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-CAT working group M. Swift
-Internet Draft J. Brezak
-Document: draft-brezak-win2k-krb-rc4-hmac-01.txt Microsoft
-Category: Informational October 1999
-
-
- The Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos encryption type
-
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are
- draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be
- updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
- is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to
- cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos introduces a new
- encryption type based on the RC4 encryption algorithm and using an
- MD5 HMAC for checksum. This is offered as an alternative to using
- the existing DES based encryption types.
-
- The RC4-HMAC encryption types are used to ease upgrade of existing
- Windows NT environments, provide strong crypto (128-bit key
- lengths), and provide exportable (meet United States government
- export restriction requirements) encryption.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos contains new encryption
- and checksum types for two reasons: for export reasons early in the
- development process, 56 bit DES encryption could not be exported,
- and because upon upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000,
- accounts will not have the appropriate DES keying material to do the
- standard DES encryption. Furthermore, 3DES is not available for
- export, and there was a desire to use a single flavor of encryption
- in the product for both US and international products.
-
- As a result, there are two new encryption types and one new checksum
- type introduced in Windows 2000.
-
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 1
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type October 1999
-
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-3. Key Generation
-
- On upgrade from existing Windows NT domains, the user accounts would
- not have a DES based key available to enable the use of DES base
- encryption types specified in RFC 1510. The key used for RC4-HMAC is
- the same as the existing Windows NT key (NT Password Hash) for
- compatibility reasons. Once the account password is changed, the DES
- based keys are created and maintained. Once the DES keys are
- available DES based encryption types can be used with Kerberos.
-
- The RC4-HMAC String to key function is defined as follow:
-
- String2Key(password)
-
- K = MD4(UNICODE(password))
-
- The RC4-HMAC keys are generated by using the Windows UNICODE version
- of the password. Each Windows UNICODE character is encoded in
- little-endian format of 2 octets each. Then performing an MD4 [6]
- hash operation on just the UNICODE characters of the password (not
- including the terminating zero octets).
-
-4. Basic Operations
-
- The MD5 HMAC function is defined in [3]. It is used in this
- encryption type for checksum operations. Refer to [3] for details on
- its operation. In this document this function is referred to as
- HMAC(Key, Data) returning the checksum using the specified key on
- the data.
-
- The basic MD5 hash operation is used in this encryption type and
- defined in [7]. In this document this function is referred to as
- MD5(Data) returning the checksum of the data.
-
- The basic RC4 encryption operation is used in this encryption type
- and defined in [8]. In this document the function is referred to as
- RC4(Key, Data) returning the encrypted data using the specified key
- on the data.
-
- These encryption types use key derivation as defined in [9] (RFC-
- 1510BIS) in Section titled "Key Derivation". With each message, the
- message type (T) is used as a component of the keying material.
-
- All strings in this document are ASCII unless otherwise specified.
- The lengths of ASCII encoded character strings include the trailing
- terminator character (0).
-
- The concat(a,b,c,...) function will return the logical concatenation
- (left to right) of the values of the arguments.
-
-Swift Category - Informational 2
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type October 1999
-
-
-
- The nonce(n) function returns a pseudo-random number of "n" octets.
-
-5. Checksum Types
-
- There is one checksum type used in this encryption type. The
- Kerberos constant for this type is:
- #define KERB_CHECKSUM_HMAC_MD5 (-138)
-
- The function is defined as follows:
-
- K - is the Key
- T - the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer
-
- CHKSUM(K, T, data)
-
- Ksign = HMAC(K, "signature key") //includes zero octet at end
- tmp = MD5(concat(T, data))
- CHKSUM = HMAC(Ksign, tmp)
-
-
-6. Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types used in these encryption types. The
- Kerberos constants for these types are:
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC 23
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP 24
-
- The basic encryption function is defined as follow:
-
- T = the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer.
-
- ENCRYPT(K, T, data)
- if (K.enctype == KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP)
- L = concat("fortybits", T) //includes zero octet at
- //end of string constant
- Else
- L = T
- Ksign = HMAC(K,L)
- Confounder = nonce(8) // get an 8 octet nonce for a confounder
- Checksum = HMAC(Ksign, concat(Confounder, data))
- Ke = Ksign
- if (K.enctype == KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP)
- memset(&Ke[7], 0x0ab, 9)
- Ke2 = HMAC(Ke, Checksum)
- data = RC4(Ke2, data)
-
- The header field on the encrypted data in KDC messages is:
-
- typedef struct _RC4_MDx_HEADER {
- UCHAR Checksum[16];
- UCHAR Confounder[8];
- } RC4_MDx_HEADER, *PRC4_MDx_HEADER;
-
-Swift Category - Informational 3
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type October 1999
-
-
-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-7. Key Strength Negotiation
-
- A Kerberos client and server can negotiate over key length if they
- are using mutual authentication. If the client is unable to perform
- full strength encryption, it may propose a key in the "subkey" field
- of the authenticator, using a weaker encryption type. The server
- must then either return the same key or suggest its own key in the
- subkey field of the AP reply message. The key used to encrypt data
- is derived from the key returned by the server. If the client is
- able to perform strong encryption but the server is not, it may
- propose a subkey in the AP reply without first being sent a subkey
- in the authenticator.
-
-8. GSSAPI Kerberos V5 Mechanism Type
-
-8.1 Mechanism Specific Changes
-
- The GSSAPI per-message tokens also require new checksum and
- encryption types. The GSS-API per-message tokens must be changed to
- support these new encryption types (See [5] Section 1.2.2). The
- sealing algorithm identifier (SEAL_ALG) for an RC4 based encryption
- is:
- Byte 4..5 SEAL_ALG 0x10 0x00 - RC4
-
- The signing algorithm identifier (SGN_ALG) for MD5 HMAC is:
- Byte 2..3 SGN ALG 0x11 0x00 - HMAC
-
- The only support quality of protection is:
- #define GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0x0
-
- In addition, when using an RC4 based encryption type, the sequence
- number is sent in big-endian rather than little-endian order.
-
-8.2 GSSAPI Checksum Type
-
- The GSSAPI checksum type and algorithm is defined in Section 5. Only
- the first 8 octets of the checksum are used. The resulting checksum
- is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field (See [5] Section 1.2) for
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap(conf_flag=FALSE).
-
-8.3 GSSAPI Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types for GSSAPI message tokens, one that
- is 128 bits in strength, and one that is 56 bits in strength as
- defined in Section 6.
-
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 4
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type October 1999
-
-
- All padding is rounded up to 1 byte. One byte is needed to say that
- there is 1 byte of padding. The DES based mechanism type uses 8 byte
- padding. See [5] Section 1.2.2.3.
-
- The encryption mechanism used for GSS based messages is as follow:
-
- T = the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer.
-
- GSS-ENCRYPT(K, T, data)
- IV = SND_SEQ
- K = XOR(K, 0xf0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0)
- if (K.enctype == KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP)
- L = concat("fortybits", T) //includes zero octet at end
- else
- L = T
- Ksign = HMAC(K, L)
- Ke = Ksign
- if (K.enctype == KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP)
- memset(&Ke[7], 0x0ab, 9)
- Ke2 = HMAC(Ke, IV)
- Data = RC4(Ke2, data)
- SND_SEQ = RC4(Ke, seq#)
-
- The sequence number (SND_SEQ) and IV are used as defined in [5]
- Section 1.2.2.
-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-8. Security Considerations
-
- Care must be taken in implementing this encryption type because it
- uses a stream cipher. If a different IV isnĘt used in each direction
- when using a session key, the encryption is weak. By using the
- sequence number as an IV, this is avoided.
-
-9. References
-
- 1 Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
-
- 2 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- 3 Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., Canetti, R.,"HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for
- Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February 1997
-
- 4 Kohl, J., Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993
-
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 5
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type October 1999
-
-
-
- 5 Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism", RFC-1964,
- June 1996
-
- 6 R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1320, April
- 1992
-
- 7 R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1321, April
- 1992
-
- 8 RC4 is a proprietary encryption algorithm available under license
- from RSA Data Security Inc. For licensing information,
- contact:
- RSA Data Security, Inc.
- 100 Marine Parkway
- Redwood City, CA 94065-1031
-
- 9 Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-
- 04.txt, June 25, 1999
-
-
-10. Author's Addresses
-
- Mike Swift
- Microsoft
- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington
- Email: mikesw@microsoft.com
-
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington
- Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com
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-11. Full Copyright Statement
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
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- others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
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-
-CAT working group M. Swift
-Internet Draft J. Brezak
-Document: draft-brezak-win2k-krb-rc4-hmac-02.txt Microsoft
-Category: Informational November 2000
-
-
- The Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos encryption type
-
-
-tatus of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are
- draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be
- updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
- is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to
- cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-. Abstract
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos introduces a new
- encryption type based on the RC4 encryption algorithm and using an
- MD5 HMAC for checksum. This is offered as an alternative to using
- the existing DES based encryption types.
-
- The RC4-HMAC encryption types are used to ease upgrade of existing
- Windows NT environments, provide strong crypto (128-bit key
- lengths), and provide exportable (meet United States government
- export restriction requirements) encryption.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos contains new encryption
- and checksum types for two reasons: for export reasons early in the
- development process, 56 bit DES encryption could not be exported,
- and because upon upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000,
- accounts will not have the appropriate DES keying material to do the
- standard DES encryption. Furthermore, 3DES is not available for
- export, and there was a desire to use a single flavor of encryption
- in the product for both US and international products.
-
- As a result, there are two new encryption types and one new checksum
- type introduced in Windows 2000.
-
-
-. Conventions used in this document
-
-
-
-wift Category - Informational 1
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-. Key Generation
-
- On upgrade from existing Windows NT domains, the user accounts would
- not have a DES based key available to enable the use of DES base
- encryption types specified in RFC 1510. The key used for RC4-HMAC is
- the same as the existing Windows NT key (NT Password Hash) for
- compatibility reasons. Once the account password is changed, the DES
- based keys are created and maintained. Once the DES keys are
- available DES based encryption types can be used with Kerberos.
-
- The RC4-HMAC String to key function is defined as follow:
-
- String2Key(password)
-
- K = MD4(UNICODE(password))
-
- The RC4-HMAC keys are generated by using the Windows UNICODE version
- of the password. Each Windows UNICODE character is encoded in
- little-endian format of 2 octets each. Then performing an MD4 [6]
- hash operation on just the UNICODE characters of the password (not
- including the terminating zero octets).
-
- For an account with a password of "foo", this String2Key("foo") will
- return:
-
- 0xac, 0x8e, 0x65, 0x7f, 0x83, 0xdf, 0x82, 0xbe,
- 0xea, 0x5d, 0x43, 0xbd, 0xaf, 0x78, 0x00, 0xcc
-
-. Basic Operations
-
- The MD5 HMAC function is defined in [3]. It is used in this
- encryption type for checksum operations. Refer to [3] for details on
- its operation. In this document this function is referred to as
- HMAC(Key, Data) returning the checksum using the specified key on
- the data.
-
- The basic MD5 hash operation is used in this encryption type and
- defined in [7]. In this document this function is referred to as
- MD5(Data) returning the checksum of the data.
-
- RC4 is a stream cipher licensed by RSA Data Security [RSADSI]. A
- compatible cipher is described in [8]. In this document the function
- is referred to as RC4(Key, Data) returning the encrypted data using
- the specified key on the data.
-
- These encryption types use key derivation as defined in [9] (RFC-
- 1510BIS) in Section titled "Key Derivation". With each message, the
- message type (T) is used as a component of the keying material. This
- summarizes the different key derivation values used in the various
-
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-
- operations. Note that these differ from the key derivations used in
- other Kerberos encryption types.
-
- T = 1 for TS-ENC-TS in the AS-Request
- T = 8 for the AS-Reply
- T = 7 for the Authenticator in the TGS-Request
- T = 8 for the TGS-Reply
- T = 2 for the Server Ticket in the AP-Request
- T = 11 for the Authenticator in the AP-Request
- T = 12 for the Server returned AP-Reply
- T = 15 in the generation of checksum for the MIC token
- T = 0 in the generation of sequence number for the MIC token
- T = 13 in the generation of checksum for the WRAP token
- T = 0 in the generation of sequence number for the WRAP token
- T = 0 in the generation of encrypted data for the WRAPPED token
-
- All strings in this document are ASCII unless otherwise specified.
- The lengths of ASCII encoded character strings include the trailing
- terminator character (0).
-
- The concat(a,b,c,...) function will return the logical concatenation
- (left to right) of the values of the arguments.
-
- The nonce(n) function returns a pseudo-random number of "n" octets.
-
-. Checksum Types
-
- There is one checksum type used in this encryption type. The
- Kerberos constant for this type is:
- #define KERB_CHECKSUM_HMAC_MD5 (-138)
-
- The function is defined as follows:
-
- K - is the Key
- T - the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer
-
- CHKSUM(K, T, data)
-
- Ksign = HMAC(K, "signaturekey") //includes zero octet at end
- tmp = MD5(concat(T, data))
- CHKSUM = HMAC(Ksign, tmp)
-
-
-. Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types used in these encryption types. The
- Kerberos constants for these types are:
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC 23
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP 24
-
- The basic encryption function is defined as follow:
-
- T = the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer.
-
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-
-
- BYTE L40[14] = "fortybits";
- BYTE SK = "signaturekey";
-
- ENCRYPT (K, fRC4_EXP, T, data, data_len, edata, edata_len)
- {
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 10 + 4, K1);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K1);
- }
- memcpy (K2, K1, 16);
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset (K1+7, 0xAB, 9);
- add_8_random_bytes(data, data_len, conf_plus_data);
- HMAC (K2, conf_plus_data, 8 + data_len, checksum);
- HMAC (K1, checksum, 16, K3);
- RC4(K3, conf_plus_data, 8 + data_len, edata + 16);
- memcpy (edata, checksum, 16);
- edata_len = 16 + 8 + data_len;
- }
-
- DECRYPT (K, fRC4_EXP, T, edata, edata_len, data, data_len)
- {
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K1);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K1);
- }
- memcpy (K2, K1, 16);
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset (K1+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC (K1, edata, 16, K3); // checksum is at edata
- RC4(K3, edata + 16, edata_len - 16, edata + 16);
- data_len = edata_len - 16 - 8;
- memcpy (data, edata + 16 + 8, data_len);
-
- // verify generated and received checksums
- HMAC (K2, edata + 16, edata_len - 16, checksum);
- if (memcmp(edata, checksum, 16) != 0)
- printf("CHECKSUM ERROR !!!!!!\n");
- }
-
- The header field on the encrypted data in KDC messages is:
-
- typedef struct _RC4_MDx_HEADER {
- UCHAR Checksum[16];
- UCHAR Confounder[8];
- } RC4_MDx_HEADER, *PRC4_MDx_HEADER;
-
- The KDC message is encrypted using the ENCRYPT function not
- including the Checksum in the RC4_MDx_HEADER.
-
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-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-. Key Strength Negotiation
-
- A Kerberos client and server can negotiate over key length if they
- are using mutual authentication. If the client is unable to perform
- full strength encryption, it may propose a key in the "subkey" field
- of the authenticator, using a weaker encryption type. The server
- must then either return the same key or suggest its own key in the
- subkey field of the AP reply message. The key used to encrypt data
- is derived from the key returned by the server. If the client is
- able to perform strong encryption but the server is not, it may
- propose a subkey in the AP reply without first being sent a subkey
- in the authenticator.
-
-. GSSAPI Kerberos V5 Mechanism Type
-
-.1 Mechanism Specific Changes
-
- The GSSAPI per-message tokens also require new checksum and
- encryption types. The GSS-API per-message tokens must be changed to
- support these new encryption types (See [5] Section 1.2.2). The
- sealing algorithm identifier (SEAL_ALG) for an RC4 based encryption
- is:
- Byte 4..5 SEAL_ALG 0x10 0x00 - RC4
-
- The signing algorithm identifier (SGN_ALG) for MD5 HMAC is:
- Byte 2..3 SGN ALG 0x11 0x00 - HMAC
-
- The only support quality of protection is:
- #define GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0x0
-
- In addition, when using an RC4 based encryption type, the sequence
- number is sent in big-endian rather than little-endian order.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation also defines new GSSAPI flags in the
- initial token passed when initializing a security context. These
- flags are passed in the checksum field of the authenticator (See [5]
- Section 1.1.1).
-
- GSS_C_DCE_STYLE - This flag was added for use with MicrosoftĘs
- implementation of DCE RPC, which initially expected three legs of
- authentication. Setting this flag causes an extra AP reply to be
- sent from the client back to the server after receiving the serverĘs
- AP reply. In addition, the context negotiation tokens do not have
- GSSAPI framing - they are raw AP message and do not include object
- identifiers.
- #define GSS_C_DCE_STYLE 0x1000
-
-
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-
- GSS_C_IDENTIFY_FLAG - This flag allows the client to indicate to the
- server that it should only allow the server application to identify
- the client by name and ID, but not to impersonate the client.
- #define GSS_C_IDENTIFY_FLAG 0x2000
-
- GSS_C_EXTENDED_ERROR_FLAG - Setting this flag indicates that the
- client wants to be informed of extended error information. In
- particular, Windows 2000 status codes may be returned in the data
- field of a Kerberos error message. This allows the client to
- understand a server failure more precisely. In addition, the server
- may return errors to the client that are normally handled at the
- application layer in the server, in order to let the client try to
- recover. After receiving an error message, the client may attempt to
- resubmit an AP request.
- #define GSS_C_EXTENDED_ERROR_FLAG 0x4000
-
- These flags are only used if a client is aware of these conventions
- when using the SSPI on the Windows platform, they are not generally
- used by default.
-
- When NetBIOS addresses are used in the GSSAPI, they are identified
- by the GSS_C_AF_NETBIOS value. This value is defined as:
- #define GSS_C_AF_NETBIOS 0x14
- NetBios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to th 15 characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16
- octet of 0x0.
-
-.2 GSSAPI Checksum Type
-
- The GSSAPI checksum type and algorithm is defined in Section 5. Only
- the first 8 octets of the checksum are used. The resulting checksum
- is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field (See [5] Section 1.2) for
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap(conf_flag=FALSE).
-
- MIC (K, fRC4_EXP, seq_num, MIC_hdr, msg, msg_len,
- MIC_seq, MIC_checksum)
- {
- HMAC (K, SK, 13, K4);
- T = 15;
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 00, &T, 4);
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 04, MIC_hdr, 8);
- // 0101 1100 FFFFFFFF
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 12, msg, msg_len);
- MD5 (T_hdr_msg, 4 + 8 + msg_len, MD5_of_T_hdr_msg);
- HMAC (K4, MD5_of_T_hdr_msg, CHKSUM);
- memcpy (MIC_checksum, CHKSUM, 8); // use only first 8 bytes
-
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K5);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K5);
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- }
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset(K5+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC(K5, MIT_checksum, 8, K6);
- copy_seq_num_in_big_endian(seq_num, seq_plus_direction);
- //0x12345678
- copy_direction_flag (direction_flag, seq_plus_direction +
- 4); //0x12345678FFFFFFFF
- RC4(K6, seq_plus_direction, 8, MIC_seq);
- }
-
-.3 GSSAPI Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types for GSSAPI message tokens, one that
- is 128 bits in strength, and one that is 56 bits in strength as
- defined in Section 6.
-
- All padding is rounded up to 1 byte. One byte is needed to say that
- there is 1 byte of padding. The DES based mechanism type uses 8 byte
- padding. See [5] Section 1.2.2.3.
-
- The encryption mechanism used for GSS wrap based messages is as
- follow:
-
-
- WRAP (K, fRC4_EXP, seq_num, WRAP_hdr, msg, msg_len,
- WRAP_seq, WRAP_checksum, edata, edata_len)
- {
- HMAC (K, SK, 13, K7);
- T = 13;
- PAD = 1;
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 00, &T, 4);
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 04, WRAP_hdr, 8); // 0101 1100
- FFFFFFFF
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 12, msg, msg_len);
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 12 + msg_len, &PAD, 1);
- MD5 (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad,
- 4 + 8 + 8 + msg_len + 1,
- MD5_of_T_hdr_conf_msg_pad);
- HMAC (K7, MD5_of_T_hdr_conf_msg_pad, CHKSUM);
- memcpy (WRAP_checksum, CHKSUM, 8); // use only first 8
- bytes
-
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K8);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K8);
- }
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset(K8+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC(K8, WRAP_checksum, 8, K9);
- copy_seq_num_in_big_endian(seq_num, seq_plus_direction);
- //0x12345678
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-
- copy_direction_flag (direction_flag, seq_plus_direction +
- 4); //0x12345678FFFFFFFF
- RC4(K9, seq_plus_direction, 8, WRAP_seq);
-
- for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) K10 [i] ^= 0xF0; // XOR each byte
- of key with 0xF0
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *(DWORD *)(L40+10) = T;
- HMAC(K10, L40, 14, K11);
- memset(K11+7, 0xAB, 9);
- }else{
- HMAC(K10, &T, 4, K11);
- }
- HMAC(K11, seq_num, 4, K12);
- RC4(K12, T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 4 + 8, 8 + msg_len + 1,
- edata); /* skip T & hdr */
- edata_len = 8 + msg_len + 1; // conf + msg_len + pad
- }
-
-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-. Security Considerations
-
- Care must be taken in implementing this encryption type because it
- uses a stream cipher. If a different IV isnĘt used in each direction
- when using a session key, the encryption is weak. By using the
- sequence number as an IV, this is avoided.
-
-0. Acknowledgements
-
- We would like to thank Salil Dangi for the valuable input in
- refining the descriptions of the functions and review input.
-
-1. References
-
- 1 Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
-
- 2 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- 3 Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., Canetti, R.,"HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for
- Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February 1997
-
- 4 Kohl, J., Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993
-
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- 5 Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism", RFC-1964,
- June 1996
-
- 6 R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1320, April
- 1992
-
- 7 R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1321, April
- 1992
-
- 8 Thayer, R. and K. Kaukonen, "A Stream Cipher Encryption
- Algorithm", Work in Progress.
-
- 9 RC4 is a proprietary encryption algorithm available under license
- from RSA Data Security Inc. For licensing information, contact:
-
- RSA Data Security, Inc.
- 100 Marine Parkway
- Redwood City, CA 94065-1031
-
- 10 Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-
- 04.txt, June 25, 1999
-
-
-2. Author's Addresses
-
- Mike Swift
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Sieg Hall
- University of Washington
- Seattle, WA 98105
- Email: mikesw@cs.washington.edu
-
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington
- Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com
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-3. Full Copyright Statement
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-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and
- furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or
- otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be
- prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in
- part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above
- copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such
- copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may
- not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright
- notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet
- organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing
- Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights
- defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or
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-CAT working group M. Swift
-Internet Draft J. Brezak
-Document: draft-brezak-win2k-krb-rc4-hmac-03.txt Microsoft
-Category: Informational June 2000
-
-
- The Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos encryption type
-
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are
- draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be
- updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
- is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to
- cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos introduces a new
- encryption type based on the RC4 encryption algorithm and using an
- MD5 HMAC for checksum. This is offered as an alternative to using
- the existing DES based encryption types.
-
- The RC4-HMAC encryption types are used to ease upgrade of existing
- Windows NT environments, provide strong crypto (128-bit key
- lengths), and provide exportable (meet United States government
- export restriction requirements) encryption.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos contains new encryption
- and checksum types for two reasons: for export reasons early in the
- development process, 56 bit DES encryption could not be exported,
- and because upon upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000,
- accounts will not have the appropriate DES keying material to do the
- standard DES encryption. Furthermore, 3DES is not available for
- export, and there was a desire to use a single flavor of encryption
- in the product for both US and international products.
-
- As a result, there are two new encryption types and one new checksum
- type introduced in Windows 2000.
-
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
-
-
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-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-3. Key Generation
-
- On upgrade from existing Windows NT domains, the user accounts would
- not have a DES based key available to enable the use of DES base
- encryption types specified in RFC 1510. The key used for RC4-HMAC is
- the same as the existing Windows NT key (NT Password Hash) for
- compatibility reasons. Once the account password is changed, the DES
- based keys are created and maintained. Once the DES keys are
- available DES based encryption types can be used with Kerberos.
-
- The RC4-HMAC String to key function is defined as follow:
-
- String2Key(password)
-
- K = MD4(UNICODE(password))
-
- The RC4-HMAC keys are generated by using the Windows UNICODE version
- of the password. Each Windows UNICODE character is encoded in
- little-endian format of 2 octets each. Then performing an MD4 [6]
- hash operation on just the UNICODE characters of the password (not
- including the terminating zero octets).
-
- For an account with a password of "foo", this String2Key("foo") will
- return:
-
- 0xac, 0x8e, 0x65, 0x7f, 0x83, 0xdf, 0x82, 0xbe,
- 0xea, 0x5d, 0x43, 0xbd, 0xaf, 0x78, 0x00, 0xcc
-
-4. Basic Operations
-
- The MD5 HMAC function is defined in [3]. It is used in this
- encryption type for checksum operations. Refer to [3] for details on
- its operation. In this document this function is referred to as
- HMAC(Key, Data) returning the checksum using the specified key on
- the data.
-
- The basic MD5 hash operation is used in this encryption type and
- defined in [7]. In this document this function is referred to as
- MD5(Data) returning the checksum of the data.
-
- RC4 is a stream cipher licensed by RSA Data Security [RSADSI]. A
- compatible cipher is described in [8]. In this document the function
- is referred to as RC4(Key, Data) returning the encrypted data using
- the specified key on the data.
-
- These encryption types use key derivation as defined in [9] (RFC-
- 1510BIS) in Section titled "Key Derivation". With each message, the
- message type (T) is used as a component of the keying material. This
- summarizes the different key derivation values used in the various
-
-Swift Category - Informational 2
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- operations. Note that these differ from the key derivations used in
- other Kerberos encryption types.
-
- T = 1 for TS-ENC-TS in the AS-Request
- T = 8 for the AS-Reply
- T = 7 for the Authenticator in the TGS-Request
- T = 8 for the TGS-Reply
- T = 2 for the Server Ticket in the AP-Request
- T = 11 for the Authenticator in the AP-Request
- T = 12 for the Server returned AP-Reply
- T = 15 in the generation of checksum for the MIC token
- T = 0 in the generation of sequence number for the MIC token
- T = 13 in the generation of checksum for the WRAP token
- T = 0 in the generation of sequence number for the WRAP token
- T = 0 in the generation of encrypted data for the WRAPPED token
-
- All strings in this document are ASCII unless otherwise specified.
- The lengths of ASCII encoded character strings include the trailing
- terminator character (0).
-
- The concat(a,b,c,...) function will return the logical concatenation
- (left to right) of the values of the arguments.
-
- The nonce(n) function returns a pseudo-random number of "n" octets.
-
-5. Checksum Types
-
- There is one checksum type used in this encryption type. The
- Kerberos constant for this type is:
- #define KERB_CHECKSUM_HMAC_MD5 (-138)
-
- The function is defined as follows:
-
- K - is the Key
- T - the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer
-
- CHKSUM(K, T, data)
-
- Ksign = HMAC(K, "signaturekey") //includes zero octet at end
- tmp = MD5(concat(T, data))
- CHKSUM = HMAC(Ksign, tmp)
-
-
-6. Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types used in these encryption types. The
- Kerberos constants for these types are:
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC 23
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP 24
-
- The basic encryption function is defined as follow:
-
- T = the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer.
-
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-
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-
-
-
- BYTE L40[14] = "fortybits";
- BYTE SK = "signaturekey";
-
- ENCRYPT (K, fRC4_EXP, T, data, data_len, edata, edata_len)
- {
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 10 + 4, K1);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K1);
- }
- memcpy (K2, K1, 16);
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset (K1+7, 0xAB, 9);
- add_8_random_bytes(data, data_len, conf_plus_data);
- HMAC (K2, conf_plus_data, 8 + data_len, checksum);
- HMAC (K1, checksum, 16, K3);
- RC4(K3, conf_plus_data, 8 + data_len, edata + 16);
- memcpy (edata, checksum, 16);
- edata_len = 16 + 8 + data_len;
- }
-
- DECRYPT (K, fRC4_EXP, T, edata, edata_len, data, data_len)
- {
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K1);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K1);
- }
- memcpy (K2, K1, 16);
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset (K1+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC (K1, edata, 16, K3); // checksum is at edata
- RC4(K3, edata + 16, edata_len - 16, edata + 16);
- data_len = edata_len - 16 - 8;
- memcpy (data, edata + 16 + 8, data_len);
-
- // verify generated and received checksums
- HMAC (K2, edata + 16, edata_len - 16, checksum);
- if (memcmp(edata, checksum, 16) != 0)
- printf("CHECKSUM ERROR !!!!!!\n");
- }
-
- The header field on the encrypted data in KDC messages is:
-
- typedef struct _RC4_MDx_HEADER {
- UCHAR Checksum[16];
- UCHAR Confounder[8];
- } RC4_MDx_HEADER, *PRC4_MDx_HEADER;
-
- The KDC message is encrypted using the ENCRYPT function not
- including the Checksum in the RC4_MDx_HEADER.
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 4
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-7. Key Strength Negotiation
-
- A Kerberos client and server can negotiate over key length if they
- are using mutual authentication. If the client is unable to perform
- full strength encryption, it may propose a key in the "subkey" field
- of the authenticator, using a weaker encryption type. The server
- must then either return the same key or suggest its own key in the
- subkey field of the AP reply message. The key used to encrypt data
- is derived from the key returned by the server. If the client is
- able to perform strong encryption but the server is not, it may
- propose a subkey in the AP reply without first being sent a subkey
- in the authenticator.
-
-8. GSSAPI Kerberos V5 Mechanism Type
-
-8.1 Mechanism Specific Changes
-
- The GSSAPI per-message tokens also require new checksum and
- encryption types. The GSS-API per-message tokens must be changed to
- support these new encryption types (See [5] Section 1.2.2). The
- sealing algorithm identifier (SEAL_ALG) for an RC4 based encryption
- is:
- Byte 4..5 SEAL_ALG 0x10 0x00 - RC4
-
- The signing algorithm identifier (SGN_ALG) for MD5 HMAC is:
- Byte 2..3 SGN ALG 0x11 0x00 - HMAC
-
- The only support quality of protection is:
- #define GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0x0
-
- In addition, when using an RC4 based encryption type, the sequence
- number is sent in big-endian rather than little-endian order.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation also defines new GSSAPI flags in the
- initial token passed when initializing a security context. These
- flags are passed in the checksum field of the authenticator (See [5]
- Section 1.1.1).
-
- GSS_C_DCE_STYLE - This flag was added for use with Microsoft’s
- implementation of DCE RPC, which initially expected three legs of
- authentication. Setting this flag causes an extra AP reply to be
- sent from the client back to the server after receiving the server’s
- AP reply. In addition, the context negotiation tokens do not have
- GSSAPI framing - they are raw AP message and do not include object
- identifiers.
- #define GSS_C_DCE_STYLE 0x1000
-
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 5
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- GSS_C_IDENTIFY_FLAG - This flag allows the client to indicate to the
- server that it should only allow the server application to identify
- the client by name and ID, but not to impersonate the client.
- #define GSS_C_IDENTIFY_FLAG 0x2000
-
- GSS_C_EXTENDED_ERROR_FLAG - Setting this flag indicates that the
- client wants to be informed of extended error information. In
- particular, Windows 2000 status codes may be returned in the data
- field of a Kerberos error message. This allows the client to
- understand a server failure more precisely. In addition, the server
- may return errors to the client that are normally handled at the
- application layer in the server, in order to let the client try to
- recover. After receiving an error message, the client may attempt to
- resubmit an AP request.
- #define GSS_C_EXTENDED_ERROR_FLAG 0x4000
-
- These flags are only used if a client is aware of these conventions
- when using the SSPI on the Windows platform, they are not generally
- used by default.
-
- When NetBIOS addresses are used in the GSSAPI, they are identified
- by the GSS_C_AF_NETBIOS value. This value is defined as:
- #define GSS_C_AF_NETBIOS 0x14
- NetBios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to th 15 characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16
- octet of 0x0.
-
-8.2 GSSAPI Checksum Type
-
- The GSSAPI checksum type and algorithm is defined in Section 5. Only
- the first 8 octets of the checksum are used. The resulting checksum
- is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field (See [5] Section 1.2) for
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap(conf_flag=FALSE).
-
- MIC (K, fRC4_EXP, seq_num, MIC_hdr, msg, msg_len,
- MIC_seq, MIC_checksum)
- {
- HMAC (K, SK, 13, K4);
- T = 15;
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 00, &T, 4);
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 04, MIC_hdr, 8);
- // 0101 1100 FFFFFFFF
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 12, msg, msg_len);
- MD5 (T_hdr_msg, 4 + 8 + msg_len, MD5_of_T_hdr_msg);
- HMAC (K4, MD5_of_T_hdr_msg, CHKSUM);
- memcpy (MIC_checksum, CHKSUM, 8); // use only first 8 bytes
-
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K5);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K5);
-
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- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- }
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset(K5+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC(K5, MIT_checksum, 8, K6);
- copy_seq_num_in_big_endian(seq_num, seq_plus_direction);
- //0x12345678
- copy_direction_flag (direction_flag, seq_plus_direction +
- 4); //0x12345678FFFFFFFF
- RC4(K6, seq_plus_direction, 8, MIC_seq);
- }
-
-8.3 GSSAPI Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types for GSSAPI message tokens, one that
- is 128 bits in strength, and one that is 56 bits in strength as
- defined in Section 6.
-
- All padding is rounded up to 1 byte. One byte is needed to say that
- there is 1 byte of padding. The DES based mechanism type uses 8 byte
- padding. See [5] Section 1.2.2.3.
-
- The encryption mechanism used for GSS wrap based messages is as
- follow:
-
-
- WRAP (K, fRC4_EXP, seq_num, WRAP_hdr, msg, msg_len,
- WRAP_seq, WRAP_checksum, edata, edata_len)
- {
- HMAC (K, SK, 13, K7);
- T = 13;
- PAD = 1;
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 00, &T, 4);
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 04, WRAP_hdr, 8); // 0101 1100
- FFFFFFFF
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 12, msg, msg_len);
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 12 + msg_len, &PAD, 1);
- MD5 (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad,
- 4 + 8 + 8 + msg_len + 1,
- MD5_of_T_hdr_conf_msg_pad);
- HMAC (K7, MD5_of_T_hdr_conf_msg_pad, CHKSUM);
- memcpy (WRAP_checksum, CHKSUM, 8); // use only first 8
- bytes
-
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K8);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K8);
- }
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset(K8+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC(K8, WRAP_checksum, 8, K9);
- copy_seq_num_in_big_endian(seq_num, seq_plus_direction);
- //0x12345678
-
-Swift Category - Informational 7
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- copy_direction_flag (direction_flag, seq_plus_direction +
- 4); //0x12345678FFFFFFFF
- RC4(K9, seq_plus_direction, 8, WRAP_seq);
-
- for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) K10 [i] ^= 0xF0; // XOR each byte
- of key with 0xF0
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *(DWORD *)(L40+10) = T;
- HMAC(K10, L40, 14, K11);
- memset(K11+7, 0xAB, 9);
- }else{
- HMAC(K10, &T, 4, K11);
- }
- HMAC(K11, seq_num, 4, K12);
- RC4(K12, T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 4 + 8, 8 + msg_len + 1,
- edata); /* skip T & hdr */
- edata_len = 8 + msg_len + 1; // conf + msg_len + pad
- }
-
-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-9. Security Considerations
-
- Care must be taken in implementing this encryption type because it
- uses a stream cipher. If a different IV isn’t used in each direction
- when using a session key, the encryption is weak. By using the
- sequence number as an IV, this is avoided.
-
-10. Acknowledgements
-
- We would like to thank Salil Dangi for the valuable input in
- refining the descriptions of the functions and review input.
-
-11. References
-
- 1 Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
-
- 2 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- 3 Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., Canetti, R.,"HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for
- Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February 1997
-
- 4 Kohl, J., Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993
-
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 8
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
-
- 5 Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism", RFC-1964,
- June 1996
-
- 6 R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1320, April
- 1992
-
- 7 R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1321, April
- 1992
-
- 8 Thayer, R. and K. Kaukonen, "A Stream Cipher Encryption
- Algorithm", Work in Progress.
-
- 9 RC4 is a proprietary encryption algorithm available under license
- from RSA Data Security Inc. For licensing information, contact:
-
- RSA Data Security, Inc.
- 100 Marine Parkway
- Redwood City, CA 94065-1031
-
- 10 Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-
- 04.txt, June 25, 1999
-
-
-12. Author's Addresses
-
- Mike Swift
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Sieg Hall
- University of Washington
- Seattle, WA 98105
- Email: mikesw@cs.washington.edu
-
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington
- Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com
-
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-
- "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and
- furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or
- otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be
- prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in
- part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above
- copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such
- copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may
- not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright
- notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet
- organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing
- Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights
- defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or
- as required to translate it into languages other than English.
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- The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will
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-Network Working Group Assar Westerlund
-<draft-ietf-cat-krb5-ipv6.txt> SICS
-Internet-Draft October, 1997
-Expire in six months
-
- Kerberos over IPv6
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check the
- "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
- Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Europe),
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East Coast), or
- ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast).
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
- <cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
-
-Abstract
-
- This document specifies the address types and transport types
- necessary for using Kerberos [RFC1510] over IPv6 [RFC1883].
-
-Specification
-
- IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
- order. The type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24).
-
- The following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in any
- Kerberos packet:
-
- the Unspecified Address
- the Loopback Address
- Link-Local addresses
-
- IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type
- 2.
-
-
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-Westerlund [Page 1]
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-Internet Draft Kerberos over IPv6 October, 1997
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- Communication with the KDC over IPv6 MUST be done as in section 8.2.1
- of [RFC1510].
-
-Discussion
-
- [RFC1510] suggests using the address family constants in
- <sys/socket.h> from BSD. This cannot be done for IPv6 as these
- numbers have diverged and are different on different BSD-derived
- systems. [RFC2133] does not either specify a value for AF_INET6.
- Thus a value has to be decided and the implementations have to
- convert between the value used in Kerberos HostAddress and the local
- AF_INET6.
-
- There are a few different address types in IPv6, see [RFC1884]. Some
- of these are used for quite special purposes and it makes no sense to
- include them in Kerberos packets.
-
- It is necessary to represent IPv4-mapped addresses as Internet
- addresses (type 2) to be compatible with Kerberos implementations
- that only support IPv4.
-
-Security considerations
-
- This memo does not introduce any known security considerations in
- addition to those mentioned in [RFC1510].
-
-References
-
- [RFC1510] Kohl, J. and Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
- [RFC1883] Deering, S., Hinden, R., "Internet Protocol, Version 6
- (IPv6) Specification", RFC 1883, December 1995.
-
- [RFC1884] Hinden, R., Deering, S., "IP Version 6 Addressing
- Architecture", RFC 1884, December 1995.
-
- [RFC2133] Gilligan, R., Thomson, S., Bound, J., Stevens, W., "Basic
- Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6", RFC2133, April 1997.
-
-Author's Address
-
- Assar Westerlund
- Swedish Institute of Computer Science
- Box 1263
- S-164 29 KISTA
- Sweden
-
-
-
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-Westerlund [Page 2]
-
-Internet Draft Kerberos over IPv6 October, 1997
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- Fax: +46-8-7517230
- EMail: assar@sics.se
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-distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
-documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-
-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
-"work in progress."
-
-To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check
-the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
-Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net
-(Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East
-Coast), or ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast).
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-Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
-<cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
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-.ti 0
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-necessary for using Kerberos [RFC1510] over IPv6 [RFC1883].
-
-.ti 0
-Specification
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-.in 3
-IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
-order. The type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24).
-
-The following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in any
-Kerberos packet:
-
-the Unspecified Address
-.br
-the Loopback Address
-.br
-Link-Local addresses
-
-IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
-
-Communication with the KDC over IPv6 MUST be done as in section
-8.2.1 of [RFC1510].
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-<sys/socket.h> from BSD. This cannot be done for IPv6 as these
-numbers have diverged and are different on different BSD-derived
-systems. [RFC2133] does not either specify a value for AF_INET6.
-Thus a value has to be decided and the implementations have to convert
-between the value used in Kerberos HostAddress and the local AF_INET6.
-
-There are a few different address types in IPv6, see [RFC1884]. Some
-of these are used for quite special purposes and it makes no sense to
-include them in Kerberos packets.
-
-It is necessary to represent IPv4-mapped addresses as Internet
-addresses (type 2) to be compatible with Kerberos implementations that
-only support IPv4.
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-Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
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-[RFC1883] Deering, S., Hinden, R., "Internet Protocol, Version 6
-(IPv6) Specification", RFC 1883, December 1995.
-
-[RFC1884] Hinden, R., Deering, S., "IP Version 6 Addressing
-Architecture", RFC 1884, December 1995.
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-[RFC2133] Gilligan, R., Thomson, S., Bound, J., Stevens, W., "Basic
-Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6", RFC2133, April 1997.
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-Network Working Group Assar Westerlund
-<draft-ietf-cat-krb5-tcp.txt> SICS
-Internet-Draft Johan Danielsson
-November, 1997 PDC, KTH
-Expire in six months
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- Kerberos over TCP
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check the
- "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
- Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Europe),
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East Coast), or
- ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast).
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
- <cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
-
-Abstract
-
- This document specifies how the communication should be done between
- a client and a KDC using Kerberos [RFC1510] with TCP as the transport
- protocol.
-
-Specification
-
- This draft specifies an extension to section 8.2.1 of RFC1510.
-
- A Kerberos server MAY accept requests on TCP port 88 (decimal).
-
- The data sent from the client to the KDC should consist of 4 bytes
- containing the length, in network byte order, of the Kerberos
- request, followed by the request (AS-REQ or TGS-REQ) itself. The
- reply from the KDC should consist of the length of the reply packet
- (4 bytes, network byte order) followed by the packet itself (AS-REP,
- TGS-REP, or KRB-ERROR).
-
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-Internet Draft Kerberos over TCP November, 1997
-
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- C->S: Open connection to TCP port 88 at the server
- C->S: length of request
- C->S: AS-REQ or TGS-REQ
- S->C: length of reply
- S->C: AS-REP, TGS-REP, or KRB-ERROR
-
-Discussion
-
- Even though the preferred way of sending kerberos packets is over UDP
- there are several occasions when it's more practical to use TCP.
-
- Mainly, it's usually much less cumbersome to get TCP through
- firewalls than UDP.
-
- In theory, there's no reason for having explicit length fields, that
- information is already encoded in the ASN1 encoding of the Kerberos
- packets. But having explicit lengths makes it unnecessary to have to
- decode the ASN.1 encoding just to know how much data has to be read.
-
- Another way of signaling the end of the request of the reply would be
- to do a half-close after the request and a full-close after the
- reply. This does not work well with all kinds of firewalls.
-
-Security considerations
-
- This memo does not introduce any known security considerations in
- addition to those mentioned in [RFC1510].
-
-References
-
- [RFC1510] Kohl, J. and Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
-Authors' Addresses
-
- Assar Westerlund
- Swedish Institute of Computer Science
- Box 1263
- S-164 29 KISTA
- Sweden
-
- Phone: +46-8-7521526
- Fax: +46-8-7517230
- EMail: assar@sics.se
-
- Johan Danielsson
- PDC, KTH
- S-100 44 STOCKHOLM
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-distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
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-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
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-"work in progress."
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-Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net
-(Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East
-Coast), or ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast).
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-This document specifies how the communication should be done between a
-client and a KDC using Kerberos [RFC1510] with TCP as the transport
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-A Kerberos server MAY accept requests on TCP port 88 (decimal).
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-containing the length, in network byte order, of the Kerberos request,
-followed by the request (AS-REQ or TGS-REQ) itself. The reply from
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-than UDP.
-
-In theory, there's no reason for having explicit length fields, that
-information is already encoded in the ASN1 encoding of the Kerberos
-packets. But having explicit lengths makes it unnecessary to have to
-decode the ASN.1 encoding just to know how much data has to be read.
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-<draft-ietf-cat-krb5-firewalls.txt> SICS
-Internet-Draft Johan Danielsson
-November, 1997 PDC, KTH
-Expire in six months
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- Kerberos vs firewalls
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check the
- "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
- Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Europe),
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East Coast), or
- ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast).
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
- <cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
-
-Abstract
-
-Introduction
-
- Kerberos[RFC1510] is a protocol for authenticating parties
- communicating over insecure networks.
-
- Firewalling is a technique for achieving an illusion of security by
- putting restrictions on what kinds of packets and how these are sent
- between the internal (so called "secure") network and the global (or
- "insecure") Internet.
-
-Definitions
-
- client: the user, process, and host acquiring tickets from the KDC
- and authenticating itself to the kerberised server.
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- KDC: the Kerberos Key Distribution Center
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- Kerberised server: the server using Kerberos to authenticate the
- client, for example telnetd.
-
-Firewalls
-
- A firewall is usually placed between the "inside" and the "outside"
- networks, and is supposed to protect the inside from the evils on the
- outside. There are different kinds of firewalls. The main
- differences are in the way they forward packets.
-
- o+ The most straight forward type is the one that just imposes
- restrictions on incoming packets. Such a firewall could be
- described as a router that filters packets that match some
- criteria.
-
- o+ They may also "hide" some or all addresses on the inside of the
- firewall, replacing the addresses in the outgoing packets with the
- address of the firewall (aka network address translation, or NAT).
- NAT can also be used without any packet filtering, for instance
- when you have more than one host sharing a single address (for
- example, with a dialed-in PPP connection).
-
- There are also firewalls that does NAT both on the inside and the
- outside (a server on the inside will see this as a connection from
- the firewall).
-
- o+ A third type is the proxy type firewall, that parses the contents
- of the packets, basically acting as a server to the client, and as
- a client to the server (man-in-the-middle). If Kerberos is to be
- used with this kind of firewall, a protocol module that handles
- KDC requests has to be written.
-
- This type of firewall might also cause extra trouble when used with
- kerberised versions of protocols that the proxy understands, in
- addition to the ones mentioned below. This is the case with the FTP
- Security Extensions [RFC2228], that adds a new set of commands to the
- FTP protocol [RFC959], for integrity, confidentiality, and privacy
- protecting commands. When transferring data, the FTP protocol uses a
- separate data channel, and an FTP proxy will have to look out for
- commands that start a data transfer. If all commands are encrypted,
- this is impossible. A protocol that doesn't suffer from this is the
- Telnet Authentication Option [RFC1416] that does all authentication
- and encryption in-bound.
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-Scenarios
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- Here the different scenarios we have considered are described, the
- problems they introduce and the proposed ways of solving them.
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- Combinations of these can also occur.
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- Client behind firewall
-
- This is the most typical and common scenario. First of all the
- client needs some way of communicating with the KDC. This can be
- done with whatever means and is usually much simpler when the KDC is
- able to communicate over TCP.
-
- Apart from that, the client needs to be sure that the ticket it will
- acquire from the KDC can be used to authenticate to a server outside
- its firewall. For this, it needs to add the address(es) of potential
- firewalls between itself and the KDC/server, to the list of its own
- addresses when requesting the ticket. We are not aware of any
- protocol for determining this set of addresses, thus this will have
- to be manually configured in the client.
-
- The client could also request a ticket with no addresses, but some
- KDCs and servers might not accept such a ticket.
-
- With the ticket in possession, communication with the kerberised
- server will not need to be any different from communicating between a
- non-kerberised client and server.
-
- Kerberised server behind firewall
-
- The kerberised server does not talk to the KDC at all so nothing
- beyond normal firewall-traversal techniques for reaching the server
- itself needs to be applied.
-
- The kerberised server needs to be able to retrieve the original
- address (before its firewall) that the request was sent for. If this
- is done via some out-of-band mechanism or it's directly able to see
- it doesn't matter.
-
- KDC behind firewall
-
- The same restrictions applies for a KDC as for any other server.
-
-Specification
-
-Security considerations
-
- This memo does not introduce any known security considerations in
- addition to those mentioned in [RFC1510].
-
-References
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-Westerlund, Danielsson [Page 3]
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-Internet Draft Kerberos vs firewalls November, 1997
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- [RFC959] Postel, J. and Reynolds, J., "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)",
- RFC 969, October 1985
-
- [RFC1416] Borman, D., "Telnet Authentication Option", RFC 1416,
- February 1993.
-
- [RFC1510] Kohl, J. and Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
- [RFC2228] Horowitz, M. and Lunt, S., "FTP Security Extensions",
- RFC2228, October 1997.
-
-Authors' Addresses
-
- Assar Westerlund
- Swedish Institute of Computer Science
- Box 1263
- S-164 29 KISTA
- Sweden
-
- Phone: +46-8-7521526
- Fax: +46-8-7517230
- EMail: assar@sics.se
-
- Johan Danielsson
- PDC, KTH
- S-100 44 STOCKHOLM
- Sweden
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- Phone: +46-8-7907885
- Fax: +46-8-247784
- EMail: joda@pdc.kth.se
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-.HH 1 "Abstract"
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-Kerberos and firewalls both deal with security, but doesn't get along
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-belief is probably based on the fact that many \*(lqinsecure\*(rq
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-Firewalls usually doesn't allow people to connect to arbitrary ports,
-such as the ports used when talking to the KDC.
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-In many non-computer organisations, the computer staff isn't what
-you'd call \*(lqwizards\*(rq; a typical case is an academic
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-and is doing research the rest of the time. Adding a complex device
-like a firewall to an environment like this, often leads to poorly run
-systems that is more a hindrance for the legitimate users than to
-possible crackers.
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-some cases this just isn't possible. You might have users that are
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-might find yourself behind a firewall, for instance when out
-travelling.
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-A firewall is usually placed between the \*(lqinside\*(rq and the
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-Here the different scenarios we have considered are described, the
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-This is the most typical and common scenario. First of all the client
-needs some way of communicating with the KDC. This can be done with
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-.HH 1 "References"
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-.pd
-.HH 1 "Authors' Addresses"
-.lp
-.nf
-Assar Westerlund
-Swedish Institute of Computer Science
-Box 1263
-S-164 29 KISTA
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-Center for Parallel Computers
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-S-100 44 STOCKHOLM
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-DHC Working Group Ken Hornstein
-INTERNET-DRAFT NRL
-Category: Standards Track Ted Lemon
-<draft-hornstein-dhc-kerbauth-02.txt> Internet Engines, Inc.
-20 February 2000 Bernard Aboba
-Expires: September 1, 2000 Microsoft
- Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco Systems
-
- DHCP Authentication Via Kerberos V
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
-provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
-Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task
-Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups
-may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
-and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
-time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material
-or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
-The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
-The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
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-The distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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-1. Copyright Notice
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-Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
-
-2. Abstract
-
-The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) provides a mechanism for
-host configuration. In some circumstances, it is useful for the DHCP
-client and server to be able to mutually authenticate as well as to
-guarantee the integrity of DHCP packets in transit. This document
-describes how Kerberos V may be used in order to allow a DHCP client and
-server to mutually authenticate as well as to protect the integrity of
-the DHCP exchange. The protocol described in this document is capable of
-handling both intra-realm and inter-realm authentication.
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-3. Introduction
-
-The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) provides a mechanism for
-host configuration. In some circumstances, it is useful for the DHCP
-client and server to be able to mutually authenticate as well as to
-guarantee the integrity of DHCP packets in transit. This document
-describes how Kerberos V may be used in order to allow a DHCP client and
-server to mutually authenticate as well as to protect the integrity of
-the DHCP exchange. The protocol described in this document is capable
-of handling both intra-realm and inter-realm authentication.
-
-3.1. Terminology
-
-This document uses the following terms:
-
-DHCP client
- A DHCP client or "client" is an Internet host using DHCP to
- obtain configuration parameters such as a network address.
-
-DHCP server
- A DHCP server or "server" is an Internet host that returns
- configuration parameters to DHCP clients.
-
-Home KDC The KDC corresponding to the DHCP client's realm.
-
-Local KDC The KDC corresponding to the DHCP server's realm.
-
-3.2. Requirements language
-
-In this document, the key words "MAY", "MUST, "MUST NOT", "optional",
-"recommended", "SHOULD", and "SHOULD NOT", are to be interpreted as
-described in [1].
-
-4. Protocol overview
-
-In DHCP authentication via Kerberos V, DHCP clients and servers utilize
-a Kerberos session key in order to compute a message integrity check
-value included within the DHCP authentication option. The message
-integrity check serves to authenticate as well as integrity protect the
-messages, while remaining compatible with the operation of a DHCP relay.
-Replay protection is also provided by a replay counter within the
-authentication option, as described in [3].
-
-Each server maintains a list of session keys and identifiers for
-clients, so that the server can retrieve the session key and identifier
-used by a client to which the server has provided previous configuration
-information. Each server MUST save the replay counter from the previous
-authenticated message. To avoid replay attacks, the server MUST discard
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-any incoming message whose replay counter is not strictly greater than
-the replay counter from the previous message.
-
-DHCP authentication, described in [3], must work within the existing
-DHCP state machine described in [4]. For a client in INIT state, this
-means that the client must obtain a valid TGT, as well as a session key,
-within the two round-trips provided by the
-DHCPDISCOVER/OFFER/REQUEST/ACK sequence.
-
-In INIT state, the DHCP client submits an incomplete AS_REQ to the DHCP
-server within the DHCPDISCOVER message. The DHCP server then completes
-the AS_REQ using the IP address to be assigned to the client, and
-submits this to the client's home KDC in order to obtain a TGT on the
-client's behalf. Once the home KDC responds with an AS_REP, the DHCP
-server extracts the client TGT and submits this along with its own TGT
-to the home KDC, in order to obtain a user-to-user ticket to the DHCP
-client. The AS_REP as well as the AP_REQ are included by the DHCP server
-in the DHCPOFFER. The DHCP client can then decrypt the AS_REP to obtain
-a home realm TGT and TGT session key, using the latter to decrypt the
-user-to-user ticket to obtain the user-to-user session key. It is the
-user-to-user session key that is used to authenticate and integrity
-protect the client's DHCPREQUEST, and DHCPDECLINE messages. Similarly,
-this same session key is used to compute the integrity attribute in the
-server's DHCPOFFER, DHCPACK and DHCPNAK messages, as described in [3].
-
-In the INIT-REBOOT, REBINDING, or RENEWING states, the server can submit
-the home realm TGT in the DHCPREQUEST, along with authenticating and
-integrity protecting the message using an integrity attribute within the
-authentication option. The integrity attribute is computed using the
-existing session key. The DHCP server can then return a renewed user-
-to-user ticket within the DHCPACK message. The authenticated DHCPREQUEST
-message from a client in INIT-REBOOT state can only be validated by
-servers that used the same session key to compute the integrity
-attribute in their DHCPOFFER messages.
-
-Other servers will discard the DHCPREQUEST messages. Thus, only servers
-that used the user-to-user session key selected by the client will be
-able to determine that their offered configuration information was not
-selected, returning the offered network address to the server's pool of
-available addresses. The servers that cannot validate the DHCPREQUEST
-message will eventually return their offered network addresses to their
-pool of available addresses as described in section 3.1 of the DHCP
-specification [4].
-
-When sending a DHCPINFORM, there are two possible procedures. If the
-client knows the DHCP server it will be interacting with, then it can
-obtain a ticket to the DHCP server from the local realm KDC. This will
-require obtaining a TGT to its home realm, as well as possibly a cross-
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-realm TGT to the local realm if the local and home realms differ. Once
-the DHCP client has a local realm TGT, it can then request a DHCP server
-ticket in a TGS_REQ. The DHCP client can then include AP_REQ and
-integrity attributes within the DHCPINFORM. The integrity attribute is
-computed as described in [3], using the session key obtained from the
-TGS_REP. The DHCP server replies with a DHCPACK/DHCPNAK, authenticated
-using the same session key.
-
-If the DHCP client does not know the DHCP server it is interacting with
-then it will not be able to obtain a ticket to it and a different
-procedure is needed. In this case, the client will include in the
-DHCPINFORM an authentication option with a ticket attribute containing
-its home realm TGT. The DHCP server will then use this TGT in order to
-request a user-to-user ticket from the home KDC in a TGS_REQ. The DHCP
-server will return the user-to-user ticket and will authenticate and
-integrity protect the DHCPACK/DHCPNAK message. This is accomplished by
-including AP_REQ and integrity attributes within the authentication
-option included with the DHCPACK/DHCPNAK messages.
-
-In order to support the DHCP client's ability to authenticate the DHCP
-server in the case where the server name is unknown, the Kerberos
-principal name for the DHCP server must be of type KRB_NT_SRV_HST with
-the service name component equal to 'dhcp'. For example, the DHCP server
-principal name for the host srv.foo.org would be of the form
-dhcp/srv.foo.org. The client MUST validate that the DHCP server
-principal name has the above format. This convention requires that the
-administrator ensure that non-DHCP server principals do not have names
-that match the above format.
-
-4.1. Authentication Option Format
-
-A summary of the authentication option format for DHCP authentication
-via Kerberos V is shown below. The fields are transmitted from left to
-right.
-
-0 1 2 3
-0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-| Code | Length | Protocol | Algorithm |
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-| Global Replay Counter |
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-| Global Replay Counter |
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-| Attributes...
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
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-Length
-
- The length field is a single octet and indicates the length of the
- Protocol, Algorith, and Authentication Information fields. Octets
- outside the range of the length field should be ignored on reception.
-
-Protocol
-
- TBD - DHCP Kerberos V authentication
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-Algorithm
-
- The algorithm field is a single octet and defines the specific
- algorithm to be used for computation of the authentication option.
- Values for the field are as follows:
-
- 0 - reserved
- 1 - HMAC-MD5
- 2 - HMAC-SHA
- 3 - 255 reserved
-
-Global Replay Counter
-
- As described in [3], the global replay counter field is 8 octets in
- length. It MUST be set to the value of a monotonically increasing
- counter. Using a counter value such as the current time of day (e.g.,
- an NTP-format timestamp [10]) can reduce the danger of replay
- attacks.
-
-Attributes
-
- The attributes field consists of type-length-value attributes of the
- following format:
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | Type | Reserved | Payload Length |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | Attribute value...
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
-Type
- The type field is a single octet and is defined as follows:
-
- 0 - Integrity check
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- 1 - TICKET
- 2 - Authenticator
- 3 - EncTicketPart
- 10 - AS_REQ
- 11 - AS_REP
- 12 - TGS_REQ
- 13 - TGS_REP
- 14 - AP_REQ
- 15 - AP_REP
- 20 - KRB_SAFE
- 21 - KRB_PRIV
- 22 - KRB_CRED
- 25 - EncASRepPart
- 26 - EncTGSRepPart
- 27 - EncAPRepPart
- 28 - EncKrbPrvPart
- 29 - EncKrbCredPart
- 30 - KRB_ERROR
-
- Note that the values of the Type field are the same as in the
- Kerberos MSG-TYPE field. As a result, no new number spaces are
- created for IANA administration.
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- The following attribute types are allowed within the following
- messages:
-
- DISCOVER OFFER REQUEST DECLINE # Attribute
- --------------------------------------------------------
- 0 1 1 1 0 Integrity check
- 0 0 0-1 0 1 Ticket
- 1 0 0 0 10 AS_REQ
- 0 1 0 0 11 AS_REP
- 0 1 0 0 14 AP_REQ
- 0 0-1 0 0 30 KRB_ERROR
-
- RELEASE ACK NAK INFORM INFORM # Attribute
- w/known w/unknown
- server server
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- 1 1 1 1 0 0 Integrity check
- 0 0 0 0 1 1 Ticket
- 0 0 0 0 0 10 AS_REQ
- 0 0 0 0 0 11 AS_REP
- 0 0-1 0 1 0 14 AP_REQ
- 0 0 0-1 0 0 30 KRB_ERROR
-
-4.2. Client behavior
-
-The following section, which incorporates material from [3], describes
-client behavior in detail.
-
-4.2.1. INIT state
-
-When in INIT state, the client behaves as follows:
-
-
-[1] As described in [3], the client MUST include the authentication
- request option in its DHCPDISCOVER message along with option 61
- [11] to identify itself uniquely to the server. An AS_REQ attribute
- MUST be included within the authentication request option. This
- (incomplete) AS_REQ will set the FORWARDABLE and RENEWABLE flags
- and MAY include pre-authentication data (PADATA) if the client
- knows what PADATA its home KDC will require. The ADDRESSES field in
- the AS_REQ will be ommitted since the client does not yet know its
- IP address. The ETYPE field will be set to an encryption type that
- the client can accept.
-
-[2] The client MUST validate DHCPOFFER messages that include an
- authentication option. Messages including an authentication option
- with a KRB_ERROR attribute and no integrity attribute are treated
- as though they are unauthenticated. More typically, authentication
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- and integrity attributes. To validate the authentication option,
- the client decrypts the enc-part of the AS_REP in order to obtain
- the TGT session key. This is used to decrypt the enc-part of the
- AP_REQ in order to obtain the user-to-user session key. The user-
- to-user session key is then used to compute the message integrity
- check as described in [3], and the computed value is compared to
- the value within the integrity attribute. The client MUST discard
- any messages which fail to pass validation and MAY log the
- validation failure.
-
- As described in [3], the client selects one DHCPOFFER message as
- its selected configuration. If none of the DHCPOFFER messages
- received by the client include an authentication option, the client
- MAY choose an unauthenticated message as its selected
- configuration. DHCPOFFER messages including an authentication
- option with a KRB_ERROR attribute and no integrity attribute are
- treated as though they are unauthenticated. The client SHOULD be
- configurable to accept or reject unauthenticated DHCPOFFER
- messages.
-
-[3] The client replies with a DHCPREQUEST message that MUST include an
- authentication option. The authentication option MUST include an
- integrity attribute, computed as described in [3], using the user
- to user session key recovered in step 2.
-
-[4] As noted in [3], the client MUST validate a DHCPACK message from
- the server that includes an authentication option. DHCPACK or
- DHCPNAK messages including an authentication option with a
- KRB_ERROR attribute and no integrity attribute are treated as
- though they are unauthenticated. The client MUST silently discard
- the DHCPACK if the message fails to pass validation and MAY log the
- validation failure. If the DHCPACK fails to pass validation, the
- client MUST revert to the INIT state and return to step 1. The
- client MAY choose to remember which server replied with an invalid
- DHCPACK message and discard subsequent messages from that server.
-
-4.2.2. INIT-REBOOT state
-
-When in INIT-REBOOT state, if the user-to-user ticket is still valid,
-the client MUST re-use the session key from the DHCP server user-to-user
-ticket in its DHCPREQUEST message. This is used to generate the
-integrity attribute contained within the authentication option, as
-described in [3]. In the DHCPREQUEST, the DHCP client also includes its
-home realm TGT in a ticket attribute in the authentication option in
-order to assist the DHCP server in renewing the user-to-user ticket. To
-ensure that the user-to-user ticket remains valid throughout the DHCP
-lease period so that the renewal process can proceed, the Kerberos
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-ticket lifetime SHOULD be set to exceed the DHCP lease time. If the
-user-to-user ticket is expired, then the client MUST return to the INIT
-state.
-
-The client MAY choose to accept unauthenticated DHCPACK/DHCPNAK messages
-if no authenticated messages were received. DHCPACK/DHCPNAK messages
-with an authentication option containing a KRB_ERROR attribute and no
-integrity attribute are treated as though they are unauthenticated. The
-client MUST treat the receipt (or lack thereof) of any DHCPACK/DHCPNAK
-messages as specified in section 3.2 of the DHCP specification [4].
-
-4.2.3. RENEWING state
-
-When in RENEWING state, the DHCP client can be assumed to have a valid
-IP address, as well as a TGT to the home realm, a user-to-user ticket
-provided by the DHCP server, and a session key with the DHCP server, all
-obtained during the original DHCP conversation. If the user-to-user
-ticket is still valid, the client MUST re-use the session key from the
-user-to-user ticket in its DHCPREQUEST message to generate the integrity
-attribute contained within the authentication option.
-
-Since the DHCP client can renew the TGT to the home realm, it is
-possible for it to continue to hold a valid home realm TGT. However,
-since the DHCP client did not obtain the user-to-user ticket on its own,
-it will need to rely on the DHCP server to renew this ticket. In the
-DHCPREQUEST, the DHCP client includes its home realm TGT in a ticket
-attribute in the authentication option in order to assist the DHCP
-server in renewing the user-to-user ticket.
-
-If the DHCP server user-to-user ticket is expired, then the client MUST
-return to INIT state. To ensure that the user-to-user ticket remains
-valid throughout the DHCP lease period so that the renewal process can
-proceed, the Kerberos ticket lifetime SHOULD be set to exceed the DHCP
-lease time. If client receives no DHCPACK messages or none of the
-DHCPACK messages pass validation, the client behaves as if it had not
-received a DHCPACK message in section 4.4.5 of the DHCP specification
-[4].
-
-4.2.4. REBINDING state
-
-When in REBINDING state, the DHCP client can be assumed to have a valid
-IP address, as well as a TGT to the home realm, a user-to-user ticket
-and a session key with the DHCP server, all obtained during the original
-DHCP conversation. If the user-to-user ticket is still valid, the
-client MUST re-use the session key from the user-to-user ticket in its
-DHCPREQUEST message to generate the integrity attribute contained within
-the authentication option, as described in [3].
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-Since the DHCP client can renew the TGT to the home realm, it is
-possible for it to continue to hold a valid home realm TGT. However,
-since the DHCP client did not obtain the user-to-user ticket on its own,
-it will need to rely on the DHCP server to renew this ticket. In the
-DHCPREQUEST, the DHCP client includes its home realm TGT in a ticket
-attribute in the authentication option in order to assist the DHCP
-server in renewing the user-to-user ticket.
-
-If the user-to-user ticket is expired, then the client MUST return to
-INIT state. To ensure that the user-to-user ticket remains valid
-throughout the DHCP lease period so that the renewal process can
-proceed, the Kerberos ticket lifetime SHOULD be set to exceed the DHCP
-lease time. If client receives no DHCPACK messages or none of the
-DHCPACK messages pass validation, the client behaves as if it had not
-received a DHCPACK message in section 4.4.5 of the DHCP specification
-[4].
-
-4.2.5. DHCPRELEASE message
-
-Clients sending a DHCPRELEASE MUST include an authentication option. The
-authentication option MUST include an integrity attribute, computed as
-described in [3], using the user to user session key.
-
-4.2.6. DHCPDECLINE message
-
-Clients sending a DHCPDECLINE MUST include an authentication option. The
-authentication option MUST include an integrity attribute, computed as
-described in [3], using the user to user session key.
-
-4.2.7. DHCPINFORM message
-
-Since the client already has some configuration information, it can be
-assumed that it has the ability to obtain a home or local realm TGT
-prior to sending the DHCPINFORM.
-
-If the DHCP client knows which DHCP server it will be interacting with,
-then it SHOULD include an authentication option containing AP_REQ and
-integrity attributes within the DHCPINFORM. The DHCP client first
-requests a TGT to the local realm via an AS_REQ and then using the TGT
-returned in the AS_REP to request a ticket to the DHCP server from the
-local KDC in a TGS_REQ. The session key obtained from the TGS_REP will
-be used to generate the integrity attribute as described in [3].
-
-If the DHCP client does not know what DHCP server it will be talking to,
-then it cannot obtain a ticket to the DHCP server. In this case, the
-DHCP client MAY send an unauthenticated DHCPINFORM or it MAY include an
-authentication option including a ticket attribute only. The ticket
-attribute includes a TGT for the home realm. The client MUST validate
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-the form dhcp/.... as described in section 4.
-
-The client MAY choose to accept unauthenticated DHCPACK/DHCPNAK messages
-if no authenticated messages were received. DHCPACK/DHCPNAK messages
-with an authentication option containing a KRB_ERROR attribute and no
-integrity attribute are treated as though they are unauthenticated. The
-client MUST treat the receipt (or lack thereof) of any DHCPACK/DHCPNAK
-messages as specified in section 3.2 of the DHCP specification [4].
-
-4.3. Server behavior
-
-This section, which relies on material from [3], describes the behavior
-of a server in response to client messages.
-
-4.3.1. After receiving a DHCPDISCOVER message
-
-For installations where IP addresses are required within tickets, the
-DHCP server MAY complete the AS_REQ by filling in the ADDRESSES field
-based on the IP address that it will include in the DHCPOFFER. The DHCP
-server sends the AS_REQ to the home KDC with the FORWARDABLE flag set.
-The home KDC then replies to the DHCP server with an AS_REP. The DHCP
-server extracts the client TGT from the AS_REP and forms a TGS_REQ,
-which it sends to the home KDC.
-
-If the DHCP server and client are in different realms, then the DHCP
-server will need to obtain a TGT to the home realm from the KDC of its
-own (local) realm prior to sending the TGS_REQ. The TGS_REQ includes the
-DHCP server's TGT within the home realm, has the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY flag
-set and includes the client home realm TGT in the ADDITIONAL-TICKETS
-field, thus requesting a user-to ticket to the DHCP client. The home
-KDC then returns a user-to-user ticket in a TGS_REP. The user-to-user
-ticket is encrypted in the client's home realm TGT session key.
-
-In order to recover the user-to-user session key, the DHCP server
-decrypts the enc-part of the TGS_REP. To accomplish this, the DHCP
-server uses the session key that it shares with the home realm, obtained
-in the AS_REQ/AS_REP conversation that it used to obtain its own TGT to
-the home realm.
-
-The DHCP server then sends a DHCPOFFER to the client, including AS_REP,
-AP_REQ and integrity attributes within the authentication option. The
-AS_REP attribute encapsulates the AS_REP sent to the DHCP server by the
-home KDC. The AP_REQ attribute includes an AP_REQ constructed by the
-DHCP server based on the TGS_REP sent to it by the home KDC. The server
-also includes an integrity attribute generated as specified in [3] from
-the user-to-user session key. The server MUST record the user-to-user
-session key selected for the client and use that session key for
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-
-4.3.2. After receiving a DHCPREQUEST message
-
-The DHCP server uses the user-to-user session key in order to validate
-the integrity attribute contained within the authentication option,
-using the method specified in [3]. If the message fails to pass
-validation, it MUST discard the message and MAY choose to log the
-validation failure.
-
-If the message passes the validation procedure, the server responds as
-described in [4], including an integrity attribute computed as specified
-in [3] within the DHCPACK or DHCPNAK message.
-
-If the authentication option included within the DHCPREQUEST message
-contains a ticket attribute then the DHCP server will use the home realm
-TGT included in the ticket attribute in order to renew the user-to-user
-ticket, which it returns in an AP_REQ attribute within the DHCPACK.
-DHCPACK or DHCPNAK messages then include an integrity attribute
-generated as specified in [3], using the new user-to-user session key
-included within the AP_REQ.
-
-4.3.3. After receiving a DHCPINFORM message
-
-The server MAY choose to accept unauthenticated DHCPINFORM messages, or
-only accept authenticated DHCPINFORM messages based on a site policy.
-
-When a client includes an authentication option in a DHCPINFORM message,
-the server MUST respond with an authenticated DHCPACK or DHCPNAK
-message. If the DHCPINFORM message includes an authentication option
-including AP_REQ and integrity attributes, the DHCP server decrypts the
-AP_REQ attribute and then recovers the session key. The DHCP server than
-validates the integrity attribute included in the authentication option
-using the session key. If the integrity attribute is invalid then the
-DHCP server MUST silently discard the DHCPINFORM message.
-
-If the authentication option only includes a ticket attribute and no
-integrity or AP_REQ attributes, then the DHCP server should assume that
-the client needs the server to obtain a user-to-user ticket from the
-home realm KDC. In this case, the DHCP server includes the client home
-realm TGT and its own home realm TGT in a TGS_REQ to the home realm KDC.
-It then receives a user-to-user ticket from the home realm KDC in a
-TGS_REP. The DHCP server will then include AP_REQ and integrity
-attributes within the DHCPACK/DHCPNAK.
-
-If the client does not include an authentication option in the
-DHCPINFORM, the server can either respond with an unauthenticated
-DHCPACK message, or a DHCPNAK if the server does not accept
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-
-4.3.4. After receiving a DHCPRELEASE message
-
-The DHCP server uses the session key in order to validate the integrity
-attribute contained within the authentication option, using the method
-specified in [3]. If the message fails to pass validation, it MUST
-discard the message and MAY choose to log the validation failure.
-
-If the message passes the validation procedure, the server responds as
-described in [4], marking the client's network address as not allocated.
-
-4.3.5. After receiving a DHCPDECLINE message
-
-The DHCP server uses the session key in order to validate the integrity
-attribute contained within the authentication option, using the method
-specified in [3]. If the message fails to pass validation, it MUST
-discard the message and MAY choose to log the validation failure.
-
-If the message passes the validation procedure, the server proceeds as
-described in [4].
-
-4.4. Error handling
-
-When an error condition occurs during a Kerberos exchange, Kerberos
-error messages can be returned by either side. These Kerberos error
-messages MAY be logged by the receiving and sending parties.
-
-In some cases, it may be possible for these error messages to be
-included within the authentication option via the KRB_ERROR attribute.
-However, in most cases, errors will result in messages being silently
-discarded and so no response will be returned.
-
-For example, if the home KDC returns a KRB_ERROR in response to the
-AS_REQ submitted by the DHCP server on the client's behalf, then the
-DHCP server will conclude that the DHCPDISCOVER was not authentic, and
-will silently discard it.
-
-However, if the AS_REQ included PADATA and the home KDC responds with an
-AS_REP, then the DHCP server can conclude that the client is authentic.
-If the subsequent TGS_REQ is unsuccessful, with a KRB_ERROR returned by
-the home KDC in the TGS_REP, then the fault may lie with the DHCP server
-rather than with the client. In this case, the DHCP server MAY choose to
-return a KRB_ERROR within the authentication option included in the
-DHCPOFFER. The client will then treat this as an unauthenticated
-DHCPOFFER.
-
-
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-Similarly, if the integrity attribute contained in the DHCPOFFER proves
-invalid, the client will silently discard the DHCPOFFER and instead
-accept an offer from another server if one is available. If the
-integrity attribute included in the DHCPACK/DHCPNAK proves invalid, then
-the client behaves as if it did not receive a DHCPACK/DHCPNAK.
-
-When in INIT-REBOOT, REBINDING or RENEWING state, the client will
-include a ticket attribute and integrity attribute within the
-authentication option of the DHCPREQUEST, in order to assist the DHCP
-server in renewing the user-to-user ticket. If the integrity attribute
-is invalid, then the DHCP server MUST silently discard the DHCPREQUEST.
-
-However, if the integrity attribute is successfully validated by the
-DHCP server, but the home realm TGT included in the ticket attribute is
-invalid (e.g. expired), then the DHCP server will receive a KRB_ERROR in
-response to its TGS_REQ to the home KDC. In this case, the DHCP server
-MAY respond with a DHCPNAK including a KRB_ERROR attribute and no
-integrity attribute within the authentication option. This will force
-the client back to the INIT state, where it can receive a valid home
-realm TGT.
-
-Where the client included PADATA in the AS_REQ attribute of the
-authentication option within the DHCPDISCOVER and the AS_REQ was
-successfully validated by the KDC, the DHCP server will conclude that
-the DHCP client is authentic. In this case if the client successfully
-validates the integrity attribute in the DHCPOFFER, but the server does
-not validate the integrity attribute in the client's DHCPREQUEST, the
-server MAY choose to respond with an authenticated DHCPNAK containing a
-KRB_ERROR attribute.
-
-4.5. PKINIT issues
-
-When public key authentication is supported with Kerberos as described
-in [8], the client certificate and a signature accompany the initial
-request in the preauthentication fields. As a result, it is conceivable
-that the incomplete AS_REQ included in the DHCPDISCOVER packet may
-exceed the size of a single DHCP option, or even the MTU size. As noted
-in [4], a single option may be as large as 255 octets. If the value to
-be passed is larger than this the client concatenates together the
-values of multiple instances of the same option.
-
-4.6. Examples
-
-4.6.1. INIT state
-
-In the intra-realm case where the DHCP Kerberos mutual authentication is
-successful, the conversation will appear as follows:
-
-
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- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPOFFER,
- (AS_REP,
- AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPREQUEST
- (Integrity) ->
- <- DHCPACK
- (Integrity)
-
-In the case where the KDC returns a KRB_ERROR in response to the AS_REQ,
-the server will silently discard the DHCPDISCOVER and the conversation
-will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- KRB_ERROR
-
-In the inter-realm case where the DHCP Kerberos mutual authentication is
-successful, the conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
-(Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ ->
- (cross realm,
- for home
- KDC)
-
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- <- TGS_REP
-
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPOFFER,
- (AS_REP,
- AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPREQUEST
- (Integrity) ->
- <- DHCPACK
- (Integrity)
-
-In the case where the client includes PADATA in the AS_REQ attribute
-within the authentication option of the DHCPDISCOVER and the KDC returns
-an error-free AS_REP indicating successful validation of the PADATA, the
-DHCP server will conclude that the DHCP client is authentic. If the KDC
-then returns a KRB_ERROR in response to the TGS_REQ, indicating a fault
-that lies with the DHCP server, the server MAY choose not to silently
-discard the DHCPDISCOVER. Instead it MAY respond with a DHCPOFFER
-including a KRB_ERROR attribute within the authentication option. The
-client will then treat this as an unauthenticated DHCPOFFER. The
-conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ
- w/PADATA) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- KRB_ERROR
- <- DHCPOFFER,
- (KRB_ERROR)
-DHCPREQUEST ->
- <- DHCPACK
-
-In the intra-realm case where the client included PADATA in the AS_REQ
-attribute of the authentication option and the AS_REQ was successfully
-validated by the KDC, the DHCP server will conclude that the DHCP client
-is authentic. In this case if the client successfully validates the
-integrity attribute in the DHCPOFFER, but the server does not validate
-the integrity attribute in the client's DHCPREQUEST, the server MAY
-
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-choose to respond with an authenticated DHCPNAK containing a KRB_ERROR
-attribute. The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ
- w/PADATA) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPOFFER,
- (AS_REP,
- AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPREQUEST
- (Integrity) ->
- <- DHCNAK
- (KRB_ERROR,
- Integrity)
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
-
-In the intra-realm case where the DHCP client cannot validate the
-integrity attribute in the DHCPOFFER, the client silently discards the
-DHCPOFFER. The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPOFFER,
- (AS_REP,
- AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPREQUEST
-
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- [To another server]
- (Integrity) ->
-
-In the intra-realm case where the DHCP client cannot validate the
-integrity attribute in the DHCPACK, the client reverts to INIT state.
-The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-DHCPDISCOVER
-(Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPOFFER,
- (AS_REP,
- AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPREQUEST
- (Integrity) ->
- <- DHCPACK
- (Integrity)
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
-
-4.6.2. INIT-REBOOT, RENEWING or REBINDING
-
-In the intra-realm or inter-realm case where the original user-to-user
-ticket is still valid, and the DHCP server still has a valid TGT to the
-home realm, the conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-
-DHCPREQUEST
- (TGT,
- Integrity) ->
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPACK
- (AP_REQ,
-
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- Integrity)
-
-In the intra-realm or inter-realm case where the DHCP server validates
-the integrity attribute in the DHCPREQUEST, but receives a KRB_ERROR in
-response to the TGS_REQ to the KDC, the DHCP sever MAY choose not to
-silently discard the DHCPREQUEST and MAY return an authenticated DHCPNAK
-to the client instead, using the user-to-user session key previously
-established with the client. The conversation appears as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-
-DHCPREQUEST
- (TGT,
- Integrity) ->
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- KRB_ERROR
- <- DHCPNAK
- (KRB_ERROR,
- Integrity)
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
-
-In the intra-realm or inter-realm case where the DHCP server cannot
-validate the integrity attribute in the DHCPREQUEST, the DHCP server
-MUST silently discard the DHCPREQUEST and the conversation will appear
-as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-
-DHCPREQUEST
- (TGT,
- Integrity) ->
- Silent discard
-[Sequence repeats
- until timeout]
-
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
-
-In the intra-realm or inter-realm case where the original user-to-user
-ticket is still valid, the server validates the integrity attribute in
-
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-the DHCPREQUEST, but the client fails to validate the integrity
-attribute in the DHCPACK, the client will silently discard the DHCPACK.
-The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-
-DHCPREQUEST
- (TGT,
- Integrity) ->
-
- <- DHCPACK
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPDISCOVER
- (Incomplete
- AS_REQ) ->
-
-4.6.3. DHCPINFORM (with known DHCP server)
-
-In the case where the DHCP client knows the DHCP server it will be
-interacting with, the DHCP client will obtain a ticket to the DHCP
-server and will include AP_REQ and integrity attributes within the
-DHCPINFORM.
-
-Where the DHCP Kerberos mutual authentication is successful, the
-conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity) ->
- <- DHCPACK
- (Integrity)
-
-In the inter-realm case where the DHCP Kerberos mutual authentication is
-successful, the conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-
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-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity) ->
- <- DHCPACK
- (Integrity)
-
-In the inter-realm case where the DHCP server fails to validate the
-integrity attribute in the DHCPINFORM, the server MUST silently discard
-the DHCPINFORM. The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity) ->
- <- DHCPACK
- (Integrity)
-DHCPINFORM
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity) ->
-
-In the inter-realm case where the DHCP client fails to validate the
-integrity attribute in the DHCPACK, the client MUST silently discard the
-DHCPACK. The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-TGS_REQ ->
- <- TGS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
-
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- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity) ->
-
-4.6.4. DHCPINFORM (with unknown DHCP server)
-
-In the case where the DHCP client does not know the DHCP server it will
-be interacting with, the DHCP client will only include a ticket
-attribute within the DHCPINFORM. Thus the DHCP server will not be able
-to validate the authentication option.
-
-Where the DHCP client is able to validate the DHCPACK and no error
-occur, the onversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP
- Client Server KDC
--------------- ------------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (Ticket) ->
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPACK
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-
-In the inter-realm case where the DHCP server needs to obtain a TGT to
-the home realm, and where the client successfully validates the DHCPACK,
-the conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (Ticket) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ ->
- (cross realm,
- for home
- KDC)
- <- TGS_REP
-
- TGS_REQ
- U-2-U ->
-
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- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPACK
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-
-In the inter-realm case where the local KDC returns a KRB_ERROR in
-response to the TGS_REQ from the DHCP server, the DHCP server MAY return
-a KRB_ERROR within the DHCP authentication option included in a DHCPNAK.
-The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (Ticket) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ ->
- (cross realm,
- for home
- KDC)
- <- KRB_ERROR
- <- DHCPNAK
- (KRB_ERROR)
-
-
-In the inter-realm case where the DHCP client fails to validate the
-integrity attribute in the DHCPACK, the client MUST silently discard the
-DHCPACK. The conversation will appear as follows:
-
- DHCP DHCP Home Local
- Client Server KDC KDC
--------------- ------------- --------- ---------
-AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
-DHCPINFORM
- (Ticket) ->
- AS_REQ ->
- <- AS_REP
- TGS_REQ ->
- (cross realm,
- for home
- KDC)
- <- TGS_REP
-
- TGS_REQ
-
-
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- U-2-U ->
- <- TGS_REP
- <- DHCPACK
- (AP_REQ,
- Integrity)
-DHCPINFORM
- (Ticket) ->
-
-5. References
-
-
-[1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
-
-[2] Kohl, J., Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
- (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
-[3] Droms, R., Arbaugh, W., "Authentication for DHCP Messages",
- Internet draft (work in progress), draft-ietf-dhc-
- authentication-11.txt, June 1999.
-
-[4] Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", RFC 2131, March
- 1997.
-
-[5] Alexander, S., Droms, R., "DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor
- Extensions", RFC 2132, March 1997.
-
-[6] Perkins, C., "IP Mobility Support", RFC 2002, October 1996.
-
-[7] Jain, V., Congdon, P., Roese, J., "Network Port Authentication",
- IEEE 802.1 PAR submission, June 1999.
-
-[8] Tung, B., Neuman, C., Hur, M., Medvinsky, A., Medvinsky, S., Wray,
- J., Trostle, J., "Public Key Cryptography for Initial
- Authentication in Kerberos", Internet draft (work in progress),
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-09.txt, June 1999.
-
-[9] Tung, B., Ryutov, T., Neuman, C., Tsudik, G., Sommerfeld, B.,
- Medvinsky, A., Hur, M., "Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm
- Authentication in Kerberos", Internet draft (work in progress),
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-04.txt, June 1999.
-
-[10] Mills, D., "Network Time Protocol (Version 3)", RFC-1305, March
- 1992.
-
-[11] Henry, M., "DHCP Option 61 UUID Type Definition", Internet draft
- (work in progress), draft-henry-DHCP-opt61-UUID-type-00.txt,
- November 1998.
-
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-6. Security Considerations
-
-DHCP authentication, described in [3], addresses the following threats:
-
- Modification of messages
- Rogue servers
- Unauthorized clients
-
-This section describes how DHCP authentication via Kerberos V addresses
-each of these threats.
-
-6.1. Client security
-
-As noted in [3], it may be desirable to ensure that IP addresses are
-only allocated to authorized clients. This can serve to protect against
-denial of service attacks. To address this issue it is necessary for
-DHCP client messages to be authenticated. In order to guard against
-message modification, it is also necessary for DHCP client messages to
-be integrity protected.
-
-Note that this protocol does not make use of KRB_SAFE, so as to allow
-modification of mutable fields by the DHCP relay. Replay protection is
-therefore provided within the DHCP authentication option itself.
-
-In DHCP authentication via Kerberos V the DHCP client will authenticate,
-integrity and replay-protect the DHCPREQUEST, DHCPDECLINE and
-DHCPRELEASE messages using a user-to-user session key obtained by the
-DHCP server from the home KDC. If the DHCP client knows the DHCP server
-it will be interacting with, then the DHCP client MAY also authenticate,
-integrity and replay-protect the DHCPINFORM message using a session key
-obtained from the local realm KDC for the DHCP server it expects to
-converse with.
-
-Since the client has not yet obtained a session key, DHCPDISCOVER
-packets cannot be authenticated using the session key. However, the
-client MAY include pre-authentication data in the PADATA field included
-in the DHCPDISCOVER packet. Since the PADATA will then be used by the
-DHCP server to request a ticket on the client's behalf, the DHCP server
-will learn from the AS_REP whether the PADATA was acceptable or not.
-Therefore in this case, the DHCPDISCOVER will be authenticated but not
-integrity protected.
-
-Where the DHCP client does not know the DHCP server it will be
-interacting with ahead of time, the DHCPINFORM message will not be
-authenticated, integrity or replay protected.
-
-Note that snooping of PADATA and TGTs on the wire may provide an
-attacker with a means of mounting a dictionary attack, since these items
-
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-are typically encrypted with a key derived from the user's password.
-Thus use of strong passwords and/or pre-authentication methods utilizing
-strong cryptography (see [8]) are recommended.
-
-6.2. Network access control
-
-DHCP authentication has been proposed as a method of limiting access to
-network media that are not physically secured such as wireless LANs and
-ports in college residence halls. However, it is not particularly well
-suited to this purpose since even if address allocation is denied an
-inauthentic client may use a statically assigned IP address instead, or
-may attempt to access the network using non-IP protocols. As a result,
-other methods, described in [6]-[7], have been proposed for controlling
-access to wireless media and switched LANs.
-
-6.3. Server security
-
-As noted in [3], it may be desirable to protect against rogue DHCP
-servers put on the network either intentionally or by accident. To
-address this issue it is necessary for DHCP server messages to be
-authenticated. In order to guard against message modification, it is
-also necessary for DHCP server messages to be integrity protected.
-Replay protection is also provided within the DHCP authentication
-option.
-
-All messages sent by the DHCP server are authenticated and integrity and
-replaly protected using a session key. This includes the DHCPOFFER,
-DHCPACK, and DHCPNAK messages. The session key is used to compute the
-DHCP authentication option, which is verified by the client.
-
-In order to provide protection against rogue servers it is necessary to
-prevent rogue servers from obtaining the credentials necessary to act as
-a DHCP server. As noted in Section 4, the Kerberos principal name for
-the DHCP server must be of type KRB_NT_SRV_HST with the service name
-component equal to 'dhcp'. The client MUST validate that the DHCP server
-principal name has the above format. This convention requires that the
-administrator ensure that non-DHCP server principals do not have names
-that match the above format.
-
-7. IANA Considerations
-
-This draft does not create any new number spaces for IANA
-administration.
-
-8. Acknowledgements
-
-The authors would like to acknowledge Ralph Droms and William Arbaugh,
-authors of the DHCP authentication draft [3]. This draft incorporates
-
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-material from their work; however, any mistakes in this document are
-solely the responsibility of the authors.
-
-9. Authors' Addresses
-
-Ken Hornstein
-US Naval Research Laboratory
-Bldg A-49, Room 2
-4555 Overlook Avenue
-Washington DC 20375 USA
-
-Phone: +1 (202) 404-4765
-EMail: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
-
-Ted Lemon
-Internet Engines, Inc.
-950 Charter Street
-Redwood City, CA 94063
-
-Phone: +1 (650) 779 6031
-Email: mellon@iengines.net
-
-Bernard Aboba
-Microsoft Corporation
-One Microsoft Way
-Redmond, WA 98052
-
-Phone: +1 (425) 936-6605
-EMail: bernarda@microsoft.com
-
-Jonathan Trostle
-170 W. Tasman Dr.
-San Jose, CA 95134, U.S.A.
-
-Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
-Phone: +1 (408) 527-6201
-
-
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-
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-Network Working Group M. Horowitz
-<draft-horowitz-key-derivation-01.txt> Cygnus Solutions
-Internet-Draft March, 1997
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- Key Derivation for Authentication, Integrity, and Privacy
-
-Status of this Memo
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- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
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-Abstract
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- Recent advances in cryptography have made it desirable to use longer
- cryptographic keys, and to make more careful use of these keys. In
- particular, it is considered unwise by some cryptographers to use the
- same key for multiple purposes. Since most cryptographic-based
- systems perform a range of functions, such as authentication, key
- exchange, integrity, and encryption, it is desirable to use different
- cryptographic keys for these purposes.
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- This RFC does not define a particular protocol, but defines a set of
- cryptographic transformations for use with arbitrary network
- protocols and block cryptographic algorithm.
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-Deriving Keys
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- In order to use multiple keys for different functions, there are two
- possibilities:
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- - Each protocol ``key'' contains multiple cryptographic keys. The
- implementation would know how to break up the protocol ``key'' for
- use by the underlying cryptographic routines.
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- - The protocol ``key'' is used to derive the cryptographic keys.
- The implementation would perform this derivation before calling
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- the underlying cryptographic routines.
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- In the first solution, the system has the opportunity to provide
- separate keys for different functions. This has the advantage that
- if one of these keys is broken, the others remain secret. However,
- this comes at the cost of larger ``keys'' at the protocol layer. In
- addition, since these ``keys'' may be encrypted, compromising the
- cryptographic key which is used to encrypt them compromises all the
- component keys. Also, the not all ``keys'' are used for all possible
- functions. Some ``keys'', especially those derived from passwords,
- are generated from limited amounts of entropy. Wasting some of this
- entropy on cryptographic keys which are never used is unwise.
-
- The second solution uses keys derived from a base key to perform
- cryptographic operations. By carefully specifying how this key is
- used, all of the advantages of the first solution can be kept, while
- eliminating some disadvantages. In particular, the base key must be
- used only for generating the derived keys, and this derivation must
- be non-invertible and entropy-preserving. Given these restrictions,
- compromise of one derived keys does not compromise the other subkeys.
- Attack of the base key is limited, since it is only used for
- derivation, and is not exposed to any user data.
-
- Since the derived key has as much entropy as the base keys (if the
- cryptosystem is good), password-derived keys have the full benefit of
- all the entropy in the password.
-
- To generate a derived key from a base key:
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- Derived Key = DK(Base Key, Well-Known Constant)
-
- where
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- DK(Key, Constant) = n-truncate(E(Key, Constant))
-
- In this construction, E(Key, Plaintext) is a block cipher, Constant
- is a well-known constant defined by the protocol, and n-truncate
- truncates its argument by taking the first n bits; here, n is the key
- size of E.
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- If the output of E is is shorter than n bits, then some entropy in
- the key will be lost. If the Constant is smaller than the block size
- of E, then it must be padded so it may be encrypted. If the Constant
- is larger than the block size, then it must be folded down to the
- block size to avoid chaining, which affects the distribution of
- entropy.
-
- In any of these situations, a variation of the above construction is
- used, where the folded Constant is encrypted, and the resulting
- output is fed back into the encryption as necessary (the | indicates
- concatentation):
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- K1 = E(Key, n-fold(Constant))
- K2 = E(Key, K1)
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- K3 = E(Key, K2)
- K4 = ...
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- DK(Key, Constant) = n-truncate(K1 | K2 | K3 | K4 ...)
-
- n-fold is an algorithm which takes m input bits and ``stretches''
- them to form n output bits with no loss of entropy, as described in
- [Blumenthal96]. In this document, n-fold is always used to produce n
- bits of output, where n is the key size of E.
-
- If the size of the Constant is not equal to the block size of E, then
- the Constant must be n-folded to the block size of E. This number is
- used as input to E. If the block size of E is less than the key
- size, then the output from E is taken as input to a second invocation
- of E. This process is repeated until the number of bits accumulated
- is greater than or equal to the key size of E. When enough bits have
- been computed, the first n are taken as the derived key.
-
- Since the derived key is the result of one or more encryptions in the
- base key, deriving the base key from the derived key is equivalent to
- determining the key from a very small number of plaintext/ciphertext
- pairs. Thus, this construction is as strong as the cryptosystem
- itself.
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-Deriving Keys from Passwords
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- When protecting information with a password or other user data, it is
- necessary to convert an arbitrary bit string into an encryption key.
- In addition, it is sometimes desirable that the transformation from
- password to key be difficult to reverse. A simple variation on the
- construction in the prior section can be used:
-
- Key = DK(n-fold(Password), Well-Known Constant)
-
- The n-fold algorithm is reversible, so recovery of the n-fold output
- is equivalent to recovery of Password. However, recovering the n-
- fold output is difficult for the same reason recovering the base key
- from a derived key is difficult.
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-
- Traditionally, the transformation from plaintext to ciphertext, or
- vice versa, is determined by the cryptographic algorithm and the key.
- A simple way to think of derived keys is that the transformation is
- determined by the cryptographic algorithm, the constant, and the key.
-
- For interoperability, the constants used to derive keys for different
- purposes must be specified in the protocol specification. The
- constants must not be specified on the wire, or else an attacker who
- determined one derived key could provide the associated constant and
- spoof data using that derived key, rather than the one the protocol
- designer intended.
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- Determining which parts of a protocol require their own constants is
- an issue for the designer of protocol using derived keys.
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-Security Considerations
-
- This entire document deals with security considerations relating to
- the use of cryptography in network protocols.
-
-
-Acknowledgements
-
- I would like to thank Uri Blumenthal, Hugo Krawczyk, and Bill
- Sommerfeld for their contributions to this document.
-
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-References
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- [Blumenthal96] Blumenthal, U., "A Better Key Schedule for DES-Like
- Ciphers", Proceedings of PRAGOCRYPT '96, 1996.
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-Author's Address
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- Cygnus Solutions
- 955 Massachusetts Avenue
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- RFC 2078
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- Title: Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface, Version 2
- Author: J. Linn
- Date: January 1997
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-response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is
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-will become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API
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- IETF Common Authentication Technology WG Digital Equipment Corporation
- <draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-cbind-04.txt> March 1997
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- Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
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- 1. STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
- This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas, and
- its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working
- documents as Internet Drafts. Internet Drafts are draft documents valid
- for a maximum of six months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced,
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- Common Authentication Technology WG discussion list.
-
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- 2. ABSTRACT
-
- This draft document specifies C language bindings for Version 2 of the
- Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSSAPI), which
- is described at a language-independent conceptual level in other drafts
- [GSSAPI]. It revises RFC-1509, making specific incremental changes in
- response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is
- intended, therefore, that this draft or a successor version thereof will
- become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API specification
- on the standards track.
-
- The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface provides
- security services to its callers, and is intended for implementation
- atop a variety of underlying cryptographic mechanisms. Typically,
- GSSAPI callers will be application protocols into which security
- enhancements are integrated through invocation of services provided by
- the GSSAPI. The GSSAPI allows a caller application to authenticate a
- principal identity associated with a peer application, to delegate
- rights to a peer, and to apply security services such as confidentiality
- and integrity on a per-message basis.
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- 3. INTRODUCTION
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- The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface [GSSAPI]
- provides security services to calling applications. It allows a
- communicating application to authenticate the user associated with
- another application, to delegate rights to another application, and to
- apply security services such as confidentiality and integrity on a per-
- message basis.
-
- There are four stages to using the GSSAPI:
-
- (a) The application acquires a set of credentials with which it may
- prove its identity to other processes. The application's
- credentials vouch for its global identity, which may or may not be
- related to any local username under which it may be running.
-
- (b) A pair of communicating applications establish a joint security
- context using their credentials. The security context is a pair
- of GSSAPI data structures that contain shared state information,
- which is required in order that per-message security services may
- be provided. Examples of state that might be shared between
- applications as part of a security context are cryptographic keys,
- and message sequence numbers. As part of the establishment of a
- security context, the context initiator is authenticated to the
- responder, and may require that the responder is authenticated in
- turn. The initiator may optionally give the responder the right
- to initiate further security contexts, acting as an agent or
- delegate of the initiator. This transfer of rights is termed
- delegation, and is achieved by creating a set of credentials,
- similar to those used by the initiating application, but which may
- be used by the responder.
-
- To establish and maintain the shared information that makes up the
- security context, certain GSSAPI calls will return a token data
- structure, which is a cryptographically protected opaque data
- type. The caller of such a GSSAPI routine is responsible for
- transferring the token to the peer application, encapsulated if
- necessary in an application-application protocol. On receipt of
- such a token, the peer application should pass it to a
- corresponding GSSAPI routine which will decode the token and
- extract the information, updating the security context state
- information accordingly.
-
- (c) Per-message services are invoked to apply either:
-
- (i) integrity and data origin authentication, or
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- (ii) confidentiality, integrity and data origin authentication
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- to application data, which are treated by GSSAPI as arbitrary
- octet-strings. An application transmitting a message that it
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- (gss_get_mic or gss_wrap) to apply protection, specifying the
- appropriate security context, and send the resulting token to the
- receiving application. The receiver will pass the received token
- (and, in the case of data protected by gss_get_mic, the
- accompanying message-data) to the corresponding decoding routine
- (gss_verify_mic or gss_unwrap) to remove the protection and
- validate the data.
-
- (d) At the completion of a communications session (which may extend
- across several transport connections), each application calls a
- GSSAPI routine to delete the security context. Multiple contexts
- may also be used (either successively or simultaneously) within a
- single communications association, at the option of the
- applications.
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- 4. GSSAPI ROUTINES
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- This section lists the routines that make up the GSSAPI, and offers a
- brief description of the purpose of each routine. Detailed descriptions
- of each routine are listed in alphabetical order in section 7.
-
- Table 4-1 GSSAPI Credential-management Routines
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- ROUTINE SECTION FUNCTION
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- gss_acquire_cred 7.2 Assume a global identity;
- Obtain a GSSAPI credential
- handle for pre-existing
- credentials.
-
- gss_add_cred 7.3 Construct credentials
- incrementally
-
- gss_inquire_cred 7.21 Obtain information about
- a credential.
-
- gss_inquire_cred_by_mech 7.22 Obtain per-mechanism information
- about a credential.
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- gss_release_cred 7.27 Discard a credential handle.
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- Table 4-2 GSSAPI Context-level Routines
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- ROUTINE SECTION FUNCTION
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- gss_init_sec_context 7.19 Initiate a security context
- with a peer application
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- gss_accept_sec_context 7.1 Accept a security context
- initiated by a peer
- application
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- gss_delete_sec_context 7.9 Discard a security context
-
- gss_process_context_token 7.25 Process a token on a security
- context from a peer
- application
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- gss_context_time 7.7 Determine for how long a
- context will remain valid
-
- gss_inquire_context 7.20 Obtain information about a
- security context
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- gss_wrap_size_limit 7.33 Determine token-size limit for
- gss_wrap on a context
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- gss_export_sec_context 7.14 Transfer a security context to
- another process
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- gss_import_sec_context 7.17 Import a transferred context
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- Table 4-3 GSSAPI Per-message Routines
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- ROUTINE SECTION FUNCTION
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- gss_get_mic 7.15 Calculate a cryptographic
- Message Integrity Code (MIC)
- for a message; integrity service
-
- gss_verify_mic 7.32 Check a MIC against a message;
- verify integrity of a received
- message
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- gss_wrap 7.36 Attach a MIC to a message, and
- optionally encrypt the message
- content; confidentiality service
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- gss_unwrap 7.31 Verify a message with attached
- MIC, and decrypt message
- content if necessary.
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- Table 4-4 GSSAPI Name manipulation Routines
-
- ROUTINE SECTION FUNCTION
-
- gss_import_name 7.16 Convert a contiguous string name
- to internal-form
-
- gss_display_name 7.10 Convert internal-form name
- to text
-
- gss_compare_name 7.6 Compare two internal-form names
-
- gss_release_name 7.28 Discard an internal-form name
-
- gss_inquire_names_for_mech 7.24 List the name-types supported
- by a specified mechanism
-
- gss_inquire_mechs_for_name 7.23 List mechanisms that support
- a given nametype
-
- gss_canonicalize_name 7.5 Convert an internal name to
- an MN.
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- gss_export_name 7.13 Convert an MN to export form
-
- gss_duplicate_name 7.12 Create a copy of an internal name
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- Table 4-5 GSSAPI Miscellaneous Routines
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- ROUTINE SECTION FUNCTION
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- gss_display_status 7.11 Convert a GSSAPI status code
- to text
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- gss_indicate_mechs 7.18 Determine available underlying
- authentication mechanisms
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- gss_release_buffer 7.26 Discard a buffer
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- gss_release_oid_set 7.29 Discard a set of object
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- object identifiers
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- gss_add_oid_set_member 7.4 Add an object identifier to
- a set
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- gss_test_oid_set_member 7.30 Determines whether an object
- identifier is a member of a set
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- Individual GSSAPI implementations may augment these routines by
- providing additional mechanism-specific routines if required
- functionality is not available from the generic forms. Applications are
- encouraged to use the generic routines wherever possible on portability
- grounds.
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- 5. DATA TYPES AND CALLING CONVENTIONS
-
- The following conventions are used by the GSSAPI C-language bindings:
-
- 5.1. Integer types
-
- GSSAPI uses the following integer data type:
-
- OM_uint32 32-bit unsigned integer
-
- Where guaranteed minimum bit-count is important, this portable data type
- is used by the GSSAPI routine definitions. Individual GSSAPI
- implementations will include appropriate typedef definitions to map this
- type onto a built-in data type. If the platform supports the X/Open
- xom.h header file, the OM_uint32 definition contained therein should be
- used; the GSSAPI header file in Appendix A contains logic that will
- detect the prior inclusion of xom.h, and will not attempt to re-declare
- OM_uint32. If the X/Open header file is not available on the platform,
- the GSSAPI implementation should use the smallest natural unsigned
- integer type that provides at least 32 bits of precision.
-
- 5.2. String and similar data
-
- Many of the GSSAPI routines take arguments and return values that
- describe contiguous octet-strings. All such data is passed between the
- GSSAPI and the caller using the gss_buffer_t data type. This data type
- is a pointer to a buffer descriptor, which consists of a length field
- that contains the total number of bytes in the datum, and a value field
- which contains a pointer to the actual datum:
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- size_t length;
- void *value;
- } gss_buffer_desc, *gss_buffer_t;
-
- Storage for data returned to the application by a GSSAPI routine using
- the gss_buffer_t conventions is allocated by the GSSAPI routine. The
- application may free this storage by invoking the gss_release_buffer
- routine. Allocation of the gss_buffer_desc object is always the
- responsibility of the application; unused gss_buffer_desc objects may
- be initialized to the value GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER.
-
- 5.2.1. Opaque data types
-
- Certain multiple-word data items are considered opaque data types at the
- GSSAPI, because their internal structure has no significance either to
- the GSSAPI or to the caller. Examples of such opaque data types are the
- input_token parameter to gss_init_sec_context (which is opaque to the
- caller), and the input_message parameter to gss_wrap (which is opaque to
- the GSSAPI). Opaque data is passed between the GSSAPI and the
- application using the gss_buffer_t datatype.
-
- 5.2.2. Character strings
-
- Certain multiple-word data items may be regarded as simple ISO Latin-1
- character strings. Examples are the printable strings passed to
- gss_import_name via the input_name_buffer parameter. Some GSSAPI
- routines also return character strings. All such character strings are
- passed between the application and the GSSAPI implementation using the
- gss_buffer_t datatype, which is a pointer to a gss_buffer_desc object.
-
- When a gss_buffer_desc object describes a printable string, the length
- field of the gss_buffer_desc should only count printable characters
- within the string. In particular, a trailing NUL character should NOT
- be included in the length count, nor should either the GSSAPI
- implementation or the application assume the presence of an uncounted
- trailing NUL.
-
- 5.3. Object Identifiers
-
- Certain GSSAPI procedures take parameters of the type gss_OID, or Object
- identifier. This is a type containing ISO-defined tree-structured
- values, and is used by the GSSAPI caller to select an underlying
- security mechanism and to specify namespaces. A value of type gss_OID
- has the following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_desc_struct {
- OM_uint32 length;
- void *elements;
- } gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
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- octet string containing the ASN.1 BER encoding of the value portion of
- the normal BER TLV encoding of the gss_OID. The length field contains
- the number of bytes in this value. For example, the gss_OID value
- corresponding to {iso(1) identified-organization(3) icd-ecma(12)
- member-company(2) dec(1011) cryptoAlgorithms(7) DASS(5)}, meaning the
- DASS X.509 authentication mechanism, has a length field of 7 and an
- elements field pointing to seven octets containing the following octal
- values: 53,14,2,207,163,7,5. GSSAPI implementations should provide
- constant gss_OID values to allow applications to request any supported
- mechanism, although applications are encouraged on portability grounds
- to accept the default mechanism. gss_OID values should also be provided
- to allow applications to specify particular name types (see section
- 5.10). Applications should treat gss_OID_desc values returned by GSSAPI
- routines as read-only. In particular, the application should not
- attempt to deallocate them with free(). The gss_OID_desc datatype is
- equivalent to the X/Open OM_object_identifier datatype[XOM].
-
- 5.4. Object Identifier Sets
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- Certain GSSAPI procedures take parameters of the type gss_OID_set. This
- type represents one or more object identifiers (section 5.3). A
- gss_OID_set object has the following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct {
- size_t count;
- gss_OID elements;
- } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
-
- The count field contains the number of OIDs within the set. The
- elements field is a pointer to an array of gss_OID_desc objects, each of
- which describes a single OID. gss_OID_set values are used to name the
- available mechanisms supported by the GSSAPI, to request the use of
- specific mechanisms, and to indicate which mechanisms a given credential
- supports.
-
- All OID sets returned to the application by GSSAPI are dynamic objects
- (the gss_OID_set_desc, the "elements" array of the set, and the
- "elements" array of each member OID are all dynamically allocated), and
- this storage must be deallocated by the application using the
- gss_release_oid_set() routine.
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- 5.5. Credentials
-
- A credential handle is a caller-opaque atomic datum that identifies a
- GSSAPI credential data structure. It is represented by the caller-
- opaque type gss_cred_id_t, which should be implemented as a pointer or
- arithmetic type. If a pointer implementation is chosen, care must be
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- authentication data for multiple mechanisms. A GSSAPI credential is
- composed of a set of credential-elements, each of which is applicable to
- a single mechanism. A credential may contain at most one credential-
- element for each supported mechanism. A credential-element identifies
- the data needed by a single mechanism to authenticate a single
- principal, and conceptually contains two credential-references that
- describing the actual mechanism-specific authentication data, one to be
- used by GSSAPI for initiating contexts, and one to be used for
- accepting contexts. For mechanisms that do not distinguish between
- acceptor and initiator credentials, both references would point to the
- same underlying mechanism-specific authentication data.
-
- Credentials describe a set of mechanism-specific principals, and give
- their holder the ability to act as any of those principals. All
- principal identities asserted by a single GSSAPI credential should
- belong to the same entity, although enforcement of this property is an
- implementation-specific matter. The GSSAPI does not make the actual
- credentials available to applications; instead a credential handle is
- used to identify a particular credential, held internally by GSSAPI.
- The combination of GSSAPI credential handle and mechanism identifies the
- principal whose identity will be asserted by the credential when used
- with that mechanism.
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- The gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context routines allow the
- value GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to be specified as their credential handle
- parameter. This special credential-handle indicates a desire by the
- application to act as a default principal. While individual GSSAPI
- implementations are free to determine such default behavior as
- appropriate to the mechanism, the following default behavior by these
- routines is recommended for portability:
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- (a) gss_init_sec_context
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- (i) If there is only a single principal capable of initiating
- security contexts for the chosen mechanism that the
- application is authorized to act on behalf of, then that
- principal shall be used, otherwise
-
- (ii) If the platform maintains a concept of a default network-
- identity for the chosen mechanism, and if the application is
- authorized to act on behalf of that identity for the purpose
- of initiating security contexts, then the principal
- corresponding to that identity shall be used, otherwise
-
- (iii) If the platform maintains a concept of a default local
- identity, and provides a means to map local identities into
- network-identities for the chosen mechanism, and if the
- application is authorized to act on behalf of the network-
- identity image of the default local identity for the purpose
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- (iv) A user-configurable default identity should be used.
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- (b) gss_accept_sec_context
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- (i) If there is only a single authorized principal identity
- capable of accepting security contexts for the chosen
- mechanism, then that principal shall be used, otherwise
-
- (ii) If the mechanism can determine the identity of the target
- principal by examining the context-establishment token, and
- if the accepting application is authorized to act as that
- principal for the purpose of accepting security contexts
- using the chosen mechanism, then that principal identity
- shall be used, otherwise
-
- (iii) If the mechanism supports context acceptance by any
- principal, and if mutual authentication was not requested,
- any principal that the application is authorized to accept
- security contexts under using the chosen mechanism may be
- used, otherwise
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- (iv) A user-configurable default identity shall be used.
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- The purpose of the above rules is to allow security contexts to be
- established by both initiator and acceptor using the default behavior
- wherever possible. Applications requesting default behavior are likely
- to be more portable across mechanisms and platforms than ones that use
- gss_acquire_cred to request a specific identity.
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- The gss_ctx_id_t data type contains a caller-opaque atomic value that
- identifies one end of a GSSAPI security context. It should be
- implemented as a pointer or arithmetic type. If a pointer type is
- chosen, care should be taken to ensure that two gss_ctx_id_t values may
- be compared with the == operator.
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- The security context holds state information about each end of a peer
- communication, including cryptographic state information.
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- 5.7. Authentication tokens
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- A token is a caller-opaque type that GSSAPI uses to maintain
- synchronization between the context data structures at each end of a
- GSSAPI security context. The token is a cryptographically protected
- octet-string, generated by the underlying mechanism at one end of a
- GSSAPI security context for use by the peer mechanism at the other end.
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- Certain GSSAPI routines are intended to transfer data between processes
- in multi-process programs. These routines use a caller-opaque octet-
- string, generated by the GSSAPI in one process for use by the GSSAPI in
- another process. The calling application is responsible for
- transferring such tokens between processes in an OS-specific manner.
- Note that, while GSSAPI implementors are encouraged to avoid placing
- sensitive information within interprocess tokens, or to
- cryptographically protect them, many implementations will be unable to
- avoid placing key material or other sensitive data within them. It is
- the application's responsibility to ensure that interprocess tokens are
- protected in transit, and transferred only to processes that are
- trustworthy. An interprocess token is passed between the GSSAPI and the
- application using the gss_buffer_t conventions.
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- One or more status codes are returned by each GSSAPI routine. Two
- distinct sorts of status codes are returned. These are termed GSS
- status codes and Mechanism status codes.
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- 5.9.1. GSS status codes
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- GSSAPI routines return GSS status codes as their OM_uint32 function
- value. These codes indicate errors that are independent of the
- underlying mechanism(s) used to provide the security service. The
- errors that can be indicated via a GSS status code are either generic
- API routine errors (errors that are defined in the GSS-API
- specification) or calling errors (errors that are specific to these
- language bindings).
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- A GSS status code can indicate a single fatal generic API error from the
- routine and a single calling error. In addition, supplementary status
- information may be indicated via the setting of bits in the
- supplementary info field of a GSS status code.
-
- These errors are encoded into the 32-bit GSS status code as follows:
-
- MSB LSB
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Calling Error | Routine Error | Supplementary Info |
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- Bit 31 24 23 16 15 0
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- erroneous. Calling errors are defined in table 5-1. If the routine
- error field is non-zero, the routine failed for one of the routine-
- specific reasons listed below in table 5-2. Whether or not the upper 16
- bits indicate a failure or a success, the routine may indicate
- additional information by setting bits in the supplementary info field
- of the status code. The meaning of individual bits is listed below in
- table 5-3.
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- Table 5-1 Calling Errors
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- Name Value in Meaning
- Field
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ 1 A required input
- parameter could
- not be read.
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE 2 A required output
- parameter could
- not be written.
- GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE 3 A parameter was
- malformed
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- Name Value in Meaning
- Field
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH 1 An unsupported mechanism was
- requested
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME 2 An invalid name was supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE 3 A supplied name was of an
- unsupported type
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS 4 Incorrect channel bindings
- were supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS 5 An invalid status code was
- supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG 6 A token had an invalid
- GSS_S_BAD_MIC MIC
- GSS_S_NO_CRED 7 No credentials were supplied,
- or the credentials were
- unavailable or inaccessible.
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT 8 No context has been
- established
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN 9 A token was invalid
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL 10 A credential was invalid
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- GSS_S_FAILURE 13 Miscellaneous failure
- (see text)
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP 14 The quality-of-protection
- requested could not be
- provide
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED 15 The operation is forbidden by
- local security policy
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE 16 The operation or option is not
- available
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT 17 The requested credential element
- already exists
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN 18 The provided name was not a
- mechanism name.
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- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED 0 (LSB) The routine must be called
- again to complete its function.
- See routine documentation for
- detailed description.
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN 1 The token was a duplicate of
- an earlier token
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN 2 The token's validity period
- has expired
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN 3 A later token has already been
- processed
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN 4 An expected per-message token
- was not received
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- The routine documentation also uses the name GSS_S_COMPLETE, which is a
- zero value, to indicate an absence of any API errors or supplementary
- information bits.
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- All GSS_S_xxx symbols equate to complete OM_uint32 status codes, rather
- than to bitfield values. For example, the actual value of the symbol
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE (value 3 in the routine error field) is 3 << 16.
-
- The macros GSS_CALLING_ERROR(), GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR() and
- GSS_SUPPLEMENTARY_INFO() are provided, each of which takes a GSS status
- code and removes all but the relevant field. For example, the value
- obtained by applying GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR to a status code removes the
- calling errors and supplementary info fields, leaving only the routine
- errors field. The values delivered by these macros may be directly
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- returns a non-zero value if the status code indicated a calling or
- routine error, and a zero value otherwise. All macros defined by GSS-
- API evaluate their argument(s) exactly once.
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- A GSS-API implementation may choose to signal calling errors in a
- platform-specific manner instead of, or in addition to the routine
- value; routine errors and supplementary info should be returned via
- routine status values only.
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- GSS-API routines return a minor_status parameter, which is used to
- indicate specialized errors from the underlying security mechanism.
- This parameter may contain a single mechanism-specific error, indicated
- by a OM_uint32 value.
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- The minor_status parameter will always be set by a GSS-API routine, even
- if it returns a calling error or one of the generic API errors indicated
- above as fatal, although most other output parameters may remain unset
- in such cases. However, output parameters that are expected to return
- pointers to storage allocated by a routine must always be set by the
- routine, even in the event of an error, although in such cases the GSS-
- API routine may elect to set the returned parameter value to NULL to
- indicate that no storage was actually allocated. Any length field
- associated with such pointers (as in a gss_buffer_desc structure) should
- also be set to zero in such cases.
-
- The GSS status code GSS_S_FAILURE is used to indicate that the
- underlying mechanism detected an error for which no specific GSS status
- code is defined. The mechanism status code will provide more details
- about the error.
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- A name is used to identify a person or entity. GSS-API authenticates
- the relationship between a name and the entity claiming the name.
-
- Since different authentication mechanisms may employ different
- namespaces for identifying their principals, GSSAPI's naming support is
- necessarily complex in multi-mechanism environments (or even in some
- single-mechanism environments where the underlying mechanism supports
- multiple namespaces).
-
- Two distinct representations are defined for names:
-
- (a) An internal form. This is the GSSAPI "native" format for names,
- represented by the implementation-specific gss_name_t type. It is
- opaque to GSSAPI callers. A single gss_name_t object may contain
- multiple names from different namespaces, but all names should
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- routine, when applied to a credential containing credential
- elements for multiple authentication mechanisms employing
- different namespaces. This gss_name_t object will contain a
- distinct name for the entity for each authentication mechanism.
-
- For GSSAPI implementations supporting multiple namespaces, objects
- of type gss_name_t must contain sufficient information to
- determine the namespace to which each primitive name belongs.
-
- (b) Mechanism-specific contiguous octet-string forms. A format
- capable of containing a single name (from a single namespace).
- Contiguous string names are always accompanied by an object
- identifier specifying the namespace to which the name belongs, and
- their format is dependent on the authentication mechanism that
- employs the name. Many, but not all, contiguous string names will
- be printable, and may therefore be used by GSSAPI applications for
- communication with their users.
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- Routines (gss_import_name and gss_display_name) are provided to convert
- names between contiguous string representations and the internal
- gss_name_t type. gss_import_name may support multiple syntaxes for each
- supported namespace, allowing users the freedom to choose a preferred
- name representation. gss_display_name should use an implementation-
- chosen printable syntax for each supported name-type.
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- If an application calls gss_display_name(), passing the internal name
- resulting from a call to gss_import_name(), there is no guarantee the
- the resulting contiguous string name will be the same as the original
- imported string name. Nor do name-space identifiers necessarily survive
- unchanged after a journey through the internal name-form. An example of
- this might be a mechanism that authenticates X.500 names, but provides
- an algorithmic mapping of Internet DNS names into X.500. That
- mechanism's implementation of gss_import_name() might, when presented
- with a DNS name, generate an internal name that contained both the
- original DNS name and the equivalent X.500 name. Alternatively, it might
- only store the X.500 name. In the latter case, gss_display_name() would
- most likely generate a printable X.500 name, rather than the original
- DNS name.
-
- The process of authentication delivers to the context acceptor an
- internal name. Since this name has been authenticated by a single
- mechanism, it contains only a single name (even if the internal name
- presented by the context initiator to gss_init_sec_context had multiple
- components). Such names are termed internal mechanism names, or "MN"s
- and the names emitted by gss_accept_sec_context() are always of this
- type. Since some applications may require MNs without wanting to incur
- the overhead of an authentication operation, a second function,
- gss_canonicalize_name(), is provided to convert a general internal name
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- gss_compare_name() routine, which returns true if the two names being
- compared refer to the same entity. This removes the need for the
- application program to understand the syntaxes of the various printable
- names that a given GSS-API implementation may support. Since GSSAPI
- assumes that all primitive names contained within a given internal name
- refer to the same entity, gss_compare_name() can return true if the two
- names have at least one primitive name in common. If the implementation
- embodies knowledge of equivalence relationships between names taken from
- different namespaces, this knowledge may also allow successful
- comparison of internal names containing no overlapping primitive
- elements.
