects to authenticate himself using PKINIT. It should be noted
that it replaces the added risk of long-term storage of the private
key on possibly many workstations with the added risk of storing the
private key on the KDC in a form vulnerable to brute-force attack.
Denote by K1 the symmetric key used to encrypt the private key.
Then construct symmetric key K2 as follows:
* Perform a hash on K1.
* Truncate the digest to Length(K1) bytes.
* Rectify parity in each byte (if necessary) to obtain K2.
The KDC stores K2, the public key, and the encrypted private key.
This key pair is designated as the "primary" key pair for that user.
This primary key pair is the one used to perform initial
authentication using the PA-PK-AS-REP preauthentication field. If
he desires, he may also store additional key pairs on the KDC; these
may be requested in addition to the primary. When the client
requests initial authentication using public key cryptography, it
must then include in its request, instead of a PA-PK-AS-REQ, the
following preauthentication sequence:
PA-PK-KEY-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 17
signedPKAuth [0] SignedPKAuth,
trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
-- CAs that the client trusts
keyIDList [2] SEQUENCE OF Checksum OPTIONAL
-- payload is hash of public key
-- corresponding to desired
-- private key
-- if absent, KDC will return all
-- stored private keys
}
SignedPKAuth ::= SEQUENCE {
pkAuth [0] PKAuthenticator,
pkAuthSig [1] Signature
-- of pkAuth
-- using the symmetric key K2
}
If a keyIDList is present, the first identifier should indicate
the primary private key. No public key certificate is required,
since the KDC stores the public key along with the private key.
If there is no keyIDList, all the user's private keys are returned.
Upon receipt, the KDC verifies the signature using K2. If the
verification fails, the KDC sends back an error of type
KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. If the signature verifies, but the requested
keys are not found on the KDC, then the KDC sends back an error of
type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED. If all checks out, the KDC responds as
described in Section 3.2, except that in addition, the KDC appends
the following preauthentication sequence:
PA-PK-KEY-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 18
encKeyRep [0] EncryptedData
-- of type EncKeyReply
-- using the symmetric key K2
}
EncKeyReply ::= SEQUENCE {
keyPackList [0] SEQUENCE OF KeyPack,
-- the first KeyPair is
-- the primary key pair
nonce [1] INTEGER
-- binds reply to request
-- must be identical to the nonce
-- sent in the SignedAuthPack
}
KeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
keyID [0] Checksum,
encPrivKey [1] OCTET STRING
}
Upon receipt of the reply, the client extracts the encrypted private
keys (and may store them, at the client's option). The primary
private key, which must be the first private key in the keyPack
SEQUENCE, is used to decrypt the random key in the PA-PK-AS-REP;
this key in turn is used to decrypt the main reply as described in
Section 3.2.
4. Logistics and Policy
This section describes a way to define the policy on the use of
PKINIT for each principal and request.
The KDC is not required to contain a database record for users
that use either the Standard Public Key Authentication or Public Key
Authentication with a Digital Signature. However, if these users
are registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database
record for these users be modified to include three additional flags
in the attributes field.
The first flag, use_standard_pk_init, indicates that the user should
authenticate using standard PKINIT as described in Section 3.2. The
second flag, use_digital_signature, indicates that the user should
authenticate using digital signature PKINIT as described in Section
3.3. The third flag, store_private_key, indicates that the user
has stored his private key on the KDC and should retrieve it using
the exchange described in Section 3.4.
If one of the preauthentication fields defined above is included in
the request, then the KDC shall respond as described in Sections 3.2
through 3.4, ignoring the aforementioned database flags. If more
than one of the preauthentication fields is present, the KDC shall
respond with an error of type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED.
In the event that none of the preauthentication fields defined above
are included in the request, the KDC checks to see if any of the
above flags are set. If the first flag is set, then it sends back
an error of type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a
preauthentication field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the
request.
Otherwise, if the first flag is clear, but the second flag is set,
then the KDC sends back an error of type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED
indicating that a preauthentication field of type PA-PK-AS-SIGN must
be included in the request.
Lastly, if the first two flags are clear, but the third flag is set,
then the KDC sends back an error of type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED
indicating that a preauthentication field of type PA-PK-KEY-REQ must
be included in the request.
5. Dependence on Transport Mechanisms
Certificate chains can potentially grow quite large and span several
UDP packets; this in turn increases the probability that a Kerberos
message involving PKINIT extensions will be broken in transit. In
light of the possibility that the Kerberos specification will
allow TCP as a transport mechanism, we solicit discussion on whether
using PKINIT should encourage the use of TCP.
6. Bibliography
[1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
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7. Acknowledgements
Sasha Medvinsky contributed several ideas to the protocol changes
and specifications in this document. His additions have been most
appreciated.
Some of the ideas on which this proposal is based arose during
discussions over several years between members of the SAAG, the IETF
CAT working group, and the PSRG, regarding integration of Kerberos
and SPX. Some ideas have also been drawn from the DASS system.
These changes are by no means endorsed by these groups. This is an
attempt to revive some of the goals of those groups, and this
proposal approaches those goals primarily from the Kerberos
perspective. Lastly, comments from groups working on similar ideas
in DCE have been invaluable.
8. Expiration Date
This draft expires January 31, 1997.
9. Authors
Brian Tung
Clifford Neuman
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
Phone: +1 310 822 1511
E-mail: {brian, bcn}@isi.edu
John Wray
Digital Equipment Corporation
550 King Street, LKG2-2/Z7
Littleton, MA 01460
Phone: +1 508 486 5210
E-mail: wray@tuxedo.enet.dec.com
Ari Medvinsky
Matthew Hur
CyberSafe Corporation
1605 NW Sammamish Road Suite 310
Issaquah WA 98027-5378
Phone: +1 206 391 6000
E-mail: {ari.medvinsky, matt.hur}@cybersafe.com
Jonathan Trostle
Novell Corporation
Provo UT
E-mail: jtrostle@novell.com