-
- When used in large access control lists, the overhead of invoking
- gss_import_name() and gss_compare_name() on each name from the ACL may
- be prohibitive. As an alternative way of supporting this case, GSSAPI
- defines a special form of the contiguous string name which may be
- compared directly (e.g. with memcmp()). Contigous names suitable for
- comparison are generated by the gss_export_name() routine, which
- requires an MN as input. Exported names may be re-imported by the
- gss_import_name() routine, and the resulting internal name will also be
- an MN. The gss_OID constant GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME indentifies the
- "export name" type, and the value of this constant is given in Appendix
- A. Structurally, an exported name object consists of a header
- containing an OID identifying the mechanism that authenticated the name,
- and a trailer containing the name itself, where the syntax of the
- trailer is defined by the individual mechanism specification. The
- precise format of an export name is defined in the language-independent
- GSSAPI specification [GSSAPI].
-
- Note that the results obtained by using gss_compare_name() will in
- general be different from those obtained by invoking
- gss_canonicalize_name() and gss_export_name(), and then comparing the
- exported names. The first series of operation determines whether two
- (unauthenticated) names identify the same principal; the second whether
- a particular mechanism would authenticate them as the same principal.
- These two operations will in general give the same results only for MNs.
-
- The gss_name_t datatype should be implemented as a pointer type. To
- allow the compiler to aid the application programmer by performing
- type-checking, the use of (void *) is discouraged. A pointer to an
- implementation-defined type is the preferred choice.
-
- Storage is allocated by routines that return gss_name_t values. A
- procedure, gss_release_name, is provided to free storage associated with
- an internal-form name.
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- GSS-API supports the use of user-specified tags to identify a given
- context to the peer application. These tags are intended to be used to
- identify the particular communications channel that carries the context.
- Channel bindings are communicated to the GSS-API using the following
- structure:
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- typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
- OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
- OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
- gss_buffer_desc application_data;
- } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
-
- The initiator_addrtype and acceptor_addrtype fields denote the type of
- addresses contained in the initiator_address and acceptor_address
- buffers. The address type should be one of the following:
-
- GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC Unspecified address type
- GSS_C_AF_LOCAL Host-local address type
- GSS_C_AF_INET Internet address type (e.g. IP)
- GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK ARPAnet IMP address type
- GSS_C_AF_PUP pup protocols (eg BSP) address type
- GSS_C_AF_CHAOS MIT CHAOS protocol address type
- GSS_C_AF_NS XEROX NS address type
- GSS_C_AF_NBS nbs address type
- GSS_C_AF_ECMA ECMA address type
- GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT datakit protocols address type
- GSS_C_AF_CCITT CCITT protocols
- GSS_C_AF_SNA IBM SNA address type
- GSS_C_AF_DECnet DECnet address type
- GSS_C_AF_DLI Direct data link interface address type
- GSS_C_AF_LAT LAT address type
- GSS_C_AF_HYLINK NSC Hyperchannel address type
- GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK AppleTalk address type
- GSS_C_AF_BSC BISYNC 2780/3780 address type
- GSS_C_AF_DSS Distributed system services address type
- GSS_C_AF_OSI OSI TP4 address type
- GSS_C_AF_X25 X25
- GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR No address specified
-
- Note that these symbols name address families rather than specific
- addressing formats. For address families that contain several
- alternative address forms, the initiator_address and acceptor_address
- fields must contain sufficient information to determine which address
- form is used. When not otherwise specified, addresses should be
- specified in network byte-order (that is, native byte-ordering for the
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- initiator_address, acceptor_addrtype, acceptor_address and
- application_data to form an octet string. The mechanism calculates a
- MIC over this octet string, and binds the MIC to the context
- establishment token emitted by gss_init_sec_context. The same bindings
- are presented by the context acceptor to gss_accept_sec_context, and a
- MIC is calculated in the same way. The calculated MIC is compared with
- that found in the token, and if the MICs differ, gss_accept_sec_context
- will return a GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS error, and the context will not be
- established. Some mechanisms may include the actual channel binding
- data in the token (rather than just a MIC); applications should
- therefore not use confidential data as channel-binding components.
- Individual mechanisms may impose additional constraints on addresses and
- address types that may appear in channel bindings. For example, a
- mechanism may verify that the initiator_address field of the channel
- bindings presented to gss_init_sec_context contains the correct network
- address of the host system. Portable applications should therefore
- ensure that they either provide correct information for the address
- fields, or omit addressing information, specifying GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR as
- the address-types.
-
- 5.12. Optional parameters
-
- Various parameters are described as optional. This means that they
- follow a convention whereby a default value may be requested. The
- following conventions are used for omitted parameters. These
- conventions apply only to those parameters that are explicitly
- documented as optional.
-
- 5.12.1. gss_buffer_t types
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_BUFFER as a value. For an input parameter this
- signifies that default behavior is requested, while for an output
- parameter it indicates that the information that would be returned via
- the parameter is not required by the application.
-
- 5.12.2. Integer types (input)
-
- Individual parameter documentation lists values to be used to indicate
- default actions.
-
- 5.12.3. Integer types (output)
-
- Specify NULL as the value for the pointer.
-
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- Specify GSS_C_NO_OID as the value.
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- 5.12.6. Object ID Sets
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- Specify GSS_C_NO_OID_SET as the value.
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- 5.12.7. Channel Bindings
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- Specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS to indicate that channel bindings are
- not to be used.
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- This section discusses the optional services that a context initiator
- may request of the GSS-API at context establishment. Each of these
- services is requested by setting a flag in the req_flags input parameter
- to gss_init_sec_context.
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- The optional services currently defined are:
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- Delegation - The (usually temporary) transfer of rights from initiator
- to acceptor, enabling the acceptor to authenticate itself as an
- agent of the initiator.
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- Mutual Authentication - In addition to the initiator authenticating its
- identity to the context acceptor, the context acceptor should also
- authenticate itself to the initiator.
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- Replay detection - In addition to providing message integrity services,
- gss_get_mic and gss_wrap should include message numbering
- information to enable gss_verify_mic and gss_unwrap to detect if a
- message has been duplicated.
-
- Out-of-sequence detection - In addition to providing message integrity
- services, gss_get_mic and gss_wrap should include message
- sequencing information to enable gss_verify_mic and gss_unwrap to
- detect if a message has been received out of sequence.
-
- Anonymous authentication - The establishment of the security context
- should not reveal the initiator's identity to the context
- acceptor.
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- Any currently undefined bits within such flag arguments should be
- ignored by GSS-API implementations when presented by an application, and
- should be set to zero when returned to the application by the GSS-API
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- mechanisms may only support some services in conjunction with others.
- Both gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context inform the
- applications which services will be available from the context when the
- establishment phase is complete, via the ret_flags output parameter. In
- general, if the security mechanism is capable of providing a requested
- service, it should do so, even if additional services must be enabled in
- order to provide the requested service. If the mechanism is incapable
- of providing a requested service, it should proceed without the service,
- leaving the application to abort the context establishment process if it
- considers the requested service to be mandatory.
-
- Some mechanisms may specify that support for some services is optional,
- and that implementors of the mechanism need not provide it. This is
- most commonly true of the confidentiality service, often because of
- legal restrictions on the use of data-encryption, but may apply to any
- of the services. Such mechanisms are required to send at least one
- token from acceptor to initiator during context establishment when the
- initiator indicates a desire to use such a service, so that the
- initiating GSSAPI can correctly indicate whether the service is
- supported by the acceptor's GSSAPI.
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- The GSS-API allows delegation to be controlled by the initiating
- application via a boolean parameter to gss_init_sec_context(), the
- routine that establishes a security context. Some mechanisms do not
- support delegation, and for such mechanisms attempts by an application
- to enable delegation are ignored.
-
- The acceptor of a security context for which the initiator enabled
- delegation will receive (via the delegated_cred_handle parameter of
- gss_accept_sec_context) a credential handle that contains the delegated
- identity, and this credential handle may be used to initiate subsequent
- GSSAPI security contexts as an agent or delegate of the initiator. If
- the original initiator's identity is "A" and the delegate's identity is
- "B", then, depending on the underlying mechanism, the identity embodied
- by the delegated credential may be either "A" or "B acting for A".
-
- For many mechanisms that support delegation, a simple boolean does not
- provide enough control. Examples of additional aspects of delegation
- control that a mechanism might provide to an application are duration of
- delegation, network addresses from which delegation is valid, and
- constraints on the tasks that may be performed by a delegate. Such
- controls are presently outside the scope of the GSS-API. GSS-API
- implementations supporting mechanisms offering additional controls
- should provide extension routines that allow these controls to be
- exercised (perhaps by modifying the initiator's GSS-API credential prior
- to its use in establishing a context). However, the simple delegation
- control provided by GSS-API should always be able to over-ride other
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- exception to the general rule that a mechanism may enable services even
- if they are not requested - delegation may only be provide at the
- explicit request of the application.
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- 6.2. Mutual authentication
-
- Usually, a context acceptor will require that a context initiator
- authenticate itself so that the acceptor may make an access-control
- decision prior to performing a service for the initiator. In some
- cases, the initiator may also request that the acceptor authenticate
- itself. GSS-API allows the initiating application to request this
- mutual authentication service by setting a flag when calling
- gss_init_sec_context.
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- The initiating application is informed as to whether or not mutual
- authentication is being requested of the context acceptor. Note that
- some mechanisms may not support mutual authentication, and other
- mechanisms may always perform mutual authentication, whether or not the
- initiating application requests it. In particular, mutual
- authentication my be required by some mechanisms in order to support
- replay or out-of-sequence message detection, and for such mechanisms a
- request for either of these services will automatically enable mutual
- authentication.
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- 6.3. Replay and out-of-sequence detection
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- The GSS-API may provide detection of mis-ordered message once a security
- context has been established. Protection may be applied to messages by
- either application, by calling either gss_get_mic or gss_wrap, and
- verified by the peer application by calling gss_verify_mic or
- gss_unwrap.
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- gss_get_mic calculates a cryptographic checksum of an application
- message, and returns that checksum in a token. The application should
- pass both the token and the message to the peer application, which
- presents them to gss_verify_mic.
-
- gss_wrap calculates a cryptographic checksum of an application message,
- and places both the checksum and the message inside a single token. The
- application should pass the token to the peer application, which
- presents it to gss_unwrap to extract the message and verify the
- checksum.
-
- Either pair of routines may be capable of detecting out-of-sequence
- message delivery, or duplication of messages. Details of such mis-
- ordered messages are indicated through supplementary status bits in the
- major status code returned by gss_verify_mic or gss_unwrap. The
- relevant supplementary bits are:
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- been received and processed. Contexts that do not claim to
- provide replay detection may still set this bit if the duplicate
- message is processed immediately after the original, with no
- intervening messages.
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- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN - The token is too old to determine whether or not it is
- a duplicate. Contexts supporting out-of-sequence detection but
- not replay detection should always set this bit if
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN is set; contexts that support replay detection
- should only set this bit if the token is so old that it cannot be
- checked for duplication.
-
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN - A later token has already been processed.
-
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN - An earlier token has not yet been received.
-
- A mechanism need not maintain a list of all tokens that have been
- processed in order to support these status codes. A typical mechanism
- might retain information about only the most recent "N" tokens
- processed, allowing it to distinguish duplicates and missing tokens
- within the most recent "N" messages; the receipt of a token older than
- the most recent "N" would result in a GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN status.
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- 6.4. Anonymous Authentication
-
- In certain situations, an application may wish to initiate the
- authentication process to authenticate a peer, without revealing its own
- identity. As an example, consider an application providing access to a
- database containing medical information, and offering unrestricted
- access to the service. A client of such a service might wish to
- authenticate the service (in order to establish trust in any information
- retrieved from it), but might not wish the service to be able to obtain
- the client's identity (perhaps due to privacy concerns about the
- specific inquiries, or perhaps simply to avoid being placed on mailing-
- lists).
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- In normal use of the GSS-API, the initiator's identity is made available
- to the acceptor as a result of the context establishment process.
- However, context initiators may request that their identity not be
- revealed to the context acceptor. Many mechanisms do not support
- anonymous authentication, and for such mechanisms the request will not
- be honored. An authentication token will be still be generated, but the
- application is always informed if a requested service is unavailable,
- and has the option to abort context establishment if anonymity is valued
- above the other security services that would require a context to be
- established.
-
- In addition to informing the application that a context is established
- anonymously (via the ret_flags outputs from gss_init_sec_context and
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- return a reserved internal-form name, defined by the implementation.
- When presented to gss_display_name, this reserved internal-form name
- will result in a printable name that is syntactically distinguishable
- from any valid principal name supported by the implementation,
- associated with a name-type object identifier with the value
- GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS, whose value us given in Appendix A. The printable
- form of an anonymous name should be chosen such that it implies
- anonymity, since this name may appear in, for example, audit logs. For
- example, the string "<anonymous>" might be a good choice, if no valid
- printable names supported by the implementation can begin with "<" and
- end with ">".
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-
- If a context supports the confidentiality service, gss_wrap may be used
- to encrypt application messages. Messages are selectively encrypted,
- under the control of the conf_req_flag input parameter to gss_wrap.
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- GSSAPI V2 provides routines (gss_export_sec_context and
- gss_import_sec_context) which allow a security context to be transferred
- between processes on a single machine. The most common use for such a
- feature is a client-server design where the server is implemented as a
- single process that accepts incoming security contexts, which then
- launches child processes to deal with the data on these contexts. In
- such a design, the child processes must have access to the security
- context data structure created within the parent by its call to
- gss_accept_sec_context so that they can use per-message protection
- services and delete the security context when the communication session
- ends.
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- Since the security context data structure is expected to contain
- sequencing information, it is impractical in general to share a context
- between processes. Thus GSSAPI provides a call (gss_export_sec_context)
- that the process which currently owns the context can call to declare
- that it has no intention to use the context subsequently, and to create
- an inter-process token containing information needed by the adopting
- process to successfully import the context. After successful completion
- of this call, the original security context is made inaccessible to the
- calling process by GSSAPI, and any context handles referring to this
- context are no longer valid. The originating process transfers the
- inter-process token to the adopting process, which passes it to
- gss_import_sec_context, and a fresh gss_ctx_id_t is created such that it
- is functionally identical to the original context.
-
- The inter-process token may contain sensitive data from the original
- security context (including cryptographic keys). Applications using
- inter-process tokens to transfer security contexts must take appropriate
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- of security contexts. The ability to transfer a security context is
- indicated when the context is created, by gss_init_sec_context or
- gss_accept_sec_context setting the GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bit in their
- ret_flags parameter.
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- 6.7. The use of incomplete contexts
-
- Some mechanisms may allow the per-message services to be used before the
- context establishment process is complete. For example, a mechanism may
- include sufficient information in its initial context-level token for
- the context acceptor to immediately decode messages protected with
- gss_wrap or gss_get_mic. For such a mechanism, the initiating
- application need not wait until subsequent context-level tokens have
- been sent and received before invoking the per-message protection
- services.
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- The ability of a context to provide per-message services in advance of
- complete context establishment is indicated by the setting of the
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG bit in the ret_flags parameter from
- gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context. Applications wishing
- to use per-message protection services on partially-established contexts
- should check this flag before attempting to invoke gss_wrap or
- gss_get_mic.
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-
- In addition to the explicit major status codes documented here, the code
- GSS_S_FAILURE may be returned by any routine, indicating an
- implementation-specific or mechanism-specific error condition, further
- details of which are reported via the minor_status parameter.
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- OM_uint32 gss_accept_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- const gss_cred_id_t acceptor_cred_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t input_token_buffer,
- const gss_channel_bindings_t
- input_chan_bindings,
- const gss_name_t * src_name,
- gss_OID * mech_type,
- gss_buffer_t output_token,
- OM_uint32 * ret_flags,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec,
- gss_cred_id_t * delegated_cred_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows a remotely initiated security context between the application and
- a remote peer to be established. The routine may return a output_token
- which should be transferred to the peer application, where the peer
- application will present it to gss_init_sec_context. If no token need
- be sent, gss_accept_sec_context will indicate this by setting the length
- field of the output_token argument to zero. To complete the context
- establishment, one or more reply tokens may be required from the peer
- application; if so, gss_accept_sec_context will return a status flag of
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, in which case it should be called again when the
- reply token is received from the peer application, passing the token to
- gss_accept_sec_context via the input_token parameters.
-
- Portable applications should be constructed to use the token length and
- return status to determine whether a token needs to be sent or waited
- for. Thus a typical portable caller should always invoke
- gss_accept_sec_context within a loop:
-
- gss_ctx_id_t context_hdl = GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT;
- ...
-
- do {
- receive_token_from_peer(input_token);
- maj_stat = gss_accept_sec_context(&min_stat,
- &context_hdl,
- cred_hdl,
- input_token,
- input_bindings,
- &client_name,
- &mech_type,
- output_token,
- &ret_flags,
- &time_rec,
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- report_error(maj_stat, min_stat);
- };
- if (output_token->length != 0) {
- send_token_to_peer(output_token);
- gss_release_buffer(&min_stat,
- output_token)
- };
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
- if (context_hdl != GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT)
- gss_delete_sec_context(&min_stat,
- &context_hdl,
- GSS_C_NO_BUFFER);
- break;
- };
- } while (maj_stat & GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED);
-
-
- Whenever the routine returns a major status that includes the value
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the context is not fully established and the
- following restrictions apply to the output parameters:
-
- (a) The value returned via the time_rec parameter is undefined
-
- (b) Unless the accompanying ret_flags parameter contains the bit
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG, indicating that per-message services may be
- applied in advance of a successful completion status, the value
- returned via the mech_type parameter may be undefined until the
- routine returns a major status value of GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- (c) The values of the GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG, GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG,
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG, GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG, GSS_C_CONF_FLAG,
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_ANON_FLAG bits returned via the
- ret_flags parameter should contain the values that the
- implementation expects would be valid if context establishment
- were to succeed.
-
- The values of the GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG and GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bits
- within ret_flags should indicate the actual state at the time
- gss_accept_sec_context returns, whether or not the context is
- fully established.
-
- Although this requires that GSSAPI implementations set the
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG in the final ret_flags returned to a caller
- (i.e. when accompanied by a GSS_S_COMPLETE status code),
- applications should not rely on this behavior as the flag was not
- defined in Version 1 of the GSSAPI. Instead, applications should
- be prepared to use per-message services after a successful context
- establishment, according to the GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and
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- While the routine returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the values returned via
- the ret_flags argument indicate the services that the implementation
- expects to be available from the established context.
-
- If the initial call of gss_accept_sec_context() fails, the
- implementation should not create a context object, and should leave the
- value of the context_handle parameter set to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT to
- indicate this. In the event of a failure on a subsequent call, the
- implementation is permitted to delete the "half-built" security context
- (in which case it should set the context_handle parameter to
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT), but the preferred behavior is to leave the security
- context (and the context_handle parameter) untouched for the application
- to delete (using gss_delete_sec_context).
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- Parameters:
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read/modify
- context handle for new context. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT for first call; use value
- returned in subsequent calls. Once
- gss_accept_sec_context() has returned a value
- via this parameter, resources have been assigned
- to the corresponding context, and must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_delete_sec_context().
-
-
- acceptor_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read
- Credential handle claimed by context acceptor.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to accept the
- context as a default principal. If
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified, but no
- default acceptor principal is defined,
- GSS_S_NO_CRED will be returned.
-
- input_token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- token obtained from remote application.
-
- input_chan_bindings channel bindings, read, optional
- Application-specified bindings. Allows
- application to securely bind channel
- identification information to the security
- context. If channel bindings are not
- used, specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS.
-
- src_name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- Authenticated name of context initiator.
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- passing it to gss_release_name(). If not
- required, specify NULL.
-
- mech_type Object ID, modify, optional
- Security mechanism used. The returned
- OID value will be a pointer into static
- storage, and should be treated as read-only
- by the caller (in particular, it does not
- need to be freed). If not required, specify
- NULL.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify
- Token to be passed to peer application. If the
- length field of the returned token buffer is 0,
- then no token need be passed to the peer
- application. If a non-zero length field is
- returned, the associated storage must be freed
- after use by the application with a call to
- gss_release_buffer().
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- ret_flags bit-mask, modify, optional
- Contains various independent flags, each of
- which indicates that the context supports a
- specific service option. If not needed,
- specify NULL. Symbolic names are
- provided for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags
- should be logically-ANDed with the ret_flags
- value to test whether a given option is
- supported by the context. The flags are:
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Delegated credentials are available
- via the delegated_cred_handle
- parameter
- False - No credentials were delegated
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Remote peer asked for mutual
- authentication
- False - Remote peer did not ask for mutual
- authentication
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of protected messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence protected
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will not
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- True - Confidentiality service may be invoked
- by calling the gss_wrap routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- gss_wrap) available. gss_wrap will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_get_mic or gss_wrap
- routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - The initiator does not wish to
- be authenticated; the src_name
- parameter (if requested) contains
- an anonymous internal name.
- False - The initiator has been
- authenticated normally.
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
- True - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- if the accompanying major status return
- value is either GSS_S_COMPLETE or
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED.
- False - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- only if the accompanying major status
- return value is GSS_S_COMPLETE.
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
- True - The resultant security context may
- be transferred to other processes via
- a call to gss_export_sec_context().
- False - The security context is not
- transferrable.
- All other bits should be set to zero.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- delegated_cred_handle
- gss_cred_id_t, modify, optional
- credential handle for credentials received from
- context initiator. Only valid if deleg_flag in
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- will be returned; if deleg_flag is false,
- gss_accept_context() will set this parameter to
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL. If a credential handle is
- returned, the associated resources must be released
- by the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_cred(). Specify NULL if not required.
-
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- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED Indicates that a token from the peer application
- is required to complete the context, and that
- gss_accept_sec_context must be called again with that
- token.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed on the
- input_token failed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL Indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the credential failed.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The supplied credentials were not valid for context
- acceptance, or the credential handle did not reference
- any credentials.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS The input_token contains different channel bindings
- to those specified via the input_chan_bindings
- parameter.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT Indicates that the supplied context handle did not
- refer to a valid context.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The input_token contains an invalid MIC.
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The input_token was too old. This is a fatal error
- during context establishment.
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The input_token is valid, but is a duplicate of a
- token already processed. This is a fatal error during
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- OM_uint32 gss_acquire_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t desired_name,
- OM_uint32 time_req,
- const gss_OID_set desired_mechs,
- gss_cred_usage_t cred_usage,
- gss_cred_id_t * output_cred_handle,
- gss_OID_set * actual_mechs,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec)
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- Purpose:
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- Allows an application to acquire a handle for a pre-existing credential
- by name. GSS-API implementations must impose a local access-control
- policy on callers of this routine to prevent unauthorized callers from
- acquiring credentials to which they are not entitled. This routine is
- not intended to provide a ``login to the network'' function, as such a
- function would involve the creation of new credentials rather than
- merely acquiring a handle to existing credentials. Such functions, if
- required, should be defined in implementation-specific extensions to the
- API.
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- If desired_name is GSS_C_NO_NAME, the call is interpreted as a request
- for a credential handle that will invoke default behavior when passed to
- gss_init_sec_context() (if cred_usage is GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH)
- or gss_accept_sec_context() (if cred_usage is GSS_C_ACCEPT or
- GSS_C_BOTH).
-
- This routine is expected to be used primarily by context acceptors,
- since implementations are likely to provide mechanism-specific ways of
- obtaining GSS-API initiator credentials from the system login process.
- Some implementations may therefore not support the acquisition of
- GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH credentials via gss_acquire_cred for any
- name other than an empty name.
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- If credential acquisition is time-consuming for a mechanism, the
- mechanism may chooses to delay the actual acquisition until the
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- decisions should be invisible to the calling application; thus a call of
- gss_inquire_cred immediately following the call of gss_acquire_cred must
- return valid credential data, and may therefore incur the overhead of a
- deferred credential acquisition.
-
- Parameters:
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- desired_name gss_name_t, read
- Name of principal whose credential
- should be acquired
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- time_req Integer, read, optional
- number of seconds that credentials
- should remain valid. Specify GSS_C_INDEFINITE
- to request that the credentials have the maximum
- permitted lifetime.
-
- desired_mechs Set of Object IDs, read, optional
- set of underlying security mechanisms that
- may be used. GSS_C_NO_OID_SET may be used
- to obtain an implementation-specific default.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, read
- GSS_C_BOTH - Credentials may be used
- either to initiate or accept
- security contexts.
- GSS_C_INITIATE - Credentials will only be
- used to initiate security
- contexts.
- GSS_C_ACCEPT - Credentials will only be used to
- accept security contexts.
-
- output_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify
- The returned credential handle. Resources
- associated with this credential handle must
- be released by the application after use
- with a call to gss_release_cred().
-
- actual_mechs Set of Object IDs, modify, optional
- The set of mechanisms for which the
- credential is valid. Storage associated
- with the returned OID-set must be released by
- the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_oid_set(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid. If the
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- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Unavailable mechanism requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE Type contained within desired_name parameter is not
- supported
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME Value supplied for desired_name parameter is ill-
- formed.
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- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The credentials could not be acquired because
- they have expired.
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- GSS_S_NO_CRED No credentials were found for the specified name.
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- OM_uint32 gss_add_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t input_cred_handle,
- const gss_name_t desired_name,
- const gss_OID desired_mech,
- gss_cred_usage_t cred_usage,
- OM_uint32 initiator_time_req,
- OM_uint32 acceptor_time_req,
- gss_cred_id_t * output_cred_handle,
- gss_OID_set * actual_mechs,
- OM_uint32 * initiator_time_rec,
- OM_uint32 * acceptor_time_rec)
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- Adds a credential-element to a credential. The credential-element is
- identified by the name of the principal to which it refers. GSSAPI
- implementations must impose a local access-control policy on callers of
- this routine to prevent unauthorized callers from acquiring credential-
- elements to which they are not entitled. This routine is not intended to
- provide a ``login to the network'' function, as such a function would
- involve the creation of new mechanism-specific authentication data,
- rather than merely acquiring a GSSAPI handle to existing data. Such
- functions, if required, should be defined in implementation-specific
- extensions to the API.
-
- This routine is expected to be used primarily by context acceptors,
- since implementations are likely to provide mechanism-specific ways of
- obtaining GSS-API initiator credentials from the system login process.
- Some implementations may therefore not support the acquisition of
- GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH credentials via gss_acquire_cred.
-
- If credential acquisition is time-consuming for a mechanism, the
- mechanism may chooses to delay the actual acquisition until the
- credential is required (e.g. by gss_init_sec_context or
- gss_accept_sec_context). Such mechanism-specific implementation
- decisions should be invisible to the calling application; thus a call of
- gss_inquire_cred immediately following the call of gss_acquire_cred must
- return valid credential data, and may therefore incur the overhead of a
- deferred credential acquisition.
-
- This routine can be used to either create a new credential containing
- all credential-elements of the original in addition to the newly-acquire
- credential-element, or to add the new credential-element to an existing
- credential. If NULL is specified for the output_cred_handle parameter
- argument, the new credential-element will be added to the credential
- identified by input_cred_handle; if a valid pointer is specified for the
- output_cred_handle parameter, a new credential and handle will be
- created.
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- If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified as the input_cred_handle, the
- gss_add_cred will create its output_cred_handle based on default
- behavior. That is, the call will have the same effect as if the
- application had first made a call to gss_acquire_cred(), specifying the
- same usage and passing GSS_C_NO_NAME as the desired_name parameter to
- obtain an explicit credential handle embodying default behavior, passed
- this credential handle to gss_add_cred(), and finally called
- gss_release_cred() on the first credential handle.
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- If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified as the input_cred_handle parameter,
- a non-NULL output_cred_handle must be supplied.
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- Mechanism specific status code.
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- input_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read, optional
- The credential to which a credential-element
- will be added. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is
- specified, the routine will create the new
- credential based on default behavior (see
- description above). Note that, while the
- credential-handle is not modified by
- gss_add_cred(), the underlying credential
- will be modified if output_credential_handle
- is NULL.
-
- desired_name gss_name_t, read.
- Name of principal whose credential
- should be acquired.
-
- desired_mech Object ID, read
- Underlying security mechanism with which the
- credential may be used.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, read
- GSS_C_BOTH - Credential may be used
- either to initiate or accept
- security contexts.
- GSS_C_INITIATE - Credential will only be
- used to initiate security
- contexts.
- GSS_C_ACCEPT - Credential will only be used to
- accept security contexts.
-
- initiator_time_req Integer, read, optional
- number of seconds that the credential
- should remain valid for initiating security
- contexts. This argument is ignored if the
- created credentials are of type GSS_C_ACCEPT.
- Specify GSS_C_INDEFINITE to request that the
- credentials have the maximum permitted initiator
- lifetime.
-
- acceptor_time_req Integer, read, optional
- number of seconds that the credential
- should remain valid for accepting security
- contexts. This argument is ignored if the
- created credentials are of type GSS_C_INITIATE.
- Specify GSS_C_INDEFINITE to request that the
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- The returned credential handle, containing
- the new credential-element and all the
- credential-elements from input_cred_handle.
- If a valid pointer to a gss_cred_id_t is
- supplied for this parameter, gss_add_cred
- creates a new credential handle containing all
- credential-elements from the input_cred_handle
- and the newly acquired credential-element; if
- NULL is specified for this parameter, the newly
- acquired credential-element will be added
- to the credential identified by input_cred_handle.
- The resources associated with any credential
- handle returned via this parameter must be
- released by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_cred().
-
- actual_mechs Set of Object IDs, modify, optional
- The complete set of mechanisms for which
- the new credential is valid. Storage for
- the returned OID-set must be freed by the
- application after use with a call to
- gss_release_oid_set(). Specify NULL if
- not required.
-
- initiator_time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid for
- initiating contexts using the specified
- mechanism. If the implementation or mechanism
- does not support expiration of credentials, the
- value GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required
-
- acceptor_time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid for
- accepting security contexts using the specified
- mechanism. If the implementation or mechanism
- does not support expiration of credentials, the
- value GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Unavailable mechanism requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE Type contained within desired_name parameter is not
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- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT The credential already contains an element for
- the requested mechanism with overlapping usage and
- validity period.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The required credentials could not be added
- because they have expired.
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- OM_uint32 gss_add_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_OID member_oid,
- gss_OID_set * oid_set)
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- Purpose:
-
- Add an Object Identifier to an Object Identifier set. This routine is
- intended for use in conjunction with gss_create_empty_oid_set when
- constructing a set of mechanism OIDs for input to gss_acquire_cred.
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- The oid_set parameter must refer to an OID-set that was created by
- GSSAPI (e.g. a set returned by gss_create_empty_oid_set()). GSSAPI
- creates a copy of the member_oid and inserts this copy into the set,
- expanding the storage allocated to the OID-set's elements array if
- necessary. The routine may add the new member OID anywhere within the
- elements array, and implementations should verify that the new
- member_oid is not already contained within the elements array.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- member_oid Object ID, read
- The object identifier to copied into
- the set.
-
- oid_set Set of Object ID, modify
- The set in which the object identifier
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- OM_uint32 gss_canonicalize_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- gss_name_t * output_name)
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- Purpose:
-
- Generate a canonical mechanism name (MN) from an arbitrary internal
- name. The mechanism name is the name that would be returned to a
- context acceptor on successful authentication of a context where the
- initiator used the input_name in a successful call to gss_acquire_cred,
- specifying an OID set containing <mech_type> as its only member,
- followed by a call to gss_init_sec_context, specifying <mech_type> as
- the authentication mechanism.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- The name for which a canonical form is
- desired
-
- mech_type Object ID, read
- The authentication mechanism for which the
- canonical form of the name is desired. The
- desired mechanism must be specified explicitly;
- no default is provided.
-
- output_name gss_name_t, modify
- The resultant canonical name. Storage
- associated with this name must be freed by
- the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_name().
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-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The provided internal name contains no elements that
- could be processed by the sepcified mechanism.
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- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provided internal name was ill-formed.
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- OM_uint32 gss_compare_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t name1,
- const gss_name_t name2,
- int * name_equal)
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- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to compare two internal-form names to determine
- whether they refer to the same entity.
-
- If either name presented to gss_compare_name denotes an anonymous
- principal, the routines should indicate that the two names do not refer
- to the same identity.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- name1 gss_name_t, read
- internal-form name
-
- name2 gss_name_t, read
- internal-form name
-
- name_equal boolean, modify
- non-zero - names refer to same entity
- zero - names refer to different entities
- (strictly, the names are not known
- to refer to the same identity).
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- OM_uint32 gss_context_time (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec)
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- Purpose:
-
- Determines the number of seconds for which the specified context will
- remain valid.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context to be interrogated.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify
- Number of seconds that the context will remain
- valid. If the context has already expired,
- zero will be returned.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a valid
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- OM_uint32 gss_create_empty_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_OID_set * oid_set)
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- Purpose:
-
- Create an object-identifier set containing no object identifiers, to
- which members may be subsequently added using the
- gss_add_oid_set_member() routine. These routines are intended to be
- used to construct sets of mechanism object identifiers, for input to
- gss_acquire_cred.
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- oid_set Set of Object IDs, modify
- The empty object identifier set.
- The routine will allocate the
- gss_OID_set_desc object, which the
- application must free after use with
- a call to gss_release_oid_set().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t output_token)
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- Purpose:
-
- Delete a security context. gss_delete_sec_context will delete the local
- data structures associated with the specified security context, and may
- generate an output_token, which when passed to the peer
- gss_process_context_token will instruct it to do likewise. If no token
- is required by the mechanism, the GSS-API should set the length field of
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- In addition to deleting established security contexts,
- gss_delete_sec_context must also be able to delete "half-built" security
- contexts resulting from an incomplete sequence of
- gss_init_sec_context()/gss_accept_sec_context() calls.
-
- The output_token parameter is retained for compatibility with version 1
- of the GSS-API. It is recommended that both peer applications invoke
- gss_delete_sec_context passing the value GSS_C_NO_BUFFER for the
- output_token parameter, indicating that no token is required, and that
- gss_delete_sec_context should simply delete local context data
- structures. If the application does pass a valid buffer to
- gss_delete_sec_context, mechanisms are encouraged to return a zero-
- length token, indicating that no peer action is necessary, and that no
- token should be transferred by the application.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, modify
- context handle identifying context to delete.
- After deleting the context, the GSSAPI will set
- this context handle to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify, optional
- token to be sent to remote application to
- instruct it to also delete the context. It
- is recommended that applications specify
- GSS_C_NO_BUFFER for this parameter, requesting
- local deletion only. If a buffer parameter is
- provided by the application, the mechanism may
- return a token in it; mechanisms that implement
- only local deletion should set the length field of
- this token to zero to indicate to the application
- that no token is to be sent to the peer.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
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- OM_uint32 gss_display_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_buffer_t output_name_buffer,
- gss_OID * output_name_type)
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- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of an opaque
- internal-form name for display purposes. The syntax of a printable
- name is defined by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- If input_name denotes an anonymous principal, the implementation should
- return the gss_OID value GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS as the output_name_type, and
- a textual name that is syntactically distinct from all valid supported
- printable names in output_name_buffer.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- name to be displayed
-
- output_name_buffer buffer, character-string, modify
- buffer to receive textual name string.
- The application must free storage associated
- with this name after use with a call to
- gss_release_buffer().
-
- output_name_type Object ID, modify, optional
- The type of the returned name. The returned
- gss_OID will be a pointer into static storage,
- and should be treated as read-only by the caller
- (in particular, it does not need to be freed).
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
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- OM_uint32 gss_display_status (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- OM_uint32 status_value,
- int status_type,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- OM_uint32 * message_context,
- gss_buffer_t status_string)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of a GSS-API
- status code, for display to the user or for logging purposes. Since
- some status values may indicate multiple conditions, applications may
- need to call gss_display_status multiple times, each call generating a
- single text string. The message_context parameter is used by
- gss_acquire_cred to store state information about which error messages
- have already been extracted from a given status_value; message_context
- must be initialized to 0 by the application prior to the first call, and
- gss_display_status will return a non-zero value in this parameter if
- there are further messages to extract. The message_context parameter
- contains all state information required by gss_display_status in order
- to extract further messages from the status_value; even when a non-zero
- value is returned in this parameter, the application is not required to
- call gss_display_status again unless subsequent messages are desired.
- The following code extracts all messages from a given status code and
- prints them to stderr:
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- OM_uint32 message_context;
- OM_uint32 status_code;
- OM_uint32 maj_status;
- OM_uint32 min_status;
- gss_buffer_desc status_string;
-
- ...
-
- message_context = 0;
-
- do {
-
- maj_status = gss_display_status (&min_status,
- status_code,
- GSS_C_GSS_CODE,
- GSS_C_NO_OID,
- &message_context,
- &status_string)
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- } while (message_context != 0);
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- status_value Integer, read
- Status value to be converted
-
- status_type Integer, read
- GSS_C_GSS_CODE - status_value is a GSS status
- code
- GSS_C_MECH_CODE - status_value is a mechanism
- status code
-
- mech_type Object ID, read, optional
- Underlying mechanism (used to interpret a
- minor status value) Supply GSS_C_NO_OID to
- obtain the system default.
-
- message_context Integer, read/modify
- Should be initialized to zero by the
- application prior to the first call.
- On return from gss_display_status(),
- a non-zero status_value parameter indicates
- that additional messages may be extracted
- from the status code via subsequent calls
- to gss_display_status(), passing the same
- status_value, status_type, mech_type, and
- message_context parameters.
-
- status_string buffer, character string, modify
- textual interpretation of the status_value.
- Storage associated with this parameter must
- be freed by the application after use with
- a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS The status value was not recognized, or the status
- type was neither GSS_C_GSS_CODE nor GSS_C_MECH_CODE.
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- OM_uint32 gss_duplicate_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t src_name,
- gss_name_t * dest_name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Create an exact duplicate of the existing internal name src_name. The
- new dest_name will be independent of src_name (i.e. src_name and
- dest_name must both be released, and the release of one shall not affect
- the validity of the other).
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- src_name gss_name_t, read
- internal name to be duplicated.
-
- dest_name gss_name_t, modify
- The resultant copy of <src_name>.
- Storage associated with this name must
- be freed by the application after use
- with a call to gss_release_name().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The src_name parameter was ill-formed.
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- OM_uint32 gss_export_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_buffer_t exported_name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- To produce a canonical contiguous string representation of a mechanism
- name (MN), suitable for direct comparison (e.g. with memcmp) for use in
- authorization functions (e.g. matching entries in an access-control
- list).
-
- The <input_name> parameter must specify a valid MN (i.e. an internal
- name generated by gss_accept_sec_context or by gss_canonicalize_name).
-
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- The MN to be exported
-
- exported_name gss_buffer_t, octet-string, modify
- The canonical contiguous string form of
- <input_name>. Storage associated with
- this string must freed by the application
- after use with gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN The provided internal name was not a mechanism name.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provide internal name was ill-formed.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The internal name was of a type not supported by the
- GSSAPI implementation.
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- OM_uint32 gss_export_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t interprocess_token)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Provided to support the sharing of work between multiple processes.
- This routine will typically be used by the context-acceptor, in an
- application where a single process receives incoming connection requests
- and accepts security contexts over them, then passes the established
- context to one or more other processes for message exchange.
- gss_export_sec_context() deactivates the security context for the
- calling process and creates an interprocess token which, when passed to
- gss_import_sec_context in another process, will re-activate the context
- in the second process. Only a single instantiation of a given context
- may be active at any one time; a subsequent attempt by a context
- exporter to access the exported security context will fail.
-
- The implementation may constrain the set of processes by which the
- interprocess token may be imported, either as a function of local
- security policy, or as a result of implementation decisions. For
- example, some implementations may constrain contexts to be passed only
- between processes that run under the same account, or which are part of
- the same process group.
-
- The interprocess token may contain security-sensitive information (for
- example cryptographic keys). While mechanisms are encouraged to either
- avoid placing such sensitive information within interprocess tokens, or
- to encrypt the token before returning it to the application, in a
- typical object-library GSSAPI implementation this may not be possible.
- Thus the application must take care to protect the interprocess token,
- and ensure that any process to which the token is transferred is
- trustworthy.
-
- If creation of the interprocess token is succesful, the implementation
- shall deallocate all process-wide resources associated with the security
- context, and set the context_handle to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT. In the event
- of an error that makes it impossible to complete the export of the
- security context, the implementation must not return an interprocess
- token, and should strive to leave the security context referenced by the
- context_handle parameter untouched. If this is impossible, it is
- permissible for the implementation to delete the security context,
- providing it also sets the context_handle parameter to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
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- context handle identifying the context to transfer.
-
- interprocess_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token to be transferred to target process.
- Storage associated with this token must be
- freed by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context was invalid
-
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE The operation is not supported.
-
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- OM_uint32 gss_get_mic (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_qop_t qop_req,
- const gss_buffer_t message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t msg_token)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Generates a cryptographic MIC for the supplied message, and places the
- MIC in a token for transfer to the peer application. The qop_req
- parameter allows a choice between several cryptographic algorithms, if
- supported by the chosen mechanism.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- identifies the context on which the message
- will be sent
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- Specifies requested quality of protection.
- Callers are encouraged, on portability grounds,
- to accept the default quality of protection
- offered by the chosen mechanism, which may be
- requested by specifying GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT for
- this parameter. If an unsupported protection
- strength is requested, gss_get_mic will return a
- major_status of GSS_S_BAD_QOP.
-
- message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- message to be protected
-
- msg_token buffer, opaque, modify
- buffer to receive token. The application must
- free storage associated with this buffer after
- use with a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a valid
- context
-
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP The specified QOP is not supported by the mechanism.
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- OM_uint32 gss_import_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_buffer_t input_name_buffer,
- const gss_OID input_name_type,
- gss_name_t * output_name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Convert a contiguous string name to internal form. In general, the
- internal name returned (via the <output_name> parameter) will not be an
- MN; the exception to this is if the <input_name_type> indicates that the
- contiguous string provided via the <input_name_buffer> parameter is of
- type GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME, in which case the returned internal name will
- be an MN for the mechanism that exported the name.
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- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name_buffer buffer, octet-string, read
- buffer containing contiguous string name to convert
-
- input_name_type Object ID, read, optional
- Object ID specifying type of printable
- name. Applications may specify either
- GSS_C_NO_OID to use a mechanism-specific
- default printable syntax, or an OID registered
- by the GSS-API implementation to name a
- specific namespace.
-
- output_name gss_name_t, modify
- returned name in internal form. Storage
- associated with this name must be freed
- by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_name().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The input_name_type was unrecognized
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The input_name parameter could not be interpreted as a
- name of the specified type
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- OM_uint32 gss_import_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_buffer_t interprocess_token,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows a process to import a security context established by another
- process. A given interprocess token may be imported only once. See
- gss_export_sec_context.
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- Mechanism specific status code
-
- interprocess_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token received from exporting process
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, modify
- context handle of newly reactivated context.
- Resources associated with this context handle
- must be released by the application after use
- with a call to gss_delete_sec_context().
-
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The token did not contain a valid context reference.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token was invalid.
-
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE The operation is unavailable.
-
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED Local policy prevents the import of this context by
- the current process..
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- OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_OID_set * mech_set)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to determine which underlying security mechanisms
- are available.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
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- set of implementation-supported mechanisms.
- The returned gss_OID_set value will be a
- dynamically-allocated OID set, that should
- be released by the caller after use with a
- call to gss_release_oid_set().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- OM_uint32 gss_init_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t initiator_cred_handle,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- const gss_name_t target_name,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- OM_uint32 req_flags,
- OM_uint32 time_req,
- const gss_channel_bindings_t
- input_chan_bindings,
- const gss_buffer_t input_token
- gss_OID * actual_mech_type,
- gss_buffer_t output_token,
- OM_uint32 * ret_flags,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec )
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- Purpose:
-
- Initiates the establishment of a security context between the
- application and a remote peer. Initially, the input_token parameter
- should be specified either as GSS_C_NO_BUFFER, or as a pointer to a
- gss_buffer_desc object whose length field contains the value zero. The
- routine may return a output_token which should be transferred to the
- peer application, where the peer application will present it to
- gss_accept_sec_context. If no token need be sent, gss_init_sec_context
- will indicate this by setting the length field of the output_token
- argument to zero. To complete the context establishment, one or more
- reply tokens may be required from the peer application; if so,
- gss_init_sec_context will return a status containing the supplementary
- information bit GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED. In this case,
- gss_init_sec_context should be called again when the reply token is
- received from the peer application, passing the reply token to
- gss_init_sec_context via the input_token parameters.
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- return status to determine whether a token needs to be sent or waited
- for. Thus a typical portable caller should always invoke
- gss_init_sec_context within a loop:
-
- int context_established = 0;
- gss_ctx_id_t context_hdl = GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT;
- ...
- input_token->length = 0;
-
- while (!context_established) {
- maj_stat = gss_init_sec_context(&min_stat,
- cred_hdl,
- &context_hdl,
- target_name,
- desired_mech,
- desired_services,
- desired_time,
- input_bindings,
- input_token,
- &actual_mech,
- output_token,
- &actual_services,
- &actual_time);
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
- report_error(maj_stat, min_stat);
- };
- if (output_token->length != 0) {
- send_token_to_peer(output_token);
- gss_release_buffer(&min_stat,
- output_token)
- };
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
- if (context_hdl != GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT)
- gss_delete_sec_context(&min_stat,
- &context_hdl,
- GSS_C_NO_BUFFER);
- break;
- };
- if (maj_stat & GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED) {
- receive_token_from_peer(input_token);
- } else {
- context_established = 1;
- };
- };
-
- Whenever the routine returns a major status that includes the value
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the context is not fully established and the
- following restrictions apply to the output parameters:
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- (b) Unless the accompanying ret_flags parameter contains the bit
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG, indicating that per-message services may be
- applied in advance of a successful completion status, the value
- returned via the actual_mech_type parameter is undefined until the
- routine returns a major status value of GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- (c) The values of the GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG, GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG,
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG, GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG, GSS_C_CONF_FLAG,
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_ANON_FLAG bits returned via the
- ret_flags parameter should contain the values that the
- implementation expects would be valid if context establishment
- were to succeed. In particular, if the application has requested
- a service such as delegation or anonymous authentication via the
- req_flags argument, and such a service is unavailable from the
- underlying mechanism, gss_init_sec_context should generate a token
- that will not provide the service, and indicate via the ret_flags
- argument that the service will not be supported. The application
- may choose to abort the context establishment by calling
- gss_delete_sec_context (if it cannot continue in the absence of
- the service), or it may choose to transmit the token and continue
- context establishment (if the service was merely desired but not
- mandatory).
-
- The values of the GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG and GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bits
- within ret_flags should indicate the actual state at the time
- gss_init_sec_context returns, whether or not the context is fully
- established.
-
- Although this requires that GSSAPI implementations set the
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG in the final ret_flags returned to a caller
- (i.e. when accompanied by a GSS_S_COMPLETE status code),
- applications should not rely on this behavior as the flag was not
- defined in Version 1 of the GSSAPI. Instead, applications should
- be prepared to use per-message services after a successful context
- establishment, according to the GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG values.
-
- All other bits within the ret_flags argument should be set to
- zero.
-
- If the initial call of gss_init_sec_context() fails, the implementation
- should not create a context object, and should leave the value of the
- context_handle parameter set to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT to indicate this. In
- the event of a failure on a subsequent call, the implementation is
- permitted to delete the "half-built" security context (in which case it
- should set the context_handle parameter to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT), but the
- preferred behavior is to leave the security context untouched for the
- application to delete (using gss_delete_sec_context).
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- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- initiator_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read, optional
- handle for credentials claimed. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to act as a default
- initiator principal. If no default
- initiator is defined, the function will
- return GSS_S_NO_CRED.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read/modify
- context handle for new context. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT for first call; use value
- returned by first call in continuation calls.
- Resources associated with this context-handle
- must be released by the application after use
- with a call to gee_delete_sec_context().
-
- target_name gss_name_t, read
- Name of target
-
- mech_type OID, read, optional
- Object ID of desired mechanism. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_OID to obtain an implementation
- specific default
-
- req_flags bit-mask, read
- Contains various independent flags, each of
- which requests that the context support a
- specific service option. Symbolic
- names are provided for each flag, and the
- symbolic names corresponding to the required
- flags should be logically-ORed
- together to form the bit-mask value. The
- flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Delegate credentials to remote peer
- False - Don't delegate
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Request that remote peer
- authenticate itself
- False - Authenticate self to remote peer
- only
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - Enable replay detection for
- messages protected with gss_wrap
- or gss_get_mic
- False - Don't attempt to detect
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- True - Enable detection of out-of-sequence
- protected messages
- False - Don't attempt to detect
- out-of-sequence messages
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - Do not reveal the initiator's
- identity to the acceptor.
- False - Authenticate normally.
-
- time_req Integer, read, optional
- Desired number of seconds for which context
- should remain valid. Supply 0 to request a
- default validity period.
-
- input_chan_bindings channel bindings, read, optional
- Application-specified bindings. Allows
- application to securely bind channel
- identification information to the security
- context. Specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS
- if channel bindings are not used.
-
- input_token buffer, opaque, read, optional (see text)
- Token received from peer application.
- Supply GSS_C_NO_BUFFER, or a pointer to
- a buffer containing the value GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER
- on initial call.
-
- actual_mech_type OID, modify, optional
- Actual mechanism used. The OID returned via
- this parameter will be a pointer to static
- storage that should be treated as read-only;
- In particular the application should not attempt
- to free it. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token to be sent to peer application. If
- the length field of the returned buffer is
- zero, no token need be sent to the peer
- application. Storage associated with this
- buffer must be freed by the application
- after use with a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- ret_flags bit-mask, modify, optional
- Contains various independent flags, each of which
- indicates that the context supports a specific
- service option. Specify NULL if not
- required. Symbolic names are provided
- for each flag, and the symbolic names
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- whether a given option is supported by the
- context. The flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Credentials were delegated to
- the remote peer
- False - No credentials were delegated
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Remote peer has been asked to
- authenticated itself
- False - Remote peer has not been asked to
- authenticate itself
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of protected messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence protected
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will
- not be detected
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be
- invoked by calling gss_wrap routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- gss_wrap) available. gss_wrap will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_get_mic or gss_wrap
- routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - The initiator's identity has not been
- revealed, and will not be revealed if
- any emitted token is passed to the
- acceptor.
- False - The initiator's identity has been or
- will be authenticated normally.
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
- True - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available for
- use if the accompanying major status
- return value is either GSS_S_COMPLETE or
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- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- only if the accompanying major status
- return value is GSS_S_COMPLETE.
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
- True - The resultant security context may
- be transferred to other processes via
- a call to gss_export_sec_context().
- False - The security context is not
- transferrable.
- All other bits should be set to zero.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. If the implementation does
- not support context expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED Indicates that a token from the peer application
- is required to complete the context, and that
- gss_init_sec_context must be called again with that
- token.
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- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed on the
- input_token failed
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- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL Indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the credential failed.
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- GSS_S_NO_CRED The supplied credentials were not valid for context
- initiation, or the credential handle did not reference
- any credentials.
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- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired
-
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS The input_token contains different channel bindings
- to those specified via the input_chan_bindings
- parameter
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- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The input_token contains an invalid MIC, or a MIC that
- could not be verified
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- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The input_token was too old. This is a fatal error
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- context establishment.
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT Indicates that the supplied context handle did not
- refer to a valid context
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- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The provided target_name parameter contained an
- invalid or unsupported type of name
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- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provided target_name parameter was ill-formed.
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- GSS_S_BAD_MECH The specified mechanism is not supported by the
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_name_t * src_name,
- gss_name_t * targ_name,
- OM_uint32 * lifetime_rec,
- gss_OID * mech_type,
- OM_uint32 * ctx_flags,
- int * locally_initiated,
- int * open )
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- Purpose:
-
- Obtains information about a security context. The caller must already
- have obtained a handle that refers to the context, although the context
- need not be fully established.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the security context.
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- src_name gss_name_t, modify, optional
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- gss_inquire_context is the context acceptor,
- an anonymous name will be returned. Storage
- associated with this name must be freed by the
- application after use with a call to
- gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- targ_name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- The name of the context acceptor.
- Storage associated with this name must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- lifetime_rec Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. If the context has
- expired, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support
- context expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- mech_type gss_OID, modify, optional
- The security mechanism providing the
- context. The returned OID will be a
- pointer to static storage that should
- be treated as read-only by the application;
- in particular the application should not
- attempt to free it. Specify NULL if not
- required.
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- ctx_flags bit-mask, modify, optional
- Contains various independent flags, each of
- which indicates that the context supports
- (or is expected to support, if ctx_open is
- false) a specific service option. If not
- needed, specify NULL. Symbolic names are
- provided for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags
- should be logically-ANDed with the ret_flags
- value to test whether a given option is
- supported by the context. The flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Credentials were delegated from
- the initiator to the acceptor.
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- True - The acceptor was authenticated
- to the initiator
- False - The acceptor did not authenticate
- itself.
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of protected messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence protected
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will not
- be detected
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be invoked
- by calling gss_wrap routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- gss_wrap) available. gss_wrap will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_get_mic or gss_wrap
- routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - The initiator's identity will not
- be revealed to the acceptor.
- The src_name parameter (if
- requested) contains an anonymous
- internal name.
- False - The initiator has been
- authenticated normally.
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
- True - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- for use.
- False - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- only if the context is fully
- established (i.e. if the open parameter
- is non-zero).
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
- True - The resultant security context may
- be transferred to other processes via
- a call to gss_export_sec_context().
- False - The security context is not
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- Non-zero if the invoking application is the
- context initiator.
- Specify NULL if not required.
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- open Boolean, modify
- Non-zero if the context is fully established;
- Zero if a context-establishment token
- is expected from the peer application.
- Specify NULL if not required.
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- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The referenced context could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has expired. If the lifetime_rec
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t cred_handle,
- gss_name_t * name,
- OM_uint32 * lifetime,
- gss_cred_usage_t * cred_usage,
- gss_OID_set * mechanisms )
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- Purpose:
-
- Obtains information about a credential. The caller must already have
- obtained a handle that refers to the credential.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the target credential.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to inquire about
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- The name whose identity the credential asserts.
- Storage associated with this name should be freed
- by the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not required.
-
- lifetime Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the credential
- will remain valid. If the credential has
- expired, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support
- credential expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, modify, optional
- How the credential may be used. One of the
- following:
- GSS_C_INITIATE
- GSS_C_ACCEPT
- GSS_C_BOTH
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- mechanisms gss_OID_set, modify, optional
- Set of mechanisms supported by the credential.
- Storage associated with this OID set must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_oid_set(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
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- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The referenced credentials could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL The referenced credentials were invalid.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired. If
- the lifetime parameter was not passed as NULL, it will
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred_by_mech (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t cred_handle,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- gss_name_t * name,
- OM_uint32 * initiator_lifetime,
- OM_uint32 * acceptor_lifetime,
- gss_cred_usage_t * cred_usage )
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- Purpose:
-
- Obtains per-mechanism information about a credential. The caller must
- already have obtained a handle that refers to the credential.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the target credential.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to inquire about
- the default initiator principal.
-
- mech_type gss_OID, read
- The mechanism for which information should be
- returned.
-
- name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- The name whose identity the credential asserts.
- Storage associated with this name must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- initiator_lifetime Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the credential
- will remain capable of initiating security contexts
- under the specified mechanism. If the credential
- can no longer be used to initiate contexts, or if
- the credential usage for this mechanism is
- GSS_C_ACCEPT,
- this parameter will be set to zero. If the
- implementation does not support expiration of
- initiator credentials, the value GSS_C_INDEFINITE
- will be returned. Specify NULL if not required.
-
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- The number of seconds for which the credential
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- can no longer be used to accept contexts, or if
- the credential usage for this mechanism is
- GSS_C_INITIATE, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support expiration
- of acceptor credentials, the value GSS_C_INDEFINITE
- will be returned. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, modify, optional
- How the credential may be used with the specified
- mechanism. One of the following:
- GSS_C_INITIATE
- GSS_C_ACCEPT
- GSS_C_BOTH
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The referenced credentials could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL The referenced credentials were invalid.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired. If
- the lifetime parameter was not passed as NULL, it will
- be set to 0.
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_mechs_for_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_OID_set * mech_types )
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- Purpose:
-
- Returns the set of mechanisms supported by the GSSAPI implementation
- that may be able to process the specified name.
-
- Each mechanism returned will recognize at least one element within the
- name. It is permissible for this routine to be implemented within a
- mechanism-independent GSSAPI layer, using the type information contained
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- returned mech_types set may indicate that a particular mechanism will
- understand the name when in fact it would refuse to accept the name as
- input to gss_canonicalize_name, gss_init_sec_context, gss_acquire_cred
- or gss_add_cred (due to some property of the specific name, as opposed
- to the name type). Thus this routine should be used only as a pre-
- filter for a call to a subsequent mechanism-specific routine.
-
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- The name to which the inquiry relates.
-
- mech_types gss_OID_set, modify
- Set of mechanisms that may support the
- specified name. The returned OID set
- must be freed by the caller after use
- with a call to gss_release_oid_set().
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- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The input_name parameter was ill-formed.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The input_name parameter contained an invalid or
- unsupported type of name
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_names_for_mech (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_OID mechanism,
- gss_OID_set * name_types)
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- Purpose:
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- Returns the set of nametypes supported by the specified mechanism.
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- Implementation specific status code.
-
- mechanism gss_OID, read
- The mechanism to be interrogated.
-
- name_types gss_OID_set, modify
- Set of name-types supported by the specified
- mechanism. The returned OID set must be
- freed by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_oid_set().
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- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t token_buffer)
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- Purpose:
-
- Provides a way to pass a token to the security service. Used with
- tokens emitted by gss_delete_sec_context. Note that mechanisms are
- encouraged to perform local deletion, and not emit tokens from
- gss_delete_sec_context. This routine, therefore, is primarily for
- backwards compatibility with V1 applications.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- context handle of context on which token is to
- be processed
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- token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- token to process
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed on the
- token failed
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle did not refer to a valid context
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_buffer (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_buffer_t buffer)
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- Purpose:
-
- Free storage associated with a buffer. The storage must have been
- allocated by a GSS-API routine. In addition to freeing the associated
- storage, the routine will zero the length field in the descriptor to
- which the buffer parameter refers.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- buffer buffer, modify
- The storage associated with the buffer will be
- deleted. The gss_buffer_desc object will not
- be freed, but its length field will be zeroed.
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- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_cred_id_t * cred_handle)
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- Purpose:
-
- Informs GSS-API that the specified credential handle is no longer
- required by the application, and frees associated resources.
-
- Parameters:
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify, optional
- Opaque handle identifying credential
- to be released. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
- is supplied, the routine will complete
- successfully, but will do nothing.
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED Credentials could not be accessed.
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_name_t * name)
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- Purpose:
-
- Free GSSAPI-allocated storage by associated with an internal-form name.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
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- name gss_name_t, modify
- The name to be deleted
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The name parameter did not contain a valid name
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_OID_set * set)
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- Purpose:
-
- Free storage associated with a GSSAPI-generated gss_OID_set object. The
- set parameter must refer to an OID-set that was returned from a GSSAPI
- routine. gss_release_oid_set() will free the storage associated with
- each individual member OID, the OID set's elements array, and the
- gss_OID_set_desc.
-
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- set Set of Object IDs, modify
- The storage associated with the gss_OID_set
- will be deleted.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
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- OM_uint32 gss_test_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_OID member,
- const gss_OID_set set,
- int * present)
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- Purpose:
-
- Interrogate an Object Identifier set to determine whether a specified
- Object Identifier is a member. This routine is intended to be used with
- OID sets returned by gss_indicate_mechs(), gss_acquire_cred(), and
- gss_inquire_cred(), but will also work with user-generated sets.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- member Object ID, read
- The object identifier whose presence
- is to be tested.
-
- set Set of Object ID, read
- The Object Identifier set.
-
- present Boolean, modify
- non-zero if the specified OID is a member
- of the set, zero if not.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- OM_uint32 gss_unwrap (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t input_message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t output_message_buffer,
- int * conf_state,
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- Converts a message previously protected by gss_wrap back to a usable
- form, verifying the embedded MIC. The conf_state parameter indicates
- whether the message was encrypted; the qop_state parameter indicates the
- strength of protection that was used to provide the confidentiality and
- integrity services.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context on which the message
- arrived
-
- input_message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- protected message
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- output_message_buffer buffer, opaque, modify
- Buffer to receive unwrapped message.
- Storage associated with this buffer must
- be freed by the application after use use
- with a call to gss_release_buffer().
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- conf_state boolean, modify, optional
- Non-zero - Confidentiality and integrity protection
- were used
- Zero - Integrity service only was used
- Specify NULL if not required
-
- qop_state gss_qop_t, modify, optional
- Quality of protection gained from MIC.
- Specify NULL if not required
-
- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token failed consistency checks
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The MIC was incorrect
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- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but it had already been processed
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- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC for
- the message, but it is too old to check for
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- the message, but has been verified out of sequence; a
- later token has already been received.
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- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC for
- the message, but has been verified out of sequence;
- an earlier expected token has not yet been received.
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- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a valid
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- OM_uint32 gss_verify_mic (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t message_buffer,
- const gss_buffer_t token_buffer,
- gss_qop_t * qop_state)
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- Purpose:
-
- Verifies that a cryptographic MIC, contained in the token parameter,
- fits the supplied message. The qop_state parameter allows a message
- recipient to determine the strength of protection that was applied to
- the message.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context on which the message
- arrived
-
- message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- Message to be verified
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- token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- Token associated with message
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- quality of protection gained from MIC
- Specify NULL if not required
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- Function value: GSS status code
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
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- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token failed consistency checks
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The MIC was incorrect
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- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but it had already been processed
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- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC for
- the message, but it is too old to check for
- duplication.
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- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC for
- the message, but has been verified out of sequence; a
- later token has already been received.
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- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC for
- the message, but has been verified out of sequence;
- an earlier expected token has not yet been received.
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- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a valid
- context
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- OM_uint32 gss_wrap (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- int conf_req_flag,
- gss_qop_t qop_req
- const gss_buffer_t input_message_buffer,
- int * conf_state,
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- Attaches a cryptographic MIC and optionally encrypts the specified
- input_message. The output_message contains both the MIC and the
- message. The qop_req parameter allows a choice between several
- cryptographic algorithms, if supported by the chosen mechanism.
-
- Since some application-level protocols may wish to use tokens emitted by
- gss_wrap() to provide "secure framing", implementations should support
- the wrapping of zero-length messages.
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context on which the message
- will be sent
-
- conf_req_flag boolean, read
- Non-zero - Both confidentiality and integrity
- services are requested
- Zero - Only integrity service is requested
-
- qop_req gss_qop_t, read, optional
- Specifies required quality of protection. A
- mechanism-specific default may be requested by
- setting qop_req to GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT. If an
- unsupported protection strength is requested,
- gss_wrap will return a major_status of
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP.
-
- input_message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- Message to be protected
-
- conf_state boolean, modify, optional
- Non-zero - Confidentiality, data origin
- authentication and integrity
- services have been applied
- Zero - Integrity and data origin services only
- has been applied.
- Specify NULL if not required
-
- output_message_buffer buffer, opaque, modify
- Buffer to receive protected message.
- Storage associated with this message must
- be freed by the application after use with
- a call to gss_release_buffer().
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- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a valid
- context
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- GSS_S_BAD_QOP The specified QOP is not supported by the mechanism.
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- OM_uint32 gss_wrap_size_limit (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- int conf_req_flag,
- gss_qop_t qop_req,
- OM_uint32 req_output_size,
- OM_uint32 * max_input_size)
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- Purpose:
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- Allows an application to determine the maximum message size that, if
- presented to gss_wrap with the same conf_req_flag and qop_req
- parameters, will result in an output token containing no more than
- req_output_size bytes.
-
- This call is intended for use by applications that communicate over
- protocols that impose a maximum message size. It enables the
- application to fragment messages prior to applying protection.
-
- Successful completion of this call does not guarantee that gss_wrap will
- be able to protect a message of length max_input_size bytes, since this
- ability may depend on the availability of system resources at the time
- that gss_wrap is called. However, if the implementation itself imposes
- an upper limit on the length of messages that may be processed by
- gss_wrap, the implementation should not return a value via
- max_input_bytes that is greater than this length.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the security over
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- conf_req_flag Boolean, read
- Indicates whether gss_wrap will be asked
- to apply confidentiality protection in
- addition to integrity protection. See
- the routine description for gss_wrap
- for more details.
-
- qop_req gss_qop_t, read
- Indicates the level of protection that
- gss_wrap will be asked to provide. See
- the routine description for gss_wrap for
- more details.
-
- req_output_size Integer, read
- The desired maximum size for tokens emitted
- by gss_wrap.
-
- max_input_size Integer, modify
- The maximum input message size that may
- be presented to gss_wrap in order to
- guarantee that the emitted token shall
- be no larger than req_output_size bytes.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The referenced context could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has expired.
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- C-language GSS-API implementations should include a copy of the
- following header-file.
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- #ifndef GSSAPI_H_
- #define GSSAPI_H_
-
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- /*
- * First, include stddef.h to get size_t defined.
- */
- #include <stddef.h>
-
- /*
- * If the platform supports the xom.h header file, it should be
- * included here.
- */
- #include <xom.h>
-
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- /*
- * Now define the three implementation-dependent types.
- */
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_ctx_id_t;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_cred_id_t;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_name_t;
-
- /*
- * The following type must be defined as the smallest natural
- * unsigned integer supported by the platform that has at least
- * 32 bits of precision.
- */
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_uint32;
-
-
- #ifdef OM_STRING
- /*
- * We have included the xom.h header file. Verify that OM_uint32
- * is defined correctly.
- */
-
- #if sizeof(gss_uint32) != sizeof(OM_uint32)
- #error Incompatible definition of OM_uint32 from xom.h
- #endif
-
- typedef OM_object_identifier gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
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- */
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- typedef gss_uint32 OM_uint32;
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_desc_struct {
- OM_uint32 length;
- void *elements;
- } gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
-
- #endif
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- typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct {
- size_t count;
- gss_OID elements;
- } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
-
- typedef struct gss_buffer_desc_struct {
- size_t length;
- void *value;
- } gss_buffer_desc, *gss_buffer_t;
-
- typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
- OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
- OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
- gss_buffer_desc application_data;
- } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
-
-
- /*
- * For now, define a QOP-type as an OM_uint32
- */
- typedef OM_uint32 gss_qop_t;
-
- typedef int gss_cred_usage_t;
-
- /*
- * Flag bits for context-level services.
- */
- #define GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG 1
- #define GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG 2
- #define GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG 4
- #define GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG 8
- #define GSS_C_CONF_FLAG 16
- #define GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG 32
- #define GSS_C_ANON_FLAG 64
- #define GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG 128
- #define GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG 256
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- * Credential usage options
- */
- #define GSS_C_BOTH 0
- #define GSS_C_INITIATE 1
- #define GSS_C_ACCEPT 2
-
- /*
- * Status code types for gss_display_status
- */
- #define GSS_C_GSS_CODE 1
- #define GSS_C_MECH_CODE 2
-
- /*
- * The constant definitions for channel-bindings address families
- */
- #define GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC 0
- #define GSS_C_AF_LOCAL 1
- #define GSS_C_AF_INET 2
- #define GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK 3
- #define GSS_C_AF_PUP 4
- #define GSS_C_AF_CHAOS 5
- #define GSS_C_AF_NS 6
- #define GSS_C_AF_NBS 7
- #define GSS_C_AF_ECMA 8
- #define GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT 9
- #define GSS_C_AF_CCITT 10
- #define GSS_C_AF_SNA 11
- #define GSS_C_AF_DECnet 12
- #define GSS_C_AF_DLI 13
- #define GSS_C_AF_LAT 14
- #define GSS_C_AF_HYLINK 15
- #define GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK 16
- #define GSS_C_AF_BSC 17
- #define GSS_C_AF_DSS 18
- #define GSS_C_AF_OSI 19
- #define GSS_C_AF_X25 21
-
- #define GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR 255
-
- /*
- * Various Null values
- */
- #define GSS_C_NO_NAME ((gss_name_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_BUFFER ((gss_buffer_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_OID ((gss_OID) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_OID_SET ((gss_OID_set) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT ((gss_ctx_id_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL ((gss_cred_id_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS ((gss_channel_bindings_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER {0, NULL}
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- * Some alternate names for a couple of the above
- * values. These are defined for V1 compatibility.
- */
- #define GSS_C_NULL_OID GSS_C_NO_OID
- #define GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET GSS_C_NO_OID_SET
-
- /*
- * Define the default Quality of Protection for per-message
- * services. Note that an implementation that offers multiple
- * levels of QOP may define GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT to be either zero
- * (as done here) to mean "default protection", or to a specific
- * explicit QOP value. However, a value of 0 should always be
- * interpreted by a GSSAPI implementation as a request for the
- * default protection level.
- */
- #define GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0
-
- /*
- * Expiration time of 2^32-1 seconds means infinite lifetime for a
- * credential or security context
- */
- #define GSS_C_INDEFINITE 0xfffffffful
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x01"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
- * infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) user_name(1)}. The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x02"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
- * infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) machine_uid_name(2)}.
- * The constant GSS_C_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME should be
- * initialized to point to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME;
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- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x03"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
- * infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) string_uid_name(3)}.
- * The constant GSS_C_NT_STRING_UID_NAME should be
- * initialized to point to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_STRING_UID_NAME;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {6, (void *)"\x2b\x06\x01\x05\x06\x02"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security),
- * 6(nametypes), 2(gss-host-based-services)}. The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {6, (void *)"\x2b\x06\01\x05\x06\x03"},
- * corresponding to an object identifier value of
- * {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security),
- * 6(nametypes), 3(gss-anonymous-name)}. The constant
- * and GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS;
-
-
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {6, (void *)"\x2b\x06\x01\x05\x06\x04"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security),
- * 6(nametypes), 4(gss-api-exported-name)}. The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME;
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- #define GSS_S_COMPLETE 0
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- /*
- * Some "helper" definitions to make the status code macros obvious.
- */
- #define GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET 24
- #define GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET 16
- #define GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET 0
- #define GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK 0377ul
- #define GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK 0377ul
- #define GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK 0177777ul
-
- /*
- * The macros that test status codes for error conditions.
- * Note that the GSS_ERROR() macro has changed slightly from
- * the V1 GSSAPI so that it now evaluates its argument
- * only once.
- */
- #define GSS_CALLING_ERROR(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_SUPPLEMENTARY_INFO(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK << GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_ERROR(x) \
- (x & ((GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET) | \
- (GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)))
-
-
- /*
- * Now the actual status code definitions
- */
-
- /*
- * Calling errors:
- */
- #define GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ \
- (1ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE \
- (2ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE \
- (3ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
-
- /*
- * Routine errors:
- */
- #define GSS_S_BAD_MECH (1ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_NAME (2ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE (3ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
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- #define GSS_S_BAD_STATUS (5ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_SIG (6ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_MIC GSS_S_BAD_SIG
- #define GSS_S_NO_CRED (7ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT (8ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN (9ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL (10ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED (11ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED (12ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_FAILURE (13ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_QOP (14ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED (15ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE (16ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT (17ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN (18ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
-
- /*
- * Supplementary info bits:
- */
- #define GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 0))
- #define GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 1))
- #define GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 2))
- #define GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 3))
- #define GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 4))
-
-
- /*
- * Finally, function prototypes for the GSS-API routines.
- */
-
- OM_uint32 gss_acquire_cred
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* desired_name */
- OM_uint32, /* time_req */
- const gss_OID_set, /* desired_mechs */
- gss_cred_usage_t, /* cred_usage */
- gss_cred_id_t *, /* output_cred_handle */
- gss_OID_set *, /* actual_mechs */
- OM_uint32 * /* time_rec */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_cred
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_cred_id_t * /* cred_handle */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_init_sec_context
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* initiator_cred_handle */
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- OM_uint32, /* req_flags */
- OM_uint32, /* time_req */
- const gss_channel_bindings_t,
- /* input_chan_bindings */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_token */
- gss_OID *, /* actual_mech_type */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_token */
- OM_uint32 *, /* ret_flags */
- OM_uint32 * /* time_rec */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_accept_sec_context
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t *, /* context_handle */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* acceptor_cred_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_token_buffer */
- const gss_channel_bindings_t,
- /* input_chan_bindings */
- gss_name_t *, /* src_name */
- gss_OID *, /* mech_type */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_token */
- OM_uint32 *, /* ret_flags */
- OM_uint32 *, /* time_rec */
- gss_cred_id_t * /* delegated_cred_handle */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t /* token_buffer */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t *, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_token */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_context_time
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- OM_uint32 * /* time_rec */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_get_mic
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_qop_t, /* qop_req */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
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- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* token_buffer */
- gss_qop_t * /* qop_state */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_wrap
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- gss_qop_t, /* qop_req */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- int *, /* conf_state */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_message_buffer */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_unwrap
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_message_buffer */
- int *, /* conf_state */
- gss_qop_t * /* qop_state */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_display_status
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- OM_uint32, /* status_value */
- int, /* status_type */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- OM_uint32 *, /* message_context */
- gss_buffer_t /* status_string */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set * /* mech_set */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_compare_name
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* name1 */
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- int * /* name_equal */
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- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_name_buffer */
- gss_OID * /* output_name_type */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_import_name
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_name_buffer */
- const gss_OID, /* input_name_type */
- gss_name_t * /* output_name */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_export_name
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_buffer_t /* exported_name */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_name
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_name_t * /* input_name */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_buffer
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_buffer_t /* buffer */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_release_oid_set
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set * /* set */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* cred_handle */
- gss_name_t *, /* name */
- OM_uint32 *, /* lifetime */
- gss_cred_usage_t *, /* cred_usage */
- gss_OID_set * /* mechanisms */
- );
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- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
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- gss_name_t *, /* targ_name */
- OM_uint32 *, /* lifetime_rec */
- gss_OID *, /* mech_type */
- OM_uint32 *, /* ctx_flags */
- int *, /* locally_initiated */
- int * /* open */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_wrap_size_limit (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- gss_qop_t, /* qop_req */
- OM_uint32, /* req_output_size */
- OM_uint32 * /* max_input_size */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_add_cred (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* input_cred_handle */
- const gss_name_t, /* desired_name */
- const gss_OID, /* desired_mech */
- gss_cred_usage_t, /* cred_usage */
- OM_uint32, /* initiator_time_req */
- OM_uint32, /* acceptor_time_req */
- gss_cred_id_t *, /* output_cred_handle */
- gss_OID_set *, /* actual_mechs */
- OM_uint32 *, /* initiator_time_rec */
- OM_uint32 * /* acceptor_time_rec */
- );
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- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* cred_handle */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- gss_name_t *, /* name */
- OM_uint32 *, /* initiator_lifetime */
- OM_uint32 *, /* acceptor_lifetime */
- gss_cred_usage_t * /* cred_usage */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_export_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t *, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t /* interprocess_token */
- );
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- gss_ctx_id_t * /* context_handle */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_create_empty_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set * /* oid_set */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_add_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_OID, /* member_oid */
- gss_OID_set * /* oid_set */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_test_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_OID, /* member */
- const gss_OID_set, /* set */
- int * /* present */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_names_for_mech (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_OID, /* mechanism */
- gss_OID_set * /* name_types */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_mechs_for_name (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_OID_set * /* mech_types */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_canonicalize_name (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- gss_name_t * /* output_name */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_duplicate_name (
- OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* src_name */
- gss_name_t * /* dest_name */
- );
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- * The following routines are obsolete variants of gss_get_mic,
- * gss_verify_mic, gss_wrap and gss_unwrap. They should be
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- * compatibility with V1 applications. Distinct entrypoints
- * (as opposed to #defines) should be provided, both to allow
- * GSSAPI V1 applications to link against GSSAPI V2 implementations,
- * and to retain the slight parameter type differences between the
- * obsolete versions of these routines and their current forms.
- */
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- OM_uint32 gss_sign
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* qop_req */
- gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t /* message_token */
- );
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- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* token_buffer */
- int * /* qop_state */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_seal
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- int, /* qop_req */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- int *, /* conf_state */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_message_buffer */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_unseal
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_message_buffer */
- int *, /* conf_state */
- int * /* qop_state */
- );
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-
- The purpose of this C-bindings document is to encourage source-level
- portability of applications across GSS-API implementations on different
- platforms and atop different mechanisms. Additional goals that have not
- been explicitly addressed by this document are link-time and run-time
- portability.
-
- Link-time portability provides the ability to compile an application
- against one implementation of GSS-API, and then link it against a
- different implementation on the same platform. It is a stricter
- requirement than source-level portability.
-
- Run-time portability differs from link-time portability only on those
- platforms that implement dynamically loadable GSS-API implementations,
- but do not offer load-time symbol resolution. On such platforms, run-
- time portability is a stricter requirement than link-time portability,
- and will typically include the precise placement of the various GSS-API
- routines within library entrypoint vectors.
-
- Individual platforms will impose their own rules that must be followed
- to achieve link-time (and run-time, if different) portability. In order
- to ensure either form of binary portability, an ABI specification must
- be written for GSS-API implementations on that platform. However, it is
- recognized that there are some issues that are likely to be common to
- all such ABI specifications. This appendix is intended to be a
- repository for such common issues, and contains some suggestions that
- individual ABI specifications may choose to reference. Since machine
- architectures vary greatly, it may not be possible or desirable to
- follow these suggestions on all platforms.
-
- B.1. Pointers
-
- While ANSI-C provides a single pointer type for each declared type, plus
- a single (void *) type, some platforms (notably those using segmented
- memory architectures) augment this with various modified pointer types
- (e.g. far pointers, near pointers). These language bindings assume
- ANSI-C, and thus do not address such non-standard implementations.
- GSS-API implementations for such platforms must choose an appropriate
- memory model, and should use it consistently throughout. For example,
- if a memory model is chosen that requires the use of far pointers when
- passing routine parameters, then far pointers should also be used within
- the structures defined by GSS-API.
-
- B.2. Internal structure alignment
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- GSS-API defines several data-structures containing differently-sized
- fields. An ABI specification should include a detailed description of
- how the fields of such structures are aligned, and if there is any
- internal padding in these data structures. The use of compiler defaults
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- The C bindings specify that the gss_cred_id_t and gss_ctx_id_t types
- should be implemented as either pointer or arithmetic types, and that if
- pointer types are used, care should be taken to ensure that two handles
- may be compared with the == operator. Note that ANSI-C does not
- guarantee that two pointer values may be compared with the == operator
- unless either the two pointers point to members of a single array, or at
- least one of the pointers contains a NULL value.
-
- For binary portability, additional constraints are required. The
- following is an attempt at defining platform-independent constraints.
-
- (a) The size of the handle type must be the same as sizeof(void *),
- using the appropriate memory model.
-
- (b) The == operator for the chosen type must be a simple bit-wise
- comparison. That is, for two in-memory handle objects h1 and h2,
- the boolean value of the expression
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- (h1 == h2)
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- should always be the same as the boolean value of the expression
-
- (memcmp(&h1, &h2, sizeof(h1)) == 0)
-
- (c) The actual use of the type (void *) for handle types is
- discouraged, not for binary portability reasons, but since it
- effectively disables much of the compile-time type-checking that
- the compiler can otherwise perform, and is therefore not
- "programmer-friendly". If a pointer implementation is desired,
- and if the platform's implementation of pointers permits, the
- handles should be implemented as pointers to distinct
- implementation-defined types.
-
- B.4. The gss_name_t type
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- The gss_name_t type, representing the internal name object, should be
- implemented as a pointer type. The use of the (void *) type is
- discouraged as it does not allow the compiler to perform strong type-
- checking. However, the pointer type chosen should be of the same size
- as the (void *) type. Provided this rule is obeyed, ABI specifications
- need not further constrain the implementation of gss_name_t objects.
-
- B.5. The int and size_t types
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- Some platforms may support differently sized implementations of the
- "int" and "size_t" types, perhaps chosen through compiler switches, and
- perhaps dependent on memory model. An ABI specification for such a
- platform should include required implementations for these types. It is
- recommended that the default implementation (for the chosen memory
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- B.6. Procedure-calling conventions
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- Some platforms support a variety of different binary conventions for
- calling procedures. Such conventions cover things like the format of
- the stack frame, the order in which the routine parameters are pushed
- onto the stack, whether or not a parameter count is pushed onto the
- stack, whether some argument(s) or return values are to be passed in
- registers, and whether the called routine or the caller is responsible
- for removing the stack frame on return. For such platforms, an ABI
- specification should specify which calling convention is to be used for
- GSSAPI implementations.
-
-
- REFERENCES
-
- [GSSAPI] J. Linn, "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface, Version 2", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-
- 08, 26 August 1996. (This Internet-Draft, like all other
- Internet-Drafts, is not an archival document and is subject
- to change or deletion. It is available at the time of this
- writing by anonymous ftp from ds.internic.net, directory
- internet-drafts. Would-be readers should check for successor
- Internet-Draft versions or Internet RFCs before relying on
- this document.)
-
- [XOM] OSI Object Management API Specification, Version 2.0 t",
- X.400 API Association & X/Open Company Limited, August 24,
- 1990. Specification of datatypes and routines for
- manipulating information objects.
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- AUTHOR'S ADDRESS
-
- John Wray Internet email: Wray@tuxedo.enet.dec.com
- Digital Equipment Corporation Telephone: +1-508-486-5210
- 550 King Street, LKG2-2/Z7
- Littleton, MA 01460
- USA
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-draft-ietf-cat-iakerb-04.txt Microsoft
-Updates: RFC 1510 Jonathan Trostle
-July 2000 Cisco Systems
-
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- Initial Authentication and Pass Through Authentication
- Using Kerberos V5 and the GSS-API (IAKERB)
-
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance
- with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as
- Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-
- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
- "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This draft expires on January 31st, 2001.
-
-
-1. Abstract
-
- This document defines an extension to the Kerberos protocol
- specification (RFC 1510 [1]) and GSSAPI Kerberos mechanism (RFC
- 1964 [2]) that enables a client to obtain Kerberos tickets for
- services where:
-
- (1) The client knows its principal name and password, but not
- its realm name (applicable in the situation where a user is already
- on the network but needs to authenticate to an ISP, and the user
- does not know his ISP realm name).
- (2) The client is able to obtain the IP address of the service in
- a realm which it wants to send a request to, but is otherwise unable
- to locate or communicate with a KDC in the service realm or one of
- the intermediate realms. (One example would be a dial up user who
- does not have direct IP connectivity).
- (3) The client does not know the realm name of the service.
-
-
-2. Motivation
-
- When authenticating using Kerberos V5, clients obtain tickets from
- a KDC and present them to services. This method of operation works
-
- well in many situations, but is not always applicable since it
- requires the client to know its own realm, the realm of the target
- service, the names of the KDC's, and to be able to connect to the
- KDC's.
-
- This document defines an extension to the Kerberos protocol
- specification (RFC 1510) [1] that enables a client to obtain
- Kerberos tickets for services where:
-
- (1) The client knows its principal name and password, but not
- its realm name (applicable in the situation where a user is already
- on the network but needs to authenticate to an ISP, and the user
- does not know his ISP realm name).
- (2) The client is able to obtain the IP address of the service in
- a realm which it wants to send a request to, but is otherwise unable
- to locate or communicate with a KDC in the service realm or one of
- the intermediate realms. (One example would be a dial up user who
- does not have direct IP connectivity).
- (3) The client does not know the realm name of the service.
-
- In this proposal, the client sends KDC request messages directly
- to application servers if one of the above failure cases develops.
- The application server acts as a proxy, forwarding messages back
- and forth between the client and various KDC's (see Figure 1).
-
-
- Client <---------> App Server <----------> KDC
- proxies
-
-
- Figure 1: IAKERB proxying
-
-
- In the case where the client has sent a TGS_REQ message to the
- application server without a realm name in the request, the
- application server will forward an error message to the client
- with its realm name in the e-data field of the error message.
- The client will attempt to proceed using conventional Kerberos.
-
-3. When Clients Should Use IAKERB
-
- We list several, but possibly not all, cases where the client
- should use IAKERB. In general, the existing Kerberos paradigm
- where clients contact the KDC to obtain service tickets should
- be preserved where possible.
-
- (a) AS_REQ cases:
-
- (i) The client is unable to locate the user's KDC or the KDC's
- in the user's realm are not responding, or
- (ii) The user has not entered a name which can be converted
- into a realm name (and the realm name cannot be derived from
- a certificate).
-
- (b) TGS_REQ cases:
-
- (i) the client determines that the KDC(s) in either an
- intermediate realm or the service realm are not responding or
-
- the client is unable to locate a KDC,
-
- (ii) the client is not able to generate the application server
- realm name.
-
-
-4. GSSAPI Encapsulation
-
- The mechanism ID for IAKERB GSS-API Kerberos, in accordance with the
- mechanism proposed by SPNEGO for negotiating protocol variations, is:
- {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1)
- gssapi(2) krb5(2) initialauth(4)}
-
- The AS request, AS reply, TGS request, and TGS reply messages are all
- encapsulated using the format defined by RFC1964 [2]. This consists
- of the GSS-API token framing defined in appendix B of RFC1508 [3]:
-
- InitialContextToken ::=
- [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
- thisMech MechType
- -- MechType is OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- -- representing "Kerberos V5"
- innerContextToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
- -- contents mechanism-specific;
- -- ASN.1 usage within innerContextToken
- -- is not required
- }
-
- The innerContextToken consists of a 2-byte TOK_ID field (defined
- below), followed by the Kerberos V5 KRB-AS-REQ, KRB-AS-REP,
- KRB-TGS-REQ, or KRB-TGS-REP messages, as appropriate. The TOK_ID field
- shall be one of the following values, to denote that the message is
- either a request to the KDC or a response from the KDC.
-
- Message TOK_ID
- KRB-KDC-REQ 00 03
- KRB-KDC-REP 01 03
-
-
-5. The Protocol
-
- a. The user supplies a password (AS_REQ): Here the Kerberos client
- will send an AS_REQ message to the application server if it cannot
- locate a KDC for the user's realm, or such KDC's do not respond,
- or the user does not enter a name from which the client can derive
- the user's realm name. The client sets the realm field of the
- request equal to its own realm if the realm name is known,
- otherwise the realm length is set to 0. Upon receipt of the AS_REQ
- message, the application server checks if the client has included
- a realm.
-
- If the realm was not included in the original request, the
- application server must determine the realm and add it to the
- AS_REQ message before forwarding it. If the application server
- cannot determine the client realm, it returns the
- KRB_AP_ERR_REALM_REQUIRED error-code in an error message to
- the client:
-
- KRB_AP_ERR_REALM_REQUIRED 77
-
- The error message can be sent in response to either an AS_REQ
- message, or in response to a TGS_REQ message, in which case the
- realm and principal name of the application server are placed
- into the realm and sname fields respectively, of the KRB-ERROR
- message. In the AS_REQ case, once the realm is filled in, the
- application server forwards the request to a KDC in the user's
- realm. It will retry the request if necessary, and forward the
- KDC response back to the client.
-
- At the time the user enters a username and password, the client
- should create a new credential with an INTERNAL NAME [3] that can
- be used as an input into the GSS_Acquire_cred function call.
-
- This functionality is useful when there is no trust relationship
- between the user's logon realm and the target realm (Figure 2).
-
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- User Realm KDC
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- 1 Client sends AS_REQ to App Server
- 2 App server forwards AS_REQ to User Realm KDC
- 3 App server receives AS_REP from User Realm KDC
- 4 App server sends AS_REP back to Client
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- Figure 2: IAKERB AS_REQ
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- b. The user does not supply a password (TGS_REQ): The user includes a
- TGT targetted at the user's realm, or an intermediate realm, in a
- TGS_REQ message. The TGS_REQ message is sent to the application
- server.
-
- If the client has included the realm name in the TGS request, then
- the application server will forward the request to a KDC in the
- request TGT srealm. It will forward the response back to the client.
-
- If the client has not included the realm name in the TGS request,
- then the application server will return its realm name and principal
- name to the client using the KRB_AP_ERR_REALM_REQUIRED error
- described above. Sending a TGS_REQ message to the application server
- without a realm name in the request, followed by a TGS request using
- the returned realm name and then sending an AP request with a mutual
- authentication flag should be subject to a local policy decision
- (see security considerations below). Using the returned server
- principal name in a TGS request followed by sending an AP request
- message using the received ticket MUST NOT set any mutual
- authentication flags.
-
-
-6. Addresses in Tickets
-
- In IAKERB, the machine sending requests to the KDC is the server and
- not the client. As a result, the client should not include its
- addresses in any KDC requests for two reasons. First, the KDC may
- reject the forwarded request as being from the wrong client. Second,
- in the case of initial authentication for a dial-up client, the client
- machine may not yet possess a network address. Hence, as allowed by
- RFC1510 [1], the addresses field of the AS and TGS requests should be
- blank and the caddr field of the ticket should similarly be left blank.
-
-
-7. Combining IAKERB with Other Kerberos Extensions
-
- This protocol is usable with other proposed Kerberos extensions such as
- PKINIT (Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
- [4]). In such cases, the messages which would normally be sent to the
- KDC by the GSS runtime are instead sent by the client application to the
- server, which then forwards them to a KDC.
-
-
-8. Security Considerations
-
- A principal is identified by its principal name and realm. A client
- that sends a TGS request to an application server without the request
- realm name will only be able to mutually authenticate the server
- up to its principal name. Thus when requesting mutual authentication,
- it is preferable if clients can either determine the server realm name
- beforehand, or apply some policy checks to the realm name obtained from
- the returned error message.
-
-
-9. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [2] J. Linn. The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism. Request
- for Comments 1964
-
- [3] J. Linn. Generic Security Service Application Program Interface.
- Request for Comments 1508
-
- [4] B. Tung, C. Neuman, M. Hur, A. Medvinsky, S. Medvinsky, J. Wray,
- J. Trostle, Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in
- Kerberos, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-
- pkinit-10.txt.
-
-
-10. This draft expires on January 31st, 2001.
-
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-11. Authors' Addresses
-
- Michael Swift
- Microsoft
- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington, 98052, U.S.A.
- Email: mikesw@microsoft.com
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134, U.S.A.
- Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
- Phone: (408) 527-6201
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-<draft-ietf-cat-kerb-chg-password-02.txt> Stonecast, Inc.
-Internet-Draft August, 1998
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- Kerberos Change Password Protocol
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.''
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- ``1id-abstracts.txt'' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
- Directories on ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net
- (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific
- Rim).
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- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
- <cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
-
-Abstract
-
- The Kerberos V5 protocol [RFC1510] does not describe any mechanism
- for users to change their own passwords. In order to promote
- interoperability between workstations, personal computers, terminal
- servers, routers, and KDC's from multiple vendors, a common password
- changing protocol is required.
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-Overview
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- When a user wishes to change his own password, or is required to by
- local policy, a simple request of a password changing service is
- necessary. This service must be implemented on at least one host for
- each Kerberos realm, probably on one of the kdc's for that realm.
- The service must accept requests on UDP port 464 (kpasswd), and may
- accept requests on TCP port 464 as well.
-
- The protocol itself consists of a single request message followed by
- a single reply message. For UDP transport, each message must be
- fully contained in a single UDP packet.
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-Request Message
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- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REQ length | AP-REQ data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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- message length (16 bits)
- Contains the length of the message, including this field, in bytes
- (big-endian integer)
- protocol version number (16 bits)
- Contains the hex constant 0x0001 (big-endian integer)
- AP-REQ length (16 bits)
- length (big-endian integer) of AP-REQ data, in bytes.
- AP-REQ data, as described in RFC1510 (variable length)
- This AP-REQ must be for the service principal
- kadmin/changepw@REALM, where REALM is the REALM of the user who
- wishes to change his password. The Ticket in the AP-REQ must be
- derived from an AS request (thus having the INITIAL flag set), and
- must include a subkey in the Authenticator.
- KRB-PRIV message, as described in RFC1510 (variable length)
- This KRB-PRIV message must be generated using the subkey in the
- Authenticator in the AP-REQ data. The user-data component of the
- message must consist of the user's new password.
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- The server must verify the AP-REQ message, decrypt the new password,
- perform any local policy checks (such as password quality, history,
- authorization, etc.) required, then set the password to the new value
- specified.
-
- The principal whose password is to be changed is the principal which
- authenticated to the password changing service. This protocol does
- not address administrators who want to change passwords of principal
- besides their own.
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-Reply Message
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- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REP length | AP-REP data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV or KRB-ERROR message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- message length (16 bits)
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- Contains the length of the message, including this field, in bytes
- (big-endian integer),
- protocol version number (16 bits)
- Contains the hex constant 0x0001 (big-endian integer)
- AP-REP length (16 bits)
- length of AP-REP data, in bytes. If the the length is zero, then
- the last field will contain a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-
- PRIV message.
- AP-REP data, as described in RFC1510 (variable length)
- The AP-REP corresponding to the AP-REQ in the request packet.
- KRB-PRIV or KRB-ERROR message, as described in RFC1510 (variable
- length)
- If the AP-REP length is zero, then this field contains a KRB-ERROR
- message. Otherwise, it contains a KRB-PRIV message. This KRB-
- PRIV message must be generated using the subkey in the
- Authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The user-data component of the KRB-PRIV message, or e-data
- component of the KRB-ERROR message, must consist of the following
- data:
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | result code | result string /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- result code (16 bits)
- The result code must have one of the following values (big-
- endian integer):
- 0x0000 if the request succeeds. (This value is not permitted
- in a KRB-ERROR message.)
- 0x0001 if the request fails due to being malformed
- 0x0002 if the request fails due to a "hard" error processing
- the request (for example, there is a resource or other
- problem causing the request to fail)
- 0x0003 if the request fails due to an error in authentication
- processing
- 0x0004 if the request fails due to a "soft" error processing
- the request (for example, some policy or other similar
- consideration is causing the request to be rejected).
- 0xFFFF if the request fails for some other reason.
- Although only a few non-zero result codes are specified here,
- the client should accept any non-zero result code as indicating
- failure.
- result string (variable length)
- This field should contain information which the server thinks
- might be useful to the user, such as feedback about policy
- failures. The string must be encoded in UTF-8. It may be
- omitted if the server does not wish to include it. If it is
- present, the client should display the string to the user.
- This field is analogous to the string which follows the numeric
- code in SMTP, FTP, and similar protocols.
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-Dropped and Modified Messages
-
- An attacker (or simply a lossy network) could cause either the
- request or reply to be dropped, or modified by substituting a KRB-
- ERROR message in the reply.
-
- If a request is dropped, no modification of the password/key database
- will take place. If a reply is dropped, the server will (assuming a
- valid request) make the password change. However, the client cannot
- distinguish between these two cases.
-
- In this situation, the client should construct a new authenticator,
- re-encrypt the request, and retransmit. If the original request was
- lost, the server will treat this as a valid request, and the password
- will be changed normally. If the reply was lost, then the server
- should take care to notice that the request was a duplicate of the
- prior request, because the "new" password is the current password,
- and the password change time is within some implementation-defined
- replay time window. The server should then return a success reply
- (an AP-REP message with result code == 0x0000) without actually
- changing the password or any other information (such as modification
- timestamps).
-
- If a success reply was replaced with an error reply, then the
- application performing the request would return an error to the user.
- In this state, the user's password has been changed, but the user
- believes that it has not. If the user attempts to change the
- password again, this will probably fail, because the user cannot
- successfully provide the old password to get an INITIAL ticket to
- make the request. This situation requires administrative
- intervention as if a password was lost. This situation is,
- unfortunately, impossible to prevent.
-
-
-Security Considerations
-
- This document deals with changing passwords for Kerberos. Because
- Kerberos is used for authentication and key distribution, it is
- important that this protocol use the highest level of security
- services available to a particular installation. Mutual
- authentication is performed, so that the server knows the request is
- valid, and the client knows that the request has been received and
- processed by the server.
-
- There are also security issues relating to dropped or modified
- messages which are addressed explicitly.
-
-
-References
-
- [RFC1510] Kohl, J. and Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
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-Author's Address
-
- Marc Horowitz
- Stonecast, Inc.
- 108 Stow Road
- Harvard, MA 01451
-
- Phone: +1 978 456 9103
- Email: marc@stonecast.net
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-<draft-ietf-cat-kerb-des3-hmac-sha1-00.txt> Cygnus Solutions
-Internet-Draft November, 1996
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- Triple DES with HMAC-SHA1 Kerberos Encryption Type
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.''
-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the
- ``1id-abstracts.txt'' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
- Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net
- (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific
- Rim).
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
- <cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
-
-Abstract
-
- This document defines a new encryption type and a new checksum type
- for use with Kerberos V5 [RFC1510]. This encryption type is based on
- the Triple DES cryptosystem and the HMAC-SHA1 [Krawczyk96] message
- authentication algorithm.
-
- The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 encryption type has been assigned the value 7.
- The hmac-sha1-des3 checksum type has been assigned the value 12.
-
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-Encryption Type des3-cbc-hmac-sha1
-
- EncryptedData using this type must be generated as described in
- [Horowitz96]. The encryption algorithm is Triple DES in Outer-CBC
- mode. The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. Unless otherwise
- specified, a zero IV must be used. If the length of the input data
- is not a multiple of the block size, zero octets must be used to pad
- the plaintext to the next eight-octet boundary. The counfounder must
- be eight random octets (one block).
-
-
-Checksum Type hmac-sha1-des3
-
- Checksums using this type must be generated as described in
- [Horowitz96]. The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1.
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-Common Requirements
-
- Where the Triple DES key is represented as an EncryptionKey, it shall
- be represented as three DES keys, with parity bits, concatenated
- together. The key shall be represented with the most significant bit
- first.
-
- When keys are generated by the derivation function, a key length of
- 168 bits shall be used. The output bit string will be converted to a
- valid Triple DES key by inserting DES parity bits after every seventh
- bit.
-
- Any implementation which implements either of the encryption or
- checksum types in this document must support both.
-
-
-Security Considerations
-
- This entire document defines encryption and checksum types for use
- with Kerberos V5.
-
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-References
-
- [Horowitz96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Kerberos V5", draft-
- horowitz-kerb-key-derivation-00.txt, November 1996.
- [Krawczyk96] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, and M., Canetti, R., "HMAC:
- Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-
- md5-01.txt, August, 1996.
- [RFC1510] Kohl, J. and Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
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-Author's Address
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- Marc Horowitz
- Cygnus Solutions
- 955 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
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- Email: marc@cygnus.com
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-Internet-Draft November, 1996
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- Key Derivation for Kerberos V5
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.''
-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the
- ``1id-abstracts.txt'' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
- Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net
- (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific
- Rim).
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send comments to the
- <cat-ietf@mit.edu> mailing list.
-
-Abstract
-
- In the Kerberos protocol [RFC1510], cryptographic keys are used in a
- number of places. In order to minimize the effect of compromising a
- key, it is desirable to use a different key for each of these places.
- Key derivation [Horowitz96] can be used to construct different keys
- for each operation from the keys transported on the network. For
- this to be possible, a small change to the specification is
- necessary.
-
-
-Overview
-
- Under RFC1510 as stated, key derivation could be specified as a set
- of encryption types which share the same key type. The constant for
- each derivation would be a function of the encryption type. However,
- it is generally accepted that, for interoperability, key types and
- encryption types must map one-to-one onto each other. (RFC 1510 is
- being revised to address this issue.) Therefore, to use key
- derivcation with Kerberos V5 requires a small change to the
- specification.
-
- For each place where a key is used in Kerberos, a ``key usage'' must
- be specified for that purpose. The key, key usage, and
- encryption/checksum type together describe the transformation from
- plaintext to ciphertext, or plaintext to checksum. For backward
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- compatibility, old encryption types would be defined independently of
- the key usage.
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-Key Usage Values
-
- This is a complete list of places keys are used in the kerberos
- protocol, with key usage values and RFC 1510 section numbers:
-
- 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
- client key (section 5.4.1)
- 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
- application session key), encrypted with the service key
- (section 5.4.2)
- 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
- session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
-
- 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- session key (section 5.4.1)
- 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
- 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
- with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
- 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
- authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
- (section 5.3.2)
- 8. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
- 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
-
- 10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
- key (section 5.3.2)
- 11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
- subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
- 5.3.2)
- 12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
- encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
-
- 13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.7.1)
- 14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.6.1)
- 15. KRB-SAVE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
- (section 5.8.1)
-
- 16. Data which is defined in some specification outside of
- Kerberos to be encrypted using an RFC1510 encryption type.
- 17. Data which is defined in some specification outside of
- Kerberos to be checksummed using an RFC1510 checksum type.
-
- A few of these key usages need a little clarification. A service
- which receives an AP-REQ has no way to know if the enclosed Ticket
- was part of an AS-REP or TGS-REP. Therefore, key usage 2 must always
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- be used for generating a Ticket, whether it is in response to an AS-
- REQ or TGS-REQ.
-
- There might exist other documents which define protocols in terms of
- the RFC1510 encryption types or checksum types. Such documents would
- not know about key usages. In order that these documents continue to
- be meaningful until they are updated, key usages 16 and 17 must be
- used to derive keys for encryption and checksums, respectively. New
- protocols defined in terms of the Kerberos encryption and checksum
- types should use their own key usages. Key usages may be registered
- with IANA to avoid conflicts. Key usages shall be unsigned 32 bit
- integers. Zero is not permitted.
-
-
-Defining Cryptosystems Using Key Derivation
-
- Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
- tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption
- and integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys.
- So, for each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for
- encryption (Ke), and one for integrity (Ki):
-
- Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
- Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
-
- where the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in network
- byte order. The ciphertest must be generated from the plaintext as
- follows:
-
- ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | length | plaintext | padding) |
- H(Ki, confounder | length | plaintext | padding)
-
- The confounder and padding are specific to the encryption algorithm
- E.
-
- When generating a checksum only, there is no need for a confounder or
- padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be
- generated from the plaintext as follows:
-
- Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
-
- MAC = H(Kc, length | plaintext)
-
- Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and
- a keyed hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a
- keyed hash algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is
- recommended for use as H.
-
-
-Security Considerations
-
- This entire document addresses shortcomings in the use of
- cryptographic keys in Kerberos V5.
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-Acknowledgements
-
- I would like to thank Uri Blumenthal, Sam Hartman, and Bill
- Sommerfeld for their contributions to this document.
-
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-References
-
- [Horowitz96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Authentication,
- Integrity, and Privacy", draft-horowitz-key-derivation-00.txt,
- November 1996. [RFC1510] Kohl, J. and Neuman, C., "The Kerberos
- Network Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
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-Author's Address
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- Marc Horowitz
- Cygnus Solutions
- 955 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
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-
-INTERNET-DRAFT Ari Medvinsky
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-err-msg-00.txt Matt Hur
-Updates: RFC 1510 Dominique Brezinski
-expires September 30, 1997 CyberSafe Corporation
- Gene Tsudik
- Brian Tung
- ISI
-
-Integrity Protection for the Kerberos Error Message
-
-0. Status Of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts
- as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in
- progress."
-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check
- the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
- Shadow Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast),
- nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
- The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-03.txt, and expires June xx, 1997.
- Please send comments to the authors.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Kerberos error message, as defined in RFC 1510, is transmitted
- to the client without any integrity assurance. Therefore, the
- client has no means to distinguish between a valid error message
- sent from the KDC and one sent by an attacker. This draft describes
- a method for assuring the integrity of Kerberos error messages, and
- proposes a consistent format for the e-data field in the KRB_ERROR
- message. This e-data format enables the storage of cryptographic
- checksums by providing an extensible mechanism for specifying e-data
- types.
-
-
-2. Motivation
-
- In the Kerberos protocol [1], if an error occurs for AS_REQ,
- TGS_REQ, or AP_REQ, a clear text error message is returned to the
- client. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending a
- false error message as a reply to any of the above requests. For
- example, an attacker may send the KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED error message
- in order to force a user to change their password in hope that the
- new key will not be as strong as the current key, and thus, easier
- to break.
-
- Since false error messages may be utilized by an attacker, a
- Kerberos client should have a means for determining how much trust
- to place in a given error message. The rest of this draft
- describes a method for assuring the integrity of Kerberos error
- messages.
-
-
-3. Approach
-
- We propose taking a cryptographic checksum over the entire KRB-ERROR
- message. This checksum would be returned as part of the error
- message and would enable the client to verify the integrity of the
- error message. For interoperability reasons, no new fields are
- added to the KRB-ERROR message. Instead, the e-data field (see
- figure 1) is utilized to carry the cryptographic checksum.
-
-
-3.1 Cryptographic checksums in error messages for AS_REQ,
- TGS_REQ & AP_REQ
-
- If an error occurs for the AS request, the only key that is
- available to the KDC is the shared secret (the key derived from the
- clients password) registered in the KDCs database. The KDC will
- use this key to sign the error message, if and only if, the client
- already proved knowledge of the shared secret in the AS request
- (e.g. via PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP in preauth data). This policy is needed
- to prevent an attacker from getting the KDC to send a signed error
- message and then launching an off-line attack in order to obtain a
- key of a given principal.
-
- If an error occurs for a TGS or an AP request, the server will use
- the session key sealed in the clients ticket granting ticket to
- compute the checksum over the error message. If the checksum could
- not be computed (e.g. error while decrypting the ticket) the error
- message is returned to the client without the checksum. The client
- then has the option to treat unprotected error messages differently.
-
-
- KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno [0] integer,
- msg-type [1] integer,
- ctime [2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec [3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime [4] KerberosTime,
- susec [5] INTEGER,
- error-code [6] INTEGER,
- crealm [7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname [8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm [9] Realm, --Correct realm
- sname [10] PrincipalName, --Correct name
- e-text [11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data [12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
- Figure 1
-
-
-3.2 Format of the e-data field
-
- We propose to place the cryptographic checksum in the e-data field.
- First, we review the format of the e-data field, as specified in
- RFC 1510. The format of e-data is specified only in two cases [2].
- "If the error code is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED, then the e-data
- field will contain an encoding of a sequence of padata fields":
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
- PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type [1] INTEGER,
- padata-value [2] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- The second case deals with the KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD error code. The
- e-data field will contain an encoding of the following sequence:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- method-type [0] INTEGER,
- method-data [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- method-type indicates the required alternate authentication method.
-
- It should be noted that, in the case of KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD, a signed
- checksum is not returned as part of the error message, since the
- error code indicates that the Kerberos credentials provided in the
- AP_REQ message are unacceptable.
-
- We propose that the e-data field have the following format for all
- error-codes (except KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD):
-
- E-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type [1] INTEGER,
- data-value [2] OCTET STRING,
- }
-
- The data-type field specifies the type of information that is
- carried in the data-value field. Thus, to send a cryptographic
- checksum back to the client, the data-type is set to CHECKSUM, the
- data-value is set to the ASN.1 encoding of the following sequence:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype [0] INTEGER,
- checksum [1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
-3.3 Computing the checksum
-
- After the error message is filled out, the error structure is
- converted into ASN.1 representation. A cryptographic checksum is
- then taken over the encoded error message; the result is placed in
- the error message structure, as the last item in the e-data field.
- To send the error message, ASN.1 encoding is again performed over
- the error message, which now includes the cryptographic checksum.
-
-
-3.4 Verifying the integrity of the error message
-
- In addition to verifying the cryptographic checksum for the error
- message, the client must verify that the error message is bound to
- its request. This is done by comparing the ctime field in the
- error message to its counterpart in the request message.
-
-
-4. E-DATA types
-
- Since the e-data types must not conflict with preauthentication data
- types, we propose that the preauthentication data types in the range
- of 2048 and above be reserved for use as e-data types.
-
- We define the following e-data type in support of integrity checking
- for the Kerberos error message:
-
- CHECKSUM = 2048 -- the keyed checksum described above
-
-
-5. Discussion
-
-
-5.1 e-data types
-
- The extension for Kerberos error messages, as outlined above, is
- extensible to allow for definition of other error data types.
- We propose that the following e-data types be reserved:
-
- KDCTIME = 2049
- The error data would consist of the KDCs time in KerberosTime.
- This data would be used by the client to adjust for clock skew.
-
- REDIRECT = 2050
- The error data would consist of a hostname. The hostname would
- indicate the authoritative KDC from which to obtain a TGT.
-
-
-5.2 e-data types vs. error code specific data formats
-
- Since RFC 1510 does not define an error data type, the data format
- must be explicitly specified for each error code. This draft has
- proposed an extension to RFC 1510 that would introduce the concept
- of error data types. This would allow for a manageable set of data
- types to be used for any error message. The authors assume that
- the introduction of this e-data structure will not break any
- existing Kerberos implementations.
-
-
-6. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). Request for Comments: 1510
- [2] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). Request for Comments: 1510 p.67
-
-
-7. Authors
-
- Ari Medvinsky <ari.medvinsky@cybersafe.com>
- Matthew Hur <matt.hur@cybersafe.com>
- Dominique Brezinski <dominique.brezinski@cybersafe.com>
-
- CyberSafe Corporation
- 1605 NW Sammamish Road
- Suite 310
- Issaquah, WA 98027-5378
- Phone: (206) 391-6000
- Fax: (206) 391-0508
- http:/www.cybersafe.com
-
-
- Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu>
- Gene Tsudik <gts@isi.edu>
-
- USC Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
- Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
- Phone: (310) 822-1511
-
diff --git a/crypto/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-extra-tgt-02.txt b/crypto/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-extra-tgt-02.txt
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Jonathan Trostle
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-extra-tgt-02.txt Cisco Systems
-Updates: RFC 1510 Michael M. Swift
-expires January 30, 2000 University of WA
-
-
- Extension to Kerberos V5 For Additional Initial Encryption
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance
- with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as
- Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-
- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
- "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- This document defines an extension to the Kerberos protocol
- specification (RFC 1510) [1] to enable a preauthentication field in
- the AS_REQ message to carry a ticket granting ticket. The session
- key from this ticket granting ticket will be used to
- cryptographically strengthen the initial exchange in either the
- conventional Kerberos V5 case or in the case the user stores their
- encrypted private key on the KDC [2].
-
-
-2. Motivation
-
- In Kerberos V5, the initial exchange with the KDC consists of the
- AS_REQ and AS_REP messages. For users, the encrypted part of the
- AS_REP message is encrypted in a key derived from a password.
- Although a password policy may be in place to prevent dictionary
- attacks, brute force attacks may still be a concern due to
- insufficient key length.
-
- This draft specifies an extension to the Kerberos V5 protocol to
- allow a ticket granting ticket to be included in an AS_REQ message
- preauthentication field. The session key from this ticket granting
- ticket will be used to cryptographically strengthen the initial
-
- exchange in either the conventional Kerberos V5 case or in the case
- the user stores their encrypted private key on the KDC [2]. The
- session key from the ticket granting ticket is combined with the
- user password key (key K2 in the encrypted private key on KDC
- option) using HMAC to obtain a new triple des key that is used in
- place of the user key in the initial exchange. The ticket granting
- ticket could be obtained by the workstation using its host key.
-
-3. The Extension
-
- The following new preauthentication type is proposed:
-
- PA-EXTRA-TGT 22
-
- The preauthentication-data field contains a ticket granting ticket
- encoded as an ASN.1 octet string. The server realm of the ticket
- granting ticket must be equal to the realm in the KDC-REQ-BODY of
- the AS_REQ message. In the absence of a trust relationship, the
- local Kerberos client should send the AS_REQ message without this
- extension.
-
- In the conventional (non-pkinit) case, we require the RFC 1510
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication field in the AS_REQ message.
- If neither it or the PA-PK-KEY-REQ preauthentication field is
- included in the AS_REQ message, the KDC will reply with a
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED error message.
-
- We propose the following new etypes:
-
- des3-cbc-md5-xor 16
- des3-cbc-sha1-xor 17
-
- The encryption key is obtained by:
-
- (1) Obtaining an output M from the HMAC-SHA1 function [3] using
- the user password key (the key K2 in the encrypted private
- key on KDC option of pkinit) as the text and the triple des
- session key as the K input in HMAC:
-
- M = H(K XOR opad, H(K XOR ipad, text)) where H = SHA1.
-
- The session key from the accompanying ticket granting ticket
- must be a triple des key when one of the triple des xor
- encryption types is used.
- (2) Concatenate the output M (20 bytes) with the first 8 non-parity
- bits of the triple-des ticket granting ticket session key to
- get 168 bits that will be used for the new triple-des encryption
- key.
- (3) Set the parity bits of the resulting key.
-
- The resulting triple des key is used to encrypt the timestamp
- for the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication value (or in the
- encrypted private key on KDC option of pkinit, it is used in
- place of the key K2 to both sign in the PA-PK-KEY-REQ and for
- encryption in the PA-PK-KEY-REP preauthentication types).
-
- If the KDC decrypts the encrypted timestamp and it is not within
- the appropriate clock skew period, the KDC will reply with the
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED error. The same error will also be sent if
- the above ticket granting ticket fails to decrypt properly, or if
- it is not a valid ticket.
-
- The KDC will create the shared triple des key from the ticket
- granting ticket session key and the user password key (the key K2
- in the encrypted private key on KDC case) using HMAC as specified
- above and use it to validate the AS_REQ message and then to
- encrypt the encrypted part of the AS_REP message (use it in place
- of the key K2 for encryption in the PA-PK-KEY-REP preauthentication
- field).
-
- Local workstation policy will determine the exact behaviour of
- the Kerberos client with respect to the extension protocol. For
- example, the client should consult policy to decide when to use
- use the extension. This policy could be dependent on the user
- identity, or whether the workstation is in the same realm as the
- user. One possibility is for the workstation logon to fail if
- the extension is not used. Another possibility is for the KDC
- to set a flag in tickets issued when this extension is used.
-
- A similar idea was proposed in OSF DCE RFC 26.0 [4]; there a
- preauthentication field containing a ticket granting ticket,
- a randomly generated subkey encrypted in the session key from
- the ticket, and a timestamp structure encrypted in the user
- password and then the randomly generated subkey was proposed.
- Some advantages of the current proposal are that the KDC has two
- fewer decryptions to perform per request and the client does not
- have to generate a random key.
-
-4. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [2] B. Tung, C. Neuman, J. Wray, A. Medvinsky, M. Hur, J. Trostle.
- Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos.
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pkinit-08.txt
-
- [3] H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti. HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for
- Message Authentication. Request for Comments 2104.
-
- [4] J. Pato. Using Pre-authentication to Avoid Password Guessing
- Attacks. OSF DCE SIG Request for Comments 26.0.
-
-5. Acknowledgement: We thank Ken Hornstein for some helpful comments.
-
-6. Expires January 30, 2000.
-
-7. Authors' Addresses
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134, U.S.A.
-
- Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
- Phone: (408) 527-6201
-
- Michael Swift
- Email: mikesw@cs.washington.edu
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-maximum life of six months. After that time, they must be updated, or
-they will be deleted. This document was deleted on March 20, 2000.
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Brian Tung
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-01.txt Tatyana Ryutov
-Updates: RFC 1510 Clifford Neuman
-expires September 30, 1997 Gene Tsudik
- ISI
- Bill Sommerfeld
- Hewlett-Packard
- Ari Medvinsky
- Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
-
-
- Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm Authentication in Kerberos
-
-
-0. Status Of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts
- as reference material or to cite them other than as ``work in
- progress.''
-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check
- the ``1id-abstracts.txt'' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
- Shadow Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast),
- nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
- The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-01.txt, and expires September 30,
- 1997. Please send comments to the authors.
-
-
-1. Abstract
-
- This document defines extensions to the Kerberos protocol
- specification (RFC 1510, "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", September 1993) to provide a method for using
- public key cryptography during cross-realm authentication. The
- methods defined here specify the way in which message exchanges
- are to be used to transport cross-realm secret keys protected by
- encryption under public keys certified as belonging to KDCs.
-
-
-2. Motivation
-
- The advantages provided by public key cryptography--ease of
- recoverability in the event of a compromise, the possibility of
- an autonomous authentication infrastructure, to name a few--have
- produced a demand for use by Kerberos authentication protocol. A
- draft describing the use of public key cryptography in the initial
- authentication exchange in Kerberos has already been submitted.
- This draft describes its use in cross-realm authentication.
-
- The principal advantage provided by public key cryptography in
- cross-realm authentication lies in the ability to leverage the
- existing public key infrastructure. It frees the Kerberos realm
- administrator from having to maintain separate keys for each other
- realm with which it wishes to exchange authentication information,
- or to utilize a hierarchical arrangement, which may pose problems
- of trust.
-
- Even with the multi-hop cross-realm authentication, there must be
- some way to locate the path by which separate realms are to be
- transited. The current method, which makes use of the DNS-like
- realm names typical to Kerberos, requires trust of the intermediate
- KDCs.
-
- The methods described in this draft allow a realm to specify, at
- the time of authentication, which certification paths it will
- trust. A shared key for cross-realm authentication can be
- established, for a period of time. Furthermore, these methods are
- transparent to the client, so that only the KDC's need to be
- modified to use them.
-
- It is not necessary to implement the changes described in the
- "Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication" draft to make
- use of the changes in this draft. We solicit comments about the
- interaction between the two protocol changes, but as of this
- writing, the authors do not perceive any obstacles to using both.
-
-
-3. Protocol Amendments
-
- We assume that the user has already obtained a TGT. To perform
- cross-realm authentication, the user sends a request to the local
- KDC as per RFC 1510. If the two realms share a secret key, then
- cross-realm authentication proceeds as usual. Otherwise, the
- local KDC may attempt to establish a shared key with the remote
- KDC using public key cryptography, and exchange this key through
- the cross-realm ticket granting ticket.
-
- We will consider the specific channel on which the message
- exchanges take place in Section 5 below.
-
-
-3.1. Changes to the Cross-Realm Ticket Granting Ticket
-
- In order to avoid the need for changes to the "installed base" of
- Kerberos application clients and servers, the only protocol change
- is to the way in which cross-realm ticket granting tickets (TGTs)
- are encrypted; as these tickets are opaque to clients and servers,
- the only change visible to them will be the increased size of the
- tickets.
-
- Cross-realm TGTs are granted by a local KDC to authenticate a user
- to a remote KDC's ticket granting service. In standard Kerberos,
- they are encrypted using a shared secret key manually configured
- into each KDC.
-
- In order to incorporate public key cryptography, we define a new
- encryption type, "ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS". Operationally, this encryption
- type transforms an OCTET STRING of plaintext (normally an EncTktPart)
- into the following SEQUENCE:
-
- PKCrossOutput ::= SEQUENCE {
- certificate [0] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- -- public key certificate
- -- of local KDC
- encSharedKey [1] EncryptedData,
- -- of type EncryptionKey
- -- containing random symmetric key
- -- encrypted using public key
- -- of remote KDC
- sigSharedKey [2] Signature,
- -- of encSharedKey
- -- using signature key
- -- of local KDC
- pkEncData [3] EncryptedData,
- -- (normally) of type EncTktPart
- -- encrypted using encryption key
- -- found in encSharedKey
- }
-
- PKCROSS operates as follows: when a client submits a request for
- cross-realm authentication, the local KDC checks to see if it has
- a long-term shared key established for that realm. If so, it uses
- this key as per RFC 1510.
-
- If not, it sends a request for information to the remote KDC. The
- content of this message is immaterial, as it does not need to be
- processed by the remote KDC; for the sake of consistency, we define
- it as follows:
-
- RemoteRequest ::= [APPLICATION 41] SEQUENCE {
- nonce [0] INTEGER
- }
-
- The remote KDC replies with a list of all trusted certifiers and
- all its (the remote KDC's) certificates. We note that this response
- is universal and does not depend on which KDC makes the request:
-
- RemoteReply ::= [APPLICATION 42] SEQUENCE {
- trustedCertifiers [0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName,
- certificates[1] SEQUENCE OF Certificate,
- encTypeToUse [1] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER
- -- encryption types usable
- -- for encrypting pkEncData
- }
-
- Certificate ::= SEQUENCE {
- CertType [0] INTEGER,
- -- type of certificate
- -- 1 = X.509v3 (DER encoding)
- -- 2 = PGP (per PGP draft)
- CertData [1] OCTET STRING
- -- actual certificate
- -- type determined by CertType
- } -- from pk-init draft
-
- Upon receiving this reply, the local KDC determines whether it has
- a certificate the remote KDC trusts, and whether the remote KDC has
- a certificate the local KDC trusts. If so, it issues a ticket
- encrypted using the ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS encryption type defined above.
-
-
-3.2. Profile Caches
-
- We observe that using PKCROSS as specified above requires two
- private key operations: a signature generation by the local KDC and
- a decryption by the remote KDC. This cost can be reduced in the
- long term by judicious caching of the encSharedKey and the
- sigSharedKey.
-
- Let us define a "profile" as the encSharedKey and sigSharedKey, in
- conjunction with the associated remote realm name and decrypted
- shared key (the key encrypted in the encSharedKey).
-
- To optimize these interactions, each KDC maintains two caches, one
- for outbound profiles and one for inbound profiles. When generating
- an outbound TGT for another realm, the local KDC first checks to see
- if the corresponding entry exists in the outbound profile cache; if
- so, it uses its contents to form the first three fields of the
- PKCrossOutput; the shared key is used to encrypt the data for the
- fourth field. If not, the components are generated fresh and stored
- in the outbound profile cache.
-
- Upon receipt of the TGT, the remote realm checks its inbound profile
- cache for the corresponding entry. If it exists, then it uses the
- contents of the entry to decrypt the data encrypted in the pkEncData.
- If not, then it goes through the full process of verifying and
- extracting the shared key; if this is successful, then a new entry
- is created in the inbound profile cache.
-
- The inbound profile cache should support multiple entries per realm,
- in the event that the initiating realm is replicated.
-
-
-4. Finding Realms Supporting PKCROSS
-
- If either the local realm or the destination realm does not support
- PKCROSS, or both do not, the mechanism specified in Section 3 can
- still be used in obtaining the desired remote TGT.
-
- In the reference Kerberos implementations, the default behavior is
- to traverse a path up and down the realm name hierarchy, if the
- two realms do not share a key. There is, however, the possibility
- of using cross links--i.e., keys shared between two realms that
- are non-contiguous in the realm name hierarchy--to shorten the
- path, both to minimize delay and the number of intermediate realms
- that need to be trusted.
-
- PKCROSS can be used as a way to provide cross-links even in the
- absence of shared keys. If the client is aware that one or two
- intermediate realms support PKCROSS, then a combination of
- PKCROSS and conventional cross-realm authentication can be used
- to reach the final destination realm.
-
- We solicit discussion on the best methods for clients and KDCs to
- determine or advertise support for PKCROSS.
-
-
-5. Message Ports
-
- We have not specified the port on which KDCs supporting PKCROSS
- should listen to receive the request for information messages noted
- above. We solicit discussion on which port should be used. We
- propose to use the standard Kerberos ports (well-known 88 or 750),
- but another possibility is to use a completely different port.
-
- We also solicit discussion on what other approaches can be taken to
- obtain the information in the RemoteReply (e.g., secure DNS or some
- other repository).
-
-
-6. Expiration Date
-
- This Internet-Draft will expire on September 30, 1997.
-
-
-7. Authors' Addresses
-
- Brian Tung
- Tatyana Ryutov
- Clifford Neuman
- Gene Tsudik
- USC/Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
- Phone: +1 310 822 1511
- E-Mail: {brian, tryutov, bcn, gts}@isi.edu
-
- Bill Sommerfeld
- Hewlett Packard
- 300 Apollo Drive
- Chelmsford MA 01824
- Phone: +1 508 436 4352
- E-Mail: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.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
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Matthew Hur
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-06.txt CyberSafe Corporation
-Updates: RFC 1510 Brian Tung
-expires October 10, 2000 Tatyana Ryutov
- Clifford Neuman
- Gene Tsudik
- ISI
- Ari Medvinsky
- Keen.com
- Bill Sommerfeld
- Hewlett-Packard
-
-
- Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm Authentication in Kerberos
-
-
-0. Status Of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
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- Please send comments to the authors.
-
-
-1. Abstract
-
- This document defines extensions to the Kerberos protocol
- specification [1] to provide a method for using public key
- cryptography to enable cross-realm authentication. The methods
- defined here specify the way in which message exchanges are to be
- used to transport cross-realm secret keys protected by encryption
- under public keys certified as belonging to KDCs.
-
-
-2. Introduction
-
- The Kerberos authentication protocol [2] can leverage the
- advantages provided by public key cryptography. PKINIT [3]
- describes the use of public key cryptography in the initial
- authentication exchange in Kerberos. PKTAPP [4] describes how an
- application service can essentially issue a kerberos ticket to
- itself after utilizing public key cryptography for authentication.
- Another informational document species the use of public key
- crypography for anonymous authentication in Kerberos [5]. This
- specification describes the use of public key crpytography in cross-
- realm authentication.
-
- Without the use of public key cryptography, administrators must
- maintain separate keys for every realm which wishes to exchange
- authentication information with another realm (which implies n(n-1)
- keys), or they must utilize a hierachichal arrangement of realms,
- which may complicate the trust model by requiring evaluation of
- transited realms.
-
- Even with the multi-hop cross-realm authentication, there must be
- some way to locate the path by which separate realms are to be
- transited. The current method, which makes use of the DNS-like
- realm names typical to Kerberos, requires trust of the intermediate
- KDCs.
-
- PKCROSS utilizes a public key infrastructure (PKI) [6] to simplify
- the administrative burden of maintaining cross-realm keys. Such
- usage leverages a PKI for a non-centrally-administratable environment
- (namely, inter-realm). Thus, a shared key for cross-realm
- authentication can be established for a set period of time, and a
- remote realm is able to issue policy information that is returned to
- itself when a client requests cross-realm authentication. Such policy
- information may be in the form of restrictions [7]. Furthermore,
- these methods are transparent to the client; therefore, only the KDCs
- need to be modified to use them. In this way, we take advantage of
- the the distributed trust management capabilities of public key
- crypography while maintaining the advantages of localized trust
- management provided by Kerberos.
-
-
- Although this specification utilizes the protocol specfied in the
- PKINIT specification, it is not necessary to implement client
- changes in order to make use of the changes in this document.
-
-
-3. Objectives
-
- The objectives of this specification are as follows:
-
- 1. Simplify the administration required to establish Kerberos
- cross-realm keys.
-
- 2. Avoid modification of clients and application servers.
-
- 3. Allow remote KDC to control its policy on cross-realm
- keys shared between KDCs, and on cross-realm tickets
- presented by clients.
-
- 4. Remove any need for KDCs to maintain state about keys
- shared with other KDCs.
-
- 5. Leverage the work done for PKINIT to provide the public key
- protocol for establishing symmetric cross realm keys.
-
-
-4. Definitions
-
- The following notation is used throughout this specification:
- KDC_l ........... local KDC
- KDC_r ........... remote KDC
- XTKT_(l,r) ...... PKCROSS ticket that the remote KDC issues to the
- local KDC
- TGT_(c,r) ....... cross-realm TGT that the local KDC issues to the
- client for presentation to the remote KDC
-
- This specification defines the following new types to be added to the
- Kerberos specification:
- PKCROSS kdc-options field in the AS_REQ is bit 9
- TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC 2
- TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3
-
- This specification defines the following ASN.1 type for conveying
- policy information:
- CrossRealmTktData ::= SEQUENCE OF TypedData
-
- This specification defines the following types for policy information
- conveyed in CrossRealmTktData:
- PLC_LIFETIME 1
- PLC_SET_TKT_FLAGS 2
- PLC_NOSET_TKT_FLAGS 3
-
- TicketExtensions are defined per the Kerberos specification [8]:
- TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF TypedData
- Where
- TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type[0] INTEGER,
- data-value[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
-
-5. Protocol Specification
-
- We assume that the client has already obtained a TGT. To perform
- cross-realm authentication, the client does exactly what it does
- with ordinary (i.e. non-public-key-enabled) Kerberos; the only
- changes are in the KDC; although the ticket which the client
- forwards to the remote realm may be changed. This is acceptable
- since the client treats the ticket as opaque.
-
-
-5.1. Overview of Protocol
-
- The basic operation of the PKCROSS protocol is as follows:
-
- 1. The client submits a request to the local KDC for
- credentials for the remote realm. This is just a typical
- cross realm request that may occur with or without PKCROSS.
-
- 2. The local KDC submits a PKINIT request to the remote KDC to
- obtain a "special" PKCROSS ticket. This is a standard
- PKINIT request, except that PKCROSS flag (bit 9) is set in
- the kdc-options field in the AS_REQ.
-
- 3. The remote KDC responds as per PKINIT, except that
- the ticket contains a TicketExtension, which contains
- policy information such as lifetime of cross realm tickets
- issued by KDC_l to a client. The local KDC must reflect
- this policy information in the credentials it forwards to
- the client. Call this ticket XTKT_(l,r) to indicate that
- this ticket is used to authenticate the local KDC to the
- remote KDC.
-
- 4. The local KDC passes a ticket, TGT_(c,r) (the cross realm
- TGT between the client and remote KDC), to the client.
- This ticket contains in its TicketExtension field the
- ticket, XTKT_(l,r), which contains the cross-realm key.
- The TGT_(c,r) ticket is encrypted using the key sealed in
- XTKT_(l,r). (The TicketExtension field is not encrypted.)
- The local KDC may optionally include another TicketExtension
- type that indicates the hostname and/or IP address for the
- remote KDC.
-
- 5. The client submits the request directly to the remote
- KDC, as before.
-
- 6. The remote KDC extracts XTKT_(l,r) from the TicketExtension
- in order to decrypt the encrypted part of TGT_(c,r).
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Client Local KDC (KDC_l) Remote KDC (KDC_r)
- ------ ----------------- ------------------
- Normal Kerberos
- request for
- cross-realm
- ticket for KDC_r
- ---------------------->
-
- PKINIT request for
- XTKT(l,r) - PKCROSS flag
- set in the AS-REQ
- * ------------------------->
-
- PKINIT reply with
- XTKT_(l,r) and
- policy info in
- ticket extension
- <-------------------------- *
-
- Normal Kerberos reply
- with TGT_(c,r) and
- XTKT(l,r) in ticket
- extension
- <---------------------------------
-
- Normal Kerberos
- cross-realm TGS-REQ
- for remote
- application
- service with
- TGT_(c,r) and
- XTKT(l,r) in ticket
- extension
- ------------------------------------------------->
-
- Normal Kerberos
- cross-realm
- TGS-REP
- <---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- * Note that the KDC to KDC messages occur only periodically, since
- the local KDC caches the XTKT_(l,r).
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Sections 5.2 through 5.4 describe in detail steps 2 through 4
- above. Section 5.6 describes the conditions under which steps
- 2 and 3 may be skipped.
-
- Note that the mechanism presented above requires infrequent KDC to
- KDC communication (as dictated by policy - this is discussed
- later). Without such an exchange, there are the following issues:
- 1) KDC_l would have to issue a ticket with the expectation that
- KDC_r will accept it.
- 2) In the message that the client sends to KDC_r, KDC_l would have
- to authenticate KDC_r with credentials that KDC_r trusts.
- 3) There is no way for KDC_r to convey policy information to KDC_l.
- 4) If, based on local policy, KDC_r does not accept a ticket from
- KDC_l, then the client gets stuck in the middle. To address such
- an issue would require modifications to standard client
- processing behavior.
- Therefore, the infreqeunt use of KDC to KDC communication assures
- that inter-realm KDC keys may be established in accordance with local
- policies and that clients may continue to operate without
- modification.
-
-
-5.2. Local KDC's Request to Remote KDC
-
- When the local KDC receives a request for cross-realm authentication,
- it first checks its ticket cache to see if it has a valid PKCROSS
- ticket, XTKT_(l,r). If it has a valid XTKT_(l,r), then it does not
- need to send a request to the remote KDC (see section 5.5).
-
- If the local KDC does not have a valid XTKT_(l,r), it sends a
- request to the remote KDC in order to establish a cross realm key and
- obtain the XTKT_(l,r). This request is in fact a PKINIT request as
- described in the PKINIT specification; i.e., it consists of an AS-REQ
- with a PA-PK-AS-REQ included as a preauthentication field. Note,
- that the AS-REQ MUST have the PKCROSS flag (bit 9) set in the
- kdc_options field of the AS-REQ. Otherwise, this exchange exactly
- follows the description given in the PKINIT specification. In
- addition, the naming
-
-
-5.3. Remote KDC's Response to Local KDC
-
- When the remote KDC receives the PKINIT/PKCROSS request from the
- local KDC, it sends back a PKINIT response as described in
- the PKINIT specification with the following exception: the encrypted
- part of the Kerberos ticket is not encrypted with the krbtgt key;
- instead, it is encrypted with the ticket granting server's PKCROSS
- key. This key, rather than the krbtgt key, is used because it
- encrypts a ticket used for verifying a cross realm request rather
- than for issuing an application service ticket. Note that, as a
- matter of policy, the session key for the XTKT_(l,r) MAY be of
- greater strength than that of a session key for a normal PKINIT
- reply, since the XTKT_(l,r) SHOULD be much longer lived than a
- normal application service ticket.
-
- In addition, the remote KDC SHOULD include policy information in the
- XTKT_(l,r). This policy information would then be reflected in the
- cross-realm TGT, TGT_(c,r). Otherwise, the policy for TGT_(c,r)
- would be dictated by KDC_l rather than by KDC_r. The local KDC MAY
- enforce a more restrictive local policy when creating a cross-realm
- ticket, TGT_(c,r). For example, KDC_r may dictate a lifetime
- policy of eight hours, but KDC_l may create TKT_(c,r) with a
- lifetime of four hours, as dictated by local policy. Also, the
- remote KDC MAY include other information about itself along with the
- PKCROSS ticket. These items are further discussed in section 6
- below.
-
-
-5.4. Local KDC's Response to Client
-
- Upon receipt of the PKINIT/CROSS response from the remote KDC,
- the local KDC formulates a response to the client. This reply
- is constructed exactly as in the Kerberos specification, except
- for the following:
-
- A) The local KDC places XTKT_(l,r) in the TicketExtension field of
- the client's cross-realm, ticket, TGT_(c,r), for the remote realm.
- Where
- data-type equals 3 for TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT
- data-value is ASN.1 encoding of XTKT_(l,r)
-
- B) The local KDC adds the name of its CA to the transited field of
- TGT_(c,r).
-
-
-5.5 Remote KDC's Processing of Client Request
-
- When the remote KDC, KDC_r, receives a cross-realm ticket,
- TGT_(c,r), and it detects that the ticket contains a ticket
- extension of type TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT, KDC_r must first decrypt
- the ticket, XTKT_(l,r), that is encoded in the ticket extension.
- KDC_r uses its PKCROSS key in order to decrypt XTKT_(l,r). KDC_r
- then uses the key obtained from XTKT_(l,r) in order to decrypt the
- cross-realm ticket, TGT_(c,r).
-
- KDC_r MUST verify that the cross-realm ticket, TGT_(c,r) is in
- compliance with any policy information contained in XTKT_(l,r) (see
- section 6). If the TGT_(c,r) is not in compliance with policy, then
- the KDC_r responds to the client with a KRB-ERROR message of type
- KDC_ERR_POLICY.
-
-
-5.6. Short-Circuiting the KDC-to-KDC Exchange
-
- As we described earlier, the KDC to KDC exchange is required only
- for establishing a symmetric, inter-realm key. Once this key is
- established (via the PKINIT exchange), no KDC to KDC communication
- is required until that key needs to be renewed. This section
- describes the circumstances under which the KDC to KDC exchange
- described in Sections 5.2 and 5.3 may be skipped.
-
- The local KDC has a known lifetime for TGT_(c,r). This lifetime may
- be determined by policy information included in XTKT_(l,r), and/or
- it may be determined by local KDC policy. If the local KDC already
- has a ticket XTKT(l,r), and the start time plus the lifetime for
- TGT_(c,r) does not exceed the expiration time for XTGT_(l,r), then
- the local KDC may skip the exchange with the remote KDC, and issue a
- cross-realm ticket to the client as described in Section 5.4.
-
- Since the remote KDC may change its PKCROSS key (referred to in
- Section 5.2) while there are PKCROSS tickets still active, it SHOULD
- cache the old PKCROSS keys until the last issued PKCROSS ticket
- expires. Otherwise, the remote KDC will respond to a client with a
- KRB-ERROR message of type KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED.
-
-
-6. Extensions for the PKCROSS Ticket
-
- As stated in section 5.3, the remote KDC SHOULD include policy
- information in XTKT_(l,r). This policy information is contained in
- a TicketExtension, as defined by the Kerberos specification, and the
- authorization data of the ticket will contain an authorization
- record of type AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions. The TicketExtension defined
- for use by PKCROSS is TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC.
- Where
- data-type equals 2 for TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC
- data-value is ASN.1 encoding of CrossRealmTktData
-
- CrossRealmTktData ::= SEQUENCE OF TypedData
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- CrossRealmTktData types and the corresponding data are interpreted
- as follows:
-
- ASN.1 data
- type value interpretation encoding
- ---------------- ----- -------------- ----------
- PLC_LIFETIME 1 lifetime (in seconds) INTEGER
- for TGT_(c,r)
- - cross-realm tickets
- issued for clients by
- TGT_l
-
- PLC_SET_TKT_FLAGS 2 TicketFlags that must BITSTRING
- be set
- - format defined by
- Kerberos specification
-
- PLC_NOSET_TKT_FLAGS 3 TicketFlags that must BITSTRING
- not be set
- - format defined by
- Kerberos specification
-
- Further types may be added to this table.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-7. Usage of Certificates
-
- In the cases of PKINIT and PKCROSS, the trust in a certification
- authority is equivalent to Kerberos cross realm trust. For this
- reason, an implementation MAY choose to use the same KDC certificate
- when the KDC is acting in any of the following three roles:
- 1) KDC is authenticating clients via PKINIT
- 2) KDC is authenticating another KDC for PKCROSS
- 3) KDC is the client in a PKCROSS exchange with another KDC
-
- Note that per PKINIT, the KDC X.509 certificate (the server in a
- PKINIT exchange) MUST contain the principal name of the KDC in the
- subjectAltName field.
-
-
-8. Transport Issues
-
- Because the messages between the KDCs involve PKINIT exchanges, and
- PKINIT recommends TCP as a transport mechanism (due to the length of
- the messages and the likelihood that they will fragment), the same
- recommendation for TCP applies to PKCROSS as well.
-
-
-9. Security Considerations
-
- Since PKCROSS utilizes PKINIT, it is subject to the same security
- considerations as PKINIT. Administrators should assure adherence
- to security policy - for example, this affects the PKCROSS policies
- for cross realm key lifetime and for policy propogation from the
- PKCROSS ticket, issued from a remote KDC to a local KDC, to
- cross realm tickets that are issued by a local KDC to a client.
-
-
-10. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
- (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [2] B.C. Neuman, Theodore Ts'o. Kerberos: An Authentication Service
- for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38. September
- 1994.
-
- [3] B. Tung, C. Neuman, M. Hur, A. Medvinsky, S.Medvinsky, J. Wray
- J. Trostle. Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication
- in Kerberos.
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-11.txt
-
- [4] A. Medvinsky, M. Hur, S. Medvinsky, B. Clifford Neuman. Public
- Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP). draft-ietf-
- cat-pktapp-02.txt
-
- [5] A. Medvinsky, J. Cargille, M. Hur. Anonymous Credentials in
- Kerberos. draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-anoncred-01.txt
-
- [6] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information technology - Open Systems
- Interconnection - The Directory: Authentication Framework
- Recommendation X.509 ISO/IEC 9594-8
-
- [7] B.C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
- Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
- Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993.
-
- [8] C.Neuman, J. Kohl, T. Ts'o. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-05.txt
-
-
-11. Authors' Addresses
-
- Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
- 1605 NW Sammamish Road
- Issaquah WA 98027-5378
- Phone: +1 425 391 6000
- E-mail: matt.hur@cybersafe.com
-
- Brian Tung
- Tatyana Ryutov
- Clifford Neuman
- Gene Tsudik
- USC/Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
- Phone: +1 310 822 1511
- E-Mail: {brian, tryutov, bcn, gts}@isi.edu
-
- Ari Medvinsky
- Keen.com
- 2480 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200
- Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Phone +1 650 289 3134
- E-mail: ari@keen.com
-
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Clifford Neuman
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-03.txt Brian Tung
-Updates: RFC 1510 ISI
-expires September 30, 1997 John Wray
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Ari Medvinsky
- Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
- Jonathan Trostle
- Novell
-
-
- Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
-
-
-0. Status Of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts
- as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in
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-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check
- the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
- Shadow Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast),
- nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
- The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-03.txt, and expires September 30,
- 1997. Please send comments to the authors.
-
-
-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 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 certificate
- that came with the request and signed using the KDC's signature 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 3.3 describes a way for the user to
- store and retrieve his private key on the KDC.
-
-
-3.1. Definitions
-
- Hash and encryption types will be specified using ENCTYPE tags; we
- propose the addition of the following types:
-
- #define ENCTYPE_SIGN_DSA_GENERATE 0x0011
- #define ENCTYPE_SIGN_DSA_VERIFY 0x0012
- #define ENCTYPE_ENCRYPT_RSA_PRIV 0x0021
- #define ENCTYPE_ENCRYPT_RSA_PUB 0x0022
-
- allowing further signature types to be defined in the range 0x0011
- through 0x001f, and further encryption types to be defined in the
- range 0x0021 through 0x002f.
-
- The extensions involve new preauthentication fields. The
- preauthentication data types are in the range 17 through 21.
- These values are also specified along with their corresponding
- ASN.1 definition.
-
- #define PA-PK-AS-REQ 17
- #define PA-PK-AS-REP 18
- #define PA-PK-AS-SIGN 19
- #define PA-PK-KEY-REQ 20
- #define PA-PK-KEY-REP 21
-
- The extensions also involve new error types. The new error types
- are in the range 227 through 229. They are:
-
- #define KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 227
- #define KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 228
- #define KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 229
-
- In the exposition below, we use the following terms: encryption key,
- decryption key, signature key, verification key. It should be
- understood that encryption and verification keys are essentially
- public keys, and decryption and signature keys are essentially
- private keys. The fact that they are logically distinct does
- not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys.
-
-
-3.2. Standard Public Key Authentication
-
- Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
- compliance with pk-init.
-
- 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 signature key accompanies the request:
-
- PA-PK-AS-REQ ::- SEQUENCE {
- -- PA TYPE 17
- signedPKAuth [0] SignedPKAuthenticator,
- userCert [1] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL,
- -- the user's certificate
- -- optionally followed by that
- -- certificate's certifier chain
- trustedCertifiers [2] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName OPTIONAL
- -- CAs that the client trusts
- }
-
- SignedPKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
- pkAuth [0] PKAuthenticator,
- pkAuthSig [1] Signature,
- -- of pkAuth
- -- using user's signature key
- }
-
- PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
- cusec [0] INTEGER,
- -- for replay prevention
- ctime [1] KerberosTime,
- -- for replay prevention
- nonce [2] INTEGER,
- -- binds response to this request
- kdcName [3] PrincipalName,
- clientPubValue [4] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL,
- -- for Diffie-Hellman algorithm
- }
-
- Signature ::= SEQUENCE {
- signedHash [0] EncryptedData
- -- of type Checksum
- -- encrypted under signature key
- }
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype [0] INTEGER,
- checksum [1] OCTET STRING
- } -- as specified by RFC 1510
-
- SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- algorithm [0] algorithmIdentifier,
- subjectPublicKey [1] BIT STRING
- } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [9]
-
- Certificate ::= SEQUENCE {
- CertType [0] INTEGER,
- -- type of certificate
- -- 1 = X.509v3 (DER encoding)
- -- 2 = PGP (per PGP draft)
- CertData [1] OCTET STRING
- -- actual certificate
- -- type determined by CertType
- }
-
- Note: If the signature uses RSA keys, then it is to be performed
- as per PKCS #1.
-
- 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: 1) a Kerberos principal name, or 2) the name in the
- KDC's certificate (e.g., an X.500 name, or a PGP name). Note that
- case #1 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 is empty if the KDC already has the
- user's certifcate.
-
- 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 the certification path does not match one of
- the KDC's trusted certifiers, the KDC sends back an error message of
- type KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED, and it includes in the error data
- field a list of its own trusted certifiers, upon which the client
- resends the request.
-
- 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_ERROR_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_ERROR_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 PKAuthenticator.
-
- Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510, except that it
- encrypts the reply not with the user's 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 18
- kdcCert [0] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL,
- -- the KDC's certificate
- -- optionally followed by that
- -- certificate's certifier chain
- encPaReply [1] EncryptedData,
- -- of type PaReply
- -- using either the client public
- -- key or the Diffie-Hellman key
- -- specified by SignedDHPublicValue
- signedDHPublicValue [2] SignedDHPublicValue OPTIONAL
- }
-
-
- PaReply ::= SEQUENCE {
- replyEncKeyPack [0] ReplyEncKeyPack,
- replyEncKeyPackSig [1] Signature,
- -- of replyEncKeyPack
- -- using KDC's signature key
- }
-
- ReplyEncKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- replyEncKey [0] EncryptionKey,
- -- used to encrypt main reply
- nonce [1] INTEGER
- -- binds response to the request
- -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
- }
-
- SignedDHPublicValue ::= SEQUENCE {
- dhPublicValue [0] SubjectPublicKeyInfo,
- dhPublicValueSig [1] Signature
- -- of dhPublicValue
- -- using KDC's signature key
- }
-
- The kdcCert field is a sequence of certificates, the first of which
- must have as its root certifier one of the certifiers sent to the
- KDC in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. Any subsequent certificates will be
- certificates of the certifiers of the KDC's certificate. 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 shall follow the naming constraints set
- forth in RFC 1510 (sections 7.1 and 3.3.3.1). Note that this will
- require new nametypes to be defined for PGP certifiers and other
- types of realms as they arise.
-
- The KDC's certificate must bind the public key to a name derivable
- from the name of the realm for that KDC. 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.
-
-
-3.3. Digital Signature
-
- Implementation of the changes in this section are OPTIONAL for
- compliance with pk-init.
-
- 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 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:
-
- PA-PK-AS-SIGN ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- PA TYPE 19
- encSignedKeyPack [0] EncryptedData
- -- of SignedKeyPack
- -- using the KDC's public key
- }
-
- SignedKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- signedKey [0] KeyPack,
- signedKeyAuth [1] PKAuthenticator,
- signedKeySig [2] Signature
- -- of signedKey.signedKeyAuth
- -- using user's signature key
- }
-
- KeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- randomKey [0] EncryptionKey,
- -- will be used to encrypt reply
- nonce [1] INTEGER
- }
-
- where the nonce is copied from the request.
-
- 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 Private Key From the KDC
-
- Implementation of the changes in this section is RECOMMENDED for
- compliance with pk-init.
-
- 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. 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
- pk-init. 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.
-
- In order to obtain a private key, the client includes a
- preauthentication field with the AS-REQ message:
-
- PA-PK-KEY-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- PA TYPE 20
- patimestamp [0] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- -- used to address replay attacks.
- pausec [1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- -- used to address replay attacks.
- nonce [2] INTEGER,
- -- binds the reply to this request
- privkeyID [3] SEQUENCE OF KeyID OPTIONAL
- -- constructed as a hash of
- -- public key corresponding to
- -- desired private key
- }
-
- KeyID ::= SEQUENCE {
- KeyIdentifier [0] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- The client may request a specific private key by sending the
- corresponding ID. If this field is left empty, then all
- private keys are returned.
-
- If all checks out, the KDC responds as described in the above
- sections, except that an additional preauthentication field,
- containing the user's private key, accompanies the reply:
-
- PA-PK-KEY-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- PA TYPE 21
- nonce [0] INTEGER,
- -- binds the reply to the request
- KeyData [1] SEQUENCE OF KeyPair
- }
-
- KeyPair ::= SEQUENCE {
- privKeyID [0] OCTET STRING,
- -- corresponding to encPrivKey
- encPrivKey [1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
-3.4.1. Additional Protection of Retrieved Private Keys
-
- We solicit discussion on the following proposal: that the client may
- optionally include in its request additional data to encrypt the
- private key, which is currently only protected by the user's
- password. One possibility is that the client might generate a
- random string of bits, encrypt it with the public key of the KDC (as
- in the SignedKeyPack, but with an ordinary OCTET STRING in place of
- an EncryptionKey), and include this with the request. The KDC then
- XORs each returned key with this random bit string. (If the bit
- string is too short, the KDC could either return an error, or XOR
- the returned key with a repetition of the bit string.)
-
- In order to make this work, additional means of preauthentication
- need to be devised in order to prevent attackers from simply
- inserting their own bit string. One way to do this is to store
- a hash of the password-derived key (the one used to encrypt the
- private key). This hash is then used in turn to derive a second
- key (called the hash-key); the hash-key is used to encrypt an ASN.1
- structure containing the generated bit string and a nonce value
- that binds it to the request.
-
- Since the KDC possesses the hash, it can generate the hash-key and
- verify this (weaker) preauthentication, and yet cannot reproduce
- the private key itself, since the hash is a one-way function.
-
-
-4. Logistics and Policy Issues
-
- We solicit discussion on how clients and KDCs should be configured
- in order to determine which of the options described above (if any)
- should be used. One possibility is to set the user's database
- record to indicate that authentication is to use public key
- cryptography; this will not work, however, in the event that the
- client needs to know before making the initial request.
-
-5. Compatibility with One-Time Passcodes
-
- We solicit discussion on how the protocol changes proposed in this
- draft will interact with the proposed use of one-time passcodes
- discussed in draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-passwords-00.txt.
-
-
-6. Strength of Cryptographic Schemes
-
- In light of recent findings on the strength of MD5 and DES,
- we solicit discussion on which encryption types to incorporate
- into the protocol changes.
-
-
-7. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). Request for Comments: 1510
-
- [2] B.C. Neuman, Theodore Ts'o. Kerberos: An Authentication Service
- for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38.
- September 1994.
-
- [3] A. Medvinsky, M. Hur. Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to
- Transport Layer Security (TLS).
- draft-ietf-tls-kerb-cipher-suites-00.txt
-
- [4] A. Medvinsky, M. Hur, B. Clifford Neuman. Public Key Utilizing
- Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP).
- draft-ietf-cat-pktapp-00.txt
-
- [5] M. Sirbu, J. Chuang. Distributed Authentication in Kerberos Using
- Public Key Cryptography. Symposium On Network and Distributed System
- Security, 1997.
-
- [6] B. Cox, J.D. Tygar, M. Sirbu. NetBill Security and Transaction
- Protocol. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce,
- July 1995.
-
- [7] Alan O. Freier, Philip Karlton and Paul C. Kocher.
- The SSL Protocol, Version 3.0 - IETF Draft.
-
- [8] B.C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
- Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
- Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993
-
- [9] ITU-T (formerly CCITT)
- Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
- The Directory: Authentication Framework Recommendation X.509
- ISO/IEC 9594-8
-
-
-8. Acknowledgements
-
- 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.
-
-
-9. Expiration Date
-
- This draft expires September 30, 1997.
-
-
-10. Authors
-
- Clifford Neuman
- Brian Tung
- USC Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
- Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
- Phone: +1 310 822 1511
- E-mail: {bcn, brian}@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
- E-mail: jonathan.trostle@novell.com
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-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-11.txt Clifford Neuman
-Updates: RFC 1510 USC/ISI
-expires September 15, 2000 Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
- Ari Medvinsky
- Keen.com, Inc.
- Sasha Medvinsky
- Motorola
- John Wray
- Iris Associates, Inc.
- Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco
-
- Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
- its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts
- as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in
- progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check
- the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
- Shadow Directories on ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast),
- nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or
- munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
- The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-11.txt, and expires September 15,
- 2000. Please send comments to the authors.
-
-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.
-
- PKINIT utilizes ephemeral-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys in
- combination with digital signature keys as the primary, required
- mechanism. It also allows for the use of RSA keys and/or (static)
- Diffie-Hellman certificates. Note in particular that PKINIT supports
- the use of separate signature and encryption keys.
-
- PKINIT enables access to Kerberos-secured services based on initial
- authentication utilizing public key cryptography. PKINIT utilizes
- standard public key signature and encryption data formats within the
- standard Kerberos messages. The basic mechanism is as follows: The
- user sends an AS-REQ message to the KDC as before, except that if that
- user is to use public key cryptography in the initial authentication
- step, his certificate and a signature accompany 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 the encPart from the AS-REP message
- carrying the TGT is now encrypted utilizing either a Diffie-Hellman
- derived key or the user's public key. This message is authenticated
- utilizing the public key signature of the KDC.
-
- Note that PKINIT does not require the use of certificates. A KDC
- may store the public key of a principal as part of that principal's
- record. In this scenario, the KDC is the trusted party that vouches
- for the principal (as in a standard, non-cross realm, Kerberos
- environment). Thus, for any principal, the KDC may maintain a
- secret key, a public key, or both.
-
- The PKINIT specification may also be used as a building block for
- other specifications. PKCROSS [3] utilizes PKINIT for establishing
- the inter-realm key and associated inter-realm policy to be applied
- in issuing cross realm service tickets. As specified in [4],
- anonymous Kerberos tickets can be issued by applying a NULL
- signature in combination with Diffie-Hellman in the PKINIT exchange.
- Additionally, the PKINIT specification may be used for direct peer
- to peer authentication without contacting a central KDC. This
- application of PKINIT is described in PKTAPP [5] and is based on
- concepts introduced in [6, 7]. 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 TLS [8] 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 [9]).
-
-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 change to RFC 1510 is 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. The user presents
- a public key certificate and 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 describes the extensions for the initial authentication
- method.
-
-3.1. Definitions
-
- The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we introduce
- the following preauthentication types:
-
- PA-PK-AS-REQ 14
- PA-PK-AS-REP 15
-
- The extensions also involve new error types; we introduce 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
- KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66
- KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70
- KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71
- KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75
- KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76
-
- We utilize the following typed data for errors:
-
- TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101
- TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL 102
- TD-KRB-REALM 103
- TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
- TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
-
- We utilize the following encryption types (which map directly to
- OIDs):
-
- dsaWithSHA1-CmsOID 9
- md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
- sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
- rc2CBC-EnvOID 12
- rsaEncryption-EnvOID (PKCS#1 v1.5) 13
- rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID (PKCS#1 v2.0) 14
- des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
-
- These mappings are provided so that a client may send the
- appropriate enctypes in the AS-REQ message in order to indicate
- support for the corresponding OIDs (for performing PKINIT).
-
- In many cases, PKINIT requires the encoding of the X.500 name of a
- certificate authority as a Realm. When such a name appears as
- a realm it will be represented using the "other" form of the realm
- name as specified in the naming constraints section of RFC1510.
- For a realm derived from an X.500 name, NAMETYPE will have the value
- X500-RFC2253. The full realm name will appear as follows:
-
- <nametype> + ":" + <string>
-
- where nametype is "X500-RFC2253" and string is the result of doing
- an RFC2253 encoding of the distinguished name, i.e.
-
- "X500-RFC2253:" + RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
-
- where DistinguishedName is an X.500 name, and RFC2253Encode is a
- function returing a readable UTF encoding of an X.500 name, as
- defined by RFC 2253 [14] (part of LDAPv3 [18]).
-
- To ensure that this encoding is unique, we add the following rule
- to those specified by RFC 2253:
-
- The order in which the attributes appear in the RFC 2253
- encoding must be the reverse of the order in the ASN.1
- encoding of the X.500 name that appears in the public key
- certificate. The order of the relative distinguished names
- (RDNs), as well as the order of the AttributeTypeAndValues
- within each RDN, will be reversed. (This is despite the fact
- that an RDN is defined as a SET of AttributeTypeAndValues, where
- an order is normally not important.)
-
- Similarly, in cases where the KDC does not provide a specific
- policy based mapping from the X.500 name or X.509 Version 3
- SubjectAltName extension in the user's certificate to a Kerberos
- principal name, PKINIT requires the direct encoding of the X.500
- name as a PrincipalName. In this case, the name-type of the
- principal name shall be set to KRB_NT-X500-PRINCIPAL. This new
- name type is defined in RFC 1510 as:
-
- KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6
-
- The name-string shall be set as follows:
-
- RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
-
- as described above. When this name type is used, the principal's
- realm shall be set to the certificate authority's distinguished
- name using the X500-RFC2253 realm name format described earlier in
- this section
-
- RFC 1510 specifies the ASN.1 structure for PrincipalName as follows:
-
- PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
- }
-
- For the purposes of encoding an X.500 name as a Kerberos name for
- use in Kerberos structures, the name-string shall be encoded as a
- single GeneralString. The name-type should be KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL,
- as noted above. All Kerberos names must conform to validity
- requirements as given in RFC 1510. Note that name mapping may be
- required or optional, based on policy.
-
- We also define the following similar ASN.1 structure:
-
- CertPrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF UTF8String
- }
-
- When a Kerberos PrincipalName is to be placed within an X.509 data
- structure, the CertPrincipalName structure is to be used, with the
- name-string encoded as a single UTF8String. The name-type should be
- as identified in the original PrincipalName structure. The mapping
- between the GeneralString and UTF8String formats can be found in
- [19].
-
- The following rules relate to the the matching of PrincipalNames (or
- corresponding CertPrincipalNames) with regard to the PKI name
- constraints for CAs as laid out in RFC 2459 [15]. In order to be
- regarded as a match (for permitted and excluded name trees), the
- following must be satisfied.
-
- 1. If the constraint is given as a user plus realm name, or
- as a user plus instance plus realm name (as specified in
- RFC 1510), the realm name must be valid (see 2.a-d below)
- and the match must be exact, byte for byte.
-
- 2. If the constraint is given only as a realm name, matching
- depends on the type of the realm:
-
- a. If the realm contains a colon (':') before any equal
- sign ('='), it is treated as a realm of type Other,
- and must match exactly, byte for byte.
-
- b. Otherwise, if the realm contains an equal sign, it
- is treated as an X.500 name. In order to match, every
- component in the constraint MUST be in the principal
- name, and have the same value. For example, 'C=US'
- matches 'C=US/O=ISI' but not 'C=UK'.
-
- c. Otherwise, if the realm name conforms to rules regarding
- the format of DNS names, it is considered a realm name of
- type Domain. The constraint may be given as a realm
- name 'FOO.BAR', which matches any PrincipalName within
- the realm 'FOO.BAR' but not those in subrealms such as
- 'CAR.FOO.BAR'. A constraint of the form '.FOO.BAR'
- matches PrincipalNames in subrealms of the form
- 'CAR.FOO.BAR' but not the realm 'FOO.BAR' itself.
-
- d. Otherwise, the realm name is invalid and does not match
- under any conditions.
-
-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 for RSA
- keys.
-
- 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.
-
-3.1.2. Algorithm Identifiers
-
- PKINIT does not define, but does permit, the algorithm identifiers
- listed below.
-
-3.1.2.1. Signature Algorithm Identifiers
-
- The following signature algorithm identifiers specified in [11] and
- in [15] shall be used with PKINIT:
-
- id-dsa-with-sha1 (DSA with SHA1)
- md5WithRSAEncryption (RSA with MD5)
- sha-1WithRSAEncryption (RSA with SHA1)
-
-3.1.2.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Algorithm Identifier
-
- The following algorithm identifier shall be used within the
- SubjectPublicKeyInfo data structure: dhpublicnumber
-
- This identifier and the associated algorithm parameters are
- specified in RFC 2459 [15].
-
-3.1.2.3. Algorithm Identifiers for RSA Encryption
-
- These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
- structure, for encrypting the temporary key with a public key:
-
- rsaEncryption (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v1.5)
- id-RSAES-OAEP (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v2.0)
-
- Both of the above RSA encryption schemes are specified in [16].
- Currently, only PKCS#1 v1.5 is specified by CMS [11], although the
- CMS specification says that it will likely include PKCS#1 v2.0 in
- the future. (PKCS#1 v2.0 addresses adaptive chosen ciphertext
- vulnerability discovered in PKCS#1 v1.5.)
-
-3.1.2.4. Algorithm Identifiers for Encryption with Secret Keys
-
- These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
- structure in the PKINIT Reply, for encrypting the reply key with the
- temporary key:
- des-ede3-cbc (3-key 3-DES, CBC mode)
- rc2-cbc (RC2, CBC mode)
-
- The full definition of the above algorithm identifiers and their
- corresponding parameters (an IV for block chaining) is provided in
- the CMS specification [11].
-
-3.2. Public Key Authentication
-
- Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
- compliance with PKINIT.
-
-3.2.1. Client Request
-
- Public keys may be signed by some certification authority (CA), or
- they may be maintained by the KDC in which case the KDC is the
- trusted authority. Note that the latter mode does not require the
- use of certificates.
-
- 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] SignedData
- -- Defined in CMS [11];
- -- AuthPack (below) defines the
- -- data that is signed.
- trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF TrustedCas OPTIONAL,
- -- This is a list of CAs that the
- -- client trusts and that certify
- -- KDCs.
- kdcCert [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
- -- As defined in CMS [11];
- -- specifies a particular KDC
- -- certificate if the client
- -- already has it.
- encryptionCert [3] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
- -- For example, this may be the
- -- client's Diffie-Hellman
- -- certificate, or it may be the
- -- client's RSA encryption
- -- certificate.
- }
-
- TrustedCas ::= CHOICE {
- principalName [0] KerberosName,
- -- as defined below
- caName [1] Name
- -- fully qualified X.500 name
- -- as defined by X.509
- issuerAndSerial [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber
- -- Since a CA may have a number of
- -- certificates, only one of which
- -- a client trusts
- }
-
- Usage of SignedData:
-
- The SignedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
- Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
- IETF. The following describes how to fill in the fields of
- this data:
-
- 1. The encapContentInfo field must contain the PKAuthenticator
- and, optionally, the client's Diffie Hellman public value.
-
- a. The eContentType field shall contain the OID value for
- pkdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1) security (5)
- kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdata (1)
-
- b. The eContent field is data of the type AuthPack (below).
-
- 2. The signerInfos field contains the signature of AuthPack.
-
- 3. The Certificates field, when non-empty, contains the client's
- certificate chain. If present, the KDC uses the public key
- from the client's certificate to verify the signature in the
- request. Note that the client may pass different certificate
- chains that are used for signing or for encrypting. Thus,
- the KDC may utilize a different client certificate for
- signature verification than the one it uses to encrypt the
- reply to the client. For example, the client may place a
- Diffie-Hellman certificate in this field in order to convey
- its static Diffie Hellman certificate to the KDC to enable
- static-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman mode for the reply; in this
- case, the client does NOT place its public value in the
- AuthPack (defined below). As another example, the client may
- place an RSA encryption certificate in this field. However,
- there must always be (at least) a signature certificate.
-
- AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
- clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
- -- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
- -- (ephemeral-ephemeral only)
- }
-
- PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdcName [0] PrincipalName,
- kdcRealm [1] Realm,
- cusec [2] INTEGER,
- -- for replay prevention as in RFC1510
- ctime [3] KerberosTime,
- -- for replay prevention as in RFC1510
- nonce [4] INTEGER
- }
-
- SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
- -- dhKeyAgreement
- subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
- -- for DH, equals
- -- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
- -- as payload of BIT STRING)
- } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [10]
-
- AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
- algorithm ALGORITHM.&id,
- parameters ALGORITHM.&type
- } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [10]
-
- If the client passes an issuer and serial number in the request,
- the KDC is requested to use the referred-to certificate. If none
- exists, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH. It also returns this error if, on the
- other hand, the client does not pass any trustedCertifiers,
- believing that it has the KDC's certificate, but the KDC has more
- than one certificate. The KDC should include information in the
- KRB-ERROR message that indicates the KDC certificate(s) that a
- client may utilize. This data is specified in the e-data, which
- is defined in RFC 1510 revisions as a SEQUENCE of TypedData:
-
- TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type [0] INTEGER,
- data-value [1] OCTET STRING,
- } -- per Kerberos RFC 1510 revisions
-
- where:
- data-type = TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES = 101
- data-value = CertificateSet // as specified by CMS [11]
-
- The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks, and
- to bind the request and response. The PKAuthenticator is signed
- with the client's signature key.
-
-3.2.2. KDC Response
-
- 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 the client's certificate chain contains no certificate signed by
- a CA trusted by the KDC, then the KDC sends back an error message
- of type KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying e-data
- is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS=104)
- whose data-value is an OCTET STRING which is the DER encoding of
-
- TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- -- X.500 name encoded as a principal name
- -- see Section 3.1
-
- If while verifying a certificate chain the KDC determines that the
- signature on one of the certificates in the CertificateSet from
- the signedAuthPack fails verification, then the KDC returns an
- error of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying
- e-data is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type
- TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX=105) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
- which is the DER encoding of the index into the CertificateSet
- ordered as sent by the client.
-
- CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
- -- 0 = 1st certificate,
- -- (in order of encoding)
- -- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
-
- The KDC may also check whether any of the certificates in the
- client's chain has been revoked. If one of the certificates has
- been revoked, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE; if such a query reveals that
- the certificate's revocation status is unknown or not
- available, then if required by policy, the KDC returns the
- appropriate error of type KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN or
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE. In any of these three
- cases, the affected certificate is identified by the accompanying
- e-data, which contains a CertificateIndex as described for
- KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE.
-
- If the certificate chain can be verified, but the name of the
- client in the certificate does not match the client's name in the
- request, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH. There is no accompanying e-data
- field in this case.
-
- Finally, if the certificate chain is verified, but the KDC's name
- or realm as given in the PKAuthenticator does not match the KDC's
- actual principal name, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH. The accompanying e-data field is again
- a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL=102 or
- TD-KRB-REALM=103 as appropriate) whose data-value is an OCTET
- STRING whose data-value is the DER encoding of a PrincipalName or
- Realm as defined in RFC 1510 revisions.
-
- Even if all succeeds, the KDC may--for policy reasons--decide not
- to trust the client. In this case, the KDC returns an error message
- of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. One specific case of this is
- the presence or absence of an Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) OID within
- the certificate extensions. The rules regarding acceptability of
- an EKU sequence (or the absence of any sequence) are a matter of
- local policy. For the benefit of implementers, we define a PKINIT
- EKU OID as the following: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
- security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkekuoid (2).
-
- If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
- signature on AuthPack. If that fails, the KDC returns an error
- message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses the
- timestamp (ctime and cusec) 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 and that the principal name and realm
- are correct. 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 as defined in 1510.
-
- Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510, except as
- follows. The user's name in the ticket is determined by the
- following decision algorithm:
-
- 1. If the KDC has a mapping from the name in the certificate
- to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
- Else
- 2. If the certificate contains the SubjectAltName extention
- and the local KDC policy defines a mapping from the
- SubjectAltName to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
- Else
- 3. Use the name as represented in the certificate, mapping
- mapping as necessary (e.g., as per RFC 2253 for X.500
- names). In this case the realm in the ticket shall be the
- name of the certifier that issued the user's certificate.
-
- Note that a principal name may be carried in the subject alt name
- field of a certificate. This name may be mapped to a principal
- record in a security database based on local policy, for example
- the subject alt name may be kerberos/principal@realm format. In
- this case the realm name is not that of the CA but that of the
- local realm doing the mapping (or some realm name chosen by that
- realm).
-
- If a non-KDC X.509 certificate contains the principal name within
- the subjectAltName version 3 extension , that name may utilize
- KerberosName as defined below, or, in the case of an S/MIME
- certificate [17], may utilize the email address. If the KDC
- is presented with an S/MIME certificate, then the email address
- within subjectAltName will be interpreted as a principal and realm
- separated by the "@" sign, or as a name that needs to be
- canonicalized. If the resulting name does not correspond to a
- registered principal name, then the principal name is formed as
- defined in section 3.1.
-
- 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. If the KDC has no
- certificate signed by any of the trustedCertifiers, then it returns
- an error of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED.
-
- KDCs should try to (in order of preference):
- 1. Use the KDC certificate identified by the serialNumber included
- in the client's request.
- 2. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by the client's CA (if in the
- middle of a CA key roll-over, use the KDC cert issued under same
- CA key as user cert used to verify request).
- 3. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by one of the client's
- trustedCertifier(s);
- If the KDC is unable to comply with any of these options, then the
- KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to the
- client.
-
- The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
- with the Diffie Hellman derived key or a random key generated
- for this particular response which is carried in the padata field of
- the TGS-REP message.
-
- PA-PK-AS-REP ::= CHOICE {
- -- PA TYPE 15
- dhSignedData [0] SignedData,
- -- Defined in CMS and used only with
- -- Diffie-Hellman key exchange (if the
- -- client public value was present in the
- -- request).
- -- This choice MUST be supported
- -- by compliant implementations.
- encKeyPack [1] EnvelopedData,
- -- Defined in CMS
- -- The temporary key is encrypted
- -- using the client public key
- -- key
- -- SignedReplyKeyPack, encrypted
- -- with the temporary key, is also
- -- included.
- }
-
- Usage of SignedData:
-
- When the Diffie-Hellman option is used, dhSignedData in
- PA-PK-AS-REP provides authenticated Diffie-Hellman parameters
- of the KDC. The reply key used to encrypt part of the KDC reply
- message is derived from the Diffie-Hellman exchange:
-
- 1. Both the KDC and the client calculate a secret value
- (g^ab mod p), where a is the client's private exponent and
- b is the KDC's private exponent.
-
- 2. Both the KDC and the client take the first N bits of this
- secret value and convert it into a reply key. N depends on
- the reply key type.
-
- 3. If the reply key is DES, N=64 bits, where some of the bits
- are replaced with parity bits, according to FIPS PUB 74.
-
- 4. If the reply key is (3-key) 3-DES, N=192 bits, where some
- of the bits are replaced with parity bits, according to
- FIPS PUB 74.
-
- 5. The encapContentInfo field must contain the KdcDHKeyInfo as
- defined below.
-
- a. The eContentType field shall contain the OID value for
- pkdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1) security (5)
- kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdata (1)
-
- b. The eContent field is data of the type KdcDHKeyInfo
- (below).
-
- 6. The certificates field must contain the certificates
- necessary for the client to establish trust in the KDC's
- certificate based on the list of trusted certifiers sent by
- the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. This field may be empty if
- the client did not send to the KDC a list of trusted
- certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning
- that the client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
-
- 7. The signerInfos field is a SET that must contain at least
- one member, since it contains the actual signature.
-
- KdcDHKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- used only when utilizing Diffie-Hellman
- nonce [0] INTEGER,
- -- binds responce to the request
- subjectPublicKey [2] BIT STRING
- -- Equals public exponent (g^a mod p)
- -- INTEGER encoded as payload of
- -- BIT STRING
- }
-
- Usage of EnvelopedData:
-
- The EnvelopedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
- Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
- IETF. It contains a temporary key encrypted with the PKINIT
- client's public key. It also contains a signed and encrypted
- reply key.
-
- 1. The originatorInfo field is not required, since that
- information may be presented in the signedData structure
- that is encrypted within the encryptedContentInfo field.
-
- 2. The optional unprotectedAttrs field is not required for
- PKINIT.
-
- 3. The recipientInfos field is a SET which must contain exactly
- one member of the KeyTransRecipientInfo type for encryption
- with an RSA public key.
-
- a. The encryptedKey field (in KeyTransRecipientInfo)
- contains the temporary key which is encrypted with the
- PKINIT client's public key.
-
- 4. The encryptedContentInfo field contains the signed and
- encrypted reply key.
-
- a. The contentType field shall contain the OID value for
- id-signedData: iso (1) member-body (2) us (840)
- rsadsi (113549) pkcs (1) pkcs7 (7) signedData (2)
-
- b. The encryptedContent field is encrypted data of the CMS
- type signedData as specified below.
-
- i. The encapContentInfo field must contains the
- ReplyKeyPack.
-
- * The eContentType field shall contain the OID value
- for pkdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
- security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdata (1)
-
- * The eContent field is data of the type ReplyKeyPack
- (below).
-
- ii. The certificates field must contain the certificates
- necessary for the client to establish trust in the
- KDC's certificate based on the list of trusted
- certifiers sent by the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ.
- This field may be empty if the client did not send
- to the KDC a list of trusted certifiers (the
- trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning that the
- client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
-
- iii. The signerInfos field is a SET that must contain at
- least one member, since it contains the actual
- signature.
-
- ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- not used for Diffie-Hellman
- replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
- -- used to encrypt main reply
- -- ENCTYPE is at least as strong as
- -- ENCTYPE of session key
- nonce [1] INTEGER,
- -- binds response to the request
- -- must be same as the nonce
- -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
- }
-
- Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
- certificate is equivalent to a separate Kerberos realm, the name
- of each certifier in the certificate chain must 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(s) must bind the public key(s) of the KDC to
- a name derivable from the name of the realm for that KDC. X.509
- certificates shall contain the principal name of the KDC
- (defined in section 8.2 of RFC 1510) as the SubjectAltName version
- 3 extension. Below is the definition of this version 3 extension,
- as specified by the X.509 standard:
-
- subjectAltName EXTENSION ::= {
- SYNTAX GeneralNames
- IDENTIFIED BY id-ce-subjectAltName
- }
-
- GeneralNames ::= SEQUENCE SIZE(1..MAX) OF GeneralName
-
- GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
- otherName [0] OtherName,
- ...
- }
-
- OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
- type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
- value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id
- }
-
- For the purpose of specifying a Kerberos principal name, the value
- in OtherName shall be a KerberosName as defined in RFC 1510, but with
- the PrincipalName replaced by CertPrincipalName as mentioned in
- Section 3.1:
-
- KerberosName ::= SEQUENCE {
- realm [0] Realm,
- principalName [1] CertPrincipalName -- defined above
- }
-
- This specific syntax is identified within subjectAltName by setting
- the type-id in OtherName to krb5PrincipalName, where (from the
- Kerberos specification) we have
-
- krb5 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso (1)
- org (3)
- dod (6)
- internet (1)
- security (5)
- kerberosv5 (2) }
-
- krb5PrincipalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { krb5 2 }
-
- (This specification may also be used to specify a Kerberos name
- within the user's certificate.) The KDC's certificate may be signed
- directly by a CA, or there may be intermediaries if the server resides
- within a large organization, or it may be unsigned if the client
- indicates possession (and trust) of the KDC's 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. The client uses this
- random key to decrypt the main reply, and subsequently proceeds as
- described in RFC 1510.
-
-3.2.3. Required Algorithms
-
- Not all of the algorithms in the PKINIT protocol specification have
- to be implemented in order to comply with the proposed standard.
- Below is a list of the required algorithms:
-
- * Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs
- * utilizing Diffie-Hellman ephemeral-ephemeral mode
- * SHA1 digest and DSA for signatures
- * 3-key triple DES keys derived from the Diffie-Hellman Exchange
- * 3-key triple DES Temporary and Reply keys
-
-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
- who use public key authentication. However, if these users are
- registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database record
- for these users be modified to an additional flag in the attributes
- field to indicate that the user should authenticate using PKINIT.
- If this flag is set and a request message does not contain the
- PKINIT preauthentication field, then the KDC sends back as error of
- type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a preauthentication
- field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the request.
-
-5. Security Considerations
-
- PKINIT raises a few security considerations, which we will address
- in this section.
-
- First of all, PKINIT introduces a new trust model, where KDCs do not
- (necessarily) certify the identity of those for whom they issue
- tickets. PKINIT does allow KDCs to act as their own CAs, in the
- limited capacity of self-signing their certificates, but one of the
- additional benefits is to align Kerberos authentication with a global
- public key infrastructure. Anyone using PKINIT in this way must be
- aware of how the certification infrastructure they are linking to
- works.
-
- Secondly, PKINIT also introduces the possibility of interactions
- between different cryptosystems, which may be of widely varying
- strengths. Many systems, for instance, allow the use of 512-bit
- public keys. Using such keys to wrap data encrypted under strong
- conventional cryptosystems, such as triple-DES, is inappropriate;
- it adds a weak link to a strong one at extra cost. Implementors
- and administrators should take care to avoid such wasteful and
- deceptive interactions.
-
- Lastly, PKINIT calls for randomly generated keys for conventional
- cryptosystems. Many such systems contain systematically "weak"
- keys. PKINIT implementations MUST avoid use of these keys, either
- by discarding those keys when they are generated, or by fixing them
- in some way (e.g., by XORing them with a given mask). These
- precautions vary from system to system; it is not our intention to
- give an explicit recipe for them here.
-
-6. Transport Issues
-
- 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
- require KDCs to accept requests using TCP as a transport mechanism,
- we make the same recommendation with respect to the PKINIT
- extensions as well.
-
-7. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
- (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [2] B.C. Neuman, Theodore Ts'o. Kerberos: An Authentication Service
- for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38. September
- 1994.
-
- [3] B. Tung, T. Ryutov, C. Neuman, G. Tsudik, B. Sommerfeld,
- A. Medvinsky, M. Hur. Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm
- Authentication in Kerberos. draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-04.txt
-
- [4] A. Medvinsky, J. Cargille, M. Hur. Anonymous Credentials in
- Kerberos. draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-anoncred-00.txt
-
- [5] Ari Medvinsky, M. Hur, Alexander Medvinsky, B. Clifford Neuman.
- Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP).
- draft-ietf-cat-pktapp-02.txt
-
- [6] M. Sirbu, J. Chuang. Distributed Authentication in Kerberos
- Using Public Key Cryptography. Symposium On Network and Distributed
- System Security, 1997.
-
- [7] B. Cox, J.D. Tygar, M. Sirbu. NetBill Security and Transaction
- Protocol. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Electronic
- Commerce, July 1995.
-
- [8] T. Dierks, C. Allen. The TLS Protocol, Version 1.0
- Request for Comments 2246, January 1999.
-
- [9] B.C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
- Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
- Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993.
-
- [10] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information technology - Open Systems
- Interconnection - The Directory: Authentication Framework
- Recommendation X.509 ISO/IEC 9594-8
-
- [11] R. Housley. Cryptographic Message Syntax.
- draft-ietf-smime-cms-13.txt, April 1999, approved for publication
- as RFC.
-
- [12] PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard,
- An RSA Laboratories Technical Note Version 1.5
- Revised November 1, 1993
-
- [13] R. Rivest, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and RSA Data
- Security, Inc. A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm
- March 1998.
- Request for Comments 2268.
-
- [14] M. Wahl, S. Kille, T. Howes. Lightweight Directory Access
- Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names.
- Request for Comments 2253.
-
- [15] R. Housley, W. Ford, W. Polk, D. Solo. Internet X.509 Public
- Key Infrastructure, Certificate and CRL Profile, January 1999.
- Request for Comments 2459.
-
- [16] B. Kaliski, J. Staddon. PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography
- Specifications, October 1998. Request for Comments 2437.
-
- [17] S. Dusse, P. Hoffman, B. Ramsdell, J. Weinstein. S/MIME
- Version 2 Certificate Handling, March 1998. Request for
- Comments 2312.
-
- [18] M. Wahl, T. Howes, S. Kille. Lightweight Directory Access
- Protocol (v3), December 1997. Request for Comments 2251.
-
- [19] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information Processing Systems - Open
- Systems Interconnection - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation
- One (ASN.1) Rec. X.680 ISO/IEC 8824-1
-
-8. Acknowledgements
-
- 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.
-
-9. Expiration Date
-
- This draft expires September 15, 2000.
-
-10. 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
-
- Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
- 1605 NW Sammamish Road
- Issaquah WA 98027-5378
- Phone: +1 425 391 6000
- E-mail: matt.hur@cybersafe.com
-
- Ari Medvinsky
- Keen.com, Inc.
- 150 Independence Drive
- Menlo Park CA 94025
- Phone: +1 650 289 3134
- E-mail: ari@keen.com
-
- Sasha Medvinsky
- Motorola
- 6450 Sequence Drive
- San Diego, CA 92121
- Phone +1 619 404 2825
- E-mail: smedvinsky@gi.com
-
- John Wray
- Iris Associates, Inc.
- 5 Technology Park Dr.
- Westford, MA 01886
- E-mail: John_Wray@iris.com
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134
- E-mail: jtrostle@cisco.com
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-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-12.txt Clifford Neuman
-Updates: RFC 1510 USC/ISI
-expires January 15, 2001 Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
- Ari Medvinsky
- Keen.com, Inc.
- Sasha Medvinsky
- Motorola
- John Wray
- Iris Associates, Inc.
- Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco
-
- Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
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- 2001. Please send comments to the authors.
-
-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.
-
- PKINIT utilizes ephemeral-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys in
- combination with digital signature keys as the primary, required
- mechanism. It also allows for the use of RSA keys and/or (static)
- Diffie-Hellman certificates. Note in particular that PKINIT supports
- the use of separate signature and encryption keys.
-
- PKINIT enables access to Kerberos-secured services based on initial
- authentication utilizing public key cryptography. PKINIT utilizes
- standard public key signature and encryption data formats within the
- standard Kerberos messages. The basic mechanism is as follows: The
- user sends an AS-REQ message to the KDC as before, except that if that
- user is to use public key cryptography in the initial authentication
- step, his certificate and a signature accompany 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 the encPart from the AS-REP message
- carrying the TGT is now encrypted utilizing either a Diffie-Hellman
- derived key or the user's public key. This message is authenticated
- utilizing the public key signature of the KDC.
-
- Note that PKINIT does not require the use of certificates. A KDC
- may store the public key of a principal as part of that principal's
- record. In this scenario, the KDC is the trusted party that vouches
- for the principal (as in a standard, non-cross realm, Kerberos
- environment). Thus, for any principal, the KDC may maintain a
- secret key, a public key, or both.
-
- The PKINIT specification may also be used as a building block for
- other specifications. PKCROSS [3] utilizes PKINIT for establishing
- the inter-realm key and associated inter-realm policy to be applied
- in issuing cross realm service tickets. As specified in [4],
- anonymous Kerberos tickets can be issued by applying a NULL
- signature in combination with Diffie-Hellman in the PKINIT exchange.
- Additionally, the PKINIT specification may be used for direct peer
- to peer authentication without contacting a central KDC. This
- application of PKINIT is described in PKTAPP [5] and is based on
- concepts introduced in [6, 7]. 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 TLS [8] 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 [9]).
-
-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 change to RFC 1510 is 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. The user presents
- a public key certificate and 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 describes the extensions for the initial authentication
- method.
-
-3.1. Definitions
-
- The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we introduce
- the following preauthentication types:
-
- PA-PK-AS-REQ 14
- PA-PK-AS-REP 15
-
- The extensions also involve new error types; we introduce 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
- KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66
- KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70
- KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71
- KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75
- KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76
-
- We utilize the following typed data for errors:
-
- TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101
- TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL 102
- TD-KRB-REALM 103
- TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
- TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
-
- We utilize the following encryption types (which map directly to
- OIDs):
-
- dsaWithSHA1-CmsOID 9
- md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
- sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
- rc2CBC-EnvOID 12
- rsaEncryption-EnvOID (PKCS#1 v1.5) 13
- rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID (PKCS#1 v2.0) 14
- des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
-
- These mappings are provided so that a client may send the
- appropriate enctypes in the AS-REQ message in order to indicate
- support for the corresponding OIDs (for performing PKINIT).
-
- In many cases, PKINIT requires the encoding of the X.500 name of a
- certificate authority as a Realm. When such a name appears as
- a realm it will be represented using the "other" form of the realm
- name as specified in the naming constraints section of RFC1510.
- For a realm derived from an X.500 name, NAMETYPE will have the value
- X500-RFC2253. The full realm name will appear as follows:
-
- <nametype> + ":" + <string>
-
- where nametype is "X500-RFC2253" and string is the result of doing
- an RFC2253 encoding of the distinguished name, i.e.
-
- "X500-RFC2253:" + RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
-
- where DistinguishedName is an X.500 name, and RFC2253Encode is a
- function returing a readable UTF encoding of an X.500 name, as
- defined by RFC 2253 [14] (part of LDAPv3 [18]).
-
- To ensure that this encoding is unique, we add the following rule
- to those specified by RFC 2253:
-
- The order in which the attributes appear in the RFC 2253
- encoding must be the reverse of the order in the ASN.1
- encoding of the X.500 name that appears in the public key
- certificate. The order of the relative distinguished names
- (RDNs), as well as the order of the AttributeTypeAndValues
- within each RDN, will be reversed. (This is despite the fact
- that an RDN is defined as a SET of AttributeTypeAndValues, where
- an order is normally not important.)
-
- Similarly, in cases where the KDC does not provide a specific
- policy based mapping from the X.500 name or X.509 Version 3
- SubjectAltName extension in the user's certificate to a Kerberos
- principal name, PKINIT requires the direct encoding of the X.500
- name as a PrincipalName. In this case, the name-type of the
- principal name shall be set to KRB_NT-X500-PRINCIPAL. This new
- name type is defined in RFC 1510 as:
-
- KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6
-
- The name-string shall be set as follows:
-
- RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
-
- as described above. When this name type is used, the principal's
- realm shall be set to the certificate authority's distinguished
- name using the X500-RFC2253 realm name format described earlier in
- this section
-
- RFC 1510 specifies the ASN.1 structure for PrincipalName as follows:
-
- PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
- }
-
- For the purposes of encoding an X.500 name as a Kerberos name for
- use in Kerberos structures, the name-string shall be encoded as a
- single GeneralString. The name-type should be KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL,
- as noted above. All Kerberos names must conform to validity
- requirements as given in RFC 1510. Note that name mapping may be
- required or optional, based on policy.
-
- We also define the following similar ASN.1 structure:
-
- CertPrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF UTF8String
- }
-
- When a Kerberos PrincipalName is to be placed within an X.509 data
- structure, the CertPrincipalName structure is to be used, with the
- name-string encoded as a single UTF8String. The name-type should be
- as identified in the original PrincipalName structure. The mapping
- between the GeneralString and UTF8String formats can be found in
- [19].
-
- The following rules relate to the the matching of PrincipalNames (or
- corresponding CertPrincipalNames) with regard to the PKI name
- constraints for CAs as laid out in RFC 2459 [15]. In order to be
- regarded as a match (for permitted and excluded name trees), the
- following must be satisfied.
-
- 1. If the constraint is given as a user plus realm name, or
- as a user plus instance plus realm name (as specified in
- RFC 1510), the realm name must be valid (see 2.a-d below)
- and the match must be exact, byte for byte.
-
- 2. If the constraint is given only as a realm name, matching
- depends on the type of the realm:
-
- a. If the realm contains a colon (':') before any equal
- sign ('='), it is treated as a realm of type Other,
- and must match exactly, byte for byte.
-
- b. Otherwise, if the realm contains an equal sign, it
- is treated as an X.500 name. In order to match, every
- component in the constraint MUST be in the principal
- name, and have the same value. For example, 'C=US'
- matches 'C=US/O=ISI' but not 'C=UK'.
-
- c. Otherwise, if the realm name conforms to rules regarding
- the format of DNS names, it is considered a realm name of
- type Domain. The constraint may be given as a realm
- name 'FOO.BAR', which matches any PrincipalName within
- the realm 'FOO.BAR' but not those in subrealms such as
- 'CAR.FOO.BAR'. A constraint of the form '.FOO.BAR'
- matches PrincipalNames in subrealms of the form
- 'CAR.FOO.BAR' but not the realm 'FOO.BAR' itself.
-
- d. Otherwise, the realm name is invalid and does not match
- under any conditions.
-
-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 for RSA
- keys.
-
- 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.
-
-3.1.2. Algorithm Identifiers
-
- PKINIT does not define, but does permit, the algorithm identifiers
- listed below.
-
-3.1.2.1. Signature Algorithm Identifiers
-
- The following signature algorithm identifiers specified in [11] and
- in [15] shall be used with PKINIT:
-
- id-dsa-with-sha1 (DSA with SHA1)
- md5WithRSAEncryption (RSA with MD5)
- sha-1WithRSAEncryption (RSA with SHA1)
-
-3.1.2.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Algorithm Identifier
-
- The following algorithm identifier shall be used within the
- SubjectPublicKeyInfo data structure: dhpublicnumber
-
- This identifier and the associated algorithm parameters are
- specified in RFC 2459 [15].
-
-3.1.2.3. Algorithm Identifiers for RSA Encryption
-
- These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
- structure, for encrypting the temporary key with a public key:
-
- rsaEncryption (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v1.5)
- id-RSAES-OAEP (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v2.0)
-
- Both of the above RSA encryption schemes are specified in [16].
- Currently, only PKCS#1 v1.5 is specified by CMS [11], although the
- CMS specification says that it will likely include PKCS#1 v2.0 in
- the future. (PKCS#1 v2.0 addresses adaptive chosen ciphertext
- vulnerability discovered in PKCS#1 v1.5.)
-
-3.1.2.4. Algorithm Identifiers for Encryption with Secret Keys
-
- These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
- structure in the PKINIT Reply, for encrypting the reply key with the
- temporary key:
- des-ede3-cbc (3-key 3-DES, CBC mode)
- rc2-cbc (RC2, CBC mode)
-
- The full definition of the above algorithm identifiers and their
- corresponding parameters (an IV for block chaining) is provided in
- the CMS specification [11].
-
-3.2. Public Key Authentication
-
- Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
- compliance with PKINIT.
-
-3.2.1. Client Request
-
- Public keys may be signed by some certification authority (CA), or
- they may be maintained by the KDC in which case the KDC is the
- trusted authority. Note that the latter mode does not require the
- use of certificates.
-
- 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] SignedData
- -- Defined in CMS [11];
- -- AuthPack (below) defines the
- -- data that is signed.
- trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF TrustedCas OPTIONAL,
- -- This is a list of CAs that the
- -- client trusts and that certify
- -- KDCs.
- kdcCert [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
- -- As defined in CMS [11];
- -- specifies a particular KDC
- -- certificate if the client
- -- already has it.
- encryptionCert [3] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
- -- For example, this may be the
- -- client's Diffie-Hellman
- -- certificate, or it may be the
- -- client's RSA encryption
- -- certificate.
- }
-
- TrustedCas ::= CHOICE {
- principalName [0] KerberosName,
- -- as defined below
- caName [1] Name
- -- fully qualified X.500 name
- -- as defined by X.509
- issuerAndSerial [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber
- -- Since a CA may have a number of
- -- certificates, only one of which
- -- a client trusts
- }
-
- Usage of SignedData:
-
- The SignedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
- Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
- IETF. The following describes how to fill in the fields of
- this data:
-
- 1. The encapContentInfo field must contain the PKAuthenticator
- and, optionally, the client's Diffie Hellman public value.
-
- a. The eContentType field shall contain the OID value for
- pkauthdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
- security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkauthdata (1)
-
- b. The eContent field is data of the type AuthPack (below).
-
- 2. The signerInfos field contains the signature of AuthPack.
-
- 3. The Certificates field, when non-empty, contains the client's
- certificate chain. If present, the KDC uses the public key
- from the client's certificate to verify the signature in the
- request. Note that the client may pass different certificate
- chains that are used for signing or for encrypting. Thus,
- the KDC may utilize a different client certificate for
- signature verification than the one it uses to encrypt the
- reply to the client. For example, the client may place a
- Diffie-Hellman certificate in this field in order to convey
- its static Diffie Hellman certificate to the KDC to enable
- static-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman mode for the reply; in this
- case, the client does NOT place its public value in the
- AuthPack (defined below). As another example, the client may
- place an RSA encryption certificate in this field. However,
- there must always be (at least) a signature certificate.
-
- AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
- clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
- -- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
- -- (ephemeral-ephemeral only)
- }
-
- PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
- cusec [0] INTEGER,
- -- for replay prevention as in RFC1510
- ctime [1] KerberosTime,
- -- for replay prevention as in RFC1510
- nonce [2] INTEGER,
- pachecksum [3] Checksum
- -- Checksum over KDC-REQ-BODY
- -- Defined by Kerberos spec
- }
-
- SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
- -- dhKeyAgreement
- subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
- -- for DH, equals
- -- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
- -- as payload of BIT STRING)
- } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [10]
-
- AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
- algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
- -- for dhKeyAgreement, this is
- -- { iso (1) member-body (2) US (840)
- -- rsadsi (113459) pkcs (1) 3 1 }
- -- from PKCS #3 [20]
- parameters ANY DEFINED by algorithm OPTIONAL
- -- for dhKeyAgreement, this is
- -- DHParameter
- } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [10]
-
- DHParameter ::= SEQUENCE {
- prime INTEGER,
- -- p
- base INTEGER,
- -- g
- privateValueLength INTEGER OPTIONAL
- -- l
- } -- as defined in PKCS #3 [20]
-
- If the client passes an issuer and serial number in the request,
- the KDC is requested to use the referred-to certificate. If none
- exists, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH. It also returns this error if, on the
- other hand, the client does not pass any trustedCertifiers,
- believing that it has the KDC's certificate, but the KDC has more
- than one certificate. The KDC should include information in the
- KRB-ERROR message that indicates the KDC certificate(s) that a
- client may utilize. This data is specified in the e-data, which
- is defined in RFC 1510 revisions as a SEQUENCE of TypedData:
-
- TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type [0] INTEGER,
- data-value [1] OCTET STRING,
- } -- per Kerberos RFC 1510 revisions
-
- where:
- data-type = TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES = 101
- data-value = CertificateSet // as specified by CMS [11]
-
- The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks, to
- bind the pre-authentication data to the KDC-REQ-BODY, and to bind the
- request and response. The PKAuthenticator is signed with the client's
- signature key.
-
-3.2.2. KDC Response
-
- 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 the client's certificate chain contains no certificate signed by
- a CA trusted by the KDC, then the KDC sends back an error message
- of type KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying e-data
- is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS=104)
- whose data-value is an OCTET STRING which is the DER encoding of
-
- TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- -- X.500 name encoded as a principal name
- -- see Section 3.1
-
- If while verifying a certificate chain the KDC determines that the
- signature on one of the certificates in the CertificateSet from
- the signedAuthPack fails verification, then the KDC returns an
- error of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying
- e-data is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type
- TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX=105) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
- which is the DER encoding of the index into the CertificateSet
- ordered as sent by the client.
-
- CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
- -- 0 = 1st certificate,
- -- (in order of encoding)
- -- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
-
- The KDC may also check whether any of the certificates in the
- client's chain has been revoked. If one of the certificates has
- been revoked, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE; if such a query reveals that
- the certificate's revocation status is unknown or not
- available, then if required by policy, the KDC returns the
- appropriate error of type KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN or
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE. In any of these three
- cases, the affected certificate is identified by the accompanying
- e-data, which contains a CertificateIndex as described for
- KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE.
-
- If the certificate chain can be verified, but the name of the
- client in the certificate does not match the client's name in the
- request, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH. There is no accompanying e-data
- field in this case.
-
- Finally, if the certificate chain is verified, but the KDC's name
- or realm as given in the PKAuthenticator does not match the KDC's
- actual principal name, then the KDC returns an error of type
- KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH. The accompanying e-data field is again
- a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL=102 or
- TD-KRB-REALM=103 as appropriate) whose data-value is an OCTET
- STRING whose data-value is the DER encoding of a PrincipalName or
- Realm as defined in RFC 1510 revisions.
-
- Even if all succeeds, the KDC may--for policy reasons--decide not
- to trust the client. In this case, the KDC returns an error message
- of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. One specific case of this is
- the presence or absence of an Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) OID within
- the certificate extensions. The rules regarding acceptability of
- an EKU sequence (or the absence of any sequence) are a matter of
- local policy. For the benefit of implementers, we define a PKINIT
- EKU OID as the following: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
- security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkekuoid (2).
-
- If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
- signature on AuthPack. If that fails, the KDC returns an error
- message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses the
- timestamp (ctime and cusec) 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 and that the principal name and realm
- are correct. 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 as defined in 1510.
-
- Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510, except as
- follows. The user's name in the ticket is determined by the
- following decision algorithm:
-
- 1. If the KDC has a mapping from the name in the certificate
- to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
- Else
- 2. If the certificate contains the SubjectAltName extention
- and the local KDC policy defines a mapping from the
- SubjectAltName to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
- Else
- 3. Use the name as represented in the certificate, mapping
- mapping as necessary (e.g., as per RFC 2253 for X.500
- names). In this case the realm in the ticket shall be the
- name of the certifier that issued the user's certificate.
-
- Note that a principal name may be carried in the subject alt name
- field of a certificate. This name may be mapped to a principal
- record in a security database based on local policy, for example
- the subject alt name may be kerberos/principal@realm format. In
- this case the realm name is not that of the CA but that of the
- local realm doing the mapping (or some realm name chosen by that
- realm).
-
- If a non-KDC X.509 certificate contains the principal name within
- the subjectAltName version 3 extension , that name may utilize
- KerberosName as defined below, or, in the case of an S/MIME
- certificate [17], may utilize the email address. If the KDC
- is presented with an S/MIME certificate, then the email address
- within subjectAltName will be interpreted as a principal and realm
- separated by the "@" sign, or as a name that needs to be
- canonicalized. If the resulting name does not correspond to a
- registered principal name, then the principal name is formed as
- defined in section 3.1.
-
- 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. If the KDC has no
- certificate signed by any of the trustedCertifiers, then it returns
- an error of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED.
-
- KDCs should try to (in order of preference):
- 1. Use the KDC certificate identified by the serialNumber included
- in the client's request.
- 2. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by the client's CA (if in the
- middle of a CA key roll-over, use the KDC cert issued under same
- CA key as user cert used to verify request).
- 3. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by one of the client's
- trustedCertifier(s);
- If the KDC is unable to comply with any of these options, then the
- KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to the
- client.
-
- The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
- with the Diffie Hellman derived key or a random key generated
- for this particular response which is carried in the padata field of
- the TGS-REP message.
-
- PA-PK-AS-REP ::= CHOICE {
- -- PA TYPE 15
- dhSignedData [0] SignedData,
- -- Defined in CMS and used only with
- -- Diffie-Hellman key exchange (if the
- -- client public value was present in the
- -- request).
- -- This choice MUST be supported
- -- by compliant implementations.
- encKeyPack [1] EnvelopedData,
- -- Defined in CMS
- -- The temporary key is encrypted
- -- using the client public key
- -- key
- -- SignedReplyKeyPack, encrypted
- -- with the temporary key, is also
- -- included.
- }
-
- Usage of SignedData:
-
- When the Diffie-Hellman option is used, dhSignedData in
- PA-PK-AS-REP provides authenticated Diffie-Hellman parameters
- of the KDC. The reply key used to encrypt part of the KDC reply
- message is derived from the Diffie-Hellman exchange:
-
- 1. Both the KDC and the client calculate a secret value
- (g^ab mod p), where a is the client's private exponent and
- b is the KDC's private exponent.
-
- 2. Both the KDC and the client take the first N bits of this
- secret value and convert it into a reply key. N depends on
- the reply key type.
-
- 3. If the reply key is DES, N=64 bits, where some of the bits
- are replaced with parity bits, according to FIPS PUB 74.
-
- 4. If the reply key is (3-key) 3-DES, N=192 bits, where some
- of the bits are replaced with parity bits, according to
- FIPS PUB 74.
-
- 5. The encapContentInfo field must contain the KdcDHKeyInfo as
- defined below.
-
- a. The eContentType field shall contain the OID value for
- pkdhkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
- security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdhkeydata (2)
-
- b. The eContent field is data of the type KdcDHKeyInfo
- (below).
-
- 6. The certificates field must contain the certificates
- necessary for the client to establish trust in the KDC's
- certificate based on the list of trusted certifiers sent by
- the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. This field may be empty if
- the client did not send to the KDC a list of trusted
- certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning
- that the client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
-
- 7. The signerInfos field is a SET that must contain at least
- one member, since it contains the actual signature.
-
- KdcDHKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- used only when utilizing Diffie-Hellman
- nonce [0] INTEGER,
- -- binds responce to the request
- subjectPublicKey [2] BIT STRING
- -- Equals public exponent (g^a mod p)
- -- INTEGER encoded as payload of
- -- BIT STRING
- }
-
- Usage of EnvelopedData:
-
- The EnvelopedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
- Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
- IETF. It contains a temporary key encrypted with the PKINIT
- client's public key. It also contains a signed and encrypted
- reply key.
-
- 1. The originatorInfo field is not required, since that
- information may be presented in the signedData structure
- that is encrypted within the encryptedContentInfo field.
-
- 2. The optional unprotectedAttrs field is not required for
- PKINIT.
-
- 3. The recipientInfos field is a SET which must contain exactly
- one member of the KeyTransRecipientInfo type for encryption
- with an RSA public key.
-
- a. The encryptedKey field (in KeyTransRecipientInfo)
- contains the temporary key which is encrypted with the
- PKINIT client's public key.
-
- 4. The encryptedContentInfo field contains the signed and
- encrypted reply key.
-
- a. The contentType field shall contain the OID value for
- id-signedData: iso (1) member-body (2) us (840)
- rsadsi (113549) pkcs (1) pkcs7 (7) signedData (2)
-
- b. The encryptedContent field is encrypted data of the CMS
- type signedData as specified below.
-
- i. The encapContentInfo field must contains the
- ReplyKeyPack.
-
- * The eContentType field shall contain the OID value
- for pkrkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
- security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkrkeydata (3)
-
- * The eContent field is data of the type ReplyKeyPack
- (below).
-
- ii. The certificates field must contain the certificates
- necessary for the client to establish trust in the
- KDC's certificate based on the list of trusted
- certifiers sent by the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ.
- This field may be empty if the client did not send
- to the KDC a list of trusted certifiers (the
- trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning that the
- client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
-
- iii. The signerInfos field is a SET that must contain at
- least one member, since it contains the actual
- signature.
-
- ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
- -- not used for Diffie-Hellman
- replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
- -- used to encrypt main reply
- -- ENCTYPE is at least as strong as
- -- ENCTYPE of session key
- nonce [1] INTEGER,
- -- binds response to the request
- -- must be same as the nonce
- -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
- }
-
- Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
- certificate is equivalent to a separate Kerberos realm, the name
- of each certifier in the certificate chain must 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(s) must bind the public key(s) of the KDC to
- a name derivable from the name of the realm for that KDC. X.509
- certificates shall contain the principal name of the KDC
- (defined in section 8.2 of RFC 1510) as the SubjectAltName version
- 3 extension. Below is the definition of this version 3 extension,
- as specified by the X.509 standard:
-
- subjectAltName EXTENSION ::= {
- SYNTAX GeneralNames
- IDENTIFIED BY id-ce-subjectAltName
- }
-
- GeneralNames ::= SEQUENCE SIZE(1..MAX) OF GeneralName
-
- GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
- otherName [0] OtherName,
- ...
- }
-
- OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
- type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
- value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id
- }
-
- For the purpose of specifying a Kerberos principal name, the value
- in OtherName shall be a KerberosName as defined in RFC 1510, but with
- the PrincipalName replaced by CertPrincipalName as mentioned in
- Section 3.1:
-
- KerberosName ::= SEQUENCE {
- realm [0] Realm,
- principalName [1] CertPrincipalName -- defined above
- }
-
- This specific syntax is identified within subjectAltName by setting
- the type-id in OtherName to krb5PrincipalName, where (from the
- Kerberos specification) we have
-
- krb5 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso (1)
- org (3)
- dod (6)
- internet (1)
- security (5)
- kerberosv5 (2) }
-
- krb5PrincipalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { krb5 2 }
-
- (This specification may also be used to specify a Kerberos name
- within the user's certificate.) The KDC's certificate may be signed
- directly by a CA, or there may be intermediaries if the server resides
- within a large organization, or it may be unsigned if the client
- indicates possession (and trust) of the KDC's 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. The client uses this
- random key to decrypt the main reply, and subsequently proceeds as
- described in RFC 1510.
-
-3.2.3. Required Algorithms
-
- Not all of the algorithms in the PKINIT protocol specification have
- to be implemented in order to comply with the proposed standard.
- Below is a list of the required algorithms:
-
- * Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs
- * utilizing Diffie-Hellman ephemeral-ephemeral mode
- * SHA1 digest and DSA for signatures
- * SHA1 digest also for the Checksum in the PKAuthenticator
- * 3-key triple DES keys derived from the Diffie-Hellman Exchange
- * 3-key triple DES Temporary and Reply keys
-
-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
- who use public key authentication. However, if these users are
- registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database record
- for these users be modified to an additional flag in the attributes
- field to indicate that the user should authenticate using PKINIT.
- If this flag is set and a request message does not contain the
- PKINIT preauthentication field, then the KDC sends back as error of
- type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a preauthentication
- field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the request.
-
-5. Security Considerations
-
- PKINIT raises a few security considerations, which we will address
- in this section.
-
- First of all, PKINIT introduces a new trust model, where KDCs do not
- (necessarily) certify the identity of those for whom they issue
- tickets. PKINIT does allow KDCs to act as their own CAs, in the
- limited capacity of self-signing their certificates, but one of the
- additional benefits is to align Kerberos authentication with a global
- public key infrastructure. Anyone using PKINIT in this way must be
- aware of how the certification infrastructure they are linking to
- works.
-
- Secondly, PKINIT also introduces the possibility of interactions
- between different cryptosystems, which may be of widely varying
- strengths. Many systems, for instance, allow the use of 512-bit
- public keys. Using such keys to wrap data encrypted under strong
- conventional cryptosystems, such as triple-DES, is inappropriate;
- it adds a weak link to a strong one at extra cost. Implementors
- and administrators should take care to avoid such wasteful and
- deceptive interactions.
-
- Lastly, PKINIT calls for randomly generated keys for conventional
- cryptosystems. Many such systems contain systematically "weak"
- keys. PKINIT implementations MUST avoid use of these keys, either
- by discarding those keys when they are generated, or by fixing them
- in some way (e.g., by XORing them with a given mask). These
- precautions vary from system to system; it is not our intention to
- give an explicit recipe for them here.
-
-6. Transport Issues
-
- 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
- require KDCs to accept requests using TCP as a transport mechanism,
- we make the same recommendation with respect to the PKINIT
- extensions as well.
-
-7. Bibliography
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
- (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [2] B.C. Neuman, Theodore Ts'o. Kerberos: An Authentication Service
- for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38. September
- 1994.
-
- [3] B. Tung, T. Ryutov, C. Neuman, G. Tsudik, B. Sommerfeld,
- A. Medvinsky, M. Hur. Public Key Cryptography for Cross-Realm
- Authentication in Kerberos. draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-cross-04.txt
-
- [4] A. Medvinsky, J. Cargille, M. Hur. Anonymous Credentials in
- Kerberos. draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-anoncred-00.txt
-
- [5] Ari Medvinsky, M. Hur, Alexander Medvinsky, B. Clifford Neuman.
- Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP).
- draft-ietf-cat-pktapp-02.txt
-
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- Using Public Key Cryptography. Symposium On Network and Distributed
- System Security, 1997.
-
- [7] B. Cox, J.D. Tygar, M. Sirbu. NetBill Security and Transaction
- Protocol. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Electronic
- Commerce, July 1995.
-
- [8] T. Dierks, C. Allen. The TLS Protocol, Version 1.0
- Request for Comments 2246, January 1999.
-
- [9] B.C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
- Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
- Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993.
-
- [10] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information technology - Open Systems
- Interconnection - The Directory: Authentication Framework
- Recommendation X.509 ISO/IEC 9594-8
-
- [11] R. Housley. Cryptographic Message Syntax.
- draft-ietf-smime-cms-13.txt, April 1999, approved for publication
- as RFC.
-
- [12] PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard,
- An RSA Laboratories Technical Note Version 1.5
- Revised November 1, 1993
-
- [13] R. Rivest, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and RSA Data
- Security, Inc. A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm
- March 1998.
- Request for Comments 2268.
-
- [14] M. Wahl, S. Kille, T. Howes. Lightweight Directory Access
- Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names.
- Request for Comments 2253.
-
- [15] R. Housley, W. Ford, W. Polk, D. Solo. Internet X.509 Public
- Key Infrastructure, Certificate and CRL Profile, January 1999.
- Request for Comments 2459.
-
- [16] B. Kaliski, J. Staddon. PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography
- Specifications, October 1998. Request for Comments 2437.
-
- [17] S. Dusse, P. Hoffman, B. Ramsdell, J. Weinstein. S/MIME
- Version 2 Certificate Handling, March 1998. Request for
- Comments 2312.
-
- [18] M. Wahl, T. Howes, S. Kille. Lightweight Directory Access
- Protocol (v3), December 1997. Request for Comments 2251.
-
- [19] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information Processing Systems - Open
- Systems Interconnection - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation
- One (ASN.1) Rec. X.680 ISO/IEC 8824-1
-
- [20] PKCS #3: Diffie-Hellman Key-Agreement Standard, An RSA
- Laboratories Technical Note, Version 1.4, Revised November 1, 1993.
-
-8. Acknowledgements
-
- 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.
-
-9. Expiration Date
-
- This draft expires January 15, 2001.
-
-10. 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
-
- Matthew Hur
- CyberSafe Corporation
- 1605 NW Sammamish Road
- Issaquah WA 98027-5378
- Phone: +1 425 391 6000
- E-mail: matt.hur@cybersafe.com
-
- Ari Medvinsky
- Keen.com, Inc.
- 150 Independence Drive
- Menlo Park CA 94025
- Phone: +1 650 289 3134
- E-mail: ari@keen.com
-
- Sasha Medvinsky
- Motorola
- 6450 Sequence Drive
- San Diego, CA 92121
- +1 858 404 2367
- E-mail: smedvinsky@gi.com
-
- John Wray
- Iris Associates, Inc.
- 5 Technology Park Dr.
- Westford, MA 01886
- E-mail: John_Wray@iris.com
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134
- E-mail: jtrostle@cisco.com
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Ari Medvinsky
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-tapp-03.txt Keen.com, Inc.
-Expires January 14, 2001 Matthew Hur
-Informational CyberSafe Corporation
- Sasha Medvinsky
- Motorola
- Clifford Neuman
- USC/ISI
-
-Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP)
-
-
-0. Status Of this Memo
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are
-working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
-its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
-distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
-documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts
-as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in
-progress."
-
-The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
-The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check
-the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
-Shadow Directories on ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast),
-nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or
-munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
-The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-10.txt, and expires April 30,
-2000. Please send comments to the authors.
-
-1. Abstract
-
-Public key based Kerberos for Distributed Authentication[1], (PKDA)
-proposed by Sirbu & Chuang, describes PK based authentication that
-eliminates the use of a centralized key distribution center while
-retaining the advantages of Kerberos tickets. This draft describes how,
-without any modification, the PKINIT specification[2] may be used to
-implement the ideas introduced in PKDA. The benefit is that only a
-single PK Kerberos extension is needed to address the goals of PKINIT &
-PKDA.
-
-
-
-2. Introduction
-
-With the proliferation of public key cryptography, a number of public
-key extensions to Kerberos have been proposed to provide
-interoperability with the PK infrastructure and to improve the Kerberos
-authentication system [4]. Among these are PKINIT[2] (under development
-in the CAT working group) and more recently PKDA [1] proposed by Sirbu &
-Chuang of CMU. One of the principal goals of PKINIT is to provide for
-interoperability between a PK infrastructure and Kerberos. Using
-PKINIT, a user can authenticate to the KDC via a public key certificate.
-A ticket granting ticket (TGT), returned by the KDC, enables a PK user
-to obtain tickets and authenticate to kerberized services. The PKDA
-proposal goes a step further. It supports direct client to server
-authentication, eliminating the need for an online key distribution
-center. In this draft, we describe how, without any modification, the
-PKINIT protocol may be applied to achieve the goals of PKDA. For direct
-client to server authentication, the client will use PKINIT to
-authenticate to the end server (instead of a central KDC), which then,
-will issue a ticket for itself. The benefit of this proposal, is that a
-single PK extension to Kerberos can addresses the goals of PKINIT and
-PKDA.
-
-
-3. PKDA background
-
-The PKDA proposal provides direct client to server authentication, thus
-eliminating the need for an online key distribution center. A client
-and server take part in an initial PK based authentication exchange,
-with an added caveat that the server acts as a Kerberos ticket granting
-service and issues a traditional Kerberos ticket for itself. In
-subsequent communication, the client makes use of the Kerberos ticket,
-thus eliminating the need for public key operations on the server. This
-approach has an advantage over SSL 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 Neuman[3]).
-
-Below is a brief overview of the PKDA protocol. For a more detailed
-description see [1].
-
-SCERT_REQ: Client to Server
-The client requests a certificate from the server. If the serverĘs
-certificate is cached locally, SCERT_REQ and SCERT_REP are omitted.
-
-SCERT_REP: Server to Client
-The server returns its certificate to the client.
-
-PKTGS_REQ: Client to Server
-The client sends a request for a service ticket to the server. To
-authenticate the request, the client signs, among other fields, a time
-stamp and a newly generated symmetric key . The time stamp is used to
-foil replay attacks; the symmetric key is used by the server to secure
-the PKTGS_REP message.
-The client provides a certificate in the request (the certificate
-enables the server to verify the validity of the clientĘs signature) and
-seals it along with the signed information using the serverĘs public
-key.
-
-
-PKTGS_REP: Server to Client
-The server returns a service ticket (which it issued for itself) along
-with the session key for the ticket. The session key is protected by
-the client-generated key from the PKTGS_REQ message.
-
-AP_REQ: Client to Server
-After the above exchange, the client can proceed in a normal fashion,
-using the conventional Kerberos ticket in an AP_REQ message.
-
-
-4. PKINIT background
-
-One of the principal goals of PKINIT is to provide for interoperability
-between a public key infrastructure and Kerberos. Using a public key
-certificate, a client can authenticate to the KDC and receive a TGT
-which enables the client to obtain service tickets to kerberized
-services.. In PKINIT, the AS-REQ and AS-REP messages remain the same;
-new preauthentication data types are used to conduct the PK exchange.
-Client and server certificates are exchanged via the preauthentication
-data. Thus, the exchange of certificates , PK authentication, and
-delivery of a TGT can occur in two messages.
-
-Below is a brief overview of the PKINIT protocol. For a more detailed
-description see [2].
-
-PreAuthentication data of AS-REQ: Client to Server
-The client sends a list of trusted certifiers, a signed PK
-authenticator, and its certificate. The PK authenticator, based on the
-Kerberos authenticator, contains the name of the KDC, a timestamp, and a
-nonce.
-
-PreAuthentication data of AS-REP: Server to Client
-The server responds with its certificate and the key used for decrypting
-the encrypted part of the AS-REQ. This key is encrypted with the
-clientĘs public key.
-
-AP_REQ: Client to Server
-After the above exchange, the client can proceed in a normal fashion,
-using the conventional Kerberos ticket in an AP_REQ message.
-
-
-5. Application of PKINIT to achieve equivalence to PKDA
-
-While PKINIT is normally used to retrieve a ticket granting ticket
-(TGT), it may also be used to request an end service ticket. When used
-in this fashion, PKINIT is functionally equivalent to PKDA. We
-introduce the concept of a local ticket granting server (LTGS) to
-illustrate how PKINIT may be used for issuing end service tickets based
-on public key authentication. It is important to note that the LTGS may
-be built into an application server, or it may be a stand-alone server
-used for issuing tickets within a well-defined realm, such as a single
-machine. We will discuss both of these options.
-
-
-5.1. The LTGS
-
-The LTGS processes the Kerberos AS-REQ and AS-REP messages with PKINIT
-preauthentication data. When a client submits an AS-REQ to the LTGS, it
-specifies an application server, in order to receive an end service
-ticket instead of a TGT.
-
-
-5.1.1. The LTGS as a standalone server
-
-The LTGS may run as a separate process that serves applications which
-reside on the same machine. This serves to consolidate administrative
-functions and provide an easier migration path for a heterogeneous
-environment consisting of both public key and Kerberos. The LTGS would
-use one well-known port (port #88 - same as the KDC) for all message
-traffic and would share a symmetric with each service. After the client
-receives a service ticket, it then contacts the application server
-directly. This approach is similar to the one suggested by Sirbu , et
-al [1].
-
-5.1.1.1. Ticket Policy for PKTAPP Clients
-
-It is desirable for the LTGS to have access to a PKTAPP client ticket
-policy. This policy will contain information for each client, such as
-the maximum lifetime of a ticket, whether or not a ticket can be
-forwardable, etc. PKTAPP clients, however, use the PKINIT protocol for
-authentication and are not required to be registered as Kerberos
-principals.
-
-As one possible solution, each public key Certification Authority could
-be registered in a secure database, along with the ticket policy
-information for all PKTAPP clients that are certified by this
-Certification Authority.
-
-5.1.1.2. LTGS as a Kerberos Principal
-
-Since the LTGS serves only PKTAPP clients and returns only end service
-tickets for other services, it does not require a Kerberos service key
-or a Kerberos principal identity. It is therefore not necessary for the
-LTGS to even be registered as a Kerberos principal.
-
-The LTGS still requires public key credentials for the PKINIT exchange,
-and it may be desired to have some global restrictions on the Kerberos
-tickets that it can issue. It is recommended (but not required) that
-this information be associated with a Kerberos principal entry for the
-LTGS.
-
-
-5.1.1.3. Kerberos Principal Database
-
-Since the LTGS issues tickets for Kerberos services, it will require
-access to a Kerberos principal database containing entries for at least
-the end services. Each entry must contain a service key and may also
-contain restrictions on the service tickets that are issued to clients.
-It is recommended that (for ease of administration) this principal
-database be centrally administered and distributed (replicated) to all
-hosts where an LTGS may be running.
-
-In the case that there are other clients that do not support PKINIT
-protocol, but still need access to the same Kerberos services, this
-principal database will also require entries for Kerberos clients and
-for the TGS entries.
-
-5.1.2. The LTGS as part of an application server
-
-The LTGS may be combined with an application server. This accomplishes
-direct client to application server authentication; however, it requires
-that applications be modified to process AS-REQ and AS-REP messages.
-The LTGS would communicate over the port assigned to the application
-server or over the well known Kerberos port for that particular
-application.
-
-5.1.2.2. Ticket Policy for PKTAPP Clients
-
-Application servers normally do not have access to a distributed
-principal database. Therefore, they will have to find another means of
-keeping track of the ticket policy information for PKTAPP clients. It is
-recommended that this ticket policy be kept in a directory service (such
-as LDAP).
-
-It is critical, however, that both read and write access to this ticket
-policy is restricted with strong authentication and encryption to only
-the correct application server. An unauthorized party should not have
-the authority to modify the ticket policy. Disclosing the ticket policy
-to a 3rd party may aid an adversary in determining the best way to
-compromise the network.
-
-It is just as critical for the application server to authenticate the
-directory service. Otherwise an adversary could use a man-in-the-middle
-attack to substitute a false ticket policy with a false directory
-service.
-
-5.1.2.3. LTGS Credentials
-
-Each LTGS (combined with an application service) will require public key
-credentials in order to use the PKINIT protocol. These credentials can
-be stored in a single file that is both encrypted with a password-
-derived symmetric key and also secured by an operating system. This
-symmetric key may be stashed somewhere on the machine for convenience,
-although such practice potentially weakens the overall system security
-and is strongly discouraged.
-
-For added security, it is recommended that the LTGS private keys are
-stored inside a temper-resistant hardware module that requires a pin
-code for access.
-
-
-5.1.2.4. Compatibility With Standard Kerberos
-
-Even though an application server is combined with the LTGS, for
-backward compatibility it should still accept service tickets that have
-been issued by the KDC. This will allow Kerberos clients that do not
-support PKTAPP to authenticate to the same application server (with the
-help of a KDC).
-
-5.1.3. Cross-Realm Authentication
-
-According to the PKINIT draft, the client's realm is the X.500 name of
-the Certification Authority that issued the client certificate. A
-Kerberos application service will be in a standard Kerberos realm, which
-implies that the LTGS will need to issue cross-realm end service
-tickets. This is the only case, where cross-realm end service tickets
-are issued. In a standard Kerberos model, a client first acquires a
-cross-realm TGT, and then gets an end service ticket from the KDC that
-is in the same realm as the application service.
-
-6. Protocol differences between PKINIT and PKDA
-
-Both PKINIT and PKDA will accomplish the same goal of issuing end
-service tickets, based on initial public key authentication. A PKINIT-
-based implementation and a PKDA implementation would be functionally
-equivalent. The primary differences are that 1)PKDA requires the client
-to create the symmetric key while PKINIT requires the server to create
-the key and 2)PKINIT accomplishes in two messages what PKDA accomplishes
-in four messages.
-
-7. Summary
-
-The PKINIT protocol can be used, without modification to facilitate
-client to server authentication without the use of a central KDC. The
-approach described in this draft (and originally proposed in PKDA[1])
-is essentially a public key authentication protocol that retains the
-advantages of Kerberos tickets.
-
-Given that PKINIT has progressed through the CAT working group of the
-IETF, with plans for non-commercial distribution (via MITĘs v5 Kerberos)
-as well as commercial support, it is worthwhile to provide PKDA
-functionality, under the PKINIT umbrella.
-
-8. Security Considerations
-
-PKTAPP is based on the PKINIT protocol and all security considerations
-already listed in [2] apply here.
-
-When the LTGS is implemented as part of each application server, the
-secure storage of its public key credentials and of its ticket policy
-are both a concern. The respective security considerations are already
-covered in sections 5.1.2.3 and 5.1.2.2 of this document.
-
-
-9. Bibliography
-
-[1] M. Sirbu, J. Chuang. Distributed Authentication in Kerberos Using
-Public Key Cryptography. Symposium On Network and Distributed System
-Security, 1997.
-
-[2] B. Tung, C. Neuman, M. Hur, A. Medvinsky, S. Medvinsky, J. Wray,
-J. Trostle. Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in
-Kerberos. Internet Draft, October 1999.
-(ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-10.txt)
-
-[3] C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
-Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
-Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993.
-
-[4] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
-(V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
-10. Expiration Date
-
-This draft expires April 24, 2000.
-
-11. Authors
-
-Ari Medvinsky
-Keen.com, Inc.
-150 Independence Dr.
-Menlo Park, CA 94025
-Phone +1 650 289 3134
-E-mail: ari@keen.com
-
-Matthew Hur
-CyberSafe Corporation
-1605 NW Sammamish Road
-Issaquah, WA 98027-5378
-Phone: +1 425 391 6000
-E-mail: matt.hur@cybersafe.com
-
-Alexander Medvinsky
-Motorola
-6450 Sequence Dr.
-San Diego, CA 92121
-Phone: +1 858 404 2367
-E-mail: smedvinsky@gi.com
-
-Clifford Neuman
-USC Information Sciences Institute
-4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
-Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
-Phone: +1 310 822 1511
-E-mail: bcn@isi.edu
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Clifford Neuman
- John Kohl
- Theodore Ts'o
- 11 July 1997
-
-
-
- The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
-
-
-STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts
-are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force
-(IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum
-of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by
-other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use
-Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other
-than as "work in progress."
-
- To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft,
-please check the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in
-the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ds.internic.net
-(US East Coast), nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US
-West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
- The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is
-filed as draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-00.txt, and expires
-11 January 1998. Please send comments to:
-
- krb-protocol@MIT.EDU
-
-ABSTRACT
-
-
- This document provides an overview and specification of
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to
-clarify aspects of the protocol and its intended use that
-require more detailed or clearer explanation than was pro-
-vided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a
-detailed description of the protocol, suitable for implemen-
-tation, together with descriptions of the appropriate use of
-protocol messages and fields within those messages.
-
- This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to
-__________________________
-Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of
-the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No
-commercial use of these trademarks may be made without
-prior written permission of MIT.
-
-
-
-Overview - 1 - Expires 11 January 1998
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Version 5 - Specification Revision 6
-
-
-the end user, system administrator, or application
-developer. Higher level papers describing Version 5 of the
-Kerberos system [1] and documenting version 4 [23], are
-available elsewhere.
-
-OVERVIEW
-
- This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model
-upon which the Kerberos network authentication system is
-based. It also specifies Version 5 of the Kerberos proto-
-col.
-
- The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale
-behind most design decisions are treated cursorily; they are
-more fully described in a paper available in IEEE communica-
-tions [1] and earlier in the Kerberos portion of the Athena
-Technical Plan [2]. The protocols have been a proposed
-standard and are being considered for advancement for draft
-standard through the IETF standard process. Comments are
-encouraged on the presentation, but only minor refinements
-to the protocol as implemented or extensions that fit within
-current protocol framework will be considered at this time.
-
- Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for
-discussion of Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed
-to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU. This mailing list is gatewayed
-onto the Usenet as the group comp.protocols.kerberos.
-Requests for further information, including documents and
-code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
-
-BACKGROUND
-
- The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and
-Schroeder's trusted third-party authentication protocol [4]
-and on modifications suggested by Denning and Sacco [5].
-The original design and implementation of Kerberos Versions
-1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena staff
-members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and
-Clifford Neuman (now at the Information Sciences Institute
-of the University of Southern California), along with Jerome
-Saltzer, Technical Director of Project Athena, and Jeffrey
-Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many other members of
-Project Athena have also contributed to the work on Ker-
-beros.
-
- Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this
-document) has evolved from Version 4 based on new require-
-ments and desires for features not available in Version 4.
-The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol was led by
-Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the com-
-munity. The development of the MIT reference implementation
-was led at MIT by John Kohl and Theodore T'so, with help and
-contributed code from many others. Reference implementa-
-tions of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are pub-
-licly available and commercial implementations have been
-
-Overview - 2 - Expires 11 January 1998
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Version 5 - Specification Revision 6
-
-
-developed and are widely used.
-
- Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4
-and 5 can be found in [6].
-
-1. Introduction
-
- Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities
-of principals, (e.g. a workstation user or a network server)
-on an open (unprotected) network. This is accomplished
-without relying on assertions by the host operating system,
-without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring
-physical security of all the hosts on the network, and under
-the assumption that packets traveling along the network can
-be read, modified, and inserted at will[1]. Kerberos per-
-forms authentication under these conditions as a trusted
-third-party authentication service by using conventional
-(shared secret key[2]) cryptography. Kerberos extensions
-have been proposed and implemented that provide for the use
-of public key cryptography during certain phases of the
-authentication protocol. These extensions provide for
-authentication of users registered with public key certifi-
-cation authorities, and allow the system to provide certain
-benefits of public key cryptography in situations where they
-are needed.
-
- The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as
-follows: A client sends a request to the authentication
-server (AS) requesting "credentials" for a given server.
-The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in the
-client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a "ticket" for
-the server and 2) a temporary encryption key (often called a
-"session key"). The client transmits the ticket (which con-
-tains the client's identity and a copy of the session key,
-all encrypted in the server's key) to the server. The ses-
-sion key (now shared by the client and server) is used to
-authenticate the client, and may optionally be used to
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-functions only upon the initiation of a stream-based
-network connection. Unless an application subsequently
-provides integrity protection for the data stream, the
-identity verification applies only to the initiation of
-the connection, and does not guarantee that subsequent
-messages on the connection originate from the same
-principal.
-[2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably
-in the literature. In our usage, it takes two (or
-more) to share a secret, thus a shared DES key is a
-secret key. Something is only private when no one but
-its owner knows it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems,
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-further communication between the two parties or to exchange
-a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt further
-communication.
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- Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or
-more authentication servers running on physically secure
-hosts. The authentication servers maintain a database of
-principals (i.e., users and servers) and their secret keys.
-Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos
-protocol. In order to add authentication to its transac-
-tions, a typical network application adds one or two calls
-to the Kerberos library directly or through the Generic
-Security Services Application Programming Interface, GSSAPI,
-described in separate document. These calls result in the
-transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authenti-
-cation.
-
- The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols
-(or exchanges). There are two basic methods by which a
-client can ask a Kerberos server for credentials. In the
-first approach, the client sends a cleartext request for a
-ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent
-encrypted in the client's secret key. Usually this request
-is for a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) which can later be
-used with the ticket-granting server (TGS). In the second
-method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client
-uses the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same
-manner as if it were contacting any other application server
-that requires Kerberos authentication. The reply is
-encrypted in the session key from the TGT. Though the pro-
-tocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
-servers, they are implemented in practice as different pro-
-tocol entry points within a single Kerberos server.
-
- Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the
-identity of the principals in a transaction, to ensure the
-integrity of messages exchanged between them, or to preserve
-privacy of the messages. The application is free to choose
-whatever protection may be necessary.
-
- To verify the identities of the principals in a tran-
-saction, the client transmits the ticket to the application
-server. Since the ticket is sent "in the clear" (parts of
-it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't thwart replay)
-and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker, addi-
-tional information is sent to prove that the message ori-
-ginated with the principal to whom the ticket was issued.
-This information (called the authenticator) is encrypted in
-the session key, and includes a timestamp. The timestamp
-proves that the message was recently generated and is not a
-replay. Encrypting the authenticator in the session key
-proves that it was generated by a party possessing the ses-
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-network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the
-client.
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- The integrity of the messages exchanged between princi-
-pals can also be guaranteed using the session key (passed in
-the ticket and contained in the credentials). This approach
-provides detection of both replay attacks and message stream
-modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
-transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a
-hash or digest function) of the client's message, keyed with
-the session key. Privacy and integrity of the messages
-exchanged between principals can be secured by encrypting
-the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
-ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
-
- The authentication exchanges mentioned above require
-read-only access to the Kerberos database. Sometimes, how-
-ever, the entries in the database must be modified, such as
-when adding new principals or changing a principal's key.
-This is done using a protocol between a client and a third
-Kerberos server, the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM).
-There is also a protocol for maintaining multiple copies of
-the Kerberos database. Neither of these protocols are
-described in this document.
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-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
- The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across
-organizational boundaries. A client in one organization can
-be authenticated to a server in another. Each organization
-wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes its own
-"realm". The name of the realm in which a client is
-registered is part of the client's name, and can be used by
-the end-service to decide whether to honor a request.
-
- By establishing "inter-realm" keys, the administrators
-of two realms can allow a client authenticated in the local
-realm to prove its identity to servers in other realms[3].
-The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate key may be used
-for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service of
-each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is
-then able to obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote
-realm's ticket-granting service from its local realm. When
-that ticket-granting ticket is used, the remote ticket-
-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
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-could arrange registration of a separately-named prin-
-cipal in a remote realm, and engage in normal exchanges
-with that realm's services. However, for even small
-numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more
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-granting ticket, and is thus certain that it was issued by
-the client's own TGS. Tickets issued by the remote ticket-
-granting service will indicate to the end-service that the
-client was authenticated from another realm.
-
- A realm is said to communicate with another realm if
-the two realms share an inter-realm key, or if the local
-realm shares an inter-realm key with an intermediate realm
-that communicates with the remote realm. An authentication
-path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are tran-
-sited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
- Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each
-realm shares a key with its parent and a different key with
-each child. If an inter-realm key is not directly shared by
-two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an authen-
-tication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical
-organization is not used, it may be necessary to consult a
-database in order to construct an authentication path
-between realms.
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- Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermedi-
-ate realms may be bypassed to achieve cross-realm authenti-
-cation through alternate authentication paths (these might
-be established to make communication between two realms more
-efficient). It is important for the end-service to know
-which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to
-place in the authentication process. To facilitate this
-decision, a field in each ticket contains the names of the
-realms that were involved in authenticating the client.
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-1.2. Authorization
-
-As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of
-verifying the identity of principals on a network. Authen-
-tication is usually useful primarily as a first step in the
-process of authorization, determining whether a client may
-use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
-access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos
-does not, by itself, provide authorization. Possession of a
-client ticket for a service provides only for authentication
-of the client to that service, and in the absence of a
-separate authorization procedure, it should not be con-
-sidered by an application as authorizing the use of that
-service.
-
- Such separate authorization methods may be implemented
-as application specific access control functions and may be
-based on files such as the application server, or on
-separately issued authorization credentials such as those
-based on proxies [7] , or on other authorization services.
-
- Applications should not be modified to accept the
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-the service, since such applications may become vulnerable
-to the bypass of this authorization check in an environment
-where they interoperate with other KDCs or where other
-options for application authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP pro-
-posal) are provided.
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-1.3. Environmental assumptions
-
-Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in
-which it can properly function:
-
-+ "Denial of service" attacks are not solved with Ker-
- beros. There are places in these protocols where an
- intruder can prevent an application from participating
- in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
- solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to
- be not-uncommon "normal" failure modes for the system)
- is usually best left to the human administrators and
- users.
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-+ Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an
- intruder somehow steals a principal's key, it will be
- able to masquerade as that principal or impersonate any
- server to the legitimate principal.
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-+ "Password guessing" attacks are not solved by Kerberos.
- If a user chooses a poor password, it is possible for
- an attacker to successfully mount an offline dictionary
- attack by repeatedly attempting to decrypt, with suc-
- cessive entries from a dictionary, messages obtained
- which are encrypted under a key derived from the user's
- password.
-
-+ Each host on the network must have a clock which is
- "loosely synchronized" to the time of the other hosts;
- this synchronization is used to reduce the bookkeeping
- needs of application servers when they do replay detec-
- tion. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
- per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5
- minutes. If the clocks are synchronized over the net-
- work, the clock synchronization protocol must itself be
- secured from network attackers.
-
-+ Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term
- basis. A typical mode of access control will use
- access control lists (ACLs) to grant permissions to
- particular principals. If a stale ACL entry remains
- for a deleted principal and the principal identifier is
- reused, the new principal will inherit rights specified
- in the stale ACL entry. By not re-using principal
- identifiers, the danger of inadvertent access is
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-Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
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-Authentication Verifying the claimed identity of a
- principal.
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-Authentication headerA record containing a Ticket and an
- Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication
- process.
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-Authentication path A sequence of intermediate realms tran-
- sited in the authentication process when
- communicating from one realm to another.
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-Authenticator A record containing information that can
- be shown to have been recently generated
- using the session key known only by the
- client and server.
-
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-Authorization The process of determining whether a
- client may use a service, which objects
- the client is allowed to access, and the
- type of access allowed for each.
-
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-Capability A token that grants the bearer permis-
- sion to access an object or service. In
- Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose
- use is restricted by the contents of the
- authorization data field, but which
- lists no network addresses, together
- with the session key necessary to use
- the ticket.
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-Ciphertext The output of an encryption function.
- Encryption transforms plaintext into
- ciphertext.
-
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-Client A process that makes use of a network
- service on behalf of a user. Note that
- in some cases a Server may itself be a
- client of some other server (e.g. a
- print server may be a client of a file
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- necessary to successfully use that
- ticket in an authentication exchange.
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-KDC Key Distribution Center, a network ser-
- vice that supplies tickets and temporary
- session keys; or an instance of that
- service or the host on which it runs.
- The KDC services both initial ticket and
- ticket-granting ticket requests. The
- initial ticket portion is sometimes
- referred to as the Authentication Server
- (or service). The ticket-granting
- ticket portion is sometimes referred to
- as the ticket-granting server (or ser-
- vice).
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-Kerberos Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding
- Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the
- protocol used by that service, or the
- code used to implement the authentica-
- tion service.
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-Plaintext The input to an encryption function or
- the output of a decryption function.
- Decryption transforms ciphertext into
- plaintext.
-
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-Principal A uniquely named client or server
- instance that participates in a network
- communication.
-
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-Principal identifierThe name used to uniquely identify each
- different principal.
-
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-Seal To encipher a record containing several
- fields in such a way that the fields
- cannot be individually replaced without
- either knowledge of the encryption key
- or leaving evidence of tampering.
-
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-Secret key An encryption key shared by a principal
- and the KDC, distributed outside the
- bounds of the system, with a long life-
- time. In the case of a human user's
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-Server A particular Principal which provides a
- resource to network clients. The server
- is sometimes refered to as the Applica-
- tion Server.
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-Service A resource provided to network clients;
- often provided by more than one server
- (for example, remote file service).
-
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-Session key A temporary encryption key used between
- two principals, with a lifetime limited
- to the duration of a single login "ses-
- sion".
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-Sub-session key A temporary encryption key used between
- two principals, selected and exchanged
- by the principals using the session key,
- and with a lifetime limited to the dura-
- tion of a single association.
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-Ticket A record that helps a client authenti-
- cate itself to a server; it contains the
- client's identity, a session key, a
- timestamp, and other information, all
- sealed using the server's secret key.
- It only serves to authenticate a client
- when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
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-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
-
-Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used
-to indicate various attributes of that ticket. Most flags
-may be requested by a client when the ticket is obtained;
-some are automatically turned on and off by a Kerberos
-server as required. The following sections explain what the
-various flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use
-such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
- The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued
-using the AS protocol and not issued based on a ticket-
-granting ticket. Application servers that want to require
-the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
-password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set
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-client.
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- The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition
-information about the initial authentication, regardless of
-whether the current ticket was issued directly (in which
-case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of a
-ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is
-clear, but the PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried
-forward from the ticket-granting ticket).
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-2.2. Invalid tickets
-
- The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid.
-Application servers must reject tickets which have this flag
-set. A postdated ticket will usually be issued in this
-form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the KDC before
-use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the
-VALIDATE option specified. The KDC will only validate tick-
-ets after their starttime has passed. The validation is
-required so that postdated tickets which have been stolen
-before their starttime can be rendered permanently invalid
-(through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
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-2.3. Renewable tickets
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- Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be
-valid for long periods of time. However, this can expose
-their credentials to potential theft for equally long
-periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until
-the expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-
-lived tickets and obtaining new ones periodically would
-require the client to have long-term access to its secret
-key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be used to
-mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have
-two "expiration times": the first is when the current
-instance of the ticket expires, and the second is the latest
-permissible value for an individual expiration time. An
-application client must periodically (i.e. before it
-expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the
-RENEW option set in the KDC request. The KDC will issue a
-new ticket with a new session key and a later expiration
-time. All other fields of the ticket are left unmodified by
-the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration
-time arrives, the ticket expires permanently. At each
-renewal, the KDC may consult a hot-list to determine if the
-ticket had been reported stolen since its last renewal; it
-will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and thus the
-usable lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
-
- The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only inter-
-preted by the ticket-granting service (discussed below in
-section 3.3). It can usually be ignored by application
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- If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration
-time, the KDC will not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag
-is reset by default, but a client may request it be set by
-setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ message. If
-it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains
-the time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
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-2.4. Postdated tickets
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- Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets
-for use much later, e.g. a batch submission system would
-need tickets to be valid at the time the batch job is ser-
-viced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets in a
-batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more
-prone to theft. Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain
-these tickets from the KDC at job submission time, but to
-leave them "dormant" until they are activated and validated
-by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft were
-reported in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate
-the ticket, and the thief would be foiled.
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- The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only
-interpreted by the ticket-granting service. It can be
-ignored by application servers. This flag must be set in a
-ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated ticket
-based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it
-may be requested by a client by setting the ALLOW-POSTDATE
-option in the KRB_AS_REQ message. This flag does not allow
-a client to obtain a postdated ticket-granting ticket; post-
-dated ticket-granting tickets can only by obtained by
-requesting the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The
-life (endtime-starttime) of a postdated ticket will be the
-remaining life of the ticket-granting ticket at the time of
-the request, unless the RENEWABLE option is also set, in
-which case it can be the full life (endtime-starttime) of
-the ticket-granting ticket. The KDC may limit how far in
-the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
- The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been
-postdated. The application server can check the authtime
-field in the ticket to see when the original authentication
-occurred. Some services may choose to reject postdated
-tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain
-period after the original authentication. When the KDC
-issues a POSTDATED ticket, it will also be marked as
-INVALID, so that the application client must present the
-ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
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- At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a
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-for a particular purpose. A principal can allow a service
-to take on the principal's identity for a particular purpose
-by granting it a proxy.
-
- The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and
-proxiable flags is used to provide credentials for use with
-specific services. Though conceptually also a proxy, user's
-wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose must use
-the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next sec-
-tion to forward a ticket granting ticket.
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- The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only inter-
-preted by the ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by
-application servers. When set, this flag tells the ticket-
-granting server that it is OK to issue a new ticket (but not
-a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network address
-based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the
-client on initial authentication. By default, the client
-will request that it be set when requesting a ticket grant-
-ing ticket, and reset when requesting any other ticket.
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- This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server
-to perform a remote request on its behalf, e.g. a print ser-
-vice client can give the print server a proxy to access the
-client's files on a particular file server in order to
-satisfy a print request.
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- In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials,
-Kerberos tickets are usually valid from only those network
-addresses specifically included in the ticket[4]. When
-granting a proxy, the client must specify the new network
-address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that
-the proxy is to be issued for use from any address.
-
- The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it
-issues a proxy ticket. Application servers may check this
-flag and at their option they may require additional authen-
-tication from the agent presenting the proxy in order to
-provide an audit trail.
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-2.6. Forwardable tickets
-
- Authentication forwarding is an instance of a proxy
-where the service is granted complete use of the client's
-identity. An example where it might be used is when a user
-logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to work
-from that system as if the login were local.
-
- The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only
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-ignored by application servers. The FORWARDABLE flag has an
-interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE flag, except
-ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
-network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users
-may request that it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option
-in the AS request when they request their initial ticket-
-granting ticket.
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- This flag allows for authentication forwarding without
-requiring the user to enter a password again. If the flag
-is not set, then authentication forwarding is not permitted,
-but the same result can still be achieved if the user
-engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
-addresses and supplies a password.
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- The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client
-presents a ticket with the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests
-a forwarded ticket by specifying the FORWARDED KDC option
-and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket. It is
-also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the
-FORWARDED flag set. Application servers may choose to pro-
-cess FORWARDED tickets differently than non-FORWARDED tick-
-ets.
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-
- There are two additional options which may be set in a
-client's request of the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indi-
-cates that the client will accept a renewable ticket if a
-ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be provided.
-If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then
-the KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal
-to the the requested endtime. The value of the renew-till
-field may still be adjusted by site-determined limits or
-limits imposed by the individual principal or server.
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- The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the
-ticket-granting service. It indicates that the ticket to be
-issued for the end server is to be encrypted in the session
-key from the a additional second ticket-granting ticket pro-
-vided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific
-details.
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-unless the requester can provide the old password (the
-user's current secret key). Otherwise, it would be
-possible for someone to walk up to an unattended ses-
-sion and change another user's password.
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-The following sections describe the interactions between
-network clients and servers and the messages involved in
-those exchanges.
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- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
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- The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the
-client and the Kerberos Authentication Server is initiated
-by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication creden-
-tials for a given server but currently holds no credentials.
-In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for en-
-cryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at
-the initiation of a login session to obtain credentials for
-a Ticket-Granting Server which will subsequently be used to
-obtain credentials for other servers (see section 3.3)
-without requiring further use of the client's secret key.
-This exchange is also used to request credentials for ser-
-vices which must not be mediated through the Ticket-Granting
-Service, but rather require a principal's secret key, such
-as the password-changing service[5]. This exchange does not
-by itself provide any assurance of the the identity of the
-user[6].
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- The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from
-the client to Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in
-reply. The formats for these messages are described in sec-
-tions 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
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- In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own
-identity and the identity of the server for which it is
-requesting credentials. The response, KRB_AS_REP, contains
-a ticket for the client to present to the server, and a ses-
-sion key that will be shared by the client and the server.
-The session key and additional information are encrypted in
-the client's secret key. The KRB_AS_REP message contains
-information which can be used to detect replays, and to
-associate it with the message to which it replies. Various
-errors can occur; these are indicated by an error response
-(KRB_ERROR) instead of the KRB_AS_REP response. The error
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-verified by a local server through successful comple-
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-information which can be used to associate it with the mes-
-sage to which it replies. The lack of encryption in the
-KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays,
-fabrications, or modifications of such messages.
-
- Without preautentication, the authentication server
-does not know whether the client is actually the principal
-named in the request. It simply sends a reply without know-
-ing or caring whether they are the same. This is acceptable
-because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in
-the request will be able to use the reply. Its critical
-information is encrypted in that principal's key. The ini-
-tial request supports an optional field that can be used to
-pass additional information that might be needed for the
-initial exchange. This field may be used for pre-
-authentication as described in section <<sec preauth>>.
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-3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
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- The client may specify a number of options in the ini-
-tial request. Among these options are whether pre-
-authentication is to be performed; whether the requested
-ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable;
-whether it should be postdated or allow postdating of
-derivative tickets; and whether a renewable ticket will be
-accepted in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the requested
-ticket expiration date cannot be satisfied by a non-
-renewable ticket (due to configuration constraints; see sec-
-tion 4). See section A.1 for pseudocode.
-
- The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it
-to the KDC.
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-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
- If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message
-will result in the creation of a ticket for the client to
-present to the server. The format for the ticket is
-described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket are
-determined as follows.
-
-3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
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- The authentication server looks up the client and
-server principals named in the KRB_AS_REQ in its database,
-extracting their respective keys. If required, the server
-pre-authenticates the request, and if the pre-authentication
-check fails, an error message with the code
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot
-accommodate the requested encryption type, an error message
-with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP is returned. Otherwise it
-generates a "random" session key[7].
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- If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a
-client in the Kerberos database (or if the key registered
-supports multiple encryption types; e.g. DES-CBC-CRC and
-DES-CBC-MD5), then the etype field from the AS request is
-used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be used
-for encrypting the response to the client. If there is more
-than one supported, strong encryption type in the etype
-list, the first valid etype for which an encryption key is
-available is used. The encryption method used to respond to
-a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session key
-found in the ticket granting ticket.
-
- When the etype field is present in a KDC request,
-whether an AS or TGS request, the KDC will attempt to assign
-the type of the random session key from the list of methods
-in the etype field. The KDC will select the appropriate
-type using the list of methods provided together with infor-
-mation from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable
-encryption methods for the application server. The KDC will
-not issue tickets with a weak session key encryption type.
-
- If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time
-in the past, or is within the window of acceptable clock
-skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE option has not been speci-
-fied, then the start time of the ticket is set to the
-authentication server's current time. If it indicates a
-time in the future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the
-POSTDATED option has not been specified then the error
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise the
-requested start time is checked against the policy of the
-local realm (the administrator might decide to prohibit cer-
-tain types or ranges of postdated tickets), and if accept-
-able, the ticket's start time is set as requested and the
-INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The postdated ticket
-must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC
-after the start time has been reached.
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-be impossible to guess the next session key based on
-knowledge of past session keys. This can only be
-achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is
-based on cryptographic principles. It is more desir-
-able to use a truly random number generator, such as
-one based on measurements of random physical phenomena.
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-The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum
-of the following:
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-+The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ
- message.
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-+The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime
- associated with the client principal (the authentication
- server's database includes a maximum ticket lifetime field
- in each principal's record; see section 4).
-
-+The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime
- associated with the server principal.
-
-+The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by
- the policy of the local realm.
-
- If the requested expiration time minus the start time
-(as determined above) is less than a site-determined minimum
-lifetime, an error message with code KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is
-returned. If the requested expiration time for the ticket
-exceeds what was determined as above, and if the
-"RENEWABLE-OK" option was requested, then the "RENEWABLE"
-flag is set in the new ticket, and the renew-till value is
-set as if the "RENEWABLE" option were requested (the field
-and option names are described fully in section 5.4.1).
-
-If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the
-RENEWABLE-OK option has been set and a renewable ticket is
-to be issued, then the renew-till field is set to the
-minimum of:
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-+Its requested value.
-
-+The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two
- maximum renewable lifetimes associated with the principals'
- database entries.
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-+The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable
- lifetime set by the policy of the local realm.
-
- The flags field of the new ticket will have the follow-
-ing options set if they have been requested and if the pol-
-icy of the local realm allows: FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE,
-POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new ticket is post-
-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
-will also be set.
-
- If all of the above succeed, the server formats a
-KRB_AS_REP message (see section 5.4.2), copying the
-addresses in the request into the caddr of the response,
-placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata
-of the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the
-client's key using the requested encryption method, and
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-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
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- Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server
-responds by returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the
-client, with the error-code and e-text fields set to
-appropriate values. The error message contents and details
-are described in Section 5.9.1.
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-3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
-
- If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the
-client verifies that the cname and crealm fields in the
-cleartext portion of the reply match what it requested. If
-any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive
-the proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client
-decrypts the encrypted part of the response using its secret
-key, verifies that the nonce in the encrypted part matches
-the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect replays).
-It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response
-match those in the request (or are otherwise expected
-values), and that the host address field is also correct.
-It then stores the ticket, session key, start and expiration
-times, and other information for later use. The key-
-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may
-be checked to notify the user of impending key expiration
-(the client program could then suggest remedial action, such
-as a password change). See section A.3 for pseudocode.
-
- Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not suf-
-ficient to verify the identity of the user; the user and an
-attacker could cooperate to generate a KRB_AS_REP format
-message which decrypts properly but is not from the proper
-KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user,
-it must require the user to present application credentials
-which can be verified using a securely-stored secret key for
-the host. If those credentials can be verified, then the
-identity of the user can be assured.
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-3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
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- If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client
-interprets it as an error and performs whatever
-application-specific tasks are necessary to recover.
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- Summary
-Message direction Message type Section
-Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
-[optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
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-by network applications to authenticate the client to the
-server and vice versa. The client must have already
-acquired credentials for the server using the AS or TGS
-exchange.
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-3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
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- The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information
-which should be part of the first message in an authenti-
-cated transaction. It contains a ticket, an authenticator,
-and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
-5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insuf-
-ficient to authenticate a client, since tickets are passed
-across the network in cleartext[8], so the authenticator is
-used to prevent invalid replay of tickets by proving to the
-server that the client knows the session key of the ticket
-and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ mes-
-sage is referred to elsewhere as the "authentication
-header."
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-3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
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- When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a
-server, it obtains (either through a credentials cache, the
-AS exchange, or the TGS exchange) a ticket and session key
-for the desired service. The client may re-use any tickets
-it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client con-
-structs a new Authenticator from the the system time, its
-name, and optionally an application specific checksum, an
-initial sequence number to be used in KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV
-messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in negotiations
-for a session key unique to this particular session.
-Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if
-replayed to a server[9]. If a sequence number is to be
-included, it should be randomly chosen so that even after
-many messages have been exchanged it is not likely to col-
-lide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
- The client may indicate a requirement of mutual
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-[8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted
-portion, so cleartext here refers to the entire unit,
-which can be copied from one message and replayed in
-another without any cryptographic skill.
-[9] Note that this can make applications based on un-
-reliable transports difficult to code correctly. If the
-transport might deliver duplicated messages, either a
-new authenticator must be generated for each retry, or
-the application server must match requests and replies
-and replay the first reply in response to a detected
-duplicate.
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-authentication or the use of a session-key based ticket by
-setting the appropriate flag(s) in the ap-options field of
-the message.
-
- The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and
-combined with the ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message
-which is then sent to the end server along with any addi-
-tional application-specific information. See section A.9
-for pseudocode.
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-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
- Authentication is based on the server's current time of
-day (clocks must be loosely synchronized), the authentica-
-tor, and the ticket. Several errors are possible. If an
-error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the client
-with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated
-in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not accept-
-able to the protocol. The format of error messages is
-described in section 5.9.1.
-
- The algorithm for verifying authentication information
-is as follows. If the message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the
-server returns the KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. If the key
-version indicated by the Ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is not one
-the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old key, and the
-server no longer possesses a copy of the old key), the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is returned. If the USE-
-SESSION-KEY flag is set in the ap-options field, it indi-
-cates to the server that the ticket is encrypted in the ses-
-sion key from the server's ticket-granting ticket rather
-than its secret key[10]. Since it is possible for the
-server to be registered in multiple realms, with different
-keys in each, the srealm field in the unencrypted portion of
-the ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to specify which secret
-key the server should use to decrypt that ticket. The
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is returned if the server
-doesn't have the proper key to decipher the ticket.
-
- The ticket is decrypted using the version of the
-server's key specified by the ticket. If the decryption
-routines detect a modification of the ticket (each encryp-
-tion system must provide safeguards to detect modified
-ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY
-error is returned (chances are good that different keys were
-used to encrypt and decrypt).
-
- The authenticator is decrypted using the session key
-extracted from the decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it
-to have been modified, the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is
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-returned. The name and realm of the client from the ticket
-are compared against the same fields in the authenticator.
-If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is
-returned (they might not match, for example, if the wrong
-session key was used to encrypt the authenticator). The
-addresses in the ticket (if any) are then searched for an
-address matching the operating-system reported address of
-the client. If no match is found or the server insists on
-ticket addresses but none are present in the ticket, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error is returned.
-
- If the local (server) time and the client time in the
-authenticator differ by more than the allowable clock skew
-(e.g., 5 minutes), the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is returned.
-If the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is
-returned[11]. The server must remember any authenticator
-presented within the allowable clock skew, so that a replay
-attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses track of
-any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew,
-it must reject all requests until the clock skew interval
-has passed. This assures that any lost or re-played authen-
-ticators will fall outside the allowable clock skew and can
-no longer be successfully replayed (If this is not done, an
-attacker could conceivably record the ticket and authentica-
-tor sent over the network to a server, then disable the
-client's host, pose as the disabled host, and replay the
-ticket and authenticator to subvert the authentication.).
-If a sequence number is provided in the authenticator, the
-server saves it for later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or
-KRB_PRIV messages. If a subkey is present, the server
-either saves it for later use or uses it to help generate
-its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a KRB_AP_REP
-message.
-
- The server computes the age of the ticket: local
-(server) time minus the start time inside the Ticket. If
-the start time is later than the current time by more than
-the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
-the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Oth-
-erwise, if the current time is later than end time by more
-than the allowable clock skew, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED
-error is returned.
-
- If all these checks succeed without an error, the
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-thenticators from the same principal to the same
-server. Other client principals communicating with the
-same server principal should not be have their authen-
-ticators rejected if the time and microsecond fields
-happen to match some other client's authenticator.
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-of the principal named in the ticket and thus, the client
-has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10 for
-pseudocode.
-
- Passing these checks provides only authentication of
-the named principal; it does not imply authorization to use
-the named service. Applications must make a separate
-authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name of
-the user, the requested operation, local acces control
-information such as that contained in a .k5login or .k5users
-file, and possibly a separate distributed authorization ser-
-vice.
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- Typically, a client's request will include both the
-authentication information and its initial request in the
-same message, and the server need not explicitly reply to
-the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual authentication (not only
-authenticating the client to the server, but also the server
-to the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message
-will have MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a
-KRB_AP_REP message is required in response. As with the
-error message, this message may be encapsulated in the
-application protocol if its "raw" form is not acceptable to
-the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond
-field used in the reply must be the client's timestamp and
-microsecond field (as provided in the authenticator)[12].
-If a sequence number is to be included, it should be ran-
-domly chosen as described above for the authenticator. A
-subkey may be included if the server desires to negotiate a
-different subkey. The KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in
-the session key extracted from the ticket. See section A.11
-for pseudocode.
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-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
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-
- If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses
-the session key from the credentials obtained for the
-server[13] to decrypt the message, and verifies that the
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-in the reply was the client's timestamp plus one. This
-is not necessary in version 5 because version 5 mes-
-sages are formatted in such a way that it is not possi-
-ble to create the reply by judicious message surgery
-(even in encrypted form) without knowledge of the ap-
-propriate encryption keys.
-[13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message,
-the sub-session key is not used, even if present in the
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-ticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the
-client is assured that the server is genuine. The sequence
-number and subkey (if present) are retained for later use.
-See section A.12 for pseudocode.
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-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
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- After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred,
-the client and server share an encryption key which can be
-used by the application. The "true session key" to be used
-for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other application-specific uses
-may be chosen by the application based on the subkeys in the
-KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some
-cases, the use of this session key will be implicit in the
-protocol; in others the method of use must be chosen from
-several alternatives. We leave the protocol negotiations of
-how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption or check-
-sum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos proto-
-col does not constrain the implementation options, but an
-example of how this might be done follows.
-
- One way that an application may choose to negotiate a
-key to be used for subequent integrity and privacy protec-
-tion is for the client to propose a key in the subkey field
-of the authenticator. The server can then choose a key
-using the proposed key from the client as input, returning
-the new subkey in the subkey field of the application reply.
-This key could then be used for subsequent communication.
-To make this example more concrete, if the encryption method
-in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever reason, one
-of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than
-40 unknown bits, this method would allow the the party which
-is prevented from using more than 40 bits to either propose
-(if the client) an initial key with a known quantity for 16
-of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if the server)
-with the known quantity. The application implementor is
-warned, however, that this is only an example, and that an
-analysis of the particular crytosystem to be used, and the
-reasons for limiting the key length, must be made before
-deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits of the key.
-
- With both the one-way and mutual authentication
-exchanges, the peers should take care not to send sensitive
-information to each other without proper assurances. In
-particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
-should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client
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-vide routines to choose subkeys based on session keys
-and random numbers and to generate a negotiated key to
-be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
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-If an application protocol requires privacy of its messages,
-it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section 3.5). The KRB_SAFE
-message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
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- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
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- The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos
-Ticket-Granting Server is initiated by a client when it
-wishes to obtain authentication credentials for a given
-server (which might be registered in a remote realm), when
-it wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when
-it wishes to obtain a proxy ticket. In the first case, the
-client must already have acquired a ticket for the Ticket-
-Granting Service using the AS exchange (the ticket-granting
-ticket is usually obtained when a client initially authenti-
-cates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The mes-
-sage format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that
-for the AS exchange. The primary difference is that encryp-
-tion and decryption in the TGS exchange does not take place
-under the client's key. Instead, the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or sub-session
-key from an Authenticator is used. As is the case for all
-application servers, expired tickets are not accepted by the
-TGS, so once a renewable or ticket-granting ticket expires,
-the client must use a separate exchange to obtain valid
-tickets.
-
- The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request
-(KRB_TGS_REQ) from the client to the Kerberos Ticket-
-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or KRB_ERROR).
-The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating
-the client plus a request for credentials. The authentica-
-tion information consists of the authentication header
-(KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the client's previously obtained
-ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket. In the
-ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may
-include one or more of: a list of network addresses, a col-
-lection of typed authorization data to be sealed in the
-ticket for authorization use by the application server, or
-additional tickets (the use of which are described later).
-The TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested creden-
-tials, encrypted in the session key from the ticket-granting
-ticket or renewable ticket, or if present, in the sub-
-session key from the Authenticator (part of the authentica-
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-is not encrypted. The KRB_TGS_REP message contains informa-
-tion which can be used to detect replays, and to associate
-it with the message to which it replies. The KRB_ERROR mes-
-sage also contains information which can be used to associ-
-ate it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of
-encryption in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to
-detect replays or fabrications of such messages.
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- Before sending a request to the ticket-granting ser-
-vice, the client must determine in which realm the applica-
-tion server is registered[15]. If the client does not
-already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
-realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted
-by requesting a ticket-granting ticket for the destination
-realm from a Kerberos server for which the client does
-posess a ticket-granting ticket (using the KRB_TGS_REQ mes-
-sage recursively). The Kerberos server may return a TGT for
-the desired realm in which case one can proceed. Alterna-
-tively, the Kerberos server may return a TGT for a realm
-which is "closer" to the desired realm (further along the
-standard hierarchical path), in which case this step must be
-repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm specified in
-the returned TGT. If neither are returned, then the request
-must be retried with a Kerberos server for a realm higher in
-the hierarchy. This request will itself require a ticket-
-granting ticket for the higher realm which must be obtained
-by recursively applying these directions.
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- Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for
-the appropriate realm, it determines which Kerberos servers
-serve that realm, and contacts one. The list might be
-obtained through a configuration file or network service or
-it may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as
-the secret keys exchanged by realms are kept secret, only
-denial of service results from using a false Kerberos
-server.
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-might be known beforehand (since the realm is part of
-the principal identifier), it might be stored in a
-nameserver, or it might be obtained from a configura-
-tion file. If the realm to be used is obtained from a
-nameserver, there is a danger of being spoofed if the
-nameservice providing the realm name is not authenti-
-cated. This might result in the use of a realm which
-has been compromised, and would result in an attacker's
-ability to compromise the authentication of the appli-
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-of options in the KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares
-the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing an authentication header
-as an element of the padata field, and including the same
-fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
-optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for appli-
-cation server use and additional tickets required by some
-options.
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- In preparing the authentication header, the client can
-select a sub-session key under which the response from the
-Kerberos server will be encrypted[16]. If the sub-session
-key is not specified, the session key from the ticket-
-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data
-is present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if
-present, from the authenticator portion of the authentica-
-tion header, or if not present, using the session key from
-the ticket-granting ticket.
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- Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server
-for the destination realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
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-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
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- The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner simi-
-lar to the KRB_AS_REQ message, but there are many additional
-checks to be performed. First, the Kerberos server must
-determine which server the accompanying ticket is for and it
-must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
-KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting ser-
-vice, and the TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued
-by another realm, then the appropriate inter-realm key must
-be used. If the accompanying ticket is not a ticket grant-
-ing ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
-server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY
-options are specified in the request, and the server for
-which a ticket is requested is the server named in the
-accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the ticket in
-the authentication header using the key of the server for
-which it was issued. If no ticket can be found in the
-padata field, the KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned.
-
- Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the
-user-supplied checksum in the Authenticator must be verified
-against the contents of the request, and the message
-rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
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-be taken to ensure the randomness of the selected sub-
-session key. One approach would be to generate a ran-
-dom number and XOR it with the session key from the
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-not collision-proof (with an error code of
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the checksum type is not sup-
-ported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned. If
-the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
-the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
-
- If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity
-checks, the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned.
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-3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
- The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the
-KRB_AS_REP (KRB_KDC_REP), but with its type field set to
-KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed specification is in section
-5.4.2.
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- The response will include a ticket for the requested
-server. The Kerberos database is queried to retrieve the
-record for the requested server (including the key with
-which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request is for
-a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key
-is shared with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server
-will select the realm "closest" to the requested realm with
-which it does share a key, and use that realm instead. This
-is the only case where the response from the KDC will be for
-a different server than that requested by the client.
-
- By default, the address field, the client's name and
-realm, the list of transited realms, the time of initial
-authentication, the expiration time, and the authorization
-data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from the
-ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the
-transited field needs to be updated, but the transited type
-is not supported, the KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned.
-
- If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime
-of the new ticket is set to the minimum of (a) that request,
-(b) the endtime from the TGT, and (c) the starttime of the
-TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the application
-server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
-life for the requesting principal was already applied when
-the TGT was issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal,
-then the endtime above is replaced by the minimum of (a) the
-value of the renew_till field of the ticket and (b) the
-starttime for the new ticket plus the life (endtime-
-starttime) of the old ticket.
-
- If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the
-resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
-client. This option will only be honored if the FORWARDABLE
-flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is similar; the
-resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
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-the TGT is set. The PROXY option will not be honored on
-requests for additional ticket-granting tickets.
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- If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time
-in the past, or is within the window of acceptable clock
-skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE option has not been speci-
-fied, then the start time of the ticket is set to the
-authentication server's current time. If it indicates a
-time in the future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the
-POSTDATED option has not been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE
-flag is not set in the TGT, then the error
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the
-ticket-granting ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then
-the resulting ticket will be postdated and the requested
-starttime is checked against the policy of the local realm.
-If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as requested,
-and the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be
-validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the
-starttime has been reached. However, in no case may the
-starttime, endtime, or renew-till time of a newly-issued
-postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time of the
-ticket-granting ticket.
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- If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an
-additional ticket has been included in the request, the KDC
-will decrypt the additional ticket using the key for the
-server to which the additional ticket was issued and verify
-that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the
-requested server is missing from the request, the name of
-the client in the additional ticket will be used. Otherwise
-the name of the requested server will be compared to the
-name of the client in the additional ticket and if dif-
-ferent, the request will be rejected. If the request
-succeeds, the session key from the additional ticket will be
-used to encrypt the new ticket that is issued instead of
-using the key of the server for which the new ticket will be
-used[17].
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- If the name of the server in the ticket that is
-presented to the KDC as part of the authentication header is
-not that of the ticket-granting server itself, the server is
-registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW option is
-requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag
-is set in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in
-the ticket, and that the renew_till time is still in the
-future. If the VALIDATE option is rqeuested, the KDC will
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-authentication [8], which uses ticket-granting ticket
-session keys in lieu of secret server keys in situa-
-tions where such secret keys could be easily comprom-
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-check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID flag is
-set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will
-check that the PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the
-tests succeed, and the ticket passes the hotlist check
-described in the next paragraph, the KDC will issue the
-appropriate new ticket.
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-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
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- Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting
-server, the presented ticket(s) is(are) checked against a
-hot-list of tickets which have been canceled. This hot-list
-might be implemented by storing a range of issue timestamps
-for "suspect tickets"; if a presented ticket had an authtime
-in that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen
-ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to
-gain additional tickets (renewals or otherwise) once the
-theft has been reported. Any normal ticket obtained before
-it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
-require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their
-normal expiration time.
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- The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP
-message is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authen-
-ticator, if present, or the session key key from the
-ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
-client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's
-expiration date and the key version number fields are left
-out since these values are stored along with the client's
-database record, and that record is not needed to satisfy a
-request based on a ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6
-for pseudocode.
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-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
-
- If the identity of the server in the TGT that is
-presented to the KDC as part of the authentication header is
-that of the ticket-granting service, but the TGT was issued
-from another realm, the KDC will look up the inter-realm key
-shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
-ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the
-request, subject to the constraints outlined above in the
-section describing the AS exchange. The realm part of the
-client's identity will be taken from the ticket-granting
-ticket. The name of the realm that issued the ticket-
-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the
-ticket to be issued. This is accomplished by reading the
-transited field from the ticket-granting ticket (which is
-treated as an unordered set of realm names), adding the new
-realm to the set, then constructing and writing out its
-encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement
-of the existing encoding).
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-name of its own realm. Instead, its responsibility is to
-add the name of the previous realm. This prevents a mali-
-cious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving out its own
-name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
-
- The names of neither the local realm nor the
-principal's realm are to be included in the transited field.
-They appear elsewhere in the ticket and both are known to
-have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since the
-endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop
-inter-realm authentication result in a transited field that
-is empty.
-
- Because the name of each realm transited is added to
-this field, it might potentially be very long. To decrease
-the length of this field, its contents are encoded. The
-initially supported encoding is optimized for the normal
-case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrange-
-ment of realms using either domain or X.500 style realm
-names. This encoding (called DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now
-described.
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- Realm names in the transited field are separated by a
-",". The ",", "\", trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ")
-are special characters, and if they are part of a realm
-name, they must be quoted in the transited field by preced-
-ing them with a "\".
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- A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being
-prepended to the previous realm. For example, we can encode
-traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU, ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU,
-and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
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- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
-Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-
-points, that they would not be included in this field, and
-we would have:
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- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
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-A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being
-appended to the previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by
-itself, then it should be preceded by a space (" "). For
-example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO, /COM/HP,
-/COM, and /COM/DEC as:
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-the first listed realm is considered to be the null
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-endpoints, they they would not be included in this field,
-and we would have:
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- A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates
-that all realms between the previous realm and the next
-realm have been traversed[19]. Thus, "," means that all
-realms along the path between the client and the server have
-been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms
-from the client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierar-
-chy) have been traversed, and that everything from /COM down
-to the server's realm in an X.500 style has also been
-traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in one hierar-
-chy shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm
-in another hierarchy.
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-When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is pro-
-cessed in the same manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing
-described above. The primary difference is that the cipher-
-text part of the response must be decrypted using the ses-
-sion key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the
-client's secret key. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
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- The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring
-the ability to detect modifications of messages they
-exchange. It achieves this by including a keyed collision-
-proof checksum of the user data and some control informa-
-tion. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually
-the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if
-no negotiation has occured).
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-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
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-When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it
-collects its data and the appropriate control information
-and computes a checksum over them. The checksum algorithm
-should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the RSA-
-MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or
-the DES MAC), generated using the sub-session key if
-present, or the session key. Different algorithms may be
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-the client's realm is considered to precede those in
-the transited field, and the server's realm is con-
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-Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable
-for this use.
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- The control information for the KRB_SAFE message
-includes both a timestamp and a sequence number. The
-designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE message must
-choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice
-should be based on the needs of the application protocol.
-
- Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will
-be received by one's peer. Connection state is presently
-required to maintain the session key, so maintaining the
-next sequence number should not present an additional prob-
-lem.
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- If the application protocol is expected to tolerate
-lost messages without them being resent, the use of the
-timestamp is the appropriate replay detection mechanism.
-Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
-multi-cast protocols where all of one's peers share a common
-sub-session key, but some messages will be sent to a subset
-of one's peers.
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- After computing the checksum, the client then transmits
-the information and checksum to the recipient in the message
-format specified in section 5.6.1.
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-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
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-When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies
-it as follows. If any error occurs, an error code is
-reported for use by the application.
-
- The message is first checked by verifying that the pro-
-tocol version and type fields match the current version and
-KRB_SAFE, respectively. A mismatch generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-
-proof keyed checksum, and if it is not, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. The recipient
-verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's
-address matches the sender's address in the message, and (if
-a recipient address is specified or the recipient requires
-an address) that one of the recipient's addresses appears as
-the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for
-either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the
-timestamp and usec and/or the sequence number fields are
-checked. If timestamp and usec are expected and not
-present, or they are present but not current, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name,
-along with the client name, time and microsecond fields from
-the Authenticator match any recently-seen (sent or
-received[20] ) such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is
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-a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-
-stamp and usec or a sequence number is present, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated. Finally, the check-
-sum is computed over the data and control information, and
-if it doesn't match the received checksum, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
- If all the checks succeed, the application is assured
-that the message was generated by its peer and was not modi-
-fied in transit.
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-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
- The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring
-confidentiality and the ability to detect modifications of
-exchanged messages. It achieves this by encrypting the mes-
-sages and adding control information.
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-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
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-When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it
-collects its data and the appropriate control information
-(specified in section 5.7.1) and encrypts them under an
-encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys,
-or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part
-of the control information, the client must choose to use
-either a timestamp or a sequence number (or both); see the
-discussion in section 3.4.1 for guidelines on which to use.
-After the user data and control information are encrypted,
-the client transmits the ciphertext and some "envelope"
-information to the recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies
-it as follows. If any error occurs, an error code is
-reported for use by the application.
-
- The message is first checked by verifying that the pro-
-tocol version and type fields match the current version and
-KRB_PRIV, respectively. A mismatch generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the
-resultant plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have
-been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is gen-
-erated. The recipient verifies that the operating system's
-report of the sender's address matches the sender's address
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-KRB_SAFE messages should not share a common replay
-cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
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-the recipient requires an address) that one of the
-recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address in
-the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and usec
-and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp
-and usec are expected and not present, or they are present
-but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If
-the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is
-generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or
-a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-
-stamp and usec or a sequence number is present, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
- If all the checks succeed, the application can assume
-the message was generated by its peer, and was securely
-transmitted (without intruders able to see the unencrypted
-contents).
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-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
- The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring
-the ability to send Kerberos credentials from one host to
-another. It achieves this by sending the tickets together
-with encrypted data containing the session keys and other
-information associated with the tickets.
-
-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it
-first (using the KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be
-sent to the remote host. It then constructs a KRB_CRED mes-
-sage using the ticket or tickets so obtained, placing the
-session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of
-the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part
-of the the KRB_CRED message.
-
- Other information associated with each ticket and
-obtained during the KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence in the encrypted part of
-the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if specifically
-required by the application the nonce, s-address, and r-
-address fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the
-KRB_CRED message which is then encrypted under an encryption
-key previosuly exchanged in the KRB_AP exchange (usually the
-last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no
-negotiation has occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies
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-by the application. The message is verified by checking
-that the protocol version and type fields match the current
-version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the
-resultant plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have
-been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is gen-
-erated.
-
- If present or required, the recipient verifies that the
-operating system's report of the sender's address matches
-the sender's address in the message, and that one of the
-recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address in
-the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields
-(and the nonce field if required) are checked next. If the
-timestamp and usec are not present, or they are present but
-not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated.
-
- If all the checks succeed, the application stores each
-of the new tickets in its ticket cache together with the
-session key and other information in the corresponding
-KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED
-message.
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-4. The Kerberos Database
-
-The Kerberos server must have access to a database contain-
-ing the principal identifiers and secret keys of principals
-to be authenticated[21].
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
-A database entry should contain at least the following
-fields:
-
-Field Value
-
-name Principal's identif-
-ier
-key Principal's secret key
-p_kvno Principal's key version
-max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
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-combine the database and the server on the same
-machine; it is feasible to store the principal database
-in, say, a network name service, as long as the entries
-stored therein are protected from disclosure to and
-modification by unauthorized parties. However, we
-recommend against such strategies, as they can make
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-The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier.
-The key field contains an encryption key. This key is the
-principal's secret key. (The key can be encrypted before
-storage under a Kerberos "master key" to protect it in case
-the database is compromised but the master key is not. In
-that case, an extra field must be added to indicate the mas-
-ter key version used, see below.) The p_kvno field is the
-key version number of the principal's secret key. The
-max_life field contains the maximum allowable lifetime (end-
-time - starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal.
-The max_renewable_life field contains the maximum allowable
-total lifetime for any renewable Ticket issued for this
-principal. (See section 3.1 for a description of how these
-lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of a given
-Ticket.)
-
- A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as
-long as the database representation provides a mechanism to
-distinguish between principal records with identifiers which
-differ only in the realm name.
-
- When an application server's key changes, if the change
-is routine (i.e. not the result of disclosure of the old
-key), the old key should be retained by the server until all
-tickets that had been issued using that key have expired.
-Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be
-active for a single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a
-principal's key is always tagged with the version of the key
-that was used for encryption, to help the recipient find the
-proper key for decryption.
-
- When more than one key is active for a particular prin-
-cipal, the principal will have more than one record in the
-Kerberos database. The keys and key version numbers will
-differ between the records (the rest of the fields may or
-may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos issues a ticket, or
-responds to a request for initial authentication, the most
-recent key (known by the Kerberos server) will be used for
-encryption. This is the key with the highest key version
-number.
-
-4.2. Additional fields
-
-Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields
-in its database:
-
-Field Value
-
-K_kvno Kerberos' key version
-expiration Expiration date for entry
-attributes Bit field of attributes
-mod_date Timestamp of last modification
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-The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos
-master key under which the principal's secret key is
-encrypted.
-
- After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC
-will return an error to any client attempting to gain tick-
-ets as or for the principal. (A database may want to main-
-tain two expiration dates: one for the principal, and one
-for the principal's current key. This allows password aging
-to work independently of the principal's expiration date.
-However, due to the limited space in the responses, the KDC
-must combine the key expiration and principal expiration
-date into a single value called "key_exp", which is used as
-a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
-
- The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the
-operations involving the principal. This field might be
-useful in conjunction with user registration procedures, for
-site-specific policy implementations (Project Athena
-currently uses it for their user registration process con-
-trolled by the system-wide database service, Moira [9]), to
-identify whether a principal can play the role of a client
-or server or both, to note whether a server is appropriate
-trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a client, or to
-identify the "string to key" conversion algorithm used for a
-principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that
-certain ticket options should not be allowed in tickets
-encrypted under a principal's key (one bit each): Disallow
-issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing forwardable
-tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentica-
-tion, disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing
-proxiable tickets, and disallow issuing tickets for which
-the principal is the server.
-
- The mod_date field contains the time of last modifica-
-tion of the entry, and the mod_name field contains the name
-of the principal which last modified the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
- Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last
-time that a request was made by a particular principal.
-Information that might be maintained includes the time of
-the last request, the time of the last request for a
-ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a
-ticket-granting ticket, or other times. This information
-can then be returned to the user in the last-req field (see
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- Other frequently changing information that can be main-
-tained is the latest expiration time for any tickets that
-have been issued using each key. This field would be used
-to indicate how long old keys must remain valid to allow the
-continued use of outstanding tickets.
-
-4.4. Site Constants
-
- The KDC implementation should have the following confi-
-gurable constants or options, to allow an administrator to
-make and enforce policy decisions:
-
-+ The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether
- the KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This
- constant should reflect reasonable expectations of
- round-trip time to the KDC, encryption/decryption time,
- and processing time by the client and target server, and
- it should allow for a minimum "useful" lifetime.
-
-+ The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a
- ticket (renew_till - starttime).
-
-+ The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime -
- starttime).
-
-+ Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address
- fields (including the ability to specify that such tick-
- ets may only be issued if the request specifies some
- authorization_data).
-
-+ Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable
- tickets are to be issued.
-
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-5. Message Specifications
-
- The following sections describe the exact contents and
-encoding of protocol messages and objects. The ASN.1 base
-definitions are presented in the first subsection. The
-remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
-and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryp-
-tion and checksum techniques, and the fields related to
-them, appear in section 6.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
- All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Dis-
-tinguished Encoding Representation of the data elements as
-described in the X.509 specification, section 8.7 [10].
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- The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the
-rest of this section. Note that since the underscore char-
-acter (_) is not permitted in ASN.1 names, the hyphen (-) is
-used in its place for the purposes of ASN.1 names.
-
-Realm ::= GeneralString
-PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
-}
-
-
-Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall
-not contain a character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL).
-Most realms will usually consist of several components
-separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet Domain
-Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500
-names. Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in
-section 7. A PrincipalName is a typed sequence of com-
-ponents consisting of the following sub-fields:
-
-name-type This field specifies the type of name that fol-
- lows. Pre-defined values for this field are
- specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two
- names can be the same (i.e. at least one of the
- components, or the realm, must be different).
- This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-
-name-stringThis field encodes a sequence of components that
- form a name, each component encoded as a General-
- String. Taken together, a PrincipalName and a
- Realm form a principal identifier. Most Princi-
- palNames will have only a few components (typi-
- cally one or two).
-
-
-
- KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
-
- The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as General-
-izedTimes. An encoding shall specify the UTC time zone (Z)
-and shall not include any fractional portions of the
-seconds. It further shall not include any separators.
-Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27
-seconds after 9 pm on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
- HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
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- HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
- The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
-addr-type This field specifies the type of address that
- follows. Pre-defined values for this field are
- specified in section 8.1.
-
-
-address This field encodes a single address of type addr-
- type.
-
-The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly
-one address; HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly
-many addresses.
-
-AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-
-ad-data This field contains authorization data to be
- interpreted according to the value of the
- corresponding ad-type field.
-
-ad-type This field specifies the format for the ad-data
- subfield. All negative values are reserved for
- local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
- APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
- }
-
-
- TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- forwardable(1),
- forwarded(2),
- proxiable(3),
- proxy(4),
- may-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
- invalid(7),
- renewable(8),
- initial(9),
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- transited-policy-checked(12),
- ok-as-delegate(13)
- }
-
-
- KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- forwardable(1),
- forwarded(2),
- proxiable(3),
- proxy(4),
- allow-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
- unused7(7),
- renewable(8),
- unused9(9),
- unused10(10),
- unused11(11),
- unused12(12),
- unused13(13),
- disable-transited-check(26),
- renewable-ok(27),
- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- renew(30),
- validate(31)
- }
-
- ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When
- used in Kerberos for the APOptions, TicketFlags,
- and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
- generated values should be the smallest multiple
- of 32 bits needed to include the highest order bit
- that is set (1), but in no case less than 32 bits.
- Implementations should accept values of bit
- strings of any length and treat the value of flags
- cooresponding to bits beyond the end of the bit
- string as if the bit were reset (0). Comparisonof
- bit strings of different length should treat the
- smaller string as if it were padded with zeros
- beyond the high order bits to the length of the
- longer string[23].
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-[23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack
-data structures during the generation and verification
-of embedded checksums: Because any checksums applied to
-data structures must be checked against the original
-data the length of bit strings must be preserved within
-a data structure between the time that a checksum is
-generated through transmission to the time that the
-checksum is verified.
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- LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
- }
-
-
-lr-type This field indicates how the following lr-value
- field is to be interpreted. Negative values indi-
- cate that the information pertains only to the
- responding server. Non-negative values pertain to
- all servers for the realm.
-
- If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no informa-
- tion is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the
- absolute value of the lr-type field is one (1),
- then the lr-value subfield is the time of last
- initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then
- the lr-value subfield is the time of last initial
- request. If it is three (3), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4),
- then the lr-value subfield is the time of the last
- renewal. If it is five (5), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of last request (of any
- type).
-
-
-lr-value This field contains the time of the last request.
- The time must be interpreted according to the con-
- tents of the accompanying lr-type subfield.
-
- See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, Check-
-sumType, EncryptedData, EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and
-KeyType.
-
-
-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
-
- This section describes the format and encryption param-
-eters for tickets and authenticators. When a ticket or
-authenticator is included in a protocol message it is
-treated as an opaque object.
-
-5.3.1. Tickets
-
- A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate
-to a service. A Ticket contains the following information:
-
-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
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-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared
-by Kerberos and the end server (the server's secret key).
-See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-
-tkt-vno This field specifies the version number for the
- ticket format. This document describes version
- number 5.
-
-
-realm This field specifies the realm that issued a
- ticket. It also serves to identify the realm part
- of the server's principal identifier. Since a
- Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers
- within its realm, the two will always be identi-
- cal.
-
-
-sname This field specifies the name part of the server's
- identity.
-
-
-enc-part This field holds the encrypted encoding of the
- EncTicketPart sequence.
-
-
-flags This field indicates which of various options were
- used or requested when the ticket was issued. It
- is a bit-field, where the selected options are
- indicated by the bit being set (1), and the
- unselected options and reserved fields being reset
- (0). Bit 0 is the most significant bit. The
- encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
- The flags are described in more detail above in
- section 2. The meanings of the flags are:
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- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set, this
- flag tells the ticket-granting server
- that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
- granting ticket with a different network
- address based on the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- When set, this flag indicates that the
- ticket has either been forwarded or was
- issued based on authentication involving
- a forwarded ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical to
- that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
- that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
- ticket-granting server that only non-
- ticket-granting tickets may be issued
- with different network addresses.
-
- 4 PROXY
- When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
-
- 5 MAY-POSTDATE
- The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. This flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that a post-
- dated ticket may be issued based on this
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- This flag indicates that this ticket has
- been postdated. The end-service can
- check the authtime field to see when the
- original authentication occurred.
-
- 7 INVALID
- This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by the
- KDC before use. Application servers
- must reject tickets which have this flag
- set.
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- The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
- be ignored by end servers (some particu-
- larly careful servers may wish to disal-
- low renewable tickets). A renewable
- ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
- ment ticket that expires at a later
- date.
-
- 9 INITIAL
- This flag indicates that this ticket was
- issued using the AS protocol, and not
- issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 10 PRE-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that during initial
- authentication, the client was authenti-
- cated by the KDC before a ticket was
- issued. The strength of the pre-
- authentication method is not indicated,
- but is acceptable to the KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected to
- be possessed solely by the named client.
- The hardware authentication method is
- selected by the KDC and the strength of
- the method is not indicated.
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- POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
- against a realm defined policy for
- trusted certifiers. If this flag is
- reset (0), then the application server
- must check the transited field itself,
- and if unable to do so it must reject
- the authentication. If the flag is set
- (1) then the application server may skip
- its own validation of the transited
- field, relying on the validation
- performed by the KDC. At its option the
- application server may still apply its
- own validation based on a separate
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- 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
- the client) specified in the ticket has
- been determined by policy of the realm
- to be a suitable recipient of
- delegation. A client can use the
- presence of this flag to help it make a
- decision whether to delegate credentials
- (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
- ticket granting ticket) to this server.
- The client is free to ignore the value
- of this flag. When setting this flag,
- an administrator should consider the
- security and placement of the server on
- which the service will run, as well as
- whether the service requires the use of
- delegated credentials.
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- This flag indicates that the principal
- named in the ticket is a generic princi-
- pal for the realm and does not identify
- the individual using the ticket. The
- purpose of the ticket is only to
- securely distribute a session key, and
- not to identify the user. Subsequent
- requests using the same ticket and ses-
- sion may be considered as originating
- from the same user, but requests with
- the same username but a different ticket
- are likely to originate from different
- users.
-
- 15-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-
-
-key This field exists in the ticket and the KDC
- response and is used to pass the session key from
- Kerberos to the application server and the client.
- The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-
-crealm This field contains the name of the realm in which
- the client is registered and in which initial
- authentication took place.
-
-
-cname This field contains the name part of the client's
- principal identifier.
-
-
-transited This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms
- that took part in authenticating the user to whom
- this ticket was issued. It does not specify the
- order in which the realms were transited. See
- section 3.3.3.2 for details on how this field
- encodes the traversed realms.
-
-
-authtime This field indicates the time of initial authenti-
- cation for the named principal. It is the time of
- issue for the original ticket on which this ticket
- is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
- additional information to the end service, and to
- provide the necessary information for implementa-
- tion of a `hot list' service at the KDC. An end
- service that is particularly paranoid could refuse
- to accept tickets for which the initial authenti-
- cation occurred "too far" in the past.
-
- This field is also returned as part of the
- response from the KDC. When returned as part of
- the response to initial authentication
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- beros server[24].
-
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-starttime This field in the ticket specifies the time after
- which the ticket is valid. Together with endtime,
- this field specifies the life of the ticket. If
- it is absent from the ticket, its value should be
- treated as that of the authtime field.
-
-
-endtime This field contains the time after which the
- ticket will not be honored (its expiration time).
- Note that individual services may place their own
- limits on the life of a ticket and may reject
- tickets which have not yet expired. As such, this
- is really an upper bound on the expiration time
- for the ticket.
-
-
-renew-tillThis field is only present in tickets that have
- the RENEWABLE flag set in the flags field. It
- indicates the maximum endtime that may be included
- in a renewal. It can be thought of as the abso-
- lute expiration time for the ticket, including all
- renewals.
-
-
-caddr This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted)
- or more (if present) host addresses. These are
- the addresses from which the ticket can be used.
- If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used
- from any location. The decision by the KDC to
- issue or by the end server to accept zero-address
- tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may
- refuse to issue or accept such tickets. The sug-
- gested and default policy, however, is that such
- tickets will only be issued or accepted when addi-
- tional information that can be used to restrict
- the use of the ticket is included in the
- authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
- capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to
- make it harder for an attacker to use stolen
- credentials. Because the session key is not sent
- over the network in cleartext, credentials can't
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-to adjust the workstation's clock since the workstation
-cannot reliably determine that such a KRB_AS_REP actu-
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- attacker has to gain access to the session key
- (perhaps through operating system security
- breaches or a careless user's unattended session)
- to make use of stolen tickets.
-
- It is important to note that the network address
- from which a connection is received cannot be
- reliably determined. Even if it could be, an
- attacker who has compromised the client's worksta-
- tion could use the credentials from there.
- Including the network addresses only makes it more
- difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk
- off with stolen credentials and then use them from
- a "safe" location.
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-authorization-data
- The authorization-data field is used to pass
- authorization data from the principal on whose
- behalf a ticket was issued to the application ser-
- vice. If no authorization data is included, this
- field will be left out. Experience has shown that
- the name of this field is confusing, and that a
- better name for this field would be restrictions.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the
- name of this field at this time.
-
- This field contains restrictions on any authority
- obtained on the bases of authentication using the
- ticket. It is possible for any principal in
- posession of credentials to add entries to the
- authorization data field since these entries
- further restrict what can be done with the ticket.
- Such additions can be made by specifying the addi-
- tional entries when a new ticket is obtained dur-
- ing the TGS exchange, or they may be added during
- chained delegation using the authorization data
- field of the authenticator.
-
- Because entries may be added to this field by the
- holder of credentials, it is not allowable for the
- presence of an entry in the authorization data
- field of a ticket to amplify the priveleges one
- would obtain from using a ticket.
-
- The data in this field may be specific to the end
- service; the field will contain the names of ser-
- vice specific objects, and the rights to those
- objects. The format for this field is described
- in section 5.2. Although Kerberos is not con-
- cerned with the format of the contents of the sub-
- fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
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- is able to issue a proxy that is valid for a
- specific purpose. For example, a client wishing
- to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to
- be passed to the print server. By specifying the
- name of the file in the authorization_data field,
- the file server knows that the print server can
- only use the client's rights when accessing the
- particular file to be printed.
-
- A separate service providing providing authoriza-
- tion or certifying group membership may be built
- using the authorization-data field. In this case,
- the entity granting authorization (not the author-
- ized entity), obtains a ticket in its own name
- (e.g. the ticket is issued in the name of a
- privelege server), and this entity adds restric-
- tions on its own authority and delegates the res-
- tricted authority through a proxy to the client.
- The client would then present this authorization
- credential to the application server separately
- from the authentication exchange.
-
- Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data
- field of a proxy and leaves the host addresses
- blank, the resulting ticket and session key can be
- treated as a capability. See [7] for some sug-
- gested uses of this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does
- not have to be included in a ticket.
-
-
-5.3.2. Authenticators
-
- An authenticator is a record sent with a ticket to a
-server to certify the client's knowledge of the encryption
-key in the ticket, to help the server detect replays, and to
-help choose a "true session key" to use with the particular
-session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session
-key shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
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- This field specifies the version number for the
- format of the authenticator. This document speci-
- fies version 5.
-
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-crealm and cname
- These fields are the same as those described for
- the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-
-
-cksum This field contains a checksum of the the applica-
- tion data that accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-
-
-cusec This field contains the microsecond part of the
- client's timestamp. Its value (before encryption)
- ranges from 0 to 999999. It often appears along
- with ctime. The two fields are used together to
- specify a reasonably accurate timestamp.
-
-
-ctime This field contains the current time on the
- client's host.
-
-
-subkey This field contains the client's choice for an
- encryption key which is to be used to protect this
- specific application session. Unless an applica-
- tion specifies otherwise, if this field is left
- out the session key from the ticket will be used.
-
-seq-numberThis optional field includes the initial sequence
- number to be used by the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE mes-
- sages when sequence numbers are used to detect
- replays (It may also be used by application
- specific messages). When included in the authen-
- ticator this field specifies the initial sequence
- number for messages from the client to the server.
- When included in the AP-REP message, the initial
- sequence number is that for messages from the
- server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
- KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after
- each message is sent.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the
- detection of replays they should be non-repeating,
- even across connection boundaries. The initial
- sequence number should be random and uniformly
- distributed across the full space of possible
- sequence numbers, so that it cannot be guessed by
- an attacker and so that it and the successive
- sequence numbers do not repeat other sequences.
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-authorization-data
- This field is the same as described for the ticket
- in section 5.3.1. It is optional and will only
- appear when additional restrictions are to be
- placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those car-
- ried in the ticket itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
- This section specifies the format of the messages used
-in the exchange between the client and the Kerberos server.
-The format of possible error messages appears in section
-5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
- The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own.
-Instead, its type is one of KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ
-depending on whether the request is for an initial ticket or
-an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent
-from the client to the Authentication Server to request
-credentials for a service.
-
- The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
-
-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
-
-KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
- -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
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- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
- -- encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The fields in this message are:
-
-
-pvno This field is included in each message, and speci-
- fies the protocol version number. This document
- specifies protocol version 5.
-
-
-msg-type This field indicates the type of a protocol mes-
- sage. It will almost always be the same as the
- application identifier associated with a message.
- It is included to make the identifier more readily
- accessible to the application. For the KDC-REQ
- message, this type will be KRB_AS_REQ or
- KRB_TGS_REQ.
-
-
-padata The padata (pre-authentication data) field con-
- tains a sequence of authentication information
- which may be needed before credentials can be
- issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for
- additional tickets (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will
- include an element with padata-type of PA-TGS-REQ
- and data of an authentication header (ticket-
- granting ticket and authenticator). The checksum
- in the authenticator (which must be collision-
- proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY
- encoding. In most requests for initial authenti-
- cation (KRB_AS_REQ) and most replies (KDC-REP),
- the padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by
- certain extensions to the Kerberos protocol. For
- example, it might be used to initially verify the
- identity of a client before any response is
- returned. This is accomplished with a padata
- field with padata-type equal to PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
- and padata-value defined as follows:
-
-padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
-padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
-PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
-
- with patimestamp containing the client's time and
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- pausec containing the microseconds which may be
- omitted if a client will not generate more than
- one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-
- value) consists of the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence,
- encrypted using the client's secret key.
-
- The padata field can also contain information
- needed to help the KDC or the client select the
- key needed for generating or decrypting the
- response. This form of the padata is useful for
- supporting the use of certain token cards with
- Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
- specified in separate documents. See [11] for
- additional uses of this field.
-
-padata-type
- The padata-type element of the padata field indi-
- cates the way that the padata-value element is to
- be interpreted. Negative values of padata-type
- are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative
- values are used for a registered interpretation of
- the element type.
-
-
-req-body This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent
- of the remaining fields. If a checksum is to be
- calculated over the request, it is calculated over
- an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
- enclosed within the req-body field.
-
-
-kdc-options
- This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and
- KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the KDC and indicates the
- flags that the client wants set on the tickets as
- well as other information that is to modify the
- behavior of the KDC. Where appropriate, the name
- of an option may be the same as the flag that is
- set by that option. Although in most case, the
- bit in the options field will be the same as that
- in the flags field, this is not guaranteed, so it
- is not acceptable to simply copy the options field
- to the flags field. There are various checks that
- must be made before honoring an option anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the
- selected options are indicated by the bit being
- set (1), and the unselected options and reserved
- fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits
- is specified in section 5.2. The options are
- described in more detail above in section 2. The
- meanings of the options are:
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- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- forwardable flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a sub-
- sequent request if the ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based is also for-
- wardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- The FORWARDED option is only specified
- in a request to the ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket in the request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set. This
- option indicates that this is a request
- for forwarding. The address(es) of the
- host from which the resulting ticket is
- to be valid are included in the
- addresses field of the request.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE option indicates that the
- ticket to be issued is to have its prox-
- iable flag set. It may only be set on
- the initial request, or in a subsequent
- request if the ticket-granting ticket on
- which it is based is also proxiable.
-
- 4 PROXY
- The PROXY option indicates that this is
- a request for a proxy. This option will
- only be honored if the ticket-granting
- ticket in the request has its PROXIABLE
- bit set. The address(es) of the host
- from which the resulting ticket is to be
- valid are included in the addresses
- field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE
- The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a sub-
- sequent request if the ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based also has its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
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- The POSTDATED option indicates that this
- is a request for a postdated ticket.
- This option will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket on which it is
- based has its MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
- The resulting ticket will also have its
- INVALID flag set, and that flag may be
- reset by a subsequent request to the KDC
- after the starttime in the ticket has
- been reached.
-
- 7 UNUSED
- This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE option indicates that the
- ticket to be issued is to have its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be set
- on the initial request, or when the
- ticket-granting ticket on which the
- request is based is also renewable. If
- this option is requested, then the rtime
- field in the request contains the
- desired absolute expiration time for the
- ticket.
-
- 9-13 UNUSED
- These options are presently unused.
-
- 14 REQUEST-ANONYMOUS
- The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is not to
- identify the user to which it was
- issued. Instead, the principal identif-
- ier is to be generic, as specified by
- the policy of the realm (e.g. usually
- anonymous@realm). The purpose of the
- ticket is only to securely distribute a
- session key, and not to identify the
- user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the ticket
- to be returned should be set. If the
- local realms policy does not permit
- anonymous credentials, the request is to
- be rejected.
-
- 15-25 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
- By default the KDC will check the
- transited field of a ticket-granting-
- ticket against the policy of the local
- realm before it will issue derivative
- tickets based on the ticket granting
- ticket. If this flag is set in the
- request, checking of the transited field
- is disabled. Tickets issued without the
- performance of this check will be noted
- by the reset (0) value of the
- TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
- indicating to the application server
- that the tranisted field must be checked
- locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
- required to honor the
- DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
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- The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that a
- renewable ticket will be acceptable if a
- ticket with the requested life cannot
- otherwise be provided. If a ticket with
- the requested life cannot be provided,
- then a renewable ticket may be issued
- with a renew-till equal to the the
- requested endtime. The value of the
- renew-till field may still be limited by
- local limits, or limits selected by the
- individual principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- option indicates that the ticket for the
- end server is to be encrypted in the
- session key from the additional ticket-
- granting ticket provided.
-
- 29 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The RENEW option
- indicates that the present request is
- for a renewal. The ticket provided is
- encrypted in the secret key for the
- server on which it is valid. This
- option will only be honored if the
- ticket to be renewed has its RENEWABLE
- flag set and if the time in its renew-
- till field has not passed. The ticket
- to be renewed is passed in the padata
- field as part of the authentication
- header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The VALIDATE option
- indicates that the request is to vali-
- date a postdated ticket. It will only
- be honored if the ticket presented is
- postdated, presently has its INVALID
- flag set, and would be otherwise usable
- at this time. A ticket cannot be vali-
- dated before its starttime. The ticket
- presented for validation is encrypted in
- the key of the server for which it is
- valid and is passed in the padata field
- as part of the authentication header.
-
-cname and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for
- the ticket in section 5.3.1. sname may only be
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- fied. If absent, the name of the server is taken
- from the name of the client in the ticket passed
- as additional-tickets.
-
-
-enc-authorization-data
- The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can
- only be present in the TGS_REQ form), is an encod-
- ing of the desired authorization-data encrypted
- under the sub-session key if present in the
- Authenticator, or alternatively from the session
- key in the ticket-granting ticket, both from the
- padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-
-
-realm This field specifies the realm part of the
- server's principal identifier. In the AS
- exchange, this is also the realm part of the
- client's principal identifier.
-
-
-from This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and
- KRB_TGS_REQ ticket requests when the requested
- ticket is to be postdated. It specifies the
- desired start time for the requested ticket.
-
-
-
-till This field contains the expiration date requested
- by the client in a ticket request. It is option
- and if omitted the requested ticket is to have the
- maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy
- for the parties to the authentication exchange as
- limited by expiration date of the ticket granting
- ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
-
-
-rtime This field is the requested renew-till time sent
- from a client to the KDC in a ticket request. It
- is optional.
-
-
-nonce This field is part of the KDC request and
- response. It it intended to hold a random number
- generated by the client. If the same number is
- included in the encrypted response from the KDC,
- it provides evidence that the response is fresh
- and has not been replayed by an attacker. Nonces
- must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be gen-
- erated randomly, but if the correct time is known,
- it may suffice[25].
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-etype This field specifies the desired encryption algo-
- rithm to be used in the response.
-
-
-addresses This field is included in the initial request for
- tickets, and optionally included in requests for
- additional tickets from the ticket-granting
- server. It specifies the addresses from which the
- requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it
- includes the addresses for the client's host. If
- a proxy is requested, this field will contain
- other addresses. The contents of this field are
- usually copied by the KDC into the caddr field of
- the resulting ticket.
-
-
-additional-tickets
- Additional tickets may be optionally included in a
- request to the ticket-granting server. If the
- ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified, then
- the session key from the additional ticket will be
- used in place of the server's key to encrypt the
- new ticket. If more than one option which
- requires additional tickets has been specified,
- then the additional tickets are used in the order
- specified by the ordering of the options bits (see
- kdc-options, above).
-
-
- The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve
-(12) depending on whether the request is for an initial
-ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional ticket (TGS-REQ).
-
- The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and
-additional-tickets) are only included if necessary to per-
-form the operation specified in the kdc-options field.
-
- It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol
-version number appears twice and two different message types
-appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message contains these fields as
-does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that is passed
-in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
- The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply
-from the KDC for either an initial (AS) request or a subse-
-quent (TGS) request. There is no message type for
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-monotonically increasing. If the time is ever reset
-backwards, there is a small, but finite, probability
-that a nonce will be reused.
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-KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of
-the reply depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the
-ciphertext is encrypted in the client's secret key, and the
-client's key version number is included in the key version
-number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the cipher-
-text is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenti-
-cator, or if absent, the session key from the ticket-
-granting ticket used in the request. In that case, no ver-
-sion number will be present in the EncryptedData sequence.
-
- The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
-
-AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
-TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
-KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
- enc-part[6] EncryptedData
-}
-
-
-EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
-EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
-
-
-EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is either KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
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-message provides an additional check that the message
-was decrypted properly.
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-padata This field is described in detail in section
- 5.4.1. One possible use for this field is to
- encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
- with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is
- described in section 6.3.2). This ability is use-
- ful to ease transitions if a realm name needs to
- change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such
- a case all existing password-derived entries in
- the KDC database would be flagged as needing a
- special mix-in string until the next password
- change.
-
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-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for
- the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-
-
-ticket The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-
-
-enc-part This field is a place holder for the ciphertext
- and related information that forms the encrypted
- part of a message. The description of the
- encrypted part of the message follows each appear-
- ance of this field. The encrypted part is encoded
- as described in section 6.1.
-
-
-key This field is the same as described for the ticket
- in section 5.3.1.
-
-
-last-req This field is returned by the KDC and specifies
- the time(s) of the last request by a principal.
- Depending on what information is available, this
- might be the last time that a request for a
- ticket-granting ticket was made, or the last time
- that a request based on a ticket-granting ticket
- was successful. It also might cover all servers
- for a realm, or just the particular server. Some
- implementations may display this information to
- the user to aid in discovering unauthorized use of
- one's identity. It is similar in spirit to the
- last login time displayed when logging into
- timesharing systems.
-
-
-nonce This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-
-
-key-expiration
- The key-expiration field is part of the response
- from the KDC and specifies the time that the
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- client's secret key is due to expire. The expira-
- tion might be the result of password aging or an
- account expiration. This field will usually be
- left out of the TGS reply since the response to
- the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and
- no client information need be retrieved from the
- KDC database. It is up to the application client
- (usually the login program) to take appropriate
- action (such as notifying the user) if the expira-
- tion time is imminent.
-
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-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
- These fields are duplicates of those found in the
- encrypted portion of the attached ticket (see sec-
- tion 5.3.1), provided so the client may verify
- they match the intended request and to assist in
- proper ticket caching. If the message is of type
- KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will only be filled
- in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded
- ticket, or if the user is substituting a subset of
- the addresses from the ticket granting ticket. If
- the client-requested addresses are not present or
- not used, then the addresses contained in the
- ticket will be the same as those included in the
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
- This section specifies the format of the messages used
-for the authentication of the client to the application
-server.
-
-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
-
- The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol
-version number, the message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options
-field to indicate any options in use, and the ticket and
-authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is often
-referred to as the "authentication header".
-
-AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
-}
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
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-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_AP_REQ.
-
-
-ap-optionsThis field appears in the application request
- (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects the way the request is
- processed. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1),
- and the unselected options and reserved fields
- being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is
- specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the
- options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 USE-SESSION-KEY
- The USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
- that the ticket the client is presenting
- to a server is encrypted in the session
- key from the server's ticket-granting
- ticket. When this option is not speci-
- fied, the ticket is encrypted in the
- server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIRED
- The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
- server that the client requires mutual
- authentication, and that it must respond
- with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-
-
-ticket This field is a ticket authenticating the client
- to the server.
-
-
-authenticator
- This contains the authenticator, which includes
- the client's choice of a subkey. Its encoding is
- described in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition
-
- The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol
-version number, the message type, and an encrypted time-
-stamp. The message is sent in in response to an application
-request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual authentication option
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-AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session
-key of the ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in
-an application-arranged negotiation to choose a per associa-
-tion session key.
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_AP_REP.
-
-
-enc-part This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-
-
-ctime This field contains the current time on the
- client's host.
-
-
-cusec This field contains the microsecond part of the
- client's timestamp.
-
-
-subkey This field contains an encryption key which is to
- be used to protect this specific application ses-
- sion. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on how this
- field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an
- application specifies otherwise, if this field is
- left out, the sub-session key from the authentica-
- tor, or if also left out, the session key from the
- ticket will be used.
-
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-message provides an additional check that the message
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- If an error occurs while processing the application
-request, the KRB_ERROR message will be sent in response.
-See section 5.9.1 for the format of the error message. The
-cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server cannot
-determine their appropriate values from the corresponding
-KRB_AP_REQ message. If the authenticator was decipherable,
-the ctime and cusec fields will contain the values from it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
- This section specifies the format of a message that can
-be used by either side (client or server) of an application
-to send a tamper-proof message to its peer. It presumes
-that a session key has previously been exchanged (for exam-
-ple, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
-
- The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a
-collision-proof checksum keyed with the last encryption key
-negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation
-has occured. The message fields are:
-
-KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
-}
-
-KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_SAFE.
-
-
-safe-body This field is a placeholder for the body of the
- KRB-SAFE message. It is to be encoded separately
- and then have the checksum computed over it, for
- use in the cksum field.
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-cksum This field contains the checksum of the applica-
- tion data. Checksum details are described in sec-
- tion 6.4. The checksum is computed over the
- encoding of the KRB-SAFE-BODY sequence.
-
-
-user-data This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV
- messages and contain the application specific data
- that is being passed from the sender to the reci-
- pient.
-
-
-timestamp This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV
- messages. Its contents are the current time as
- known by the sender of the message. By checking
- the timestamp, the recipient of the message is
- able to make sure that it was recently generated,
- and is not a replay.
-
-
-usec This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV
- headers. It contains the microsecond part of the
- timestamp.
-
-
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-
-s-address This field specifies the address in use by the
- sender of the message.
-
-
-r-address This field specifies the address in use by the
- recipient of the message. It may be omitted for
- some uses (such as broadcast protocols), but the
- recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages.
- This field along with s-address can be used to
- help detect messages which have been incorrectly
- or maliciously delivered to the wrong recipient.
-
-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
-
- This section specifies the format of a message that can
-be used by either side (client or server) of an application
-to securely and privately send a message to its peer. It
-presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged
-(for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
- The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in
-the Session Key. The message fields are:
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-KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's addr
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_PRIV.
-
-
-enc-part This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart
- sequence encrypted under the session key[32].
- This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part
- field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for
- the format of the ciphertext.
-
-
-user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
-
-
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
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-
- This section specifies the format of a message that can
-be used to send Kerberos credentials from one principal to
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-was decrypted properly.
-[32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an
-initialization vector may be passed to the encryption
-procedure, in order to achieve proper cipher chaining.
-The initialization vector might come from the last
-block of the ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV mes-
-sage, but it is the application's choice whether or not
-to use such an initialization vector. If left out, the
-default initialization vector for the encryption algo-
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-another. It is presented here to encourage a common mechan-
-ism to be used by applications when forwarding tickets or
-providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that
-a session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using
-the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
- The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to
-be sent and information needed to use the tickets, including
-the session key from each. The information needed to use
-the tickets is encrypted under an encryption key previously
-exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message.
-The message fields are:
-
-KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_CRED.
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- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC
- specifically for use by the intended recipient.
- Successive tickets are paired with the correspond-
- ing KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the
- KRB-CRED message.
-
-
-enc-part This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart
- sequence encrypted under the session key shared
- between the sender and the intended recipient.
- This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part
- field of the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for
- the format of the ciphertext.
-
-
-nonce If practical, an application may require the
- inclusion of a nonce generated by the recipient of
- the message. If the same value is included as the
- nonce in the message, it provides evidence that
- the message is fresh and has not been replayed by
- an attacker. A nonce must never be re-used; it
- should be generated randomly by the recipient of
- the message and provided to the sender of the mes-
- sage in an application specific manner.
-
-
-timestamp and usec
-
- These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED
- message was generated. The time is used to pro-
- vide assurance that the message is fresh.
-
-
-s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
- They are used optionally to provide additional
- assurance of the integrity of the KRB-CRED mes-
- sage.
-
-
-key This field exists in the corresponding ticket
- passed by the KRB-CRED message and is used to pass
- the session key from the sender to the intended
- recipient. The field's encoding is described in
- section 6.2.
-
- The following fields are optional. If present, they
-can be associated with the credentials in the remote ticket
-file. If left out, then it is assumed that the recipient of
-the credentials already knows their value.
-
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-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm,
- sname, and caddr
- These fields contain the values of the correspond-
- ing fields from the ticket found in the ticket
- field. Descriptions of the fields are identical
- to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
-
-5.9. Error message specification
-
- This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR
-message. The fields included in the message are intended to
-return as much information as possible about an error. It
-is not expected that all the information required by the
-fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
-appropriate information is not available when the message is
-composed, the corresponding field will be left out of the
-message.
-
- Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is not protected
-by any encryption, it is quite possible for an intruder to
-synthesize or modify such a message. In particular, this
-means that the client should not use any fields in this mes-
-sage for security-critical purposes, such as setting a sys-
-tem clock or generating a fresh authenticator. The message
-can be useful, however, for advising a user on the reason
-for some failure.
-
-5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition
-
- The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
-KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL
-}
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- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_ERROR.
-
-
-ctime This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-
-
-
-cusec This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-
-
-stime This field contains the current time on the
- server. It is of type KerberosTime.
-
-
-susec This field contains the microsecond part of the
- server's timestamp. Its value ranges from 0 to
- 999999. It appears along with stime. The two
- fields are used in conjunction to specify a rea-
- sonably accurate timestamp.
-
-
-error-codeThis field contains the error code returned by
- Kerberos or the server when a request fails. To
- interpret the value of this field see the list of
- error codes in section 8. Implementations are
- encouraged to provide for national language sup-
- port in the display of error messages.
-
-
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
-
-
-e-text This field contains additional text to help
- explain the error code associated with the failed
- request (for example, it might include a principal
- name which was unknown).
-
-
-e-data This field contains additional data about the
- error for use by the application to help it
- recover from or handle the error. If the error-
- code is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED, then the e-data
- field will contain an encoding of a sequence of
- padata fields, each corresponding to an acceptable
- pre-authentication method and optionally contain-
- ing data for the method:
-
-
-e-cksum This field contains an optional checksum for the
- KRB-ERROR message. The checksum is calculated
- over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the KRB-ERROR
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- message with the checksum absent. The checksum is
- then added to the KRB-ERROR structure and the mes-
- sage is re-encoded. The Checksum should be calcu-
- lated using the session key from the ticket grant-
- ing ticket or service ticket, where available. If
- the error is in response to a TGS or AP request,
- the checksum should be calculated uing the the
- session key from the client's ticket. If the
- error is in response to an AS request, then the
- checksum should be calulated using the client's
- secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preau-
- thentication to prove knowledge of the secret key
- by the client[33]. If a checksum can not be com-
- puted because the key to be used is not available,
- no checksum will be included.
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
-
- If the error-code is KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD, then the
- e-data field will contain an encoding of the fol-
- lowing sequence:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- method-type[0] INTEGER,
- method-data[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- method-type will indicate the required alternate
- method; method-data will contain any required
- additional information.
-
-
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-
-The Kerberos protocols described in this document are
-designed to use stream encryption ciphers, which can be
-simulated using commonly available block encryption ciphers,
-such as the Data Encryption Standard, [12] in conjunction
-with block chaining and checksum methods [13]. Encryption
-is used to prove the identities of the network entities par-
-ticipating in message exchanges. The Key Distribution
-Center for each realm is trusted by all principals
-registered in that realm to store a secret key in confi-
-dence. Proof of knowledge of this secret key is used to
-verify the authenticity of a principal.
-
- The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS
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-correct AS request from obtaining verifiable plaintext
-for use in an off-line password guessing attack.
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-exchange) or a shared session key (in the TGS exchange) to
-encrypt responses to ticket requests; the ability to obtain
-the secret key or session key implies the knowledge of the
-appropriate keys and the identity of the KDC. The ability
-of a principal to decrypt the KDC response and present a
-Ticket and a properly formed Authenticator (generated with
-the session key from the KDC response) to a service verifies
-the identity of the principal; likewise the ability of the
-service to extract the session key from the Ticket and prove
-its knowledge thereof in a response verifies the identity of
-the service.
-
- The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the
-encryption used is secure from cryptanalysis; however, in
-some cases, the order of fields in the encrypted portions of
-messages are arranged to minimize the effects of poorly
-chosen keys. It is still important to choose good keys. If
-keys are derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords
-need to be well chosen to make brute force attacks more dif-
-ficult. Poorly chosen keys still make easy targets for
-intruders.
-
- The following sections specify the encryption and
-checksum mechanisms currently defined for Kerberos. The
-encodings, chaining, and padding requirements for each are
-described. For encryption methods, it is often desirable to
-place random information (often referred to as a confounder)
-at the start of the message. The requirements for a con-
-founder are specified with each encryption mechanism.
-
- Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to
-improve the the security characteristics of the ciphertext.
-However, these chaining methods often don't provide an
-integrity check upon decryption. Such systems (such as DES
-in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of the plain-
-text which can be verified at decryption and used to detect
-any tampering or damage. Such checksums should be good at
-detecting burst errors in the input. If any damage is
-detected, the decryption routine is expected to return an
-error indicating the failure of an integrity check. Each
-encryption type is expected to provide and verify an
-appropriate checksum. The specification of each encryption
-method sets out its checksum requirements.
-
- Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's
-password, an algorithm for converting the password to a key
-of the appropriate type is included. It is desirable for
-the string to key function to be one-way, and for the map-
-ping to be different in different realms. This is important
-because users who are registered in more than one realm will
-often use the same password in each, and it is desirable
-that an attacker compromising the Kerberos server in one
-realm not obtain or derive the user's key in another.
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-
- The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted
-messages. The enc-part field which appears in the unen-
-crypted part of messages in section 5 is a sequence consist-
-ing of an encryption type, an optional key version number,
-and the ciphertext.
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-EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
-}
-
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-etype This field identifies which encryption algorithm
- was used to encipher the cipher. Detailed specif-
- ications for selected encryption types appear
- later in this section.
-
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-kvno This field contains the version number of the key
- under which data is encrypted. It is only present
- in messages encrypted under long lasting keys,
- such as principals' secret keys.
-
-
-cipher This field contains the enciphered text, encoded
- as an OCTET STRING.
-
-
- The cipher field is generated by applying the specified
-encryption algorithm to data composed of the message and
-algorithm-specific inputs. Encryption mechanisms defined
-for use with Kerberos must take sufficient measures to
-guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and we recommend
-they also take measures to protect against precomputed dic-
-tionary attacks. If the encryption algorithm is not itself
-capable of doing so, the protections can often be enhanced
-by adding a checksum and a confounder.
-
- The suggested format for the data to be encrypted
-includes a confounder, a checksum, the encoded plaintext,
-and any necessary padding. The msg-seq field contains the
-part of the protocol message described in section 5 which is
-to be encrypted. The confounder, checksum, and padding are
-all untagged and untyped, and their length is exactly suffi-
-cient to hold the appropriate item. The type and length is
-implicit and specified by the particular encryption type
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-is described in the following diagram:
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- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who
-prefer an ASN.1-like notation:
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-CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length) OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length) OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
- One generates a random confounder of the appropriate
-length, placing it in confounder; zeroes out check; calcu-
-lates the appropriate checksum over confounder, check, and
-msg-seq, placing the result in check; adds the necessary
-padding; then encrypts using the specified encryption type
-and the appropriate key.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryp-
-tion algorithm that specifies a checksum, a length for the
-confounder field, or an octet boundary for padding uses this
-ciphertext format[36]. Those fields which are not specified
-will be omitted.
-
- In the interest of allowing all implementations using a
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-[35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET
-STRING(length) is the notation for an octet string with
-its tag and length removed. It is not a valid ASN.1
-type. The tag bits and length must be removed from the
-confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so
-that the message starts with random data, but the tag
-and its length are fixed. For other fields, the length
-and tag would be redundant if they were included be-
-cause they are specified by the encryption type.
-[36] The ordering of the fields in the CipherText is
-important. Additionally, messages encoded in this for-
-mat must include a length as part of the msg-seq field.
-This allows the recipient to verify that the message
-has not been truncated. Without a length, an attacker
-could use a chosen plaintext attack to generate a mes-
-sage which could be truncated, while leaving the check-
-sum intact. Note that if the msg-seq is an encoding of
-an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length is
-part of that encoding.
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-particular encryption type to communicate with all others
-using that type, the specification of an encryption type
-defines any checksum that is needed as part of the encryp-
-tion process. If an alternative checksum is to be used, a
-new encryption type must be defined.
-
- Some cryptosystems require additional information
-beyond the key and the data to be encrypted. For example,
-DES, when used in cipher-block-chaining mode, requires an
-initialization vector. If required, the description for
-each encryption type must specify the source of such addi-
-tional information.
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-6.2. Encryption Keys
-
- The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption
-key:
-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
-keytype This field specifies the type of encryption key
- that follows in the keyvalue field. It will
- almost always correspond to the encryption algo-
- rithm used to generate the EncryptedData, though
- more than one algorithm may use the same type of
- key (the mapping is many to one). This might hap-
- pen, for example, if the encryption algorithm uses
- an alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity
- check, or a different chaining mechanism.
-
-
-keyvalue This field contains the key itself, encoded as an
- octet string.
-
- All negative values for the encryption key type are
-reserved for local use. All non-negative values are
-reserved for officially assigned type fields and interpreta-
-tions.
-
-6.3. Encryption Systems
-
-6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
- If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is
-said to be the NULL encryption system. In the NULL encryp-
-tion system there is no checksum, confounder or padding.
-The ciphertext is simply the plaintext. The NULL Key is
-used by the null encryption system and is zero octets in
-length, with keytype zero (0).
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-
- The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information
-under the Data Encryption Standard [12] using the cipher
-block chaining mode [13]. A CRC-32 checksum (described in
-ISO 3309 [15]) is applied to the confounder and message
-sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES
-blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
-(the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message)
-must be padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The
-details of the encryption of this data are identical to
-those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
- Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-
-proof, an attacker could use a probabilistic chosen-
-plaintext attack to generate a valid message even if a con-
-founder is used [14]. The use of collision-proof checksums
-is recommended for environments where such attacks represent
-a significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the checksum
-for ticket or authenticator is no longer mandated as an
-interoperability requirement for Kerberos Version 5 Specifi-
-cation 1 (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
-
-6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
-
- The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information
-under the Data Encryption Standard [12] using the cipher
-block chaining mode [13]. An MD4 checksum (described in
-[16]) is applied to the confounder and message sequence
-(msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concate-
-nation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded
-to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of the
-encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-
-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
-
-6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
-
- The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information
-under the Data Encryption Standard [12] using the cipher
-block chaining mode [13]. An MD5 checksum (described in
-[17].) is applied to the confounder and message sequence
-(msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concate-
-nation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded
-to an 8 byte boundary before encryption.
-
- Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as 8-octet
-blocks which are concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for
-the DES algorithms. The first octet supplies the 8 most
-significant bits (with the octet's MSbit used as the DES
-input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the next 8
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-ficant bits.
-
- Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining
-requires an additional input in the form of an initializa-
-tion vector. Unless otherwise specified, zero should be
-used as the initialization vector. Kerberos' use of DES
-requires an 8-octet confounder.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak" and "semi-
-weak" keys; those keys shall not be used for encrypting mes-
-sages for use in Kerberos. Additionally, because of the way
-that keys are derived for the encryption of checksums, keys
-shall not be used that yield "weak" or "semi-weak" keys when
-eXclusive-ORed with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
- A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1).
-This consists of 56 bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per
-octet). The key is encoded as a series of 8 octets written
-in MSB-first order. The bits within the key are also
-encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption key is
-(B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8)
-where B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and
-P1,P2,...,P8 are the parity bits, the first octet of the key
-would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the MSbit). [See the
-FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
- To generate a DES key from a text string (password),
-the text string normally must have the realm and each com-
-ponent of the principal's name appended[37], then padded
-with ASCII nulls to an 8 byte boundary. This string is then
-fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed with itself to form an 8 byte
-DES key. The parity is corrected on the key, and it is used
-to generate a DES CBC checksum on the initial string (with
-the realm and name appended). Next, parity is corrected on
-the CBC checksum. If the result matches a "weak" or "semi-
-weak" key as described in the DES specification, it is
-eXclusive-ORed with the constant 00000000000000F0. Finally,
-the result is returned as the key. Pseudocode follows:
-
- string_to_key(string,realm,name) {
- odd = 1;
- s = string + realm;
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- tempkey = NULL;
- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
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-ferent "mix-in" string for compatibility reasons; see
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- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- fixparity(tempkey);
- key = DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey);
- fixparity(key);
- if(is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
-6.3.5. Triple DES EDE in outer CBC mode with an SHA1 check-
-sum (des3-cbc-sha1)
-
- The des3-cbc-sha1 encryption encodes information using
-three Data Encryption Standard transformations with three
-DES keys. The first key is used to perform a DES ECB
-encryption on an eight-octet data block using the first DES
-key, followed by a DES ECB decryption of the result using
-the second DES key, and a DES ECB encryption of the result
-using the third DES key. Because DES blocks are 8 bytes,
-the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of confounder,
-checksum, and message) must first be padded to an 8 byte
-boundary before encryption. To support the outer CBC mode,
-the input is padded an eight-octet boundary. The first 8
-octets of the data to be encrypted (the confounder) is
-exclusive-ored with an initialization vector of zero and
-then ECB encrypted using triple DES as described above.
-Subsequent blocks of 8 octets are exclusive-ored with the
-ciphertext produced by the encryption on the previous block
-before ECB encryption.
-
- An HMAC-SHA1 checksum (described in [18].) is applied
-to the confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed
-in the cksum field.
-
- Plaintext are encoded as 8-octet blocks which are con-
-catenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms.
-The first octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with
-the octet's MSbit used as the DES input block's MSbit,
-etc.), the second octet the next 8 bits, ..., and the eighth
-octet supplies the 8 least significant bits.
-
- Encryption under Triple DES using cipher block chaining
-requires an additional input in the form of an initializa-
-tion vector. Unless otherwise specified, zero should be
-used as the initialization vector. Kerberos' use of DES
-requires an 8-octet confounder.
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-weak" keys; those keys shall not be used for encrypting mes-
-sages for use in Kerberos. Additionally, because of the way
-that keys are derived for the encryption of checksums, keys
-shall not be used that yield "weak" or "semi-weak" keys when
-eXclusive-ORed with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
- A Triple DES key is 24 octets of data, with keytype
-seven (7). This consists of 168 bits of key, and 24 parity
-bits (one per octet). The key is encoded as a series of 24
-octets written in MSB-first order, with the first 8 octets
-treated as the first DES key, the second 8 octets as the
-second key, and the third 8 octets the third DES key. The
-bits within each key are also encoded in MSB order. For
-example, if the encryption key is
-(B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8)
-where B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and
-P1,P2,...,P8 are the parity bits, the first octet of the key
-would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the MSbit). [See the
-FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
- To generate a DES key from a text string (password),
-the text string normally must have the realm and each com-
-ponent of the principal's name appended[38],
-
- The input string (with any salt data appended to it) is
-n-folded into a 24 octet (192 bit) string. To n-fold a
-number X, replicate the input value to a length that is the
-least common multiple of n and the length of X. Before each
-repetition, the input X is rotated to the right by 13 bit
-positions. The successive n-bit chunks are added together
-using 1's-complement addition (addition with end-around
-carry) to yield a n-bit result. (This transformation was
-proposed by Richard Basch)
-
- Each successive set of 8 octets is taken as a DES key,
-and its parity is adjusted in the same manner as previously
-described. If any of the three sets of 8 octets match a
-"weak" or "semi-weak" key as described in the DES specifica-
-tion, that chunk is eXclusive-ORed with the constant
-00000000000000F0. The resulting DES keys are then used in
-sequence to perform a Triple-DES CBC encryption of the n-
-folded input string (appended with any salt data), using a
-zero initial vector. Parity, weak, and semi-weak keys are
-once again corrected and the result is returned as the 24
-octet key.
-
- Pseudocode follows:
-
- string_to_key(string,realm,name) {
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-ferent "mix-in" string for compatibility reasons; see
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- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- tkey[24] = fold(s);
- fixparity(tkey);
- if(isweak(tkey[0-7])) tkey[0-7] = tkey[0-7] XOR 0xF0;
- if(isweak(tkey[8-15])) tkey[8-15] = tkey[8-15] XOR 0xF0;
- if(is_weak(tkey[16-23])) tkey[16-23] = tkey[16-23] XOR 0xF0;
- key[24] = 3DES-CBC(data=fold(s),key=tkey,iv=0);
- fixparity(key);
- if(is_weak(key[0-7])) key[0-7] = key[0-7] XOR 0xF0;
- if(is_weak(key[8-15])) key[8-15] = key[8-15] XOR 0xF0;
- if(is_weak(key[16-23])) key[16-23] = key[16-23] XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
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-6.4. Checksums
-
- The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a check-
-sum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
-cksumtype This field indicates the algorithm used to gen-
- erate the accompanying checksum.
-
-checksum This field contains the checksum itself, encoded
- as an octet string.
-
- Detailed specification of selected checksum types
-appear later in this section. Negative values for the
-checksum type are reserved for local use. All non-negative
-values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpretations.
-
- Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two
-properties: whether they are collision-proof, and whether
-they are keyed. It is infeasible to find two plaintexts
-which generate the same checksum value for a collision-proof
-checksum. A key is required to perturb or initialize the
-algorithm in a keyed checksum. To prevent message-stream
-modification by an active attacker, unkeyed checksums should
-only be used when the checksum and message will be subse-
-quently encrypted (e.g. the checksums defined as part of the
-encryption algorithms covered earlier in this section).
-
- Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if
-the checksum value is encrypted before inclusion in a mes-
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-checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using DES is a
-new checksum algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed
-checksums, as well as for the encrypted forms of unkeyed
-collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends a confounder
-before the checksum is calculated.
-
-6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
-
- The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a
-cyclic redundancy check as described in ISO 3309 [15]. The
-resulting checksum is four (4) octets in length. The CRC-32
-is neither keyed nor collision-proof. The use of this
-checksum is not recommended. An attacker using a proba-
-bilistic chosen-plaintext attack as described in [14] might
-be able to generate an alternative message that satisfies
-the checksum. The use of collision-proof checksums is
-recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat.
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-6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
- The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the
-RSA MD4 algorithm [16]. The algorithm takes as input an
-input message of arbitrary length and produces as output a
-128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4 is believed to be
-collision-proof.
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-6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-
-des)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-
-proof checksum by prepending an 8 octet confounder before
-the text, applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm, and
-encrypting the confounder and the checksum using DES in
-cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key,
-where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key
-with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization
-vector should be zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets
-long (8 octets of which are redundant). This checksum is
-tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak keys" and
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-key to a particular function, separating the functions
-of generating a checksum from other encryption per-
-formed using the session key. The constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0 was chosen because it maintains key
-parity. The properties of DES precluded the use of the
-complement. The same constant is used for similar pur-
-pose in the Message Integrity Check in the Privacy
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-ing RSA-MD4 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the follow-
-ing diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who
-prefer an ASN.1-like notation:
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-rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
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-
- The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the
-RSA MD5 algorithm. [17]. The algorithm takes as input an
-input message of arbitrary length and produces as output a
-128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD5 is believed to be
-collision-proof.
-
-6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-
-des)
-
- The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-
-proof checksum by prepending an 8 octet confounder before
-the text, applying the RSA MD5 checksum algorithm, and
-encrypting the confounder and the checksum using DES in
-cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key,
-where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key
-with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vec-
-tor should be zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets
-long (8 octets of which are redundant). This checksum is
-tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak keys" and
-"semi-weak keys"; those keys shall not be used for encrypt-
-ing RSA-MD5 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the follow-
-ing diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
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-prefer an ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-
-6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
- The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8
-octet confounder to the plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode
-encryption on the result using the key and an initialization
-vector of zero, taking the last block of the ciphertext,
-prepending the same confounder and encrypting the pair using
-DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a variant of
-the key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing
-the key with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initializa-
-tion vector should be zero. The resulting checksum is 128
-bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are redundant. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the follow-
-ing diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-| des-cbc(confounder + des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who
-prefer an ASN.1-like notation:
-
-des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
-}
-
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak" and "semi-
-weak" keys; those keys shall not be used for generating
-DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos, nor shall a key be
-used whose variant is "weak" or "semi-weak".
-
-6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative
-(rsa-md4-des-k)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed
-collision-proof checksum by applying the RSA MD4 checksum
-algorithm and encrypting the results using DES in cipher-
-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both key and
-initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets
-long. This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
-collision-proof. Note that this checksum type is the old
-method for encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it is no
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-6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (des-
-mac-k)
-
- The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES
-CBC-mode encryption of the plaintext, and using the last
-block of the ciphertext as the checksum value. It is keyed
-with an encryption key and an initialization vector; any
-uses which do not specify an additional initialization vec-
-tor will use the key as both key and initialization vector.
-The resulting checksum is 64 bits (8 octets) long. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note that
-this checksum type is the old method for encoding the DES-
-MAC checksum and it is no longer recommended.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak keys" and
-"semi-weak keys"; those keys shall not be used for generat-
-ing DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-7. Naming Constraints
-
-
-7.1. Realm Names
-
- Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and
-although a realm can technically select any name it chooses,
-interoperability across realm boundaries requires agreement
-on how realm names are to be assigned, and what information
-they imply.
-
- To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform
-to the conventions itself, and it must require that any
-realms with which inter-realm keys are shared also conform
-to the conventions and require the same from its neighbors.
-
- Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names
-that differ only in the case of the characters are not
-equivalent. There are presently four styles of realm names:
-domain, X500, other, and reserved. Examples of each style
-follow:
-
- domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
-
-Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of
-components separated by periods (.) and they contain neither
-colons (:) nor slashes (/). Domain names must be converted
-to upper case when used as realm names.
-
- X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a
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-colon (:) before the equal. The realm names for X.500 names
-will be string representations of the names with components
-separated by slashes. Leading and trailing slashes will not
-be included.
-
- Names that fall into the other category must begin with
-a prefix that contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the
-prefix must be followed by a colon (:) and the rest of the
-name. All prefixes must be assigned before they may be
-used. Presently none are assigned.
-
- The reserved category includes strings which do not
-fall into the first three categories. All names in this
-category are reserved. It is unlikely that names will be
-assigned to this category unless there is a very strong
-argument for not using the "other" category.
-
- These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts
-between the various name styles. The following additional
-constraints apply to the assignment of realm names in the
-domain and X.500 categories: the name of a realm for the
-domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the organiza-
-tion owning (to whom it was assigned) an Internet domain
-name or X.500 name, or in the case that no such names are
-registered, authority to use a realm name may be derived
-from the authority of the parent realm. For example, if
-there is no domain name for E40.MIT.EDU, then the adminis-
-trator of the MIT.EDU realm can authorize the creation of a
-realm with that name.
-
- This is acceptable because the organization to which
-the parent is assigned is presumably the organization
-authorized to assign names to its children in the X.500 and
-domain name systems as well. If the parent assigns a realm
-name without also registering it in the domain name or X.500
-hierarchy, it is the parent's responsibility to make sure
-that there will not in the future exists a name identical to
-the realm name of the child unless it is assigned to the
-same entity as the realm name.
-
-
-7.2. Principal Names
-
- As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed
-to ensure that all agree on what information is implied by a
-principal name. The name-type field that is part of the
-principal name indicates the kind of information implied by
-the name. The name-type should be treated as a hint.
-Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the same (i.e.
-at least one of the components, or the realm, must be dif-
-ferent). This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-The following name types are defined:
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- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, or DCE principal)
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcommands)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
-
-
-When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness
-at a particular time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used.
-The principal name type should be used for users, and it
-might also be used for a unique server. If the name is a
-unique machine generated ID that is guaranteed never to be
-reassigned then the name type of UID should be used (note
-that it is generally a bad idea to reassign names of any
-type since stale entries might remain in access control
-lists).
-
- If the first component of a name identifies a service
-and the remaining components identify an instance of the
-service in a server specified manner, then the name type of
-SRV-INST should be used. An example of this name type is
-the Kerberos ticket-granting service whose name has a first
-component of krbtgt and a second component identifying the
-realm for which the ticket is valid.
-
- If instance is a single component following the service
-name and the instance identifies the host on which the
-server is running, then the name type SRV-HST should be
-used. This type is typically used for Internet services
-such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the separate
-components of the host name appear as successive components
-following the name of the service, then the name type SRV-
-XHST should be used. This type might be used to identify
-servers on hosts with X.500 names where the slash (/) might
-otherwise be ambiguous.
-
- A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of
-the name is not known. When comparing names, a name of type
-UNKNOWN will match principals authenticated with names of
-any type. A principal authenticated with a name of type
-UNKNOWN, however, will only match other names of type UNK-
-NOWN.
-
- Names of any type with an initial component of "krbtgt"
-are reserved for the Kerberos ticket granting service. See
-section 8.2.3 for the form of such names.
-
-7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
- The principal identifier for a server on a host will
-generally be composed of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC
-with which the server is registered, and (2) a two-component
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-name of type NT-SRV-HST if the host name is an Internet
-domain name or a multi-component name of type NT-SRV-XHST if
-the name of the host is of a form such as X.500 that allows
-slash (/) separators. The first component of the two- or
-multi-component name will identify the service and the
-latter components will identify the host. Where the name of
-the host is not case sensitive (for example, with Internet
-domain names) the name of the host must be lower case. If
-specified by the application protocol for services such as
-telnet and the Berkeley R commands which run with system
-privileges, the first component may be the string "host"
-instead of a service specific identifier. When a host has
-an official name and one or more aliases, the official name
-of the host must be used when constructing the name of the
-server principal.
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-
-
-8.1. Host address types
-
- All negative values for the host address type are
-reserved for local use. All non-negative values are
-reserved for officially assigned type fields and interpreta-
-tions.
-
- The values of the types for the following addresses are
-chosen to match the defined address family constants in the
-Berkeley Standard Distributions of Unix. They can be found
-in <sys/socket.h> with symbolic names AF_xxx (where xxx is
-an abbreviation of the address family name).
-
-
-Internet addresses
-
- Internet addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities,
-encoded in MSB order. The type of internet addresses is two
-(2).
-
-CHAOSnet addresses
-
- CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities,
-encoded in MSB order. The type of CHAOSnet addresses is
-five (5).
-
-ISO addresses
-
- ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO
-addresses is seven (7).
-
-Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
- XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded
-in MSB order. The type of XNS addresses is six (6).
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-AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
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- AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number
-and a 16-bit network number. The first octet of the address
-is the node number; the remaining two octets encode the net-
-work number in MSB order. The type of AppleTalk DDP
-addresses is sixteen (16).
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded
-in LSB order. The type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is
-twelve (12).
-
-8.2. KDC messages
-
-8.2.1. IP transport
-
- When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a
-KRB_KDC_REQ request using UDP IP transport, the client shall
-send a UDP datagram containing only an encoding of the
-request to port 88 (decimal) at the KDC's IP address; the
-KDC will respond with a reply datagram containing only an
-encoding of the reply message (either a KRB_ERROR or a
-KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at the sender's IP address.
-
- Kerberos servers supporting IP transport must accept
-UDP requests on port 88 (decimal). Servers may also accept
-TCP requests on port 88 (decimal). When the KRB_KDC_REQ
-message is sent to the KDC by TCP, a new connection will be
-established for each authentication exchange and the
-KRB_KDC_REP or KRB_ERROR message will be returned to the
-client on the TCP stream that was established for the
-request. The connection will be broken after the reply has
-been received (or upon time-out). Care must be taken in
-managing TCP/IP connections with the KDC to prevent denial
-of service attacks based on the number of TCP/IP connections
-with the KDC that remain open.
-
-8.2.2. OSI transport
-
- During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI
-server, the mutual authentication of an OSI server to an OSI
-client, the transfer of credentials from an OSI client to an
-OSI server, or during exchange of private or integrity
-checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may be treated
-as opaque objects and the type of the authentication mechan-
-ism will be:
-
-OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(6),internet(1), security(5),
- kerberosv5(2)}
-
-Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an
-authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply
-(KRB_AP_REP), a safe message (KRB_SAFE), a private message
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-(KRB_PRIV), or a credentials message (KRB_CRED). The opaque
-data contains an application code as specified in the ASN.1
-description for each message. The application code may be
-used by Kerberos to determine the message type.
-
-8.2.3. Name of the TGS
-
- The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service
-shall be composed of three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC
-issuing the TGS ticket (2) a two-part name of type NT-SRV-
-INST, with the first part "krbtgt" and the second part the
-name of the realm which will accept the ticket-granting
-ticket. For example, a ticket-granting ticket issued by the
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier of
-"ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU")
-(name). A ticket-granting ticket issued by the
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
-MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
-(realm), ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
-
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-
-The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines their
-meanings.
-
-Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad size confounder size
-NULL 0 1 0 0
-des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
-des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
-des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
-<reserved> 4
-des3-cbc-md5 5 8 0 8
-<reserved> 6
-des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
-sign-dsa-generate 8 (pkinit)
-encrypt-rsa-priv 9 (pkinit)
-encrypt-rsa-pub 10 (pkinit)
-ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS 48 (reserved for pkcross)
-<reserved> 0x8003
-
-Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
-CRC32 1 4
-rsa-md4 2 16
-rsa-md4-des 3 24
-des-mac 4 16
-des-mac-k 5 8
-rsa-md4-des-k 6 16
-rsa-md5 7 16
-rsa-md5-des 8 24
-rsa-md5-des3 9 24
-hmac-sha1-des3 10 20 (I had this as 10, is it 12)
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-padata type padata-type value
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-PA-TGS-REQ 1
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
-PA-PW-SALT 3
-<reserved> 4
-PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5
-PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
-PA-SESAME 7
-PA-OSF-DCE 8
-PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
-PA-AFS3-SALT 10
-PA-ETYPE-INFO 11
-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
-PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-SIGN 16 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-KEY-REQ 17 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-KEY-REP 18 (pkinit)
-
-authorization data type ad-type value
-reserved values 0-63
-OSF-DCE 64
-SESAME 65
-
-alternate authentication type method-type value
-reserved values 0-63
-ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
-transited encoding type tr-type value
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
-reserved values all others
-
-
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-Label Value Meaning or MIT code
-
-pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
-
-message types
-
-KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
-KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
-KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
-KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
-KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
-KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
-KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
-KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
-KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward credentials
-KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
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-KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
-KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or for users
-KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
-KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcommands)
-KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
-KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
-
-error codes
-
-KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
-KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version number not supported
-KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in database
-KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than end time
-KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
-KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested option
-KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption type
-KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum type
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited type
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change password to reset
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was invalid
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional pre-authenticationrequired-
-KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't match
-KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for user2user only
-KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't match
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
-KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method required
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in message
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-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in message
-KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in e-text)
-KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this implementation
-KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
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-
- Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of
-options. Among these are multiple encryption and checksum
-types, alternative encoding schemes for the transited field,
-optional mechanisms for pre-authentication, the handling of
-tickets with no addresses, options for mutual authentica-
-tion, user to user authentication, support for proxies, for-
-warding, postdating, and renewing tickets, the format of
-realm names, and the handling of authorization data.
-
- In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it
-is necessary to define a minimal configuration which must be
-supported by all implementations. This minimal configura-
-tion is subject to change as technology does. For example,
-if at some later date it is discovered that one of the
-required encryption or checksum algorithms is not secure, it
-will be replaced.
-
-9.1. Specification 1
-
- This section defines the first specification of these
-options. Implementations which are configured in this way
-can be said to support Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1
-(5.1).
-
-Encryption and checksum methods
-
-The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be
-supported. Implementations may support other mechanisms as
-well, but the additional mechanisms may only be used when
-communicating with principals known to also support them:
-This list is to be determined.
-Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5
-Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5
-
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-- This error carries additional information in the e-
-data field. The contents of the e-data field for this
-message is described in section 5.9.1.
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-All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in
-both the Internet Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket
-granting ticket for an unknown realm is requested, the KDC
-must be able to determine the names of the intermediate
-realms between the KDCs realm and the requested realm.
-
-Transited field encoding
-
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be
-supported. Alternative encodings may be supported, but they
-may be used only when that encoding is supported by ALL
-intermediate realms.
-
-Pre-authentication methods
-
-The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is
-not used on the initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
-method must be supported by clients but whether it is
-enabled by default may be determined on a realm by realm
-basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-
-TIMESTAMP as an acceptable method, the client should retry
-the initial request using the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-
-authentication method. Servers need not support the PA-
-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server should
-ignore the presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication
-in a request.
-
-Mutual authentication
-
-Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be
-supported.
-
-
-Ticket addresses and flags
-
-All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e.
-if a TGT contains no addresses, the KDC will return deriva-
-tive tickets), but each realm may set its own policy for
-issuing such tickets, and each application server will set
-its own policy with respect to accepting them.
-
- Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Indi-
-vidual realms and application servers can set their own pol-
-icy on when such tickets will be accepted.
-
- All implementations must recognize renewable and post-
-dated tickets, but need not actually implement them. If
-these options are not supported, the starttime and endtime
-in the ticket shall specify a ticket's entire useful life.
-When a postdated ticket is decoded by a server, all imple-
-mentations shall make the presence of the postdated flag
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-User-to-user authentication
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-Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-
-IN-SKEY KDC option) must be provided by implementations, but
-individual realms may decide as a matter of policy to reject
-such requests on a per-principal or realm-wide basis.
-
-Authorization data
-
-Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields
-from ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets
-unless directed to suppress a subfield as part of the defin-
-ition of that registered subfield type (it is never
-incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no registered subfield
-types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
-
- Implementations must make the contents of any authori-
-zation data subfields available to the server when a ticket
-is used. Implementations are not required to allow clients
-to specify the contents of the authorization data fields.
-
-9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
-Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC imple-
-mentation, based on the list of suggested configuration con-
-stants (see section 4.4).
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-minimum lifetime 5 minutes
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-maximum renewable lifetime1 week
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-maximum ticket lifetime1 day
-
-empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
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-proxiable, etc. Allowed.
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-1. B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Y. Ts'o, "An Authenti-
- cation Service for Computer Networks," IEEE Communica-
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-2. S. P. Miller, B. C. Neuman, J. I. Schiller, and J. H.
- Saltzer, Section E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and
- Authorization System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge,
- Massachusetts (December 21, 1987).
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-3. J. G. Steiner, B. C. Neuman, and J. I. Schiller, "Ker-
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- Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Com-
- puters," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21(12),
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-5. Dorothy E. Denning and Giovanni Maria Sacco, "Time-
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-6. John T. Kohl, B. Clifford Neuman, and Theodore Y. Ts'o,
- "The Evolution of the Kerberos Authentication Service,"
- in an IEEE Computer Society Text soon to be published
- (June 1992).
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-7. B. Clifford Neuman, "Proxy-Based Authorization and
- Accounting for Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of
- the 13th International Conference on Distributed Com-
- puting Systems, Pittsburgh, PA (May, 1993).
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-8. Don Davis and Ralph Swick, "Workstation Services and
- Kerberos Authentication at Project Athena," Technical
- Memorandum TM-424, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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-9. P. J. Levine, M. R. Gretzinger, J. M. Diaz, W. E. Som-
- merfeld, and K. Raeburn, Section E.1: Service Manage-
- ment System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge, Mas-
- sachusetts (1987).
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-10. CCITT, Recommendation X.509: The Directory Authentica-
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-11. J. Pato, Using Pre-Authentication to Avoid Password
- Guessing Attacks, Open Software Foundation DCE Request
- for Comments 26 (December 1992).
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-12. National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "Data Encryption Standard," Federal Information
- Processing Standards Publication 46, Washington, DC
- (1977).
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-13. National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "DES Modes of Operation," Federal Information
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- (December 1980).
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-14. Stuart G. Stubblebine and Virgil D. Gligor, "On Message
- Integrity in Cryptographic Protocols," in Proceedings
- of the IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and
- Privacy, Oakland, California (May 1992).
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-15. International Organization for Standardization, "ISO
- Information Processing Systems - Data Communication -
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- ture," IS 3309 (October 1984). 3rd Edition.
-
-16. R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1320, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-17. R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-18. H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
- Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
- draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
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- This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the
-messages are to be constructed and interpreted by clients
-and servers.
-
-A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt", "localrealm" */
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
- decode message into req;
-
- client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
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- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable skew) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
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- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- else
- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted */
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
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- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE */
- endif
-
- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
-
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
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- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP)) then
- set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno, resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all that */
- /* should be are set */
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
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- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
-A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly */
- /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting ticket */
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
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- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and choosing the
- correct key for decryption. The name of the server appears in the
- plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is operating is
- determined by the instance from the ticket-granting ticket. The realm
- in the ticket-granting ticket is the realm under which the ticket
- granting ticket was issued. It is possible for a single Kerberos
- server to support more than one realm. */
-
- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not req.sname) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
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- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(server)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(server);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
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- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
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- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
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- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
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- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket would */
- /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so */
- /* there is no need to check again here */
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till >= kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
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- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
- endif
- endif
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- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
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- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
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- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the renew-till field out */
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data := req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data +
- decrypted_authorization_data;
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- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
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- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited := compress_transited(tgt.transited + tgt.realm)
- endif
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- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
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- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key), second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
- endif
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- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
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- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
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- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
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- omit resp.key-expiration;
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- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
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- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
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- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
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- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype, tgt.key;
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- decode response into resp;
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- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
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- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key from
- the response immediately */
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- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's session key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
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- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
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- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
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-A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
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- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
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- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using session_key;
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-A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
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- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using retrieved key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm})) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
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- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
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- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
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- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
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- collect user data in buffer;
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- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
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- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
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- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
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- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
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- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
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- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number not present) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
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- collect user data in buffer;
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- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
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- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
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- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
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- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
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- return(cleartext.DATA, PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
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- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
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- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
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- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
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- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
- body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
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- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
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- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
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- if (using s-address) then
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
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- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
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- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
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- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
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- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
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- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
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-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message ............. 23
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-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message .................. 23
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-3.2.6. Using the encryption key ....................... 24
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-3.3. The Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) Exchange ....... 25
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-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message .............. 26
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-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message ................. 27
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-3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message .............. 28
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-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets ................. 30
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-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field ................. 30
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-3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message ................. 32
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-3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange ............................ 32
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-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message ............... 32
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-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message .................... 33
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-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange ............................ 34
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-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message ............... 34
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-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message .................... 34
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-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange ............................ 35
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-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message ............... 35
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-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message .................... 35
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-4. The Kerberos Database .............................. 36
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-4.1. Database contents ................................ 36
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-4.2. Additional fields ................................ 37
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-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields ....................... 38
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-4.4. Site Constants ................................... 39
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-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation ...... 39
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-5.2. ASN.1 Base Definitions ........................... 40
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-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators ....................... 43
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-5.3.1. Tickets ........................................ 43
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-5.3.2. Authenticators ................................. 52
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-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges ...... 54
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-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition ......................... 54
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-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition ......................... 61
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-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications ........ 64
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-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition .......................... 64
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-5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition .......................... 65
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-5.5.3. Error message reply ............................ 67
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-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification ................... 67
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-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition ............................ 67
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-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification ................... 68
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-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition ............................ 68
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-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification ................... 69
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-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition ............................ 70
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-5.9. Error message specification ...................... 72
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-5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition ........................... 72
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-6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications ............. 74
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-6.1. Encryption Specifications ........................ 76
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-6.2. Encryption Keys .................................. 78
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-6.3. Encryption Systems ............................... 78
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-6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null) .............. 78
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-6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-
-cbc-crc) .............................................. 79
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-cbc-md5) .............................................. 79
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-6.3.5. Triple DES EDE in outer CBC mode with an SHA1
-checksum (des3-cbc-sha1) .............................. 81
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-6.4. Checksums ........................................ 83
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-6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32) .................... 84
-
-6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4) ................. 84
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-6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES
-(rsa-md4-des) ......................................... 84
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-6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5) ................. 85
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-6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES
-(rsa-md5-des) ......................................... 85
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-6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
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-6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES
-alternative (rsa-md4-des-k) ........................... 86
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-6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative
-(des-mac-k) ........................................... 87
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-7. Naming Constraints ................................. 87
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-7.1. Realm Names ...................................... 87
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-7.2. Principal Names .................................. 88
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-7.2.1. Name of server principals ...................... 89
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-8. Constants and other defined values ................. 90
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-8.1. Host address types ............................... 90
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-8.2. KDC messages ..................................... 91
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-8.2.1. IP transport ................................... 91
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-8.2.2. OSI transport .................................. 91
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-8.2.3. Name of the TGS ................................ 92
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-8.3. Protocol constants and associated values ......... 92
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-A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing ................ 100
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-A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation ............................ 100
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-A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP genera-
-tion .................................................. 100
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-A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification .......................... 104
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-A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks ......... 104
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-A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation ........................... 105
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-A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP gen-
-eration ............................................... 106
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-A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification ......................... 111
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-A.8. Authenticator generation ......................... 112
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-A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation ............................ 112
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-A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification ......................... 112
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-A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation ........................... 113
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-A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification ......................... 114
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-A.13. KRB_SAFE generation ............................. 114
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-A.14. KRB_SAFE verification ........................... 115
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-A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks ............. 115
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-A.16. KRB_PRIV generation ............................. 116
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-A.17. KRB_PRIV verification ........................... 116
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-A.18. KRB_CRED generation ............................. 117
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Clifford Neuman
- John Kohl
- Theodore Ts'o
- 21 November 1997
-
-The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
-
-STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of
-the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working
-groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as
-Internet-Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and
-may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
-inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them
-other than as 'work in progress.'
-
-To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the
-'1id-abstracts.txt' listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
-Directories on ds.internic.net (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net (Europe),
-ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
-The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-r-01.txt, and expires 21 May 1998. Please send
-comments to: krb-protocol@MIT.EDU
-
-ABSTRACT
-
-This document provides an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to clarify aspects of the protocol
-and its intended use that require more detailed or clearer explanation than
-was provided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a detailed
-description of the protocol, suitable for implementation, together with
-descriptions of the appropriate use of protocol messages and fields within
-those messages.
-
-This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to the end user, system
-administrator, or application developer. Higher level papers describing
-Version 5 of the Kerberos system [NT94] and documenting version 4 [SNS88],
-are available elsewhere.
-
-OVERVIEW
-
-This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model upon which the Kerberos
-network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol.
-
-The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
-decisions are treated cursorily; they are more fully described in a paper
-available in IEEE communications [NT94] and earlier in the Kerberos portion
-of the Athena Technical Plan [MNSS87]. The protocols have been a proposed
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-standard and are being considered for advancement for draft standard through
-the IETF standard process. Comments are encouraged on the presentation, but
-only minor refinements to the protocol as implemented or extensions that fit
-within current protocol framework will be considered at this time.
-
-Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for discussion of
-Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU.
-This mailing list is gatewayed onto the Usenet as the group
-comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further information, including
-documents and code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
-
-BACKGROUND
-
-The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's trusted
-third-party authentication protocol [NS78] and on modifications suggested by
-Denning and Sacco [DS81]. The original design and implementation of Kerberos
-Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena staff
-members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and Clifford Neuman
-(now at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern
-California), along with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of Project
-Athena, and Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many other members
-of Project Athena have also contributed to the work on Kerberos.
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this document) has evolved
-from Version 4 based on new requirements and desires for features not
-available in Version 4. The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol was
-led by Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the community. The
-development of the MIT reference implementation was led at MIT by John Kohl
-and Theodore T'so, with help and contributed code from many others.
-Reference implementations of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are
-publicly available and commercial implementations have been developed and
-are widely used.
-
-Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4 and 5 can be found in
-[KNT92].
-
-1. Introduction
-
-Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals, (e.g. a
-workstation user or a network server) on an open (unprotected) network. This
-is accomplished without relying on assertions by the host operating system,
-without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical security
-of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that packets
-traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at will[1].
-Kerberos performs authentication under these conditions as a trusted
-third-party authentication service by using conventional (shared secret key
-[2] cryptography. Kerberos extensions have been proposed and implemented
-that provide for the use of public key cryptography during certain phases of
-the authentication protocol. These extensions provide for authentication of
-users registered with public key certification authorities, and allow the
-system to provide certain benefits of public key cryptography in situations
-where they are needed.
-
-The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as follows: A client
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-sends a request to the authentication server (AS) requesting 'credentials'
-for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in the
-client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a 'ticket' for the server and 2)
-a temporary encryption key (often called a "session key"). The client
-transmits the ticket (which contains the client's identity and a copy of the
-session key, all encrypted in the server's key) to the server. The session
-key (now shared by the client and server) is used to authenticate the
-client, and may optionally be used to authenticate the server. It may also
-be used to encrypt further communication between the two parties or to
-exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt further
-communication.
-
-Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or more authentication
-servers running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
-maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their secret
-keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos protocol.
-In order to add authentication to its transactions, a typical network
-application adds one or two calls to the Kerberos library directly or
-through the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface,
-GSSAPI, described in separate document. These calls result in the
-transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authentication.
-
-The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or exchanges).
-There are two basic methods by which a client can ask a Kerberos server for
-credentials. In the first approach, the client sends a cleartext request for
-a ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent encrypted in
-the client's secret key. Usually this request is for a ticket-granting
-ticket (TGT) which can later be used with the ticket-granting server (TGS).
-In the second method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client uses
-the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same manner as if it were
-contacting any other application server that requires Kerberos
-authentication. The reply is encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
-Though the protocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
-servers, they are implemented in practice as different protocol entry points
-within a single Kerberos server.
-
-Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
-principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages exchanged
-between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The application is
-free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
-
-To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the client
-transmits the ticket to the application server. Since the ticket is sent "in
-the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't thwart
-replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker, additional
-information is sent to prove that the message originated with the principal
-to whom the ticket was issued. This information (called the authenticator)
-is encrypted in the session key, and includes a timestamp. The timestamp
-proves that the message was recently generated and is not a replay.
-Encrypting the authenticator in the session key proves that it was generated
-by a party possessing the session key. Since no one except the requesting
-principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent over the
-network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
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-The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also be
-guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and contained in the
-credentials). This approach provides detection of both replay attacks and
-message stream modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
-transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest
-function) of the client's message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and
-integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can be secured by
-encrypting the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
-ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
-
-The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access to the
-Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the database must be
-modified, such as when adding new principals or changing a principal's key.
-This is done using a protocol between a client and a third Kerberos server,
-the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM). There is also a protocol for
-maintaining multiple copies of the Kerberos database. Neither of these
-protocols are described in this document.
-
-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
-The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
-boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a server in
-another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes its
-own 'realm'. The name of the realm in which a client is registered is part
-of the client's name, and can be used by the end-service to decide whether
-to honor a request.
-
-By establishing 'inter-realm' keys, the administrators of two realms can
-allow a client authenticated in the local realm to prove its identity to
-servers in other realms[3]. The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate key
-may be used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service of
-each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able to
-obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-granting
-service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting ticket is used, the
-remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
-differs from its own normal TGS key) to decrypt the ticket-granting ticket,
-and is thus certain that it was issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets
-issued by the remote ticket-granting service will indicate to the
-end-service that the client was authenticated from another realm.
-
-A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms share an
-inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm key with an
-intermediate realm that communicates with the remote realm. An
-authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are
-transited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
-Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a key with
-its parent and a different key with each child. If an inter-realm key is not
-directly shared by two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an
-authentication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical organization
-is not used, it may be necessary to consult a database in order to construct
-an authentication path between realms.
-
-Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may be
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-bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
-authentication paths (these might be established to make communication
-between two realms more efficient). It is important for the end-service to
-know which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to place in
-the authentication process. To facilitate this decision, a field in each
-ticket contains the names of the realms that were involved in authenticating
-the client.
-
-The application server is ultimately responsible for accepting or rejecting
-authentication and should check the transited field. The application server
-may choose to rely on the KDC for the application server's realm to check
-the transited field. The application server's KDC will set the
-TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag in this case. The KDC's for intermediate
-realms may also check the transited field as they issue
-ticket-granting-tickets for other realms, but they are encouraged not to do
-so. A client may request that the KDC's not check the transited field by
-setting the DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK flag. KDC's are encouraged but not
-required to honor this flag.
-
-1.2. Authorization
-
-As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of verifying the
-identity of principals on a network. Authentication is usually useful
-primarily as a first step in the process of authorization, determining
-whether a client may use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
-access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos does not, by
-itself, provide authorization. Possession of a client ticket for a service
-provides only for authentication of the client to that service, and in the
-absence of a separate authorization procedure, it should not be considered
-by an application as authorizing the use of that service.
-
-Such separate authorization methods may be implemented as application
-specific access control functions and may be based on files such as the
-application server, or on separately issued authorization credentials such
-as those based on proxies [Neu93] , or on other authorization services.
-
-Applications should not be modified to accept the issuance of a service
-ticket by the Kerberos server (even by an modified Kerberos server) as
-granting authority to use the service, since such applications may become
-vulnerable to the bypass of this authorization check in an environment if
-they interoperate with other KDCs or where other options for application
-authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP proposal) are provided.
-
-1.3. Environmental assumptions
-
-Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
-properly function:
-
- * 'Denial of service' attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There are
- places in these protocols where an intruder can prevent an application
- from participating in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
- solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to be nnot-uncommon
- 'normal' failure modes for the system) is usually best left to the
- human administrators and users.
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- * Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder somehow
- steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade as that
- principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate principal.
- * 'Password guessing' attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user
- chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to successfully
- mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly attempting to decrypt,
- with successive entries from a dictionary, messages obtained which are
- encrypted under a key derived from the user's password.
- * Each host on the network must have a clock which is 'loosely
- synchronized' to the time of the other hosts; this synchronization is
- used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of application servers when they
- do replay detection. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
- per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5 minutes. If the
- clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock synchronization
- protocol must itself be secured from network attackers.
- * Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A typical
- mode of access control will use access control lists (ACLs) to grant
- permissions to particular principals. If a stale ACL entry remains for
- a deleted principal and the principal identifier is reused, the new
- principal will inherit rights specified in the stale ACL entry. By not
- re-using principal identifiers, the danger of inadvertent access is
- removed.
-
-1.4. Glossary of terms
-
-Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
-
-Authentication
- Verifying the claimed identity of a principal.
-Authentication header
- A record containing a Ticket and an Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication process.
-Authentication path
- A sequence of intermediate realms transited in the authentication
- process when communicating from one realm to another.
-Authenticator
- A record containing information that can be shown to have been recently
- generated using the session key known only by the client and server.
-Authorization
- The process of determining whether a client may use a service, which
- objects the client is allowed to access, and the type of access allowed
- for each.
-Capability
- A token that grants the bearer permission to access an object or
- service. In Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose use is restricted by
- the contents of the authorization data field, but which lists no
- network addresses, together with the session key necessary to use the
- ticket.
-Ciphertext
- The output of an encryption function. Encryption transforms plaintext
- into ciphertext.
-Client
- A process that makes use of a network service on behalf of a user. Note
- that in some cases a Server may itself be a client of some other server
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- (e.g. a print server may be a client of a file server).
-Credentials
- A ticket plus the secret session key necessary to successfully use that
- ticket in an authentication exchange.
-KDC
- Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
- temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host on
- which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and ticket-granting
- ticket requests. The initial ticket portion is sometimes referred to as
- the Authentication Server (or service). The ticket-granting ticket
- portion is sometimes referred to as the ticket-granting server (or
- service).
-Kerberos
- Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the protocol used by that service, or
- the code used to implement the authentication service.
-Plaintext
- The input to an encryption function or the output of a decryption
- function. Decryption transforms ciphertext into plaintext.
-Principal
- A uniquely named client or server instance that participates in a
- network communication.
-Principal identifier
- The name used to uniquely identify each different principal.
-Seal
- To encipher a record containing several fields in such a way that the
- fields cannot be individually replaced without either knowledge of the
- encryption key or leaving evidence of tampering.
-Secret key
- An encryption key shared by a principal and the KDC, distributed
- outside the bounds of the system, with a long lifetime. In the case of
- a human user's principal, the secret key is derived from a password.
-Server
- A particular Principal which provides a resource to network clients.
- The server is sometimes refered to as the Application Server.
-Service
- A resource provided to network clients; often provided by more than one
- server (for example, remote file service).
-Session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single login "session".
-Sub-session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, selected and
- exchanged by the principals using the session key, and with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single association.
-Ticket
- A record that helps a client authenticate itself to a server; it
- contains the client's identity, a session key, a timestamp, and other
- information, all sealed using the server's secret key. It only serves
- to authenticate a client when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
-
-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
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-Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to indicate
-various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be requested by a client
-when the ticket is obtained; some are automatically turned on and off by a
-Kerberos server as required. The following sections explain what the various
-flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
-The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS protocol
-and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket. Application servers that
-want to require the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
-password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set in any tickets
-they accept, and thus be assured that the client's key was recently
-presented to the application client.
-
-The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information about the
-initial authentication, regardless of whether the current ticket was issued
-directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of
-a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is clear, but the
-PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried forward from the
-ticket-granting ticket).
-
-2.2. Invalid tickets
-
-The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application servers
-must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated ticket will
-usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the KDC
-before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the VALIDATE
-option specified. The KDC will only validate tickets after their starttime
-has passed. The validation is required so that postdated tickets which have
-been stolen before their starttime can be rendered permanently invalid
-(through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
-
-2.3. Renewable tickets
-
-Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long periods
-of time. However, this can expose their credentials to potential theft for
-equally long periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until the
-expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-lived tickets and
-obtaining new ones periodically would require the client to have long-term
-access to its secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be
-used to mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
-"expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the ticket
-expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an individual
-expiration time. An application client must periodically (i.e. before it
-expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the RENEW option set in
-the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new ticket with a new session key and
-a later expiration time. All other fields of the ticket are left unmodified
-by the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration time arrives,
-the ticket expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may consult a
-hot-list to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen since its last
-renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and thus the usable
-lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
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-The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can usually be
-ignored by application servers. However, some particularly careful
-application servers may wish to disallow renewable tickets.
-
-If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC will
-not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default, but a client
-may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ
-message. If it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains the
-time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
-
-2.4. Postdated tickets
-
-Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much later,
-e.g. a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid at the time
-the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets in
-a batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more prone to theft.
-Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain these tickets from the KDC at job
-submission time, but to leave them "dormant" until they are activated and
-validated by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft were reported
-in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket, and the thief
-would be foiled.
-
-The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. This flag
-must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated ticket
-based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it may be requested
-by a client by setting the ALLOW-POSTDATE option in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
-This flag does not allow a client to obtain a postdated ticket-granting
-ticket; postdated ticket-granting tickets can only by obtained by requesting
-the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life (endtime-starttime) of a
-postdated ticket will be the remaining life of the ticket-granting ticket at
-the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE option is also set, in which
-case it can be the full life (endtime-starttime) of the ticket-granting
-ticket. The KDC may limit how far in the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
-The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
-application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see when
-the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose to reject
-postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain period
-after the original authentication. When the KDC issues a POSTDATED ticket,
-it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the application client must
-present the ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
-
-2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets
-
-At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to perform
-an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take on the identity
-of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A principal can allow a
-service to take on the principal's identity for a particular purpose by
-granting it a proxy.
-
-The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and proxiable flags is used
-to provide credentials for use with specific services. Though conceptually
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-also a proxy, user's wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose must
-use the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next section to forward
-a ticket granting ticket.
-
-The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. When set,
-this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to issue a new
-ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network address
-based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the client on initial
-authentication. By default, the client will request that it be set when
-requesting a ticket granting ticket, and reset when requesting any other
-ticket.
-
-This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a remote
-request on its behalf, e.g. a print service client can give the print server
-a proxy to access the client's files on a particular file server in order to
-satisfy a print request.
-
-In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos tickets are
-usually valid from only those network addresses specifically included in the
-ticket[4]. When granting a proxy, the client must specify the new network
-address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that the proxy is to
-be issued for use from any address.
-
-The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a proxy ticket.
-Application servers may check this flag and at their option they may require
-additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in order to
-provide an audit trail.
-
-2.6. Forwardable tickets
-
-Authentication forwarding is an instance of a proxy where the service is
-granted complete use of the client's identity. An example where it might be
-used is when a user logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to
-work from that system as if the login were local.
-
-The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. The
-FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE
-flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
-network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users may request that
-it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in the AS request when they
-request their initial ticket- granting ticket.
-
-This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the user to
-enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then authentication
-forwarding is not permitted, but the same result can still be achieved if
-the user engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
-addresses and supplies a password.
-
-The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket with
-the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests a forwarded ticket by specifying the
-FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket. It
-is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the FORWARDED flag
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-set. Application servers may choose to process FORWARDED tickets differently
-than non-FORWARDED tickets.
-
-2.7. Other KDC options
-
-There are two additional options which may be set in a client's request of
-the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the client will accept a
-renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be
-provided. If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then the
-KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal to the the
-requested endtime. The value of the renew-till field may still be adjusted
-by site-determined limits or limits imposed by the individual principal or
-server.
-
-The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting service.
-It indicates that the ticket to be issued for the end server is to be
-encrypted in the session key from the a additional second ticket-granting
-ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific details.
-
-3. Message Exchanges
-
-The following sections describe the interactions between network clients and
-servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
-
-3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the Kerberos
-Authentication Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain
-authentication credentials for a given server but currently holds no
-credentials. In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for
-encryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at the initiation
-of a login session to obtain credentials for a Ticket-Granting Server which
-will subsequently be used to obtain credentials for other servers (see
-section 3.3) without requiring further use of the client's secret key. This
-exchange is also used to request credentials for services which must not be
-mediated through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather require a
-principal's secret key, such as the password-changing service[5]. This
-exchange does not by itself provide any assurance of the the identity of the
-user[6].
-
-The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
-Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
-messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
-
-In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and the
-identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials. The response,
-KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present to the server, and a
-session key that will be shared by the client and the server. The session
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-key and additional information are encrypted in the client's secret key. The
-KRB_AS_REP message contains information which can be used to detect replays,
-and to associate it with the message to which it replies. Various errors can
-occur; these are indicated by an error response (KRB_ERROR) instead of the
-KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not encrypted. The KRB_ERROR
-message contains information which can be used to associate it with the
-message to which it replies. The lack of encryption in the KRB_ERROR message
-precludes the ability to detect replays, fabrications, or modifications of
-such messages.
-
-Without preautentication, the authentication server does not know whether
-the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply sends a
-reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same. This is
-acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in the
-request will be able to use the reply. Its critical information is encrypted
-in that principal's key. The initial request supports an optional field that
-can be used to pass additional information that might be needed for the
-initial exchange. This field may be used for preauthentication as described
-in section [hl<>].
-
-3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-The client may specify a number of options in the initial request. Among
-these options are whether pre-authentication is to be performed; whether the
-requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable; whether it
-should be postdated or allow postdating of derivative tickets; and whether a
-renewable ticket will be accepted in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the
-requested ticket expiration date cannot be satisfied by a non-renewable
-ticket (due to configuration constraints; see section 4). See section A.1
-for pseudocode.
-
-The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
-
-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in the
-creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server. The format for
-the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket are
-determined as follows.
-
-3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-The authentication server looks up the client and server principals named in
-the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective keys. If
-required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if the
-pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate the
-requested encryption type, an error message with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP
-is returned. Otherwise it generates a 'random' session key[7].
-
-If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a client in the
-Kerberos database (or if the key registered supports multiple encryption
-types; e.g. DES-CBC-CRC and DES-CBC-MD5), then the etype field from the AS
-request is used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be used for
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-encrypting the response to the client. If there is more than one supported,
-strong encryption type in the etype list, the first valid etype for which an
-encryption key is available is used. The encryption method used to respond
-to a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session key found in the
-ticket granting ticket.
-
-When the etype field is present in a KDC request, whether an AS or TGS
-request, the KDC will attempt to assign the type of the random session key
-from the list of methods in the etype field. The KDC will select the
-appropriate type using the list of methods provided together with
-information from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable encryption
-methods for the application server. The KDC will not issue tickets with a
-weak session key encryption type.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise
-the requested start time is checked against the policy of the local realm
-(the administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or ranges of
-postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as
-requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The postdated
-ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the
-start time has been reached.
-
-The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
-following:
-
- * The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the client principal (the authentication server's database
- includes a maximum ticket lifetime field in each principal's record;
- see section 4).
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the server principal.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by the policy of
- the local realm.
-
-If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined above)
-is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error message with code
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested expiration time for the
-ticket exceeds what was determined as above, and if the 'RENEWABLE-OK'
-option was requested, then the 'RENEWABLE' flag is set in the new ticket,
-and the renew-till value is set as if the 'RENEWABLE' option were requested
-(the field and option names are described fully in section 5.4.1).
-
-If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option has
-been set and a renewable ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till field
-is set to the minimum of:
-
- * Its requested value.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two maximum
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- renewable lifetimes associated with the principals' database entries.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable lifetime set by
- the policy of the local realm.
-
-The flags field of the new ticket will have the following options set if
-they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm allows:
-FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new
-ticket is post-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
-will also be set.
-
-If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message (see
-section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the caddr of the
-response, placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata of
-the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the client's key using the
-requested encryption method, and sends it to the client. See section A.2 for
-pseudocode.
-
-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
-
-Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
-returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the error-code
-and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error message contents and
-details are described in Section 5.9.1.
-
-3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies that the
-cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the reply match what it
-requested. If any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive the
-proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client decrypts the encrypted
-part of the response using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the
-encrypted part matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect
-replays). It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match
-those in the request (or are otherwise expected values), and that the host
-address field is also correct. It then stores the ticket, session key, start
-and expiration times, and other information for later use. The
-key-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may be checked
-to notify the user of impending key expiration (the client program could
-then suggest remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3
-for pseudocode.
-
-Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to verify the
-identity of the user; the user and an attacker could cooperate to generate a
-KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts properly but is not from the proper
-KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user, it must require
-the user to present application credentials which can be verified using a
-securely-stored secret key for the host. If those credentials can be
-verified, then the identity of the user can be assured.
-
-3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client interprets it as an
-error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are necessary to
-recover.
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-3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange
-
- Summary
-Message direction Message type Section
-Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
-[optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
-applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa. The
-client must have already acquired credentials for the server using the AS or
-TGS exchange.
-
-3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be part of
-the first message in an authenticated transaction. It contains a ticket, an
-authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
-5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insufficient to
-authenticate a client, since tickets are passed across the network in
-cleartext[DS90], so the authenticator is used to prevent invalid replay of
-tickets by proving to the server that the client knows the session key of
-the ticket and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ message is
-referred to elsewhere as the 'authentication header.'
-
-3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it obtains
-(either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the TGS exchange) a
-ticket and session key for the desired service. The client may re-use any
-tickets it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client constructs a
-new Authenticator from the the system time, its name, and optionally an
-application specific checksum, an initial sequence number to be used in
-KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in
-negotiations for a session key unique to this particular session.
-Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if replayed to a
-server[LGDSR87]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should be
-randomly chosen so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is
-not likely to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
-The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the use of
-a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s) in the
-ap-options field of the message.
-
-The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with the
-ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the end server
-along with any additional application-specific information. See section A.9
-for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks must be
-loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket. Several errors are
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-possible. If an error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the client
-with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated in the
-application protocol if its 'raw' form is not acceptable to the protocol.
-The format of error messages is described in section 5.9.1.
-
-The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows. If the
-message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE
-error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is not
-one the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old key, and the server no
-longer possesses a copy of the old key), the KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is
-returned. If the USE-SESSION-KEY flag is set in the ap-options field, it
-indicates to the server that the ticket is encrypted in the session key from
-the server's ticket-granting ticket rather than its secret key[10]. Since it
-is possible for the server to be registered in multiple realms, with
-different keys in each, the srealm field in the unencrypted portion of the
-ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to specify which secret key the server
-should use to decrypt that ticket. The KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is
-returned if the server doesn't have the proper key to decipher the ticket.
-
-The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key specified by
-the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a modification of the ticket
-(each encryption system must provide safeguards to detect modified
-ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned
-(chances are good that different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
-
-The authenticator is decrypted using the session key extracted from the
-decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm of the client
-from the ticket are compared against the same fields in the authenticator.
-If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is returned (they might
-not match, for example, if the wrong session key was used to encrypt the
-authenticator). The addresses in the ticket (if any) are then searched for
-an address matching the operating-system reported address of the client. If
-no match is found or the server insists on ticket addresses but none are
-present in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error is returned.
-
-If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator differ
-by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW
-error is returned. If the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any recently-seen such
-tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is returned[11]. The server must
-remember any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, so
-that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses track of any
-authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, it must reject all
-requests until the clock skew interval has passed. This assures that any
-lost or re-played authenticators will fall outside the allowable clock skew
-and can no longer be successfully replayed (If this is not done, an attacker
-could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator sent over the network
-to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as the disabled host, and
-replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the authentication.). If a
-sequence number is provided in the authenticator, the server saves it for
-later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV messages. If a subkey is
-present, the server either saves it for later use or uses it to help
-generate its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a KRB_AP_REP message.
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-The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus the
-start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than the current
-time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
-the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Otherwise, if the
-current time is later than end time by more than the allowable clock skew,
-the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error is returned.
-
-If all these checks succeed without an error, the server is assured that the
-client possesses the credentials of the principal named in the ticket and
-thus, the client has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10 for
-pseudocode.
-
-Passing these checks provides only authentication of the named principal; it
-does not imply authorization to use the named service. Applications must
-make a separate authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name of
-the user, the requested operation, local acces control information such as
-that contained in a .k5login or .k5users file, and possibly a separate
-distributed authorization service.
-
-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
-
-Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
-information and its initial request in the same message, and the server need
-not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual authentication
-(not only authenticating the client to the server, but also the server to
-the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message will have
-MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a KRB_AP_REP message is
-required in response. As with the error message, this message may be
-encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not acceptable
-to the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond field used in
-the reply must be the client's timestamp and microsecond field (as provided
-in the authenticator)[12]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should
-be randomly chosen as described above for the authenticator. A subkey may be
-included if the server desires to negotiate a different subkey. The
-KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in the session key extracted from the
-ticket. See section A.11 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
-
-If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key from
-the credentials obtained for the server[13] to decrypt the message, and
-verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
-Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client is
-assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey (if
-present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
-
-After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and server
-share an encryption key which can be used by the application. The 'true
-session key' to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
-application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on the
-subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some cases,
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-the use of this session key will be implicit in the protocol; in others the
-method of use must be chosen from several alternatives. We leave the
-protocol negotiations of how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption or
-checksum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does not
-constrain the implementation options, but an example of how this might be
-done follows.
-
-One way that an application may choose to negotiate a key to be used for
-subequent integrity and privacy protection is for the client to propose a
-key in the subkey field of the authenticator. The server can then choose a
-key using the proposed key from the client as input, returning the new
-subkey in the subkey field of the application reply. This key could then be
-used for subsequent communication. To make this example more concrete, if
-the encryption method in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever reason,
-one of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than 40 unknown
-bits, this method would allow the the party which is prevented from using
-more than 40 bits to either propose (if the client) an initial key with a
-known quantity for 16 of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if the
-server) with the known quantity. The application implementor is warned,
-however, that this is only an example, and that an analysis of the
-particular crytosystem to be used, and the reasons for limiting the key
-length, must be made before deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits
-of the key.
-
-With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers should
-take care not to send sensitive information to each other without proper
-assurances. In particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
-should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client to assure both
-client and server of their peer's identity. If an application protocol
-requires privacy of its messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section
-3.5). The KRB_SAFE message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
-
-3.3. The Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server is
-initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication credentials
-for a given server (which might be registered in a remote realm), when it
-wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when it wishes to obtain
-a proxy ticket. In the first case, the client must already have acquired a
-ticket for the Ticket-Granting Service using the AS exchange (the
-ticket-granting ticket is usually obtained when a client initially
-authenticates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The message
-format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS exchange.
-The primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the TGS exchange
-does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the session key from
-the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or sub-session key from an
-Authenticator is used. As is the case for all application servers, expired
-tickets are not accepted by the TGS, so once a renewable or ticket-granting
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-ticket expires, the client must use a separate exchange to obtain valid
-tickets.
-
-The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ) from the
-client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or
-KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating the
-client plus a request for credentials. The authentication information
-consists of the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the
-client's previously obtained ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket.
-In the ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one
-or more of: a list of network addresses, a collection of typed authorization
-data to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the application
-server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described later). The
-TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials, encrypted in the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or if
-present, in the sub-session key from the Authenticator (part of the
-authentication header). The KRB_ERROR message contains an error code and
-text explaining what went wrong. The KRB_ERROR message is not encrypted. The
-KRB_TGS_REP message contains information which can be used to detect
-replays, and to associate it with the message to which it replies. The
-KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can be used to associate
-it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of encryption in the
-KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays or fabrications of
-such messages.
-
-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client must
-determine in which realm the application server is registered[15]. If the
-client does not already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
-realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted by requesting a
-ticket-granting ticket for the destination realm from a Kerberos server for
-which the client does posess a ticket-granting ticket (using the KRB_TGS_REQ
-message recursively). The Kerberos server may return a TGT for the desired
-realm in which case one can proceed. Alternatively, the Kerberos server may
-return a TGT for a realm which is 'closer' to the desired realm (further
-along the standard hierarchical path), in which case this step must be
-repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm specified in the returned TGT.
-If neither are returned, then the request must be retried with a Kerberos
-server for a realm higher in the hierarchy. This request will itself require
-a ticket-granting ticket for the higher realm which must be obtained by
-recursively applying these directions.
-
-Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate realm,
-it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and contacts one. The
-list might be obtained through a configuration file or network service or it
-may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as the secret keys
-exchanged by realms are kept secret, only denial of service results from
-using a false Kerberos server.
-
-As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in the
-KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing
-an authentication header as an element of the padata field, and including
-the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
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-optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for application server use
-and additional tickets required by some options.
-
-In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-session
-key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be encrypted[16].
-If the sub-session key is not specified, the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data is
-present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from the
-authenticator portion of the authentication header, or if not present, using
-the session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the destination
-realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the KRB_AS_REQ
-message, but there are many additional checks to be performed. First, the
-Kerberos server must determine which server the accompanying ticket is for
-and it must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
-KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting service, and the
-TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued by another realm, then the
-appropriate inter-realm key must be used. If the accompanying ticket is not
-a ticket granting ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
-server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are
-specified in the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is
-the server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the
-ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server for which it
-was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata field, the
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied checksum
-in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents of the request,
-and the message rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
-of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum is not keyed or not
-collision-proof (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the
-checksum type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned. If the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
-the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
-
-If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned.
-
-3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP (KRB_KDC_REP),
-but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed specification is in
-section 5.4.2.
-
-The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The Kerberos
-database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested server
-(including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request
-is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key is shared
-with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server will select the realm
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-"closest" to the requested realm with which it does share a key, and use
-that realm instead. This is the only case where the response from the KDC
-will be for a different server than that requested by the client.
-
-By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list of
-transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the expiration time,
-and the authorization data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from
-the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the transited field
-needs to be updated, but the transited type is not supported, the
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new ticket is
-set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime from the TGT, and
-(c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the
-application server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
-life for the requesting principal was already applied when the TGT was
-issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal, then the endtime above is
-replaced by the minimum of (a) the value of the renew_till field of the
-ticket and (b) the starttime for the new ticket plus the life
-(endtime-starttime) of the old ticket.
-
-If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket will
-contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will only be
-honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is
-similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
-client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE flag in the TGT is set. The
-PROXY option will not be honored on requests for additional ticket-granting
-tickets.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is not set in the TGT, then the
-error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the ticket-granting
-ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then the resulting ticket will be
-postdated and the requested starttime is checked against the policy of the
-local realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as requested, and
-the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be validated before use
-by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has been reached. However,
-in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-till time of a newly-issued
-postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time of the ticket-granting
-ticket.
-
-If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional ticket
-has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the additional ticket
-using the key for the server to which the additional ticket was issued and
-verify that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the requested
-server is missing from the request, the name of the client in the additional
-ticket will be used. Otherwise the name of the requested server will be
-compared to the name of the client in the additional ticket and if
-different, the request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the
-session key from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new
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-ticket that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
-new ticket will be used[17].
-
-If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC as part
-of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-granting server
-itself, the server is registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW
-option is requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag is set
-in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in the ticket, and that the
-renew_till time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is rqeuested,
-the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID flag is
-set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check that the
-PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed, and the ticket
-passes the hotlist check described in the next paragraph, the KDC will issue
-the appropriate new ticket.
-
-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
-
-Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the presented
-ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets which have been
-canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by storing a range of issue
-timestamps for 'suspect tickets'; if a presented ticket had an authtime in
-that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen ticket-granting
-ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to gain additional tickets
-(renewals or otherwise) once the theft has been reported. Any normal ticket
-obtained before it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
-require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal expiration
-time.
-
-The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is encrypted
-in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present, or the session
-key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
-client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's expiration date and the
-key version number fields are left out since these values are stored along
-with the client's database record, and that record is not needed to satisfy
-a request based on a ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
-
-If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting service,
-but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look up the
-inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
-ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the request, subject
-to the constraints outlined above in the section describing the AS exchange.
-The realm part of the client's identity will be taken from the
-ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm that issued the
-ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the ticket to
-be issued. This is accomplished by reading the transited field from the
-ticket-granting ticket (which is treated as an unordered set of realm
-names), adding the new realm to the set, then constructing and writing out
-its encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement of the
-existing encoding).
-
-Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its own
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-realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the previous realm.
-This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving out its
-own name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
-
-The names of neither the local realm nor the principal's realm are to be
-included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the ticket and
-both are known to have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since the
-endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop inter-realm
-authentication result in a transited field that is empty.
-
-Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field, it might
-potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this field, its contents
-are encoded. The initially supported encoding is optimized for the normal
-case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrangement of realms
-using either domain or X.500 style realm names. This encoding (called
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now described.
-
-Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",", "\",
-trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters, and if they
-are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the transited field by
-preced- ing them with a "\".
-
-A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to the
-previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU,
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
-Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-points, that they
-would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
-
-A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to the
-previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded
-by a space (" "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO,
-/COM/HP, /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
-
- "/COM,/HP,/APOLLO, /COM/DEC".
-
-Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints, they
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "/COM,/HP"
-
-A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all realms
-between the previous realm and the next realm have been traversed[19]. Thus,
-"," means that all realms along the path between the client and the server
-have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms from the
-client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have been traversed,
-and that everything from /COM down to the server's realm in an X.500 style
-has also been traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in one hierarchy
-shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm in another hierarchy.
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-3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
-When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in the same
-manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The primary difference
-is that the ciphertext part of the response must be decrypted using the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the client's secret
-key. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
-
-3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange
-
-The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to detect
-modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by including a
-keyed collision-proof checksum of the user data and some control
-information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually the last
-key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
-occured).
-
-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information and computes a checksum over them.
-The checksum algorithm should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the
-RSA- MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES MAC),
-generated using the sub-session key if present, or the session key.
-Different algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
-message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable for this
-use.
-
-The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a timestamp
-and a sequence number. The designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE
-message must choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice should
-be based on the needs of the application protocol.
-
-Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received by one's
-peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain the session key, so
-maintaining the next sequence number should not present an additional
-problem.
-
-If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages without
-them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the appropriate replay
-detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
-multi-cast protocols where all of one's peers share a common sub-session
-key, but some messages will be sent to a subset of one's peers.
-
-After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the information and
-checksum to the recipient in the message format specified in section 5.6.1.
-
-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and type
-fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively. A mismatch
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-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-proof keyed
-checksum, and if it is not, a KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. The
-recipient verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's
-address matches the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient
-address is specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the
-recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address in the message. A
-failed match for either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the
-timestamp and usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If
-timestamp and usec are expected and not present, or they are present but not
-current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along
-with the client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator
-match any recently-seen (sent or received[20] ) such tuples, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an incorrect sequence number is
-included, or a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or
-a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-Finally, the checksum is computed over the data and control information, and
-if it doesn't match the received checksum, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is
-generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application is assured that the message was
-generated by its peer and was not modi- fied in transit.
-
-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
-The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality and
-the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It achieves this
-by encrypting the messages and adding control information.
-
-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information (specified in section 5.7.1) and
-encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via
-subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part of the
-control information, the client must choose to use either a timestamp or a
-sequence number (or both); see the discussion in section 3.4.1 for
-guidelines on which to use. After the user data and control information are
-encrypted, the client transmits the ciphertext and some 'envelope'
-information to the recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and type
-fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively. A mismatch
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant
-plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been modified, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. The recipient verifies that the
-operating system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's
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-address in the message, and (if a recipient address is specified or the
-recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's addresses appears
-as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for either case
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and usec and/or the
-sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec are expected and
-not present, or they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error
-is generated. If the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any recently-seen such
-tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an incorrect sequence
-number is included, or a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or
-a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
-generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without intruders able
-to see the unencrypted contents).
-
-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
-The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to send
-Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this by sending
-the tickets together with encrypted data containing the session keys and
-other information associated with the tickets.
-
-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using the
-KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote host. It then
-constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or tickets so obtained,
-placing the session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part of the the KRB_CRED
-message.
-
-Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
-KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence in
-the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if
-specifically required by the application the nonce, s-address, and r-address
-fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message which is
-then encrypted under an encryption key previosuly exchanged in the KRB_AP
-exchange (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if
-no negotiation has occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If any
-error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application. The
-message is verified by checking that the protocol version and type fields
-match the current version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then
-decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If decryption
-shows the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is
-generated.
-
-If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating system's
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-report of the sender's address matches the sender's address in the message,
-and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address
-in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields (and the nonce field
-if required) are checked next. If the timestamp and usec are not present, or
-they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new tickets in
-its ticket cache together with the session key and other information in the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED
-message.
-
-4. The Kerberos Database
-
-The Kerberos server must have access to a database contain- ing the
-principal identifiers and secret keys of principals to be authenticated[21].
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
-A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
-
-Field Value
-
-name Principal's identifier
-key Principal's secret key
-p_kvno Principal's key version
-max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
-max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable Tickets
-
-The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key field
-contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret key. (The key
-can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos "master key" to protect it
-in case the database is compromised but the master key is not. In that case,
-an extra field must be added to indicate the master key version used, see
-below.) The p_kvno field is the key version number of the principal's secret
-key. The max_life field contains the maximum allowable lifetime (endtime -
-starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal. The max_renewable_life
-field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime for any renewable Ticket
-issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a description of how these
-lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of a given Ticket.)
-
-A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the database
-representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between principal records
-with identifiers which differ only in the realm name.
-
-When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine (i.e. not
-the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key should be retained by
-the server until all tickets that had been issued using that key have
-expired. Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be active for a
-single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a principal's key is always tagged
-with the version of the key that was used for encryption, to help the
-recipient find the proper key for decryption.
-
-When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the principal
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-will have more than one record in the Kerberos database. The keys and key
-version numbers will differ between the records (the rest of the fields may
-or may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos issues a ticket, or responds to a
-request for initial authentication, the most recent key (known by the
-Kerberos server) will be used for encryption. This is the key with the
-highest key version number.
-
-4.2. Additional fields
-
-Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its database:
-
-Field Value
-
-K_kvno Kerberos' key version
-expiration Expiration date for entry
-attributes Bit field of attributes
-mod_date Timestamp of last modification
-mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
-
-The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key under
-which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
-
-After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an error to
-any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the principal. (A database
-may want to maintain two expiration dates: one for the principal, and one
-for the principal's current key. This allows password aging to work
-independently of the principal's expiration date. However, due to the
-limited space in the responses, the KDC must combine the key expiration and
-principal expiration date into a single value called 'key_exp', which is
-used as a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
-
-The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations involving
-the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction with user
-registration procedures, for site-specific policy implementations (Project
-Athena currently uses it for their user registration process controlled by
-the system-wide database service, Moira [LGDSR87]), to identify whether a
-principal can play the role of a client or server or both, to note whether a
-server is appropriate trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a client,
-or to identify the 'string to key' conversion algorithm used for a
-principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that certain ticket
-options should not be allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key
-(one bit each): Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing
-forwardable tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
-disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable tickets, and
-disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the server.
-
-The mod_date field contains the time of last modification of the entry, and
-the mod_name field contains the name of the principal which last modified
-the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
-Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a request
-was made by a particular principal. Information that might be maintained
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-includes the time of the last request, the time of the last request for a
-ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a ticket-granting
-ticket, or other times. This information can then be returned to the user in
-the last-req field (see section 5.2).
-
-Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the latest
-expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using each key. This
-field would be used to indicate how long old keys must remain valid to allow
-the continued use of outstanding tickets.
-
-4.4. Site Constants
-
-The KDC implementation should have the following configurable constants or
-options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce policy decisions:
-
- * The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant should
- reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the KDC,
- encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client and
- target server, and it should allow for a minimum 'useful' lifetime.
- * The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
- (renew_till - starttime).
- * The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
- * Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
- (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be issued
- if the request specifies some authorization_data).
- * Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets are
- to be issued.
-
-5. Message Specifications
-
-The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of protocol
-messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are presented in the first
-subsection. The remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
-and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryption and checksum
-techniques, and the fields related to them, appear in section 6.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
-All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
-Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509 specification,
-section 8.7 [X509-88].
-
-5.2. ASN.1 Base Definitions
-
-The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this section.
-Note that since the underscore character (_) is not permitted in ASN.1
-names, the hyphen (-) is used in its place for the purposes of ASN.1 names.
-
-Realm ::= GeneralString
-PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
-}
-
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-Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not contain a
-character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms will usually consist
-of several components separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet
-Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500 names.
-Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in section 7. A PrincipalName
-is a typed sequence of components consisting of the following sub-fields:
-
-name-type
- This field specifies the type of name that follows. Pre-defined values
- for this field are specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the same
- (i.e. at least one of the components, or the realm, must be different).
- This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-name-string
- This field encodes a sequence of components that form a name, each
- component encoded as a GeneralString. Taken together, a PrincipalName
- and a Realm form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames will have
- only a few components (typically one or two).
-
-KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
-The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An encoding
-shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include any fractional
-portions of the seconds. It further shall not include any separators.
-Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27 seconds after 9 pm
-on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
-HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF HostAddress
-
-The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
-addr-type
- This field specifies the type of address that follows. Pre-defined
- values for this field are specified in section 8.1.
-address
- This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
-
-The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one address;
-HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many addresses.
-
-AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-ad-data
- This field contains authorization data to be interpreted according to
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-ad-type
- This field specifies the format for the ad-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
-Each sequence of type and data is refered to as an authorization element.
-Elements may be application specific, however, there is a common set of
-recursive elements that should be understood by all implementations. These
-elements contain other elements embedded within them, and the interpretation
-of the encapsulating element determines which of the embedded elements must
-be interpreted, and which may be ignored. Definitions for these common
-elements may be found in Appendix B.
-
-TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- te-type[0] INTEGER,
- te-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-
-
-te-data
- This field contains opaque data that must be caried with the ticket to
- support extensions to the Kerberos protocol including but not limited
- to some forms of inter-realm key exchange and plaintext authorization
- data. See appendix C for some common uses of this field.
-te-type
- This field specifies the format for the te-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
-}
-
-TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- forwardable(1),
- forwarded(2),
- proxiable(3),
- proxy(4),
- may-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
- invalid(7),
- renewable(8),
- initial(9),
- pre-authent(10),
- hw-authent(11),
- transited-policy-checked(12),
- ok-as-delegate(13)
-}
-
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-KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- forwardable(1),
- forwarded(2),
- proxiable(3),
- proxy(4),
- allow-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
- unused7(7),
- renewable(8),
- unused9(9),
- unused10(10),
- unused11(11),
- unused12(12),
- unused13(13),
- disable-transited-check(26),
- renewable-ok(27),
- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- renew(30),
- validate(31)
-}
-
-ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When used in Kerberos for the
-APOptions, TicketFlags, and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
-generated values should be the smallest multiple of 32 bits needed to
-include the highest order bit that is set (1), but in no case less than 32
-bits. Implementations should accept values of bit strings of any length and
-treat the value of flags cooresponding to bits beyond the end of the bit
-string as if the bit were reset (0). Comparisonof bit strings of different
-length should treat the smaller string as if it were padded with zeros
-beyond the high order bits to the length of the longer string[23].
-
-LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
-}
-
-lr-type
- This field indicates how the following lr-value field is to be
- interpreted. Negative values indicate that the information pertains
- only to the responding server. Non-negative values pertain to all
- servers for the realm. If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no
- information is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the absolute value
- of the lr-type field is one (1), then the lr-value subfield is the time
- of last initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of last initial request. If it is three (3), then
- the lr-value subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of the last renewal. If it is five (5), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last request (of any type).
-lr-value
- This field contains the time of the last request. the time must be
- interpreted according to the contents of the accompanying lr-type
- subfield.
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-See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType, EncryptedData,
-EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
-
-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
-
-This section describes the format and encryption parameters for tickets and
-authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is included in a protocol
-message it is treated as an opaque object.
-
-5.3.1. Tickets
-
-A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service. A Ticket
-contains the following information:
-
-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData,
- extensions[4] TicketExtensions OPTIONAL
-}
-
--- Encrypted part of ticket
-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by Kerberos and
-the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6 for the format of
-the ciphertext.
-
-tkt-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the ticket format. This
- document describes version number 5.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It also serves to
- identify the realm part of the server's principal identifier. Since a
- Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers within its realm,
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-sname
- This field specifies the name part of the server's identity.
-enc-part
- This field holds the encrypted encoding of the EncTicketPart sequence.
-extensions
- This optional field contains a sequence of extentions that may be used
- to carry information that must be carried with the ticket to support
- several extensions, including but not limited to plaintext
- authorization data, tokens for exchanging inter-realm keys, and other
- information that must be associated with a ticket for use by the
- application server. See Appendix C for definitions of some common
- extensions.
-
- Note that some older versions of Kerberos did not support this field.
- Because this is an optional field it will not break older clients, but
- older clients might strip this field from the ticket before sending it
- to the application server. This limits the usefulness of this ticket
- field to environments where the ticket will not be parsed and
- reconstructed by these older Kerberos clients.
-
- If it is known that the client will strip this field from the ticket,
- as an interim measure the KDC may append this field to the end of the
- enc-part of the ticket and append a traler indicating the lenght of the
- appended extensions field. (this paragraph is open for discussion,
- including the form of the traler).
-flags
- This field indicates which of various options were used or requested
- when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most
- significant bit. The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
- The flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The meanings
- of the flags are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set, this
- flag tells the ticket-granting server
- that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
- granting ticket with a different network
- address based on the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- When set, this flag indicates that the
- ticket has either been forwarded or was
- issued based on authentication involving
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- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical to
- that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
- that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
- ticket-granting server that only non-
- ticket-granting tickets may be issued
- with different network addresses.
-
- 4 PROXY
- When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
-
- 5 MAY-POSTDATE
- The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. This flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that a post-
- dated ticket may be issued based on this
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- This flag indicates that this ticket has
- been postdated. The end-service can
- check the authtime field to see when the
- original authentication occurred.
-
- 7 INVALID
- This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by the
- KDC before use. Application servers
- must reject tickets which have this flag
- set.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
- be ignored by end servers (some particu-
- larly careful servers may wish to disal-
- low renewable tickets). A renewable
- ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
- ment ticket that expires at a later
- date.
-
- 9 INITIAL
- This flag indicates that this ticket was
- issued using the AS protocol, and not
- issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
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- This flag indicates that during initial
- authentication, the client was authenti-
- cated by the KDC before a ticket was
- issued. The strength of the pre-
- authentication method is not indicated,
- but is acceptable to the KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected to
- be possessed solely by the named client.
- The hardware authentication method is
- selected by the KDC and the strength of
- the method is not indicated.
-
- 12 TRANSITED This flag indicates that the KDC for the
- POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
- against a realm defined policy for
- trusted certifiers. If this flag is
- reset (0), then the application server
- must check the transited field itself,
- and if unable to do so it must reject
- the authentication. If the flag is set
- (1) then the application server may skip
- its own validation of the transited
- field, relying on the validation
- performed by the KDC. At its option the
- application server may still apply its
- own validation based on a separate
- policy for acceptance.
-
- 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
- the client) specified in the ticket has
- been determined by policy of the realm
- to be a suitable recipient of
- delegation. A client can use the
- presence of this flag to help it make a
- decision whether to delegate credentials
- (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
- ticket granting ticket) to this server.
- The client is free to ignore the value
- of this flag. When setting this flag,
- an administrator should consider the
- Security and placement of the server on
- which the service will run, as well as
- whether the service requires the use of
- delegated credentials.
-
- 14 ANONYMOUS
- This flag indicates that the principal
- named in the ticket is a generic princi-
- pal for the realm and does not identify
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- the individual using the ticket. The
- purpose of the ticket is only to
- securely distribute a session key, and
- not to identify the user. Subsequent
- requests using the same ticket and ses-
- sion may be considered as originating
- from the same user, but requests with
- the same username but a different ticket
- are likely to originate from different
- users.
-
- 15-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-key
- This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is used to
- pass the session key from Kerberos to the application server and the
- client. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-crealm
- This field contains the name of the realm in which the client is
- registered and in which initial authentication took place.
-cname
- This field contains the name part of the client's principal identifier.
-transited
- This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took part in
- authenticating the user to whom this ticket was issued. It does not
- specify the order in which the realms were transited. See section
- 3.3.3.2 for details on how this field encodes the traversed realms.
-authtime
- This field indicates the time of initial authentication for the named
- principal. It is the time of issue for the original ticket on which
- this ticket is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
- additional information to the end service, and to provide the necessary
- information for implementation of a `hot list' service at the KDC. An
- end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to accept
- tickets for which the initial authentication occurred "too far" in the
- past. This field is also returned as part of the response from the KDC.
- When returned as part of the response to initial authentication
- (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on the Ker- beros server[24].
-starttime
- This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the ticket is
- valid. Together with endtime, this field specifies the life of the
- ticket. If it is absent from the ticket, its value should be treated as
- that of the authtime field.
-endtime
- This field contains the time after which the ticket will not be honored
- (its expiration time). Note that individual services may place their
- own limits on the life of a ticket and may reject tickets which have
- not yet expired. As such, this is really an upper bound on the
- expiration time for the ticket.
-renew-till
- This field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set
- in the flags field. It indicates the maximum endtime that may be
- included in a renewal. It can be thought of as the absolute expiration
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-caddr
- This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more (if present)
- host addresses. These are the addresses from which the ticket can be
- used. If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used from any
- location. The decision by the KDC to issue or by the end server to
- accept zero-address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to issue or
- accept such tickets. The suggested and default policy, however, is that
- such tickets will only be issued or accepted when additional
- information that can be used to restrict the use of the ticket is
- included in the authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
- capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it harder for an
- attacker to use stolen credentials. Because the session key is not sent
- over the network in cleartext, credentials can't be stolen simply by
- listening to the network; an attacker has to gain access to the session
- key (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a careless
- user's unattended session) to make use of stolen tickets.
-
- It is important to note that the network address from which a
- connection is received cannot be reliably determined. Even if it could
- be, an attacker who has compromised the client's worksta- tion could
- use the credentials from there. Including the network addresses only
- makes it more difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk off
- with stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe" location.
-authorization-data
- The authorization-data field is used to pass authorization data from
- the principal on whose behalf a ticket was issued to the application
- service. If no authorization data is included, this field will be left
- out. Experience has shown that the name of this field is confusing, and
- that a better name for this field would be restrictions. Unfortunately,
- it is not possible to change the name of this field at this time.
-
- This field contains restrictions on any authority obtained on the basis
- of authentication using the ticket. It is possible for any principal in
- posession of credentials to add entries to the authorization data field
- since these entries further restrict what can be done with the ticket.
- Such additions can be made by specifying the additional entries when a
- new ticket is obtained during the TGS exchange, or they may be added
- during chained delegation using the authorization data field of the
- authenticator.
-
- Because entries may be added to this field by the holder of
- credentials, it is not allowable for the presence of an entry in the
- authorization data field of a ticket to amplify the priveleges one
- would obtain from using a ticket.
-
- The data in this field may be specific to the end service; the field
- will contain the names of service specific objects, and the rights to
- those objects. The format for this field is described in section 5.2.
- Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of the contents of
- the sub-fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
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- By using the authorization_data field, a principal is able to issue a
- proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For example, a client
- wishing to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to be passed to
- the print server. By specifying the name of the file in the
- authorization_data field, the file server knows that the print server
- can only use the client's rights when accessing the particular file to
- be printed.
-
- A separate service providing authorization or certifying group
- membership may be built using the authorization-data field. In this
- case, the entity granting authorization (not the authorized entity),
- obtains a ticket in its own name (e.g. the ticket is issued in the name
- of a privelege server), and this entity adds restrictions on its own
- authority and delegates the restricted authority through a proxy to the
- client. The client would then present this authorization credential to
- the application server separately from the authentication exchange.
-
- Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data field of a proxy and
- leaves the host addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session key
- can be treated as a capability. See [Neu93] for some suggested uses of
- this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does not have to be
- included in a ticket.
-
-5.3.2. Authenticators
-
-An authenticator is a record sent with a ticket to a server to certify the
-client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket, to help the server
-detect replays, and to help choose a "true session key" to use with the
-particular session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session key
-shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-authenticator-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the format of the
- authenticator. This document specifies version 5.
-crealm and cname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
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-cksum
- This field contains a checksum of the the applica- tion data that
- accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp. Its
- value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to 999999. It often appears
- along with ctime. The two fields are used together to specify a
- reasonably accurate timestamp.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-subkey
- This field contains the client's choice for an encryption key which is
- to be used to protect this specific application session. Unless an
- application specifies otherwise, if this field is left out the session
- key from the ticket will be used.
-seq-number
- This optional field includes the initial sequence number to be used by
- the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when sequence numbers are used to
- detect replays (It may also be used by application specific messages).
- When included in the authenticator this field specifies the initial
- sequence number for messages from the client to the server. When
- included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number is that for
- messages from the server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
- KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after each message is sent.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of replays
- they should be non-repeating, even across connection boundaries. The
- initial sequence number should be random and uniformly distributed
- across the full space of possible sequence numbers, so that it cannot
- be guessed by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
- numbers do not repeat other sequences.
-authorization-data
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1. It
- is optional and will only appear when additional restrictions are to be
- placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those carried in the ticket
- itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used in the exchange
-between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible error
-messages appears in section 5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is one of
-KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is for an initial
-ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent from the
-client to the Authentication Server to request credentials for a service.
-
-The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
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-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
-
-KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
- -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
- addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
- -- encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The fields in this message are:
-
-pvno
- This field is included in each message, and specifies the protocol
- version number. This document specifies protocol version 5.
-msg-type
- This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It will almost
- always be the same as the application identifier associated with a
- message. It is included to make the identifier more readily accessible
- to the application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
- KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
-padata
- The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a sequence of
- authentication information which may be needed before credentials can
- be issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for additional tickets
- (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will include an element with padata-type of
- PA-TGS-REQ and data of an authentication header (ticket-granting ticket
- and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator (which must be
- collision-proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY encoding. In
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- most requests for initial authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and most replies
- (KDC-REP), the padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by certain extensions to
- the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might be used to initially
- verify the identity of a client before any response is returned. This
- is accomplished with a padata field with padata-type equal to
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and padata-value defined as follows:
-
- padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
- padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
- PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec containing the
- microseconds which may be omitted if a client will not generate more
- than one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-value) consists of
- the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence, encrypted using the client's secret key.
-
- [use-specified-kvno item is here for discussion and may be removed] It
- may also be used by the client to specify the version of a key that is
- being used for accompanying preauthentication, and/or which should be
- used to encrypt the reply from the KDC.
-
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO ::= Integer
-
- The KDC should only accept and abide by the value of the
- use-specified-kvno preauthentication data field when the specified key
- is still valid and until use of a new key is confirmed. This situation
- is likely to occur primarily during the period during which an updated
- key is propagating to other KDC's in a realm.
-
- The padata field can also contain information needed to help the KDC or
- the client select the key needed for generating or decrypting the
- response. This form of the padata is useful for supporting the use of
- certain token cards with Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
- specified in separate documents. See [Pat92] for additional uses of
- this field.
-padata-type
- The padata-type element of the padata field indicates the way that the
- padata-value element is to be interpreted. Negative values of
- padata-type are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative values are
- used for a registered interpretation of the element type.
-req-body
- This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the remaining
- fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over the request, it is
- calculated over an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
- enclosed within the req-body field.
-kdc-options
- This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the
- KDC and indicates the flags that the client wants set on the tickets as
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- well as other information that is to modify the behavior of the KDC.
- Where appropriate, the name of an option may be the same as the flag
- that is set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
- options field will be the same as that in the flags field, this is not
- guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply copy the options field to
- the flags field. There are various checks that must be made before
- honoring an option anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected options are
- indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected options and
- reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is specified
- in section 5.2. The options are described in more detail above in
- section 2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- forwardable flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a sub-
- sequent request if the ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based is also for-
- wardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- The FORWARDED option is only specified
- in a request to the ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket in the request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set. This
- option indicates that this is a request
- for forwarding. The address(es) of the
- host from which the resulting ticket is
- to be valid are included in the
- addresses field of the request.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE option indicates that the
- ticket to be issued is to have its prox-
- iable flag set. It may only be set on
- the initial request, or in a subsequent
- request if the ticket-granting ticket on
- which it is based is also proxiable.
-
- 4 PROXY
- The PROXY option indicates that this is
- a request for a proxy. This option will
- only be honored if the ticket-granting
- ticket in the request has its PROXIABLE
- bit set. The address(es) of the host
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- from which the resulting ticket is to be
- valid are included in the addresses
- field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE
- The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a sub-
- sequent request if the ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based also has its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- The POSTDATED option indicates that this
- is a request for a postdated ticket.
- This option will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket on which it is
- based has its MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
- The resulting ticket will also have its
- INVALID flag set, and that flag may be
- reset by a subsequent request to the KDC
- after the starttime in the ticket has
- been reached.
-
- 7 UNUSED
- This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE option indicates that the
- ticket to be issued is to have its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be set
- on the initial request, or when the
- ticket-granting ticket on which the
- request is based is also renewable. If
- this option is requested, then the rtime
- field in the request contains the
- desired absolute expiration time for the
- ticket.
-
- 9-13 UNUSED
- These options are presently unused.
-
- 14 REQUEST-ANONYMOUS
- The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is not to
- identify the user to which it was
- issued. Instead, the principal identif-
- ier is to be generic, as specified by
- the policy of the realm (e.g. usually
- anonymous@realm). The purpose of the
- ticket is only to securely distribute a
- session key, and not to identify the
- user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the ticket
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- to be returned should be set. If the
- local realms policy does not permit
- anonymous credentials, the request is to
- be rejected.
-
- 15-25 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
- By default the KDC will check the
- transited field of a ticket-granting-
- ticket against the policy of the local
- realm before it will issue derivative
- tickets based on the ticket granting
- ticket. If this flag is set in the
- request, checking of the transited field
- is disabled. Tickets issued without the
- performance of this check will be noted
- by the reset (0) value of the
- TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
- indicating to the application server
- that the tranisted field must be checked
- locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
- required to honor the
- DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
-
- 27 RENEWABLE-OK
- The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that a
- renewable ticket will be acceptable if a
- ticket with the requested life cannot
- otherwise be provided. If a ticket with
- the requested life cannot be provided,
- then a renewable ticket may be issued
- with a renew-till equal to the the
- requested endtime. The value of the
- renew-till field may still be limited by
- local limits, or limits selected by the
- individual principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- option indicates that the ticket for the
- end server is to be encrypted in the
- session key from the additional ticket-
- granting ticket provided.
-
- 29 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The RENEW option
- indicates that the present request is
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- for a renewal. The ticket provided is
- encrypted in the secret key for the
- server on which it is valid. This
- option will only be honored if the
- ticket to be renewed has its RENEWABLE
- flag set and if the time in its renew-
- till field has not passed. The ticket
- to be renewed is passed in the padata
- field as part of the authentication
- header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The VALIDATE option
- indicates that the request is to vali-
- date a postdated ticket. It will only
- be honored if the ticket presented is
- postdated, presently has its INVALID
- flag set, and would be otherwise usable
- at this time. A ticket cannot be vali-
- dated before its starttime. The ticket
- presented for validation is encrypted in
- the key of the server for which it is
- valid and is passed in the padata field
- as part of the authentication header.
-
-cname and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is
- specified. If absent, the name of the server is taken from the name of
- the client in the ticket passed as additional-tickets.
-enc-authorization-data
- The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can only be present in
- the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of the desired authorization-data
- encrypted under the sub-session key if present in the Authenticator, or
- alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting ticket, both
- from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm part of the server's principal
- identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the realm part of the
- client's principal identifier.
-from
- This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ ticket
- requests when the requested ticket is to be postdated. It specifies the
- desired start time for the requested ticket. If this field is omitted
- then the KDC should use the current time instead.
-till
- This field contains the expiration date requested by the client in a
- ticket request. It is optional and if omitted the requested ticket is
- to have the maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy for the
- parties to the authentication exchange as limited by expiration date of
- the ticket granting ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
-rtime
- This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a client to the
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- KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
-nonce
- This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it intended to
- hold a random number generated by the client. If the same number is
- included in the encrypted response from the KDC, it provides evidence
- that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker.
- Nonces must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be generated randomly,
- but if the correct time is known, it may suffice[25].
-etype
- This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be used in the
- response.
-addresses
- This field is included in the initial request for tickets, and
- optionally included in requests for additional tickets from the
- ticket-granting server. It specifies the addresses from which the
- requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it includes the addresses for
- the client's host. If a proxy is requested, this field will contain
- other addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied by the
- KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
-additional-tickets
- Additional tickets may be optionally included in a request to the
- ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been
- specified, then the session key from the additional ticket will be used
- in place of the server's key to encrypt the new ticket. If more than
- one option which requires additional tickets has been specified, then
- the additional tickets are used in the order specified by the ordering
- of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
-
-The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending on
-whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional
-ticket (TGS-REQ).
-
-The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and additional-tickets)
-are only included if necessary to perform the operation specified in the
-kdc-options field.
-
-It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number appears
-twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message
-contains these fields as does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that is
-passed in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for either
-an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There is no message
-type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either KRB_AS_REP or
-KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of the reply
-depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in
-the client's secret key, and the client's key version number is included in
-the key version number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the
-ciphertext is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, or if
-absent, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket used in the request.
-In that case, no version number will be present in the EncryptedData
-sequence.
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-The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
-
-AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
-TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
-KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
- enc-part[6] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
-EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
-EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is either
- KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
-padata
- This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One possible use
- for this field is to encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
- with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is described in section 6.3.2).
- This ability is useful to ease transitions if a realm name needs to
- change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such a case all existing
- password-derived entries in the KDC database would be flagged as
- needing a special mix-in string until the next password change.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-ticket
- The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-enc-part
- This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related information
- that forms the encrypted part of a message. The description of the
- encrypted part of the message follows each appearance of this field.
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- The encrypted part is encoded as described in section 6.1.
-key
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-last-req
- This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s) of the last
- request by a principal. Depending on what information is available,
- this might be the last time that a request for a ticket-granting ticket
- was made, or the last time that a request based on a ticket-granting
- ticket was successful. It also might cover all servers for a realm, or
- just the particular server. Some implementations may display this
- information to the user to aid in discovering unauthorized use of one's
- identity. It is similar in spirit to the last login time displayed when
- logging into timesharing systems.
-nonce
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-key-expiration
- The key-expiration field is part of the response from the KDC and
- specifies the time that the client's secret key is due to expire. The
- expiration might be the result of password aging or an account
- expiration. This field will usually be left out of the TGS reply since
- the response to the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no
- client information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is up to
- the application client (usually the login program) to take appropriate
- action (such as notifying the user) if the expiration time is imminent.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
- These fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted portion of
- the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1), provided so the client may
- verify they match the intended request and to assist in proper ticket
- caching. If the message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will
- only be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded ticket,
- or if the user is substituting a subset of the addresses from the
- ticket granting ticket. If the client-requested addresses are not
- present or not used, then the addresses contained in the ticket will be
- the same as those included in the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
-authentication of the client to the application server.
-
-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options in use,
-and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is often
-referred to as the 'authentication header'.
-
-AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
-}
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-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REQ.
-ap-options
- This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects
- the way the request is processed. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits
- is specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 USE-SESSION-KEY
- The USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
- that the ticket the client is presenting
- to a server is encrypted in the session
- key from the server's ticket-granting
- ticket. When this option is not speci-
- fied, the ticket is encrypted in the
- server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIRED
- The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
- server that the client requires mutual
- authentication, and that it must respond
- with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-ticket
- This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the server.
-authenticator
- This contains the authenticator, which includes the client's choice of
- a subkey. Its encoding is described in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type, and an encrypted time- stamp. The message is sent in in
-response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
-authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
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-AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of the
-ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an application-arranged
-negotiation to choose a per association session key.
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REP.
-enc-part
- This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
-subkey
- This field contains an encryption key which is to be used to protect
- this specific application session. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on
- how this field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an application
- specifies otherwise, if this field is left out, the sub-session key
- from the authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from the
- ticket will be used.
-
-5.5.3. Error message reply
-
-If an error occurs while processing the application request, the KRB_ERROR
-message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for the format of the
-error message. The cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server
-cannot determine their appropriate values from the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ
-message. If the authenticator was decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields
-will contain the values from it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-proof message to
-its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged (for
-example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
-
-The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
-checksum keyed with the last encryption key negotiated via subkeys, or the
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-session key if no negotiation has occured. The message fields are:
-
-KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
-}
-
-KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_SAFE.
-safe-body
- This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE message. It is
- to be encoded separately and then have the checksum computed over it,
- for use in the cksum field.
-cksum
- This field contains the checksum of the application data. Checksum
- details are described in section 6.4. The checksum is computed over the
- encoding of the KRB-SAFE-BODY sequence.
-user-data
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages and contain
- the application specific data that is being passed from the sender to
- the recipient.
-timestamp
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages. Its contents
- are the current time as known by the sender of the message. By checking
- the timestamp, the recipient of the message is able to make sure that
- it was recently generated, and is not a replay.
-usec
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers. It contains
- the microsecond part of the timestamp.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-s-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the sender of the message.
-r-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of the
- message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as broadcast protocols),
- but the recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages. This field
- along with s-address can be used to help detect messages which have
- been incorrectly or maliciously delivered to the wrong recipient.
-
-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
-
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-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to securely and privately send a
-message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been
-exchanged (for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
-The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's addr
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_PRIV.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key[32]. This encrypted encoding is used for the
- enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for the format of
- the ciphertext.
-user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to send
-Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is presented here to
-encourage a common mechanism to be used by applications when forwarding
-tickets or providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that a
-session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using the
-KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
-The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
-information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from each.
-The information needed to use the tickets is encrypted under an encryption
-key previously exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message. The
-message fields are:
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-KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_CRED.
-tickets
- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically for use by the
- intended recipient. Successive tickets are paired with the
- corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the KRB-CRED
- message.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key shared between the sender and the intended
- recipient. This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part field of
- the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-nonce
- If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a nonce
- generated by the recipient of the message. If the same value is
- included as the nonce in the message, it provides evidence that the
- message is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. A nonce must
- never be re-used; it should be generated randomly by the recipient of
- the message and provided to the sender of the message in an application
- specific manner.
-timestamp and usec
- These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED message was generated.
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- The time is used to provide assurance that the message is fresh.
-s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1. They are used
- optionally to provide additional assurance of the integrity of the
- KRB-CRED message.
-key
- This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the KRB-CRED
- message and is used to pass the session key from the sender to the
- intended recipient. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-
-The following fields are optional. If present, they can be associated with
-the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left out, then it is assumed
-that the recipient of the credentials already knows their value.
-
-prealm and pname
- The name and realm of the delegated principal identity.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname, and caddr
- These fields contain the values of the correspond- ing fields from the
- ticket found in the ticket field. Descriptions of the fields are
- identical to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
-
-5.9. Error message specification
-
-This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The fields
-included in the message are intended to return as much information as
-possible about an error. It is not expected that all the information
-required by the fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
-appropriate information is not available when the message is composed, the
-corresponding field will be left out of the message.
-
-Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is not protected by any encryption, it
-is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or modify such a message. In
-particular, this means that the client should not use any fields in this
-message for security-critical purposes, such as setting a system clock or
-generating a fresh authenticator. The message can be useful, however, for
-advising a user on the reason for some failure.
-
-5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition
-
-The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
-KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
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- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- e-typed-data[14] SEQUENCE of ETypedData OPTIONAL
-}
-
-ETypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- e-data-type [1] INTEGER,
- e-data-value [2] OCTET STRING,
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_ERROR.
-ctime
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-cusec
- This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-stime
- This field contains the current time on the server. It is of type
- KerberosTime.
-susec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the server's timestamp. Its
- value ranges from 0 to 999999. It appears along with stime. The two
- fields are used in conjunction to specify a reasonably accurate
- timestamp.
-error-code
- This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or the server
- when a request fails. To interpret the value of this field see the list
- of error codes in section 8. Implementations are encouraged to provide
- for national language support in the display of error messages.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
-e-text
- This field contains additional text to help explain the error code
- associated with the failed request (for example, it might include a
- principal name which was unknown).
-e-data
- This field contains additional data about the error for use by the
- application to help it recover from or handle the error. If the
- errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED, then the e-data field will
- contain an encoding of a sequence of padata fields, each corresponding
- to an acceptable pre-authentication method and optionally containing
- data for the method:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
- If the error-code is KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD, then the e-data field will
- contain an encoding of the following sequence:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- method-type[0] INTEGER,
- method-data[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
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- method-type will indicate the required alternate method; method-data
- will contain any required additional information.
-e-cksum
- This field contains an optional checksum for the KRB-ERROR message. The
- checksum is calculated over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the
- KRB-ERROR message with the checksum absent. The checksum is then added
- to the KRB-ERROR structure and the message is re-encoded. The Checksum
- should be calculated using the session key from the ticket granting
- ticket or service ticket, where available. If the error is in response
- to a TGS or AP request, the checksum should be calculated uing the the
- session key from the client's ticket. If the error is in response to an
- AS request, then the checksum should be calulated using the client's
- secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preauthentication to prove
- knowledge of the secret key by the client[33]. If a checksum can not be
- computed because the key to be used is not available, no checksum will
- be included.
-e-typed-data
- [This field for discussion, may be deleted from final spec] This field
- contains optional data that may be used to help the client recover from
- the indicated error. [This could contain the METHOD-DATA specified
- since I don't think anyone actually uses it yet. It could also contain
- the PA-DATA sequence for the preauth required error if we had a clear
- way to transition to the use of this field from the use of the untype
- e-data field.] For example, this field may specify the key version of
- the key used to verify preauthentication:
-
- e-data-type := 20 -- Key version number
- e-data-value := Integer -- Key version number used to verify
- preauthentication
-
-6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
-
-The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use stream
-encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly available block
-encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption Standard, [DES77] in
-conjunction with block chaining and checksum methods [DESM80]. Encryption is
-used to prove the identities of the network entities participating in
-message exchanges. The Key Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by
-all principals registered in that realm to store a secret key in confidence.
-Proof of knowledge of this secret key is used to verify the authenticity of
-a principal.
-
-The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a shared
-session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to ticket requests;
-the ability to obtain the secret key or session key implies the knowledge of
-the appropriate keys and the identity of the KDC. The ability of a principal
-to decrypt the KDC response and present a Ticket and a properly formed
-Authenticator (generated with the session key from the KDC response) to a
-service verifies the identity of the principal; likewise the ability of the
-service to extract the session key from the Ticket and prove its knowledge
-thereof in a response verifies the identity of the service.
-
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-The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is secure
-from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of fields in the
-encrypted portions of messages are arranged to minimize the effects of
-poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose good keys. If keys are
-derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords need to be well chosen to
-make brute force attacks more difficult. Poorly chosen keys still make easy
-targets for intruders.
-
-The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
-currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
-requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is often
-desirable to place random information (often referred to as a confounder) at
-the start of the message. The requirements for a confounder are specified
-with each encryption mechanism.
-
-Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the the
-security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these chaining methods
-often don't provide an integrity check upon decryption. Such systems (such
-as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of the plain-text
-which can be verified at decryption and used to detect any tampering or
-damage. Such checksums should be good at detecting burst errors in the
-input. If any damage is detected, the decryption routine is expected to
-return an error indicating the failure of an integrity check. Each
-encryption type is expected to provide and verify an appropriate checksum.
-The specification of each encryption method sets out its checksum
-requirements.
-
-Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an algorithm
-for converting the password to a key of the appropriate type is included. It
-is desirable for the string to key function to be one-way, and for the
-mapping to be different in different realms. This is important because users
-who are registered in more than one realm will often use the same password
-in each, and it is desirable that an attacker compromising the Kerberos
-server in one realm not obtain or derive the user's key in another.
-
-For an discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
-encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the the reader is
-referred to [SG92].
-
-6.1. Encryption Specifications
-
-The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
-enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in section
-5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional key version
-number, and the ciphertext.
-
-EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
-}
-
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-etype
- This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used to encipher
- the cipher. Detailed specifications for selected encryption types
- appear later in this section.
-kvno
- This field contains the version number of the key under which data is
- encrypted. It is only present in messages encrypted under long lasting
- keys, such as principals' secret keys.
-cipher
- This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an OCTET STRING.
-
-The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption algorithm
-to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific inputs. Encryption
-mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must take sufficient measures to
-guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and we recommend they also take
-measures to protect against precomputed dictionary attacks. If the
-encryption algorithm is not itself capable of doing so, the protections can
-often be enhanced by adding a checksum and a confounder.
-
-The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a confounder, a
-checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary padding. The msg-seq
-field contains the part of the protocol message described in section 5 which
-is to be encrypted. The confounder, checksum, and padding are all untagged
-and untyped, and their length is exactly sufficient to hold the appropriate
-item. The type and length is implicit and specified by the particular
-encryption type being used (etype). The format for the data to be encrypted
-is described in the following diagram:
-
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length) OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length) OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
-}
-
-One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing it in
-confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate checksum over
-confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in check; adds the
-necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified encryption type and the
-appropriate key.
-
-Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm that
-specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an octet
-boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format[36]. Those fields which are
-not specified will be omitted.
-
-In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
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-encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
-specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is needed as
-part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum is to be used, a
-new encryption type must be defined.
-
-Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and the
-data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in cipher-block-chaining
-mode, requires an initialization vector. If required, the description for
-each encryption type must specify the source of such additional information.
-6.2. Encryption Keys
-
-The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption key:
-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-keytype
- This field specifies the type of encryption key that follows in the
- keyvalue field. It will almost always correspond to the encryption
- algorithm used to generate the EncryptedData, though more than one
- algorithm may use the same type of key (the mapping is many to one).
- This might happen, for example, if the encryption algorithm uses an
- alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity check, or a different
- chaining mechanism.
-keyvalue
- This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet string.
-
-All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpreta- tions.
-
-6.3. Encryption Systems
-
-6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
-If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the NULL
-encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no checksum,
-confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the plaintext. The NULL Key
-is used by the null encryption system and is zero octets in length, with
-keytype zero (0).
-
-6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
-
-The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80]. A
-CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]) is applied to the
-confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES
-blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation
-of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption. The details of the encryption of this data are identical
-to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
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-Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-proof, an attacker
-could use a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack to generate a valid
-message even if a confounder is used [SG92]. The use of collision-proof
-checksums is recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the checksum for ticket or
-authenticator is no longer mandated as an interoperability requirement for
-Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1 (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
-6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
-
-The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-An MD4 checksum (described in [MD492]) is applied to the confounder and
-message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption. The details of the encryption of this data are identical
-to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
-6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
-
-The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-An MD5 checksum (described in [MD5-92].) is applied to the confounder and
-message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption.
-
-Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which are
-concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The first
-octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's MSbit used as
-the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the next 8 bits, ...,
-and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least significant bits.
-
-Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an additional
-input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless otherwise specified,
-zero should be used as the initialization vector. Kerberos' use of DES
-requires an 8 octet confounder.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those keys
-shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in Kerberos. Additionally,
-because of the way that keys are derived for the encryption of checksums,
-keys shall not be used that yield 'weak' or 'semi-weak' keys when
-eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
-A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists of 56
-bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded as a
-series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits within the key are
-also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption key is
-(B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8) where
-B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8 are the parity
-bits, the first octet of the key would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the
-MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
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-
-String to key transformation
-
-To generate a DES key from a text string (password), the text string
-normally must have the realm and each component of the principal's name
-appended[37], then padded with ASCII nulls to an 8 byte boundary. This
-string is then fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed with itself to form an 8 byte
-DES key. The parity is corrected on the key, and it is used to generate a
-DES CBC checksum on the initial string (with the realm and name appended).
-Next, parity is corrected on the CBC checksum. If the result matches a
-'weak' or 'semi-weak' key as described in the DES specification, it is
-eXclusive-ORed with the constant 00000000000000F0. Finally, the result is
-returned as the key. Pseudocode follows:
-
- string_to_key(string,realm,name) {
- odd = 1;
- s = string + realm;
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- tempkey = NULL;
- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- fixparity(tempkey);
- key = DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey);
- fixparity(key);
- if(is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
-6.3.5. Triple DES EDE in outer CBC mode with an SHA1 check-sum
-(des3-cbc-sha1)
-
-The des3-cbc-sha1 encryption encodes information using three Data Encryption
-Standard transformations with three DES keys. The first key is used to
-perform a DES ECB encryption on an eight-octet data block using the first
-DES key, followed by a DES ECB decryption of the result using the second DES
-key, and a DES ECB encryption of the result using the third DES key. Because
-DES blocks are 8 bytes, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must first be padded to an 8 byte
-boundary before encryption. To support the outer CBC mode, the input is
-padded to an eight-octet boundary. The first 8 octets of the data to be
-encrypted (the confounder) is exclusive-ored with an initialization vector
-of zero and then ECB encrypted using triple DES as described above.
-Subsequent blocks of 8 octets are exclusive-ored with the ciphertext
-produced by the encryption on the previous block before ECB encryption.
-
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-
-An HMAC-SHA1 checksum (described in [KBC96].) is applied to the confounder
-and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field.
-
-Plaintext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which are concatenated to make
-the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The first octet supplies the 8
-most significant bits (with the octet's MSbit used as the DES input block's
-MSbit, etc.), the second octet the next 8 bits, ..., and the eighth octet
-supplies the 8 least significant bits.
-
-Encryption under Triple DES using cipher block chaining requires an
-additional input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless otherwise
-specified, zero should be used as the initialization vector. Kerberos' use
-of DES requires an 8 octet confounder.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those keys
-shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in Kerberos. Additionally,
-because of the way that keys are derived for the encryption of checksums,
-keys shall not be used that yield 'weak' or 'semi-weak' keys when
-eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
-A Triple DES key is 24 octets of data, with keytype seven (7). This consists
-of 168 bits of key, and 24 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded
-as a series of 24 octets written in MSB-first order, with the first 8 octets
-treated as the first DES key, the second 8 octets as the second key, and the
-third 8 octets the third DES key. The bits within each key are also encoded
-in MSB order. For example, if the encryption key is
-(B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8) where
-B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8 are the parity
-bits, the first octet of the key would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the
-MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
-Key derivation for specified operations (Horowitz)
-
-[Discussion is needed for this section, especially since it does not simply
-derive key generation, but also specifies encryption using triple DES in a
-manner that is different than the basic template that was specified for
-single DES and similar systems]
-
-In the Kerberos protocol cryptographic keys are used in a number of places.
-In order to minimize the effect of compromising a key, it is desirable to
-use a different key in each of these places. Key derivation [Horowitz96] can
-be used to construct different keys for each operation from the keys
-transported on the network or derived from the password specified by the
-user.
-
-For each place where a key is used in Kerberos, a ``key usage'' is specified
-for that purpose. The key, key usage, and encryption/checksum type together
-describe the transformation from plaintext to ciphertext. For backwards
-compatibility, this key derivation is only specified here for encryption
-methods based on triple DES. Encryption methods specified for use by
-Kerberos in the future should specify the key derivation function to be
-used.
-
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-Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
-tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption and
-integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys. So, for
-each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for encryption (Ke), and one
-for integrity (Ki):
-
- Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
- Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
-
-where the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in network byte
-order. The ciphertest must be generated from the plaintext as follows:
-
- ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | length | plaintext | padding) |
- H(Ki, confounder | length | plaintext | padding)
-
-The confounder and padding are specific to the encryption algorithm E.
-
-When generating a checksum only, there is no need for a confounder or
-padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be generated
-from the plaintext as follows:
-
- Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
- MAC = H(Kc, length | plaintext)
-
-
-Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and a keyed
-hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a keyed hash
-algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is recommended for use as H.
-
-The key usage value will be taken from the following list of places where
-keys are used in the Kerberos protocol, with key usage values and Kerberos
-specification section numbers:
-
- 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
- client key (section 5.4.1)
- 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
- application session key), encrypted with the service key
- (section 5.4.2)
- 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
- session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
-
- 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- session key (section 5.4.1)
- 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
- 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
- with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
- 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
- authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
- (section 5.3.2)
- 8. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
- 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
-
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-
- 10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
- key (section 5.3.2)
- 11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
- subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
- 5.3.2)
- 12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
- encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
-
- 13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.7.1)
- 14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.6.1)
- 15. KRB-SAFE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
- (section 5.8.1)
-
- 16. Data which is defined in some specification outside of
- Kerberos to be encrypted using Kerberos encryption type.
- 17. Data which is defined in some specification outside of
- Kerberos to be checksummed using Kerberos checksum type.
-
- 18. KRB-ERROR checksum (e-cksum in section 5.9.1)
- 19. AD-KDCIssued checksum (ad-checksum in appendix B.1)
- 20. Checksum for Mandatory Ticket Extensions (appendix B.6)
- 21. Checksum in Authorization Data in Ticket Extensions (appendix B.7)
-
-String to key transformation
-
-To generate a DES key from a text string (password), the text string
-normally must have the realm and each component of the principal's name
-appended[38].
-
-The input string (with any salt data appended to it) is n-folded into a 24
-octet (192 bit) string. To n-fold a number X, replicate the input value to a
-length that is the least common multiple of n and the length of X. Before
-each repetition, the input X is rotated to the right by 13 bit positions.
-The successive n-bit chunks are added together using 1's-complement addition
-(addition with end-around carry) to yield a n-bit result. (This
-transformation was proposed by Richard Basch)
-
-Each successive set of 8 octets is taken as a DES key, and its parity is
-adjusted in the same manner as previously described. If any of the three
-sets of 8 octets match a 'weak' or 'semi-weak key as described in the DES
-specification, that chunk is eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant
-00000000000000F0. The resulting DES keys are then used in sequence to
-perform a Triple-DES CBC encryption of the n-folded input string (appended
-with any salt data), using a zero initial vector. Parity, weak, and
-semi-weak keys are once again corrected and the result is returned as the 24
-octet key.
-
-Pseudocode follows:
-
- string_to_key(string,realm,name) {
- s = string + realm;
-
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- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- tkey[24] = fold(s);
- fixparity(tkey);
- if(isweak(tkey[0-7])) tkey[0-7] = tkey[0-7] XOR 0xF0;
- if(isweak(tkey[8-15])) tkey[8-15] = tkey[8-15] XOR 0xF0;
- if(is_weak(tkey[16-23])) tkey[16-23] = tkey[16-23] XOR 0xF0;
- key[24] = 3DES-CBC(data=fold(s),key=tkey,iv=0);
- fixparity(key);
- if(is_weak(key[0-7])) key[0-7] = key[0-7] XOR 0xF0;
- if(is_weak(key[8-15])) key[8-15] = key[8-15] XOR 0xF0;
- if(is_weak(key[16-23])) key[16-23] = key[16-23] XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
-6.4. Checksums
-
-The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-cksumtype
- This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the accompanying
- checksum.
-checksum
- This field contains the checksum itself, encoded as an octet string.
-
-Detailed specification of selected checksum types appear later in this
-section. Negative values for the checksum type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpretations.
-
-Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties: whether they
-are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is infeasible to find
-two plaintexts which generate the same checksum value for a collision-proof
-checksum. A key is required to perturb or initialize the algorithm in a
-keyed checksum. To prevent message-stream modification by an active
-attacker, unkeyed checksums should only be used when the checksum and
-message will be subsequently encrypted (e.g. the checksums defined as part
-of the encryption algorithms covered earlier in this section).
-
-Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if the checksum value is
-encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the composition of
-the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be considered a separate
-checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using DES is a new checksum
-algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed checksums, as well as for the
-encrypted forms of unkeyed collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends a
-confounder before the checksum is calculated.
-
-6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
-
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-
-The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic redundancy check
-as described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]. The resulting checksum is four (4)
-octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed nor collision-proof. The use
-of this checksum is not recommended. An attacker using a probabilistic
-chosen-plaintext attack as described in [SG92] might be able to generate an
-alternative message that satisfies the checksum. The use of collision-proof
-checksums is recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat.
-
-6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
-The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4 algorithm
-[MD4-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length
-and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4 is believed to
-be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-des)
-
-The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD4
-checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key, where the
-variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization vector should be zero. The
-resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are redundant). This
-checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
-The DES specifications identify some weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those
-keys shall not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the follow- ing diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
-
-The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5 algorithm.
-[MD5-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length
-and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD5 is believed to
-be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-des)
-
-
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-The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD5
-checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key, where the
-variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the hexadecimal constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should be zero. The resulting
-checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are redundant). This checksum
-is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those
-keys shall not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
-The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder to the
-plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result using the key
-and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last block of the
-ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and encrypting the pair using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a variant of the key, where the
-variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the hexadecimal constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should be zero. The resulting
-checksum is 128 bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are redundant. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-| des-cbc(confounder + des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
-}
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those keys
-shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos, nor
-
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-shall a key be used whose variant is 'weak' or 'semi-weak'.
-
-6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative (rsa-md4-des-k)
-
-The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting the results using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both key and
-initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets long. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof. Note that this
-checksum type is the old method for encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it
-is no longer recommended.
-
-6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (des-mac-k)
-
-The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode encryption
-of the plaintext, and using the last block of the ciphertext as the checksum
-value. It is keyed with an encryption key and an initialization vector; any
-uses which do not specify an additional initialization vector will use the
-key as both key and initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 64 bits
-(8 octets) long. This checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note
-that this checksum type is the old method for encoding the DES-MAC checksum
-and it is no longer recommended. The DES specifications identify some 'weak
-keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those keys shall not be used for generating
-DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-7. Naming Constraints
-
-7.1. Realm Names
-
-Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a realm can
-technically select any name it chooses, interoperability across realm
-boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to be assigned, and
-what information they imply.
-
-To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the conventions
-itself, and it must require that any realms with which inter-realm keys are
-shared also conform to the conventions and require the same from its
-neighbors.
-
-Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names that differ only in the
-case of the characters are not equivalent. There are presently four styles
-of realm names: domain, X500, other, and reserved. Examples of each style
-follow:
-
- domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
-Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
-separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor slashes
-(/). Domain names must be converted to upper case when used as realm names.
-
-X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:) before the
-
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-equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string representations of the
-names with components separated by slashes. Leading and trailing slashes
-will not be included.
-
-Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
-contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed by a
-colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be assigned before
-they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
-
-The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the first
-three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It is unlikely
-that names will be assigned to this category unless there is a very strong
-argument for not using the 'other' category.
-
-These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts between the various
-name styles. The following additional constraints apply to the assignment of
-realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the name of a realm for the
-domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the organization owning (to
-whom it was assigned) an Internet domain name or X.500 name, or in the case
-that no such names are registered, authority to use a realm name may be
-derived from the authority of the parent realm. For example, if there is no
-domain name for E40.MIT.EDU, then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm can
-authorize the creation of a realm with that name.
-
-This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is assigned
-is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to its children in
-the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the parent assigns a realm
-name without also registering it in the domain name or X.500 hierarchy, it
-is the parent's responsibility to make sure that there will not in the
-future exists a name identical to the realm name of the child unless it is
-assigned to the same entity as the realm name.
-
-7.2. Principal Names
-
-As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure that all
-agree on what information is implied by a principal name. The name-type
-field that is part of the principal name indicates the kind of information
-implied by the name. The name-type should be treated as a hint. Ignoring the
-name type, no two names can be the same (i.e. at least one of the
-components, or the realm, must be different). The following name types are
-defined:
-
- name-type value meaning
-
- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, or DCE principal)
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcommands)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
- NT-X500-PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
-
-When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a particular
-time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The principal name type should
-
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-be used for users, and it might also be used for a unique server. If the
-name is a unique machine generated ID that is guaranteed never to be
-reassigned then the name type of UID should be used (note that it is
-generally a bad idea to reassign names of any type since stale entries might
-remain in access control lists).
-
-If the first component of a name identifies a service and the remaining
-components identify an instance of the service in a server specified manner,
-then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An example of this name type
-is the Kerberos ticket-granting service whose name has a first component of
-krbtgt and a second component identifying the realm for which the ticket is
-valid.
-
-If instance is a single component following the service name and the
-instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the name
-type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for Internet
-services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the separate
-components of the host name appear as successive components following the
-name of the service, then the name type SRV-XHST should be used. This type
-might be used to identify servers on hosts with X.500 names where the slash
-(/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
-
-A name type of NT-X500-PRINCIPAL should be used when a name from an X.509
-certificiate is translated into a Kerberos name. The encoding of the X.509
-name as a Kerberos principal shall conform to the encoding rules specified
-in RFC 1779.
-
-A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is not
-known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match principals
-authenticated with names of any type. A principal authenticated with a name
-of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match other names of type UNKNOWN.
-
-Names of any type with an initial component of 'krbtgt' are reserved for the
-Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the form of such
-names.
-
-7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
-The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be composed
-of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server is registered,
-and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the host name is an
-Internet domain name or a multi-component name of type NT-SRV-XHST if the
-name of the host is of a form such as X.500 that allows slash (/)
-separators. The first component of the two- or multi-component name will
-identify the service and the latter components will identify the host. Where
-the name of the host is not case sensitive (for example, with Internet
-domain names) the name of the host must be lower case. If specified by the
-application protocol for services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands
-which run with system privileges, the first component may be the string
-'host' instead of a service specific identifier. When a host has an official
-name and one or more aliases, the official name of the host must be used
-when constructing the name of the server principal.
-
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-8.1. Host address types
-
-All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpretations.
-
-The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to match the
-defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard Distributions of
-Unix. They can be found in with symbolic names AF_xxx (where xxx is an
-abbreviation of the address family name).
-
-Internet (IPv4) Addresses
-
-Internet (IPv4) addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
-order. The type of IPv4 addresses is two (2).
-
-Internet (IPv6) Addresses
-
-IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order. The
-type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24). [RFC1883] [RFC1884]. The
-following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in any Kerberos packet:
-
- * the Unspecified Address
- * the Loopback Address
- * Link-Local addresses
-
-IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
-
-CHAOSnet addresses
-
-CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
-The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
-
-ISO addresses
-
-ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is seven (7).
-
-Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
-XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order. The
-type of XNS addresses is six (6).
-
-AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
-
-AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number and a 16-bit network
-number. The first octet of the address is the node number; the remaining two
-octets encode the network number in MSB order. The type of AppleTalk DDP
-addresses is sixteen (16).
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB order. The
-type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
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-8.2. KDC messages
-
-8.2.1. UDP/IP transport
-
-When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request using UDP
-IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram containing only an
-encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the KDC's IP address; the
-KDC will respond with a reply datagram containing only an encoding of the
-reply message (either a KRB_ERROR or a KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at
-the sender's IP address. Kerberos servers supporting IP transport must
-accept UDP requests on port 88 (decimal). The response to a request made
-through UDP/IP transport must also use UDP/IP transport.
-
-8.2.2. TCP/IP transport
-
-Kerberos servers (KDC's) must accept TCP requests on port 88 (decimal). When
-the KRB_KDC_REQ message is sent to the KDC over a TCP stream, a new
-connection will be established for each authentication exchange (request and
-response). The KRB_KDC_REP or KRB_ERROR message will be returned to the
-client on the same TCP stream that was established for the request. The
-connection will be broken after the reply has been received (or upon
-time-out). Care must be taken in managing TCP/IP connections with the KDC to
-prevent denial of service attacks based on the number of TCP/IP connections
-with the KDC that remain open. If multiple exchanges with the KDC are needed
-for certain forms of preauthentication, multiple TCP connections will be
-required. The response to a request made through TCP/IP transport must also
-use TCP/IP transport.
-
-The first four octets of the TCP stream used to transmit the request request
-will encode in network byte order the length of the request (KRB_KDC_REQ),
-and the length will be followed by the request itself. The response will
-similarly be preceeded by a 4 octet encoding in network byte order of the
-length of the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR message and will be followed by
-the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR response.
-
-8.2.3. OSI transport
-
-During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI server, the mutual
-authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
-credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange of
-private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may be
-treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication mechanism will
-be:
-
-OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(6),internet(1), security(5),kerberosv5(2)}
-
-Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an authentication
-header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply (KRB_AP_REP), a safe message
-(KRB_SAFE), a private message (KRB_PRIV), or a credentials message
-(KRB_CRED). The opaque data contains an application code as specified in the
-ASN.1 description for each message. The application code may be used by
-Kerberos to determine the message type.
-
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-8.2.3. Name of the TGS
-
-The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be composed of
-three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS ticket (2) a two-part
-name of type NT-SRV-INST, with the first part "krbtgt" and the second part
-the name of the realm which will accept the ticket-granting ticket. For
-example, a ticket-granting ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be
-used to get tickets from the ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier
-of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU") (name). A
-ticket-granting ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get
-tickets from the MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of
-"ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
-
-8.3. Protocol constants and associated values
-
-The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines their
-meanings.
-
-Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad size confounder size
-NULL 0 1 0 0
-des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
-des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
-des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
- 4
-des3-cbc-md5 5 8 0 8
- 6
-des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
-sign-dsa-generate 8 (pkinit)
-encrypt-rsa-priv 9 (pkinit)
-encrypt-rsa-pub 10 (pkinit)
-rsa-pub-md5 11 (pkinit)
-rsa-pub-sha1 12 (pkinit)
-ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS 48 (reserved for pkcross)
- 0x8003
-
-Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
-CRC32 1 4
-rsa-md4 2 16
-rsa-md4-des 3 24
-des-mac 4 16
-des-mac-k 5 8
-rsa-md4-des-k 6 16
-rsa-md5 7 16
-rsa-md5-des 8 24
-rsa-md5-des3 9 24
-hmac-sha1-des3 10 20 (I had this as 10, is it 12)
-
-padata type padata-type value
-
-PA-TGS-REQ 1
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
-PA-PW-SALT 3
- 4
-PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5
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-PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
-PA-SESAME 7
-PA-OSF-DCE 8
-PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
-PA-AFS3-SALT 10
-PA-ETYPE-INFO 11
-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
-PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-SIGN 16 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-KEY-REQ 17 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-KEY-REP 18 (pkinit)
-PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO 20
-
-authorization data type ad-type value
-AD-KDC-ISSUED 1
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER 2
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS 3
-AD-IF-RELEVANT 4
-AD-OR 5
-AD-MANDATORY-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 6
-AD-IN-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 7
-reserved values 8-63
-OSF-DCE 64
-SESAME 65
-
-Ticket Extension Types
-
-TE-TYPE-NULL 0 Null ticket extension
-TE-TYPE-EXTERNAL-ADATA 1 Integrity protected authorization data
- 2 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC (I have reservations)
-TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3 PKCROSS cross realm key ticket
-TE-TYPE-CYBERSAFE-EXT 4 Assigned to CyberSafe Corp
- 5 TE-TYPE-DEST-HOST (I have reservations)
-
-alternate authentication type method-type value
-reserved values 0-63
-ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
-transited encoding type tr-type value
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
-reserved values all others
-
-Label Value Meaning or MIT code
-
-pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
-
-message types
-
-KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
-KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
-KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
-KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
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-KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
-KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
-KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
-KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
-KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward credentials
-KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
-
-name types
-
-KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
-KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or for users
-KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
-KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcommands)
-KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
-KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
-KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
-
-error codes
-
-KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
-KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version number not
- supported
-KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in database
-KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than end time
-KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
-KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested option
-KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption type
-KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum type
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited type
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change password
- to reset
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was invalid
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional pre-authenticationrequired [40]
-KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't match
-KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for user2user only
-KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't match
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-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
-KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method required
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in message
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in message
-KRB_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCEPTED 51 Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in e-text)
-KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this implementation
-KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66 (pkinit)
-
-9. Interoperability requirements
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options. Among these
-are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative encoding schemes for
-the transited field, optional mechanisms for pre-authentication, the
-handling of tickets with no addresses, options for mutual authentication,
-user to user authentication, support for proxies, forwarding, postdating,
-and renewing tickets, the format of realm names, and the handling of
-authorization data.
-
-In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to define
-a minimal configuration which must be supported by all implementations. This
-minimal configuration is subject to change as technology does. For example,
-if at some later date it is discovered that one of the required encryption
-or checksum algorithms is not secure, it will be replaced.
-
-9.1. Specification 2
-
-This section defines the second specification of these options.
-Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to support
-Kerberos Version 5 Specification 2 (5.1). Specification 1 (depricated) may
-be found in RFC1510.
-
-Transport
-
-TCP/IP and UDP/IP transport must be supported by KDCs claiming conformance
-to specification 2. Kerberos clients claiming conformance to specification 2
-must support UDP/IP transport for messages with the KDC and may support
-TCP/IP transport.
-
-Encryption and checksum methods
-
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-The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
-Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the additional
-mechanisms may only be used when communicating with principals known to also
-support them: This list is to be determined.
-
-Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5
-Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5
-
-Realm Names
-
-All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the Internet
-Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket for an unknown
-realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine the names of the
-intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the requested realm.
-
-Transited field encoding
-
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be supported.
-Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be used only when that
-encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
-
-Pre-authentication methods
-
-The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used on the
-initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported by clients
-but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on a realm by realm
-basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP as an
-acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request using the
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not support the
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server should ignore the
-presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in a request.
-
-Mutual authentication
-
-Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
-
-Ticket addresses and flags
-
-All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e. if a TGT
-contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets), but each
-realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and each application
-server will set its own policy with respect to accepting them.
-
-Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms and
-application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets will be
-accepted.
-
-All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets, but need
-not actually implement them. If these options are not supported, the
-starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a ticket's entire useful
-life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a server, all implementations
-shall make the presence of the postdated flag visible to the calling server.
-
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-User-to-user authentication
-
-Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY KDC option)
-must be provided by implementations, but individual realms may decide as a
-matter of policy to reject such requests on a per-principal or realm-wide
-basis.
-
-Authorization data
-
-Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
-ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
-suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered subfield
-type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no registered
-subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
-
-Implementations must make the contents of any authorization data subfields
-available to the server when a ticket is used. Implementations are not
-required to allow clients to specify the contents of the authorization data
-fields.
-
-9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
-Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation, based on
-the list of suggested configuration constants (see section 4.4).
-
-minimum lifetime 5 minutes
-maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
-maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
-empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
-proxiable, etc. Allowed.
-
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- ture," IS 3309 (October 1984). 3rd Edition.
-
-[MD4-92] R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1320, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-
-
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-
-[MD5-92] R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-[KBC96] H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
- Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
- draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
-
-A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
-
-This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to be
-constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
-
-A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt", "localrealm" */
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
-
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- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
-
- decode message into req;
-
- client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
-
- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable skew) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
-
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- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- else
- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted */
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
-
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- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE */
- endif
-
- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
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-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
-
-A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP)) then
- set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno, resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
-
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
-
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- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all that */
- /* should be are set */
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
- endif
- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
-A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
-
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly */
- /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting ticket */
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
-
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- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
-
- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
-
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and choosing the
- correct key for decryption. The name of the server appears in the
- plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is operating is
- determined by the instance from the ticket-granting ticket. The realm
- in the ticket-granting ticket is the realm under which the ticket
- granting ticket was issued. It is possible for a single Kerberos
- server to support more than one realm. */
-
-
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- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not req.sname) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(req.sname)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(req.sname);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
-
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- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
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- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
- and those already processed) is set) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket would */
- /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so */
- /* there is no need to check again here */
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till < kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
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- endif
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the renew-till field out */
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data := req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data +
- decrypted_authorization_data;
-
- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
-
- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited := compress_transited(tgt.transited + tgt.realm)
- /* Don't check tranited field if TGT for foreign realm,
- * or requested not to check */
- if (is_not_foreign_tgt_name(new_tkt.server)
- && req.kdc-options.DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK not set) then
- /* Check it, so end-server does not have to
- * but don't fail, end-server may still accept it */
- if (check_transited_field(new_tkt.transited) == OK)
- set new_tkt.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED;
- endif
- endif
- endif
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-
- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key), second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
- endif
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- resp.cname := tgt.cname;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := session;
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- omit resp.key-expiration;
-
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype, tgt.key;
-
- send(resp);
-
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-
- decode response into resp;
-
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-
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key from
- the response immediately */
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's session key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.8. Authenticator generation
-
- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
-A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
-
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
-
- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
-
-
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-
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using session_key;
-
-A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
- else
- retrieve service key for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using retrieved key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
-
-
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-
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm})) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.transited) then
- /* caller may ignore the TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED and do
- * check anyway */
- if (decr_ticket.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED not set) then
- if (check_transited_field(decr_ticket.transited) then
- error_out(KDC_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED);
- endif
- endif
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
-
-A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
-
- body.ctime := packet.ctime;
- body.cusec := packet.cusec;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
-
-A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
-
-
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-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
-
-A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
-
- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
-
-A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
-
-
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-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
-
- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
-
- if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
- ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
- (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number not present)
- then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
- sender_principal(packet));
-
- return PACKET_IS_OK;
-
-
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-
-
-A.16. KRB_PRIV generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
-
-A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
-
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
- return(cleartext.DATA, PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.18. KRB_CRED generation
-
- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
-
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-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
-
- for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
- done
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
- body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
-
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
-
- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
-
- if (using s-address) then
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
- using negotiated encryption key;
-
-A.19. KRB_CRED verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
-
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-
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
- return
-
-A.20. KRB_ERROR generation
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
-
- get system_time;
- packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
- packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
-
- if (client time available) then
- packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
- endif
- packet.error-code := error code;
- if (client name available) then
- packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
- endif
- if (error text available) then
- packet.e-text := error text;
- endif
- if (error data available) then
- packet.e-data := error data;
-
-
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-
- endif
-
-B. Definition of common authorization data elements
-
-This appendix contains the definitions of common authorization data
-elements. These common authorization data elements are recursivly defined,
-meaning the ad-data for these types will itself contain a sequence of
-authorization data whose interpretation is affected by the encapsulating
-element. Depending on the meaning of the encapsulating element, the
-encapsulated elements may be ignored, might be interpreted as issued
-directly by the KDC, or they might be stored in a separate plaintext part of
-the ticket. The types of the encapsulating elements are specified as part of
-the Kerberos specification ebcause the behavior based on these values should
-be understood across implementations whereas other elements need only be
-understood by the applications which they affect.
-
-In the definitions that follow, the value of the ad-type for the element
-will be specified in the subsection number, and the value of the ad-data
-will be as shown in the ASN.1 structure that follows the subsection heading.
-
-B.1. KDC Issued
-
-AD-KDCIssued SEQUENCE {
- ad-checksum[0] Checksum,
- i-realm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- i-sname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- elements[3] AuthorizationData.
-}
-
-ad-checksum
- A checksum over the elements field using a cryptographic checksum
- method that is identical to the checksum used to protect the ticket
- itself (i.e. using the same hash function and the same encryption
- algorithm used to encrypt the ticket) and using a key derived from the
- same key used to protect the ticket.
-i-realm, i-sname
- The name of the issuing principal if different from the KDC itself.
- This field would be used when the KDC can verify the authenticity of
- elements signed by the issuing principal and it allows this KDC to
- notify the application server of the validity of those elements.
-elements
- A sequence of authorization data elements issued by the KDC.
-
-The KDC-issued ad-data field is intended to provide a means for Kerberos
-principal credentials to embed within themselves privilege attributes and
-other mechanisms for positive authorization, amplifying the priveleges of
-the principal beyond what can be done using a credentials without such an
-a-data element.
-
-This can not be provided without this element because the definition of the
-authorization-data field allows elements to be added at will by the bearer
-of a TGT at the time that they request service tickets and elements may also
-be added to a delegated ticket by inclusion in the authenticator.
-
-
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-For KDC-issued elements this is prevented because the elements are signed by
-the KDC by including a checksum encrypted using the server's key (the same
-key used to encrypt the ticket - or a key derived from that key). Elements
-encapsulated with in the KDC-issued element will be ignored by the
-application server if this "signature" is not present. Further, elements
-encapsulated within this element from a ticket granting ticket may be
-interpreted by the KDC, and used as a basis according to policy for
-including new signed elements within derivative tickets, but they will not
-be copied to a derivative ticket directly. If they are copied directly to a
-derivative ticket by a KDC that is not aware of this element, the signature
-will not be correct for the application ticket elements, and the field will
-be ignored by the application server.
-
-This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
-applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
-element.
-
-B.2. Intended for server
-
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER SEQUENCE {
- intended-server[0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
-}
-
-AD elements encapsulated within the intended-for-server element may be
-ignored if the application server is not in the list of principal names of
-intended servers. Further, a KDC issuing a ticket for an application server
-can remove this element if the application server is not in the list of
-intended servers.
-
-Application servers should check for their principal name in the
-intended-server field of this element. If their principal name is not found,
-this element should be ignored. If found, then the encapsulated elements
-should be evaluated in the same manner as if they were present in the top
-level authorization data field. Applications and application servers that do
-not implement this element should reject tickets that contain authorization
-data elements of this type.
-
-B.3. Intended for application class
-
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS SEQUENCE { intended-application-class[0]
-SEQUENCE OF GeneralString elements[1] AuthorizationData } AD elements
-encapsulated within the intended-for-application-class element may be
-ignored if the application server is not in one of the named classes of
-application servers. Examples of application server classes include
-"FILESYSTEM", and other kinds of servers.
-
-This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
-applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
-element.
-
-B.4. If relevant
-
-AD-IF-RELEVANT AuthorizationData
-
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-
-
-AD elements encapsulated within the if-relevant element are intended for
-interpretation only by application servers that understand the particular
-ad-type of the embedded element. Application servers that do not understand
-the type of an element embedded within the if-relevant element may ignore
-the uninterpretable element. This element promotes interoperability across
-implementations which may have local extensions for authorization.
-
-B.5. And-Or
-
-AD-AND-OR SEQUENCE {
- condition-count[0] INTEGER,
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
-}
-
-When restrictive AD elements encapsulated within the and-or element are
-encountered, only the number specified in condition-count of the
-encapsulated conditions must be met in order to satisfy this element. This
-element may be used to implement an "or" operation by setting the
-condition-count field to 1, and it may specify an "and" operation by setting
-the condition count to the number of embedded elements. Application servers
-that do not implement this element must reject tickets that contain
-authorization data elements of this type.
-
-B.6. Mandatory ticket extensions
-
-AD-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
-An authorization data element of type mandatory-ticket-extensions specifies
-a collision-proof checksum using the same has angorithm used to protect the
-integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum will be calculated over the
-entire extensions field. If there are more than one extension, all will be
-covered by the checksum. This restriction indicates that the ticket should
-not be accepted if the checksum does not match that calculated over the
-ticket extensions. Application servers that do not implement this element
-must reject tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
-B.7. Authorization Data in ticket extensions
-
-AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
-An authorization data element of type in-ticket-extensions specifies a
-collision-proof checksum using the same has angorithm used to protect the
-integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum is calculated over a separate
-external AuthorizationData field carried in the ticket extensions.
-Application servers that do not implement this element must reject tickets
-that contain authorization data elements of this type. Application servers
-that do implement this element will search the ticket extensions for
-authorization data fields, calculate the specified checksum over each
-authorization data field and look for one matching the checksum in this
-in-ticket-extensions element. If not found, then the ticket must be
-rejected. If found, the corresponding authorization data elements will be
-interpreted in the same manner as if they were contained in the top level
-authorization data field.
-
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-
-
-Note that if multiple external authorization data fields are present in a
-ticket, each will have a corresponding element of type in-ticket-extensions
-in the top level authorization data field, and the external entries will be
-linked to the corresponding element by their checksums.
-
-C. Definition of common ticket extensions
-
-This appendix contains the definitions of common ticket extensions. Support
-for these extensions is optional. However, certain extensions have
-associated authorization data elements that may require rejection of a
-ticket containing an extension by application servers that do not implement
-the particular extension. Other extensions have been defined beyond those
-described in this specification. Such extensions are described elswhere and
-for some of those extensions the reserved number may be found in the list of
-constants.
-
-It is known that older versions of Kerberos did not support this field, and
-that some clients will strip this field from a ticket when they parse and
-then reassemble a ticket as it is passed to the application servers. The
-presence of the extension will not break such clients, but any functionaly
-dependent on the extensions will not work when such tickets are handled by
-old clients. In such situations, some implementation may use alternate
-methods to transmit the information in the extensions field.
-
-C.1. Null ticket extension
-
-TE-NullExtension OctetString -- The empty Octet String
-
-The te-data field in the null ticket extension is an octet string of lenght
-zero. This extension may be included in a ticket granting ticket so that the
-KDC can determine on presentation of the ticket granting ticket whether the
-client software will strip the extensions field.
-
-C.2. External Authorization Data
-
-TE-ExternalAuthorizationData AuthorizationData
-
-The te-data field in the external authorization data ticket extension is
-field of type AuthorizationData containing one or more authorization data
-elements. If present, a corresponding authorization data element will be
-present in the primary authorization data for the ticket and that element
-will contain a checksum of the external authorization data ticket extension.
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-[TM] Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of the
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these
-trademarks may be made without prior written permission of MIT.
-
-[1] Note, however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only upon
-the initiation of a stream-based network connection. Unless an application
-subsequently provides integrity protection for the data stream, the identity
-verification applies only to the initiation of the connection, and does not
-guarantee that subsequent messages on the connection originate from the same
-principal.
-
-
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-
-
-[2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably in the literature. In
-our usage, it takes two (or more) to share a secret, thus a shared DES key
-is a secret key. Something is only private when no one but its owner knows
-it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one has a public and a private key.
-
-[3] Of course, with appropriate permission the client could arrange
-registration of a separately-named prin- cipal in a remote realm, and engage
-in normal exchanges with that realm's services. However, for even small
-numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more automatic methods as
-described here are necessary.
-
-[4] Though it is permissible to request or issue tick- ets with no network
-addresses specified.
-
-[5] The password-changing request must not be honored unless the requester
-can provide the old password (the user's current secret key). Otherwise, it
-would be possible for someone to walk up to an unattended ses- sion and
-change another user's password.
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-[6] To authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the credentials
-obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS exchange to obtain
-credentials for a local server. Those credentials must then be verified by a
-local server through successful completion of the Client/Server exchange.
-
-[7] "Random" means that, among other things, it should be impossible to
-guess the next session key based on knowledge of past session keys. This can
-only be achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is based on
-cryptographic principles. It is more desirable to use a truly random number
-generator, such as one based on measurements of random physical phenomena.
-
-[8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted portion, so cleartext
-here refers to the entire unit, which can be copied from one message and
-replayed in another without any cryptographic skill.
-
-[9] Note that this can make applications based on unreliable transports
-difficult to code correctly. If the transport might deliver duplicated
-messages, either a new authenticator must be generated for each retry, or
-the application server must match requests and replies and replay the first
-reply in response to a detected duplicate.
-
-[10] This is used for user-to-user authentication as described in [8].
-
-[11] Note that the rejection here is restricted to authenticators from the
-same principal to the same server. Other client principals communicating
-with the same server principal should not be have their authenticators
-rejected if the time and microsecond fields happen to match some other
-client's authenticator.
-
-[12] In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the timestamp in the reply was the
-client's timestamp plus one. This is not necessary in version 5 because
-version 5 messages are formatted in such a way that it is not possible to
-create the reply by judicious message surgery (even in encrypted form)
-without knowledge of the appropriate encryption keys.
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-[13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session key is
-not used, even if present in the Authenticator.
-
-[14] Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to choose
-subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to generate a
-negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-[15]This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known beforehand
-(since the realm is part of the principal identifier), it might be stored in
-a nameserver, or it might be obtained from a configura- tion file. If the
-realm to be used is obtained from a nameserver, there is a danger of being
-spoofed if the nameservice providing the realm name is not authenti- cated.
-This might result in the use of a realm which has been compromised, and
-would result in an attacker's ability to compromise the authentication of
-the application server to the client.
-
-[16] If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to ensure
-the randomness of the selected sub- session key. One approach would be to
-generate a random number and XOR it with the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket.
-
-[17] This allows easy implementation of user-to-user authentication [8],
-which uses ticket-granting ticket session keys in lieu of secret server keys
-in situa- tions where such secret keys could be easily comprom- ised.
-
-[18] For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding the first listed
-realm is considered to be the null realm ("").
-
-[19] For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the client's realm is
-considered to precede those in the transited field, and the server's realm
-is considered to follow them.
-
-[20] This means that a client and server running on the same host and
-communicating with one another using the KRB_SAFE messages should not share
-a common replay cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
-
-[21] The implementation of the Kerberos server need not combine the database
-and the server on the same machine; it is feasible to store the principal
-database in, say, a network name service, as long as the entries stored
-therein are protected from disclosure to and modification by unauthorized
-parties. However, we recommend against such strategies, as they can make
-system management and threat analysis quite complex.
-
-[22] See the discussion of the padata field in section 5.4.2 for details on
-why this can be useful.
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-[23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack data structures
-during the generation and verification of embedded checksums: Because any
-checksums applied to data structures must be checked against the original
-data the length of bit strings must be preserved within a data structure
-between the time that a checksum is generated through transmission to the
-time that the checksum is verified.
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-[24] It is NOT recommended that this time value be used to adjust the
-workstation's clock since the workstation cannot reliably determine that
-such a KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely manner.
-
-[25] Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one must make
-sure that the workstation time is monotonically increasing. If the time is
-ever reset backwards, there is a small, but finite, probability that a nonce
-will be reused.
-
-[27] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[29] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[31] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an initialization vector
-may be passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve proper cipher
-chaining. The initialization vector might come from the last block of the
-ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV message, but it is the application's
-choice whether or not to use such an initialization vector. If left out, the
-default initialization vector for the encryption algorithm will be used.
-
-[33] This prevents an attacker who generates an incorrect AS request from
-obtaining verifiable plaintext for use in an off-line password guessing
-attack.
-
-[35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
-notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is not a
-valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from the
-confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the message starts
-with random data, but the tag and its length are fixed. For other fields,
-the length and tag would be redundant if they were included because they are
-specified by the encryption type. [36] The ordering of the fields in the
-CipherText is important. Additionally, messages encoded in this format must
-include a length as part of the msg-seq field. This allows the recipient to
-verify that the message has not been truncated. Without a length, an
-attacker could use a chosen plaintext attack to generate a message which
-could be truncated, while leaving the checksum intact. Note that if the
-msg-seq is an encoding of an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length
-is part of that encoding.
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-[37] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in" string
-for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in section 5.4.2.
-
-[38] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in" string
-for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in section 5.4.2.
-
-[39] A variant of the key is used to limit the use of a key to a particular
-function, separating the functions of generating a checksum from other
-encryption performed using the session key. The constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0
-was chosen because it maintains key parity. The properties of DES precluded
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-the use of the complement. The same constant is used for similar purpose in
-the Message Integrity Check in the Privacy Enhanced Mail standard.
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-[40] This error carries additional information in the e- data field. The
-contents of the e-data field for this message is described in section 5.9.1.
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- John Kohl
- Theodore Ts'o
- November 18th, 1998
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-The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
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-STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents
-of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working
-groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as
-Internet-Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and
-may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
-is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite
-them other than as 'work in progress.'
-
-To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the
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-The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-03.txt, and expires May 18th, 1999.
-Please send comments to: krb-protocol@MIT.EDU
-
-ABSTRACT
-
-This document provides an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to clarify aspects of the protocol
-and its intended use that require more detailed or clearer explanation than
-was provided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a detailed
-description of the protocol, suitable for implementation, together with
-descriptions of the appropriate use of protocol messages and fields within
-those messages.
-
-This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to the end user, system
-administrator, or application developer. Higher level papers describing
-Version 5 of the Kerberos system [NT94] and documenting version 4 [SNS88],
-are available elsewhere.
-
-OVERVIEW
-
-This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model upon which the
-Kerberos network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version
-5 of the Kerberos protocol.
-
-The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
-decisions are treated cursorily; they are more fully described in a paper
-available in IEEE communications [NT94] and earlier in the Kerberos portion
-of the Athena Technical Plan [MNSS87]. The protocols have been a proposed
-standard and are being considered for advancement for draft standard
-through the IETF standard process. Comments are encouraged on the
-presentation, but only minor refinements to the protocol as implemented or
-extensions that fit within current protocol framework will be considered at
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-Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for discussion of
-Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU.
-This mailing list is gatewayed onto the Usenet as the group
-comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further information, including
-documents and code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
-
-BACKGROUND
-
-The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's trusted
-third-party authentication protocol [NS78] and on modifications suggested
-by Denning and Sacco [DS81]. The original design and implementation of
-Kerberos Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena
-staff members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and Clifford
-Neuman (now at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of
-Southern California), along with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of
-Project Athena, and Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many
-other members of Project Athena have also contributed to the work on
-Kerberos.
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this document) has evolved
-from Version 4 based on new requirements and desires for features not
-available in Version 4. The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol
-was led by Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the
-community. The development of the MIT reference implementation was led at
-MIT by John Kohl and Theodore T'so, with help and contributed code from
-many others. Since RFC1510 was issued, extensions and revisions to the
-protocol have been proposed by many individuals. Some of these proposals
-are reflected in this document. Where such changes involved significant
-effort, the document cites the contribution of the proposer.
-
-Reference implementations of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are
-publicly available and commercial implementations have been developed and
-are widely used. Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4 and
-5 can be found in [KNT92].
-
-1. Introduction
-
-Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals, (e.g.
-a workstation user or a network server) on an open (unprotected) network.
-This is accomplished without relying on assertions by the host operating
-system, without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical
-security of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that
-packets traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at
-will[1]. Kerberos performs authentication under these conditions as a
-trusted third-party authentication service by using conventional (shared
-secret key [2] cryptography. Kerberos extensions have been proposed and
-implemented that provide for the use of public key cryptography during
-certain phases of the authentication protocol. These extensions provide for
-authentication of users registered with public key certification
-authorities, and allow the system to provide certain benefits of public key
-cryptography in situations where they are needed.
-
-The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as follows: A client
-sends a request to the authentication server (AS) requesting 'credentials'
-for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in
-the client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a 'ticket' for the server
-and 2) a temporary encryption key (often called a "session key"). The
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-client transmits the ticket (which contains the client's identity and a
-copy of the session key, all encrypted in the server's key) to the server.
-The session key (now shared by the client and server) is used to
-authenticate the client, and may optionally be used to authenticate the
-server. It may also be used to encrypt further communication between the
-two parties or to exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt
-further communication.
-
-Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or more authentication
-servers running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
-maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their
-secret keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos
-protocol. In order to add authentication to its transactions, a typical
-network application adds one or two calls to the Kerberos library directly
-or through the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface,
-GSSAPI, described in separate document. These calls result in the
-transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authentication.
-
-The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or exchanges).
-There are two basic methods by which a client can ask a Kerberos server for
-credentials. In the first approach, the client sends a cleartext request
-for a ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent encrypted
-in the client's secret key. Usually this request is for a ticket-granting
-ticket (TGT) which can later be used with the ticket-granting server (TGS).
-In the second method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client
-uses the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same manner as if it
-were contacting any other application server that requires Kerberos
-authentication. The reply is encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
-Though the protocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
-servers, they are implemented in practice as different protocol entry
-points within a single Kerberos server.
-
-Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
-principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages exchanged
-between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The application is
-free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
-
-To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the client
-transmits the ticket to the application server. Since the ticket is sent
-"in the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't
-thwart replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker,
-additional information is sent to prove that the message originated with
-the principal to whom the ticket was issued. This information (called the
-authenticator) is encrypted in the session key, and includes a timestamp.
-The timestamp proves that the message was recently generated and is not a
-replay. Encrypting the authenticator in the session key proves that it was
-generated by a party possessing the session key. Since no one except the
-requesting principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent
-over the network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
-
-The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also be
-guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and contained in the
-credentials). This approach provides detection of both replay attacks and
-message stream modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
-transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest
-function) of the client's message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and
-integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can be secured by
-encrypting the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
-ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
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-The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access to
-the Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the database must
-be modified, such as when adding new principals or changing a principal's
-key. This is done using a protocol between a client and a third Kerberos
-server, the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM). There is also a protocol
-for maintaining multiple copies of the Kerberos database. Neither of these
-protocols are described in this document.
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-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
-The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
-boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a server
-in another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes
-its own 'realm'. The name of the realm in which a client is registered is
-part of the client's name, and can be used by the end-service to decide
-whether to honor a request.
-
-By establishing 'inter-realm' keys, the administrators of two realms can
-allow a client authenticated in the local realm to prove its identity to
-servers in other realms[3]. The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate
-key may be used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service
-of each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able to
-obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-granting
-service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting ticket is used, the
-remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
-differs from its own normal TGS key) to decrypt the ticket-granting ticket,
-and is thus certain that it was issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets
-issued by the remote ticket-granting service will indicate to the
-end-service that the client was authenticated from another realm.
-
-A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms share
-an inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm key with an
-intermediate realm that communicates with the remote realm. An
-authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are
-transited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
-Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a key with
-its parent and a different key with each child. If an inter-realm key is
-not directly shared by two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an
-authentication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical
-organization is not used, it may be necessary to consult a database in
-order to construct an authentication path between realms.
-
-Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may be
-bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
-authentication paths (these might be established to make communication
-between two realms more efficient). It is important for the end-service to
-know which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to place in
-the authentication process. To facilitate this decision, a field in each
-ticket contains the names of the realms that were involved in
-authenticating the client.
-
-The application server is ultimately responsible for accepting or rejecting
-authentication and should check the transited field. The application server
-may choose to rely on the KDC for the application server's realm to check
-the transited field. The application server's KDC will set the
-TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag in this case. The KDC's for intermediate
-realms may also check the transited field as they issue
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-ticket-granting-tickets for other realms, but they are encouraged not to do
-so. A client may request that the KDC's not check the transited field by
-setting the DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK flag. KDC's are encouraged but not
-required to honor this flag.
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-1.2. Authorization
-
-As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of verifying the
-identity of principals on a network. Authentication is usually useful
-primarily as a first step in the process of authorization, determining
-whether a client may use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
-access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos does not, by
-itself, provide authorization. Possession of a client ticket for a service
-provides only for authentication of the client to that service, and in the
-absence of a separate authorization procedure, it should not be considered
-by an application as authorizing the use of that service.
-
-Such separate authorization methods may be implemented as application
-specific access control functions and may be based on files such as the
-application server, or on separately issued authorization credentials such
-as those based on proxies [Neu93] , or on other authorization services.
-
-Applications should not be modified to accept the issuance of a service
-ticket by the Kerberos server (even by an modified Kerberos server) as
-granting authority to use the service, since such applications may become
-vulnerable to the bypass of this authorization check in an environment if
-they interoperate with other KDCs or where other options for application
-authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP proposal) are provided.
-
-1.3. Environmental assumptions
-
-Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
-properly function:
-
- * 'Denial of service' attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There are
- places in these protocols where an intruder can prevent an application
- from participating in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
- solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to be nnot-uncommon
- 'normal' failure modes for the system) is usually best left to the
- human administrators and users.
- * Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder somehow
- steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade as that
- principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate principal.
- * 'Password guessing' attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user
- chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to
- successfully mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly
- attempting to decrypt, with successive entries from a dictionary,
- messages obtained which are encrypted under a key derived from the
- user's password.
- * Each host on the network must have a clock which is 'loosely
- synchronized' to the time of the other hosts; this synchronization is
- used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of application servers when they
- do replay detection. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
- per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5 minutes. If the
- clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock synchronization
- protocol must itself be secured from network attackers.
- * Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A
- typical mode of access control will use access control lists (ACLs) to
- grant permissions to particular principals. If a stale ACL entry
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- remains for a deleted principal and the principal identifier is
- reused, the new principal will inherit rights specified in the stale
- ACL entry. By not re-using principal identifiers, the danger of
- inadvertent access is removed.
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-1.4. Glossary of terms
-
-Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
-
-Authentication
- Verifying the claimed identity of a principal.
-Authentication header
- A record containing a Ticket and an Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication process.
-Authentication path
- A sequence of intermediate realms transited in the authentication
- process when communicating from one realm to another.
-Authenticator
- A record containing information that can be shown to have been
- recently generated using the session key known only by the client and
- server.
-Authorization
- The process of determining whether a client may use a service, which
- objects the client is allowed to access, and the type of access
- allowed for each.
-Capability
- A token that grants the bearer permission to access an object or
- service. In Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose use is restricted
- by the contents of the authorization data field, but which lists no
- network addresses, together with the session key necessary to use the
- ticket.
-Ciphertext
- The output of an encryption function. Encryption transforms plaintext
- into ciphertext.
-Client
- A process that makes use of a network service on behalf of a user.
- Note that in some cases a Server may itself be a client of some other
- server (e.g. a print server may be a client of a file server).
-Credentials
- A ticket plus the secret session key necessary to successfully use
- that ticket in an authentication exchange.
-KDC
- Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
- temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host on
- which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and
- ticket-granting ticket requests. The initial ticket portion is
- sometimes referred to as the Authentication Server (or service). The
- ticket-granting ticket portion is sometimes referred to as the
- ticket-granting server (or service).
-Kerberos
- Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the protocol used by that service, or
- the code used to implement the authentication service.
-Plaintext
- The input to an encryption function or the output of a decryption
- function. Decryption transforms ciphertext into plaintext.
-Principal
- A uniquely named client or server instance that participates in a
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- The name used to uniquely identify each different principal.
-Seal
- To encipher a record containing several fields in such a way that the
- fields cannot be individually replaced without either knowledge of the
- encryption key or leaving evidence of tampering.
-Secret key
- An encryption key shared by a principal and the KDC, distributed
- outside the bounds of the system, with a long lifetime. In the case of
- a human user's principal, the secret key is derived from a password.
-Server
- A particular Principal which provides a resource to network clients.
- The server is sometimes refered to as the Application Server.
-Service
- A resource provided to network clients; often provided by more than
- one server (for example, remote file service).
-Session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, with a
- lifetime limited to the duration of a single login "session".
-Sub-session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, selected and
- exchanged by the principals using the session key, and with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single association.
-Ticket
- A record that helps a client authenticate itself to a server; it
- contains the client's identity, a session key, a timestamp, and other
- information, all sealed using the server's secret key. It only serves
- to authenticate a client when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
-
-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
-
-Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to indicate
-various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be requested by a client
-when the ticket is obtained; some are automatically turned on and off by a
-Kerberos server as required. The following sections explain what the
-various flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
-The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS protocol
-and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket. Application servers that
-want to require the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
-password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set in any tickets
-they accept, and thus be assured that the client's key was recently
-presented to the application client.
-
-The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information about the
-initial authentication, regardless of whether the current ticket was issued
-directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of
-a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is clear, but the
-PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried forward from the
-ticket-granting ticket).
-
-2.2. Invalid tickets
-
-The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application servers
-must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated ticket will
-usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the
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-KDC before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the
-VALIDATE option specified. The KDC will only validate tickets after their
-starttime has passed. The validation is required so that postdated tickets
-which have been stolen before their starttime can be rendered permanently
-invalid (through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
-
-2.3. Renewable tickets
-
-Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long periods
-of time. However, this can expose their credentials to potential theft for
-equally long periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until the
-expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-lived tickets and
-obtaining new ones periodically would require the client to have long-term
-access to its secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be
-used to mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
-"expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the ticket
-expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an individual
-expiration time. An application client must periodically (i.e. before it
-expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the RENEW option set
-in the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new ticket with a new session key
-and a later expiration time. All other fields of the ticket are left
-unmodified by the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration
-time arrives, the ticket expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may
-consult a hot-list to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen
-since its last renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and
-thus the usable lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
-
-The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can usually be
-ignored by application servers. However, some particularly careful
-application servers may wish to disallow renewable tickets.
-
-If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC will
-not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default, but a client
-may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ
-message. If it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains the
-time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
-
-2.4. Postdated tickets
-
-Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much later,
-e.g. a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid at the time
-the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets
-in a batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more prone to
-theft. Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain these tickets from the KDC
-at job submission time, but to leave them "dormant" until they are
-activated and validated by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft
-were reported in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket,
-and the thief would be foiled.
-
-The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. This
-flag must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated
-ticket based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it may be
-requested by a client by setting the ALLOW-POSTDATE option in the
-KRB_AS_REQ message. This flag does not allow a client to obtain a postdated
-ticket-granting ticket; postdated ticket-granting tickets can only by
-obtained by requesting the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life
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-ticket-granting ticket at the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE
-option is also set, in which case it can be the full life
-(endtime-starttime) of the ticket-granting ticket. The KDC may limit how
-far in the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
-The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
-application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see when
-the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose to reject
-postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain period
-after the original authentication. When the KDC issues a POSTDATED ticket,
-it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the application client must
-present the ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
-
-2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets
-
-At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to perform
-an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take on the
-identity of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A principal can
-allow a service to take on the principal's identity for a particular
-purpose by granting it a proxy.
-
-The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and proxiable flags is used
-to provide credentials for use with specific services. Though conceptually
-also a proxy, user's wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose
-must use the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next section to
-forward a ticket granting ticket.
-
-The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. When
-set, this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to issue a
-new ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network
-address based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the client
-on initial authentication. By default, the client will request that it be
-set when requesting a ticket granting ticket, and reset when requesting any
-other ticket.
-
-This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a remote
-request on its behalf, e.g. a print service client can give the print
-server a proxy to access the client's files on a particular file server in
-order to satisfy a print request.
-
-In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos tickets are
-usually valid from only those network addresses specifically included in
-the ticket[4]. When granting a proxy, the client must specify the new
-network address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that the
-proxy is to be issued for use from any address.
-
-The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a proxy ticket.
-Application servers may check this flag and at their option they may
-require additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in
-order to provide an audit trail.
-
-2.6. Forwardable tickets
-
-Authentication forwarding is an instance of a proxy where the service is
-granted complete use of the client's identity. An example where it might be
-used is when a user logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to
-work from that system as if the login were local.
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-The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. The
-FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE
-flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
-network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users may request
-that it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in the AS request when
-they request their initial ticket- granting ticket.
-
-This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the user
-to enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then authentication
-forwarding is not permitted, but the same result can still be achieved if
-the user engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
-addresses and supplies a password.
-
-The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket with
-the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests a forwarded ticket by specifying the
-FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket.
-It is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the FORWARDED
-flag set. Application servers may choose to process FORWARDED tickets
-differently than non-FORWARDED tickets.
-
-2.7. Other KDC options
-
-There are two additional options which may be set in a client's request of
-the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the client will accept a
-renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be
-provided. If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then the
-KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal to the the
-requested endtime. The value of the renew-till field may still be adjusted
-by site-determined limits or limits imposed by the individual principal or
-server.
-
-The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting service.
-It indicates that the ticket to be issued for the end server is to be
-encrypted in the session key from the a additional second ticket-granting
-ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific details.
-
-3. Message Exchanges
-
-The following sections describe the interactions between network clients
-and servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
-
-3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the
-Kerberos Authentication Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to
-obtain authentication credentials for a given server but currently holds no
-credentials. In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for
-encryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at the
-initiation of a login session to obtain credentials for a Ticket-Granting
-Server which will subsequently be used to obtain credentials for other
-servers (see section 3.3) without requiring further use of the client's
-secret key. This exchange is also used to request credentials for services
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-which must not be mediated through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather
-require a principal's secret key, such as the password-changing service[5].
-This exchange does not by itself provide any assurance of the the identity
-of the user[6].
-
-The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
-Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
-messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
-
-In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and the
-identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials. The
-response, KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present to the
-server, and a session key that will be shared by the client and the server.
-The session key and additional information are encrypted in the client's
-secret key. The KRB_AS_REP message contains information which can be used
-to detect replays, and to associate it with the message to which it
-replies. Various errors can occur; these are indicated by an error response
-(KRB_ERROR) instead of the KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not
-encrypted. The KRB_ERROR message contains information which can be used to
-associate it with the message to which it replies. The lack of encryption
-in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays,
-fabrications, or modifications of such messages.
-
-Without preautentication, the authentication server does not know whether
-the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply sends
-a reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same. This is
-acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in the
-request will be able to use the reply. Its critical information is
-encrypted in that principal's key. The initial request supports an optional
-field that can be used to pass additional information that might be needed
-for the initial exchange. This field may be used for preauthentication as
-described in section [hl<>].
-
-3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-The client may specify a number of options in the initial request. Among
-these options are whether pre-authentication is to be performed; whether
-the requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable; whether
-it should be postdated or allow postdating of derivative tickets; and
-whether a renewable ticket will be accepted in lieu of a non-renewable
-ticket if the requested ticket expiration date cannot be satisfied by a
-non-renewable ticket (due to configuration constraints; see section 4). See
-section A.1 for pseudocode.
-
-The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
-
-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in the
-creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server. The format
-for the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket
-are determined as follows.
-
-3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-The authentication server looks up the client and server principals named
-in the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective keys. If
-required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if the
-pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
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-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate the
-requested encryption type, an error message with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP
-is returned. Otherwise it generates a 'random' session key[7].
-
-If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a client in the
-Kerberos database (or if the key registered supports multiple encryption
-types; e.g. DES-CBC-CRC and DES-CBC-MD5), then the etype field from the AS
-request is used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be used for
-encrypting the response to the client. If there is more than one supported,
-strong encryption type in the etype list, the first valid etype for which
-an encryption key is available is used. The encryption method used to
-respond to a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session key found
-in the ticket granting ticket.
-
-When the etype field is present in a KDC request, whether an AS or TGS
-request, the KDC will attempt to assign the type of the random session key
-from the list of methods in the etype field. The KDC will select the
-appropriate type using the list of methods provided together with
-information from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable encryption
-methods for the application server. The KDC will not issue tickets with a
-weak session key encryption type.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned.
-Otherwise the requested start time is checked against the policy of the
-local realm (the administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or
-ranges of postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is
-set as requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The
-postdated ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC
-after the start time has been reached.
-
-The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
-following:
-
- * The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the client principal (the authentication server's database
- includes a maximum ticket lifetime field in each principal's record;
- see section 4).
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the server principal.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by the policy of
- the local realm.
-
-If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined above)
-is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error message with code
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested expiration time for the
-ticket exceeds what was determined as above, and if the 'RENEWABLE-OK'
-option was requested, then the 'RENEWABLE' flag is set in the new ticket,
-and the renew-till value is set as if the 'RENEWABLE' option were requested
-(the field and option names are described fully in section 5.4.1).
-
-If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option
-has been set and a renewable ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till
-field is set to the minimum of:
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- * Its requested value.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two maximum
- renewable lifetimes associated with the principals' database entries.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable lifetime set
- by the policy of the local realm.
-
-The flags field of the new ticket will have the following options set if
-they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm allows:
-FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new
-ticket is post-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
-will also be set.
-
-If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message (see
-section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the caddr of the
-response, placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata of
-the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the client's key using
-the requested encryption method, and sends it to the client. See section
-A.2 for pseudocode.
-
-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
-
-Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
-returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the error-code
-and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error message contents and
-details are described in Section 5.9.1.
-
-3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies that the
-cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the reply match what it
-requested. If any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive the
-proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client decrypts the encrypted
-part of the response using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the
-encrypted part matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect
-replays). It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match
-those in the request (or are otherwise expected values), and that the host
-address field is also correct. It then stores the ticket, session key,
-start and expiration times, and other information for later use. The
-key-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may be checked
-to notify the user of impending key expiration (the client program could
-then suggest remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3
-for pseudocode.
-
-Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to verify the
-identity of the user; the user and an attacker could cooperate to generate
-a KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts properly but is not from the
-proper KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user, it must
-require the user to present application credentials which can be verified
-using a securely-stored secret key for the host. If those credentials can
-be verified, then the identity of the user can be assured.
-
-3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client interprets it as an
-error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are necessary to
-recover.
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-Message direction Message type Section
-Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
-[optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
-applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa. The
-client must have already acquired credentials for the server using the AS
-or TGS exchange.
-
-3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be part of
-the first message in an authenticated transaction. It contains a ticket, an
-authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
-5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insufficient to
-authenticate a client, since tickets are passed across the network in
-cleartext[DS90], so the authenticator is used to prevent invalid replay of
-tickets by proving to the server that the client knows the session key of
-the ticket and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-is referred to elsewhere as the 'authentication header.'
-
-3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it obtains
-(either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the TGS exchange)
-a ticket and session key for the desired service. The client may re-use any
-tickets it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client constructs a
-new Authenticator from the the system time, its name, and optionally an
-application specific checksum, an initial sequence number to be used in
-KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in
-negotiations for a session key unique to this particular session.
-Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if replayed to a
-server[LGDSR87]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should be
-randomly chosen so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is
-not likely to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
-The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the use
-of a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s) in the
-ap-options field of the message.
-
-The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with the
-ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the end server
-along with any additional application-specific information. See section A.9
-for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks must be
-loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket. Several errors
-are possible. If an error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the
-client with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated in the
-application protocol if its 'raw' form is not acceptable to the protocol.
-The format of error messages is described in section 5.9.1.
-
-The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows. If
-the message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the
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-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket in
-the KRB_AP_REQ is not one the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old
-key, and the server no longer possesses a copy of the old key), the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is returned. If the USE-SESSION-KEY flag is set
-in the ap-options field, it indicates to the server that the ticket is
-encrypted in the session key from the server's ticket-granting ticket
-rather than its secret key[10]. Since it is possible for the server to be
-registered in multiple realms, with different keys in each, the srealm
-field in the unencrypted portion of the ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to
-specify which secret key the server should use to decrypt that ticket. The
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is returned if the server doesn't have the
-proper key to decipher the ticket.
-
-The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key specified by
-the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a modification of the ticket
-(each encryption system must provide safeguards to detect modified
-ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned
-(chances are good that different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
-
-The authenticator is decrypted using the session key extracted from the
-decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm of the
-client from the ticket are compared against the same fields in the
-authenticator. If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is
-returned (they might not match, for example, if the wrong session key was
-used to encrypt the authenticator). The addresses in the ticket (if any)
-are then searched for an address matching the operating-system reported
-address of the client. If no match is found or the server insists on ticket
-addresses but none are present in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error
-is returned.
-
-If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator differ
-by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is returned. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is returned[11]. The
-server must remember any authenticator presented within the allowable clock
-skew, so that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses
-track of any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, it
-must reject all requests until the clock skew interval has passed. This
-assures that any lost or re-played authenticators will fall outside the
-allowable clock skew and can no longer be successfully replayed (If this is
-not done, an attacker could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator
-sent over the network to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as
-the disabled host, and replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the
-authentication.). If a sequence number is provided in the authenticator,
-the server saves it for later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV
-messages. If a subkey is present, the server either saves it for later use
-or uses it to help generate its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a
-KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus the
-start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than the current
-time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
-the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Otherwise, if the
-current time is later than end time by more than the allowable clock skew,
-the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error is returned.
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-the client possesses the credentials of the principal named in the ticket
-and thus, the client has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10
-for pseudocode.
-
-Passing these checks provides only authentication of the named principal;
-it does not imply authorization to use the named service. Applications must
-make a separate authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name
-of the user, the requested operation, local acces control information such
-as that contained in a .k5login or .k5users file, and possibly a separate
-distributed authorization service.
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-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
-
-Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
-information and its initial request in the same message, and the server
-need not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual
-authentication (not only authenticating the client to the server, but also
-the server to the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message will
-have MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a KRB_AP_REP message
-is required in response. As with the error message, this message may be
-encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not
-acceptable to the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond
-field used in the reply must be the client's timestamp and microsecond
-field (as provided in the authenticator)[12]. If a sequence number is to be
-included, it should be randomly chosen as described above for the
-authenticator. A subkey may be included if the server desires to negotiate
-a different subkey. The KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in the session key
-extracted from the ticket. See section A.11 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
-
-If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key from
-the credentials obtained for the server[13] to decrypt the message, and
-verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
-Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client is
-assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey (if
-present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
-
-After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and
-server share an encryption key which can be used by the application. The
-'true session key' to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
-application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on the
-subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some cases,
-the use of this session key will be implicit in the protocol; in others the
-method of use must be chosen from several alternatives. We leave the
-protocol negotiations of how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption
-or checksum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does
-not constrain the implementation options, but an example of how this might
-be done follows.
-
-One way that an application may choose to negotiate a key to be used for
-subequent integrity and privacy protection is for the client to propose a
-key in the subkey field of the authenticator. The server can then choose a
-key using the proposed key from the client as input, returning the new
-subkey in the subkey field of the application reply. This key could then be
-used for subsequent communication. To make this example more concrete, if
-the encryption method in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever
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-reason, one of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than 40
-unknown bits, this method would allow the the party which is prevented from
-using more than 40 bits to either propose (if the client) an initial key
-with a known quantity for 16 of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if
-the server) with the known quantity. The application implementor is warned,
-however, that this is only an example, and that an analysis of the
-particular crytosystem to be used, and the reasons for limiting the key
-length, must be made before deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits
-of the key.
-
-With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers should
-take care not to send sensitive information to each other without proper
-assurances. In particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
-should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client to assure both
-client and server of their peer's identity. If an application protocol
-requires privacy of its messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section
-3.5). The KRB_SAFE message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
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-3.3. The Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server
-is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication
-credentials for a given server (which might be registered in a remote
-realm), when it wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when it
-wishes to obtain a proxy ticket. In the first case, the client must already
-have acquired a ticket for the Ticket-Granting Service using the AS
-exchange (the ticket-granting ticket is usually obtained when a client
-initially authenticates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The
-message format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS
-exchange. The primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the
-TGS exchange does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or
-sub-session key from an Authenticator is used. As is the case for all
-application servers, expired tickets are not accepted by the TGS, so once a
-renewable or ticket-granting ticket expires, the client must use a separate
-exchange to obtain valid tickets.
-
-The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ) from the
-client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or
-KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating the
-client plus a request for credentials. The authentication information
-consists of the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the
-client's previously obtained ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket.
-In the ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one
-or more of: a list of network addresses, a collection of typed
-authorization data to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the
-application server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described
-later). The TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials,
-encrypted in the session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable
-ticket, or if present, in the sub-session key from the Authenticator (part
-of the authentication header). The KRB_ERROR message contains an error code
-and text explaining what went wrong. The KRB_ERROR message is not
-encrypted. The KRB_TGS_REP message contains information which can be used
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-to detect replays, and to associate it with the message to which it
-replies. The KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can be used
-to associate it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of
-encryption in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays
-or fabrications of such messages.
-
-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client must
-determine in which realm the application server is registered[15]. If the
-client does not already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the
-appropriate realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted by
-requesting a ticket-granting ticket for the destination realm from a
-Kerberos server for which the client does posess a ticket-granting ticket
-(using the KRB_TGS_REQ message recursively). The Kerberos server may return
-a TGT for the desired realm in which case one can proceed. Alternatively,
-the Kerberos server may return a TGT for a realm which is 'closer' to the
-desired realm (further along the standard hierarchical path), in which case
-this step must be repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm specified in
-the returned TGT. If neither are returned, then the request must be retried
-with a Kerberos server for a realm higher in the hierarchy. This request
-will itself require a ticket-granting ticket for the higher realm which
-must be obtained by recursively applying these directions.
-
-Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate realm,
-it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and contacts one.
-The list might be obtained through a configuration file or network service
-or it may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as the secret
-keys exchanged by realms are kept secret, only denial of service results
-from using a false Kerberos server.
-
-As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in the
-KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing
-an authentication header as an element of the padata field, and including
-the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
-optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for application server
-use and additional tickets required by some options.
-
-In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-session
-key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be
-encrypted[16]. If the sub-session key is not specified, the session key
-from the ticket-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data
-is present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from
-the authenticator portion of the authentication header, or if not present,
-using the session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the destination
-realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the KRB_AS_REQ
-message, but there are many additional checks to be performed. First, the
-Kerberos server must determine which server the accompanying ticket is for
-and it must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
-KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting service, and the
-TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued by another realm, then the
-appropriate inter-realm key must be used. If the accompanying ticket is not
-a ticket granting ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
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-server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are
-specified in the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is
-the server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the
-ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server for which
-it was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata field, the
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied checksum
-in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents of the request,
-and the message rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
-of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum is not keyed or not
-collision-proof (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the
-checksum type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned. If the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
-the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
-
-If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned.
-
-3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP
-(KRB_KDC_REP), but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed
-specification is in section 5.4.2.
-
-The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The Kerberos
-database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested server
-(including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request
-is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key is shared
-with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server will select the realm
-"closest" to the requested realm with which it does share a key, and use
-that realm instead. This is the only case where the response from the KDC
-will be for a different server than that requested by the client.
-
-By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list of
-transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the expiration time,
-and the authorization data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from
-the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the transited
-field needs to be updated, but the transited type is not supported, the
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new ticket is
-set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime from the TGT, and
-(c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the
-application server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
-life for the requesting principal was already applied when the TGT was
-issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal, then the endtime above is
-replaced by the minimum of (a) the value of the renew_till field of the
-ticket and (b) the starttime for the new ticket plus the life
-(endtime-starttime) of the old ticket.
-
-If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket will
-contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will only be
-honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is
-similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
-client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE flag in the TGT is set.
-The PROXY option will not be honored on requests for additional
-ticket-granting tickets.
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-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is not set in the TGT, then the
-error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the
-ticket-granting ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then the resulting
-ticket will be postdated and the requested starttime is checked against the
-policy of the local realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as
-requested, and the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be
-validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has
-been reached. However, in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-till
-time of a newly-issued postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time
-of the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional ticket
-has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the additional
-ticket using the key for the server to which the additional ticket was
-issued and verify that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the
-requested server is missing from the request, the name of the client in the
-additional ticket will be used. Otherwise the name of the requested server
-will be compared to the name of the client in the additional ticket and if
-different, the request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the
-session key from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new
-ticket that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
-new ticket will be used[17].
-
-If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-granting server
-itself, the server is registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW
-option is requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag is
-set in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in the ticket, and that
-the renew_till time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is
-rqeuested, the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID
-flag is set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check that
-the PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed, and the
-ticket passes the hotlist check described in the next paragraph, the KDC
-will issue the appropriate new ticket.
-
-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
-
-Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the presented
-ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets which have been
-canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by storing a range of issue
-timestamps for 'suspect tickets'; if a presented ticket had an authtime in
-that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen ticket-granting
-ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to gain additional tickets
-(renewals or otherwise) once the theft has been reported. Any normal ticket
-obtained before it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
-require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal
-expiration time.
-
-The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is encrypted
-in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present, or the session
-key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
-client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's expiration date and
-the key version number fields are left out since these values are stored
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-pseudocode.
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-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
-
-If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting service,
-but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look up the
-inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
-ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the request,
-subject to the constraints outlined above in the section describing the AS
-exchange. The realm part of the client's identity will be taken from the
-ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm that issued the
-ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the ticket
-to be issued. This is accomplished by reading the transited field from the
-ticket-granting ticket (which is treated as an unordered set of realm
-names), adding the new realm to the set, then constructing and writing out
-its encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement of the
-existing encoding).
-
-Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its own
-realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the previous
-realm. This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving
-out its own name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
-
-The names of neither the local realm nor the principal's realm are to be
-included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the ticket and
-both are known to have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since
-the endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop inter-realm
-authentication result in a transited field that is empty.
-
-Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field, it might
-potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this field, its
-contents are encoded. The initially supported encoding is optimized for the
-normal case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrangement of
-realms using either domain or X.500 style realm names. This encoding
-(called DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now described.
-
-Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",", "\",
-trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters, and if they
-are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the transited field by
-preced- ing them with a "\".
-
-A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to the
-previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU,
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
-Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-points, that
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
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-A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to the
-previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded
-by a space (" "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO,
-/COM/HP, /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
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-Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints, they
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "/COM,/HP"
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-A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all realms
-between the previous realm and the next realm have been traversed[19].
-Thus, "," means that all realms along the path between the client and the
-server have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms from
-the client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have been
-traversed, and that everything from /COM down to the server's realm in an
-X.500 style has also been traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in
-one hierarchy shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm in
-another hierarchy.
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-3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
-When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in the same
-manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The primary difference
-is that the ciphertext part of the response must be decrypted using the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the client's secret
-key. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
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-3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange
-
-The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to detect
-modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by including a
-keyed collision-proof checksum of the user data and some control
-information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually the last
-key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
-occured).
-
-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information and computes a checksum over them.
-The checksum algorithm should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the
-RSA- MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES
-MAC), generated using the sub-session key if present, or the session key.
-Different algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
-message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable for this
-use.
-
-The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a timestamp
-and a sequence number. The designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE
-message must choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice should
-be based on the needs of the application protocol.
-
-Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received by
-one's peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain the session
-key, so maintaining the next sequence number should not present an
-additional problem.
-
-If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages without
-them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the appropriate replay
-detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
-multi-cast protocols where all of one's peers share a common sub-session
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-
-After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the information and
-checksum to the recipient in the message format specified in section 5.6.1.
-
-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and
-type fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively. A
-mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error.
-The application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-proof keyed
-checksum, and if it is not, a KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated.
-The recipient verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's
-address matches the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient
-address is specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the
-recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address in the message. A
-failed match for either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the
-timestamp and usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If
-timestamp and usec are expected and not present, or they are present but
-not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name,
-along with the client name, time and microsecond fields from the
-Authenticator match any recently-seen (sent or received[20] ) such tuples,
-the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an incorrect sequence number
-is included, or a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or
-a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-Finally, the checksum is computed over the data and control information,
-and if it doesn't match the received checksum, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error
-is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application is assured that the message was
-generated by its peer and was not modi- fied in transit.
-
-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
-The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality and
-the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It achieves this
-by encrypting the messages and adding control information.
-
-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information (specified in section 5.7.1) and
-encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via
-subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part of the
-control information, the client must choose to use either a timestamp or a
-sequence number (or both); see the discussion in section 3.4.1 for
-guidelines on which to use. After the user data and control information are
-encrypted, the client transmits the ciphertext and some 'envelope'
-information to the recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
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-type fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively. A
-mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error.
-The application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant
-plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been modified, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. The recipient verifies that
-the operating system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's
-address in the message, and (if a recipient address is specified or the
-recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's addresses
-appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for
-either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and
-usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec
-are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an
-incorrect sequence number is included, or a sequence number is expected but
-not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a
-time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED
-error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
-generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without intruders able
-to see the unencrypted contents).
-
-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
-The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to send
-Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this by sending
-the tickets together with encrypted data containing the session keys and
-other information associated with the tickets.
-
-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using the
-KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote host. It
-then constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or tickets so obtained,
-placing the session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part of the the
-KRB_CRED message.
-
-Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
-KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence
-in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if
-specifically required by the application the nonce, s-address, and
-r-address fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message
-which is then encrypted under an encryption key previosuly exchanged in the
-KRB_AP exchange (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the
-session key if no negotiation has occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If any
-error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application. The
-message is verified by checking that the protocol version and type fields
-match the current version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates
-a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then
-decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If
-decryption shows the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY
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-If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating system's
-report of the sender's address matches the sender's address in the message,
-and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's
-address in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields (and the nonce
-field if required) are checked next. If the timestamp and usec are not
-present, or they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is
-generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new tickets
-in its ticket cache together with the session key and other information in
-the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the
-KRB_CRED message.
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-4. The Kerberos Database
-
-The Kerberos server must have access to a database contain- ing the
-principal identifiers and secret keys of principals to be
-authenticated[21].
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
-A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
-
-Field Value
-
-name Principal's identifier
-key Principal's secret key
-p_kvno Principal's key version
-max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
-max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable Tickets
-
-The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key field
-contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret key. (The
-key can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos "master key" to
-protect it in case the database is compromised but the master key is not.
-In that case, an extra field must be added to indicate the master key
-version used, see below.) The p_kvno field is the key version number of the
-principal's secret key. The max_life field contains the maximum allowable
-lifetime (endtime - starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal.
-The max_renewable_life field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime
-for any renewable Ticket issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a
-description of how these lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of
-a given Ticket.)
-
-A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the database
-representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between principal
-records with identifiers which differ only in the realm name.
-
-When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine (i.e.
-not the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key should be
-retained by the server until all tickets that had been issued using that
-key have expired. Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be
-active for a single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a principal's key is
-always tagged with the version of the key that was used for encryption, to
-help the recipient find the proper key for decryption.
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-When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the principal
-will have more than one record in the Kerberos database. The keys and key
-version numbers will differ between the records (the rest of the fields may
-or may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos issues a ticket, or responds to
-a request for initial authentication, the most recent key (known by the
-Kerberos server) will be used for encryption. This is the key with the
-highest key version number.
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-4.2. Additional fields
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-Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its database:
-
-Field Value
-
-K_kvno Kerberos' key version
-expiration Expiration date for entry
-attributes Bit field of attributes
-mod_date Timestamp of last modification
-mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
-
-The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key under
-which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
-
-After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an error
-to any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the principal. (A
-database may want to maintain two expiration dates: one for the principal,
-and one for the principal's current key. This allows password aging to work
-independently of the principal's expiration date. However, due to the
-limited space in the responses, the KDC must combine the key expiration and
-principal expiration date into a single value called 'key_exp', which is
-used as a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
-
-The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations involving
-the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction with user
-registration procedures, for site-specific policy implementations (Project
-Athena currently uses it for their user registration process controlled by
-the system-wide database service, Moira [LGDSR87]), to identify whether a
-principal can play the role of a client or server or both, to note whether
-a server is appropriate trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a
-client, or to identify the 'string to key' conversion algorithm used for a
-principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that certain ticket
-options should not be allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key
-(one bit each): Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing
-forwardable tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
-disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable tickets, and
-disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the server.
-
-The mod_date field contains the time of last modification of the entry, and
-the mod_name field contains the name of the principal which last modified
-the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
-Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a request
-was made by a particular principal. Information that might be maintained
-includes the time of the last request, the time of the last request for a
-ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a ticket-granting
-ticket, or other times. This information can then be returned to the user
-in the last-req field (see section 5.2).
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-Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the latest
-expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using each key. This
-field would be used to indicate how long old keys must remain valid to
-allow the continued use of outstanding tickets.
-
-4.4. Site Constants
-
-The KDC implementation should have the following configurable constants or
-options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce policy decisions:
-
- * The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant should
- reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the KDC,
- encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client and
- target server, and it should allow for a minimum 'useful' lifetime.
- * The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
- (renew_till - starttime).
- * The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
- * Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
- (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be issued
- if the request specifies some authorization_data).
- * Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets are
- to be issued.
-
-5. Message Specifications
-
-The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of protocol
-messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are presented in the first
-subsection. The remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
-and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryption and checksum
-techniques, and the fields related to them, appear in section 6.
-
-Optional field in ASN.1 sequences
-
-For optional integer value and date fields in ASN.1 sequences where a
-default value has been specified, certain default values will not be
-allowed in the encoding because these values will always be represented
-through defaulting by the absence of the optional field. For example, one
-will not send a microsecond zero value because one must make sure that
-there is only one way to encode this value.
-
-Additional fields in ASN.1 sequences
-
-Implementations receiving Kerberos messages with additional fields present
-in ASN.1 sequences should carry the those fields through unmodified when
-the message is forwarded. Implementation should drop such fields if the
-sequence is reencoded.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
-All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
-Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509
-specification, section 8.7 [X509-88].
-
-5.3. ASN.1 Base Definitions
-
-The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this section.
-Note that since the underscore character (_) is not permitted in ASN.1
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-
-Realm ::= GeneralString
-PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
-}
-
-Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not contain a
-character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms will usually consist
-of several components separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet
-Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500 names.
-Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in section 7. A
-PrincipalName is a typed sequence of components consisting of the following
-sub-fields:
-
-name-type
- This field specifies the type of name that follows. Pre-defined values
- for this field are specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the
- same (i.e. at least one of the components, or the realm, must be
- different). This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-name-string
- This field encodes a sequence of components that form a name, each
- component encoded as a GeneralString. Taken together, a PrincipalName
- and a Realm form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames will have
- only a few components (typically one or two).
-
-KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
-The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An
-encoding shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include any
-fractional portions of the seconds. It further shall not include any
-separators. Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27
-seconds after 9 pm on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
-HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF HostAddress
-
-The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
-addr-type
- This field specifies the type of address that follows. Pre-defined
- values for this field are specified in section 8.1.
-address
- This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
-
-The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one address;
-HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many addresses.
-
-AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
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-ad-data
- This field contains authorization data to be interpreted according to
- the value of the corresponding ad-type field.
-ad-type
- This field specifies the format for the ad-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved
- for registered use.
-
-Each sequence of type and data is refered to as an authorization element.
-Elements may be application specific, however, there is a common set of
-recursive elements that should be understood by all implementations. These
-elements contain other elements embedded within them, and the
-interpretation of the encapsulating element determines which of the
-embedded elements must be interpreted, and which may be ignored.
-Definitions for these common elements may be found in Appendix B.
-
-TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- te-type[0] INTEGER,
- te-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-
-
-te-data
- This field contains opaque data that must be caried with the ticket to
- support extensions to the Kerberos protocol including but not limited
- to some forms of inter-realm key exchange and plaintext authorization
- data. See appendix C for some common uses of this field.
-te-type
- This field specifies the format for the te-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved
- for registered use.
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- use-session-key(1),
- -- mutual-required(2)
-
-TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- may-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- invalid(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- initial(9),
- -- pre-authent(10),
- -- hw-authent(11),
- -- transited-policy-checked(12),
- -- ok-as-delegate(13)
-
-KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
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- -- proxy(4),
- -- allow-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- unused7(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- unused9(9),
- -- unused10(10),
- -- unused11(11),
- -- unused12(12),
- -- unused13(13),
- -- disable-transited-check(26),
- -- renewable-ok(27),
- -- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- -- renew(30),
- -- validate(31)
-
-ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When used in Kerberos for the
-APOptions, TicketFlags, and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
-generated values should be the smallest number of bits needed to include
-the highest order bit that is set (1), but in no case less than 32 bits.
-The ASN.1 representation of the bit strings uses unnamed bits, with the
-meaning of the individual bits defined by the comments in the specification
-above. Implementations should accept values of bit strings of any length
-and treat the value of flags corresponding to bits beyond the end of the
-bit string as if the bit were reset (0). Comparison of bit strings of
-different length should treat the smaller string as if it were padded with
-zeros beyond the high order bits to the length of the longer string[23].
-
-LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
-}
-
-lr-type
- This field indicates how the following lr-value field is to be
- interpreted. Negative values indicate that the information pertains
- only to the responding server. Non-negative values pertain to all
- servers for the realm. If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no
- information is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the absolute
- value of the lr-type field is one (1), then the lr-value subfield is
- the time of last initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last initial request. If it is three
- (3), then the lr-value subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of the last renewal. If it is five (5), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last request (of any type). If it is
- (6), then the lr-value subfield is the time when the password will
- expire.
-lr-value
- This field contains the time of the last request. the time must be
- interpreted according to the contents of the accompanying lr-type
- subfield.
-
-See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType, EncryptedData,
-EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
-
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-authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is included in a protocol
-message it is treated as an opaque object.
-
-5.3.1. Tickets
-
-A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service. A
-Ticket contains the following information:
-
-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData,
- extensions[4] TicketExtensions OPTIONAL
-}
-
--- Encrypted part of ticket
-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be
-registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by Kerberos
-and the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6 for the format
-of the ciphertext.
-
-tkt-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the ticket format. This
- document describes version number 5.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It also serves to
- identify the realm part of the server's principal identifier. Since a
- Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers within its realm,
- the two will always be identical.
-sname
- This field specifies the name part of the server's identity.
-enc-part
- This field holds the encrypted encoding of the EncTicketPart sequence.
-extensions
- This optional field contains a sequence of extentions that may be used
- to carry information that must be carried with the ticket to support
- several extensions, including but not limited to plaintext
- authorization data, tokens for exchanging inter-realm keys, and other
- information that must be associated with a ticket for use by the
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- extensions.
-
- Note that some older versions of Kerberos did not support this field.
- Because this is an optional field it will not break older clients, but
- older clients might strip this field from the ticket before sending it
- to the application server. This limits the usefulness of this ticket
- field to environments where the ticket will not be parsed and
- reconstructed by these older Kerberos clients.
-
- If it is known that the client will strip this field from the ticket,
- as an interim measure the KDC may append this field to the end of the
- enc-part of the ticket and append a traler indicating the lenght of
- the appended extensions field. (this paragraph is open for discussion,
- including the form of the traler).
-flags
- This field indicates which of various options were used or requested
- when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most
- significant bit. The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
- The flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The
- meanings of the flags are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set, this
- flag tells the ticket-granting server
- that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
- granting ticket with a different network
- address based on the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- When set, this flag indicates that the
- ticket has either been forwarded or was
- issued based on authentication involving
- a forwarded ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical to
- that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
- that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
- ticket-granting server that only non-
- ticket-granting tickets may be issued
- with different network addresses.
-
- 4 PROXY
- When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
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- The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. This flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that a post-
- dated ticket may be issued based on this
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- This flag indicates that this ticket has
- been postdated. The end-service can
- check the authtime field to see when the
- original authentication occurred.
-
- 7 INVALID
- This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by the
- KDC before use. Application servers
- must reject tickets which have this flag
- set.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
- be ignored by end servers (some particu-
- larly careful servers may wish to disal-
- low renewable tickets). A renewable
- ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
- ment ticket that expires at a later
- date.
-
- 9 INITIAL
- This flag indicates that this ticket was
- issued using the AS protocol, and not
- issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 10 PRE-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that during initial
- authentication, the client was authenti-
- cated by the KDC before a ticket was
- issued. The strength of the pre-
- authentication method is not indicated,
- but is acceptable to the KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected to
- be possessed solely by the named client.
- The hardware authentication method is
- selected by the KDC and the strength of
- the method is not indicated.
-
- 12 TRANSITED This flag indicates that the KDC for the
- POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
- against a realm defined policy for
- trusted certifiers. If this flag is
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- must check the transited field itself,
- and if unable to do so it must reject
- the authentication. If the flag is set
- (1) then the application server may skip
- its own validation of the transited
- field, relying on the validation
- performed by the KDC. At its option the
- application server may still apply its
- own validation based on a separate
- policy for acceptance.
-
- 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
- the client) specified in the ticket has
- been determined by policy of the realm
- to be a suitable recipient of
- delegation. A client can use the
- presence of this flag to help it make a
- decision whether to delegate credentials
- (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
- ticket granting ticket) to this server.
- The client is free to ignore the value
- of this flag. When setting this flag,
- an administrator should consider the
- Security and placement of the server on
- which the service will run, as well as
- whether the service requires the use of
- delegated credentials.
-
- 14 ANONYMOUS
- This flag indicates that the principal
- named in the ticket is a generic princi-
- pal for the realm and does not identify
- the individual using the ticket. The
- purpose of the ticket is only to
- securely distribute a session key, and
- not to identify the user. Subsequent
- requests using the same ticket and ses-
- sion may be considered as originating
- from the same user, but requests with
- the same username but a different ticket
- are likely to originate from different
- users.
-
- 15-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-key
- This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is used to
- pass the session key from Kerberos to the application server and the
- client. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-crealm
- This field contains the name of the realm in which the client is
- registered and in which initial authentication took place.
-cname
- This field contains the name part of the client's principal
- identifier.
-transited
- This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took part in
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- authenticating the user to whom this ticket was issued. It does not
- specify the order in which the realms were transited. See section
- 3.3.3.2 for details on how this field encodes the traversed realms.
- When the names of CA's are to be embedded inthe transited field (as
- specified for some extentions to the protocol), the X.500 names of the
- CA's should be mapped into items in the transited field using the
- mapping defined by RFC2253.
-authtime
- This field indicates the time of initial authentication for the named
- principal. It is the time of issue for the original ticket on which
- this ticket is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
- additional information to the end service, and to provide the
- necessary information for implementation of a `hot list' service at
- the KDC. An end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to
- accept tickets for which the initial authentication occurred "too far"
- in the past. This field is also returned as part of the response from
- the KDC. When returned as part of the response to initial
- authentication (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on the Ker-
- beros server[24].
-starttime
- This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the ticket is
- valid. Together with endtime, this field specifies the life of the
- ticket. If it is absent from the ticket, its value should be treated
- as that of the authtime field.
-endtime
- This field contains the time after which the ticket will not be
- honored (its expiration time). Note that individual services may place
- their own limits on the life of a ticket and may reject tickets which
- have not yet expired. As such, this is really an upper bound on the
- expiration time for the ticket.
-renew-till
- This field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set
- in the flags field. It indicates the maximum endtime that may be
- included in a renewal. It can be thought of as the absolute expiration
- time for the ticket, including all renewals.
-caddr
- This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more (if present)
- host addresses. These are the addresses from which the ticket can be
- used. If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used from any
- location. The decision by the KDC to issue or by the end server to
- accept zero-address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to issue or
- accept such tickets. The suggested and default policy, however, is
- that such tickets will only be issued or accepted when additional
- information that can be used to restrict the use of the ticket is
- included in the authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
- capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it harder for an
- attacker to use stolen credentials. Because the session key is not
- sent over the network in cleartext, credentials can't be stolen simply
- by listening to the network; an attacker has to gain access to the
- session key (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a
- careless user's unattended session) to make use of stolen tickets.
-
- It is important to note that the network address from which a
- connection is received cannot be reliably determined. Even if it could
- be, an attacker who has compromised the client's worksta- tion could
- use the credentials from there. Including the network addresses only
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- with stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe" location.
-authorization-data
- The authorization-data field is used to pass authorization data from
- the principal on whose behalf a ticket was issued to the application
- service. If no authorization data is included, this field will be left
- out. Experience has shown that the name of this field is confusing,
- and that a better name for this field would be restrictions.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the name of this field at
- this time.
-
- This field contains restrictions on any authority obtained on the
- basis of authentication using the ticket. It is possible for any
- principal in posession of credentials to add entries to the
- authorization data field since these entries further restrict what can
- be done with the ticket. Such additions can be made by specifying the
- additional entries when a new ticket is obtained during the TGS
- exchange, or they may be added during chained delegation using the
- authorization data field of the authenticator.
-
- Because entries may be added to this field by the holder of
- credentials, it is not allowable for the presence of an entry in the
- authorization data field of a ticket to amplify the priveleges one
- would obtain from using a ticket.
-
- The data in this field may be specific to the end service; the field
- will contain the names of service specific objects, and the rights to
- those objects. The format for this field is described in section 5.2.
- Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of the contents of
- the sub-fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
-
- By using the authorization_data field, a principal is able to issue a
- proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For example, a client
- wishing to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to be passed to
- the print server. By specifying the name of the file in the
- authorization_data field, the file server knows that the print server
- can only use the client's rights when accessing the particular file to
- be printed.
-
- A separate service providing authorization or certifying group
- membership may be built using the authorization-data field. In this
- case, the entity granting authorization (not the authorized entity),
- obtains a ticket in its own name (e.g. the ticket is issued in the
- name of a privelege server), and this entity adds restrictions on its
- own authority and delegates the restricted authority through a proxy
- to the client. The client would then present this authorization
- credential to the application server separately from the
- authentication exchange.
-
- Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data field of a proxy
- and leaves the host addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session
- key can be treated as a capability. See [Neu93] for some suggested
- uses of this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does not have to be
- included in a ticket.
-
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-client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket, to help the server
-detect replays, and to help choose a "true session key" to use with the
-particular session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session key
-shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-authenticator-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the format of the
- authenticator. This document specifies version 5.
-crealm and cname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-cksum
- This field contains a checksum of the the applica- tion data that
- accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
- Its value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to 999999. It often
- appears along with ctime. The two fields are used together to specify
- a reasonably accurate timestamp.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-subkey
- This field contains the client's choice for an encryption key which is
- to be used to protect this specific application session. Unless an
- application specifies otherwise, if this field is left out the session
- key from the ticket will be used.
-seq-number
- This optional field includes the initial sequence number to be used by
- the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when sequence numbers are used to
- detect replays (It may also be used by application specific messages).
- When included in the authenticator this field specifies the initial
- sequence number for messages from the client to the server. When
- included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number is that
- for messages from the server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
- KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after each message is
- sent. Sequence numbers fall in the range of 0 through 2^32 - 1 and
- wrap to zero following the value 2^32 - 1.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of replays
- they should be non-repeating, even across connection boundaries. The
- initial sequence number should be random and uniformly distributed
- across the full space of possible sequence numbers, so that it cannot
- be guessed by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
- numbers do not repeat other sequences.
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-authorization-data
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
- It is optional and will only appear when additional restrictions are
- to be placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those carried in the
- ticket itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used in the exchange
-between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible error
-messages appears in section 5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is one of
-KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is for an
-initial ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent
-from the client to the Authentication Server to request credentials for a
-service.
-
-The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
-
-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
-
-KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
- -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
- addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
- -- encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
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-
-pvno
- This field is included in each message, and specifies the protocol
- version number. This document specifies protocol version 5.
-msg-type
- This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It will almost
- always be the same as the application identifier associated with a
- message. It is included to make the identifier more readily accessible
- to the application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
- KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
-padata
- The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a sequence of
- authentication information which may be needed before credentials can
- be issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for additional tickets
- (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will include an element with padata-type of
- PA-TGS-REQ and data of an authentication header (ticket-granting
- ticket and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator (which
- must be collision-proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY
- encoding. In most requests for initial authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and
- most replies (KDC-REP), the padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by certain extensions
- to the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might be used to initially
- verify the identity of a client before any response is returned. This
- is accomplished with a padata field with padata-type equal to
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and padata-value defined as follows:
-
- padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
- padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
- PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec containing
- the microseconds which may be omitted if a client will not generate
- more than one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-value)
- consists of the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence, encrypted using the client's
- secret key.
-
- [use-specified-kvno item is here for discussion and may be removed] It
- may also be used by the client to specify the version of a key that is
- being used for accompanying preauthentication, and/or which should be
- used to encrypt the reply from the KDC.
-
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO ::= Integer
-
- The KDC should only accept and abide by the value of the
- use-specified-kvno preauthentication data field when the specified key
- is still valid and until use of a new key is confirmed. This situation
- is likely to occur primarily during the period during which an updated
- key is propagating to other KDC's in a realm.
-
- The padata field can also contain information needed to help the KDC
- or the client select the key needed for generating or decrypting the
- response. This form of the padata is useful for supporting the use of
- certain token cards with Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
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- this field.
-padata-type
- The padata-type element of the padata field indicates the way that the
- padata-value element is to be interpreted. Negative values of
- padata-type are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative values are
- used for a registered interpretation of the element type.
-req-body
- This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the remaining
- fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over the request, it is
- calculated over an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
- enclosed within the req-body field.
-kdc-options
- This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the
- KDC and indicates the flags that the client wants set on the tickets
- as well as other information that is to modify the behavior of the
- KDC. Where appropriate, the name of an option may be the same as the
- flag that is set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
- options field will be the same as that in the flags field, this is not
- guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply copy the options field
- to the flags field. There are various checks that must be made before
- honoring an option anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected options are
- indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected options and
- reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is specified
- in section 5.2. The options are described in more detail above in
- section 2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of
-this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE option indicates
-that
- the ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- forwardable flag set. It may only
-be
- set on the initial request, or in a
-sub-
- sequent request if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based is also
-for-
- wardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- The FORWARDED option is only
-specified
- in a request to the
-ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if
-the
- ticket-granting ticket in the
-request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set.
-This
- option indicates that this is a
-request
- for forwarding. The address(es) of
-the
- host from which the resulting ticket
-is
- to be valid are included in
-the
- addresses field of the request.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE option indicates that
-the
- ticket to be issued is to have its
-prox-
- iable flag set. It may only be set
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-subsequent
- request if the ticket-granting ticket
-on
- which it is based is also proxiable.
-
- 4 PROXY
- The PROXY option indicates that this
-is
- a request for a proxy. This option
-will
- only be honored if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket in the request has its
-PROXIABLE
- bit set. The address(es) of the
-host
- from which the resulting ticket is to
-be
- valid are included in the
-addresses
- field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE
- The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates
-that
- the ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only
-be
- set on the initial request, or in a
-sub-
- sequent request if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based also has
-its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- The POSTDATED option indicates that
-this
- is a request for a postdated
-ticket.
- This option will only be honored if
-the
- ticket-granting ticket on which
- it is based has its MAY-POSTDATE
- flag set.
- The resulting ticket will also have
-its
- INVALID flag set, and that flag may
-be
- reset by a subsequent request to the
-KDC
- after the starttime in the ticket
-has
- been reached.
-
- 7 UNUSED
- This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE option indicates that
-the
- ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be
-set
- on the initial request, or when
-the
- ticket-granting ticket on which
-the
- request is based is also renewable.
-If
- this option is requested, then the
-rtime
- field in the request contains
-the
- desired absolute expiration time for
-the
- ticket.
-
- 9-13 UNUSED
- These options are presently unused.
-
- 14 REQUEST-ANONYMOUS
- The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option
-indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is not
-to
- identify the user to which it
-was
- issued. Instead, the principal
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-by
- the policy of the realm (e.g.
-usually
- anonymous@realm). The purpose of
-the
- ticket is only to securely distribute
-a
- session key, and not to identify
-the
- user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the
-ticket
- to be returned should be set. If
-the
- local realms policy does not
-permit
- anonymous credentials, the request is
-to
- be rejected.
-
- 15-25 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
- By default the KDC will check the
- transited field of a ticket-granting-
- ticket against the policy of the local
- realm before it will issue derivative
- tickets based on the ticket granting
- ticket. If this flag is set in the
- request, checking of the transited
-field
- is disabled. Tickets issued without
-the
- performance of this check will be
-noted
- by the reset (0) value of the
- TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
- indicating to the application server
- that the tranisted field must be
-checked
- locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
- required to honor the
- DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
-
- 27 RENEWABLE-OK
- The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that
-a
- renewable ticket will be acceptable if
-a
- ticket with the requested life
-cannot
- otherwise be provided. If a ticket
-with
- the requested life cannot be
-provided,
- then a renewable ticket may be
-issued
- with a renew-till equal to the
-the
- requested endtime. The value of
-the
- renew-till field may still be limited
-by
- local limits, or limits selected by
-the
- individual principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The
-ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- option indicates that the ticket for
-the
- end server is to be encrypted in
-the
- session key from the additional
-ticket-
- granting ticket provided.
-
- 29 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The RENEW
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-is
- for a renewal. The ticket provided
-is
- encrypted in the secret key for
-the
- server on which it is valid.
-This
- option will only be honored if
-the
- ticket to be renewed has its
-RENEWABLE
- flag set and if the time in its
-renew-
- till field has not passed. The
-ticket
- to be renewed is passed in the
-padata
- field as part of the
-authentication
- header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The VALIDATE
-option
- indicates that the request is to
-vali-
- date a postdated ticket. It will
-only
- be honored if the ticket presented
-is
- postdated, presently has its
-INVALID
- flag set, and would be otherwise
-usable
- at this time. A ticket cannot be
-vali-
- dated before its starttime. The
-ticket
- presented for validation is encrypted
-in
- the key of the server for which it
-is
- valid and is passed in the padata
-field
- as part of the authentication header.
-
-cname and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is
- specified. If absent, the name of the server is taken from the name of
- the client in the ticket passed as additional-tickets.
-enc-authorization-data
- The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can only be present in
- the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of the desired authorization-data
- encrypted under the sub-session key if present in the Authenticator,
- or alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting ticket,
- both from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm part of the server's principal
- identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the realm part of the
- client's principal identifier.
-from
- This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ ticket
- requests when the requested ticket is to be postdated. It specifies
- the desired start time for the requested ticket. If this field is
- omitted then the KDC should use the current time instead.
-till
- This field contains the expiration date requested by the client in a
- ticket request. It is optional and if omitted the requested ticket is
- to have the maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy for the
- parties to the authentication exchange as limited by expiration date
- of the ticket granting ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
-rtime
- This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a client to the
- KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
-nonce
- This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it intended to
- hold a random number generated by the client. If the same number is
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- that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker.
- Nonces must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be generated
- randomly, but if the correct time is known, it may suffice[25].
-etype
- This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be used in
- the response.
-addresses
- This field is included in the initial request for tickets, and
- optionally included in requests for additional tickets from the
- ticket-granting server. It specifies the addresses from which the
- requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it includes the addresses
- for the client's host. If a proxy is requested, this field will
- contain other addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied
- by the KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
-additional-tickets
- Additional tickets may be optionally included in a request to the
- ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been
- specified, then the session key from the additional ticket will be
- used in place of the server's key to encrypt the new ticket. If more
- than one option which requires additional tickets has been specified,
- then the additional tickets are used in the order specified by the
- ordering of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
-
-The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending on
-whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional
-ticket (TGS-REQ).
-
-The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and additional-tickets)
-are only included if necessary to perform the operation specified in the
-kdc-options field.
-
-It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number appears
-twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message
-contains these fields as does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that
-is passed in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for
-either an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There is no
-message type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either KRB_AS_REP
-or KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of the reply
-depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in
-the client's secret key, and the client's key version number is included in
-the key version number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the
-ciphertext is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, or
-if absent, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket used in the
-request. In that case, no version number will be present in the
-EncryptedData sequence.
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
-
-AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
-TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
-KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
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- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
- enc-part[6] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
-EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
-EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is either
- KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
-padata
- This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One possible use
- for this field is to encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
- with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is described in section
- 6.3.2). This ability is useful to ease transitions if a realm name
- needs to change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such a case all
- existing password-derived entries in the KDC database would be flagged
- as needing a special mix-in string until the next password change.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-ticket
- The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-enc-part
- This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related
- information that forms the encrypted part of a message. The
- description of the encrypted part of the message follows each
- appearance of this field. The encrypted part is encoded as described
- in section 6.1.
-key
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-last-req
- This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s) of the
- last request by a principal. Depending on what information is
- available, this might be the last time that a request for a
- ticket-granting ticket was made, or the last time that a request based
- on a ticket-granting ticket was successful. It also might cover all
- servers for a realm, or just the particular server. Some
- implementations may display this information to the user to aid in
- discovering unauthorized use of one's identity. It is similar in
- spirit to the last login time displayed when logging into timesharing
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-nonce
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-key-expiration
- The key-expiration field is part of the response from the KDC and
- specifies the time that the client's secret key is due to expire. The
- expiration might be the result of password aging or an account
- expiration. This field will usually be left out of the TGS reply since
- the response to the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no
- client information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is up
- to the application client (usually the login program) to take
- appropriate action (such as notifying the user) if the expiration time
- is imminent.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
- These fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted portion of
- the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1), provided so the client may
- verify they match the intended request and to assist in proper ticket
- caching. If the message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will
- only be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded ticket,
- or if the user is substituting a subset of the addresses from the
- ticket granting ticket. If the client-requested addresses are not
- present or not used, then the addresses contained in the ticket will
- be the same as those included in the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
-authentication of the client to the application server.
-
-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options in use,
-and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is
-often referred to as the 'authentication header'.
-
-AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
-}
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REQ.
-ap-options
- This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects
- the way the request is processed. It is a bit-field, where the
- selected options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the
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- of the bits is specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options
- are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of
-this
- field.
-
- 1 USE-SESSION-KEY
- The USE-SESSION-KEY option
-indicates
- that the ticket the client is
-presenting
- to a server is encrypted in the
-session
- key from the server's
-ticket-granting
- ticket. When this option is not
-speci-
- fied, the ticket is encrypted in
-the
- server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIRED
- The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells
-the
- server that the client requires
-mutual
- authentication, and that it must
-respond
- with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-ticket
- This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the server.
-authenticator
- This contains the authenticator, which includes the client's choice of
- a subkey. Its encoding is described in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type, and an encrypted time- stamp. The message is sent in in
-response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
-authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
-
-AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of the
-ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an application-arranged
-negotiation to choose a per association session key.
-
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- KRB_AP_REP.
-enc-part
- This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
-subkey
- This field contains an encryption key which is to be used to protect
- this specific application session. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on
- how this field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an application
- specifies otherwise, if this field is left out, the sub-session key
- from the authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from the
- ticket will be used.
-
-5.5.3. Error message reply
-
-If an error occurs while processing the application request, the KRB_ERROR
-message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for the format of the
-error message. The cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server
-cannot determine their appropriate values from the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ
-message. If the authenticator was decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields
-will contain the values from it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-proof message to
-its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged (for
-example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
-
-The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
-checksum keyed with the last encryption key negotiated via subkeys, or the
-session key if no negotiation has occured. The message fields are:
-
-KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
-}
-
-KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_SAFE.
-safe-body
- This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE message.
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- This field contains the checksum of the application data. Checksum
- details are described in section 6.4. The checksum is computed over
- the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence. First, the cksum is zeroed and
- the checksum is computed over the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence,
- then the checksum is set to the result of that computation, and
- finally the KRB-SAFE sequence is encoded again.
-user-data
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages and contain
- the application specific data that is being passed from the sender to
- the recipient.
-timestamp
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages. Its contents
- are the current time as known by the sender of the message. By
- checking the timestamp, the recipient of the message is able to make
- sure that it was recently generated, and is not a replay.
-usec
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers. It contains
- the microsecond part of the timestamp.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-s-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the sender of the message.
-r-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of the
- message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as broadcast
- protocols), but the recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages.
- This field along with s-address can be used to help detect messages
- which have been incorrectly or maliciously delivered to the wrong
- recipient.
-
-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to securely and privately send a
-message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been
-exchanged (for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
-The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's
-addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's
-addr
-}
-
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- KRB_PRIV.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key[32]. This encrypted encoding is used for the
- enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for the format
- of the ciphertext.
-user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to send
-Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is presented here to
-encourage a common mechanism to be used by applications when forwarding
-tickets or providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that a
-session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using the
-KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
-The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
-information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from each.
-The information needed to use the tickets is encrypted under an encryption
-key previously exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
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- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_CRED.
-tickets
- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically for use by
- the intended recipient. Successive tickets are paired with the
- corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the KRB-CRED
- message.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key shared between the sender and the intended
- recipient. This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part field of
- the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-nonce
- If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a nonce
- generated by the recipient of the message. If the same value is
- included as the nonce in the message, it provides evidence that the
- message is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. A nonce
- must never be re-used; it should be generated randomly by the
- recipient of the message and provided to the sender of the message in
- an application specific manner.
-timestamp and usec
- These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED message was generated.
- The time is used to provide assurance that the message is fresh.
-s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1. They are used
- optionally to provide additional assurance of the integrity of the
- KRB-CRED message.
-key
- This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the KRB-CRED
- message and is used to pass the session key from the sender to the
- intended recipient. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-
-The following fields are optional. If present, they can be associated with
-the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left out, then it is assumed
-that the recipient of the credentials already knows their value.
-
-prealm and pname
- The name and realm of the delegated principal identity.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname, and caddr
- These fields contain the values of the correspond- ing fields from the
- ticket found in the ticket field. Descriptions of the fields are
- identical to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
-
-5.9. Error message specification
-
-This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The fields
-included in the message are intended to return as much information as
-possible about an error. It is not expected that all the information
-required by the fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
-appropriate information is not available when the message is composed, the
-corresponding field will be left out of the message.
-
-Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is not protected by any encryption,
-it is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or modify such a
-message. In particular, this means that the client should not use any
-fields in this message for security-critical purposes, such as setting a
-system clock or generating a fresh authenticator. The message can be
-useful, however, for advising a user on the reason for some failure.
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-The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
-KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- e-typed-data[14] SEQUENCE of ETypedData
-OPTIONAL
-}
-
-ETypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- e-data-type [1] INTEGER,
- e-data-value [2] OCTET STRING,
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_ERROR.
-ctime
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-cusec
- This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-stime
- This field contains the current time on the server. It is of type
- KerberosTime.
-susec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the server's timestamp.
- Its value ranges from 0 to 999999. It appears along with stime. The
- two fields are used in conjunction to specify a reasonably accurate
- timestamp.
-error-code
- This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or the server
- when a request fails. To interpret the value of this field see the
- list of error codes in section 8. Implementations are encouraged to
- provide for national language support in the display of error
- messages.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
-e-text
- This field contains additional text to help explain the error code
- associated with the failed request (for example, it might include a
- principal name which was unknown).
-e-data
- This field contains additional data about the error for use by the
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- application to help it recover from or handle the error. If the
- errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED, then the e-data field will
- contain an encoding of a sequence of padata fields, each corresponding
- to an acceptable pre-authentication method and optionally containing
- data for the method:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
- If the error-code is KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD, then the e-data field will
- contain an encoding of the following sequence:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- method-type[0] INTEGER,
- method-data[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- method-type will indicate the required alternate method; method-data
- will contain any required additional information.
-e-cksum
- This field contains an optional checksum for the KRB-ERROR message.
- The checksum is calculated over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the
- KRB-ERROR message with the checksum absent. The checksum is then added
- to the KRB-ERROR structure and the message is re-encoded. The Checksum
- should be calculated using the session key from the ticket granting
- ticket or service ticket, where available. If the error is in response
- to a TGS or AP request, the checksum should be calculated uing the the
- session key from the client's ticket. If the error is in response to
- an AS request, then the checksum should be calulated using the
- client's secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preauthentication
- to prove knowledge of the secret key by the client[33]. If a checksum
- can not be computed because the key to be used is not available, no
- checksum will be included.
-e-typed-data
- [This field for discussion, may be deleted from final spec] This field
- contains optional data that may be used to help the client recover
- from the indicated error. [This could contain the METHOD-DATA
- specified since I don't think anyone actually uses it yet. It could
- also contain the PA-DATA sequence for the preauth required error if we
- had a clear way to transition to the use of this field from the use of
- the untype e-data field.] For example, this field may specify the key
- version of the key used to verify preauthentication:
-
- e-data-type := 20 -- Key version number
- e-data-value := Integer -- Key version number used to verify
-preauthentication
-
-6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
-
-The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use
-stream encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly available
-block encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption Standard, [DES77] in
-conjunction with block chaining and checksum methods [DESM80]. Encryption
-is used to prove the identities of the network entities participating in
-message exchanges. The Key Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by
-all principals registered in that realm to store a secret key in
-confidence. Proof of knowledge of this secret key is used to verify the
-authenticity of a principal.
-
-The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a shared
-session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to ticket requests;
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-of the appropriate keys and the identity of the KDC. The ability of a
-principal to decrypt the KDC response and present a Ticket and a properly
-formed Authenticator (generated with the session key from the KDC response)
-to a service verifies the identity of the principal; likewise the ability
-of the service to extract the session key from the Ticket and prove its
-knowledge thereof in a response verifies the identity of the service.
-
-The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is secure
-from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of fields in the
-encrypted portions of messages are arranged to minimize the effects of
-poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose good keys. If keys are
-derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords need to be well chosen
-to make brute force attacks more difficult. Poorly chosen keys still make
-easy targets for intruders.
-
-The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
-currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
-requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is often
-desirable to place random information (often referred to as a confounder)
-at the start of the message. The requirements for a confounder are
-specified with each encryption mechanism.
-
-Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the the
-security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these chaining methods
-often don't provide an integrity check upon decryption. Such systems (such
-as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of the plain-text
-which can be verified at decryption and used to detect any tampering or
-damage. Such checksums should be good at detecting burst errors in the
-input. If any damage is detected, the decryption routine is expected to
-return an error indicating the failure of an integrity check. Each
-encryption type is expected to provide and verify an appropriate checksum.
-The specification of each encryption method sets out its checksum
-requirements.
-
-Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an algorithm
-for converting the password to a key of the appropriate type is included.
-It is desirable for the string to key function to be one-way, and for the
-mapping to be different in different realms. This is important because
-users who are registered in more than one realm will often use the same
-password in each, and it is desirable that an attacker compromising the
-Kerberos server in one realm not obtain or derive the user's key in
-another.
-
-For an discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
-encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the the reader is
-referred to [SG92].
-
-6.1. Encryption Specifications
-
-The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
-enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in section
-5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional key version
-number, and the ciphertext.
-
-EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
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-etype
- This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used to encipher
- the cipher. Detailed specifications for selected encryption types
- appear later in this section.
-kvno
- This field contains the version number of the key under which data is
- encrypted. It is only present in messages encrypted under long lasting
- keys, such as principals' secret keys.
-cipher
- This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an OCTET STRING.
-
-The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption
-algorithm to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific inputs.
-Encryption mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must take sufficient
-measures to guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and we recommend they
-also take measures to protect against precomputed dictionary attacks. If
-the encryption algorithm is not itself capable of doing so, the protections
-can often be enhanced by adding a checksum and a confounder.
-
-The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a confounder, a
-checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary padding. The msg-seq
-field contains the part of the protocol message described in section 5
-which is to be encrypted. The confounder, checksum, and padding are all
-untagged and untyped, and their length is exactly sufficient to hold the
-appropriate item. The type and length is implicit and specified by the
-particular encryption type being used (etype). The format for the data to
-be encrypted is described in the following diagram:
-
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length) OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length) OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
-}
-
-One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing it in
-confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate checksum over
-confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in check; adds the
-necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified encryption type and
-the appropriate key.
-
-Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm that
-specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an octet
-boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format[36]. Those fields which
-are not specified will be omitted.
-
-In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
-encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
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-specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is needed as
-part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum is to be used, a
-new encryption type must be defined.
-
-Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and the
-data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in cipher-block-chaining
-mode, requires an initialization vector. If required, the description for
-each encryption type must specify the source of such additional
-information. 6.2. Encryption Keys
-
-The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption key:
-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-keytype
- This field specifies the type of encryption key that follows in the
- keyvalue field. It will almost always correspond to the encryption
- algorithm used to generate the EncryptedData, though more than one
- algorithm may use the same type of key (the mapping is many to one).
- This might happen, for example, if the encryption algorithm uses an
- alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity check, or a different
- chaining mechanism.
-keyvalue
- This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet string.
-
-All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields
-and interpreta- tions.
-
-6.3. Encryption Systems
-
-6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
-If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the NULL
-encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no checksum,
-confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the plaintext. The NULL Key
-is used by the null encryption system and is zero octets in length, with
-keytype zero (0).
-
-6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
-
-The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-A CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]) is applied to the
-confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field.
-DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the
-concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8
-byte boundary before encryption. The details of the encryption of this data
-are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
-Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-proof, an attacker
-could use a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack to generate a valid
-message even if a confounder is used [SG92]. The use of collision-proof
-checksums is recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the checksum for ticket or
-authenticator is no longer mandated as an interoperability requirement for
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-Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1 (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
-6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
-
-The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-An MD4 checksum (described in [MD492]) is applied to the confounder and
-message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption. The details of the encryption of this data are identical
-to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
-6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
-
-The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-An MD5 checksum (described in [MD5-92].) is applied to the confounder and
-message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption.
-
-Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which are
-concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The first
-octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's MSbit used as
-the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the next 8 bits, ...,
-and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least significant bits.
-
-Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an additional
-input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless otherwise specified,
-zero should be used as the initialization vector. Kerberos' use of DES
-requires an 8 octet confounder.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those
-keys shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in Kerberos.
-Additionally, because of the way that keys are derived for the encryption
-of checksums, keys shall not be used that yield 'weak' or 'semi-weak' keys
-when eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
-A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists of 56
-bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded as a
-series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits within the key are
-also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption key is
-(B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8) where
-B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8 are the
-parity bits, the first octet of the key would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1
-as the MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
-String to key transformation
-
-To generate a DES key from a text string (password), a "salt" is
-concatenated to the text string, and then padded with ASCII nulls to an 8
-byte boundary. This "salt" is normally the realm and each component of the
-principal's name appended. However, sometimes different salts are used ---
-for example, when a realm is renamed, or if a user changes her username, or
-for compatibility with Kerberos V4 (whose string-to-key algorithm uses a
-null string for the salt). This string is then fan-folded and
-eXclusive-ORed with itself to form an 8 byte DES key. Before
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-eXclusive-ORing a block, every byte is shifted one bit to the left to leave
-the lowest bit zero. The key is the "corrected" by correcting the parity on
-the key, and if the key matches a 'weak' or 'semi-weak' key as described in
-the DES specification, it is eXclusive-ORed with the constant
-00000000000000F0. This key is then used to generate a DES CBC checksum on
-the initial string (with the salt appended). The result of the CBC checksum
-is the "corrected" as described above to form the result which is return as
-the key. Pseudocode follows:
-
- name_to_default_salt(realm, name) {
- s = realm
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- return s;
- }
-
- key_correction(key) {
- fixparity(key);
- if (is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
- string_to_key(string,salt) {
-
- odd = 1;
- s = string + salt;
- tempkey = NULL;
- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- left shift every byte in 8byteblock one bit;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- tempkey = key_correction(tempkey);
- key = key_correction(DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey));
- return(key);
- }
-
-6.3.5. Triple DES with HMAC-SHA1 Kerberos Encryption Type with Key
-Derivation [Horowitz]
-
-NOTE: This description currently refers to documents, the contents of which
-might be bettered included by value in this spec. The description below was
-provided by Marc Horowitz, and the form in which it will finally appear is
-yet to be determined. This description is included in this version of the
-draft because it does describe the implemenation ready for use with the MIT
-implementation. Note also that the encryption identifier has been left
-unspecified here because the value from Marc Horowitz's spec conflicted
-with some other impmenentations implemented based on perevious versions of
-the specification.
-
-This encryption type is based on the Triple DES cryptosystem, the HMAC-SHA1
-[Krawczyk96] message authentication algorithm, and key derivation for
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-
-The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 encryption type has been assigned the value ??. The
-hmac-sha1-des3 checksum type has been assigned the value 12.
-
-Encryption Type des3-cbc-hmac-sha1
-
-EncryptedData using this type must be generated as described in
-[Horowitz96]. The encryption algorithm is Triple DES in Outer-CBC mode. The
-keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. Unless otherwise specified, a zero IV
-must be used. If the length of the input data is not a multiple of the
-block size, zero octets must be used to pad the plaintext to the next
-eight-octet boundary. The counfounder must be eight random octets (one
-block).
-
-Checksum Type hmac-sha1-des3
-
-Checksums using this type must be generated as described in [Horowitz96].
-The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1.
-
-Common Requirements
-
-The EncryptionKey value is 24 octets long. The 7 most significant bits of
-each octet contain key bits, and the least significant bit is the inverse
-of the xor of the key bits.
-
-For the purposes of key derivation, the block size is 64 bits, and the key
-size is 168 bits. The 168 bits output by key derivation are converted to an
-EncryptionKey value as follows. First, the 168 bits are divided into three
-groups of 56 bits, which are expanded individually into 64 bits as follows:
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 p
- 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 p
-17 18 19 20 21 22 23 p
-25 26 27 28 29 30 31 p
-33 34 35 36 37 38 39 p
-41 42 43 44 45 46 47 p
-49 50 51 52 53 54 55 p
-56 48 40 32 24 16 8 p
-
-The "p" bits are parity bits computed over the data bits. The output of the
-three expansions are concatenated to form the EncryptionKey value.
-
-When the HMAC-SHA1 of a string is computed, the key is used in the
-EncryptedKey form.
-
-Key Derivation
-
-In the Kerberos protocol, cryptographic keys are used in a number of
-places. In order to minimize the effect of compromising a key, it is
-desirable to use a different key for each of these places. Key derivation
-[Horowitz96] can be used to construct different keys for each operation
-from the keys transported on the network. For this to be possible, a small
-change to the specification is necessary.
-
-This section specifies a profile for the use of key derivation [Horowitz96]
-with Kerberos. For each place where a key is used, a ``key usage'' must is
-specified for that purpose. The key, key usage, and encryption/checksum
-type together describe the transformation from plaintext to ciphertext, or
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-Key Usage Values
-
-This is a complete list of places keys are used in the kerberos protocol,
-with key usage values and RFC 1510 section numbers:
-
- 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
- client key (section 5.4.1)
- 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
- application session key), encrypted with the service key
- (section 5.4.2)
- 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
- session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
- 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- session key (section 5.4.1)
- 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
- 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
- with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
- 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
- authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
- (section 5.3.2)
- 8. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
- 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
-10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
- key (section 5.3.2)
-11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
- subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
- 5.3.2)
-12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
- encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
-13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.7.1)
-14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.6.1)
-15. KRB-SAVE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
- (section 5.8.1)
-18. KRB-ERROR checksum (e-cksum in section 5.9.1)
-19. AD-KDCIssued checksum (ad-checksum in appendix B.1)
-20. Checksum for Mandatory Ticket Extensions (appendix B.6)
-21. Checksum in Authorization Data in Ticket Extensions (appendix B.7)
-
-Key usage values between 1024 and 2047 (inclusive) are reserved for
-application use. Applications should use even values for encryption and odd
-values for checksums within this range.
-
-A few of these key usages need a little clarification. A service which
-receives an AP-REQ has no way to know if the enclosed Ticket was part of an
-AS-REP or TGS-REP. Therefore, key usage 2 must always be used for
-generating a Ticket, whether it is in response to an AS- REQ or TGS-REQ.
-
-There might exist other documents which define protocols in terms of the
-RFC1510 encryption types or checksum types. Such documents would not know
-about key usages. In order that these documents continue to be meaningful
-until they are updated, key usages 1024 and 1025 must be used to derive
-keys for encryption and checksums, respectively. New protocols defined in
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-terms of the Kerberos encryption and checksum types should use their own
-key usages. Key usages may be registered with IANA to avoid conflicts. Key
-usages must be unsigned 32 bit integers. Zero is not permitted.
-
-Defining Cryptosystems Using Key Derivation
-
-Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
-tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption and
-integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys. So, for
-each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for encryption (Ke), and
-one for integrity (Ki):
-
- Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
- Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
-
-where the protocol key is from the EncryptionKey from the wire protocol,
-and the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in network byte order.
-The ciphertest must be generated from the plaintext as follows:
-
- ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | plaintext | padding) |
- H(Ki, confounder | plaintext | padding)
-
-The confounder and padding are specific to the encryption algorithm E.
-
-When generating a checksum only, there is no need for a confounder or
-padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be generated
-from the plaintext as follows:
-
- Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
-
- MAC = H(Kc, plaintext)
-
-Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and a
-keyed hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a keyed hash
-algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is recommended for use as H.
-
-Key Derivation from Passwords
-
-The well-known constant for password key derivation must be the byte string
-{0x6b 0x65 0x72 0x62 0x65 0x72 0x6f 0x73}. These values correspond to the
-ASCII encoding for the string "kerberos".
-
-6.4. Checksums
-
-The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-cksumtype
- This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the accompanying
- checksum.
-checksum
- This field contains the checksum itself, encoded as an octet string.
-
-Detailed specification of selected checksum types appear later in this
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-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields
-and interpretations.
-
-Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties: whether
-they are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is infeasible to
-find two plaintexts which generate the same checksum value for a
-collision-proof checksum. A key is required to perturb or initialize the
-algorithm in a keyed checksum. To prevent message-stream modification by an
-active attacker, unkeyed checksums should only be used when the checksum
-and message will be subsequently encrypted (e.g. the checksums defined as
-part of the encryption algorithms covered earlier in this section).
-
-Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if the checksum value is
-encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the composition of
-the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be considered a separate
-checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using DES is a new checksum
-algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed checksums, as well as for
-the encrypted forms of unkeyed collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends
-a confounder before the checksum is calculated.
-
-6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
-
-The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic redundancy
-check as described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]. The resulting checksum is four
-(4) octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed nor collision-proof. The
-use of this checksum is not recommended. An attacker using a probabilistic
-chosen-plaintext attack as described in [SG92] might be able to generate an
-alternative message that satisfies the checksum. The use of collision-proof
-checksums is recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat.
-
-6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
-The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4 algorithm
-[MD4-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length
-and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4 is believed
-to be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-des)
-
-The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD4
-checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum using
-DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key, where
-the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization vector should be zero. The
-resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are redundant).
-This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
-The DES specifications identify some weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those
-keys shall not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use in
-Kerberos.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the follow- ing diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
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-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
-
-The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5 algorithm.
-[MD5-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length
-and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD5 is believed
-to be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-des)
-
-The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD5
-checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum using
-DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key, where
-the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the hexadecimal
-constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should be zero. The
-resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are redundant).
-This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys';
-those keys shall not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use in
-Kerberos.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
-The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder to the
-plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result using the key
-and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last block of the
-ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and encrypting the pair using
-DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a variant of the key, where
-the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the hexadecimal
-constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should be zero. The
-resulting checksum is 128 bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are
-redundant. This checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
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-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
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-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
-}
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those
-keys shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use in
-Kerberos, nor shall a key be used whose variant is 'weak' or 'semi-weak'.
-
-6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative (rsa-md4-des-k)
-
-The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting the results using
-DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both key and
-initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets long. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof. Note that this
-checksum type is the old method for encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and
-it is no longer recommended.
-
-6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (des-mac-k)
-
-The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode encryption
-of the plaintext, and using the last block of the ciphertext as the
-checksum value. It is keyed with an encryption key and an initialization
-vector; any uses which do not specify an additional initialization vector
-will use the key as both key and initialization vector. The resulting
-checksum is 64 bits (8 octets) long. This checksum is tamper-proof and
-collision-proof. Note that this checksum type is the old method for
-encoding the DES-MAC checksum and it is no longer recommended. The DES
-specifications identify some 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those keys
-shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-7. Naming Constraints
-
-7.1. Realm Names
-
-Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a realm can
-technically select any name it chooses, interoperability across realm
-boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to be assigned, and
-what information they imply.
-
-To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the conventions
-itself, and it must require that any realms with which inter-realm keys are
-shared also conform to the conventions and require the same from its
-neighbors.
-
-Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names that differ only in
-the case of the characters are not equivalent. There are presently four
-styles of realm names: domain, X500, other, and reserved. Examples of each
-style follow:
-
- domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
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- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
-Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
-separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor slashes
-(/). Domain names must be converted to upper case when used as realm names.
-
-X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:) before the
-equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string representations of
-the names with components separated by slashes. Leading and trailing
-slashes will not be included.
-
-Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
-contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed by a
-colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be assigned before
-they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
-
-The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the first
-three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It is unlikely
-that names will be assigned to this category unless there is a very strong
-argument for not using the 'other' category.
-
-These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts between the various
-name styles. The following additional constraints apply to the assignment
-of realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the name of a realm for
-the domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the organization owning
-(to whom it was assigned) an Internet domain name or X.500 name, or in the
-case that no such names are registered, authority to use a realm name may
-be derived from the authority of the parent realm. For example, if there is
-no domain name for E40.MIT.EDU, then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm
-can authorize the creation of a realm with that name.
-
-This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is assigned
-is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to its children
-in the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the parent assigns a realm
-name without also registering it in the domain name or X.500 hierarchy, it
-is the parent's responsibility to make sure that there will not in the
-future exists a name identical to the realm name of the child unless it is
-assigned to the same entity as the realm name.
-
-7.2. Principal Names
-
-As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure that all
-agree on what information is implied by a principal name. The name-type
-field that is part of the principal name indicates the kind of information
-implied by the name. The name-type should be treated as a hint. Ignoring
-the name type, no two names can be the same (i.e. at least one of the
-components, or the realm, must be different). The following name types are
-defined:
-
- name-type value meaning
-
- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, or DCE
-principal)
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
-rcommands)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
- NT-X500-PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
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-When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a
-particular time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The principal name
-type should be used for users, and it might also be used for a unique
-server. If the name is a unique machine generated ID that is guaranteed
-never to be reassigned then the name type of UID should be used (note that
-it is generally a bad idea to reassign names of any type since stale
-entries might remain in access control lists).
-
-If the first component of a name identifies a service and the remaining
-components identify an instance of the service in a server specified
-manner, then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An example of this
-name type is the Kerberos ticket-granting service whose name has a first
-component of krbtgt and a second component identifying the realm for which
-the ticket is valid.
-
-If instance is a single component following the service name and the
-instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the name
-type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for Internet
-services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the separate
-components of the host name appear as successive components following the
-name of the service, then the name type SRV-XHST should be used. This type
-might be used to identify servers on hosts with X.500 names where the slash
-(/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
-
-A name type of NT-X500-PRINCIPAL should be used when a name from an X.509
-certificiate is translated into a Kerberos name. The encoding of the X.509
-name as a Kerberos principal shall conform to the encoding rules specified
-in RFC 2253.
-
-A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is not
-known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match principals
-authenticated with names of any type. A principal authenticated with a name
-of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match other names of type UNKNOWN.
-
-Names of any type with an initial component of 'krbtgt' are reserved for
-the Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the form of
-such names.
-
-7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
-The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be composed
-of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server is registered,
-and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the host name is an
-Internet domain name or a multi-component name of type NT-SRV-XHST if the
-name of the host is of a form such as X.500 that allows slash (/)
-separators. The first component of the two- or multi-component name will
-identify the service and the latter components will identify the host.
-Where the name of the host is not case sensitive (for example, with
-Internet domain names) the name of the host must be lower case. If
-specified by the application protocol for services such as telnet and the
-Berkeley R commands which run with system privileges, the first component
-may be the string 'host' instead of a service specific identifier. When a
-host has an official name and one or more aliases, the official name of the
-host must be used when constructing the name of the server principal.
-
-8. Constants and other defined values
-
-8.1. Host address types
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-All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields
-and interpretations.
-
-The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to match the
-defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard Distributions of
-Unix. They can be found in with symbolic names AF_xxx (where xxx is an
-abbreviation of the address family name).
-
-Internet (IPv4) Addresses
-
-Internet (IPv4) addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
-order. The type of IPv4 addresses is two (2).
-
-Internet (IPv6) Addresses [Westerlund]
-
-IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order. The
-type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24). [RFC1883] [RFC1884]. The
-following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in any Kerberos packet:
-
- * the Unspecified Address
- * the Loopback Address
- * Link-Local addresses
-
-IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
-
-CHAOSnet addresses
-
-CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
-The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
-
-ISO addresses
-
-ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is seven (7).
-
-Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
-XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order. The
-type of XNS addresses is six (6).
-
-AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
-
-AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number and a 16-bit
-network number. The first octet of the address is the node number; the
-remaining two octets encode the network number in MSB order. The type of
-AppleTalk DDP addresses is sixteen (16).
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB order. The
-type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
-
-Netbios addresses
-
-Netbios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to 15
-characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16th octet of
-0x0. The type of Netbios addresses is 20 (0x14).
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-8.2.1. UDP/IP transport
-
-When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request using UDP
-IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram containing only an
-encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the KDC's IP address; the
-KDC will respond with a reply datagram containing only an encoding of the
-reply message (either a KRB_ERROR or a KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at
-the sender's IP address. Kerberos servers supporting IP transport must
-accept UDP requests on port 88 (decimal). The response to a request made
-through UDP/IP transport must also use UDP/IP transport.
-
-8.2.2. TCP/IP transport [Westerlund,Danielsson]
-
-Kerberos servers (KDC's) should accept TCP requests on port 88 (decimal)
-and clients should support the sending of TCP requests on port 88
-(decimal). When the KRB_KDC_REQ message is sent to the KDC over a TCP
-stream, a new connection will be established for each authentication
-exchange (request and response). The KRB_KDC_REP or KRB_ERROR message will
-be returned to the client on the same TCP stream that was established for
-the request. The response to a request made through TCP/IP transport must
-also use TCP/IP transport. Implementors should note that some extentions to
-the Kerberos protocol will not work if any implementation not supporting
-the TCP transport is involved (client or KDC). Implementors are strongly
-urged to support the TCP transport on both the client and server and are
-advised that the current notation of "should" support will likely change in
-the future to must support. The KDC may close the TCP stream after sending
-a response, but may leave the stream open if it expects a followup - in
-which case it may close the stream at any time if resource constratints or
-other factors make it desirable to do so. Care must be taken in managing
-TCP/IP connections with the KDC to prevent denial of service attacks based
-on the number of TCP/IP connections with the KDC that remain open. If
-multiple exchanges with the KDC are needed for certain forms of
-preauthentication, multiple TCP connections may be required. A client may
-close the stream after receiving response, and should close the stream if
-it does not expect to send followup messages. The client must be prepared
-to have the stream closed by the KDC at anytime, in which case it must
-simply connect again when it is ready to send subsequent messages.
-
-The first four octets of the TCP stream used to transmit the request
-request will encode in network byte order the length of the request
-(KRB_KDC_REQ), and the length will be followed by the request itself. The
-response will similarly be preceeded by a 4 octet encoding in network byte
-order of the length of the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR message and will be
-followed by the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR response. If the sign bit is
-set on integer represented by the first 4 octets, then the next 4 octets
-will be read, extending the length of the field by another 4 octets (less 1
-bit).
-
-8.2.3. OSI transport
-
-During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI server, the mutual
-authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
-credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange of
-private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may be
-treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication mechanism will
-be:
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-security(5),kerberosv5(2)}
-
-Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an authentication
-header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply (KRB_AP_REP), a safe message
-(KRB_SAFE), a private message (KRB_PRIV), or a credentials message
-(KRB_CRED). The opaque data contains an application code as specified in
-the ASN.1 description for each message. The application code may be used by
-Kerberos to determine the message type.
-
-8.2.3. Name of the TGS
-
-The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be composed
-of three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS ticket (2) a
-two-part name of type NT-SRV-INST, with the first part "krbtgt" and the
-second part the name of the realm which will accept the ticket-granting
-ticket. For example, a ticket-granting ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU
-realm to be used to get tickets from the ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal
-identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU")
-(name). A ticket-granting ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be
-used to get tickets from the MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of
-"ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
-
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-
-The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines their
-meanings. Ranges are specified in the "specification" section that limit
-the values of constants for which values are defined here. This allows
-implementations to make assumptions about the maximum values that will be
-received for these constants. Implementation receiving values outside the
-range specified in the "specification" section may reject the request, but
-they must recover cleanly.
-
-Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad size confounder
-size
-NULL 0 1 0 0
-des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
-des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
-des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
- 4
-des3-cbc-md5 5 8 0 8
- 6
-des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
-sign-dsa-generate 8 (pkinit)
-encrypt-rsa-priv 9 (pkinit)
-encrypt-rsa-pub 10 (pkinit)
-rsa-pub-md5 11 (pkinit)
-rsa-pub-sha1 12 (pkinit)
-des3kd-cbc-sha1 ?? 8 0 8
-ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS 48 (reserved for pkcross)
- 0x8003
-
-Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
-CRC32 1 4
-rsa-md4 2 16
-rsa-md4-des 3 24
-des-mac 4 16
-des-mac-k 5 8
-rsa-md4-des-k 6 16
-rsa-md5 7 16
-rsa-md5-des 8 24
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-hmac-sha1-des3 12 20 (I had this as 10, is it
-12)
-
-padata type padata-type value
-
-PA-TGS-REQ 1
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
-PA-PW-SALT 3
- 4
-PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5
-PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
-PA-SESAME 7
-PA-OSF-DCE 8
-PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
-PA-AFS3-SALT 10
-PA-ETYPE-INFO 11
-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
-PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-SIGN 16 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-KEY-REQ 17 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-KEY-REP 18 (pkinit)
-PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO 20
-
-authorization data type ad-type value
-AD-KDC-ISSUED 1
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER 2
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS 3
-AD-IF-RELEVANT 4
-AD-OR 5
-AD-MANDATORY-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 6
-AD-IN-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 7
-reserved values 8-63
-OSF-DCE 64
-SESAME 65
-
-Ticket Extension Types
-
-TE-TYPE-NULL 0 Null ticket extension
-TE-TYPE-EXTERNAL-ADATA 1 Integrity protected authorization data
- 2 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC (I have reservations)
-TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3 PKCROSS cross realm key ticket
-TE-TYPE-CYBERSAFE-EXT 4 Assigned to CyberSafe Corp
- 5 TE-TYPE-DEST-HOST (I have reservations)
-
-alternate authentication type method-type value
-reserved values 0-63
-ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
-transited encoding type tr-type value
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
-reserved values all others
-
-Label Value Meaning or MIT code
-
-pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
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-KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
-KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
-KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
-KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
-KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
-KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
-KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
-KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
-KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward
-credentials
-KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
-
-name types
-
-KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
-KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or for
-users
-KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
-KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
-rcommands)
-KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
-KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
-KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 2253]
-
-error codes
-
-KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
-KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version number not
-supported
-KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in database
-KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than end
-time
-KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
-KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested option
-KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption type
-KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum type
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited type
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change password
-to reset
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was
-invalid
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional pre-authenticationrequired
-[40]
-KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't match
-KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for user2user
-only
-KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field
-failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't match
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-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not
-available
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
-KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method
-required
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in message
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in
-message
-KRB_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCEPTED 51 Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG 52 Response too big for UDP, retry with TCP
-KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in e-text)
-KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this
-implementation
-KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66 (pkinit)
-
-9. Interoperability requirements
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options. Among
-these are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative encoding
-schemes for the transited field, optional mechanisms for
-pre-authentication, the handling of tickets with no addresses, options for
-mutual authentication, user to user authentication, support for proxies,
-forwarding, postdating, and renewing tickets, the format of realm names,
-and the handling of authorization data.
-
-In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to
-define a minimal configuration which must be supported by all
-implementations. This minimal configuration is subject to change as
-technology does. For example, if at some later date it is discovered that
-one of the required encryption or checksum algorithms is not secure, it
-will be replaced.
-
-9.1. Specification 2
-
-This section defines the second specification of these options.
-Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to support
-Kerberos Version 5 Specification 2 (5.1). Specification 1 (depricated) may
-be found in RFC1510.
-
-Transport
-
-TCP/IP and UDP/IP transport must be supported by KDCs claiming conformance
-to specification 2. Kerberos clients claiming conformance to specification
-2 must support UDP/IP transport for messages with the KDC and should
-support TCP/IP transport.
-
-Encryption and checksum methods
-
-The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
-Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the additional
-mechanisms may only be used when communicating with principals known to
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-also support them: This list is to be determined.
-
-Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5
-Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5
-
-Realm Names
-
-All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the
-Internet Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket for an
-unknown realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine the names of
-the intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the requested realm.
-
-Transited field encoding
-
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be supported.
-Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be used only when that
-encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
-
-Pre-authentication methods
-
-The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used on the
-initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported by clients
-but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on a realm by realm
-basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP as an
-acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request using the
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not support the
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server should ignore the
-presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in a request.
-
-Mutual authentication
-
-Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
-
-Ticket addresses and flags
-
-All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e. if a TGT
-contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets), but each
-realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and each application
-server will set its own policy with respect to accepting them.
-
-Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms and
-application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets will be
-accepted.
-
-All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets, but
-need not actually implement them. If these options are not supported, the
-starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a ticket's entire useful
-life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a server, all implementations
-shall make the presence of the postdated flag visible to the calling
-server.
-
-User-to-user authentication
-
-Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY KDC
-option) must be provided by implementations, but individual realms may
-decide as a matter of policy to reject such requests on a per-principal or
-realm-wide basis.
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-Authorization data
-
-Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
-ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
-suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered subfield
-type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no registered
-subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
-
-Implementations must make the contents of any authorization data subfields
-available to the server when a ticket is used. Implementations are not
-required to allow clients to specify the contents of the authorization data
-fields.
-
-Constant ranges
-
-All protocol constants are constrained to 32 bit (signed) values unless
-further constrained by the protocol definition. This limit is provided to
-allow implementations to make assumptions about the maximum values that
-will be received for these constants. Implementation receiving values
-outside this range may reject the request, but they must recover cleanly.
-
-9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
-Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation, based
-on the list of suggested configuration constants (see section 4.4).
-
-minimum lifetime 5 minutes
-maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
-maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
-empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
-proxiable, etc. Allowed.
-
-10. REFERENCES
-
-[NT94] B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Y. Ts'o, "An Authenti-
- cation Service for Computer Networks," IEEE Communica-
- tions Magazine, Vol. 32(9), pp. 33-38 (September 1994).
-
-[MNSS87] S. P. Miller, B. C. Neuman, J. I. Schiller, and J. H.
- Saltzer, Section E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and
- Authorization System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge,
- Massachusetts (December 21, 1987).
-
-[SNS88] J. G. Steiner, B. C. Neuman, and J. I. Schiller, "Ker-
- beros: An Authentication Service for Open Network Sys-
- tems," pp. 191-202 in Usenix Conference Proceedings,
- Dallas, Texas (February, 1988).
-
-[NS78] Roger M. Needham and Michael D. Schroeder, "Using
- Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Com-
- puters," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21(12),
- pp. 993-999 (December, 1978).
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-[DS81] Dorothy E. Denning and Giovanni Maria Sacco, "Time-
- stamps in Key Distribution Protocols," Communications
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-[KNT92] John T. Kohl, B. Clifford Neuman, and Theodore Y. Ts'o,
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- "The Evolution of the Kerberos Authentication Service,"
- in an IEEE Computer Society Text soon to be published
- (June 1992).
-
-[Neu93] B. Clifford Neuman, "Proxy-Based Authorization and
- Accounting for Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of
- the 13th International Conference on Distributed Com-
- puting Systems, Pittsburgh, PA (May, 1993).
-
-[DS90] Don Davis and Ralph Swick, "Workstation Services and
- Kerberos Authentication at Project Athena," Technical
- Memorandum TM-424, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- (February 1990).
-
-[LGDSR87] P. J. Levine, M. R. Gretzinger, J. M. Diaz, W. E. Som-
- merfeld, and K. Raeburn, Section E.1: Service Manage-
- ment System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge, Mas-
- sachusetts (1987).
-
-[X509-88] CCITT, Recommendation X.509: The Directory Authentica-
- tion Framework, December 1988.
-
-[Pat92]. J. Pato, Using Pre-Authentication to Avoid Password
- Guessing Attacks, Open Software Foundation DCE Request
- for Comments 26 (December 1992).
-
-[DES77] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "Data Encryption Standard," Federal Information
- Processing Standards Publication 46, Washington, DC
- (1977).
-
-[DESM80] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "DES Modes of Operation," Federal Information
- Processing Standards Publication 81, Springfield, VA
- (December 1980).
-
-[SG92] Stuart G. Stubblebine and Virgil D. Gligor, "On Message
- Integrity in Cryptographic Protocols," in Proceedings
- of the IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and
- Privacy, Oakland, California (May 1992).
-
-[IS3309] International Organization for Standardization, "ISO
- Information Processing Systems - Data Communication -
- High-Level Data Link Control Procedure - Frame Struc-
- ture," IS 3309 (October 1984). 3rd Edition.
-
-[MD4-92] R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1320, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-[MD5-92] R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-[KBC96] H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
- Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
- draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
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-[Horowitz96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Authentication,
-
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- Integrity, and Privacy", draft-horowitz-key-derivation-02.txt,
- August 1998.
-
-[HorowitzB96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Kerberos V5", draft-
- horowitz-kerb-key-derivation-01.txt, September 1998.
-
-[Krawczyk96] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, and M., Canetti, R., "HMAC:
- Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-
- md5-01.txt, August, 1996.
-
-A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
-
-This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to be
-constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
-
-A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt", "localrealm" */
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
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-A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
-
- decode message into req;
-
- client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
-
- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable skew)
-then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
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- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- else
- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted */
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
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-new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE */
- endif
-
- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
-
-A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP)) then
- set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
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- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno, resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
-
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all that
-*/
- /* should be are set
-*/
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
- endif
- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
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- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
-A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
-
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly
-*/
- /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting ticket
-*/
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
-
- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or servers));
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- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
-
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and choosing
-the
- correct key for decryption. The name of the server appears in the
- plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is operating is
- determined by the instance from the ticket-granting ticket. The
-realm
- in the ticket-granting ticket is the realm under which the ticket
- granting ticket was issued. It is possible for a single Kerberos
- server to support more than one realm. */
-
- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not req.sname)
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof and
-keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(req.sname)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(req.sname);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
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- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
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- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
- and those already processed) is set) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket would
-*/
- /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so
-*/
- /* there is no need to check again here
-*/
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till < kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
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- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing
-*/
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
- endif
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the renew-till field
-out */
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into
-decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data := req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data
-+
- decrypted_authorization_data;
-
- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
-
- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited := compress_transited(tgt.transited +
-tgt.realm)
- /* Don't check tranited field if TGT for foreign realm,
- * or requested not to check */
- if (is_not_foreign_tgt_name(new_tkt.server)
- && req.kdc-options.DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK not set) then
-
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- /* Check it, so end-server does not have to
- * but don't fail, end-server may still accept it */
- if (check_transited_field(new_tkt.transited) == OK)
- set new_tkt.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED;
- endif
- endif
- endif
-
- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key),
-second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key,
-server.p_kvno;
- endif
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- resp.cname := tgt.cname;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := session;
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- omit resp.key-expiration;
-
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype, tgt.key;
-
- send(resp);
-
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-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key from
- the response immediately */
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
-resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's session
-key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.8. Authenticator generation
-
- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
-A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
-
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
-
- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
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-
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using session_key;
-
-A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
- else
- retrieve service key for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using retrieved key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm})) then
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- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.transited) then
- /* caller may ignore the TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED and do
- * check anyway */
- if (decr_ticket.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED not set) then
- if (check_transited_field(decr_ticket.transited) then
- error_out(KDC_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED);
- endif
- endif
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
-
-A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
-
- body.ctime := packet.ctime;
- body.cusec := packet.cusec;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
-
-A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
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- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
-
-A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
-
- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
-
-A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof and keyed)
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
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- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
-
- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
-
- if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
- ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
- (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number not present)
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
- sender_principal(packet));
-
- return PACKET_IS_OK;
-
-A.16. KRB_PRIV generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
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- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
-
-A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
-
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
- return(cleartext.DATA, PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.18. KRB_CRED generation
-
- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
-
- for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
- done
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
- body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
-
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
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-
- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
-
- if (using s-address) then
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
- using negotiated encryption key;
-
-A.19. KRB_CRED verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
- return
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- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
-
- get system_time;
- packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
- packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
-
- if (client time available) then
- packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
- endif
- packet.error-code := error code;
- if (client name available) then
- packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
- endif
- if (error text available) then
- packet.e-text := error text;
- endif
- if (error data available) then
- packet.e-data := error data;
- endif
-
-B. Definition of common authorization data elements
-
-This appendix contains the definitions of common authorization data
-elements. These common authorization data elements are recursivly defined,
-meaning the ad-data for these types will itself contain a sequence of
-authorization data whose interpretation is affected by the encapsulating
-element. Depending on the meaning of the encapsulating element, the
-encapsulated elements may be ignored, might be interpreted as issued
-directly by the KDC, or they might be stored in a separate plaintext part
-of the ticket. The types of the encapsulating elements are specified as
-part of the Kerberos specification because the behavior based on these
-values should be understood across implementations whereas other elements
-need only be understood by the applications which they affect.
-
-In the definitions that follow, the value of the ad-type for the element
-will be specified in the subsection number, and the value of the ad-data
-will be as shown in the ASN.1 structure that follows the subsection
-heading.
-
-B.1. KDC Issued
-
-AD-KDCIssued SEQUENCE {
- ad-checksum[0] Checksum,
- i-realm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- i-sname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- elements[3] AuthorizationData.
-}
-
-ad-checksum
- A checksum over the elements field using a cryptographic checksum
- method that is identical to the checksum used to protect the ticket
- itself (i.e. using the same hash function and the same encryption
- algorithm used to encrypt the ticket) and using a key derived from the
- same key used to protect the ticket.
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- The name of the issuing principal if different from the KDC itself.
- This field would be used when the KDC can verify the authenticity of
- elements signed by the issuing principal and it allows this KDC to
- notify the application server of the validity of those elements.
-elements
- A sequence of authorization data elements issued by the KDC.
-
-The KDC-issued ad-data field is intended to provide a means for Kerberos
-principal credentials to embed within themselves privilege attributes and
-other mechanisms for positive authorization, amplifying the priveleges of
-the principal beyond what can be done using a credentials without such an
-a-data element.
-
-This can not be provided without this element because the definition of the
-authorization-data field allows elements to be added at will by the bearer
-of a TGT at the time that they request service tickets and elements may
-also be added to a delegated ticket by inclusion in the authenticator.
-
-For KDC-issued elements this is prevented because the elements are signed
-by the KDC by including a checksum encrypted using the server's key (the
-same key used to encrypt the ticket - or a key derived from that key).
-Elements encapsulated with in the KDC-issued element will be ignored by the
-application server if this "signature" is not present. Further, elements
-encapsulated within this element from a ticket granting ticket may be
-interpreted by the KDC, and used as a basis according to policy for
-including new signed elements within derivative tickets, but they will not
-be copied to a derivative ticket directly. If they are copied directly to a
-derivative ticket by a KDC that is not aware of this element, the signature
-will not be correct for the application ticket elements, and the field will
-be ignored by the application server.
-
-This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
-applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
-element.
-
-B.2. Intended for server
-
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER SEQUENCE {
- intended-server[0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
-}
-
-AD elements encapsulated within the intended-for-server element may be
-ignored if the application server is not in the list of principal names of
-intended servers. Further, a KDC issuing a ticket for an application server
-can remove this element if the application server is not in the list of
-intended servers.
-
-Application servers should check for their principal name in the
-intended-server field of this element. If their principal name is not
-found, this element should be ignored. If found, then the encapsulated
-elements should be evaluated in the same manner as if they were present in
-the top level authorization data field. Applications and application
-servers that do not implement this element should reject tickets that
-contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
-B.3. Intended for application class
-
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS SEQUENCE { intended-application-class[0]
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-SEQUENCE OF GeneralString elements[1] AuthorizationData } AD elements
-encapsulated within the intended-for-application-class element may be
-ignored if the application server is not in one of the named classes of
-application servers. Examples of application server classes include
-"FILESYSTEM", and other kinds of servers.
-
-This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
-applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
-element.
-
-B.4. If relevant
-
-AD-IF-RELEVANT AuthorizationData
-
-AD elements encapsulated within the if-relevant element are intended for
-interpretation only by application servers that understand the particular
-ad-type of the embedded element. Application servers that do not understand
-the type of an element embedded within the if-relevant element may ignore
-the uninterpretable element. This element promotes interoperability across
-implementations which may have local extensions for authorization.
-
-B.5. And-Or
-
-AD-AND-OR SEQUENCE {
- condition-count[0] INTEGER,
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
-}
-
-When restrictive AD elements encapsulated within the and-or element are
-encountered, only the number specified in condition-count of the
-encapsulated conditions must be met in order to satisfy this element. This
-element may be used to implement an "or" operation by setting the
-condition-count field to 1, and it may specify an "and" operation by
-setting the condition count to the number of embedded elements. Application
-servers that do not implement this element must reject tickets that contain
-authorization data elements of this type.
-
-B.6. Mandatory ticket extensions
-
-AD-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
-An authorization data element of type mandatory-ticket-extensions specifies
-a collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect
-the integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum will be calculated over
-an individual extension field. If there are more than one extension,
-multiple Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions authorization data elements may be
-present, each with a checksum for a different extension field. This
-restriction indicates that the ticket should not be accepted if a ticket
-extension is not present in the ticket for which the checksum does not
-match that checksum specified in the authorization data element.
-Application servers that do not implement this element must reject tickets
-that contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
-B.7. Authorization Data in ticket extensions
-
-AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
-An authorization data element of type in-ticket-extensions specifies a
-collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect the
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-integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum is calculated over a separate
-external AuthorizationData field carried in the ticket extensions.
-Application servers that do not implement this element must reject tickets
-that contain authorization data elements of this type. Application servers
-that do implement this element will search the ticket extensions for
-authorization data fields, calculate the specified checksum over each
-authorization data field and look for one matching the checksum in this
-in-ticket-extensions element. If not found, then the ticket must be
-rejected. If found, the corresponding authorization data elements will be
-interpreted in the same manner as if they were contained in the top level
-authorization data field.
-
-Note that if multiple external authorization data fields are present in a
-ticket, each will have a corresponding element of type in-ticket-extensions
-in the top level authorization data field, and the external entries will be
-linked to the corresponding element by their checksums.
-
-C. Definition of common ticket extensions
-
-This appendix contains the definitions of common ticket extensions. Support
-for these extensions is optional. However, certain extensions have
-associated authorization data elements that may require rejection of a
-ticket containing an extension by application servers that do not implement
-the particular extension. Other extensions have been defined beyond those
-described in this specification. Such extensions are described elswhere and
-for some of those extensions the reserved number may be found in the list
-of constants.
-
-It is known that older versions of Kerberos did not support this field, and
-that some clients will strip this field from a ticket when they parse and
-then reassemble a ticket as it is passed to the application servers. The
-presence of the extension will not break such clients, but any functionaly
-dependent on the extensions will not work when such tickets are handled by
-old clients. In such situations, some implementation may use alternate
-methods to transmit the information in the extensions field.
-
-C.1. Null ticket extension
-
-TE-NullExtension OctetString -- The empty Octet String
-
-The te-data field in the null ticket extension is an octet string of lenght
-zero. This extension may be included in a ticket granting ticket so that
-the KDC can determine on presentation of the ticket granting ticket whether
-the client software will strip the extensions field.
-
-C.2. External Authorization Data
-
-TE-ExternalAuthorizationData AuthorizationData
-
-The te-data field in the external authorization data ticket extension is
-field of type AuthorizationData containing one or more authorization data
-elements. If present, a corresponding authorization data element will be
-present in the primary authorization data for the ticket and that element
-will contain a checksum of the external authorization data ticket
-extension.
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-[TM] Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of the
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these
-trademarks may be made without prior written permission of MIT.
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-[1] Note, however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only upon
-the initiation of a stream-based network connection. Unless an application
-subsequently provides integrity protection for the data stream, the
-identity verification applies only to the initiation of the connection, and
-does not guarantee that subsequent messages on the connection originate
-from the same principal.
-
-[2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably in the literature. In
-our usage, it takes two (or more) to share a secret, thus a shared DES key
-is a secret key. Something is only private when no one but its owner knows
-it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one has a public and a private key.
-
-[3] Of course, with appropriate permission the client could arrange
-registration of a separately-named prin- cipal in a remote realm, and
-engage in normal exchanges with that realm's services. However, for even
-small numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more automatic
-methods as described here are necessary.
-
-[4] Though it is permissible to request or issue tick- ets with no network
-addresses specified.
-
-[5] The password-changing request must not be honored unless the requester
-can provide the old password (the user's current secret key). Otherwise, it
-would be possible for someone to walk up to an unattended ses- sion and
-change another user's password.
-
-[6] To authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the credentials
-obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS exchange to obtain
-credentials for a local server. Those credentials must then be verified by
-a local server through successful completion of the Client/Server exchange.
-
-[7] "Random" means that, among other things, it should be impossible to
-guess the next session key based on knowledge of past session keys. This
-can only be achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is based on
-cryptographic principles. It is more desirable to use a truly random number
-generator, such as one based on measurements of random physical phenomena.
-
-[8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted portion, so cleartext
-here refers to the entire unit, which can be copied from one message and
-replayed in another without any cryptographic skill.
-
-[9] Note that this can make applications based on unreliable transports
-difficult to code correctly. If the transport might deliver duplicated
-messages, either a new authenticator must be generated for each retry, or
-the application server must match requests and replies and replay the first
-reply in response to a detected duplicate.
-
-[10] This is used for user-to-user authentication as described in [8].
-
-[11] Note that the rejection here is restricted to authenticators from the
-same principal to the same server. Other client principals communicating
-with the same server principal should not be have their authenticators
-rejected if the time and microsecond fields happen to match some other
-client's authenticator.
-
-[12] In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the timestamp in the reply was the
-client's timestamp plus one. This is not necessary in version 5 because
-version 5 messages are formatted in such a way that it is not possible to
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-create the reply by judicious message surgery (even in encrypted form)
-without knowledge of the appropriate encryption keys.
-
-[13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session key
-is not used, even if present in the Authenticator.
-
-[14] Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to choose
-subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to generate a
-negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-[15]This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known beforehand
-(since the realm is part of the principal identifier), it might be stored
-in a nameserver, or it might be obtained from a configura- tion file. If
-the realm to be used is obtained from a nameserver, there is a danger of
-being spoofed if the nameservice providing the realm name is not authenti-
-cated. This might result in the use of a realm which has been compromised,
-and would result in an attacker's ability to compromise the authentication
-of the application server to the client.
-
-[16] If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to ensure
-the randomness of the selected sub- session key. One approach would be to
-generate a random number and XOR it with the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket.
-
-[17] This allows easy implementation of user-to-user authentication [8],
-which uses ticket-granting ticket session keys in lieu of secret server
-keys in situa- tions where such secret keys could be easily comprom- ised.
-
-[18] For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding the first listed
-realm is considered to be the null realm ("").
-
-[19] For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the client's realm is
-considered to precede those in the transited field, and the server's realm
-is considered to follow them.
-
-[20] This means that a client and server running on the same host and
-communicating with one another using the KRB_SAFE messages should not share
-a common replay cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
-
-[21] The implementation of the Kerberos server need not combine the
-database and the server on the same machine; it is feasible to store the
-principal database in, say, a network name service, as long as the entries
-stored therein are protected from disclosure to and modification by
-unauthorized parties. However, we recommend against such strategies, as
-they can make system management and threat analysis quite complex.
-
-[22] See the discussion of the padata field in section 5.4.2 for details on
-why this can be useful.
-
-[23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack data structures
-during the generation and verification of embedded checksums: Because any
-checksums applied to data structures must be checked against the original
-data the length of bit strings must be preserved within a data structure
-between the time that a checksum is generated through transmission to the
-time that the checksum is verified.
-
-[24] It is NOT recommended that this time value be used to adjust the
-workstation's clock since the workstation cannot reliably determine that
-such a KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely manner.
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-[25] Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one must make
-sure that the workstation time is monotonically increasing. If the time is
-ever reset backwards, there is a small, but finite, probability that a
-nonce will be reused.
-
-[27] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[29] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[31] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an initialization vector
-may be passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve proper
-cipher chaining. The initialization vector might come from the last block
-of the ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV message, but it is the
-application's choice whether or not to use such an initialization vector.
-If left out, the default initialization vector for the encryption algorithm
-will be used.
-
-[33] This prevents an attacker who generates an incorrect AS request from
-obtaining verifiable plaintext for use in an off-line password guessing
-attack.
-
-[35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
-notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is not a
-valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from the
-confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the message
-starts with random data, but the tag and its length are fixed. For other
-fields, the length and tag would be redundant if they were included because
-they are specified by the encryption type. [36] The ordering of the fields
-in the CipherText is important. Additionally, messages encoded in this
-format must include a length as part of the msg-seq field. This allows the
-recipient to verify that the message has not been truncated. Without a
-length, an attacker could use a chosen plaintext attack to generate a
-message which could be truncated, while leaving the checksum intact. Note
-that if the msg-seq is an encoding of an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING,
-then the length is part of that encoding.
-
-[37] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in" string
-for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in section 5.4.2.
-
-[38] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in" string
-for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in section 5.4.2.
-
-[39] A variant of the key is used to limit the use of a key to a particular
-function, separating the functions of generating a checksum from other
-encryption performed using the session key. The constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0
-was chosen because it maintains key parity. The properties of DES precluded
-the use of the complement. The same constant is used for similar purpose in
-the Message Integrity Check in the Privacy Enhanced Mail standard.
-
-[40] This error carries additional information in the e- data field. The
-contents of the e-data field for this message is described in section
-5.9.1.
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- June 25, 1999
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-The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
-
-STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
-provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents
-of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working
-groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as
-Internet-Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and
-may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
-inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to cite them
-other than as "work in progress."
-
-The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
-The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. To learn the current status of any
-Internet-Draft, please check the '1id-abstracts.txt' listing contained in
-the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories.
-
-The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-04.txt, and expires December 25th, 1999.
-Please send comments to: krb-protocol@MIT.EDU
-
-ABSTRACT
-
-This document provides an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to clarify aspects of the protocol
-and its intended use that require more detailed or clearer explanation than
-was provided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a detailed
-description of the protocol, suitable for implementation, together with
-descriptions of the appropriate use of protocol messages and fields within
-those messages.
-
-This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to the end user, system
-administrator, or application developer. Higher level papers describing
-Version 5 of the Kerberos system [NT94] and documenting version 4 [SNS88],
-are available elsewhere.
-
-OVERVIEW
-
-This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model upon which the Kerberos
-network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol.
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-The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
-decisions are treated cursorily; they are more fully described in a paper
-available in IEEE communications [NT94] and earlier in the Kerberos portion
-of the Athena Technical Plan [MNSS87]. The protocols have been a proposed
-standard and are being considered for advancement for draft standard through
-the IETF standard process. Comments are encouraged on the presentation, but
-only minor refinements to the protocol as implemented or extensions that fit
-within current protocol framework will be considered at this time.
-
-Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for discussion of
-Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU.
-This mailing list is gatewayed onto the Usenet as the group
-comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further information, including
-documents and code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
-
-BACKGROUND
-
-The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's trusted
-third-party authentication protocol [NS78] and on modifications suggested by
-Denning and Sacco [DS81]. The original design and implementation of Kerberos
-Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena staff
-members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and Clifford Neuman
-(now at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern
-California), along with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of Project
-Athena, and Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many other members
-of Project Athena have also contributed to the work on Kerberos.
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this document) has evolved
-from Version 4 based on new requirements and desires for features not
-available in Version 4. The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol was
-led by Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the community. The
-development of the MIT reference implementation was led at MIT by John Kohl
-and Theodore T'so, with help and contributed code from many others. Since
-RFC1510 was issued, extensions and revisions to the protocol have been
-proposed by many individuals. Some of these proposals are reflected in this
-document. Where such changes involved significant effort, the document cites
-the contribution of the proposer.
-
-Reference implementations of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are
-publicly available and commercial implementations have been developed and
-are widely used. Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4 and
-5 can be found in [KNT92].
-
-1. Introduction
-
-Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals, (e.g. a
-workstation user or a network server) on an open (unprotected) network. This
-is accomplished without relying on assertions by the host operating system,
-without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical security
-of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that packets
-traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at will[1].
-Kerberos performs authentication under these conditions as a trusted
-third-party authentication service by using conventional (shared secret key
-[2] cryptography. Kerberos extensions have been proposed and implemented
-that provide for the use of public key cryptography during certain phases of
-the authentication protocol. These extensions provide for authentication of
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-users registered with public key certification authorities, and allow the
-system to provide certain benefits of public key cryptography in situations
-where they are needed.
-
-The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as follows: A client
-sends a request to the authentication server (AS) requesting 'credentials'
-for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in the
-client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a 'ticket' for the server and 2)
-a temporary encryption key (often called a "session key"). The client
-transmits the ticket (which contains the client's identity and a copy of the
-session key, all encrypted in the server's key) to the server. The session
-key (now shared by the client and server) is used to authenticate the
-client, and may optionally be used to authenticate the server. It may also
-be used to encrypt further communication between the two parties or to
-exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt further
-communication.
-
-Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or more authentication
-servers running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
-maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their secret
-keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos protocol.
-In order to add authentication to its transactions, a typical network
-application adds one or two calls to the Kerberos library directly or
-through the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface,
-GSSAPI, described in separate document. These calls result in the
-transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authentication.
-
-The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or exchanges).
-There are two basic methods by which a client can ask a Kerberos server for
-credentials. In the first approach, the client sends a cleartext request for
-a ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent encrypted in
-the client's secret key. Usually this request is for a ticket-granting
-ticket (TGT) which can later be used with the ticket-granting server (TGS).
-In the second method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client uses
-the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same manner as if it were
-contacting any other application server that requires Kerberos
-authentication. The reply is encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
-Though the protocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
-servers, they are implemented in practice as different protocol entry points
-within a single Kerberos server.
-
-Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
-principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages exchanged
-between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The application is
-free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
-
-To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the client
-transmits the ticket to the application server. Since the ticket is sent "in
-the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't thwart
-replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker, additional
-information is sent to prove that the message originated with the principal
-to whom the ticket was issued. This information (called the authenticator)
-is encrypted in the session key, and includes a timestamp. The timestamp
-proves that the message was recently generated and is not a replay.
-Encrypting the authenticator in the session key proves that it was generated
-by a party possessing the session key. Since no one except the requesting
-principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent over the
-network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
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-The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also be
-guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and contained in the
-credentials). This approach provides detection of both replay attacks and
-message stream modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
-transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest
-function) of the client's message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and
-integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can be secured by
-encrypting the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
-ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
-
-The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access to the
-Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the database must be
-modified, such as when adding new principals or changing a principal's key.
-This is done using a protocol between a client and a third Kerberos server,
-the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM). There is also a protocol for
-maintaining multiple copies of the Kerberos database. Neither of these
-protocols are described in this document.
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-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
-The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
-boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a server in
-another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes its
-own 'realm'. The name of the realm in which a client is registered is part
-of the client's name, and can be used by the end-service to decide whether
-to honor a request.
-
-By establishing 'inter-realm' keys, the administrators of two realms can
-allow a client authenticated in the local realm to prove its identity to
-servers in other realms[3]. The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate key
-may be used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service of
-each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able to
-obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-granting
-service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting ticket is used, the
-remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
-differs from its own normal TGS key) to decrypt the ticket-granting ticket,
-and is thus certain that it was issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets
-issued by the remote ticket-granting service will indicate to the
-end-service that the client was authenticated from another realm.
-
-A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms share an
-inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm key with an
-intermediate realm that communicates with the remote realm. An
-authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are
-transited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
-Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a key with
-its parent and a different key with each child. If an inter-realm key is not
-directly shared by two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an
-authentication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical organization
-is not used, it may be necessary to consult a database in order to construct
-an authentication path between realms.
-
-Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may be
-bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
-authentication paths (these might be established to make communication
-between two realms more efficient). It is important for the end-service to
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-know which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to place in
-the authentication process. To facilitate this decision, a field in each
-ticket contains the names of the realms that were involved in authenticating
-the client.
-
-The application server is ultimately responsible for accepting or rejecting
-authentication and should check the transited field. The application server
-may choose to rely on the KDC for the application server's realm to check
-the transited field. The application server's KDC will set the
-TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag in this case. The KDC's for intermediate
-realms may also check the transited field as they issue
-ticket-granting-tickets for other realms, but they are encouraged not to do
-so. A client may request that the KDC's not check the transited field by
-setting the DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK flag. KDC's are encouraged but not
-required to honor this flag.
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-1.2. Authorization
-
-As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of verifying the
-identity of principals on a network. Authentication is usually useful
-primarily as a first step in the process of authorization, determining
-whether a client may use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
-access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos does not, by
-itself, provide authorization. Possession of a client ticket for a service
-provides only for authentication of the client to that service, and in the
-absence of a separate authorization procedure, it should not be considered
-by an application as authorizing the use of that service.
-
-Such separate authorization methods may be implemented as application
-specific access control functions and may be based on files such as the
-application server, or on separately issued authorization credentials such
-as those based on proxies [Neu93] , or on other authorization services.
-
-Applications should not be modified to accept the issuance of a service
-ticket by the Kerberos server (even by an modified Kerberos server) as
-granting authority to use the service, since such applications may become
-vulnerable to the bypass of this authorization check in an environment if
-they interoperate with other KDCs or where other options for application
-authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP proposal) are provided.
-
-1.3. Environmental assumptions
-
-Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
-properly function:
-
- * 'Denial of service' attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There are
- places in these protocols where an intruder can prevent an application
- from participating in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
- solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to be nnot-uncommon
- 'normal' failure modes for the system) is usually best left to the
- human administrators and users.
- * Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder somehow
- steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade as that
- principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate principal.
- * 'Password guessing' attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user
- chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to successfully
- mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly attempting to decrypt,
- with successive entries from a dictionary, messages obtained which are
- encrypted under a key derived from the user's password.
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- * Each host on the network must have a clock which is 'loosely
- synchronized' to the time of the other hosts; this synchronization is
- used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of application servers when they
- do replay detection. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
- per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5 minutes. If the
- clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock synchronization
- protocol must itself be secured from network attackers.
- * Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A typical
- mode of access control will use access control lists (ACLs) to grant
- permissions to particular principals. If a stale ACL entry remains for
- a deleted principal and the principal identifier is reused, the new
- principal will inherit rights specified in the stale ACL entry. By not
- re-using principal identifiers, the danger of inadvertent access is
- removed.
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-1.4. Glossary of terms
-
-Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
-
-Authentication
- Verifying the claimed identity of a principal.
-Authentication header
- A record containing a Ticket and an Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication process.
-Authentication path
- A sequence of intermediate realms transited in the authentication
- process when communicating from one realm to another.
-Authenticator
- A record containing information that can be shown to have been recently
- generated using the session key known only by the client and server.
-Authorization
- The process of determining whether a client may use a service, which
- objects the client is allowed to access, and the type of access allowed
- for each.
-Capability
- A token that grants the bearer permission to access an object or
- service. In Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose use is restricted by
- the contents of the authorization data field, but which lists no
- network addresses, together with the session key necessary to use the
- ticket.
-Ciphertext
- The output of an encryption function. Encryption transforms plaintext
- into ciphertext.
-Client
- A process that makes use of a network service on behalf of a user. Note
- that in some cases a Server may itself be a client of some other server
- (e.g. a print server may be a client of a file server).
-Credentials
- A ticket plus the secret session key necessary to successfully use that
- ticket in an authentication exchange.
-KDC
- Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
- temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host on
- which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and ticket-granting
- ticket requests. The initial ticket portion is sometimes referred to as
- the Authentication Server (or service). The ticket-granting ticket
- portion is sometimes referred to as the ticket-granting server (or
- service).
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-Kerberos
- Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the protocol used by that service, or
- the code used to implement the authentication service.
-Plaintext
- The input to an encryption function or the output of a decryption
- function. Decryption transforms ciphertext into plaintext.
-Principal
- A uniquely named client or server instance that participates in a
- network communication.
-Principal identifier
- The name used to uniquely identify each different principal.
-Seal
- To encipher a record containing several fields in such a way that the
- fields cannot be individually replaced without either knowledge of the
- encryption key or leaving evidence of tampering.
-Secret key
- An encryption key shared by a principal and the KDC, distributed
- outside the bounds of the system, with a long lifetime. In the case of
- a human user's principal, the secret key is derived from a password.
-Server
- A particular Principal which provides a resource to network clients.
- The server is sometimes refered to as the Application Server.
-Service
- A resource provided to network clients; often provided by more than one
- server (for example, remote file service).
-Session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single login "session".
-Sub-session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, selected and
- exchanged by the principals using the session key, and with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single association.
-Ticket
- A record that helps a client authenticate itself to a server; it
- contains the client's identity, a session key, a timestamp, and other
- information, all sealed using the server's secret key. It only serves
- to authenticate a client when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
-
-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
-
-Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to indicate
-various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be requested by a client
-when the ticket is obtained; some are automatically turned on and off by a
-Kerberos server as required. The following sections explain what the various
-flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
-The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS protocol
-and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket. Application servers that
-want to require the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
-password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set in any tickets
-they accept, and thus be assured that the client's key was recently
-presented to the application client.
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-The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information about the
-initial authentication, regardless of whether the current ticket was issued
-directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of
-a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is clear, but the
-PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried forward from the
-ticket-granting ticket).
-
-2.2. Invalid tickets
-
-The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application servers
-must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated ticket will
-usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the KDC
-before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the VALIDATE
-option specified. The KDC will only validate tickets after their starttime
-has passed. The validation is required so that postdated tickets which have
-been stolen before their starttime can be rendered permanently invalid
-(through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
-
-2.3. Renewable tickets
-
-Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long periods
-of time. However, this can expose their credentials to potential theft for
-equally long periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until the
-expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-lived tickets and
-obtaining new ones periodically would require the client to have long-term
-access to its secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be
-used to mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
-"expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the ticket
-expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an individual
-expiration time. An application client must periodically (i.e. before it
-expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the RENEW option set in
-the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new ticket with a new session key and
-a later expiration time. All other fields of the ticket are left unmodified
-by the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration time arrives,
-the ticket expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may consult a
-hot-list to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen since its last
-renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and thus the usable
-lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
-
-The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can usually be
-ignored by application servers. However, some particularly careful
-application servers may wish to disallow renewable tickets.
-
-If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC will
-not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default, but a client
-may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ
-message. If it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains the
-time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
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-Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much later,
-e.g. a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid at the time
-the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets in
-a batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more prone to theft.
-Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain these tickets from the KDC at job
-submission time, but to leave them "dormant" until they are activated and
-validated by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft were reported
-in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket, and the thief
-would be foiled.
-
-The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. This flag
-must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated ticket
-based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it may be requested
-by a client by setting the ALLOW-POSTDATE option in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
-This flag does not allow a client to obtain a postdated ticket-granting
-ticket; postdated ticket-granting tickets can only by obtained by requesting
-the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life (endtime-starttime) of a
-postdated ticket will be the remaining life of the ticket-granting ticket at
-the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE option is also set, in which
-case it can be the full life (endtime-starttime) of the ticket-granting
-ticket. The KDC may limit how far in the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
-The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
-application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see when
-the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose to reject
-postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain period
-after the original authentication. When the KDC issues a POSTDATED ticket,
-it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the application client must
-present the ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
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-2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets
-
-At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to perform
-an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take on the identity
-of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A principal can allow a
-service to take on the principal's identity for a particular purpose by
-granting it a proxy.
-
-The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and proxiable flags is used
-to provide credentials for use with specific services. Though conceptually
-also a proxy, user's wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose must
-use the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next section to forward
-a ticket granting ticket.
-
-The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. When set,
-this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to issue a new
-ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network address
-based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the client on initial
-authentication. By default, the client will request that it be set when
-requesting a ticket granting ticket, and reset when requesting any other
-ticket.
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-This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a remote
-request on its behalf, e.g. a print service client can give the print server
-a proxy to access the client's files on a particular file server in order to
-satisfy a print request.
-
-In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos tickets are
-usually valid from only those network addresses specifically included in the
-ticket[4]. When granting a proxy, the client must specify the new network
-address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that the proxy is to
-be issued for use from any address.
-
-The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a proxy ticket.
-Application servers may check this flag and at their option they may require
-additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in order to
-provide an audit trail.
-
-2.6. Forwardable tickets
-
-Authentication forwarding is an instance of a proxy where the service is
-granted complete use of the client's identity. An example where it might be
-used is when a user logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to
-work from that system as if the login were local.
-
-The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. The
-FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE
-flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
-network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users may request that
-it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in the AS request when they
-request their initial ticket- granting ticket.
-
-This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the user to
-enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then authentication
-forwarding is not permitted, but the same result can still be achieved if
-the user engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
-addresses and supplies a password.
-
-The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket with
-the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests a forwarded ticket by specifying the
-FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket. It
-is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the FORWARDED flag
-set. Application servers may choose to process FORWARDED tickets differently
-than non-FORWARDED tickets.
-
-2.7. Other KDC options
-
-There are two additional options which may be set in a client's request of
-the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the client will accept a
-renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be
-provided. If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then the
-KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal to the the
-requested endtime. The value of the renew-till field may still be adjusted
-by site-determined limits or limits imposed by the individual principal or
-server.
-
-The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting service.
-It indicates that the ticket to be issued for the end server is to be
-encrypted in the session key from the a additional second ticket-granting
-ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific details.
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-The following sections describe the interactions between network clients and
-servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
-
-3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
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-The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the Kerberos
-Authentication Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain
-authentication credentials for a given server but currently holds no
-credentials. In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for
-encryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at the initiation
-of a login session to obtain credentials for a Ticket-Granting Server which
-will subsequently be used to obtain credentials for other servers (see
-section 3.3) without requiring further use of the client's secret key. This
-exchange is also used to request credentials for services which must not be
-mediated through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather require a
-principal's secret key, such as the password-changing service[5]. This
-exchange does not by itself provide any assurance of the the identity of the
-user[6].
-
-The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
-Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
-messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
-
-In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and the
-identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials. The response,
-KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present to the server, and a
-session key that will be shared by the client and the server. The session
-key and additional information are encrypted in the client's secret key. The
-KRB_AS_REP message contains information which can be used to detect replays,
-and to associate it with the message to which it replies. Various errors can
-occur; these are indicated by an error response (KRB_ERROR) instead of the
-KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not encrypted. The KRB_ERROR
-message contains information which can be used to associate it with the
-message to which it replies. The lack of encryption in the KRB_ERROR message
-precludes the ability to detect replays, fabrications, or modifications of
-such messages.
-
-Without preautentication, the authentication server does not know whether
-the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply sends a
-reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same. This is
-acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in the
-request will be able to use the reply. Its critical information is encrypted
-in that principal's key. The initial request supports an optional field that
-can be used to pass additional information that might be needed for the
-initial exchange. This field may be used for preauthentication as described
-in section [hl<>].
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-
-The client may specify a number of options in the initial request. Among
-these options are whether pre-authentication is to be performed; whether the
-requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable; whether it
-should be postdated or allow postdating of derivative tickets; and whether a
-renewable ticket will be accepted in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the
-requested ticket expiration date cannot be satisfied by a non-renewable
-ticket (due to configuration constraints; see section 4). See section A.1
-for pseudocode.
-
-The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
-
-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in the
-creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server. The format for
-the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket are
-determined as follows.
-
-3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-The authentication server looks up the client and server principals named in
-the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective keys. If
-required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if the
-pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate the
-requested encryption type, an error message with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP
-is returned. Otherwise it generates a 'random' session key[7].
-
-If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a client in the
-Kerberos database (or if the key registered supports multiple encryption
-types; e.g. DES-CBC-CRC and DES-CBC-MD5), then the etype field from the AS
-request is used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be used for
-encrypting the response to the client. If there is more than one supported,
-strong encryption type in the etype list, the first valid etype for which an
-encryption key is available is used. The encryption method used to respond
-to a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session key found in the
-ticket granting ticket. [***I will change the example keytypes to be 3DES
-based examples 7/14***]
-
-When the etype field is present in a KDC request, whether an AS or TGS
-request, the KDC will attempt to assign the type of the random session key
-from the list of methods in the etype field. The KDC will select the
-appropriate type using the list of methods provided together with
-information from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable encryption
-methods for the application server. The KDC will not issue tickets with a
-weak session key encryption type.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise
-the requested start time is checked against the policy of the local realm
-(the administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or ranges of
-postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as
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-requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The postdated
-ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the
-start time has been reached.
-
-The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
-following:
-
- * The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the client principal (the authentication server's database
- includes a maximum ticket lifetime field in each principal's record;
- see section 4).
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the server principal.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by the policy of
- the local realm.
-
-If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined above)
-is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error message with code
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested expiration time for the
-ticket exceeds what was determined as above, and if the 'RENEWABLE-OK'
-option was requested, then the 'RENEWABLE' flag is set in the new ticket,
-and the renew-till value is set as if the 'RENEWABLE' option were requested
-(the field and option names are described fully in section 5.4.1).
-
-If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option has
-been set and a renewable ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till field
-is set to the minimum of:
-
- * Its requested value.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two maximum
- renewable lifetimes associated with the principals' database entries.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable lifetime set by
- the policy of the local realm.
-
-The flags field of the new ticket will have the following options set if
-they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm allows:
-FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new
-ticket is post-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
-will also be set.
-
-If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message (see
-section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the caddr of the
-response, placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata of
-the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the client's key using the
-requested encryption method, and sends it to the client. See section A.2 for
-pseudocode.
-
-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
-
-Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
-returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the error-code
-and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error message contents and
-details are described in Section 5.9.1.
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-If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies that the
-cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the reply match what it
-requested. If any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive the
-proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client decrypts the encrypted
-part of the response using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the
-encrypted part matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect
-replays). It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match
-those in the request (or are otherwise expected values), and that the host
-address field is also correct. It then stores the ticket, session key, start
-and expiration times, and other information for later use. The
-key-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may be checked
-to notify the user of impending key expiration (the client program could
-then suggest remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3
-for pseudocode.
-
-Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to verify the
-identity of the user; the user and an attacker could cooperate to generate a
-KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts properly but is not from the proper
-KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user, it must require
-the user to present application credentials which can be verified using a
-securely-stored secret key for the host. If those credentials can be
-verified, then the identity of the user can be assured.
-
-3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client interprets it as an
-error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are necessary to
-recover.
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-3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange
-
- Summary
-Message direction Message type Section
-Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
-[optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
-applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa. The
-client must have already acquired credentials for the server using the AS or
-TGS exchange.
-
-3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be part of
-the first message in an authenticated transaction. It contains a ticket, an
-authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
-5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insufficient to
-authenticate a client, since tickets are passed across the network in
-cleartext[DS90], so the authenticator is used to prevent invalid replay of
-tickets by proving to the server that the client knows the session key of
-the ticket and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ message is
-referred to elsewhere as the 'authentication header.'
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-When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it obtains
-(either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the TGS exchange) a
-ticket and session key for the desired service. The client may re-use any
-tickets it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client constructs a
-new Authenticator from the the system time, its name, and optionally an
-application specific checksum, an initial sequence number to be used in
-KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in
-negotiations for a session key unique to this particular session.
-Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if replayed to a
-server[LGDSR87]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should be
-randomly chosen so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is
-not likely to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
-The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the use of
-a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s) in the
-ap-options field of the message.
-
-The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with the
-ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the end server
-along with any additional application-specific information. See section A.9
-for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks must be
-loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket. Several errors are
-possible. If an error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the client
-with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated in the
-application protocol if its 'raw' form is not acceptable to the protocol.
-The format of error messages is described in section 5.9.1.
-
-The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows. If the
-message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE
-error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is not
-one the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old key, and the server no
-longer possesses a copy of the old key), the KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is
-returned. If the USE-SESSION-KEY flag is set in the ap-options field, it
-indicates to the server that the ticket is encrypted in the session key from
-the server's ticket-granting ticket rather than its secret key[10]. Since it
-is possible for the server to be registered in multiple realms, with
-different keys in each, the srealm field in the unencrypted portion of the
-ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to specify which secret key the server
-should use to decrypt that ticket. The KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is
-returned if the server doesn't have the proper key to decipher the ticket.
-
-The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key specified by
-the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a modification of the ticket
-(each encryption system must provide safeguards to detect modified
-ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned
-(chances are good that different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
-
-The authenticator is decrypted using the session key extracted from the
-decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm of the client
-from the ticket are compared against the same fields in the authenticator.
-If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is returned (they might
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-not match, for example, if the wrong session key was used to encrypt the
-authenticator). The addresses in the ticket (if any) are then searched for
-an address matching the operating-system reported address of the client. If
-no match is found or the server insists on ticket addresses but none are
-present in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error is returned.
-
-If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator differ
-by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW
-error is returned. If the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any recently-seen such
-tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is returned[11]. The server must
-remember any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, so
-that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses track of any
-authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, it must reject all
-requests until the clock skew interval has passed. This assures that any
-lost or re-played authenticators will fall outside the allowable clock skew
-and can no longer be successfully replayed (If this is not done, an attacker
-could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator sent over the network
-to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as the disabled host, and
-replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the authentication.). If a
-sequence number is provided in the authenticator, the server saves it for
-later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV messages. If a subkey is
-present, the server either saves it for later use or uses it to help
-generate its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus the
-start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than the current
-time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
-the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Otherwise, if the
-current time is later than end time by more than the allowable clock skew,
-the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error is returned.
-
-If all these checks succeed without an error, the server is assured that the
-client possesses the credentials of the principal named in the ticket and
-thus, the client has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10 for
-pseudocode.
-
-Passing these checks provides only authentication of the named principal; it
-does not imply authorization to use the named service. Applications must
-make a separate authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name of
-the user, the requested operation, local acces control information such as
-that contained in a .k5login or .k5users file, and possibly a separate
-distributed authorization service.
-
-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
-
-Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
-information and its initial request in the same message, and the server need
-not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual authentication
-(not only authenticating the client to the server, but also the server to
-the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message will have
-MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a KRB_AP_REP message is
-required in response. As with the error message, this message may be
-encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not acceptable
-to the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond field used in
-the reply must be the client's timestamp and microsecond field (as provided
-in the authenticator)[12]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should
-be randomly chosen as described above for the authenticator. A subkey may be
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-included if the server desires to negotiate a different subkey. The
-KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in the session key extracted from the
-ticket. See section A.11 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
-
-If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key from
-the credentials obtained for the server[13] to decrypt the message, and
-verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
-Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client is
-assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey (if
-present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
-
-After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and server
-share an encryption key which can be used by the application. The 'true
-session key' to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
-application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on the
-subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some cases,
-the use of this session key will be implicit in the protocol; in others the
-method of use must be chosen from several alternatives. We leave the
-protocol negotiations of how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption or
-checksum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does not
-constrain the implementation options, but an example of how this might be
-done follows.
-
-One way that an application may choose to negotiate a key to be used for
-subequent integrity and privacy protection is for the client to propose a
-key in the subkey field of the authenticator. The server can then choose a
-key using the proposed key from the client as input, returning the new
-subkey in the subkey field of the application reply. This key could then be
-used for subsequent communication. To make this example more concrete, if
-the encryption method in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever reason,
-one of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than 40 unknown
-bits, this method would allow the the party which is prevented from using
-more than 40 bits to either propose (if the client) an initial key with a
-known quantity for 16 of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if the
-server) with the known quantity. The application implementor is warned,
-however, that this is only an example, and that an analysis of the
-particular crytosystem to be used, and the reasons for limiting the key
-length, must be made before deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits
-of the key.
-
-With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers should
-take care not to send sensitive information to each other without proper
-assurances. In particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
-should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client to assure both
-client and server of their peer's identity. If an application protocol
-requires privacy of its messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section
-3.5). The KRB_SAFE message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
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- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server is
-initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication credentials
-for a given server (which might be registered in a remote realm), when it
-wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when it wishes to obtain
-a proxy ticket. In the first case, the client must already have acquired a
-ticket for the Ticket-Granting Service using the AS exchange (the
-ticket-granting ticket is usually obtained when a client initially
-authenticates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The message
-format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS exchange.
-The primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the TGS exchange
-does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the session key from
-the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or sub-session key from an
-Authenticator is used. As is the case for all application servers, expired
-tickets are not accepted by the TGS, so once a renewable or ticket-granting
-ticket expires, the client must use a separate exchange to obtain valid
-tickets.
-
-The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ) from the
-client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or
-KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating the
-client plus a request for credentials. The authentication information
-consists of the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the
-client's previously obtained ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket.
-In the ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one
-or more of: a list of network addresses, a collection of typed authorization
-data to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the application
-server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described later). The
-TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials, encrypted in the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or if
-present, in the sub-session key from the Authenticator (part of the
-authentication header). The KRB_ERROR message contains an error code and
-text explaining what went wrong. The KRB_ERROR message is not encrypted. The
-KRB_TGS_REP message contains information which can be used to detect
-replays, and to associate it with the message to which it replies. The
-KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can be used to associate
-it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of encryption in the
-KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays or fabrications of
-such messages.
-
-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client must
-determine in which realm the application server is registered[15]. If the
-client does not already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
-realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted by requesting a
-ticket-granting ticket for the destination realm from a Kerberos server for
-which the client does posess a ticket-granting ticket (using the KRB_TGS_REQ
-message recursively). The Kerberos server may return a TGT for the desired
-realm in which case one can proceed. Alternatively, the Kerberos server may
-return a TGT for a realm which is 'closer' to the desired realm (further
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-along the standard hierarchical path), in which case this step must be
-repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm specified in the returned TGT.
-If neither are returned, then the request must be retried with a Kerberos
-server for a realm higher in the hierarchy. This request will itself require
-a ticket-granting ticket for the higher realm which must be obtained by
-recursively applying these directions.
-
-Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate realm,
-it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and contacts one. The
-list might be obtained through a configuration file or network service or it
-may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as the secret keys
-exchanged by realms are kept secret, only denial of service results from
-using a false Kerberos server.
-
-As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in the
-KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing
-an authentication header as an element of the padata field, and including
-the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
-optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for application server use
-and additional tickets required by some options.
-
-In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-session
-key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be encrypted[16].
-If the sub-session key is not specified, the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data is
-present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from the
-authenticator portion of the authentication header, or if not present, using
-the session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the destination
-realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the KRB_AS_REQ
-message, but there are many additional checks to be performed. First, the
-Kerberos server must determine which server the accompanying ticket is for
-and it must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
-KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting service, and the
-TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued by another realm, then the
-appropriate inter-realm key must be used. If the accompanying ticket is not
-a ticket granting ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
-server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are
-specified in the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is
-the server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the
-ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server for which it
-was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata field, the
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied checksum
-in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents of the request,
-and the message rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
-of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum is not keyed or not
-collision-proof (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the
-checksum type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned. If the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
-the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
-
-If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned.
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-The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP (KRB_KDC_REP),
-but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed specification is in
-section 5.4.2.
-
-The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The Kerberos
-database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested server
-(including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request
-is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key is shared
-with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server will select the realm
-"closest" to the requested realm with which it does share a key, and use
-that realm instead. This is the only case where the response from the KDC
-will be for a different server than that requested by the client.
-
-By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list of
-transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the expiration time,
-and the authorization data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from
-the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the transited field
-needs to be updated, but the transited type is not supported, the
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new ticket is
-set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime from the TGT, and
-(c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the
-application server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
-life for the requesting principal was already applied when the TGT was
-issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal, then the endtime above is
-replaced by the minimum of (a) the value of the renew_till field of the
-ticket and (b) the starttime for the new ticket plus the life
-(endtime-starttime) of the old ticket.
-
-If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket will
-contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will only be
-honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is
-similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
-client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE flag in the TGT is set. The
-PROXY option will not be honored on requests for additional ticket-granting
-tickets.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is not set in the TGT, then the
-error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the ticket-granting
-ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then the resulting ticket will be
-postdated and the requested starttime is checked against the policy of the
-local realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as requested, and
-the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be validated before use
-by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has been reached. However,
-in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-till time of a newly-issued
-postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time of the ticket-granting
-ticket.
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-If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional ticket
-has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the additional ticket
-using the key for the server to which the additional ticket was issued and
-verify that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the requested
-server is missing from the request, the name of the client in the additional
-ticket will be used. Otherwise the name of the requested server will be
-compared to the name of the client in the additional ticket and if
-different, the request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the
-session key from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new
-ticket that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
-new ticket will be used[17].
-
-If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC as part
-of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-granting server
-itself, the server is registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW
-option is requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag is set
-in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in the ticket, and that the
-renew_till time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is rqeuested,
-the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID flag is
-set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check that the
-PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed, and the ticket
-passes the hotlist check described in the next paragraph, the KDC will issue
-the appropriate new ticket.
-
-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
-
-Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the presented
-ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets which have been
-canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by storing a range of issue
-timestamps for 'suspect tickets'; if a presented ticket had an authtime in
-that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen ticket-granting
-ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to gain additional tickets
-(renewals or otherwise) once the theft has been reported. Any normal ticket
-obtained before it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
-require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal expiration
-time.
-
-The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is encrypted
-in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present, or the session
-key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
-client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's expiration date and the
-key version number fields are left out since these values are stored along
-with the client's database record, and that record is not needed to satisfy
-a request based on a ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
-
-If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting service,
-but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look up the
-inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
-ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the request, subject
-to the constraints outlined above in the section describing the AS exchange.
-The realm part of the client's identity will be taken from the
-ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm that issued the
-ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the ticket to
-be issued. This is accomplished by reading the transited field from the
-ticket-granting ticket (which is treated as an unordered set of realm
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-names), adding the new realm to the set, then constructing and writing out
-its encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement of the
-existing encoding).
-
-Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its own
-realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the previous realm.
-This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving out its
-own name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
-
-The names of neither the local realm nor the principal's realm are to be
-included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the ticket and
-both are known to have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since the
-endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop inter-realm
-authentication result in a transited field that is empty.
-
-Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field, it might
-potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this field, its contents
-are encoded. The initially supported encoding is optimized for the normal
-case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrangement of realms
-using either domain or X.500 style realm names. This encoding (called
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now described.
-
-Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",", "\",
-trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters, and if they
-are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the transited field by
-preced- ing them with a "\".
-
-A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to the
-previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU,
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
-Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-points, that they
-would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
-
-A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to the
-previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded
-by a space (" "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO,
-/COM/HP, /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
-
- "/COM,/HP,/APOLLO, /COM/DEC".
-
-Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints, they
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "/COM,/HP"
-
-A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all realms
-between the previous realm and the next realm have been traversed[19]. Thus,
-"," means that all realms along the path between the client and the server
-have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms from the
-client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have been traversed,
-and that everything from /COM down to the server's realm in an X.500 style
-has also been traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in one hierarchy
-shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm in another hierarchy.
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-
-When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in the same
-manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The primary difference
-is that the ciphertext part of the response must be decrypted using the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the client's secret
-key. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
-
-3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange
-
-The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to detect
-modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by including a
-keyed collision-proof checksum of the user data and some control
-information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually the last
-key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
-occured).
-
-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information and computes a checksum over them.
-The checksum algorithm should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the
-RSA- MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES MAC),
-generated using the sub-session key if present, or the session key.
-Different algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
-message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable for this
-use.
-
-The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a timestamp
-and a sequence number. The designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE
-message must choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice should
-be based on the needs of the application protocol.
-
-Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received by one's
-peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain the session key, so
-maintaining the next sequence number should not present an additional
-problem.
-
-If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages without
-them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the appropriate replay
-detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
-multi-cast protocols where all of one's peers share a common sub-session
-key, but some messages will be sent to a subset of one's peers.
-
-After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the information and
-checksum to the recipient in the message format specified in section 5.6.1.
-
-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and type
-fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively. A mismatch
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-proof keyed
-checksum, and if it is not, a KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. If
-the sender's address was included in the control information, the recipient
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-verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's address matches
-the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient address is
-specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's
-addresses appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match
-for either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and
-usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec
-are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen (sent or received[20] ) such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT
-error is generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or a
-sequence number is expected but not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error
-is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is
-present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated. Finally, the checksum is
-computed over the data and control information, and if it doesn't match the
-received checksum, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application is assured that the message was
-generated by its peer and was not modi- fied in transit.
-
-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
-The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality and
-the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It achieves this
-by encrypting the messages and adding control information.
-
-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information (specified in section 5.7.1) and
-encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via
-subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part of the
-control information, the client must choose to use either a timestamp or a
-sequence number (or both); see the discussion in section 3.4.1 for
-guidelines on which to use. After the user data and control information are
-encrypted, the client transmits the ciphertext and some 'envelope'
-information to the recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and type
-fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively. A mismatch
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant
-plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been modified, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. If the sender's address was
-included in the control information, the recipient verifies that the
-operating system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's
-address in the message, and (if a recipient address is specified or the
-recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's addresses appears
-as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for either case
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and usec and/or the
-sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec are expected and
-not present, or they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error
-is generated. If the server name, along with the client name, time and
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-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any recently-seen such
-tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an incorrect sequence
-number is included, or a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or
-a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
-generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without intruders able
-to see the unencrypted contents).
-
-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
-The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to send
-Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this by sending
-the tickets together with encrypted data containing the session keys and
-other information associated with the tickets.
-
-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using the
-KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote host. It then
-constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or tickets so obtained,
-placing the session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part of the the KRB_CRED
-message.
-
-Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
-KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence in
-the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if
-specifically required by the application the nonce, s-address, and r-address
-fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message which is
-then encrypted under an encryption key previosuly exchanged in the KRB_AP
-exchange (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if
-no negotiation has occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If any
-error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application. The
-message is verified by checking that the protocol version and type fields
-match the current version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then
-decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If decryption
-shows the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is
-generated.
-
-If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating system's
-report of the sender's address matches the sender's address in the message,
-and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address
-in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields (and the nonce field
-if required) are checked next. If the timestamp and usec are not present, or
-they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new tickets in
-its ticket cache together with the session key and other information in the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED
-message.
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-
-The Kerberos server must have access to a database contain- ing the
-principal identifiers and secret keys of principals to be authenticated[21].
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
-A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
-
-Field Value
-
-name Principal's identifier
-key Principal's secret key
-p_kvno Principal's key version
-max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
-max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable Tickets
-
-The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key field
-contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret key. (The key
-can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos "master key" to protect it
-in case the database is compromised but the master key is not. In that case,
-an extra field must be added to indicate the master key version used, see
-below.) The p_kvno field is the key version number of the principal's secret
-key. The max_life field contains the maximum allowable lifetime (endtime -
-starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal. The max_renewable_life
-field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime for any renewable Ticket
-issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a description of how these
-lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of a given Ticket.)
-
-A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the database
-representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between principal records
-with identifiers which differ only in the realm name.
-
-When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine (i.e. not
-the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key should be retained by
-the server until all tickets that had been issued using that key have
-expired. Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be active for a
-single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a principal's key is always tagged
-with the version of the key that was used for encryption, to help the
-recipient find the proper key for decryption.
-
-When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the principal
-will have more than one record in the Kerberos database. The keys and key
-version numbers will differ between the records (the rest of the fields may
-or may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos issues a ticket, or responds to a
-request for initial authentication, the most recent key (known by the
-Kerberos server) will be used for encryption. This is the key with the
-highest key version number.
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-Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its database:
-
-Field Value
-
-K_kvno Kerberos' key version
-expiration Expiration date for entry
-attributes Bit field of attributes
-mod_date Timestamp of last modification
-mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
-
-The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key under
-which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
-
-After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an error to
-any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the principal. (A database
-may want to maintain two expiration dates: one for the principal, and one
-for the principal's current key. This allows password aging to work
-independently of the principal's expiration date. However, due to the
-limited space in the responses, the KDC must combine the key expiration and
-principal expiration date into a single value called 'key_exp', which is
-used as a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
-
-The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations involving
-the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction with user
-registration procedures, for site-specific policy implementations (Project
-Athena currently uses it for their user registration process controlled by
-the system-wide database service, Moira [LGDSR87]), to identify whether a
-principal can play the role of a client or server or both, to note whether a
-server is appropriate trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a client,
-or to identify the 'string to key' conversion algorithm used for a
-principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that certain ticket
-options should not be allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key
-(one bit each): Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing
-forwardable tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
-disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable tickets, and
-disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the server.
-
-The mod_date field contains the time of last modification of the entry, and
-the mod_name field contains the name of the principal which last modified
-the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
-Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a request
-was made by a particular principal. Information that might be maintained
-includes the time of the last request, the time of the last request for a
-ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a ticket-granting
-ticket, or other times. This information can then be returned to the user in
-the last-req field (see section 5.2).
-
-Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the latest
-expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using each key. This
-field would be used to indicate how long old keys must remain valid to allow
-the continued use of outstanding tickets.
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-The KDC implementation should have the following configurable constants or
-options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce policy decisions:
-
- * The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant should
- reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the KDC,
- encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client and
- target server, and it should allow for a minimum 'useful' lifetime.
- * The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
- (renew_till - starttime).
- * The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
- * Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
- (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be issued
- if the request specifies some authorization_data).
- * Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets are
- to be issued.
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-5. Message Specifications
-
-The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of protocol
-messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are presented in the first
-subsection. The remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
-and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryption and checksum
-techniques, and the fields related to them, appear in section 6.
-
-Optional field in ASN.1 sequences
-
-For optional integer value and date fields in ASN.1 sequences where a
-default value has been specified, certain default values will not be allowed
-in the encoding because these values will always be represented through
-defaulting by the absence of the optional field. For example, one will not
-send a microsecond zero value because one must make sure that there is only
-one way to encode this value.
-
-Additional fields in ASN.1 sequences
-
-Implementations receiving Kerberos messages with additional fields present
-in ASN.1 sequences should carry the those fields through, unmodified, when
-the message is forwarded. Implementations should not drop such fields if the
-sequence is reencoded.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
-All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
-Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509 specification,
-section 8.7 [X509-88].
-
-5.3. ASN.1 Base Definitions
-
-The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this section.
-Note that since the underscore character (_) is not permitted in ASN.1
-names, the hyphen (-) is used in its place for the purposes of ASN.1 names.
-
-Realm ::= GeneralString
-PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
-}
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-Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not contain a
-character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms will usually consist
-of several components separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet
-Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500 names.
-Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in section 7. A PrincipalName
-is a typed sequence of components consisting of the following sub-fields:
-
-name-type
- This field specifies the type of name that follows. Pre-defined values
- for this field are specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the same
- (i.e. at least one of the components, or the realm, must be different).
- This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-name-string
- This field encodes a sequence of components that form a name, each
- component encoded as a GeneralString. Taken together, a PrincipalName
- and a Realm form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames will have
- only a few components (typically one or two).
-
-KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
-The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An encoding
-shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include any fractional
-portions of the seconds. It further shall not include any separators.
-Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27 seconds after 9 pm
-on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
-HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF HostAddress
-
-The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
-addr-type
- This field specifies the type of address that follows. Pre-defined
- values for this field are specified in section 8.1.
-address
- This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
-
-The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one address;
-HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many addresses.
-
-AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-ad-data
- This field contains authorization data to be interpreted according to
- the value of the corresponding ad-type field.
-ad-type
- This field specifies the format for the ad-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
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-Elements may be application specific, however, there is a common set of
-recursive elements that should be understood by all implementations. These
-elements contain other elements embedded within them, and the interpretation
-of the encapsulating element determines which of the embedded elements must
-be interpreted, and which may be ignored. Definitions for these common
-elements may be found in Appendix B.
-
-TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- te-type[0] INTEGER,
- te-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-te-data
- This field contains opaque data that must be caried with the ticket to
- support extensions to the Kerberos protocol including but not limited
- to some forms of inter-realm key exchange and plaintext authorization
- data. See appendix C for some common uses of this field.
-te-type
- This field specifies the format for the te-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- use-session-key(1),
- -- mutual-required(2)
-
-TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- may-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- invalid(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- initial(9),
- -- pre-authent(10),
- -- hw-authent(11),
- -- transited-policy-checked(12),
- -- ok-as-delegate(13)
-
-KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- allow-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- unused7(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- unused9(9),
- -- unused10(10),
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- -- unused11(11),
- -- unused12(12),
- -- unused13(13),
- -- disable-transited-check(26),
- -- renewable-ok(27),
- -- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- -- renew(30),
- -- validate(31)
-
-ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When used in Kerberos for the
-APOptions, TicketFlags, and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
-generated values should be the smallest number of bits needed to include the
-highest order bit that is set (1), but in no case less than 32 bits. The
-ASN.1 representation of the bit strings uses unnamed bits, with the meaning
-of the individual bits defined by the comments in the specification above.
-Implementations should accept values of bit strings of any length and treat
-the value of flags corresponding to bits beyond the end of the bit string as
-if the bit were reset (0). Comparison of bit strings of different length
-should treat the smaller string as if it were padded with zeros beyond the
-high order bits to the length of the longer string[23].
-
-LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
-}
-
-lr-type
- This field indicates how the following lr-value field is to be
- interpreted. Negative values indicate that the information pertains
- only to the responding server. Non-negative values pertain to all
- servers for the realm. If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no
- information is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the absolute value
- of the lr-type field is one (1), then the lr-value subfield is the time
- of last initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of last initial request. If it is three (3), then
- the lr-value subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of the last renewal. If it is five (5), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last request (of any type). If it is
- (6), then the lr-value subfield is the time when the password will
- expire.
-lr-value
- This field contains the time of the last request. the time must be
- interpreted according to the contents of the accompanying lr-type
- subfield.
-
-See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType, EncryptedData,
-EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
-
-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
-
-This section describes the format and encryption parameters for tickets and
-authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is included in a protocol
-message it is treated as an opaque object.
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-A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service. A Ticket
-contains the following information:
-
-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData,
- extensions[4] TicketExtensions OPTIONAL
-}
-
--- Encrypted part of ticket
-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be
-registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by Kerberos and
-the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6 for the format of
-the ciphertext.
-
-tkt-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the ticket format. This
- document describes version number 5.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It also serves to
- identify the realm part of the server's principal identifier. Since a
- Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers within its realm,
- the two will always be identical.
-sname
- This field specifies all components of the name part of the server's
- identity, including those parts that identify a specific instance of a
- service.
-enc-part
- This field holds the encrypted encoding of the EncTicketPart sequence.
-extensions
- [*** This change is still subject to discussion. Several alternatives
- for this - including none at all - will be distributed to the cat and
- krb-protocol mailing lists before the Oslo IETF, and an alternative
- will be selected and the spec modified by 7/14/99 ***] This optional
- field contains a sequence of extentions that may be used to carry
- information that must be carried with the ticket to support several
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- extensions, including but not limited to plaintext authorization data,
- tokens for exchanging inter-realm keys, and other information that must
- be associated with a ticket for use by the application server. See
- Appendix C for definitions of some common extensions.
-
- Note that some older versions of Kerberos did not support this field.
- Because this is an optional field it will not break older clients, but
- older clients might strip this field from the ticket before sending it
- to the application server. This limits the usefulness of this ticket
- field to environments where the ticket will not be parsed and
- reconstructed by these older Kerberos clients.
-
- If it is known that the client will strip this field from the ticket,
- as an interim measure the KDC may append this field to the end of the
- enc-part of the ticket and append a traler indicating the lenght of the
- appended extensions field. (this paragraph is open for discussion,
- including the form of the traler).
-flags
- This field indicates which of various options were used or requested
- when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most
- significant bit. The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
- The flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The meanings
- of the flags are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set, this
- flag tells the ticket-granting server
- that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
- granting ticket with a different network
- address based on the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- When set, this flag indicates that the
- ticket has either been forwarded or was
- issued based on authentication involving
- a forwarded ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical to
- that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
- that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
- ticket-granting server that only non-
- ticket-granting tickets may be issued
- with different network addresses.
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- When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
-
- 5 MAY-POSTDATE
- The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. This flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that a post-
- dated ticket may be issued based on this
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- This flag indicates that this ticket has
- been postdated. The end-service can
- check the authtime field to see when the
- original authentication occurred.
-
- 7 INVALID
- This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by the
- KDC before use. Application servers
- must reject tickets which have this flag
- set.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
- be ignored by end servers (some particu-
- larly careful servers may wish to disal-
- low renewable tickets). A renewable
- ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
- ment ticket that expires at a later
- date.
-
- 9 INITIAL
- This flag indicates that this ticket was
- issued using the AS protocol, and not
- issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 10 PRE-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that during initial
- authentication, the client was authenti-
- cated by the KDC before a ticket was
- issued. The strength of the pre-
- authentication method is not indicated,
- but is acceptable to the KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected to
- be possessed solely by the named client.
- The hardware authentication method is
- selected by the KDC and the strength of
- the method is not indicated.
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- 12 TRANSITED This flag indicates that the KDC for the
- POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
- against a realm defined policy for
- trusted certifiers. If this flag is
- reset (0), then the application server
- must check the transited field itself,
- and if unable to do so it must reject
- the authentication. If the flag is set
- (1) then the application server may skip
- its own validation of the transited
- field, relying on the validation
- performed by the KDC. At its option the
- application server may still apply its
- own validation based on a separate
- policy for acceptance.
-
- 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
- the client) specified in the ticket has
- been determined by policy of the realm
- to be a suitable recipient of
- delegation. A client can use the
- presence of this flag to help it make a
- decision whether to delegate credentials
- (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
- ticket granting ticket) to this server.
- The client is free to ignore the value
- of this flag. When setting this flag,
- an administrator should consider the
- Security and placement of the server on
- which the service will run, as well as
- whether the service requires the use of
- delegated credentials.
-
- 14 ANONYMOUS
- This flag indicates that the principal
- named in the ticket is a generic princi-
- pal for the realm and does not identify
- the individual using the ticket. The
- purpose of the ticket is only to
- securely distribute a session key, and
- not to identify the user. Subsequent
- requests using the same ticket and ses-
- sion may be considered as originating
- from the same user, but requests with
- the same username but a different ticket
- are likely to originate from different
- users.
-
- 15-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-key
- This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is used to
- pass the session key from Kerberos to the application server and the
- client. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-crealm
- This field contains the name of the realm in which the client is
- registered and in which initial authentication took place.
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- This field contains the name part of the client's principal identifier.
-transited
- This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took part in
- authenticating the user to whom this ticket was issued. It does not
- specify the order in which the realms were transited. See section
- 3.3.3.2 for details on how this field encodes the traversed realms.
- When the names of CA's are to be embedded inthe transited field (as
- specified for some extentions to the protocol), the X.500 names of the
- CA's should be mapped into items in the transited field using the
- mapping defined by RFC2253.
-authtime
- This field indicates the time of initial authentication for the named
- principal. It is the time of issue for the original ticket on which
- this ticket is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
- additional information to the end service, and to provide the necessary
- information for implementation of a `hot list' service at the KDC. An
- end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to accept
- tickets for which the initial authentication occurred "too far" in the
- past. This field is also returned as part of the response from the KDC.
- When returned as part of the response to initial authentication
- (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on the Ker- beros server[24].
-starttime
- This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the ticket is
- valid. Together with endtime, this field specifies the life of the
- ticket. If it is absent from the ticket, its value should be treated as
- that of the authtime field.
-endtime
- This field contains the time after which the ticket will not be honored
- (its expiration time). Note that individual services may place their
- own limits on the life of a ticket and may reject tickets which have
- not yet expired. As such, this is really an upper bound on the
- expiration time for the ticket.
-renew-till
- This field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set
- in the flags field. It indicates the maximum endtime that may be
- included in a renewal. It can be thought of as the absolute expiration
- time for the ticket, including all renewals.
-caddr
- This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more (if present)
- host addresses. These are the addresses from which the ticket can be
- used. If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used from any
- location. The decision by the KDC to issue or by the end server to
- accept zero-address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to issue or
- accept such tickets. The suggested and default policy, however, is that
- such tickets will only be issued or accepted when additional
- information that can be used to restrict the use of the ticket is
- included in the authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
- capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it harder for an
- attacker to use stolen credentials. Because the session key is not sent
- over the network in cleartext, credentials can't be stolen simply by
- listening to the network; an attacker has to gain access to the session
- key (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a careless
- user's unattended session) to make use of stolen tickets.
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- It is important to note that the network address from which a
- connection is received cannot be reliably determined. Even if it could
- be, an attacker who has compromised the client's workstation could use
- the credentials from there. Including the network addresses only makes
- it more difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk off with
- stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe" location.
-authorization-data
- The authorization-data field is used to pass authorization data from
- the principal on whose behalf a ticket was issued to the application
- service. If no authorization data is included, this field will be left
- out. Experience has shown that the name of this field is confusing, and
- that a better name for this field would be restrictions. Unfortunately,
- it is not possible to change the name of this field at this time.
-
- This field contains restrictions on any authority obtained on the basis
- of authentication using the ticket. It is possible for any principal in
- posession of credentials to add entries to the authorization data field
- since these entries further restrict what can be done with the ticket.
- Such additions can be made by specifying the additional entries when a
- new ticket is obtained during the TGS exchange, or they may be added
- during chained delegation using the authorization data field of the
- authenticator.
-
- Because entries may be added to this field by the holder of
- credentials, it is not allowable for the presence of an entry in the
- authorization data field of a ticket to amplify the priveleges one
- would obtain from using a ticket.
-
- The data in this field may be specific to the end service; the field
- will contain the names of service specific objects, and the rights to
- those objects. The format for this field is described in section 5.2.
- Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of the contents of
- the sub-fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
-
- By using the authorization_data field, a principal is able to issue a
- proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For example, a client
- wishing to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to be passed to
- the print server. By specifying the name of the file in the
- authorization_data field, the file server knows that the print server
- can only use the client's rights when accessing the particular file to
- be printed.
-
- A separate service providing authorization or certifying group
- membership may be built using the authorization-data field. In this
- case, the entity granting authorization (not the authorized entity),
- obtains a ticket in its own name (e.g. the ticket is issued in the name
- of a privelege server), and this entity adds restrictions on its own
- authority and delegates the restricted authority through a proxy to the
- client. The client would then present this authorization credential to
- the application server separately from the authentication exchange.
-
- Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data field of a proxy and
- leaves the host addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session key
- can be treated as a capability. See [Neu93] for some suggested uses of
- this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does not have to be
- included in a ticket.
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-
-An authenticator is a record sent with a ticket to a server to certify the
-client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket, to help the server
-detect replays, and to help choose a "true session key" to use with the
-particular session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session key
-shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
-
-authenticator-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the format of the
- authenticator. This document specifies version 5.
-crealm and cname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-cksum
- This field contains a checksum of the the applica- tion data that
- accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp. Its
- value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to 999999. It often appears
- along with ctime. The two fields are used together to specify a
- reasonably accurate timestamp.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-subkey
- This field contains the client's choice for an encryption key which is
- to be used to protect this specific application session. Unless an
- application specifies otherwise, if this field is left out the session
- key from the ticket will be used.
-seq-number
- This optional field includes the initial sequence number to be used by
- the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when sequence numbers are used to
- detect replays (It may also be used by application specific messages).
- When included in the authenticator this field specifies the initial
- sequence number for messages from the client to the server. When
- included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number is that for
- messages from the server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
- KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after each message is sent.
- Sequence numbers fall in the range of 0 through 2^32 - 1 and wrap to
- zero following the value 2^32 - 1.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of replays
- they should be non-repeating, even across connection boundaries. The
- initial sequence number should be random and uniformly distributed
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- be guessed by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
- numbers do not repeat other sequences.
-authorization-data
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1. It
- is optional and will only appear when additional restrictions are to be
- placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those carried in the ticket
- itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used in the exchange
-between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible error
-messages appears in section 5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is one of
-KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is for an initial
-ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent from the
-client to the Authentication Server to request credentials for a service.
-
-The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
-
-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
-
-KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
- -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
- addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
- -- encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
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-The fields in this message are:
-
-pvno
- This field is included in each message, and specifies the protocol
- version number. This document specifies protocol version 5.
-msg-type
- This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It will almost
- always be the same as the application identifier associated with a
- message. It is included to make the identifier more readily accessible
- to the application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
- KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
-padata
- The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a sequence of
- authentication information which may be needed before credentials can
- be issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for additional tickets
- (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will include an element with padata-type of
- PA-TGS-REQ and data of an authentication header (ticket-granting ticket
- and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator (which must be
- collision-proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY encoding. In
- most requests for initial authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and most replies
- (KDC-REP), the padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by certain extensions to
- the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might be used to initially
- verify the identity of a client before any response is returned. This
- is accomplished with a padata field with padata-type equal to
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and padata-value defined as follows:
-
- padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
- padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
- PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec containing the
- microseconds which may be omitted if a client will not generate more
- than one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-value) consists of
- the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence, encrypted using the client's secret key.
-
- [use-specified-kvno item is here for discussion and may be removed] It
- may also be used by the client to specify the version of a key that is
- being used for accompanying preauthentication, and/or which should be
- used to encrypt the reply from the KDC.
-
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO ::= Integer
-
- The KDC should only accept and abide by the value of the
- use-specified-kvno preauthentication data field when the specified key
- is still valid and until use of a new key is confirmed. This situation
- is likely to occur primarily during the period during which an updated
- key is propagating to other KDC's in a realm.
-
- The padata field can also contain information needed to help the KDC or
- the client select the key needed for generating or decrypting the
- response. This form of the padata is useful for supporting the use of
- certain token cards with Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
- specified in separate documents. See [Pat92] for additional uses of
- this field.
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-padata-type
- The padata-type element of the padata field indicates the way that the
- padata-value element is to be interpreted. Negative values of
- padata-type are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative values are
- used for a registered interpretation of the element type.
-req-body
- This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the remaining
- fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over the request, it is
- calculated over an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
- enclosed within the req-body field.
-kdc-options
- This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the
- KDC and indicates the flags that the client wants set on the tickets as
- well as other information that is to modify the behavior of the KDC.
- Where appropriate, the name of an option may be the same as the flag
- that is set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
- options field will be the same as that in the flags field, this is not
- guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply copy the options field to
- the flags field. There are various checks that must be made before
- honoring an option anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected options are
- indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected options and
- reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is specified
- in section 5.2. The options are described in more detail above in
- section 2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of
-this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE option indicates
-that
- the ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- forwardable flag set. It may only
-be
- set on the initial request, or in a
-sub-
- sequent request if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based is also
-for-
- wardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- The FORWARDED option is only
-specified
- in a request to the
-ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if
-the
- ticket-granting ticket in the
-request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set.
-This
- option indicates that this is a
-request
- for forwarding. The address(es) of
-the
- host from which the resulting ticket
-is
- to be valid are included in
-the
- addresses field of the request.
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- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE option indicates that
-the
- ticket to be issued is to have its
-prox-
- iable flag set. It may only be set
-on
- the initial request, or in a
-subsequent
- request if the ticket-granting ticket
-on
- which it is based is also proxiable.
-
- 4 PROXY
- The PROXY option indicates that this
-is
- a request for a proxy. This option
-will
- only be honored if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket in the request has its
-PROXIABLE
- bit set. The address(es) of the
-host
- from which the resulting ticket is to
-be
- valid are included in the
-addresses
- field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE
- The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates
-that
- the ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only
-be
- set on the initial request, or in a
-sub-
- sequent request if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based also has
-its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- The POSTDATED option indicates that
-this
- is a request for a postdated
-ticket.
- This option will only be honored if
-the
- ticket-granting ticket on which it
-is
- based has its MAY-POSTDATE flag
-set.
- The resulting ticket will also have
-its
- INVALID flag set, and that flag may
-be
- reset by a subsequent request to the
-KDC
- after the starttime in the ticket
-has
- been reached.
-
- 7 UNUSED
- This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE option indicates that
-the
- ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be
-set
- on the initial request, or when
-the
- ticket-granting ticket on which
-the
- request is based is also renewable.
-If
- this option is requested, then the
-rtime
- field in the request contains
-the
- desired absolute expiration time for
-the
- ticket.
-
- 9-13 UNUSED
- These options are presently unused.
-
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- The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option
-indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is not
-to
- identify the user to which it
-was
- issued. Instead, the principal
-identif-
- ier is to be generic, as specified
-by
- the policy of the realm (e.g.
-usually
- anonymous@realm). The purpose of
-the
- ticket is only to securely distribute
-a
- session key, and not to identify
-the
- user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the
-ticket
- to be returned should be set. If
-the
- local realms policy does not
-permit
- anonymous credentials, the request is
-to
- be rejected.
-
- 15-25 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
- By default the KDC will check the
- transited field of a ticket-granting-
- ticket against the policy of the local
- realm before it will issue derivative
- tickets based on the ticket granting
- ticket. If this flag is set in the
- request, checking of the transited
-field
- is disabled. Tickets issued without
-the
- performance of this check will be
-noted
- by the reset (0) value of the
- TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
- indicating to the application server
- that the tranisted field must be
-checked
- locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
- required to honor the
- DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
-
- 27 RENEWABLE-OK
- The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that
-a
- renewable ticket will be acceptable if
-a
- ticket with the requested life
-cannot
- otherwise be provided. If a ticket
-with
- the requested life cannot be
-provided,
- then a renewable ticket may be
-issued
- with a renew-till equal to the
-the
- requested endtime. The value of
-the
- renew-till field may still be limited
-by
- local limits, or limits selected by
-the
- individual principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The
-ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- option indicates that the ticket for
-the
- end server is to be encrypted in
-the
- session key from the additional
-ticket-
- granting ticket provided.
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- 29 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The RENEW
-option
- indicates that the present request
-is
- for a renewal. The ticket provided
-is
- encrypted in the secret key for
-the
- server on which it is valid.
-This
- option will only be honored if
-the
- ticket to be renewed has its
-RENEWABLE
- flag set and if the time in its
-renew-
- till field has not passed. The
-ticket
- to be renewed is passed in the
-padata
- field as part of the
-authentication
- header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The VALIDATE
-option
- indicates that the request is to
-vali-
- date a postdated ticket. It will
-only
- be honored if the ticket presented
-is
- postdated, presently has its
-INVALID
- flag set, and would be otherwise
-usable
- at this time. A ticket cannot be
-vali-
- dated before its starttime. The
-ticket
- presented for validation is encrypted
-in
- the key of the server for which it
-is
- valid and is passed in the padata
-field
- as part of the authentication header.
-
-cname and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is
- specified. If absent, the name of the server is taken from the name of
- the client in the ticket passed as additional-tickets.
-enc-authorization-data
- The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can only be present in
- the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of the desired authorization-data
- encrypted under the sub-session key if present in the Authenticator, or
- alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting ticket, both
- from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm part of the server's principal
- identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the realm part of the
- client's principal identifier.
-from
- This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ ticket
- requests when the requested ticket is to be postdated. It specifies the
- desired start time for the requested ticket. If this field is omitted
- then the KDC should use the current time instead.
-till
- This field contains the expiration date requested by the client in a
- ticket request. It is optional and if omitted the requested ticket is
- to have the maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy for the
- parties to the authentication exchange as limited by expiration date of
- the ticket granting ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
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-rtime
- This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a client to the
- KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
-nonce
- This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it intended to
- hold a random number generated by the client. If the same number is
- included in the encrypted response from the KDC, it provides evidence
- that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker.
- Nonces must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be generated randomly,
- but if the correct time is known, it may suffice[25].
-etype
- This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be used in the
- response.
-addresses
- This field is included in the initial request for tickets, and
- optionally included in requests for additional tickets from the
- ticket-granting server. It specifies the addresses from which the
- requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it includes the addresses for
- the client's host. If a proxy is requested, this field will contain
- other addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied by the
- KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
-additional-tickets
- Additional tickets may be optionally included in a request to the
- ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been
- specified, then the session key from the additional ticket will be used
- in place of the server's key to encrypt the new ticket. If more than
- one option which requires additional tickets has been specified, then
- the additional tickets are used in the order specified by the ordering
- of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
-
-The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending on
-whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional
-ticket (TGS-REQ).
-
-The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and additional-tickets)
-are only included if necessary to perform the operation specified in the
-kdc-options field.
-
-It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number appears
-twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message
-contains these fields as does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that is
-passed in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for either
-an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There is no message
-type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either KRB_AS_REP or
-KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of the reply
-depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in
-the client's secret key, and the client's key version number is included in
-the key version number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the
-ciphertext is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, or if
-absent, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket used in the request.
-In that case, no version number will be present in the EncryptedData
-sequence.
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-
-AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
-TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
-KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
- enc-part[6] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
-EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
-EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is either
- KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
-padata
- This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One possible use
- for this field is to encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
- with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is described in section 6.3.2).
- This ability is useful to ease transitions if a realm name needs to
- change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such a case all existing
- password-derived entries in the KDC database would be flagged as
- needing a special mix-in string until the next password change.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-ticket
- The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-enc-part
- This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related information
- that forms the encrypted part of a message. The description of the
- encrypted part of the message follows each appearance of this field.
- The encrypted part is encoded as described in section 6.1.
-key
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
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-last-req
- This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s) of the last
- request by a principal. Depending on what information is available,
- this might be the last time that a request for a ticket-granting ticket
- was made, or the last time that a request based on a ticket-granting
- ticket was successful. It also might cover all servers for a realm, or
- just the particular server. Some implementations may display this
- information to the user to aid in discovering unauthorized use of one's
- identity. It is similar in spirit to the last login time displayed when
- logging into timesharing systems.
-nonce
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-key-expiration
- The key-expiration field is part of the response from the KDC and
- specifies the time that the client's secret key is due to expire. The
- expiration might be the result of password aging or an account
- expiration. This field will usually be left out of the TGS reply since
- the response to the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no
- client information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is up to
- the application client (usually the login program) to take appropriate
- action (such as notifying the user) if the expiration time is imminent.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
- These fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted portion of
- the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1), provided so the client may
- verify they match the intended request and to assist in proper ticket
- caching. If the message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will
- only be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded ticket,
- or if the user is substituting a subset of the addresses from the
- ticket granting ticket. If the client-requested addresses are not
- present or not used, then the addresses contained in the ticket will be
- the same as those included in the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
-authentication of the client to the application server.
-
-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options in use,
-and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is often
-referred to as the 'authentication header'.
-
-AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
-}
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
-}
-
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- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REQ.
-ap-options
- This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects
- the way the request is processed. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits
- is specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 USE-SESSION-KEY
- The USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
- that the ticket the client is presenting
- to a server is encrypted in the session
- key from the server's ticket-granting
- ticket. When this option is not speci-
- fied, the ticket is encrypted in the
- server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIRED
- The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
- server that the client requires mutual
- authentication, and that it must respond
- with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-ticket
- This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the server.
-authenticator
- This contains the authenticator, which includes the client's choice of
- a subkey. Its encoding is described in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type, and an encrypted time- stamp. The message is sent in in
-response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
-authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
-
-AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
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-The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of the
-ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an application-arranged
-negotiation to choose a per association session key.
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REP.
-enc-part
- This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
-subkey
- This field contains an encryption key which is to be used to protect
- this specific application session. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on
- how this field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an application
- specifies otherwise, if this field is left out, the sub-session key
- from the authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from the
- ticket will be used.
-
-5.5.3. Error message reply
-
-If an error occurs while processing the application request, the KRB_ERROR
-message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for the format of the
-error message. The cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server
-cannot determine their appropriate values from the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ
-message. If the authenticator was decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields
-will contain the values from it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-proof message to
-its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged (for
-example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
-
-The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
-checksum keyed with the last encryption key negotiated via subkeys, or the
-session key if no negotiation has occured. The message fields are:
-
-KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
-}
-
-KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
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- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_SAFE.
-safe-body
- This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE message.
-cksum
- This field contains the checksum of the application data. Checksum
- details are described in section 6.4. The checksum is computed over the
- encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence. First, the cksum is zeroed and the
- checksum is computed over the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence, then
- the checksum is set to the result of that computation, and finally the
- KRB-SAFE sequence is encoded again.
-user-data
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages and contain
- the application specific data that is being passed from the sender to
- the recipient.
-timestamp
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages. Its contents
- are the current time as known by the sender of the message. By checking
- the timestamp, the recipient of the message is able to make sure that
- it was recently generated, and is not a replay.
-usec
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers. It contains
- the microsecond part of the timestamp.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-s-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the sender of the message.
- It may be omitted if not required by the application protocol. The
- application designer considering omission of this field is warned, that
- the inclusion of this address prevents some kinds of replay attacks
- (e.g., reflection attacks) and that it is only acceptable to omit this
- address if there is sufficient information in the integrity protected
- part of the application message for the recipient to unambiguously
- determine if it was the intended recipient.
-r-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of the
- message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as broadcast protocols),
- but the recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages. This field
- along with s-address can be used to help detect messages which have
- been incorrectly or maliciously delivered to the wrong recipient.
-
-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to securely and privately send a
-message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been
-exchanged (for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
-The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
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-EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's
-addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's
-addr
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_PRIV.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key[32]. This encrypted encoding is used for the
- enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for the format of
- the ciphertext.
-user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to send
-Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is presented here to
-encourage a common mechanism to be used by applications when forwarding
-tickets or providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that a
-session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using the
-KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
-The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
-information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from each.
-The information needed to use the tickets is encrypted under an encryption
-key previously exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
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- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_CRED.
-tickets
- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically for use by the
- intended recipient. Successive tickets are paired with the
- corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the KRB-CRED
- message.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key shared between the sender and the intended
- recipient. This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part field of
- the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-nonce
- If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a nonce
- generated by the recipient of the message. If the same value is
- included as the nonce in the message, it provides evidence that the
- message is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. A nonce must
- never be re-used; it should be generated randomly by the recipient of
- the message and provided to the sender of the message in an application
- specific manner.
-timestamp and usec
- These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED message was generated.
- The time is used to provide assurance that the message is fresh.
-s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1. They are used
- optionally to provide additional assurance of the integrity of the
- KRB-CRED message.
-key
- This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the KRB-CRED
- message and is used to pass the session key from the sender to the
- intended recipient. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-
-The following fields are optional. If present, they can be associated with
-the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left out, then it is assumed
-that the recipient of the credentials already knows their value.
-
-prealm and pname
- The name and realm of the delegated principal identity.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname, and caddr
- These fields contain the values of the correspond- ing fields from the
- ticket found in the ticket field. Descriptions of the fields are
- identical to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
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-
-This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The fields
-included in the message are intended to return as much information as
-possible about an error. It is not expected that all the information
-required by the fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
-appropriate information is not available when the message is composed, the
-corresponding field will be left out of the message.
-
-Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is only optionally integrity
-protected, it is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or modify such
-a message. In particular, this means that unless appropriate integrity
-protection mechanisms have been applied to the KRB_ERROR message, the client
-should not use any fields in this message for security-critical purposes,
-such as setting a system clock or generating a fresh authenticator. The
-message can be useful, however, for advising a user on the reason for some
-failure.
-
-5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition
-
-The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
-KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL,
-(*REMOVE7/14*) e-typed-data[14] SEQUENCE of ETypedData
-OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_ERROR.
-ctime
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-cusec
- This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-stime
- This field contains the current time on the server. It is of type
- KerberosTime.
-susec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the server's timestamp. Its
- value ranges from 0 to 999999. It appears along with stime. The two
- fields are used in conjunction to specify a reasonably accurate
- timestamp.
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-error-code
- This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or the server
- when a request fails. To interpret the value of this field see the list
- of error codes in section 8. Implementations are encouraged to provide
- for national language support in the display of error messages.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
-e-text
- This field contains additional text to help explain the error code
- associated with the failed request (for example, it might include a
- principal name which was unknown).
-e-data
- This field contains additional data about the error for use by the
- application to help it recover from or handle the error. If present,
- this field will contain the encoding of a sequence of TypedData
- (TYPED-DATA below), unless the errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED,
- in which case it will contain the encoding of a sequence of of padata
- fields (METHOD-DATA below), each corresponding to an acceptable
- pre-authentication method and optionally containing data for the
- method:
-
- TYPED-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of TypeData
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
- TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type[0] INTEGER,
- data-value[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- Note that e-data-types have been reserved for all PA data types defined
- prior to July 1999. For the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message, when
- using new PA data types defined in July 1999 or later, the METHOD-DATA
- sequence must itself be encapsulated in an TypedData element of type
- TD-PADATA. All new implementations interpreting the METHOD-DATA field
- for the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message must accept a type of
- TD-PADATA, extract the typed data field and interpret the use any
- elements encapsulated in the TD-PADATA elements as if they were present
- in the METHOD-DATA sequence.
-e-cksum
- This field contains an optional checksum for the KRB-ERROR message. The
- checksum is calculated over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the
- KRB-ERROR message with the checksum absent. The checksum is then added
- to the KRB-ERROR structure and the message is re-encoded. The Checksum
- should be calculated using the session key from the ticket granting
- ticket or service ticket, where available. If the error is in response
- to a TGS or AP request, the checksum should be calculated uing the the
- session key from the client's ticket. If the error is in response to an
- AS request, then the checksum should be calulated using the client's
- secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preauthentication to prove
- knowledge of the secret key by the client[33]. If a checksum can not be
- computed because the key to be used is not available, no checksum will
- be included.
-e-typed-data
- [***Will be deleted 7/14***] This field contains optional data that may
- be used to help the client recover from the indicated error. [This
- could contain the METHOD-DATA specified since I don't think anyone
- actually uses it yet. It could also contain the PA-DATA sequence for
- the preauth required error if we had a clear way to transition to the
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- use of this field from the use of the untyped e-data field.] For
- example, this field may specify the key version of the key used to
- verify preauthentication:
-
- e-data-type := 20 -- Key version number
- e-data-value := Integer -- Key version number used to
- verify preauthentication
-
-6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
-
-The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use stream
-encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly available block
-encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption Standard, [DES77] in
-conjunction with block chaining and checksum methods [DESM80]. Encryption is
-used to prove the identities of the network entities participating in
-message exchanges. The Key Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by
-all principals registered in that realm to store a secret key in confidence.
-Proof of knowledge of this secret key is used to verify the authenticity of
-a principal. [*** Discussion above will change to use 3DES as example
-7/14/99 ***]
-
-The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a shared
-session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to ticket requests;
-the ability to obtain the secret key or session key implies the knowledge of
-the appropriate keys and the identity of the KDC. The ability of a principal
-to decrypt the KDC response and present a Ticket and a properly formed
-Authenticator (generated with the session key from the KDC response) to a
-service verifies the identity of the principal; likewise the ability of the
-service to extract the session key from the Ticket and prove its knowledge
-thereof in a response verifies the identity of the service.
-
-The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is secure
-from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of fields in the
-encrypted portions of messages are arranged to minimize the effects of
-poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose good keys. If keys are
-derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords need to be well chosen to
-make brute force attacks more difficult. Poorly chosen keys still make easy
-targets for intruders.
-
-The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
-currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
-requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is often
-desirable to place random information (often referred to as a confounder) at
-the start of the message. The requirements for a confounder are specified
-with each encryption mechanism.
-
-Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the the
-security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these chaining methods
-often don't provide an integrity check upon decryption. Such systems (such
-as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of the plain-text
-which can be verified at decryption and used to detect any tampering or
-damage. Such checksums should be good at detecting burst errors in the
-input. If any damage is detected, the decryption routine is expected to
-return an error indicating the failure of an integrity check. Each
-encryption type is expected to provide and verify an appropriate checksum.
-The specification of each encryption method sets out its checksum
-requirements.
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-Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an algorithm
-for converting the password to a key of the appropriate type is included. It
-is desirable for the string to key function to be one-way, and for the
-mapping to be different in different realms. This is important because users
-who are registered in more than one realm will often use the same password
-in each, and it is desirable that an attacker compromising the Kerberos
-server in one realm not obtain or derive the user's key in another.
-
-For an discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
-encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the reader is
-referred to [SG92].
-
-6.1. Encryption Specifications
-
-The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
-enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in section
-5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional key version
-number, and the ciphertext.
-
-EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
-}
-
-etype
- This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used to encipher
- the cipher. Detailed specifications for selected encryption types
- appear later in this section.
-kvno
- This field contains the version number of the key under which data is
- encrypted. It is only present in messages encrypted under long lasting
- keys, such as principals' secret keys.
-cipher
- This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an OCTET STRING.
-
-The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption algorithm
-to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific inputs. Encryption
-mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must take sufficient measures to
-guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and we recommend they also take
-measures to protect against precomputed dictionary attacks. If the
-encryption algorithm is not itself capable of doing so, the protections can
-often be enhanced by adding a checksum and a confounder.
-
-The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a confounder, a
-checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary padding. The msg-seq
-field contains the part of the protocol message described in section 5 which
-is to be encrypted. The confounder, checksum, and padding are all untagged
-and untyped, and their length is exactly sufficient to hold the appropriate
-item. The type and length is implicit and specified by the particular
-encryption type being used (etype). The format for the data to be encrypted
-is described in the following diagram:
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- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length) OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length) OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
-}
-
-One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing it in
-confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate checksum over
-confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in check; adds the
-necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified encryption type and the
-appropriate key.
-
-Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm that
-specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an octet
-boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format[36]. Those fields which are
-not specified will be omitted.
-
-In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
-encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
-specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is needed as
-part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum is to be used, a
-new encryption type must be defined.
-
-Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and the
-data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in cipher-block-chaining
-mode, requires an initialization vector. If required, the description for
-each encryption type must specify the source of such additional information.
-6.2. Encryption Keys
-
-The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption key:
-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-keytype
- This field specifies the type of encryption that is to be performed
- using the key that follows in the keyvalue field. It will always
- correspond to the etype to be used to generate or decode the
- EncryptedData. In cases when multiple algorithms use a common kind of
- key (e.g., if the encryption algorithm uses an alternate checksum
- algorithm for an integrity check, or a different chaining mechanism),
- the keytype provides information needed to determine which algorithm is
- to be used.
-keyvalue
- This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet string.
-
-All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpreta- tions.
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-
-6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
-If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the NULL
-encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no checksum,
-confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the plaintext. The NULL Key
-is used by the null encryption system and is zero octets in length, with
-keytype zero (0).
-
-6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
-
-The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80]. A
-CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]) is applied to the
-confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES
-blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation
-of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption. The details of the encryption of this data are identical
-to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
-Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-proof, an attacker
-could use a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack to generate a valid
-message even if a confounder is used [SG92]. The use of collision-proof
-checksums is recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the checksum for ticket or
-authenticator is no longer mandated as an interoperability requirement for
-Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1 (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
-6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
-
-The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-An MD4 checksum (described in [MD492]) is applied to the confounder and
-message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption. The details of the encryption of this data are identical
-to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
-6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
-
-The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
-Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode [DESM80].
-An MD5 checksum (described in [MD5-92].) is applied to the confounder and
-message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks are 8
-bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the concatenation of
-confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to an 8 byte boundary
-before encryption.
-
-Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which are
-concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The first
-octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's MSbit used as
-the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the next 8 bits, ...,
-and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least significant bits.
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-Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an additional
-input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless otherwise specified,
-zero should be used as the initialization vector. Kerberos' use of DES
-requires an 8 octet confounder.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those keys
-shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in Kerberos. Additionally,
-because of the way that keys are derived for the encryption of checksums,
-keys shall not be used that yield 'weak' or 'semi-weak' keys when
-eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
-A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists of 56
-bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded as a
-series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits within the key are
-also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption key is
-(B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8) where
-B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8 are the parity
-bits, the first octet of the key would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the
-MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
-String to key transformation
-
-To generate a DES key from a text string (password), a "salt" is
-concatenated to the text string, and then padded with ASCII nulls to an 8
-byte boundary. This "salt" is normally the realm and each component of the
-principal's name appended. However, sometimes different salts are used ---
-for example, when a realm is renamed, or if a user changes her username, or
-for compatibility with Kerberos V4 (whose string-to-key algorithm uses a
-null string for the salt). This string is then fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed
-with itself to form an 8 byte DES key. Before eXclusive-ORing a block, every
-byte is shifted one bit to the left to leave the lowest bit zero. The key is
-the "corrected" by correcting the parity on the key, and if the key matches
-a 'weak' or 'semi-weak' key as described in the DES specification, it is
-eXclusive-ORed with the constant 00000000000000F0. This key is then used to
-generate a DES CBC checksum on the initial string (with the salt appended).
-The result of the CBC checksum is the "corrected" as described above to form
-the result which is return as the key. Pseudocode follows:
-
- name_to_default_salt(realm, name) {
- s = realm
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- return s;
- }
-
- key_correction(key) {
- fixparity(key);
- if (is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
- string_to_key(string,salt) {
-
- odd = 1;
- s = string + salt;
- tempkey = NULL;
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- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- left shift every byte in 8byteblock one bit;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- tempkey = key_correction(tempkey);
- key = key_correction(DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey));
- return(key);
- }
-
-6.3.5. Triple DES with HMAC-SHA1 Kerberos Encryption Type with Key
-Derivation [Horowitz]
-
-[*** Note that there are several 3DES varients in use in different Kerberos
-implemenations, updates to this section will be sent to the cat list and
-krb-protocol list prior to the Oslo IETF, including the key derivation and
-non-key derivation varients ***] NOTE: This description currently refers to
-documents, the contents of which might be bettered included by value in this
-spec. The description below was provided by Marc Horowitz, and the form in
-which it will finally appear is yet to be determined. This description is
-included in this version of the draft because it does describe the
-implemenation ready for use with the MIT implementation. Note also that the
-encryption identifier has been left unspecified here because the value from
-Marc Horowitz's spec conflicted with some other impmenentations implemented
-based on perevious versions of the specification.
-
-This encryption type is based on the Triple DES cryptosystem, the HMAC-SHA1
-[Krawczyk96] message authentication algorithm, and key derivation for
-Kerberos V5 [HorowitzB96].
-
-The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 encryption type has been assigned the value ??. The
-hmac-sha1-des3 checksum type has been assigned the value 12.
-
-Encryption Type des3-cbc-hmac-sha1
-
-EncryptedData using this type must be generated as described in
-[Horowitz96]. The encryption algorithm is Triple DES in Outer-CBC mode. The
-keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. Unless otherwise specified, a zero IV
-must be used. If the length of the input data is not a multiple of the block
-size, zero octets must be used to pad the plaintext to the next eight-octet
-boundary. The counfounder must be eight random octets (one block).
-
-Checksum Type hmac-sha1-des3
-
-Checksums using this type must be generated as described in [Horowitz96].
-The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1.
-
-Common Requirements
-
-The EncryptionKey value is 24 octets long. The 7 most significant bits of
-each octet contain key bits, and the least significant bit is the inverse of
-the xor of the key bits.
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-For the purposes of key derivation, the block size is 64 bits, and the key
-size is 168 bits. The 168 bits output by key derivation are converted to an
-EncryptionKey value as follows. First, the 168 bits are divided into three
-groups of 56 bits, which are expanded individually into 64 bits as follows:
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 p
- 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 p
-17 18 19 20 21 22 23 p
-25 26 27 28 29 30 31 p
-33 34 35 36 37 38 39 p
-41 42 43 44 45 46 47 p
-49 50 51 52 53 54 55 p
-56 48 40 32 24 16 8 p
-
-The "p" bits are parity bits computed over the data bits. The output of the
-three expansions are concatenated to form the EncryptionKey value.
-
-When the HMAC-SHA1 of a string is computed, the key is used in the
-EncryptedKey form.
-
-Key Derivation
-
-In the Kerberos protocol, cryptographic keys are used in a number of places.
-In order to minimize the effect of compromising a key, it is desirable to
-use a different key for each of these places. Key derivation [Horowitz96]
-can be used to construct different keys for each operation from the keys
-transported on the network. For this to be possible, a small change to the
-specification is necessary.
-
-This section specifies a profile for the use of key derivation [Horowitz96]
-with Kerberos. For each place where a key is used, a ``key usage'' must is
-specified for that purpose. The key, key usage, and encryption/checksum type
-together describe the transformation from plaintext to ciphertext, or
-plaintext to checksum.
-
-Key Usage Values
-
-This is a complete list of places keys are used in the kerberos protocol,
-with key usage values and RFC 1510 section numbers:
-
- 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
- client key (section 5.4.1)
- 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
- application session key), encrypted with the service key
- (section 5.4.2)
- 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
- session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
- 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- session key (section 5.4.1)
- 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
- 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
- with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
- 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
- authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
- (section 5.3.2)
- 8. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
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- 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
-10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
- key (section 5.3.2)
-11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
- subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
- 5.3.2)
-12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
- encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
-13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.7.1)
-14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.6.1)
-15. KRB-SAVE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
- (section 5.8.1)
-18. KRB-ERROR checksum (e-cksum in section 5.9.1)
-19. AD-KDCIssued checksum (ad-checksum in appendix B.1)
-20. Checksum for Mandatory Ticket Extensions (appendix B.6)
-21. Checksum in Authorization Data in Ticket Extensions (appendix B.7)
-
-Key usage values between 1024 and 2047 (inclusive) are reserved for
-application use. Applications should use even values for encryption and odd
-values for checksums within this range.
-
-A few of these key usages need a little clarification. A service which
-receives an AP-REQ has no way to know if the enclosed Ticket was part of an
-AS-REP or TGS-REP. Therefore, key usage 2 must always be used for generating
-a Ticket, whether it is in response to an AS- REQ or TGS-REQ.
-
-There might exist other documents which define protocols in terms of the
-RFC1510 encryption types or checksum types. Such documents would not know
-about key usages. In order that these documents continue to be meaningful
-until they are updated, key usages 1024 and 1025 must be used to derive keys
-for encryption and checksums, respectively. New protocols defined in terms
-of the Kerberos encryption and checksum types should use their own key
-usages. Key usages may be registered with IANA to avoid conflicts. Key
-usages must be unsigned 32 bit integers. Zero is not permitted.
-
-Defining Cryptosystems Using Key Derivation
-
-Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
-tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption and
-integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys. So, for
-each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for encryption (Ke), and one
-for integrity (Ki):
-
- Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
- Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
-
-where the protocol key is from the EncryptionKey from the wire protocol, and
-the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in network byte order. The
-ciphertest must be generated from the plaintext as follows:
-
- ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | plaintext | padding) |
- H(Ki, confounder | plaintext | padding)
-
-The confounder and padding are specific to the encryption algorithm E.
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-When generating a checksum only, there is no need for a confounder or
-padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be generated
-from the plaintext as follows:
-
- Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
-
- MAC = H(Kc, plaintext)
-
-Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and a keyed
-hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a keyed hash
-algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is recommended for use as H.
-
-Key Derivation from Passwords
-
-The well-known constant for password key derivation must be the byte string
-{0x6b 0x65 0x72 0x62 0x65 0x72 0x6f 0x73}. These values correspond to the
-ASCII encoding for the string "kerberos".
-
-6.4. Checksums
-
-The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-cksumtype
- This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the accompanying
- checksum.
-checksum
- This field contains the checksum itself, encoded as an octet string.
-
-Detailed specification of selected checksum types appear later in this
-section. Negative values for the checksum type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpretations.
-
-Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties: whether they
-are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is infeasible to find
-two plaintexts which generate the same checksum value for a collision-proof
-checksum. A key is required to perturb or initialize the algorithm in a
-keyed checksum. To prevent message-stream modification by an active
-attacker, unkeyed checksums should only be used when the checksum and
-message will be subsequently encrypted (e.g. the checksums defined as part
-of the encryption algorithms covered earlier in this section).
-
-Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if the checksum value is
-encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the composition of
-the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be considered a separate
-checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using DES is a new checksum
-algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed checksums, as well as for the
-encrypted forms of unkeyed collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends a
-confounder before the checksum is calculated.
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-6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
-
-The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic redundancy check
-as described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]. The resulting checksum is four (4)
-octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed nor collision-proof. The use
-of this checksum is not recommended. An attacker using a probabilistic
-chosen-plaintext attack as described in [SG92] might be able to generate an
-alternative message that satisfies the checksum. The use of collision-proof
-checksums is recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
-significant threat.
-
-6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
-The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4 algorithm
-[MD4-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length
-and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4 is believed to
-be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-des)
-
-The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD4
-checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key, where the
-variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization vector should be zero. The
-resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are redundant). This
-checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
-The DES specifications identify some weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those
-keys shall not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the follow- ing diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
-
-The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5 algorithm.
-[MD5-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length
-and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD5 is believed to
-be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-des)
-
-The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD5
-checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum using DES
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-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the key, where the
-variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the hexadecimal constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should be zero. The resulting
-checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are redundant). This checksum
-is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those
-keys shall not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-| des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
-}
-
-6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
-The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder to the
-plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result using the key
-and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last block of the
-ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and encrypting the pair using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a variant of the key, where the
-variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the hexadecimal constant
-F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should be zero. The resulting
-checksum is 128 bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are redundant. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
-
-The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-| des-cbc(confounder + des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0) |
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
-The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
-ASN.1-like notation:
-
-des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
-}
-
-The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those keys
-shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos, nor
-shall a key be used whose variant is 'weak' or 'semi-weak'.
-
-6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative (rsa-md4-des-k)
-
-The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
-applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting the results using DES
-in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both key and
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-initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets long. This
-checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof. Note that this
-checksum type is the old method for encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it
-is no longer recommended.
-
-6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (des-mac-k)
-
-The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode encryption
-of the plaintext, and using the last block of the ciphertext as the checksum
-value. It is keyed with an encryption key and an initialization vector; any
-uses which do not specify an additional initialization vector will use the
-key as both key and initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 64 bits
-(8 octets) long. This checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note
-that this checksum type is the old method for encoding the DES-MAC checksum
-and it is no longer recommended. The DES specifications identify some 'weak
-keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those keys shall not be used for generating
-DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-7. Naming Constraints
-
-7.1. Realm Names
-
-Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a realm can
-technically select any name it chooses, interoperability across realm
-boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to be assigned, and
-what information they imply.
-
-To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the conventions
-itself, and it must require that any realms with which inter-realm keys are
-shared also conform to the conventions and require the same from its
-neighbors.
-
-Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names that differ only in the
-case of the characters are not equivalent. There are presently four styles
-of realm names: domain, X500, other, and reserved. Examples of each style
-follow:
-
- domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
-Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
-separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor slashes
-(/). Domain names must be converted to upper case when used as realm names.
-
-X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:) before the
-equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string representations of the
-names with components separated by slashes. Leading and trailing slashes
-will not be included.
-
-Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
-contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed by a
-colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be assigned before
-they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
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-The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the first
-three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It is unlikely
-that names will be assigned to this category unless there is a very strong
-argument for not using the 'other' category.
-
-These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts between the various
-name styles. The following additional constraints apply to the assignment of
-realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the name of a realm for the
-domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the organization owning (to
-whom it was assigned) an Internet domain name or X.500 name, or in the case
-that no such names are registered, authority to use a realm name may be
-derived from the authority of the parent realm. For example, if there is no
-domain name for E40.MIT.EDU, then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm can
-authorize the creation of a realm with that name.
-
-This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is assigned
-is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to its children in
-the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the parent assigns a realm
-name without also registering it in the domain name or X.500 hierarchy, it
-is the parent's responsibility to make sure that there will not in the
-future exists a name identical to the realm name of the child unless it is
-assigned to the same entity as the realm name.
-
-7.2. Principal Names
-
-As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure that all
-agree on what information is implied by a principal name. The name-type
-field that is part of the principal name indicates the kind of information
-implied by the name. The name-type should be treated as a hint. Ignoring the
-name type, no two names can be the same (i.e. at least one of the
-components, or the realm, must be different). The following name types are
-defined:
-
- name-type value meaning
-
- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, or DCE
-principal)
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
-rcommands)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
- NT-X500-PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
-
-When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a particular
-time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The principal name type should
-be used for users, and it might also be used for a unique server. If the
-name is a unique machine generated ID that is guaranteed never to be
-reassigned then the name type of UID should be used (note that it is
-generally a bad idea to reassign names of any type since stale entries might
-remain in access control lists).
-
-If the first component of a name identifies a service and the remaining
-components identify an instance of the service in a server specified manner,
-then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An example of this name type
-is the Kerberos ticket-granting service whose name has a first component of
-krbtgt and a second component identifying the realm for which the ticket is
-valid.
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-If instance is a single component following the service name and the
-instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the name
-type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for Internet
-services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the separate
-components of the host name appear as successive components following the
-name of the service, then the name type SRV-XHST should be used. This type
-might be used to identify servers on hosts with X.500 names where the slash
-(/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
-
-A name type of NT-X500-PRINCIPAL should be used when a name from an X.509
-certificiate is translated into a Kerberos name. The encoding of the X.509
-name as a Kerberos principal shall conform to the encoding rules specified
-in RFC 2253.
-
-A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is not
-known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match principals
-authenticated with names of any type. A principal authenticated with a name
-of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match other names of type UNKNOWN.
-
-Names of any type with an initial component of 'krbtgt' are reserved for the
-Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the form of such
-names.
-
-7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
-The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be composed
-of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server is registered,
-and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the host name is an
-Internet domain name or a multi-component name of type NT-SRV-XHST if the
-name of the host is of a form such as X.500 that allows slash (/)
-separators. The first component of the two- or multi-component name will
-identify the service and the latter components will identify the host. Where
-the name of the host is not case sensitive (for example, with Internet
-domain names) the name of the host must be lower case. If specified by the
-application protocol for services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands
-which run with system privileges, the first component may be the string
-'host' instead of a service specific identifier. When a host has an official
-name and one or more aliases, the official name of the host must be used
-when constructing the name of the server principal.
-
-8. Constants and other defined values
-
-8.1. Host address types
-
-All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local use.
-All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type fields and
-interpretations.
-
-The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to match the
-defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard Distributions of
-Unix. They can be found in with symbolic names AF_xxx (where xxx is an
-abbreviation of the address family name).
-
-Internet (IPv4) Addresses
-
-Internet (IPv4) addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
-order. The type of IPv4 addresses is two (2).
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-
-IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order. The
-type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24). [RFC1883] [RFC1884]. The
-following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in any Kerberos packet:
-
- * the Unspecified Address
- * the Loopback Address
- * Link-Local addresses
-
-IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
-
-CHAOSnet addresses
-
-CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
-The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
-
-ISO addresses
-
-ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is seven (7).
-
-Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
-XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order. The
-type of XNS addresses is six (6).
-
-AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
-
-AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number and a 16-bit network
-number. The first octet of the address is the node number; the remaining two
-octets encode the network number in MSB order. The type of AppleTalk DDP
-addresses is sixteen (16).
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
-DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB order. The
-type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
-
-Netbios addresses
-
-Netbios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to 15
-characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16th octet of 0x0.
-The type of Netbios addresses is 20 (0x14).
-
-8.2. KDC messages
-
-8.2.1. UDP/IP transport
-
-When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request using UDP
-IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram containing only an
-encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the KDC's IP address; the
-KDC will respond with a reply datagram containing only an encoding of the
-reply message (either a KRB_ERROR or a KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at
-the sender's IP address. Kerberos servers supporting IP transport must
-accept UDP requests on port 88 (decimal). The response to a request made
-through UDP/IP transport must also use UDP/IP transport.
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-8.2.2. TCP/IP transport [Westerlund,Danielsson]
-
-Kerberos servers (KDC's) should accept TCP requests on port 88 (decimal) and
-clients should support the sending of TCP requests on port 88 (decimal).
-When the KRB_KDC_REQ message is sent to the KDC over a TCP stream, a new
-connection will be established for each authentication exchange (request and
-response). The KRB_KDC_REP or KRB_ERROR message will be returned to the
-client on the same TCP stream that was established for the request. The
-response to a request made through TCP/IP transport must also use TCP/IP
-transport. Implementors should note that some extentions to the Kerberos
-protocol will not work if any implementation not supporting the TCP
-transport is involved (client or KDC). Implementors are strongly urged to
-support the TCP transport on both the client and server and are advised that
-the current notation of "should" support will likely change in the future to
-must support. The KDC may close the TCP stream after sending a response, but
-may leave the stream open if it expects a followup - in which case it may
-close the stream at any time if resource constratints or other factors make
-it desirable to do so. Care must be taken in managing TCP/IP connections
-with the KDC to prevent denial of service attacks based on the number of
-TCP/IP connections with the KDC that remain open. If multiple exchanges with
-the KDC are needed for certain forms of preauthentication, multiple TCP
-connections may be required. A client may close the stream after receiving
-response, and should close the stream if it does not expect to send followup
-messages. The client must be prepared to have the stream closed by the KDC
-at anytime, in which case it must simply connect again when it is ready to
-send subsequent messages.
-
-The first four octets of the TCP stream used to transmit the request request
-will encode in network byte order the length of the request (KRB_KDC_REQ),
-and the length will be followed by the request itself. The response will
-similarly be preceeded by a 4 octet encoding in network byte order of the
-length of the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR message and will be followed by
-the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR response. If the sign bit is set on the
-integer represented by the first 4 octets, then the next 4 octets will be
-read, extending the length of the field by another 4 octets (less the sign
-bit which is reserved for future expansion).
-
-8.2.3. OSI transport
-
-During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI server, the mutual
-authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
-credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange of
-private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may be
-treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication mechanism will
-be:
-
-OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(6),internet(1),
- security(5),kerberosv5(2)}
-
-Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an authentication
-header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply (KRB_AP_REP), a safe message
-(KRB_SAFE), a private message (KRB_PRIV), or a credentials message
-(KRB_CRED). The opaque data contains an application code as specified in the
-ASN.1 description for each message. The application code may be used by
-Kerberos to determine the message type.
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-
-The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be composed of
-three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS ticket (2) a two-part
-name of type NT-SRV-INST, with the first part "krbtgt" and the second part
-the name of the realm which will accept the ticket-granting ticket. For
-example, a ticket-granting ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be
-used to get tickets from the ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier
-of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU") (name). A
-ticket-granting ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get
-tickets from the MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of
-"ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm), ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
-
-8.3. Protocol constants and associated values
-
-The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines their
-meanings. Ranges are specified in the "specification" section that limit the
-values of constants for which values are defined here. This allows
-implementations to make assumptions about the maximum values that will be
-received for these constants. Implementation receiving values outside the
-range specified in the "specification" section may reject the request, but
-they must recover cleanly.
-
-Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad size confounder
-size
-NULL 0 1 0 0
-des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
-des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
-des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
- 4
-des3-cbc-md5 5 8 0 8
- 6
-des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
-sign-dsa-generate 8
-(old-pkinit-will-remove)
-dsaWithSHA1-CmsOID 9 (pkinit)
-md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10 (pkinit)
-sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11 (pkinit)
-rc2CBC-EnvOID 12 (pkinit)
-rsaEncryption-EnvOID 13 (pkinit from PKCS#1
-v1.5)
-rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID 14 (pkinit from PKCS#1
-v2.0)
-des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15 (pkinit)
-des3kd-cbc-sha1 ?? 8 0 8
-ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS 48 (reserved for pkcross)
- 0x8003
-
-Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
-CRC32 1 4
-rsa-md4 2 16
-rsa-md4-des 3 24
-des-mac 4 16
-des-mac-k 5 8
-rsa-md4-des-k 6 16
-rsa-md5 7 16
-rsa-md5-des 8 24
-rsa-md5-des3 9 24
-hmac-sha1-des3 12 20 (I had this as 10, is it
-12)
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-padata type padata-type value
-
-PA-TGS-REQ 1
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
-PA-PW-SALT 3
- 4
-PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5
-PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
-PA-SESAME 7
-PA-OSF-DCE 8
-PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
-PA-AFS3-SALT 10
-PA-ETYPE-INFO 11
-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
-PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
-PA-PK-AS-SIGN 16 (***remove on 7/14***)
-PA-PK-KEY-REQ 17 (***remove on 7/14***)
-PA-PK-KEY-REP 18 (***remove on 7/14***)
-PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO 20
-SAM-REDIRECT 21 (sam/otp)
-PA-GET-FROM-TYPED-DATA 22
-
-data-type value form of typed-data
-
- 1-21
-TD-PADATA 22
-TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101 CertificateSet from CMS
-TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL 102
-TD-KRB-REALM 103
-TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
-TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
-
-authorization data type ad-type value
-AD-IF-RELEVANT 1
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER 2
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS 3
-AD-KDC-ISSUED 4
-AD-OR 5
-AD-MANDATORY-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 6
-AD-IN-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 7
-reserved values 8-63
-OSF-DCE 64
-SESAME 65
-
-Ticket Extension Types
-
-TE-TYPE-NULL 0 Null ticket extension
-TE-TYPE-EXTERNAL-ADATA 1 Integrity protected authorization data
- 2 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC (I have reservations)
-TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3 PKCROSS cross realm key ticket
-TE-TYPE-CYBERSAFE-EXT 4 Assigned to CyberSafe Corp
- 5 TE-TYPE-DEST-HOST (I have reservations)
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-alternate authentication type method-type value
-reserved values 0-63
-ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
-transited encoding type tr-type value
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
-reserved values all others
-
-Label Value Meaning or MIT code
-
-pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
-
-message types
-
-KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
-KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
-KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
-KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
-KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
-KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
-KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
-KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
-KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward
-credentials
-KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
-
-name types
-
-KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
-KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or for
-users
-KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
-KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
-rcommands)
-KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
-KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
-KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 2253]
-
-error codes
-
-KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
-KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version # not
-supported
-KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in database
-KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than end
-time
-KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
-KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested option
-KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption type
-KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum type
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited type
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
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-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change password
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was
-invalid
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional pre-authenticationrequired
-[40]
-KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't match
-KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for user2user
-only
-KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
-KDC_ERR_SVC_UNAVAILABLE 29 A service is not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field
-failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't match
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not
-available
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
-KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method
-required
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in message
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in
-message
-KRB_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCEPTED 51 Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG 52 Response too big for UDP, retry with TCP
-KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in e-text)
-KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this
-implementation
-KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66 (pkinit)
-KRB_AP_ERR_NO_TGT 67 (user-to-user)
-KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM 68 (user-to-user)
-KRB_AP_ERR_USER_TO_USER_REQUIRED 69 (user-to-user)
-KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76 (pkinit)
-
-9. Interoperability requirements
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options. Among these
-are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative encoding schemes for
-the transited field, optional mechanisms for pre-authentication, the
-handling of tickets with no addresses, options for mutual authentication,
-user to user authentication, support for proxies, forwarding, postdating,
-and renewing tickets, the format of realm names, and the handling of
-authorization data.
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-In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to define
-a minimal configuration which must be supported by all implementations. This
-minimal configuration is subject to change as technology does. For example,
-if at some later date it is discovered that one of the required encryption
-or checksum algorithms is not secure, it will be replaced.
-
-9.1. Specification 2
-
-This section defines the second specification of these options.
-Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to support
-Kerberos Version 5 Specification 2 (5.1). Specification 1 (depricated) may
-be found in RFC1510.
-
-Transport
-
-TCP/IP and UDP/IP transport must be supported by KDCs claiming conformance
-to specification 2. Kerberos clients claiming conformance to specification 2
-must support UDP/IP transport for messages with the KDC and should support
-TCP/IP transport.
-
-Encryption and checksum methods
-
-The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
-Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the additional
-mechanisms may only be used when communicating with principals known to also
-support them: This list is to be determined. [***This section will change,
-and alternatives will be sent to the cat and krb-protocol list prior to the
-Oslo IETF - change will be made 7/14/99 ***]
-
-Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5
-Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5
-
-Realm Names
-
-All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the Internet
-Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket for an unknown
-realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine the names of the
-intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the requested realm.
-
-Transited field encoding
-
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be supported.
-Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be used only when that
-encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
-
-Pre-authentication methods
-
-The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used on the
-initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported by clients
-but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on a realm by realm
-basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP as an
-acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request using the
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not support the
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server should ignore the
-presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in a request.
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-Mutual authentication
-
-Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
-
-Ticket addresses and flags
-
-All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e. if a TGT
-contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets), but each
-realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and each application
-server will set its own policy with respect to accepting them.
-
-Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms and
-application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets will be
-accepted.
-
-All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets, but need
-not actually implement them. If these options are not supported, the
-starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a ticket's entire useful
-life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a server, all implementations
-shall make the presence of the postdated flag visible to the calling server.
-
-User-to-user authentication
-
-Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY KDC option)
-must be provided by implementations, but individual realms may decide as a
-matter of policy to reject such requests on a per-principal or realm-wide
-basis.
-
-Authorization data
-
-Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
-ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
-suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered subfield
-type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no registered
-subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
-
-Implementations must make the contents of any authorization data subfields
-available to the server when a ticket is used. Implementations are not
-required to allow clients to specify the contents of the authorization data
-fields.
-
-Constant ranges
-
-All protocol constants are constrained to 32 bit (signed) values unless
-further constrained by the protocol definition. This limit is provided to
-allow implementations to make assumptions about the maximum values that will
-be received for these constants. Implementation receiving values outside
-this range may reject the request, but they must recover cleanly.
-
-9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
-Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation, based on
-the list of suggested configuration constants (see section 4.4).
-
-minimum lifetime 5 minutes
-maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
-maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
-empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
-proxiable, etc. Allowed.
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- 1992).
-
-[MD5-92] R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
-[KBC96] H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
- Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
- draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
-
-[Horowitz96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Authentication,
- Integrity, and Privacy", draft-horowitz-key-derivation-02.txt,
- August 1998.
-
-[HorowitzB96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Kerberos V5", draft-
- horowitz-kerb-key-derivation-01.txt, September 1998.
-
-[Krawczyk96] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, and M., Canetti, R., "HMAC:
- Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-
- md5-01.txt, August, 1996.
-
-
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-A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
-
-This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to be
-constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
-
-A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt", "localrealm" */
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
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-
- decode message into req;
-
- client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
-
- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable skew)
-then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
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- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- else
- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted */
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
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- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE */
- endif
-
- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
-
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-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP)) then
- set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno, resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
-
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all that
-*/
- /* should be are set
-*/
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
- endif
- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
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- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
-A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
-
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly
-*/
- /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting ticket
-*/
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
-
- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
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- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
-
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and choosing
-the
- correct key for decryption. The name of the server appears in the
- plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is operating is
- determined by the instance from the ticket-granting ticket. The
-realm
- in the ticket-granting ticket is the realm under which the ticket
- granting ticket was issued. It is possible for a single Kerberos
- server to support more than one realm. */
-
- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not req.sname)
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof and
- keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
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- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(req.sname)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(req.sname);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
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- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
- and those already processed) is set) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket would
-*/
- /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so
-*/
- /* there is no need to check again here
-*/
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till < kdc_time) then
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- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing
-*/
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
- endif
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the renew-till field out
-*/
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into
-decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data := req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data
-+
- decrypted_authorization_data;
-
- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
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- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
-
- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited := compress_transited(tgt.transited +
-tgt.realm)
- /* Don't check tranited field if TGT for foreign realm,
- * or requested not to check */
- if (is_not_foreign_tgt_name(new_tkt.server)
- && req.kdc-options.DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK not set) then
- /* Check it, so end-server does not have to
- * but don't fail, end-server may still accept it */
- if (check_transited_field(new_tkt.transited) == OK)
- set new_tkt.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED;
- endif
- endif
- endif
-
- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key), second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
- endif
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- resp.cname := tgt.cname;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := session;
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- omit resp.key-expiration;
-
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
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- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype, tgt.key;
-
- send(resp);
-
-A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key from
- the response immediately */
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
-resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's session key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.8. Authenticator generation
-
- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
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-A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
-
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
-
- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using session_key;
-
-A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
- else
- retrieve service key for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using retrieved key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
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- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm})) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.transited) then
- /* caller may ignore the TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED and do
- * check anyway */
- if (decr_ticket.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED not set) then
- if (check_transited_field(decr_ticket.transited) then
- error_out(KDC_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED);
- endif
- endif
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
-
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-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
-
- body.ctime := packet.ctime;
- body.cusec := packet.cusec;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
-
-A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
-
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-A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
-
- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
-
-A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof
- and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
-
- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
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- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
-
- if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
- ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
- (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number
- not present) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
- sender_principal(packet));
-
- return PACKET_IS_OK;
-
-A.16. KRB_PRIV generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
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-A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
-
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
- return(cleartext.DATA, PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.18. KRB_CRED generation
-
- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
-
- for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
- done
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
- body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
-
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
-
- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
-
- if (using s-address) then
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- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
- using negotiated encryption key;
-
-A.19. KRB_CRED verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
- return
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-A.20. KRB_ERROR generation
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
-
- get system_time;
- packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
- packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
-
- if (client time available) then
- packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
- endif
- packet.error-code := error code;
- if (client name available) then
- packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
- endif
- if (error text available) then
- packet.e-text := error text;
- endif
- if (error data available) then
- packet.e-data := error data;
- endif
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-B. Definition of common authorization data elements
-
-This appendix contains the definitions of common authorization data
-elements. These common authorization data elements are recursivly defined,
-meaning the ad-data for these types will itself contain a sequence of
-authorization data whose interpretation is affected by the encapsulating
-element. Depending on the meaning of the encapsulating element, the
-encapsulated elements may be ignored, might be interpreted as issued
-directly by the KDC, or they might be stored in a separate plaintext part of
-the ticket. The types of the encapsulating elements are specified as part of
-the Kerberos specification because the behavior based on these values should
-be understood across implementations whereas other elements need only be
-understood by the applications which they affect.
-
-In the definitions that follow, the value of the ad-type for the element
-will be specified in the subsection number, and the value of the ad-data
-will be as shown in the ASN.1 structure that follows the subsection heading.
-
-B.1. If relevant
-
-AD-IF-RELEVANT AuthorizationData
-
-AD elements encapsulated within the if-relevant element are intended for
-interpretation only by application servers that understand the particular
-ad-type of the embedded element. Application servers that do not understand
-the type of an element embedded within the if-relevant element may ignore
-the uninterpretable element. This element promotes interoperability across
-implementations which may have local extensions for authorization.
-
-B.2. Intended for server
-
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER SEQUENCE {
- intended-server[0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
-}
-
-AD elements encapsulated within the intended-for-server element may be
-ignored if the application server is not in the list of principal names of
-intended servers. Further, a KDC issuing a ticket for an application server
-can remove this element if the application server is not in the list of
-intended servers.
-
-Application servers should check for their principal name in the
-intended-server field of this element. If their principal name is not found,
-this element should be ignored. If found, then the encapsulated elements
-should be evaluated in the same manner as if they were present in the top
-level authorization data field. Applications and application servers that do
-not implement this element should reject tickets that contain authorization
-data elements of this type.
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-
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS SEQUENCE { intended-application-class[0]
-SEQUENCE OF GeneralString elements[1] AuthorizationData } AD elements
-encapsulated within the intended-for-application-class element may be
-ignored if the application server is not in one of the named classes of
-application servers. Examples of application server classes include
-"FILESYSTEM", and other kinds of servers.
-
-This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
-applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
-element.
-
-B.4. KDC Issued
-
-AD-KDCIssued SEQUENCE {
- ad-checksum[0] Checksum,
- i-realm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- i-sname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- elements[3] AuthorizationData.
-}
-
-ad-checksum
- A checksum over the elements field using a cryptographic checksum
- method that is identical to the checksum used to protect the ticket
- itself (i.e. using the same hash function and the same encryption
- algorithm used to encrypt the ticket) and using a key derived from the
- same key used to protect the ticket.
-i-realm, i-sname
- The name of the issuing principal if different from the KDC itself.
- This field would be used when the KDC can verify the authenticity of
- elements signed by the issuing principal and it allows this KDC to
- notify the application server of the validity of those elements.
-elements
- A sequence of authorization data elements issued by the KDC.
-
-The KDC-issued ad-data field is intended to provide a means for Kerberos
-principal credentials to embed within themselves privilege attributes and
-other mechanisms for positive authorization, amplifying the priveleges of
-the principal beyond what can be done using a credentials without such an
-a-data element.
-
-This can not be provided without this element because the definition of the
-authorization-data field allows elements to be added at will by the bearer
-of a TGT at the time that they request service tickets and elements may also
-be added to a delegated ticket by inclusion in the authenticator.
-
-For KDC-issued elements this is prevented because the elements are signed by
-the KDC by including a checksum encrypted using the server's key (the same
-key used to encrypt the ticket - or a key derived from that key). Elements
-encapsulated with in the KDC-issued element will be ignored by the
-application server if this "signature" is not present. Further, elements
-encapsulated within this element from a ticket granting ticket may be
-interpreted by the KDC, and used as a basis according to policy for
-including new signed elements within derivative tickets, but they will not
-be copied to a derivative ticket directly. If they are copied directly to a
-derivative ticket by a KDC that is not aware of this element, the signature
-will not be correct for the application ticket elements, and the field will
-be ignored by the application server.
-
-This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
-applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
-element.
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-
-AD-AND-OR SEQUENCE {
- condition-count[0] INTEGER,
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
-}
-
-When restrictive AD elements encapsulated within the and-or element are
-encountered, only the number specified in condition-count of the
-encapsulated conditions must be met in order to satisfy this element. This
-element may be used to implement an "or" operation by setting the
-condition-count field to 1, and it may specify an "and" operation by setting
-the condition count to the number of embedded elements. Application servers
-that do not implement this element must reject tickets that contain
-authorization data elements of this type.
-
-B.6. Mandatory ticket extensions
-
-AD-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
-An authorization data element of type mandatory-ticket-extensions specifies
-a collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect the
-integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum will be calculated over an
-individual extension field. If there are more than one extension, multiple
-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions authorization data elements may be present, each
-with a checksum for a different extension field. This restriction indicates
-that the ticket should not be accepted if a ticket extension is not present
-in the ticket for which the checksum does not match that checksum specified
-in the authorization data element. Application servers that do not implement
-this element must reject tickets that contain authorization data elements of
-this type.
-
-B.7. Authorization Data in ticket extensions
-
-AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
-An authorization data element of type in-ticket-extensions specifies a
-collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect the
-integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum is calculated over a separate
-external AuthorizationData field carried in the ticket extensions.
-Application servers that do not implement this element must reject tickets
-that contain authorization data elements of this type. Application servers
-that do implement this element will search the ticket extensions for
-authorization data fields, calculate the specified checksum over each
-authorization data field and look for one matching the checksum in this
-in-ticket-extensions element. If not found, then the ticket must be
-rejected. If found, the corresponding authorization data elements will be
-interpreted in the same manner as if they were contained in the top level
-authorization data field.
-
-Note that if multiple external authorization data fields are present in a
-ticket, each will have a corresponding element of type in-ticket-extensions
-in the top level authorization data field, and the external entries will be
-linked to the corresponding element by their checksums.
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-C. Definition of common ticket extensions
-
-This appendix contains the definitions of common ticket extensions. Support
-for these extensions is optional. However, certain extensions have
-associated authorization data elements that may require rejection of a
-ticket containing an extension by application servers that do not implement
-the particular extension. Other extensions have been defined beyond those
-described in this specification. Such extensions are described elswhere and
-for some of those extensions the reserved number may be found in the list of
-constants.
-
-It is known that older versions of Kerberos did not support this field, and
-that some clients will strip this field from a ticket when they parse and
-then reassemble a ticket as it is passed to the application servers. The
-presence of the extension will not break such clients, but any functionaly
-dependent on the extensions will not work when such tickets are handled by
-old clients. In such situations, some implementation may use alternate
-methods to transmit the information in the extensions field.
-
-C.1. Null ticket extension
-
-TE-NullExtension OctetString -- The empty Octet String
-
-The te-data field in the null ticket extension is an octet string of lenght
-zero. This extension may be included in a ticket granting ticket so that the
-KDC can determine on presentation of the ticket granting ticket whether the
-client software will strip the extensions field.
-
-C.2. External Authorization Data
-
-TE-ExternalAuthorizationData AuthorizationData
-
-The te-data field in the external authorization data ticket extension is
-field of type AuthorizationData containing one or more authorization data
-elements. If present, a corresponding authorization data element will be
-present in the primary authorization data for the ticket and that element
-will contain a checksum of the external authorization data ticket extension.
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-[TM] Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of the
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these
-trademarks may be made without prior written permission of MIT.
-
-[1] Note, however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only upon
-the initiation of a stream-based network connection. Unless an application
-subsequently provides integrity protection for the data stream, the identity
-verification applies only to the initiation of the connection, and does not
-guarantee that subsequent messages on the connection originate from the same
-principal.
-
-[2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably in the literature. In
-our usage, it takes two (or more) to share a secret, thus a shared DES key
-is a secret key. Something is only private when no one but its owner knows
-it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one has a public and a private key.
-
-[3] Of course, with appropriate permission the client could arrange
-registration of a separately-named prin- cipal in a remote realm, and engage
-in normal exchanges with that realm's services. However, for even small
-numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more automatic methods as
-described here are necessary.
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-[4] Though it is permissible to request or issue tick- ets with no network
-addresses specified.
-
-[5] The password-changing request must not be honored unless the requester
-can provide the old password (the user's current secret key). Otherwise, it
-would be possible for someone to walk up to an unattended ses- sion and
-change another user's password.
-
-[6] To authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the credentials
-obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS exchange to obtain
-credentials for a local server. Those credentials must then be verified by a
-local server through successful completion of the Client/Server exchange.
-
-[7] "Random" means that, among other things, it should be impossible to
-guess the next session key based on knowledge of past session keys. This can
-only be achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is based on
-cryptographic principles. It is more desirable to use a truly random number
-generator, such as one based on measurements of random physical phenomena.
-
-[8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted portion, so cleartext
-here refers to the entire unit, which can be copied from one message and
-replayed in another without any cryptographic skill.
-
-[9] Note that this can make applications based on unreliable transports
-difficult to code correctly. If the transport might deliver duplicated
-messages, either a new authenticator must be generated for each retry, or
-the application server must match requests and replies and replay the first
-reply in response to a detected duplicate.
-
-[10] This is used for user-to-user authentication as described in [8].
-
-[11] Note that the rejection here is restricted to authenticators from the
-same principal to the same server. Other client principals communicating
-with the same server principal should not be have their authenticators
-rejected if the time and microsecond fields happen to match some other
-client's authenticator.
-
-[12] In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the timestamp in the reply was the
-client's timestamp plus one. This is not necessary in version 5 because
-version 5 messages are formatted in such a way that it is not possible to
-create the reply by judicious message surgery (even in encrypted form)
-without knowledge of the appropriate encryption keys.
-
-[13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session key is
-not used, even if present in the Authenticator.
-
-[14] Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to choose
-subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to generate a
-negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-[15]This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known beforehand
-(since the realm is part of the principal identifier), it might be stored in
-a nameserver, or it might be obtained from a configura- tion file. If the
-realm to be used is obtained from a nameserver, there is a danger of being
-spoofed if the nameservice providing the realm name is not authenti- cated.
-This might result in the use of a realm which has been compromised, and
-would result in an attacker's ability to compromise the authentication of
-the application server to the client.
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-[16] If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to ensure
-the randomness of the selected sub- session key. One approach would be to
-generate a random number and XOR it with the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket.
-
-[17] This allows easy implementation of user-to-user authentication [8],
-which uses ticket-granting ticket session keys in lieu of secret server keys
-in situa- tions where such secret keys could be easily comprom- ised.
-
-[18] For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding the first listed
-realm is considered to be the null realm ("").
-
-[19] For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the client's realm is
-considered to precede those in the transited field, and the server's realm
-is considered to follow them.
-
-[20] This means that a client and server running on the same host and
-communicating with one another using the KRB_SAFE messages should not share
-a common replay cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
-
-[21] The implementation of the Kerberos server need not combine the database
-and the server on the same machine; it is feasible to store the principal
-database in, say, a network name service, as long as the entries stored
-therein are protected from disclosure to and modification by unauthorized
-parties. However, we recommend against such strategies, as they can make
-system management and threat analysis quite complex.
-
-[22] See the discussion of the padata field in section 5.4.2 for details on
-why this can be useful.
-
-[23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack data structures
-during the generation and verification of embedded checksums: Because any
-checksums applied to data structures must be checked against the original
-data the length of bit strings must be preserved within a data structure
-between the time that a checksum is generated through transmission to the
-time that the checksum is verified.
-
-[24] It is NOT recommended that this time value be used to adjust the
-workstation's clock since the workstation cannot reliably determine that
-such a KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely manner.
-
-[25] Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one must make
-sure that the workstation time is monotonically increasing. If the time is
-ever reset backwards, there is a small, but finite, probability that a nonce
-will be reused.
-
-[27] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[29] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
-[31] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
-additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
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-[32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an initialization vector
-may be passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve proper cipher
-chaining. The initialization vector might come from the last block of the
-ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV message, but it is the application's
-choice whether or not to use such an initialization vector. If left out, the
-default initialization vector for the encryption algorithm will be used.
-
-[33] This prevents an attacker who generates an incorrect AS request from
-obtaining verifiable plaintext for use in an off-line password guessing
-attack.
-
-[35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
-notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is not a
-valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from the
-confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the message starts
-with random data, but the tag and its length are fixed. For other fields,
-the length and tag would be redundant if they were included because they are
-specified by the encryption type. [36] The ordering of the fields in the
-CipherText is important. Additionally, messages encoded in this format must
-include a length as part of the msg-seq field. This allows the recipient to
-verify that the message has not been truncated. Without a length, an
-attacker could use a chosen plaintext attack to generate a message which
-could be truncated, while leaving the checksum intact. Note that if the
-msg-seq is an encoding of an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length
-is part of that encoding.
-
-[37] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in" string
-for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in section 5.4.2.
-
-[38] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in" string
-for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in section 5.4.2.
-
-[39] A variant of the key is used to limit the use of a key to a particular
-function, separating the functions of generating a checksum from other
-encryption performed using the session key. The constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0
-was chosen because it maintains key parity. The properties of DES precluded
-the use of the complement. The same constant is used for similar purpose in
-the Message Integrity Check in the Privacy Enhanced Mail standard.
-
-[40] This error carries additional information in the e- data field. The
-contents of the e-data field for this message is described in section 5.9.1.
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- March 10, 2000
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-The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-05.txt
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-STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
-provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents
-of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working
-groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as
-Internet-Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and
-may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
-inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them
-other than as "work in progress."
-
-The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
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-To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the
-"1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow
-Directories on ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net (Europe),
-ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
-The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-05.txt, and expires September 10, 2000.
-Please send comments to: krb-protocol@MIT.EDU
-
-ABSTRACT
-
-This document provides an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to clarify aspects of the protocol
-and its intended use that require more detailed or clearer explanation than
-was provided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a detailed
-description of the protocol, suitable for implementation, together with
-descriptions of the appropriate use of protocol messages and fields within
-those messages.
-
-This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to the end user, system
-administrator, or application developer. Higher level papers describing
-Version 5 of the Kerberos system [NT94] and documenting version 4 [SNS88],
-are available elsewhere.
-
-OVERVIEW
-
-This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model upon which the Kerberos
-network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol.
-
-The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
-decisions are treated cursorily; they are more fully described in a paper
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-available in IEEE communications [NT94] and earlier in the Kerberos portion
-of the Athena Technical Plan [MNSS87]. The protocols have been a proposed
-standard and are being considered for advancement for draft standard through
-the IETF standard process. Comments are encouraged on the presentation, but
-only minor refinements to the protocol as implemented or extensions that fit
-within current protocol framework will be considered at this time.
-
-Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for discussion of
-Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU.
-This mailing list is gatewayed onto the Usenet as the group
-comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further information, including
-documents and code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
-
-BACKGROUND
-
-The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's trusted
-third-party authentication protocol [NS78] and on modifications suggested by
-Denning and Sacco [DS81]. The original design and implementation of Kerberos
-Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena staff
-members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and Clifford Neuman
-(now at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern
-California), along with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of Project
-Athena, and Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many other members
-of Project Athena have also contributed to the work on Kerberos.
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this document) has evolved
-from Version 4 based on new requirements and desires for features not
-available in Version 4. The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol was
-led by Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the community. The
-development of the MIT reference implementation was led at MIT by John Kohl
-and Theodore T'so, with help and contributed code from many others. Since
-RFC1510 was issued, extensions and revisions to the protocol have been
-proposed by many individuals. Some of these proposals are reflected in this
-document. Where such changes involved significant effort, the document cites
-the contribution of the proposer.
-
-Reference implementations of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are
-publicly available and commercial implementations have been developed and
-are widely used. Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4 and
-5 can be found in [KNT92].
-
-1. Introduction
-
-Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals, (e.g. a
-workstation user or a network server) on an open (unprotected) network. This
-is accomplished without relying on assertions by the host operating system,
-without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical security
-of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that packets
-traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at will[1].
-Kerberos performs authentication under these conditions as a trusted
-third-party authentication service by using conventional (shared secret key
-[2] cryptography. Kerberos extensions have been proposed and implemented
-that provide for the use of public key cryptography during certain phases of
-the authentication protocol. These extensions provide for authentication of
-users registered with public key certification authorities, and allow the
-system to provide certain benefits of public key cryptography in situations
-where they are needed.
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-The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as follows: A client
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-sends a request to the authentication server (AS) requesting 'credentials'
-for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in the
-client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a 'ticket' for the server and 2)
-a temporary encryption key (often called a "session key"). The client
-transmits the ticket (which contains the client's identity and a copy of the
-session key, all encrypted in the server's key) to the server. The session
-key (now shared by the client and server) is used to authenticate the
-client, and may optionally be used to authenticate the server. It may also
-be used to encrypt further communication between the two parties or to
-exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt further
-communication.
-
-Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or more authentication
-servers running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
-maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their secret
-keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos protocol.
-In order to add authentication to its transactions, a typical network
-application adds one or two calls to the Kerberos library directly or
-through the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface,
-GSSAPI, described in separate document. These calls result in the
-transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authentication.
-
-The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or exchanges).
-There are two basic methods by which a client can ask a Kerberos server for
-credentials. In the first approach, the client sends a cleartext request for
-a ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent encrypted in
-the client's secret key. Usually this request is for a ticket-granting
-ticket (TGT) which can later be used with the ticket-granting server (TGS).
-In the second method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client uses
-the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same manner as if it were
-contacting any other application server that requires Kerberos
-authentication. The reply is encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
-Though the protocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
-servers, they are implemented in practice as different protocol entry points
-within a single Kerberos server.
-
-Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
-principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages exchanged
-between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The application is
-free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
-
-To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the client
-transmits the ticket to the application server. Since the ticket is sent "in
-the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't thwart
-replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker, additional
-information is sent to prove that the message originated with the principal
-to whom the ticket was issued. This information (called the authenticator)
-is encrypted in the session key, and includes a timestamp. The timestamp
-proves that the message was recently generated and is not a replay.
-Encrypting the authenticator in the session key proves that it was generated
-by a party possessing the session key. Since no one except the requesting
-principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent over the
-network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
-
-The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also be
-guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and contained in the
-credentials). This approach provides detection of both replay attacks and
-message stream modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
-transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest
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-function) of the client's message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and
-integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can be secured by
-encrypting the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
-ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
-
-The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access to the
-Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the database must be
-modified, such as when adding new principals or changing a principal's key.
-This is done using a protocol between a client and a third Kerberos server,
-the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM). There is also a protocol for
-maintaining multiple copies of the Kerberos database. Neither of these
-protocols are described in this document.
-
-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
-The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
-boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a server in
-another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes its
-own 'realm'. The name of the realm in which a client is registered is part
-of the client's name, and can be used by the end-service to decide whether
-to honor a request.
-
-By establishing 'inter-realm' keys, the administrators of two realms can
-allow a client authenticated in the local realm to prove its identity to
-servers in other realms[3]. The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate key
-may be used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service of
-each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able to
-obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-granting
-service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting ticket is used, the
-remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
-differs from its own normal TGS key) to decrypt the ticket-granting ticket,
-and is thus certain that it was issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets
-issued by the remote ticket-granting service will indicate to the
-end-service that the client was authenticated from another realm.
-
-A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms share an
-inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm key with an
-intermediate realm that communicates with the remote realm. An
-authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are
-transited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
-Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a key with
-its parent and a different key with each child. If an inter-realm key is not
-directly shared by two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an
-authentication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical organization
-is not used, it may be necessary to consult a database in order to construct
-an authentication path between realms.
-
-Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may be
-bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
-authentication paths (these might be established to make communication
-between two realms more efficient). It is important for the end-service to
-know which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to place in
-the authentication process. To facilitate this decision, a field in each
-ticket contains the names of the realms that were involved in authenticating
-the client.
-
-The application server is ultimately responsible for accepting or rejecting
-authentication and should check the transited field. The application server
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-may choose to rely on the KDC for the application server's realm to check
-the transited field. The application server's KDC will set the
-TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag in this case. The KDC's for intermediate
-realms may also check the transited field as they issue
-ticket-granting-tickets for other realms, but they are encouraged not to do
-so. A client may request that the KDC's not check the transited field by
-setting the DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK flag. KDC's are encouraged but not
-required to honor this flag.
-
-1.2. Authorization
-
-As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of verifying the
-identity of principals on a network. Authentication is usually useful
-primarily as a first step in the process of authorization, determining
-whether a client may use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
-access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos does not, by
-itself, provide authorization. Possession of a client ticket for a service
-provides only for authentication of the client to that service, and in the
-absence of a separate authorization procedure, it should not be considered
-by an application as authorizing the use of that service.
-
-Such separate authorization methods may be implemented as application
-specific access control functions and may be based on files such as the
-application server, or on separately issued authorization credentials such
-as those based on proxies [Neu93], or on other authorization services.
-Separately authenticated authorization credentials may be embedded in a
-tickets authorization data when encapsulated by the kdc-issued authorization
-data element.
-
-Applications should not be modified to accept the mere issuance of a service
-ticket by the Kerberos server (even by a modified Kerberos server) as
-granting authority to use the service, since such applications may become
-vulnerable to the bypass of this authorization check in an environment if
-they interoperate with other KDCs or where other options for application
-authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP proposal) are provided.
-
-1.3. Environmental assumptions
-
-Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
-properly function:
-
- * 'Denial of service' attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There are
- places in these protocols where an intruder can prevent an application
- from participating in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
- solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to be nnot-uncommon
- 'normal' failure modes for the system) is usually best left to the
- human administrators and users.
- * Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder somehow
- steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade as that
- principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate principal.
- * 'Password guessing' attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user
- chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to successfully
- mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly attempting to decrypt,
- with successive entries from a dictionary, messages obtained which are
- encrypted under a key derived from the user's password.
- * Each host on the network must have a clock which is 'loosely
- synchronized' to the time of the other hosts; this synchronization is
- used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of application servers when they
- do replay detection. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
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- per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5 minutes. If the
- clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock synchronization
- protocol must itself be secured from network attackers.
- * Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A typical
- mode of access control will use access control lists (ACLs) to grant
- permissions to particular principals. If a stale ACL entry remains for
- a deleted principal and the principal identifier is reused, the new
- principal will inherit rights specified in the stale ACL entry. By not
- re-using principal identifiers, the danger of inadvertent access is
- removed.
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-1.4. Glossary of terms
-
-Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
-
-Authentication
- Verifying the claimed identity of a principal.
-Authentication header
- A record containing a Ticket and an Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication process.
-Authentication path
- A sequence of intermediate realms transited in the authentication
- process when communicating from one realm to another.
-Authenticator
- A record containing information that can be shown to have been recently
- generated using the session key known only by the client and server.
-Authorization
- The process of determining whether a client may use a service, which
- objects the client is allowed to access, and the type of access allowed
- for each.
-Capability
- A token that grants the bearer permission to access an object or
- service. In Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose use is restricted by
- the contents of the authorization data field, but which lists no
- network addresses, together with the session key necessary to use the
- ticket.
-Ciphertext
- The output of an encryption function. Encryption transforms plaintext
- into ciphertext.
-Client
- A process that makes use of a network service on behalf of a user. Note
- that in some cases a Server may itself be a client of some other server
- (e.g. a print server may be a client of a file server).
-Credentials
- A ticket plus the secret session key necessary to successfully use that
- ticket in an authentication exchange.
-KDC
- Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
- temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host on
- which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and ticket-granting
- ticket requests. The initial ticket portion is sometimes referred to as
- the Authentication Server (or service). The ticket-granting ticket
- portion is sometimes referred to as the ticket-granting server (or
- service).
-Kerberos
- Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the protocol used by that service, or
- the code used to implement the authentication service.
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- The input to an encryption function or the output of a decryption
- function. Decryption transforms ciphertext into plaintext.
-Principal
- A uniquely named client or server instance that participates in a
- network communication.
-Principal identifier
- The name used to uniquely identify each different principal.
-Seal
- To encipher a record containing several fields in such a way that the
- fields cannot be individually replaced without either knowledge of the
- encryption key or leaving evidence of tampering.
-Secret key
- An encryption key shared by a principal and the KDC, distributed
- outside the bounds of the system, with a long lifetime. In the case of
- a human user's principal, the secret key is derived from a password.
-Server
- A particular Principal which provides a resource to network clients.
- The server is sometimes refered to as the Application Server.
-Service
- A resource provided to network clients; often provided by more than one
- server (for example, remote file service).
-Session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single login "session".
-Sub-session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, selected and
- exchanged by the principals using the session key, and with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single association.
-Ticket
- A record that helps a client authenticate itself to a server; it
- contains the client's identity, a session key, a timestamp, and other
- information, all sealed using the server's secret key. It only serves
- to authenticate a client when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
-
-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
-
-Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to indicate
-various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be requested by a client
-when the ticket is obtained; some are automatically turned on and off by a
-Kerberos server as required. The following sections explain what the various
-flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
-The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS protocol
-and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket. Application servers that
-want to require the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
-password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set in any tickets
-they accept, and thus be assured that the client's key was recently
-presented to the application client.
-
-The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information about the
-initial authentication, regardless of whether the current ticket was issued
-directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of
-a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is clear, but the
-PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried forward from the
-ticket-granting ticket).
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-The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application servers
-must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated ticket will
-usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the KDC
-before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the VALIDATE
-option specified. The KDC will only validate tickets after their starttime
-has passed. The validation is required so that postdated tickets which have
-been stolen before their starttime can be rendered permanently invalid
-(through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
-
-2.3. Renewable tickets
-
-Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long periods
-of time. However, this can expose their credentials to potential theft for
-equally long periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until the
-expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-lived tickets and
-obtaining new ones periodically would require the client to have long-term
-access to its secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be
-used to mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
-"expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the ticket
-expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an individual
-expiration time. An application client must periodically (i.e. before it
-expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the RENEW option set in
-the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new ticket with a new session key and
-a later expiration time. All other fields of the ticket are left unmodified
-by the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration time arrives,
-the ticket expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may consult a
-hot-list to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen since its last
-renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and thus the usable
-lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
-
-The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can usually be
-ignored by application servers. However, some particularly careful
-application servers may wish to disallow renewable tickets.
-
-If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC will
-not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default, but a client
-may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ
-message. If it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains the
-time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
-
-2.4. Postdated tickets
-
-Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much later,
-e.g. a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid at the time
-the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets in
-a batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more prone to theft.
-Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain these tickets from the KDC at job
-submission time, but to leave them "dormant" until they are activated and
-validated by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft were reported
-in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket, and the thief
-would be foiled.
-
-The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. This flag
-must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated ticket
-based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it may be requested
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-This flag does not allow a client to obtain a postdated ticket-granting
-ticket; postdated ticket-granting tickets can only by obtained by requesting
-the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life (endtime-starttime) of a
-postdated ticket will be the remaining life of the ticket-granting ticket at
-the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE option is also set, in which
-case it can be the full life (endtime-starttime) of the ticket-granting
-ticket. The KDC may limit how far in the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
-The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
-application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see when
-the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose to reject
-postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain period
-after the original authentication. When the KDC issues a POSTDATED ticket,
-it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the application client must
-present the ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
-
-2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets
-
-At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to perform
-an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take on the identity
-of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A principal can allow a
-service to take on the principal's identity for a particular purpose by
-granting it a proxy.
-
-The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and proxiable flags is used
-to provide credentials for use with specific services. Though conceptually
-also a proxy, user's wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose must
-use the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next section to forward
-a ticket granting ticket.
-
-The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. When set,
-this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to issue a new
-ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network address
-based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the client on initial
-authentication. By default, the client will request that it be set when
-requesting a ticket granting ticket, and reset when requesting any other
-ticket.
-
-This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a remote
-request on its behalf, e.g. a print service client can give the print server
-a proxy to access the client's files on a particular file server in order to
-satisfy a print request.
-
-In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos tickets are
-usually valid from only those network addresses specifically included in the
-ticket[4]. When granting a proxy, the client must specify the new network
-address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that the proxy is to
-be issued for use from any address.
-
-The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a proxy ticket.
-Application servers may check this flag and at their option they may require
-additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in order to
-provide an audit trail.
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-used is when a user logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to
-work from that system as if the login were local.
-
-The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. The
-FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE
-flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
-network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users may request that
-it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in the AS request when they
-request their initial ticket- granting ticket.
-
-This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the user to
-enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then authentication
-forwarding is not permitted, but the same result can still be achieved if
-the user engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
-addresses and supplies a password.
-
-The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket with
-the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests a forwarded ticket by specifying the
-FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket. It
-is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the FORWARDED flag
-set. Application servers may choose to process FORWARDED tickets differently
-than non-FORWARDED tickets.
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-2.7. Other KDC options
-
-There are two additional options which may be set in a client's request of
-the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the client will accept a
-renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be
-provided. If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then the
-KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal to the the
-requested endtime. The value of the renew-till field may still be adjusted
-by site-determined limits or limits imposed by the individual principal or
-server.
-
-The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting service.
-It indicates that the ticket to be issued for the end server is to be
-encrypted in the session key from the a additional second ticket-granting
-ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific details.
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-3. Message Exchanges
-
-The following sections describe the interactions between network clients and
-servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
-
-3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the Kerberos
-Authentication Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain
-authentication credentials for a given server but currently holds no
-credentials. In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for
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-of a login session to obtain credentials for a Ticket-Granting Server which
-will subsequently be used to obtain credentials for other servers (see
-section 3.3) without requiring further use of the client's secret key. This
-exchange is also used to request credentials for services which must not be
-mediated through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather require a
-principal's secret key, such as the password-changing service[5]. This
-exchange does not by itself provide any assurance of the the identity of the
-user[6].
-
-The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
-Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
-messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
-
-In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and the
-identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials. The response,
-KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present to the server, and a
-session key that will be shared by the client and the server. The session
-key and additional information are encrypted in the client's secret key. The
-KRB_AS_REP message contains information which can be used to detect replays,
-and to associate it with the message to which it replies. Various errors can
-occur; these are indicated by an error response (KRB_ERROR) instead of the
-KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not encrypted. The KRB_ERROR
-message contains information which can be used to associate it with the
-message to which it replies. The lack of encryption in the KRB_ERROR message
-precludes the ability to detect replays, fabrications, or modifications of
-such messages.
-
-Without preautentication, the authentication server does not know whether
-the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply sends a
-reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same. This is
-acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in the
-request will be able to use the reply. Its critical information is encrypted
-in that principal's key. The initial request supports an optional field that
-can be used to pass additional information that might be needed for the
-initial exchange. This field may be used for preauthentication as described
-in section [hl<>].
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-3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-The client may specify a number of options in the initial request. Among
-these options are whether pre-authentication is to be performed; whether the
-requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable; whether it
-should be postdated or allow postdating of derivative tickets; and whether a
-renewable ticket will be accepted in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the
-requested ticket expiration date cannot be satisfied by a non-renewable
-ticket (due to configuration constraints; see section 4). See section A.1
-for pseudocode.
-
-The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
-
-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in the
-creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server. The format for
-the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket are
-determined as follows.
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-The authentication server looks up the client and server principals named in
-the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective keys. If
-required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if the
-pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate the
-requested encryption type, an error message with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP
-is returned. Otherwise it generates a 'random' session key[7].
-
-If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a client in the
-Kerberos database (or if the key registered supports multiple encryption
-types; e.g. DES-CBC-CRC and DES-CBC-MD5), then the etype field from the AS
-request is used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be used for
-encrypting the response to the client. If there is more than one supported,
-strong encryption type in the etype list, the first valid etype for which an
-encryption key is available is used. The encryption method used to respond
-to a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session key found in the
-ticket granting ticket. [***I will change the example keytypes to be 3DES
-based examples 7/14***]
-
-When the etype field is present in a KDC request, whether an AS or TGS
-request, the KDC will attempt to assign the type of the random session key
-from the list of methods in the etype field. The KDC will select the
-appropriate type using the list of methods provided together with
-information from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable encryption
-methods for the application server. The KDC will not issue tickets with a
-weak session key encryption type.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise
-the requested start time is checked against the policy of the local realm
-(the administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or ranges of
-postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as
-requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The postdated
-ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the
-start time has been reached.
-
-The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
-following:
-
- * The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the client principal (the authentication server's database
- includes a maximum ticket lifetime field in each principal's record;
- see section 4).
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the server principal.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by the policy of
- the local realm.
-
-If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined above)
-is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error message with code
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested expiration time for the
-ticket exceeds what was determined as above, and if the 'RENEWABLE-OK'
-option was requested, then the 'RENEWABLE' flag is set in the new ticket,
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-
-If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option has
-been set and a renewable ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till field
-is set to the minimum of:
-
- * Its requested value.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two maximum
- renewable lifetimes associated with the principals' database entries.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable lifetime set by
- the policy of the local realm.
-
-The flags field of the new ticket will have the following options set if
-they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm allows:
-FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new
-ticket is post-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
-will also be set.
-
-If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message (see
-section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the caddr of the
-response, placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata of
-the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the client's key using the
-requested encryption method, and sends it to the client. See section A.2 for
-pseudocode.
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-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
-
-Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
-returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the error-code
-and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error message contents and
-details are described in Section 5.9.1.
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-3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
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-If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies that the
-cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the reply match what it
-requested. If any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive the
-proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client decrypts the encrypted
-part of the response using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the
-encrypted part matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect
-replays). It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match
-those in the request (or are otherwise expected values), and that the host
-address field is also correct. It then stores the ticket, session key, start
-and expiration times, and other information for later use. The
-key-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may be checked
-to notify the user of impending key expiration (the client program could
-then suggest remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3
-for pseudocode.
-
-Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to verify the
-identity of the user; the user and an attacker could cooperate to generate a
-KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts properly but is not from the proper
-KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user, it must require
-the user to present application credentials which can be verified using a
-securely-stored secret key for the host. If those credentials can be
-verified, then the identity of the user can be assured.
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-error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are necessary to
-recover.
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-3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange
-
- Summary
-Message direction Message type Section
-Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
-[optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
-applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa. The
-client must have already acquired credentials for the server using the AS or
-TGS exchange.
-
-3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be part of
-the first message in an authenticated transaction. It contains a ticket, an
-authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
-5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insufficient to
-authenticate a client, since tickets are passed across the network in
-cleartext[DS90], so the authenticator is used to prevent invalid replay of
-tickets by proving to the server that the client knows the session key of
-the ticket and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ message is
-referred to elsewhere as the 'authentication header.'
-
-3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it obtains
-(either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the TGS exchange) a
-ticket and session key for the desired service. The client may re-use any
-tickets it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client constructs a
-new Authenticator from the the system time, its name, and optionally an
-application specific checksum, an initial sequence number to be used in
-KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in
-negotiations for a session key unique to this particular session.
-Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if replayed to a
-server[LGDSR87]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should be
-randomly chosen so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is
-not likely to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
-The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the use of
-a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s) in the
-ap-options field of the message.
-
-The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with the
-ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the end server
-along with any additional application-specific information. See section A.9
-for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks must be
-loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket. Several errors are
-possible. If an error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the client
-with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated in the
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-The format of error messages is described in section 5.9.1.
-
-The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows. If the
-message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE
-error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is not
-one the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old key, and the server no
-longer possesses a copy of the old key), the KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is
-returned. If the USE-SESSION-KEY flag is set in the ap-options field, it
-indicates to the server that the ticket is encrypted in the session key from
-the server's ticket-granting ticket rather than its secret key[10]. Since it
-is possible for the server to be registered in multiple realms, with
-different keys in each, the srealm field in the unencrypted portion of the
-ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to specify which secret key the server
-should use to decrypt that ticket. The KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is
-returned if the server doesn't have the proper key to decipher the ticket.
-
-The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key specified by
-the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a modification of the ticket
-(each encryption system must provide safeguards to detect modified
-ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned
-(chances are good that different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
-
-The authenticator is decrypted using the session key extracted from the
-decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm of the client
-from the ticket are compared against the same fields in the authenticator.
-If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is returned (they might
-not match, for example, if the wrong session key was used to encrypt the
-authenticator). The addresses in the ticket (if any) are then searched for
-an address matching the operating-system reported address of the client. If
-no match is found or the server insists on ticket addresses but none are
-present in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error is returned.
-
-If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator differ
-by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW
-error is returned. If the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any recently-seen such
-tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is returned[11]. The server must
-remember any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, so
-that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses track of any
-authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, it must reject all
-requests until the clock skew interval has passed. This assures that any
-lost or re-played authenticators will fall outside the allowable clock skew
-and can no longer be successfully replayed (If this is not done, an attacker
-could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator sent over the network
-to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as the disabled host, and
-replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the authentication.). If a
-sequence number is provided in the authenticator, the server saves it for
-later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV messages. If a subkey is
-present, the server either saves it for later use or uses it to help
-generate its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus the
-start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than the current
-time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
-the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Otherwise, if the
-current time is later than end time by more than the allowable clock skew,
-the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error is returned.
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-If all these checks succeed without an error, the server is assured that the
-client possesses the credentials of the principal named in the ticket and
-thus, the client has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10 for
-pseudocode.
-
-Passing these checks provides only authentication of the named principal; it
-does not imply authorization to use the named service. Applications must
-make a separate authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name of
-the user, the requested operation, local acces control information such as
-that contained in a .k5login or .k5users file, and possibly a separate
-distributed authorization service.
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-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
-
-Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
-information and its initial request in the same message, and the server need
-not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual authentication
-(not only authenticating the client to the server, but also the server to
-the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message will have
-MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a KRB_AP_REP message is
-required in response. As with the error message, this message may be
-encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not acceptable
-to the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond field used in
-the reply must be the client's timestamp and microsecond field (as provided
-in the authenticator)[12]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should
-be randomly chosen as described above for the authenticator. A subkey may be
-included if the server desires to negotiate a different subkey. The
-KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in the session key extracted from the
-ticket. See section A.11 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
-
-If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key from
-the credentials obtained for the server[13] to decrypt the message, and
-verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
-Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client is
-assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey (if
-present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
-
-After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and server
-share an encryption key which can be used by the application. The 'true
-session key' to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
-application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on the
-subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some cases,
-the use of this session key will be implicit in the protocol; in others the
-method of use must be chosen from several alternatives. We leave the
-protocol negotiations of how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption or
-checksum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does not
-constrain the implementation options, but an example of how this might be
-done follows.
-
-One way that an application may choose to negotiate a key to be used for
-subequent integrity and privacy protection is for the client to propose a
-key in the subkey field of the authenticator. The server can then choose a
-key using the proposed key from the client as input, returning the new
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-used for subsequent communication. To make this example more concrete, if
-the encryption method in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever reason,
-one of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than 40 unknown
-bits, this method would allow the the party which is prevented from using
-more than 40 bits to either propose (if the client) an initial key with a
-known quantity for 16 of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if the
-server) with the known quantity. The application implementor is warned,
-however, that this is only an example, and that an analysis of the
-particular crytosystem to be used, and the reasons for limiting the key
-length, must be made before deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits
-of the key.
-
-With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers should
-take care not to send sensitive information to each other without proper
-assurances. In particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
-should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client to assure both
-client and server of their peer's identity. If an application protocol
-requires privacy of its messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section
-3.5). The KRB_SAFE message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
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- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server is
-initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication credentials
-for a given server (which might be registered in a remote realm), when it
-wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when it wishes to obtain
-a proxy ticket. In the first case, the client must already have acquired a
-ticket for the Ticket-Granting Service using the AS exchange (the
-ticket-granting ticket is usually obtained when a client initially
-authenticates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The message
-format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS exchange.
-The primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the TGS exchange
-does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the session key from
-the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or sub-session key from an
-Authenticator is used. As is the case for all application servers, expired
-tickets are not accepted by the TGS, so once a renewable or ticket-granting
-ticket expires, the client must use a separate exchange to obtain valid
-tickets.
-
-The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ) from the
-client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or
-KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating the
-client plus a request for credentials. The authentication information
-consists of the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the
-client's previously obtained ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket.
-In the ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one
-or more of: a list of network addresses, a collection of typed authorization
-data to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the application
-server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described later). The
-TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials, encrypted in the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or if
-present, in the sub-session key from the Authenticator (part of the
-authentication header). The KRB_ERROR message contains an error code and
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-text explaining what went wrong. The KRB_ERROR message is not encrypted. The
-KRB_TGS_REP message contains information which can be used to detect
-replays, and to associate it with the message to which it replies. The
-KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can be used to associate
-it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of encryption in the
-KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays or fabrications of
-such messages.
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-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client must
-determine in which realm the application server is registered[15]. If the
-client does not already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
-realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted by requesting a
-ticket-granting ticket for the destination realm from a Kerberos server for
-which the client does posess a ticket-granting ticket (using the KRB_TGS_REQ
-message recursively). The Kerberos server may return a TGT for the desired
-realm in which case one can proceed. Alternatively, the Kerberos server may
-return a TGT for a realm which is 'closer' to the desired realm (further
-along the standard hierarchical path), in which case this step must be
-repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm specified in the returned TGT.
-If neither are returned, then the request must be retried with a Kerberos
-server for a realm higher in the hierarchy. This request will itself require
-a ticket-granting ticket for the higher realm which must be obtained by
-recursively applying these directions.
-
-Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate realm,
-it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and contacts one. The
-list might be obtained through a configuration file or network service or it
-may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as the secret keys
-exchanged by realms are kept secret, only denial of service results from
-using a false Kerberos server.
-
-As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in the
-KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing
-an authentication header as an element of the padata field, and including
-the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
-optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for application server use
-and additional tickets required by some options.
-
-In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-session
-key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be encrypted[16].
-If the sub-session key is not specified, the session key from the
-ticket-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data is
-present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from the
-authenticator portion of the authentication header, or if not present, using
-the session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the destination
-realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the KRB_AS_REQ
-message, but there are many additional checks to be performed. First, the
-Kerberos server must determine which server the accompanying ticket is for
-and it must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
-KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting service, and the
-TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued by another realm, then the
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-a ticket granting ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
-server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are
-specified in the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is
-the server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the
-ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server for which it
-was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata field, the
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied checksum
-in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents of the request,
-and the message rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
-of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum is not keyed or not
-collision-proof (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the
-checksum type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned. If the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
-the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
-
-If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned.
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-3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP (KRB_KDC_REP),
-but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed specification is in
-section 5.4.2.
-
-The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The Kerberos
-database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested server
-(including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request
-is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key is shared
-with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server will select the realm
-"closest" to the requested realm with which it does share a key, and use
-that realm instead. This is the only case where the response from the KDC
-will be for a different server than that requested by the client.
-
-By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list of
-transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the expiration time,
-and the authorization data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from
-the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the transited field
-needs to be updated, but the transited type is not supported, the
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new ticket is
-set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime from the TGT, and
-(c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the
-application server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
-life for the requesting principal was already applied when the TGT was
-issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal, then the endtime above is
-replaced by the minimum of (a) the value of the renew_till field of the
-ticket and (b) the starttime for the new ticket plus the life
-(endtime-starttime) of the old ticket.
-
-If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket will
-contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will only be
-honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is
-similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
-client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE flag in the TGT is set. The
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-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is not set in the TGT, then the
-error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the ticket-granting
-ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then the resulting ticket will be
-postdated and the requested starttime is checked against the policy of the
-local realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as requested, and
-the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be validated before use
-by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has been reached. However,
-in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-till time of a newly-issued
-postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time of the ticket-granting
-ticket.
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-If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional ticket
-has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the additional ticket
-using the key for the server to which the additional ticket was issued and
-verify that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the requested
-server is missing from the request, the name of the client in the additional
-ticket will be used. Otherwise the name of the requested server will be
-compared to the name of the client in the additional ticket and if
-different, the request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the
-session key from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new
-ticket that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
-new ticket will be used[17].
-
-If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC as part
-of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-granting server
-itself, the server is registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW
-option is requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag is set
-in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in the ticket, and that the
-renew_till time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is rqeuested,
-the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID flag is
-set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check that the
-PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed, and the ticket
-passes the hotlist check described in the next paragraph, the KDC will issue
-the appropriate new ticket.
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-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
-
-Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the presented
-ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets which have been
-canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by storing a range of issue
-timestamps for 'suspect tickets'; if a presented ticket had an authtime in
-that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen ticket-granting
-ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to gain additional tickets
-(renewals or otherwise) once the theft has been reported. Any normal ticket
-obtained before it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
-require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal expiration
-time.
-
-The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is encrypted
-in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present, or the session
-key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
-client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's expiration date and the
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-with the client's database record, and that record is not needed to satisfy
-a request based on a ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
-
-If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting service,
-but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look up the
-inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
-ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the request, subject
-to the constraints outlined above in the section describing the AS exchange.
-The realm part of the client's identity will be taken from the
-ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm that issued the
-ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the ticket to
-be issued. This is accomplished by reading the transited field from the
-ticket-granting ticket (which is treated as an unordered set of realm
-names), adding the new realm to the set, then constructing and writing out
-its encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement of the
-existing encoding).
-
-Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its own
-realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the previous realm.
-This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving out its
-own name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
-
-The names of neither the local realm nor the principal's realm are to be
-included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the ticket and
-both are known to have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since the
-endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop inter-realm
-authentication result in a transited field that is empty.
-
-Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field, it might
-potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this field, its contents
-are encoded. The initially supported encoding is optimized for the normal
-case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrangement of realms
-using either domain or X.500 style realm names. This encoding (called
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now described.
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-Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",", "\",
-trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters, and if they
-are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the transited field by
-preced- ing them with a "\".
-
-A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to the
-previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU,
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
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- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
-Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-points, that they
-would not be included in this field, and we would have:
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- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
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-A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to the
-previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded
-by a space (" "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO,
-/COM/HP, /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
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-
-Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints, they
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
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- "/COM,/HP"
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-A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all realms
-between the previous realm and the next realm have been traversed[19]. Thus,
-"," means that all realms along the path between the client and the server
-have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms from the
-client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have been traversed,
-and that everything from /COM down to the server's realm in an X.500 style
-has also been traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in one hierarchy
-shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm in another hierarchy.
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-3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message
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-When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in the same
-manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The primary difference
-is that the ciphertext part of the response must be decrypted using the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the client's secret
-key. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
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-3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange
-
-The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to detect
-modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by including a
-keyed collision-proof checksum of the user data and some control
-information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually the last
-key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
-occured).
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-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information and computes a checksum over them.
-The checksum algorithm should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the
-RSA- MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES MAC),
-generated using the sub-session key if present, or the session key.
-Different algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
-message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable for this
-use.
-
-The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a timestamp
-and a sequence number. The designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE
-message must choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice should
-be based on the needs of the application protocol.
-
-Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received by one's
-peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain the session key, so
-maintaining the next sequence number should not present an additional
-problem.
-
-If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages without
-them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the appropriate replay
-detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
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-After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the information and
-checksum to the recipient in the message format specified in section 5.6.1.
-
-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and type
-fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively. A mismatch
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-proof keyed
-checksum, and if it is not, a KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. If
-the sender's address was included in the control information, the recipient
-verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's address matches
-the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient address is
-specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's
-addresses appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match
-for either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and
-usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec
-are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen (sent or received[20] ) such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT
-error is generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or a
-sequence number is expected but not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error
-is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is
-present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated. Finally, the checksum is
-computed over the data and control information, and if it doesn't match the
-received checksum, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application is assured that the message was
-generated by its peer and was not modi- fied in transit.
-
-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
-The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality and
-the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It achieves this
-by encrypting the messages and adding control information.
-
-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information (specified in section 5.7.1) and
-encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via
-subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part of the
-control information, the client must choose to use either a timestamp or a
-sequence number (or both); see the discussion in section 3.4.1 for
-guidelines on which to use. After the user data and control information are
-encrypted, the client transmits the ciphertext and some 'envelope'
-information to the recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
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-fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively. A mismatch
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The
-application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant
-plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been modified, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. If the sender's address was
-included in the control information, the recipient verifies that the
-operating system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's
-address in the message, and (if a recipient address is specified or the
-recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's addresses appears
-as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for either case
-generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and usec and/or the
-sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec are expected and
-not present, or they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error
-is generated. If the server name, along with the client name, time and
-microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any recently-seen such
-tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an incorrect sequence
-number is included, or a sequence number is expected but not present, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or
-a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
-generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without intruders able
-to see the unencrypted contents).
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-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
-The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to send
-Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this by sending
-the tickets together with encrypted data containing the session keys and
-other information associated with the tickets.
-
-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using the
-KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote host. It then
-constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or tickets so obtained,
-placing the session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part of the the KRB_CRED
-message.
-
-Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
-KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence in
-the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if
-specifically required by the application the nonce, s-address, and r-address
-fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message which is
-then encrypted under an encryption key previosuly exchanged in the KRB_AP
-exchange (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if
-no negotiation has occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If any
-error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application. The
-message is verified by checking that the protocol version and type fields
-match the current version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then
-decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If decryption
-shows the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is
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-If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating system's
-report of the sender's address matches the sender's address in the message,
-and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address
-in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields (and the nonce field
-if required) are checked next. If the timestamp and usec are not present, or
-they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new tickets in
-its ticket cache together with the session key and other information in the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED
-message.
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-4. The Kerberos Database
-
-The Kerberos server must have access to a database containing the principal
-identifiers and secret keys of principals to be authenticated[21].
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
-A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
-
-Field Value
-
-name Principal's identifier
-key Principal's secret key
-p_kvno Principal's key version
-max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
-max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable Tickets
-
-The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key field
-contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret key. (The key
-can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos "master key" to protect it
-in case the database is compromised but the master key is not. In that case,
-an extra field must be added to indicate the master key version used, see
-below.) The p_kvno field is the key version number of the principal's secret
-key. The max_life field contains the maximum allowable lifetime (endtime -
-starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal. The max_renewable_life
-field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime for any renewable Ticket
-issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a description of how these
-lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of a given Ticket.)
-
-A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the database
-representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between principal records
-with identifiers which differ only in the realm name.
-
-When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine (i.e. not
-the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key should be retained by
-the server until all tickets that had been issued using that key have
-expired. Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be active for a
-single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a principal's key is always tagged
-with the version of the key that was used for encryption, to help the
-recipient find the proper key for decryption.
-
-When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the principal
-will have more than one record in the Kerberos database. The keys and key
-version numbers will differ between the records (the rest of the fields may
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-request for initial authentication, the most recent key (known by the
-Kerberos server) will be used for encryption. This is the key with the
-highest key version number.
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-4.2. Additional fields
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-Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its database:
-
-Field Value
-
-K_kvno Kerberos' key version
-expiration Expiration date for entry
-attributes Bit field of attributes
-mod_date Timestamp of last modification
-mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
-
-The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key under
-which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
-
-After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an error to
-any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the principal. (A database
-may want to maintain two expiration dates: one for the principal, and one
-for the principal's current key. This allows password aging to work
-independently of the principal's expiration date. However, due to the
-limited space in the responses, the KDC must combine the key expiration and
-principal expiration date into a single value called 'key_exp', which is
-used as a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
-
-The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations involving
-the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction with user
-registration procedures, for site-specific policy implementations (Project
-Athena currently uses it for their user registration process controlled by
-the system-wide database service, Moira [LGDSR87]), to identify whether a
-principal can play the role of a client or server or both, to note whether a
-server is appropriate trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a client,
-or to identify the 'string to key' conversion algorithm used for a
-principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that certain ticket
-options should not be allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key
-(one bit each): Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing
-forwardable tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
-disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable tickets, and
-disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the server.
-
-The mod_date field contains the time of last modification of the entry, and
-the mod_name field contains the name of the principal which last modified
-the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
-Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a request
-was made by a particular principal. Information that might be maintained
-includes the time of the last request, the time of the last request for a
-ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a ticket-granting
-ticket, or other times. This information can then be returned to the user in
-the last-req field (see section 5.2).
-
-Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the latest
-expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using each key. This
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-the continued use of outstanding tickets.
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-4.4. Site Constants
-
-The KDC implementation should have the following configurable constants or
-options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce policy decisions:
-
- * The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant should
- reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the KDC,
- encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client and
- target server, and it should allow for a minimum 'useful' lifetime.
- * The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
- (renew_till - starttime).
- * The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
- * Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
- (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be issued
- if the request specifies some authorization_data).
- * Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets are
- to be issued.
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-5. Message Specifications
-
-The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of protocol
-messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are presented in the first
-subsection. The remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
-and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryption and checksum
-techniques, and the fields related to them, appear in section 6.
-
-Optional field in ASN.1 sequences
-
-For optional integer value and date fields in ASN.1 sequences where a
-default value has been specified, certain default values will not be allowed
-in the encoding because these values will always be represented through
-defaulting by the absence of the optional field. For example, one will not
-send a microsecond zero value because one must make sure that there is only
-one way to encode this value.
-
-Additional fields in ASN.1 sequences
-
-Implementations receiving Kerberos messages with additional fields present
-in ASN.1 sequences should carry the those fields through, unmodified, when
-the message is forwarded. Implementations should not drop such fields if the
-sequence is reencoded.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
-All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
-Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509 specification,
-section 8.7 [X509-88].
-
-5.3. ASN.1 Base Definitions
-
-The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this section.
-Note that since the underscore character (_) is not permitted in ASN.1
-names, the hyphen (-) is used in its place for the purposes of ASN.1 names.
-
-Realm ::= GeneralString
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- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
-}
-
-Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not contain a
-character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms will usually consist
-of several components separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet
-Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500 names.
-Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in section 7. A PrincipalName
-is a typed sequence of components consisting of the following sub-fields:
-
-name-type
- This field specifies the type of name that follows. Pre-defined values
- for this field are specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the same
- (i.e. at least one of the components, or the realm, must be different).
- This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-name-string
- This field encodes a sequence of components that form a name, each
- component encoded as a GeneralString. Taken together, a PrincipalName
- and a Realm form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames will have
- only a few components (typically one or two).
-
-KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
-The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An encoding
-shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include any fractional
-portions of the seconds. It further shall not include any separators.
-Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27 seconds after 9 pm
-on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
-HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF HostAddress
-
-The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
-addr-type
- This field specifies the type of address that follows. Pre-defined
- values for this field are specified in section 8.1.
-address
- This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
-
-The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one address;
-HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many addresses.
-
-AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-ad-data
- This field contains authorization data to be interpreted according to
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- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
-Each sequence of type and data is refered to as an authorization element.
-Elements may be application specific, however, there is a common set of
-recursive elements that should be understood by all implementations. These
-elements contain other elements embedded within them, and the interpretation
-of the encapsulating element determines which of the embedded elements must
-be interpreted, and which may be ignored. Definitions for these common
-elements may be found in Appendix B.
-
-TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- te-type[0] INTEGER,
- te-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-
-
-te-data
- This field contains opaque data that must be caried with the ticket to
- support extensions to the Kerberos protocol including but not limited
- to some forms of inter-realm key exchange and plaintext authorization
- data. See appendix C for some common uses of this field.
-te-type
- This field specifies the format for the te-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- use-session-key(1),
- -- mutual-required(2)
-
-TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- may-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- invalid(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- initial(9),
- -- pre-authent(10),
- -- hw-authent(11),
- -- transited-policy-checked(12),
- -- ok-as-delegate(13)
-
-KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- allow-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
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- -- renewable(8),
- -- unused9(9),
- -- unused10(10),
- -- unused11(11),
- -- unused12(12),
- -- unused13(13),
- -- disable-transited-check(26),
- -- renewable-ok(27),
- -- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- -- renew(30),
- -- validate(31)
-
-ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When used in Kerberos for the
-APOptions, TicketFlags, and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
-generated values should be the smallest number of bits needed to include the
-highest order bit that is set (1), but in no case less than 32 bits. The
-ASN.1 representation of the bit strings uses unnamed bits, with the meaning
-of the individual bits defined by the comments in the specification above.
-Implementations should accept values of bit strings of any length and treat
-the value of flags corresponding to bits beyond the end of the bit string as
-if the bit were reset (0). Comparison of bit strings of different length
-should treat the smaller string as if it were padded with zeros beyond the
-high order bits to the length of the longer string[23].
-
-LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
-}
-
-lr-type
- This field indicates how the following lr-value field is to be
- interpreted. Negative values indicate that the information pertains
- only to the responding server. Non-negative values pertain to all
- servers for the realm. If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no
- information is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the absolute value
- of the lr-type field is one (1), then the lr-value subfield is the time
- of last initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of last initial request. If it is three (3), then
- the lr-value subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of the last renewal. If it is five (5), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last request (of any type). If it is
- (6), then the lr-value subfield is the time when the password will
- expire.
-lr-value
- This field contains the time of the last request. the time must be
- interpreted according to the contents of the accompanying lr-type
- subfield.
-
-See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType, EncryptedData,
-EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
-
-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
-
-This section describes the format and encryption parameters for tickets and
-authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is included in a protocol
-message it is treated as an opaque object.
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-A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service. A Ticket
-contains the following information:
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-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData,
- extensions[4] TicketExtensions OPTIONAL
-}
-
--- Encrypted part of ticket
-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by Kerberos and
-the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6 for the format of
-the ciphertext.
-
-tkt-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the ticket format. This
- document describes version number 5.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It also serves to
- identify the realm part of the server's principal identifier. Since a
- Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers within its realm,
- the two will always be identical.
-sname
- This field specifies all components of the name part of the server's
- identity, including those parts that identify a specific instance of a
- service.
-enc-part
- This field holds the encrypted encoding of the EncTicketPart sequence.
-extensions
- This optional field contains a sequence of extentions that may be used
- to carry information that must be carried with the ticket to support
- several extensions, including but not limited to plaintext
- authorization data, tokens for exchanging inter-realm keys, and other
- information that must be associated with a ticket for use by the
- application server. See Appendix C for definitions of some common
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- Because this is an optional field it will not break older clients, but
- older clients might strip this field from the ticket before sending it
- to the application server. This limits the usefulness of this ticket
- field to environments where the ticket will not be parsed and
- reconstructed by these older Kerberos clients.
-
- If it is known that the client will strip this field from the ticket,
- as an interim measure the KDC may append this field to the end of the
- enc-part of the ticket and append a traler indicating the lenght of the
- appended extensions field. (this paragraph is open for discussion,
- including the form of the traler).
-flags
- This field indicates which of various options were used or requested
- when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most
- significant bit. The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
- The flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The meanings
- of the flags are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set, this
- flag tells the ticket-granting server
- that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
- granting ticket with a different network
- address based on the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- When set, this flag indicates that the
- ticket has either been forwarded or was
- issued based on authentication involving
- a forwarded ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical to
- that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
- that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
- ticket-granting server that only non-
- ticket-granting tickets may be issued
- with different network addresses.
-
- 4 PROXY
- When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
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- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. This flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that a post-
- dated ticket may be issued based on this
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- This flag indicates that this ticket has
- been postdated. The end-service can
- check the authtime field to see when the
- original authentication occurred.
-
- 7 INVALID
- This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by the
- KDC before use. Application servers
- must reject tickets which have this flag
- set.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
- be ignored by end servers (some particu-
- larly careful servers may wish to disal-
- low renewable tickets). A renewable
- ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
- ment ticket that expires at a later
- date.
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- 9 INITIAL
- This flag indicates that this ticket was
- issued using the AS protocol, and not
- issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 10 PRE-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that during initial
- authentication, the client was authenti-
- cated by the KDC before a ticket was
- issued. The strength of the pre-
- authentication method is not indicated,
- but is acceptable to the KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected to
- be possessed solely by the named client.
- The hardware authentication method is
- selected by the KDC and the strength of
- the method is not indicated.
-
- 12 TRANSITED This flag indicates that the KDC for the
- POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
- against a realm defined policy for
- trusted certifiers. If this flag is
- reset (0), then the application server
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- the authentication. If the flag is set
- (1) then the application server may skip
- its own validation of the transited
- field, relying on the validation
- performed by the KDC. At its option the
- application server may still apply its
- own validation based on a separate
- policy for acceptance.
-
- 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
- the client) specified in the ticket has
- been determined by policy of the realm
- to be a suitable recipient of
- delegation. A client can use the
- presence of this flag to help it make a
- decision whether to delegate credentials
- (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
- ticket granting ticket) to this server.
- The client is free to ignore the value
- of this flag. When setting this flag,
- an administrator should consider the
- Security and placement of the server on
- which the service will run, as well as
- whether the service requires the use of
- delegated credentials.
-
- 14 ANONYMOUS
- This flag indicates that the principal
- named in the ticket is a generic princi-
- pal for the realm and does not identify
- the individual using the ticket. The
- purpose of the ticket is only to
- securely distribute a session key, and
- not to identify the user. Subsequent
- requests using the same ticket and ses-
- sion may be considered as originating
- from the same user, but requests with
- the same username but a different ticket
- are likely to originate from different
- users.
-
- 15-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-key
- This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is used to
- pass the session key from Kerberos to the application server and the
- client. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-crealm
- This field contains the name of the realm in which the client is
- registered and in which initial authentication took place.
-cname
- This field contains the name part of the client's principal identifier.
-transited
- This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took part in
- authenticating the user to whom this ticket was issued. It does not
- specify the order in which the realms were transited. See section
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- specified for some extentions to the protocol), the X.500 names of the
- CA's should be mapped into items in the transited field using the
- mapping defined by RFC2253.
-authtime
- This field indicates the time of initial authentication for the named
- principal. It is the time of issue for the original ticket on which
- this ticket is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
- additional information to the end service, and to provide the necessary
- information for implementation of a `hot list' service at the KDC. An
- end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to accept
- tickets for which the initial authentication occurred "too far" in the
- past. This field is also returned as part of the response from the KDC.
- When returned as part of the response to initial authentication
- (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on the Kerberos server[24].
-starttime
- This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the ticket is
- valid. Together with endtime, this field specifies the life of the
- ticket. If it is absent from the ticket, its value should be treated as
- that of the authtime field.
-endtime
- This field contains the time after which the ticket will not be honored
- (its expiration time). Note that individual services may place their
- own limits on the life of a ticket and may reject tickets which have
- not yet expired. As such, this is really an upper bound on the
- expiration time for the ticket.
-renew-till
- This field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set
- in the flags field. It indicates the maximum endtime that may be
- included in a renewal. It can be thought of as the absolute expiration
- time for the ticket, including all renewals.
-caddr
- This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more (if present)
- host addresses. These are the addresses from which the ticket can be
- used. If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used from any
- location. The decision by the KDC to issue or by the end server to
- accept zero-address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to issue or
- accept such tickets. The suggested and default policy, however, is that
- such tickets will only be issued or accepted when additional
- information that can be used to restrict the use of the ticket is
- included in the authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
- capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it harder for an
- attacker to use stolen credentials. Because the session key is not sent
- over the network in cleartext, credentials can't be stolen simply by
- listening to the network; an attacker has to gain access to the session
- key (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a careless
- user's unattended session) to make use of stolen tickets.
-
- It is important to note that the network address from which a
- connection is received cannot be reliably determined. Even if it could
- be, an attacker who has compromised the client's workstation could use
- the credentials from there. Including the network addresses only makes
- it more difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk off with
- stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe" location.
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- service. If no authorization data is included, this field will be left
- out. Experience has shown that the name of this field is confusing, and
- that a better name for this field would be restrictions. Unfortunately,
- it is not possible to change the name of this field at this time.
-
- This field contains restrictions on any authority obtained on the basis
- of authentication using the ticket. It is possible for any principal in
- posession of credentials to add entries to the authorization data field
- since these entries further restrict what can be done with the ticket.
- Such additions can be made by specifying the additional entries when a
- new ticket is obtained during the TGS exchange, or they may be added
- during chained delegation using the authorization data field of the
- authenticator.
-
- Because entries may be added to this field by the holder of
- credentials, except when an entry is separately authenticated by
- encapulation in the kdc-issued element, it is not allowable for the
- presence of an entry in the authorization data field of a ticket to
- amplify the priveleges one would obtain from using a ticket.
-
- The data in this field may be specific to the end service; the field
- will contain the names of service specific objects, and the rights to
- those objects. The format for this field is described in section 5.2.
- Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of the contents of
- the sub-fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
-
- By using the authorization_data field, a principal is able to issue a
- proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For example, a client
- wishing to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to be passed to
- the print server. By specifying the name of the file in the
- authorization_data field, the file server knows that the print server
- can only use the client's rights when accessing the particular file to
- be printed.
-
- A separate service providing authorization or certifying group
- membership may be built using the authorization-data field. In this
- case, the entity granting authorization (not the authorized entity),
- may obtain a ticket in its own name (e.g. the ticket is issued in the
- name of a privelege server), and this entity adds restrictions on its
- own authority and delegates the restricted authority through a proxy to
- the client. The client would then present this authorization credential
- to the application server separately from the authentication exchange.
- Alternatively, such authorization credentials may be embedded in the
- ticket authenticating the authorized entity, when the authorization is
- separately authenticated using the kdc-issued authorization data
- element (see B.4).
-
- Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data field of a proxy and
- leaves the host addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session key
- can be treated as a capability. See [Neu93] for some suggested uses of
- this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does not have to be
- included in a ticket.
-
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-client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket, to help the server
-detect replays, and to help choose a "true session key" to use with the
-particular session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session key
-shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-authenticator-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the format of the
- authenticator. This document specifies version 5.
-crealm and cname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-cksum
- This field contains a checksum of the the applica- tion data that
- accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp. Its
- value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to 999999. It often appears
- along with ctime. The two fields are used together to specify a
- reasonably accurate timestamp.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-subkey
- This field contains the client's choice for an encryption key which is
- to be used to protect this specific application session. Unless an
- application specifies otherwise, if this field is left out the session
- key from the ticket will be used.
-seq-number
- This optional field includes the initial sequence number to be used by
- the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when sequence numbers are used to
- detect replays (It may also be used by application specific messages).
- When included in the authenticator this field specifies the initial
- sequence number for messages from the client to the server. When
- included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number is that for
- messages from the server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
- KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after each message is sent.
- Sequence numbers fall in the range of 0 through 2^32 - 1 and wrap to
- zero following the value 2^32 - 1.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of replays
- they should be non-repeating, even across connection boundaries. The
- initial sequence number should be random and uniformly distributed
- across the full space of possible sequence numbers, so that it cannot
- be guessed by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
- numbers do not repeat other sequences.
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- is optional and will only appear when additional restrictions are to be
- placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those carried in the ticket
- itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used in the exchange
-between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible error
-messages appears in section 5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is one of
-KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is for an initial
-ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent from the
-client to the Authentication Server to request credentials for a service.
-
-The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
-
-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
-
-KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
- -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
- addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
- -- encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The fields in this message are:
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- This field is included in each message, and specifies the protocol
- version number. This document specifies protocol version 5.
-msg-type
- This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It will almost
- always be the same as the application identifier associated with a
- message. It is included to make the identifier more readily accessible
- to the application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
- KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
-padata
- The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a sequence of
- authentication information which may be needed before credentials can
- be issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for additional tickets
- (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will include an element with padata-type of
- PA-TGS-REQ and data of an authentication header (ticket-granting ticket
- and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator (which must be
- collision-proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY encoding. In
- most requests for initial authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and most replies
- (KDC-REP), the padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by certain extensions to
- the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might be used to initially
- verify the identity of a client before any response is returned. This
- is accomplished with a padata field with padata-type equal to
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and padata-value defined as follows:
-
- padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
- padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
- PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec containing the
- microseconds which may be omitted if a client will not generate more
- than one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-value) consists of
- the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence, encrypted using the client's secret key.
-
- [use-specified-kvno item is here for discussion and may be removed] It
- may also be used by the client to specify the version of a key that is
- being used for accompanying preauthentication, and/or which should be
- used to encrypt the reply from the KDC.
-
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO ::= Integer
-
- The KDC should only accept and abide by the value of the
- use-specified-kvno preauthentication data field when the specified key
- is still valid and until use of a new key is confirmed. This situation
- is likely to occur primarily during the period during which an updated
- key is propagating to other KDC's in a realm.
-
- The padata field can also contain information needed to help the KDC or
- the client select the key needed for generating or decrypting the
- response. This form of the padata is useful for supporting the use of
- certain token cards with Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
- specified in separate documents. See [Pat92] for additional uses of
- this field.
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- padata-value element is to be interpreted. Negative values of
- padata-type are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative values are
- used for a registered interpretation of the element type.
-req-body
- This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the remaining
- fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over the request, it is
- calculated over an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
- enclosed within the req-body field.
-kdc-options
- This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the
- KDC and indicates the flags that the client wants set on the tickets as
- well as other information that is to modify the behavior of the KDC.
- Where appropriate, the name of an option may be the same as the flag
- that is set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
- options field will be the same as that in the flags field, this is not
- guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply copy the options field to
- the flags field. There are various checks that must be made before
- honoring an option anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected options are
- indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected options and
- reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is specified
- in section 5.2. The options are described in more detail above in
- section 2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- forwardable flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a sub-
- sequent request if the ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based is also for-
- wardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- The FORWARDED option is only specified
- in a request to the ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket in the request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set. This
- option indicates that this is a request
- for forwarding. The address(es) of the
- host from which the resulting ticket is
- to be valid are included in the
- addresses field of the request.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE option indicates that the
- ticket to be issued is to have its prox-
- iable flag set. It may only be set on
- the initial request, or in a subsequent
- request if the ticket-granting ticket on
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- The PROXY option indicates that this is
- a request for a proxy. This option will
- only be honored if the ticket-granting
- ticket in the request has its PROXIABLE
- bit set. The address(es) of the host
- from which the resulting ticket is to be
- valid are included in the addresses
- field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE
- The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a sub-
- sequent request if the ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based also has its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- The POSTDATED option indicates that this
- is a request for a postdated ticket.
- This option will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket on which it is
- based has its MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
- The resulting ticket will also have its
- INVALID flag set, and that flag may be
- reset by a subsequent request to the KDC
- after the starttime in the ticket has
- been reached.
-
- 7 UNUSED
- This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE option indicates that the
- ticket to be issued is to have its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be set
- on the initial request, or when the
- ticket-granting ticket on which the
- request is based is also renewable. If
- this option is requested, then the rtime
- field in the request contains the
- desired absolute expiration time for the
- ticket.
-
- 9-13 UNUSED
- These options are presently unused.
-
- 14 REQUEST-ANONYMOUS
- The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is not to
- identify the user to which it was
- issued. Instead, the principal identif-
- ier is to be generic, as specified by
- the policy of the realm (e.g. usually
- anonymous@realm). The purpose of the
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- user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the ticket
- to be returned should be set. If the
- local realms policy does not permit
- anonymous credentials, the request is to
- be rejected.
-
- 15-25 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
- By default the KDC will check the
- transited field of a ticket-granting-
- ticket against the policy of the local
- realm before it will issue derivative
- tickets based on the ticket granting
- ticket. If this flag is set in the
- request, checking of the transited field
- is disabled. Tickets issued without the
- performance of this check will be noted
- by the reset (0) value of the
- TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
- indicating to the application server
- that the tranisted field must be checked
- locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
- required to honor the
- DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
-
- 27 RENEWABLE-OK
- The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that a
- renewable ticket will be acceptable if a
- ticket with the requested life cannot
- otherwise be provided. If a ticket with
- the requested life cannot be provided,
- then a renewable ticket may be issued
- with a renew-till equal to the the
- requested endtime. The value of the
- renew-till field may still be limited by
- local limits, or limits selected by the
- individual principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- option indicates that the ticket for the
- end server is to be encrypted in the
- session key from the additional ticket-
- granting ticket provided.
-
- 29 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The RENEW option
- indicates that the present request is
- for a renewal. The ticket provided is
- encrypted in the secret key for the
- server on which it is valid. This
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- ticket to be renewed has its RENEWABLE
- flag set and if the time in its renew-
- till field has not passed. The ticket
- to be renewed is passed in the padata
- field as part of the authentication
- header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE
- This option is used only by the ticket-
- granting service. The VALIDATE option
- indicates that the request is to vali-
- date a postdated ticket. It will only
- be honored if the ticket presented is
- postdated, presently has its INVALID
- flag set, and would be otherwise usable
- at this time. A ticket cannot be vali-
- dated before its starttime. The ticket
- presented for validation is encrypted in
- the key of the server for which it is
- valid and is passed in the padata field
- as part of the authentication header.
-
-cname and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is
- specified. If absent, the name of the server is taken from the name of
- the client in the ticket passed as additional-tickets.
-enc-authorization-data
- The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can only be present in
- the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of the desired authorization-data
- encrypted under the sub-session key if present in the Authenticator, or
- alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting ticket, both
- from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm part of the server's principal
- identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the realm part of the
- client's principal identifier.
-from
- This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ ticket
- requests when the requested ticket is to be postdated. It specifies the
- desired start time for the requested ticket. If this field is omitted
- then the KDC should use the current time instead.
-till
- This field contains the expiration date requested by the client in a
- ticket request. It is optional and if omitted the requested ticket is
- to have the maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy for the
- parties to the authentication exchange as limited by expiration date of
- the ticket granting ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
-rtime
- This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a client to the
- KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
-nonce
- This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it intended to
- hold a random number generated by the client. If the same number is
- included in the encrypted response from the KDC, it provides evidence
- that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker.
- Nonces must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be generated randomly,
- but if the correct time is known, it may suffice[25].
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- This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be used in the
- response.
-addresses
- This field is included in the initial request for tickets, and
- optionally included in requests for additional tickets from the
- ticket-granting server. It specifies the addresses from which the
- requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it includes the addresses for
- the client's host. If a proxy is requested, this field will contain
- other addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied by the
- KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
-additional-tickets
- Additional tickets may be optionally included in a request to the
- ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been
- specified, then the session key from the additional ticket will be used
- in place of the server's key to encrypt the new ticket. If more than
- one option which requires additional tickets has been specified, then
- the additional tickets are used in the order specified by the ordering
- of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
-
-The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending on
-whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional
-ticket (TGS-REQ).
-
-The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and additional-tickets)
-are only included if necessary to perform the operation specified in the
-kdc-options field.
-
-It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number appears
-twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message
-contains these fields as does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that is
-passed in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for either
-an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There is no message
-type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either KRB_AS_REP or
-KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of the reply
-depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in
-the client's secret key, and the client's key version number is included in
-the key version number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the
-ciphertext is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, or if
-absent, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket used in the request.
-In that case, no version number will be present in the EncryptedData
-sequence.
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
-
-AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
-TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
-KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
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-EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
-EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
-EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is either
- KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
-padata
- This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One possible use
- for this field is to encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
- with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is described in section 6.3.2).
- This ability is useful to ease transitions if a realm name needs to
- change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such a case all existing
- password-derived entries in the KDC database would be flagged as
- needing a special mix-in string until the next password change.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-ticket
- The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-enc-part
- This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related information
- that forms the encrypted part of a message. The description of the
- encrypted part of the message follows each appearance of this field.
- The encrypted part is encoded as described in section 6.1.
-key
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-last-req
- This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s) of the last
- request by a principal. Depending on what information is available,
- this might be the last time that a request for a ticket-granting ticket
- was made, or the last time that a request based on a ticket-granting
- ticket was successful. It also might cover all servers for a realm, or
- just the particular server. Some implementations may display this
- information to the user to aid in discovering unauthorized use of one's
- identity. It is similar in spirit to the last login time displayed when
- logging into timesharing systems.
-nonce
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-key-expiration
- The key-expiration field is part of the response from the KDC and
- specifies the time that the client's secret key is due to expire. The
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- expiration. This field will usually be left out of the TGS reply since
- the response to the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no
- client information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is up to
- the application client (usually the login program) to take appropriate
- action (such as notifying the user) if the expiration time is imminent.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
- These fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted portion of
- the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1), provided so the client may
- verify they match the intended request and to assist in proper ticket
- caching. If the message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will
- only be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded ticket,
- or if the user is substituting a subset of the addresses from the
- ticket granting ticket. If the client-requested addresses are not
- present or not used, then the addresses contained in the ticket will be
- the same as those included in the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
-authentication of the client to the application server.
-
-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options in use,
-and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is often
-referred to as the 'authentication header'.
-
-AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
-}
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REQ.
-ap-options
- This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects
- the way the request is processed. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits
- is specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
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- Reserved for future expansion of this
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- 1 USE-SESSION-KEY
- The USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
- that the ticket the client is presenting
- to a server is encrypted in the session
- key from the server's ticket-granting
- ticket. When this option is not speci-
- fied, the ticket is encrypted in the
- server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIRED
- The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
- server that the client requires mutual
- authentication, and that it must respond
- with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-ticket
- This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the server.
-authenticator
- This contains the authenticator, which includes the client's choice of
- a subkey. Its encoding is described in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition
-
-The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type, and an encrypted time- stamp. The message is sent in in
-response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
-authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
-
-AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of the
-ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an application-arranged
-negotiation to choose a per association session key.
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REP.
-enc-part
- This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-cusec
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- This field contains an encryption key which is to be used to protect
- this specific application session. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on
- how this field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an application
- specifies otherwise, if this field is left out, the sub-session key
- from the authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from the
- ticket will be used.
-
-5.5.3. Error message reply
-
-If an error occurs while processing the application request, the KRB_ERROR
-message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for the format of the
-error message. The cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server
-cannot determine their appropriate values from the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ
-message. If the authenticator was decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields
-will contain the values from it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-proof message to
-its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged (for
-example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
-
-The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
-checksum keyed with the last encryption key negotiated via subkeys, or the
-session key if no negotiation has occured. The message fields are:
-
-KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
-}
-
-KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_SAFE.
-safe-body
- This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE message.
-cksum
- This field contains the checksum of the application data. Checksum
- details are described in section 6.4. The checksum is computed over the
- encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence. First, the cksum is zeroed and the
- checksum is computed over the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence, then
- the checksum is set to the result of that computation, and finally the
- KRB-SAFE sequence is encoded again.
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- the application specific data that is being passed from the sender to
- the recipient.
-timestamp
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages. Its contents
- are the current time as known by the sender of the message. By checking
- the timestamp, the recipient of the message is able to make sure that
- it was recently generated, and is not a replay.
-usec
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers. It contains
- the microsecond part of the timestamp.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-s-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the sender of the message.
- It may be omitted if not required by the application protocol. The
- application designer considering omission of this field is warned, that
- the inclusion of this address prevents some kinds of replay attacks
- (e.g., reflection attacks) and that it is only acceptable to omit this
- address if there is sufficient information in the integrity protected
- part of the application message for the recipient to unambiguously
- determine if it was the intended recipient.
-r-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of the
- message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as broadcast protocols),
- but the recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages. This field
- along with s-address can be used to help detect messages which have
- been incorrectly or maliciously delivered to the wrong recipient.
-
-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to securely and privately send a
-message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been
-exchanged (for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
-The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's addr
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_PRIV.
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- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key[32]. This encrypted encoding is used for the
- enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for the format of
- the ciphertext.
-user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to send
-Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is presented here to
-encourage a common mechanism to be used by applications when forwarding
-tickets or providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that a
-session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using the
-KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
-The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
-information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from each.
-The information needed to use the tickets is encrypted under an encryption
-key previously exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
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-tickets
- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically for use by the
- intended recipient. Successive tickets are paired with the
- corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the KRB-CRED
- message.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key shared between the sender and the intended
- recipient. This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part field of
- the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-nonce
- If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a nonce
- generated by the recipient of the message. If the same value is
- included as the nonce in the message, it provides evidence that the
- message is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. A nonce must
- never be re-used; it should be generated randomly by the recipient of
- the message and provided to the sender of the message in an application
- specific manner.
-timestamp and usec
- These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED message was generated.
- The time is used to provide assurance that the message is fresh.
-s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1. They are used
- optionally to provide additional assurance of the integrity of the
- KRB-CRED message.
-key
- This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the KRB-CRED
- message and is used to pass the session key from the sender to the
- intended recipient. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-
-The following fields are optional. If present, they can be associated with
-the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left out, then it is assumed
-that the recipient of the credentials already knows their value.
-
-prealm and pname
- The name and realm of the delegated principal identity.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname, and caddr
- These fields contain the values of the correspond- ing fields from the
- ticket found in the ticket field. Descriptions of the fields are
- identical to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
-
-5.9. Error message specification
-
-This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The fields
-included in the message are intended to return as much information as
-possible about an error. It is not expected that all the information
-required by the fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
-appropriate information is not available when the message is composed, the
-corresponding field will be left out of the message.
-
-Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is only optionally integrity
-protected, it is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or modify such
-a message. In particular, this means that unless appropriate integrity
-protection mechanisms have been applied to the KRB_ERROR message, the client
-should not use any fields in this message for security-critical purposes,
-such as setting a system clock or generating a fresh authenticator. The
-message can be useful, however, for advising a user on the reason for some
-failure.
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-The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
-KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL,
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_ERROR.
-ctime
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-cusec
- This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-stime
- This field contains the current time on the server. It is of type
- KerberosTime.
-susec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the server's timestamp. Its
- value ranges from 0 to 999999. It appears along with stime. The two
- fields are used in conjunction to specify a reasonably accurate
- timestamp.
-error-code
- This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or the server
- when a request fails. To interpret the value of this field see the list
- of error codes in section 8. Implementations are encouraged to provide
- for national language support in the display of error messages.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
-e-text
- This field contains additional text to help explain the error code
- associated with the failed request (for example, it might include a
- principal name which was unknown).
-e-data
- This field contains additional data about the error for use by the
- application to help it recover from or handle the error. If present,
- this field will contain the encoding of a sequence of TypedData
- (TYPED-DATA below), unless the errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED,
- in which case it will contain the encoding of a sequence of of padata
- fields (METHOD-DATA below), each corresponding to an acceptable
- pre-authentication method and optionally containing data for the
- method:
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- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
- TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type[0] INTEGER,
- data-value[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- Note that e-data-types have been reserved for all PA data types defined
- prior to July 1999. For the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message, when
- using new PA data types defined in July 1999 or later, the METHOD-DATA
- sequence must itself be encapsulated in an TypedData element of type
- TD-PADATA. All new implementations interpreting the METHOD-DATA field
- for the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message must accept a type of
- TD-PADATA, extract the typed data field and interpret the use any
- elements encapsulated in the TD-PADATA elements as if they were present
- in the METHOD-DATA sequence.
-e-cksum
- This field contains an optional checksum for the KRB-ERROR message. The
- checksum is calculated over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the
- KRB-ERROR message with the checksum absent. The checksum is then added
- to the KRB-ERROR structure and the message is re-encoded. The Checksum
- should be calculated using the session key from the ticket granting
- ticket or service ticket, where available. If the error is in response
- to a TGS or AP request, the checksum should be calculated uing the the
- session key from the client's ticket. If the error is in response to an
- AS request, then the checksum should be calulated using the client's
- secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preauthentication to prove
- knowledge of the secret key by the client[33]. If a checksum can not be
- computed because the key to be used is not available, no checksum will
- be included.
-
- 6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
-
- The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use
- stream encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly
- available block encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption
- Standard [DES77], and triple DES variants, in conjunction with block
- chaining and checksum methods [DESM80]. Encryption is used to prove the
- identities of the network entities participating in message exchanges.
- The Key Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by all principals
- registered in that realm to store a secret key in confidence. Proof of
- knowledge of this secret key is used to verify the authenticity of a
- principal.
-
- The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a
- shared session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to ticket
- requests; the ability to obtain the secret key or session key implies
- the knowledge of the appropriate keys and the identity of the KDC. The
- ability of a principal to decrypt the KDC response and present a Ticket
- and a properly formed Authenticator (generated with the session key
- from the KDC response) to a service verifies the identity of the
- principal; likewise the ability of the service to extract the session
- key from the Ticket and prove its knowledge thereof in a response
- verifies the identity of the service.
-
- The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is
- secure from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of fields
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- effects of poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose good
- keys. If keys are derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords
- need to be well chosen to make brute force attacks more difficult.
- Poorly chosen keys still make easy targets for intruders.
-
- The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
- currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
- requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is
- often desirable to place random information (often referred to as a
- confounder) at the start of the message. The requirements for a
- confounder are specified with each encryption mechanism.
-
- Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the the
- security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these chaining
- methods often don't provide an integrity check upon decryption. Such
- systems (such as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of
- the plain-text which can be verified at decryption and used to detect
- any tampering or damage. Such checksums should be good at detecting
- burst errors in the input. If any damage is detected, the decryption
- routine is expected to return an error indicating the failure of an
- integrity check. Each encryption type is expected to provide and verify
- an appropriate checksum. The specification of each encryption method
- sets out its checksum requirements.
-
- Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an
- algorithm for converting the password to a key of the appropriate type
- is included. It is desirable for the string to key function to be
- one-way, and for the mapping to be different in different realms. This
- is important because users who are registered in more than one realm
- will often use the same password in each, and it is desirable that an
- attacker compromising the Kerberos server in one realm not obtain or
- derive the user's key in another.
-
- For an discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
- encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the reader is
- referred to [SG92].
-
- 6.1. Encryption Specifications
-
- The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
- enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in
- section 5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional
- key version number, and the ciphertext.
-
- EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
- }
-
-
-
- etype
- This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used to
- encipher the cipher. Detailed specifications for selected
- encryption types appear later in this section.
- kvno
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- lasting keys, such as principals' secret keys.
- cipher
- This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an OCTET
- STRING.
- The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption
- algorithm to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific
- inputs. Encryption mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must take
- sufficient measures to guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and we
- recommend they also take measures to protect against precomputed
- dictionary attacks. If the encryption algorithm is not itself capable
- of doing so, the protections can often be enhanced by adding a checksum
- and a confounder.
-
- The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a
- confounder, a checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary
- padding. The msg-seq field contains the part of the protocol message
- described in section 5 which is to be encrypted. The confounder,
- checksum, and padding are all untagged and untyped, and their length is
- exactly sufficient to hold the appropriate item. The type and length is
- implicit and specified by the particular encryption type being used
- (etype). The format for the data to be encrypted for some methods is
- described in the following diagram, but other methods may deviate from
- this layour - so long as the definition of the method defines the
- layout actually in use.
-
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length) OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length) OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
- }
-
- One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing it
- in confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate checksum
- over confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in check; adds
- the necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified encryption
- type and the appropriate key.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm
- that specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an
- octet boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format[36]. Those
- fields which are not specified will be omitted.
-
- In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
- encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
- specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is needed
- as part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum is to be
- used, a new encryption type must be defined.
-
- Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and
- the data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in
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- required, the description for each encryption type must specify the
- source of such additional information. 6.2. Encryption Keys
-
- The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption key:
-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- keytype
- This field specifies the type of encryption that is to be
- performed using the key that follows in the keyvalue field. It
- will always correspond to the etype to be used to generate or
- decode the EncryptedData. In cases when multiple algorithms use a
- common kind of key (e.g., if the encryption algorithm uses an
- alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity check, or a
- different chaining mechanism), the keytype provides information
- needed to determine which algorithm is to be used.
- keyvalue
- This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet string.
- All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
- fields and interpreta- tions.
-
- 6.3. Encryption Systems
-
- 6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
- If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the
- NULL encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no
- checksum, confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the
- plaintext. The NULL Key is used by the null encryption system and is
- zero octets in length, with keytype zero (0).
-
- 6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
-
- The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
- [DESM80]. A CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]) is
- applied to the confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in
- the cksum field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be
- encrypted (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must
- be padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of the
- encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5
- encryption mode.
-
- Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-proof, an
- attacker could use a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack to generate
- a valid message even if a confounder is used [SG92]. The use of
- collision-proof checksums is recommended for environments where such
- attacks represent a significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the
- checksum for ticket or authenticator is no longer mandated as an
- interoperability requirement for Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1
- (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
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- Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
- [DESM80]. An MD4 checksum (described in [MD492]) is applied to the
- confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
- field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
- (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded
- to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of the encryption
- of this data are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5 encryption
- mode.
-
- 6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
-
- The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
- [DESM80]. An MD5 checksum (described in [MD5-92].) is applied to the
- confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
- field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
- (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded
- to an 8 byte boundary before encryption.
-
- Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which
- are concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The
- first octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's
- MSbit used as the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the
- next 8 bits, ..., and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least significant
- bits.
-
- Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an additional
- input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless otherwise
- specified, zero should be used as the initialization vector. Kerberos'
- use of DES requires an 8 octet confounder.
-
- The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those
- keys shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in Kerberos.
- Additionally, because of the way that keys are derived for the
- encryption of checksums, keys shall not be used that yield 'weak' or
- 'semi-weak' keys when eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant
- F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
- A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists of
- 56 bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded
- as a series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits within the
- key are also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption key
- is (B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8) where
- B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8 are the
- parity bits, the first octet of the key would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with
- B1 as the MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction for reference.]
-
- String to key transformation
-
- To generate a DES key from a text string (password), a "salt" is
- concatenated to the text string, and then padded with ASCII nulls to an
- 8 byte boundary. This "salt" is normally the realm and each component
- of the principal's name appended. However, sometimes different salts
- are used --- for example, when a realm is renamed, or if a user changes
- her username, or for compatibility with Kerberos V4 (whose
- string-to-key algorithm uses a null string for the salt). This string
- is then fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed with itself to form an 8 byte DES
- key. Before eXclusive-ORing a block, every byte is shifted one bit to
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- the left to leave the lowest bit zero. The key is the "corrected" by
- correcting the parity on the key, and if the key matches a 'weak' or
- 'semi-weak' key as described in the DES specification, it is
- eXclusive-ORed with the constant 00000000000000F0. This key is then
- used to generate a DES CBC checksum on the initial string (with the
- salt appended). The result of the CBC checksum is the "corrected" as
- described above to form the result which is return as the key.
- Pseudocode follows:
-
- name_to_default_salt(realm, name) {
- s = realm
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- return s;
- }
-
- key_correction(key) {
- fixparity(key);
- if (is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
- string_to_key(string,salt) {
-
- odd = 1;
- s = string + salt;
- tempkey = NULL;
- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- left shift every byte in 8byteblock one bit;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- tempkey = key_correction(tempkey);
- key = key_correction(DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey));
- return(key);
- }
-
- 6.3.5. Triple DES with HMAC-SHA1 Kerberos Encryption Type with and
- without Key Derivation [Original draft by Marc Horowitz, revisions by
- David Miller]
-
- This encryption type is based on the Triple DES cryptosystem, the
- HMAC-SHA1 [Krawczyk96] message authentication algorithm, and key
- derivation for Kerberos V5 [HorowitzB96]. Key derivation may or may not
- be used in conjunction with the use of Triple DES keys.
-
- Algorithm Identifiers
-
- The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 encryption type has been assigned the value 7.
- The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1-kd encryption type, specifying the key
- derivation variant of the encryption type, has been assigned the value
- 16. The hmac-sha1-des3 checksum type has been assigned the value 13.
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- variant of the checksum, has been assigned the value 12.
-
- Triple DES Key Production
-
- The EncryptionKey value is 24 octets long. The 7 most significant bits
- of each octet contain key bits, and the least significant bit is the
- inverse of the xor of the key bits.
-
- For the purposes of key derivation, the block size is 64 bits, and the
- key size is 168 bits. The 168 bits output by key derivation are
- converted to an EncryptionKey value as follows. First, the 168 bits are
- divided into three groups of 56 bits, which are expanded individually
- into 64 bits as follows:
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 p
- 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 p
- 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 p
- 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 p
- 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 p
- 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 p
- 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 p
- 56 48 40 32 24 16 8 p
-
- The "p" bits are parity bits computed over the data bits. The output of
- the three expansions are concatenated to form the EncryptionKey value.
-
- When the HMAC-SHA1 of a string is computed, the key is used in the
- EncryptedKey form.
-
- The string-to-key function is used to tranform UNICODE passwords into
- DES3 keys. The DES3 string-to-key function relies on the "N-fold"
- algorithm, which is detailed in [9]. The description of the N-fold
- algorithm in that document is as follows:
- o To n-fold a number X, replicate the input value to a length that
- is the least common multiple of n and the length of X. Before each
- repetition, the input is rotated to the right by 13 bit positions.
- The successive n-bit chunks are added together using
- 1's-complement addition (that is, addition with end-around carry)
- to yield an n-bit result"
- o The n-fold algorithm, as with DES string-to-key, is applied to the
- password string concatenated with a salt value. The salt value is
- derived in the same was as for the DES string-to-key algorithm.
- For 3-key triple DES then, the operation will involve a 168-fold
- of the input password string. The remainder of the string-to-key
- function for DES3 is shown here in pseudocode:
-
- DES3string-to-key(passwordString, key)
-
- salt = name_to_default_salt(realm, name)
- s = passwordString + salt
- tmpKey1 = 168-fold(s)
- parityFix(tmpKey1);
- if not weakKey(tmpKey1)
- /*
- * Encrypt temp key in itself with a
- * zero initialization vector
- *
- * Function signature is DES3encrypt(plain, key, iv)
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- */
- tmpKey2 = DES3encrypt(tmpKey1, tmpKey1, zeroIvec)
- /*
- * Encrypt resultant temp key in itself with third component
- * of first temp key as initialization vector
- */
- key = DES3encrypt(tmpKey2, tmpKey1, tmpKey1[2])
- parityFix(key)
- if not weakKey(key)
- return SUCCESS
- else
- return FAILURE
- else
- return FAILURE
-
- The weakKey function above is the same weakKey function used with DES
- keys, but applied to each of the three single DES keys that comprise
- the triple DES key.
-
- The lengths of UNICODE encoded character strings include the trailing
- terminator character (0).
-
- Encryption Types des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 and des3-cbc-hmac-sha1-kd
-
- EncryptedData using this type must be generated as described in
- [Horowitz96]. The encryption algorithm is Triple DES in Outer-CBC mode.
- The checksum algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. If the key derivation variant of
- the encryption type is used, encryption key values are modified
- according to the method under the Key Derivation section below.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, a zero IV must be used.
-
- If the length of the input data is not a multiple of the block size,
- zero octets must be used to pad the plaintext to the next eight-octet
- boundary. The counfounder must be eight random octets (one block).
-
- Checksum Types hmac-sha1-des3 and hmac-sha1-des3-kd
-
- Checksums using this type must be generated as described in
- [Horowitz96]. The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. If the key
- derivation variant of the checksum type is used, checksum key values
- are modified according to the method under the Key Derivation section
- below.
-
- Key Derivation
-
- In the Kerberos protocol, cryptographic keys are used in a number of
- places. In order to minimize the effect of compromising a key, it is
- desirable to use a different key for each of these places. Key
- derivation [Horowitz96] can be used to construct different keys for
- each operation from the keys transported on the network. For this to be
- possible, a small change to the specification is necessary.
-
- This section specifies a profile for the use of key derivation
- [Horowitz96] with Kerberos. For each place where a key is used, a ``key
- usage'' must is specified for that purpose. The key, key usage, and
- encryption/checksum type together describe the transformation from
- plaintext to ciphertext, or plaintext to checksum.
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- This is a complete list of places keys are used in the kerberos
- protocol, with key usage values and RFC 1510 section numbers:
-
- 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
- client key (section 5.4.1)
- 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
- application session key), encrypted with the service key
- (section 5.4.2)
- 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
- session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
- 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- session key (section 5.4.1)
- 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
- 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
- with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
- 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
- authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
- (section 5.3.2)
- 8. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
- 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
- 10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
- key (section 5.3.2)
- 11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
- subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
- 5.3.2)
- 12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
- encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
- 13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.7.1)
- 14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.6.1)
- 15. KRB-SAVE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
- (section 5.8.1)
- 18. KRB-ERROR checksum (e-cksum in section 5.9.1)
- 19. AD-KDCIssued checksum (ad-checksum in appendix B.1)
- 20. Checksum for Mandatory Ticket Extensions (appendix B.6)
- 21. Checksum in Authorization Data in Ticket Extensions (appendix B.7)
-
- Key usage values between 1024 and 2047 (inclusive) are reserved for
- application use. Applications should use even values for encryption and
- odd values for checksums within this range.
-
- A few of these key usages need a little clarification. A service which
- receives an AP-REQ has no way to know if the enclosed Ticket was part
- of an AS-REP or TGS-REP. Therefore, key usage 2 must always be used for
- generating a Ticket, whether it is in response to an AS- REQ or
- TGS-REQ.
-
- There might exist other documents which define protocols in terms of
- the RFC1510 encryption types or checksum types. Such documents would
- not know about key usages. In order that these documents continue to be
- meaningful until they are updated, key usages 1024 and 1025 must be
- used to derive keys for encryption and checksums, respectively. New
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- types should use their own key usages. Key usages may be registered
- with IANA to avoid conflicts. Key usages must be unsigned 32 bit
- integers. Zero is not permitted.
-
- Defining Cryptosystems Using Key Derivation
-
- Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
- tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption and
- integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys. So,
- for each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for encryption
- (Ke), and one for integrity (Ki):
-
- Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
- Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
-
- where the protocol key is from the EncryptionKey from the wire
- protocol, and the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in
- network byte order. The ciphertest must be generated from the plaintext
- as follows:
-
- ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | plaintext | padding) |
- H(Ki, confounder | plaintext | padding)
-
- The confounder and padding are specific to the encryption algorithm E.
-
- When generating a checksum only, there is no need for a confounder or
- padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be
- generated from the plaintext as follows:
-
- Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
- MAC = H(Kc, plaintext)
-
- Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and a
- keyed hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a keyed
- hash algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is required for use
- as H.
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- Key Derivation from Passwords
-
- The well-known constant for password key derivation must be the byte
- string {0x6b 0x65 0x72 0x62 0x65 0x72 0x6f 0x73}. These values
- correspond to the ASCII encoding for the string "kerberos".
-
- 6.4. Checksums
-
- The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- cksumtype
- This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the
- accompanying checksum.
- checksum
- This field contains the checksum itself, encoded as an octet
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- section. Negative values for the checksum type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
- fields and interpretations.
-
- Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties: whether
- they are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is infeasible
- to find two plaintexts which generate the same checksum value for a
- collision-proof checksum. A key is required to perturb or initialize
- the algorithm in a keyed checksum. To prevent message-stream
- modification by an active attacker, unkeyed checksums should only be
- used when the checksum and message will be subsequently encrypted (e.g.
- the checksums defined as part of the encryption algorithms covered
- earlier in this section).
-
- Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if the checksum
- value is encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the
- composition of the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be
- considered a separate checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using
- DES is a new checksum algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed
- checksums, as well as for the encrypted forms of unkeyed
- collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends a confounder before the
- checksum is calculated.
-
- 6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
-
- The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic redundancy
- check as described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]. The resulting checksum is
- four (4) octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed nor
- collision-proof. The use of this checksum is not recommended. An
- attacker using a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack as described in
- [SG92] might be able to generate an alternative message that satisfies
- the checksum. The use of collision-proof checksums is recommended for
- environments where such attacks represent a significant threat.
-
- 6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
- The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4 algorithm
- [MD4-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary
- length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4 is
- believed to be collision-proof.
-
- 6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-des)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
- prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD4
- checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the
- key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
- constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization vector should be
- zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are
- redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys';
- those keys shall not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use
- in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the follow- ing diagram:
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- | des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
- }
-
- 6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
-
- The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5 algorithm.
- [MD5-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary
- length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD5 is
- believed to be collision-proof.
-
- 6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-des)
-
- The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum by
- prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA MD5
- checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the
- key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
- hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should
- be zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which
- are redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys';
- those keys shall not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use
- in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
- | des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
- }
-
- 6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
- The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder to
- the plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result using
- the key and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last block of
- the ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and encrypting the pair
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a variant of the
- key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
- hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector should
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- of which are redundant. This checksum is tamper-proof and
- collision-proof.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
- | des-cbc(confounder + des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0) |
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
- }
-
- The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys; those
- keys shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use in
- Kerberos, nor shall a key be used whose variant is 'weak' or
- 'semi-weak'.
-
- 6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative
- (rsa-md4-des-k)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
- by applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting the results
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both
- key and initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets
- long. This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be collision-proof.
- Note that this checksum type is the old method for encoding the
- RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it is no longer recommended.
-
- 6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (des-mac-k)
-
- The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode
- encryption of the plaintext, and using the last block of the ciphertext
- as the checksum value. It is keyed with an encryption key and an
- initialization vector; any uses which do not specify an additional
- initialization vector will use the key as both key and initialization
- vector. The resulting checksum is 64 bits (8 octets) long. This
- checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note that this checksum
- type is the old method for encoding the DES-MAC checksum and it is no
- longer recommended. The DES specifications identify some 'weak keys'
- and 'semi-weak keys'; those keys shall not be used for generating
- DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
- 7. Naming Constraints
-
- 7.1. Realm Names
-
- Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a realm
- can technically select any name it chooses, interoperability across
- realm boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to be
- assigned, and what information they imply.
-
- To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the
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- the same from its neighbors.
-
- Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names that differ only
- in the case of the characters are not equivalent. There are presently
- four styles of realm names: domain, X500, other, and reserved. Examples
- of each style follow:
-
- domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
- Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
- separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor
- slashes (/). Domain names must be converted to upper case when used as
- realm names.
-
- X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:) before
- the equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string
- representations of the names with components separated by slashes.
- Leading and trailing slashes will not be included.
-
- Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
- contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed by
- a colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be assigned
- before they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
-
- The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the first
- three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It is
- unlikely that names will be assigned to this category unless there is a
- very strong argument for not using the 'other' category.
-
- These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts between the
- various name styles. The following additional constraints apply to the
- assignment of realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the name
- of a realm for the domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the
- organization owning (to whom it was assigned) an Internet domain name
- or X.500 name, or in the case that no such names are registered,
- authority to use a realm name may be derived from the authority of the
- parent realm. For example, if there is no domain name for E40.MIT.EDU,
- then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm can authorize the creation
- of a realm with that name.
-
- This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is
- assigned is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to
- its children in the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the
- parent assigns a realm name without also registering it in the domain
- name or X.500 hierarchy, it is the parent's responsibility to make sure
- that there will not in the future exists a name identical to the realm
- name of the child unless it is assigned to the same entity as the realm
- name.
-
- 7.2. Principal Names
-
- As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure that
- all agree on what information is implied by a principal name. The
- name-type field that is part of the principal name indicates the kind
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- least one of the components, or the realm, must be different). The
- following name types are defined:
-
- name-type value meaning
-
- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, or DCE principal)
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcommands)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
- NT-X500-PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
-
- When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a
- particular time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The principal
- name type should be used for users, and it might also be used for a
- unique server. If the name is a unique machine generated ID that is
- guaranteed never to be reassigned then the name type of UID should be
- used (note that it is generally a bad idea to reassign names of any
- type since stale entries might remain in access control lists).
-
- If the first component of a name identifies a service and the remaining
- components identify an instance of the service in a server specified
- manner, then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An example of
- this name type is the Kerberos ticket-granting service whose name has a
- first component of krbtgt and a second component identifying the realm
- for which the ticket is valid.
-
- If instance is a single component following the service name and the
- instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the
- name type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for
- Internet services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the
- separate components of the host name appear as successive components
- following the name of the service, then the name type SRV-XHST should
- be used. This type might be used to identify servers on hosts with
- X.500 names where the slash (/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
-
- A name type of NT-X500-PRINCIPAL should be used when a name from an
- X.509 certificiate is translated into a Kerberos name. The encoding of
- the X.509 name as a Kerberos principal shall conform to the encoding
- rules specified in RFC 2253.
-
- A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is not
- known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match
- principals authenticated with names of any type. A principal
- authenticated with a name of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match
- other names of type UNKNOWN.
-
- Names of any type with an initial component of 'krbtgt' are reserved
- for the Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the
- form of such names.
-
- 7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
- The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be
- composed of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server
- is registered, and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the
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- allows slash (/) separators. The first component of the two- or
- multi-component name will identify the service and the latter
- components will identify the host. Where the name of the host is not
- case sensitive (for example, with Internet domain names) the name of
- the host must be lower case. If specified by the application protocol
- for services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands which run with
- system privileges, the first component may be the string 'host' instead
- of a service specific identifier. When a host has an official name and
- one or more aliases, the official name of the host must be used when
- constructing the name of the server principal.
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-
- 8.1. Host address types
-
- All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
- fields and interpretations.
-
- The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to match
- the defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard
- Distributions of Unix. They can be found in with symbolic names AF_xxx
- (where xxx is an abbreviation of the address family name).
-
- Internet (IPv4) Addresses
-
- Internet (IPv4) addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in
- MSB order. The type of IPv4 addresses is two (2).
-
- Internet (IPv6) Addresses [Westerlund]
-
- IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
- The type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24). [RFC1883] [RFC1884].
- The following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in any Kerberos
- packet:
- o the Unspecified Address
- o the Loopback Address
- o Link-Local addresses
- IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
-
- CHAOSnet addresses
-
- CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
- order. The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
-
- ISO addresses
-
- ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is seven
- (7).
-
- Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
- XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
- The type of XNS addresses is six (6).
-
- AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
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- remaining two octets encode the network number in MSB order. The type
- of AppleTalk DDP addresses is sixteen (16).
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB order.
- The type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
-
- Netbios addresses
-
- Netbios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to 15
- characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16th octet of
- 0x0. The type of Netbios addresses is 20 (0x14).
-
- 8.2. KDC messages
-
- 8.2.1. UDP/IP transport
-
- When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request using
- UDP IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram containing only
- an encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the KDC's IP
- address; the KDC will respond with a reply datagram containing only an
- encoding of the reply message (either a KRB_ERROR or a KRB_KDC_REP) to
- the sending port at the sender's IP address. Kerberos servers
- supporting IP transport must accept UDP requests on port 88 (decimal).
- The response to a request made through UDP/IP transport must also use
- UDP/IP transport.
-
- 8.2.2. TCP/IP transport [Westerlund,Danielsson]
-
- Kerberos servers (KDC's) should accept TCP requests on port 88
- (decimal) and clients should support the sending of TCP requests on
- port 88 (decimal). When the KRB_KDC_REQ message is sent to the KDC over
- a TCP stream, a new connection will be established for each
- authentication exchange (request and response). The KRB_KDC_REP or
- KRB_ERROR message will be returned to the client on the same TCP stream
- that was established for the request. The response to a request made
- through TCP/IP transport must also use TCP/IP transport. Implementors
- should note that some extentions to the Kerberos protocol will not work
- if any implementation not supporting the TCP transport is involved
- (client or KDC). Implementors are strongly urged to support the TCP
- transport on both the client and server and are advised that the
- current notation of "should" support will likely change in the future
- to must support. The KDC may close the TCP stream after sending a
- response, but may leave the stream open if it expects a followup - in
- which case it may close the stream at any time if resource constratints
- or other factors make it desirable to do so. Care must be taken in
- managing TCP/IP connections with the KDC to prevent denial of service
- attacks based on the number of TCP/IP connections with the KDC that
- remain open. If multiple exchanges with the KDC are needed for certain
- forms of preauthentication, multiple TCP connections may be required. A
- client may close the stream after receiving response, and should close
- the stream if it does not expect to send followup messages. The client
- must be prepared to have the stream closed by the KDC at anytime, in
- which case it must simply connect again when it is ready to send
- subsequent messages.
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- (KRB_KDC_REQ), and the length will be followed by the request itself.
- The response will similarly be preceeded by a 4 octet encoding in
- network byte order of the length of the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR
- message and will be followed by the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR
- response. If the sign bit is set on the integer represented by the
- first 4 octets, then the next 4 octets will be read, extending the
- length of the field by another 4 octets (less the sign bit which is
- reserved for future expansion).
-
- 8.2.3. OSI transport
-
- During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI server, the mutual
- authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
- credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange of
- private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may
- be treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication
- mechanism will be:
-
- OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(6),internet(1), security(5),kerberosv5(2)}
-
- Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an authentication
- header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply (KRB_AP_REP), a safe
- message (KRB_SAFE), a private message (KRB_PRIV), or a credentials
- message (KRB_CRED). The opaque data contains an application code as
- specified in the ASN.1 description for each message. The application
- code may be used by Kerberos to determine the message type.
-
- 8.2.3. Name of the TGS
-
- The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be
- composed of three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS
- ticket (2) a two-part name of type NT-SRV-INST, with the first part
- "krbtgt" and the second part the name of the realm which will accept
- the ticket-granting ticket. For example, a ticket-granting ticket
- issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
- ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
- (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU") (name). A ticket-granting ticket
- issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
- MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm),
- ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
-
- 8.3. Protocol constants and associated values
-
- The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines
- their meanings. Ranges are specified in the "specification" section
- that limit the values of constants for which values are defined here.
- This allows implementations to make assumptions about the maximum
- values that will be received for these constants. Implementation
- receiving values outside the range specified in the "specification"
- section may reject the request, but they must recover cleanly.
-
- Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad size confounder size
- NULL 0 1 0 0
- des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
- des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
- des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
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- des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
- dsaWithSHA1-CmsOID 9 (pkinit)
- md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10 (pkinit)
- sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11 (pkinit)
- rc2CBC-EnvOID 12 (pkinit)
- rsaEncryption-EnvOID 13 (pkinit from PKCS#1 v1.5)
- rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID 14 (pkinit from PKCS#1 v2.0)
- des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15 (pkinit)
- des3-cbc-sha1-kd 16 (Tom Yu)
- rc4-hmac 23 (swift)
- rc4-hmac-exp 24 (swift)
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- ENCTYPE_PK_CROSS 48 (reserved for pkcross)
- <reserved> 0x8003
-
- Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
- CRC32 1 4
- rsa-md4 2 16
- rsa-md4-des 3 24
- des-mac 4 16
- des-mac-k 5 8
- rsa-md4-des-k 6 16 (drop rsa ?)
- rsa-md5 7 16 (drop rsa ?)
- rsa-md5-des 8 24 (drop rsa ?)
- rsa-md5-des3 9 24 (drop rsa ?)
- hmac-sha1-des3-kd 12 20
- hmac-sha1-des3 13 20
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- padata type padata-type value
-
- PA-TGS-REQ 1
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
- PA-PW-SALT 3
- <reserved> 4
- PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5 (depricated)
- PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
- PA-SESAME 7
- PA-OSF-DCE 8
- PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
- PA-AFS3-SALT 10
- PA-ETYPE-INFO 11
- PA-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
- PA-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
- PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
- PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO 20
- PA-SAM-REDIRECT 21 (sam/otp)
- PA-GET-FROM-TYPED-DATA 22
- PA-SAM-ETYPE-INFO 23 (sam/otp)
-
-data-type value form of typed-data
-
-<reserved> 1-21
-TD-PADATA 22
-TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101 CertificateSet from CMS
-TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL 102
-TD-KRB-REALM 103
-TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
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-authorization data type ad-type value
-AD-IF-RELEVANT 1
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER 2
-AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS 3
-AD-KDC-ISSUED 4
-AD-OR 5
-AD-MANDATORY-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 6
-AD-IN-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 7
-reserved values 8-63
-OSF-DCE 64
-SESAME 65
-AD-OSF-DCE-PKI-CERTID 66 (hemsath@us.ibm.com)
-
-Ticket Extension Types
-
-TE-TYPE-NULL 0 Null ticket extension
-TE-TYPE-EXTERNAL-ADATA 1 Integrity protected authorization data
-<reserved> 2 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC (I have reservations)
-TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3 PKCROSS cross realm key ticket
-TE-TYPE-CYBERSAFE-EXT 4 Assigned to CyberSafe Corp
-<reserved> 5 TE-TYPE-DEST-HOST (I have reservations)
-
-alternate authentication type method-type value
-reserved values 0-63
-ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
-transited encoding type tr-type value
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
-reserved values all others
-
-Label Value Meaning or MIT code
-
-pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
-
-message types
-
-KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
-KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
-KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
-KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
-KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
-KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
-KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
-KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
-KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward credentials
-KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
-
-name types
-
-KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
-KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or for users
-KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
-KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcommands)
-KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
-KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
-KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 2253]
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-KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
-KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has expired
-KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested prot vers number not supported
-KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old master key
-KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in database
-KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than end time
-KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
-KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested option
-KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption type
-KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum type
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited type
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again later
-KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change password
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was invalid
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional pre-authenticationrequired [40]
-KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't match
-KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for user2user only
-KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
-KDC_ERR_SVC_UNAVAILABLE 29 A service is not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't match
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
-KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method required
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in message
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in message
-KRB_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCEPTED 51 Policy rejects transited path
-KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG 52 Response too big for UDP, retry with TCP
-KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in e-text)
-KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this implementation
-KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
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-KRB_AP_ERR_NO_TGT 67 (user-to-user)
-KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM 68 (user-to-user)
-KRB_AP_ERR_USER_TO_USER_REQUIRED 69 (user-to-user)
-KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75 (pkinit)
-KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76 (pkinit)
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- 9. Interoperability requirements
-
- Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options. Among
- these are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative encoding
- schemes for the transited field, optional mechanisms for
- pre-authentication, the handling of tickets with no addresses, options
- for mutual authentication, user to user authentication, support for
- proxies, forwarding, postdating, and renewing tickets, the format of
- realm names, and the handling of authorization data.
-
- In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to
- define a minimal configuration which must be supported by all
- implementations. This minimal configuration is subject to change as
- technology does. For example, if at some later date it is discovered
- that one of the required encryption or checksum algorithms is not
- secure, it will be replaced.
-
- 9.1. Specification 2
-
- This section defines the second specification of these options.
- Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to support
- Kerberos Version 5 Specification 2 (5.1). Specification 1 (depricated)
- may be found in RFC1510.
-
- Transport
-
- TCP/IP and UDP/IP transport must be supported by KDCs claiming
- conformance to specification 2. Kerberos clients claiming conformance
- to specification 2 must support UDP/IP transport for messages with the
- KDC and should support TCP/IP transport.
-
- Encryption and checksum methods
-
- The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
- Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the
- additional mechanisms may only be used when communicating with
- principals known to also support them: This list is to be determined.
-
- Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5, one triple des variant (tbd)
- Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5 (tbd)
-
- Realm Names
-
- All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the
- Internet Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket for
- an unknown realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine the
- names of the intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the
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- Transited field encoding
-
- DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be supported.
- Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be used only when
- that encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
-
- Pre-authentication methods
-
- The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used on
- the initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported by
- clients but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on a
- realm by realm basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP as an
- acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request using
- the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not support
- the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server should
- ignore the presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in a
- request.
-
- Mutual authentication
-
- Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
-
- Ticket addresses and flags
-
- All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e. if a TGT
- contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets), but
- each realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and each
- application server will set its own policy with respect to accepting
- them.
-
- Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms and
- application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets will
- be accepted.
-
- All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets, but
- need not actually implement them. If these options are not supported,
- the starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a ticket's entire
- useful life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a server, all
- implementations shall make the presence of the postdated flag visible
- to the calling server.
-
- User-to-user authentication
-
- Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY KDC
- option) must be provided by implementations, but individual realms may
- decide as a matter of policy to reject such requests on a per-principal
- or realm-wide basis.
-
- Authorization data
-
- Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
- ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
- suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered
- subfield type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no
- registered subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
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- subfields available to the server when a ticket is used.
- Implementations are not required to allow clients to specify the
- contents of the authorization data fields.
-
- Constant ranges
-
- All protocol constants are constrained to 32 bit (signed) values unless
- further constrained by the protocol definition. This limit is provided
- to allow implementations to make assumptions about the maximum values
- that will be received for these constants. Implementation receiving
- values outside this range may reject the request, but they must recover
- cleanly.
-
- 9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
- Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation,
- based on the list of suggested configuration constants (see section
- 4.4).
-
- minimum lifetime 5 minutes
- maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
- maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
- empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
- proxiable, etc. Allowed.
-
- 10. REFERENCES
-
- [NT94] B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Y. Ts'o, "An Authenti-
- cation Service for Computer Networks," IEEE Communica-
- tions Magazine, Vol. 32(9), pp. 33-38 (September 1994).
-
- [MNSS87] S. P. Miller, B. C. Neuman, J. I. Schiller, and J. H.
- Saltzer, Section E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and
- Authorization System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge,
- Massachusetts (December 21, 1987).
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- [SNS88] J. G. Steiner, B. C. Neuman, and J. I. Schiller, "Ker-
- beros: An Authentication Service for Open Network Sys-
- tems," pp. 191-202 in Usenix Conference Proceedings,
- Dallas, Texas (February, 1988).
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- [NS78] Roger M. Needham and Michael D. Schroeder, "Using
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- puters," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21(12),
- pp. 993-999 (December, 1978).
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- [DS81] Dorothy E. Denning and Giovanni Maria Sacco, "Time-
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- "The Evolution of the Kerberos Authentication Service,"
- in an IEEE Computer Society Text soon to be published
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- Accounting for Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of
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- the 13th International Conference on Distributed Com-
- puting Systems, Pittsburgh, PA (May, 1993).
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- [DS90] Don Davis and Ralph Swick, "Workstation Services and
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- (February 1990).
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- [LGDSR87] P. J. Levine, M. R. Gretzinger, J. M. Diaz, W. E. Som-
- merfeld, and K. Raeburn, Section E.1: Service Manage-
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- sachusetts (1987).
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- [X509-88] CCITT, Recommendation X.509: The Directory Authentica-
- tion Framework, December 1988.
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- [Pat92]. J. Pato, Using Pre-Authentication to Avoid Password
- Guessing Attacks, Open Software Foundation DCE Request
- for Comments 26 (December 1992).
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- [DES77] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "Data Encryption Standard," Federal Information
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- (1977).
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- merce, "DES Modes of Operation," Federal Information
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- (December 1980).
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- High-Level Data Link Control Procedure - Frame Struc-
- ture," IS 3309 (October 1984). 3rd Edition.
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- [MD4-92] R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
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- [MD5-92] R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
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- [KBC96] H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
- Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
- draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
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- [Horowitz96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Authentication,
- Integrity, and Privacy", draft-horowitz-key-derivation-02.txt,
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- horowitz-kerb-key-derivation-01.txt, September 1998.
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- [Krawczyk96] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, and M., Canetti, R., "HMAC:
- Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-
- md5-01.txt, August, 1996.
-
- A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
-
- This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to
- be constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
-
- A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt",
- "localrealm" */
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
- A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
-
- decode message into req;
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- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
-
- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable skew)
- then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
-
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- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- else
- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted */
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE */
-
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- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
-
- A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP)) then
- set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
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- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno, resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
- A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
-
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all that */
- /* should be are set */
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
- endif
- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
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- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
-
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly */
- /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting ticket */
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
-
- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
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- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
- A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
-
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and
- choosing the correct key for decryption. The name of the
- server appears in the plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is
- operating is determined by the instance from the
- ticket-granting ticket. The realm in the ticket-granting
- ticket is the realm under which the ticket granting
- ticket was issued. It is possible for a single Kerberos
- server to support more than one realm. */
-
- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not req.sname)
- then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof
- and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(req.sname)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(req.sname);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
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- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
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- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
- and those already processed) is set) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket would */
- /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so */
- /* there is no need to check again here */
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till < kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
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- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
- endif
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the
- renew-till field out */
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into
- decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data :=
- req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data +
- decrypted_authorization_data;
-
- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
-
- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited :=
- compress_transited(tgt.transited + tgt.realm)
- /* Don't check tranited field if TGT for foreign realm,
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- if (is_not_foreign_tgt_name(new_tkt.server)
- && req.kdc-options.DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK not
- set) then
- /* Check it, so end-server does not have to
- * but don't fail, end-server may still accept it */
- if (check_transited_field(new_tkt.transited) == OK)
- set new_tkt.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED;
- endif
- endif
- endif
-
- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key),
- second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key),
- server.key, server.p_kvno;
- endif
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- resp.cname := tgt.cname;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := session;
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- omit resp.key-expiration;
-
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
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- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- use_etype, tgt.key;
-
- send(resp);
-
- A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key from
- the response immediately */
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
- resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
- resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and
- tgt's session key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
- A.8. Authenticator generation
-
- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
-
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
-
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- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using session_key;
-
- A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
- else
- retrieve service key for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using
- retrieved key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in
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- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm})) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.transited) then
- /* caller may ignore the TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED and do
- * check anyway */
- if (decr_ticket.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED not set) then
- if (check_transited_field(decr_ticket.transited) then
- error_out(KDC_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED);
- endif
- endif
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
-
- A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
-
- body.ctime := packet.ctime;
- body.cusec := packet.cusec;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
-
- A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
-
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- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
-
- A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
-
- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
-
- A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
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- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof
- and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
- A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
-
- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
-
- if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
- ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
- (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number
- not present) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
- sender_principal(packet));
-
- return PACKET_IS_OK;
-
- A.16. KRB_PRIV generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
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-
- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
-
- A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
-
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
- return(cleartext.DATA, PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
- A.18. KRB_CRED generation
-
- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
-
- for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
- done
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
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- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
-
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
-
- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
-
- if (using s-address) then
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
- using negotiated encryption key;
-
- A.19. KRB_CRED verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
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- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
- return
-
- A.20. KRB_ERROR generation
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
-
- get system_time;
- packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
- packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
-
- if (client time available) then
- packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
- endif
- packet.error-code := error code;
- if (client name available) then
- packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
- endif
- if (error text available) then
- packet.e-text := error text;
- endif
- if (error data available) then
- packet.e-data := error data;
- endif
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-
- This appendix contains the definitions of common authorization data
- elements. These common authorization data elements are recursivly
- defined, meaning the ad-data for these types will itself contain a
- sequence of authorization data whose interpretation is affected by the
- encapsulating element. Depending on the meaning of the encapsulating
- element, the encapsulated elements may be ignored, might be interpreted
- as issued directly by the KDC, or they might be stored in a separate
- plaintext part of the ticket. The types of the encapsulating elements
- are specified as part of the Kerberos specification because the
- behavior based on these values should be understood across
- implementations whereas other elements need only be understood by the
- applications which they affect.
-
- In the definitions that follow, the value of the ad-type for the
- element will be specified in the subsection number, and the value of
- the ad-data will be as shown in the ASN.1 structure that follows the
- subsection heading.
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- AD elements encapsulated within the if-relevant element are intended
- for interpretation only by application servers that understand the
- particular ad-type of the embedded element. Application servers that do
- not understand the type of an element embedded within the if-relevant
- element may ignore the uninterpretable element. This element promotes
- interoperability across implementations which may have local extensions
- for authorization.
-
- B.2. Intended for server
-
- AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER SEQUENCE {
- intended-server[0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
- }
-
- AD elements encapsulated within the intended-for-server element may be
- ignored if the application server is not in the list of principal names
- of intended servers. Further, a KDC issuing a ticket for an application
- server can remove this element if the application server is not in the
- list of intended servers.
-
- Application servers should check for their principal name in the
- intended-server field of this element. If their principal name is not
- found, this element should be ignored. If found, then the encapsulated
- elements should be evaluated in the same manner as if they were present
- in the top level authorization data field. Applications and application
- servers that do not implement this element should reject tickets that
- contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
- B.3. Intended for application class
-
- AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS SEQUENCE {
- intended-application-class[0] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString elements[1]
- AuthorizationData } AD elements encapsulated within the
- intended-for-application-class element may be ignored if the
- application server is not in one of the named classes of application
- servers. Examples of application server classes include "FILESYSTEM",
- and other kinds of servers.
-
- This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
- applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
- element.
-
- B.4. KDC Issued
-
- AD-KDCIssued SEQUENCE {
- ad-checksum[0] Checksum,
- i-realm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- i-sname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- elements[3] AuthorizationData.
- }
-
- ad-checksum
- A checksum over the elements field using a cryptographic checksum
- method that is identical to the checksum used to protect the
- ticket itself (i.e. using the same hash function and the same
- encryption algorithm used to encrypt the ticket) and using a key
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- i-realm, i-sname
- The name of the issuing principal if different from the KDC
- itself. This field would be used when the KDC can verify the
- authenticity of elements signed by the issuing principal and it
- allows this KDC to notify the application server of the validity
- of those elements.
- elements
- A sequence of authorization data elements issued by the KDC.
- The KDC-issued ad-data field is intended to provide a means for
- Kerberos principal credentials to embed within themselves privilege
- attributes and other mechanisms for positive authorization, amplifying
- the priveleges of the principal beyond what can be done using a
- credentials without such an a-data element.
-
- This can not be provided without this element because the definition of
- the authorization-data field allows elements to be added at will by the
- bearer of a TGT at the time that they request service tickets and
- elements may also be added to a delegated ticket by inclusion in the
- authenticator.
-
- For KDC-issued elements this is prevented because the elements are
- signed by the KDC by including a checksum encrypted using the server's
- key (the same key used to encrypt the ticket - or a key derived from
- that key). Elements encapsulated with in the KDC-issued element will be
- ignored by the application server if this "signature" is not present.
- Further, elements encapsulated within this element from a ticket
- granting ticket may be interpreted by the KDC, and used as a basis
- according to policy for including new signed elements within derivative
- tickets, but they will not be copied to a derivative ticket directly.
- If they are copied directly to a derivative ticket by a KDC that is not
- aware of this element, the signature will not be correct for the
- application ticket elements, and the field will be ignored by the
- application server.
-
- This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
- applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
- element.
-
- B.5. And-Or
-
- AD-AND-OR SEQUENCE {
- condition-count[0] INTEGER,
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
- }
-
- When restrictive AD elements encapsulated within the and-or element are
- encountered, only the number specified in condition-count of the
- encapsulated conditions must be met in order to satisfy this element.
- This element may be used to implement an "or" operation by setting the
- condition-count field to 1, and it may specify an "and" operation by
- setting the condition count to the number of embedded elements.
- Application servers that do not implement this element must reject
- tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
- B.6. Mandatory ticket extensions
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- AD-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
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- specifies a collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used
- to protect the integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum will be
- calculated over an individual extension field. If there are more than
- one extension, multiple Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions authorization data
- elements may be present, each with a checksum for a different extension
- field. This restriction indicates that the ticket should not be
- accepted if a ticket extension is not present in the ticket for which
- the checksum does not match that checksum specified in the
- authorization data element. Application servers that do not implement
- this element must reject tickets that contain authorization data
- elements of this type.
-
- B.7. Authorization Data in ticket extensions
-
- AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
- An authorization data element of type in-ticket-extensions specifies a
- collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect
- the integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum is calculated over a
- separate external AuthorizationData field carried in the ticket
- extensions. Application servers that do not implement this element must
- reject tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
- Application servers that do implement this element will search the
- ticket extensions for authorization data fields, calculate the
- specified checksum over each authorization data field and look for one
- matching the checksum in this in-ticket-extensions element. If not
- found, then the ticket must be rejected. If found, the corresponding
- authorization data elements will be interpreted in the same manner as
- if they were contained in the top level authorization data field.
-
- Note that if multiple external authorization data fields are present in
- a ticket, each will have a corresponding element of type
- in-ticket-extensions in the top level authorization data field, and the
- external entries will be linked to the corresponding element by their
- checksums.
-
- C. Definition of common ticket extensions
-
- This appendix contains the definitions of common ticket extensions.
- Support for these extensions is optional. However, certain extensions
- have associated authorization data elements that may require rejection
- of a ticket containing an extension by application servers that do not
- implement the particular extension. Other extensions have been defined
- beyond those described in this specification. Such extensions are
- described elswhere and for some of those extensions the reserved number
- may be found in the list of constants.
-
- It is known that older versions of Kerberos did not support this field,
- and that some clients will strip this field from a ticket when they
- parse and then reassemble a ticket as it is passed to the application
- servers. The presence of the extension will not break such clients, but
- any functionaly dependent on the extensions will not work when such
- tickets are handled by old clients. In such situations, some
- implementation may use alternate methods to transmit the information in
- the extensions field.
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- The te-data field in the null ticket extension is an octet string of
- lenght zero. This extension may be included in a ticket granting ticket
- so that the KDC can determine on presentation of the ticket granting
- ticket whether the client software will strip the extensions field.
-
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- TE-ExternalAuthorizationData AuthorizationData
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- The te-data field in the external authorization data ticket extension
- is field of type AuthorizationData containing one or more authorization
- data elements. If present, a corresponding authorization data element
- will be present in the primary authorization data for the ticket and
- that element will contain a checksum of the external authorization data
- ticket extension.
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- [TM] Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of the
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these
- trademarks may be made without prior written permission of MIT.
-
- [1] Note, however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only
- upon the initiation of a stream-based network connection. Unless an
- application subsequently provides integrity protection for the data
- stream, the identity verification applies only to the initiation of the
- connection, and does not guarantee that subsequent messages on the
- connection originate from the same principal.
-
- [2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably in the
- literature. In our usage, it takes two (or more) to share a secret,
- thus a shared DES key is a secret key. Something is only private when
- no one but its owner knows it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one
- has a public and a private key.
-
- [3] Of course, with appropriate permission the client could arrange
- registration of a separately-named prin- cipal in a remote realm, and
- engage in normal exchanges with that realm's services. However, for
- even small numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more
- automatic methods as described here are necessary.
-
- [4] Though it is permissible to request or issue tick- ets with no
- network addresses specified.
-
- [5] The password-changing request must not be honored unless the
- requester can provide the old password (the user's current secret key).
- Otherwise, it would be possible for someone to walk up to an unattended
- ses- sion and change another user's password.
-
- [6] To authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the
- credentials obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS
- exchange to obtain credentials for a local server. Those credentials
- must then be verified by a local server through successful completion
- of the Client/Server exchange.
-
- [7] "Random" means that, among other things, it should be impossible to
- guess the next session key based on knowledge of past session keys.
- This can only be achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is
- based on cryptographic principles. It is more desirable to use a truly
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- random number generator, such as one based on measurements of random
- physical phenomena.
-
- [8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted portion, so
- cleartext here refers to the entire unit, which can be copied from one
- message and replayed in another without any cryptographic skill.
-
- [9] Note that this can make applications based on unreliable transports
- difficult to code correctly. If the transport might deliver duplicated
- messages, either a new authenticator must be generated for each retry,
- or the application server must match requests and replies and replay
- the first reply in response to a detected duplicate.
-
- [10] This is used for user-to-user authentication as described in [8].
-
- [11] Note that the rejection here is restricted to authenticators from
- the same principal to the same server. Other client principals
- communicating with the same server principal should not be have their
- authenticators rejected if the time and microsecond fields happen to
- match some other client's authenticator.
-
- [12] In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the timestamp in the reply was
- the client's timestamp plus one. This is not necessary in version 5
- because version 5 messages are formatted in such a way that it is not
- possible to create the reply by judicious message surgery (even in
- encrypted form) without knowledge of the appropriate encryption keys.
-
- [13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session
- key is not used, even if present in the Authenticator.
-
- [14] Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to
- choose subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to generate
- a negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- [15]This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known
- beforehand (since the realm is part of the principal identifier), it
- might be stored in a nameserver, or it might be obtained from a
- configura- tion file. If the realm to be used is obtained from a
- nameserver, there is a danger of being spoofed if the nameservice
- providing the realm name is not authenti- cated. This might result in
- the use of a realm which has been compromised, and would result in an
- attacker's ability to compromise the authentication of the application
- server to the client.
-
- [16] If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to
- ensure the randomness of the selected sub- session key. One approach
- would be to generate a random number and XOR it with the session key
- from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
- [17] This allows easy implementation of user-to-user authentication
- [8], which uses ticket-granting ticket session keys in lieu of secret
- server keys in situa- tions where such secret keys could be easily
- comprom- ised.
-
- [18] For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding the first listed
- realm is considered to be the null realm ("").
-
- [19] For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the client's realm
- is considered to precede those in the transited field, and the server's
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-
- [20] This means that a client and server running on the same host and
- communicating with one another using the KRB_SAFE messages should not
- share a common replay cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
-
- [21] The implementation of the Kerberos server need not combine the
- database and the server on the same machine; it is feasible to store
- the principal database in, say, a network name service, as long as the
- entries stored therein are protected from disclosure to and
- modification by unauthorized parties. However, we recommend against
- such strategies, as they can make system management and threat analysis
- quite complex.
-
- [22] See the discussion of the padata field in section 5.4.2 for
- details on why this can be useful.
-
- [23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack data structures
- during the generation and verification of embedded checksums: Because
- any checksums applied to data structures must be checked against the
- original data the length of bit strings must be preserved within a data
- structure between the time that a checksum is generated through
- transmission to the time that the checksum is verified.
-
- [24] It is NOT recommended that this time value be used to adjust the
- workstation's clock since the workstation cannot reliably determine
- that such a KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely
- manner.
-
- [25] Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one must
- make sure that the workstation time is monotonically increasing. If the
- time is ever reset backwards, there is a small, but finite, probability
- that a nonce will be reused.
-
- [27] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
- additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
- [29] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
- additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
- [31] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides an
- additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
- [32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an initialization
- vector may be passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve
- proper cipher chaining. The initialization vector might come from the
- last block of the ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV message, but it
- is the application's choice whether or not to use such an
- initialization vector. If left out, the default initialization vector
- for the encryption algorithm will be used.
-
- [33] This prevents an attacker who generates an incorrect AS request
- from obtaining verifiable plaintext for use in an off-line password
- guessing attack.
-
- [35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
- notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is not
- a valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from the
- confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the message
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- starts with random data, but the tag and its length are fixed. For
- other fields, the length and tag would be redundant if they were
- included because they are specified by the encryption type. [36] The
- ordering of the fields in the CipherText is important. Additionally,
- messages encoded in this format must include a length as part of the
- msg-seq field. This allows the recipient to verify that the message has
- not been truncated. Without a length, an attacker could use a chosen
- plaintext attack to generate a message which could be truncated, while
- leaving the checksum intact. Note that if the msg-seq is an encoding of
- an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length is part of that
- encoding.
-
- [37] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in"
- string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in
- section 5.4.2.
-
- [38] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in"
- string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in
- section 5.4.2.
-
- [39] A variant of the key is used to limit the use of a key to a
- particular function, separating the functions of generating a checksum
- from other encryption performed using the session key. The constant
- F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0 was chosen because it maintains key parity. The
- properties of DES precluded the use of the complement. The same
- constant is used for similar purpose in the Message Integrity Check in
- the Privacy Enhanced Mail standard.
-
- [40] This error carries additional information in the e- data field.
- The contents of the e-data field for this message is described in
- section 5.9.1.
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-The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
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-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06.txt
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-STATUS OF THIS MEMO
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
-provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents
-of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working
-groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as
-Internet-Drafts.
-
-Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and
-may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
-is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite
-them other than as "work in progress."
-
-The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
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-Directories on ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), nic.nordu.net (Europe),
-ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
-
-The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06.txt, and expires January 14, 2001.
-Please send comments to: krb-protocol@MIT.EDU
-
- This document is getting closer to a last call, but there are several
- issues to be discussed. Some, but not all of these issues, are
- highlighted in comments in the draft. We hope to resolve these issues
- on the mailing list for the Kerberos working group, leading up to and
- during the Pittsburgh IETF on a section by section basis, since this
- is a long document, and it has been difficult to consider it as a
- whole. Once sections are agreed to, it is out intent to issue the more
- formal WG and IETF last calls.
-
-ABSTRACT
-
-This document provides an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
-Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to clarify aspects of the protocol
-and its intended use that require more detailed or clearer explanation than
-was provided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a detailed
-description of the protocol, suitable for implementation, together with
-descriptions of the appropriate use of protocol messages and fields within
-those messages.
-
-This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to the end user, system
-administrator, or application developer. Higher level papers describing
-Version 5 of the Kerberos system [NT94] and documenting version 4 [SNS88],
-are available elsewhere.
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-OVERVIEW
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-This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model upon which the
-Kerberos network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version
-5 of the Kerberos protocol.
-
-The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
-decisions are treated cursorily; they are more fully described in a paper
-available in IEEE communications [NT94] and earlier in the Kerberos portion
-of the Athena Technical Plan [MNSS87]. The protocols have been a proposed
-standard and are being considered for advancement for draft standard
-through the IETF standard process. Comments are encouraged on the
-presentation, but only minor refinements to the protocol as implemented or
-extensions that fit within current protocol framework will be considered at
-this time.
-
-Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for discussion of
-Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU.
-This mailing list is gatewayed onto the Usenet as the group
-comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further information, including
-documents and code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
-
-BACKGROUND
-
-The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's trusted
-third-party authentication protocol [NS78] and on modifications suggested
-by Denning and Sacco [DS81]. The original design and implementation of
-Kerberos Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena
-staff members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and Clifford
-Neuman (now at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of
-Southern California), along with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of
-Project Athena, and Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many
-other members of Project Athena have also contributed to the work on
-Kerberos.
-
-Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this document) has evolved
-from Version 4 based on new requirements and desires for features not
-available in Version 4. The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol
-was led by Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the
-community. The development of the MIT reference implementation was led at
-MIT by John Kohl and Theodore T'so, with help and contributed code from
-many others. Since RFC1510 was issued, extensions and revisions to the
-protocol have been proposed by many individuals. Some of these proposals
-are reflected in this document. Where such changes involved significant
-effort, the document cites the contribution of the proposer.
-
-Reference implementations of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are
-publicly available and commercial implementations have been developed and
-are widely used. Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4 and
-5 can be found in [KNT92].
-
-1. Introduction
-
-Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals, (e.g.
-a workstation user or a network server) on an open (unprotected) network.
-This is accomplished without relying on assertions by the host operating
-system, without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical
-security of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that
-packets traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at
-will[1]. Kerberos performs authentication under these conditions as a
-trusted third-party authentication service by using conventional (shared
-secret key [2] cryptography. Kerberos extensions have been proposed and
-implemented that provide for the use of public key cryptography during
-certain phases of the authentication protocol. These extensions provide for
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-authentication of users registered with public key certification
-authorities, and allow the system to provide certain benefits of public key
-cryptography in situations where they are needed.
-
-The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as follows: A client
-sends a request to the authentication server (AS) requesting 'credentials'
-for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in
-the client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a 'ticket' for the server
-and 2) a temporary encryption key (often called a "session key"). The
-client transmits the ticket (which contains the client's identity and a
-copy of the session key, all encrypted in the server's key) to the server.
-The session key (now shared by the client and server) is used to
-authenticate the client, and may optionally be used to authenticate the
-server. It may also be used to encrypt further communication between the
-two parties or to exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt
-further communication.
-
-Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or more authentication
-servers running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
-maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their
-secret keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos
-protocol. In order to add authentication to its transactions, a typical
-network application adds one or two calls to the Kerberos library directly
-or through the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface,
-GSSAPI, described in separate document. These calls result in the
-transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authentication.
-
-The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or exchanges).
-There are two basic methods by which a client can ask a Kerberos server for
-credentials. In the first approach, the client sends a cleartext request
-for a ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent encrypted
-in the client's secret key. Usually this request is for a ticket-granting
-ticket (TGT) which can later be used with the ticket-granting server (TGS).
-In the second method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client
-uses the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same manner as if it
-were contacting any other application server that requires Kerberos
-authentication. The reply is encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
-Though the protocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
-servers, they are implemented in practice as different protocol entry
-points within a single Kerberos server.
-
-Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
-principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages exchanged
-between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The application is
-free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
-
-To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the client
-transmits the ticket to the application server. Since the ticket is sent
-"in the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't
-thwart replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker,
-additional information is sent to prove that the message originated with
-the principal to whom the ticket was issued. This information (called the
-authenticator) is encrypted in the session key, and includes a timestamp.
-The timestamp proves that the message was recently generated and is not a
-replay. Encrypting the authenticator in the session key proves that it was
-generated by a party possessing the session key. Since no one except the
-requesting principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent
-over the network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
-
-The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also be
-guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and contained in the
-credentials). This approach provides detection of both replay attacks and
-message stream modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
-transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest
-function) of the client's message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and
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-encrypting the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
-ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
-
-The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access to
-the Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the database must
-be modified, such as when adding new principals or changing a principal's
-key. This is done using a protocol between a client and a third Kerberos
-server, the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM). There is also a protocol
-for maintaining multiple copies of the Kerberos database. Neither of these
-protocols are described in this document.
-
-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
-The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
-boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a server
-in another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes
-its own 'realm'. The name of the realm in which a client is registered is
-part of the client's name, and can be used by the end-service to decide
-whether to honor a request.
-
-By establishing 'inter-realm' keys, the administrators of two realms can
-allow a client authenticated in the local realm to prove its identity to
-servers in other realms[3]. The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate
-key may be used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service
-of each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able to
-obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-granting
-service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting ticket is used, the
-remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
-differs from its own normal TGS key) to decrypt the ticket-granting ticket,
-and is thus certain that it was issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets
-issued by the remote ticket-granting service will indicate to the
-end-service that the client was authenticated from another realm.
-
-A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms share
-an inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm key with an
-intermediate realm that communicates with the remote realm. An
-authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are
-transited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
-Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a key with
-its parent and a different key with each child. If an inter-realm key is
-not directly shared by two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an
-authentication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical
-organization is not used, it may be necessary to consult a database in
-order to construct an authentication path between realms.
-
-Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may be
-bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
-authentication paths (these might be established to make communication
-between two realms more efficient). It is important for the end-service to
-know which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to place in
-the authentication process. To facilitate this decision, a field in each
-ticket contains the names of the realms that were involved in
-authenticating the client.
-
-The application server is ultimately responsible for accepting or rejecting
-authentication and should check the transited field. The application server
-may choose to rely on the KDC for the application server's realm to check
-the transited field. The application server's KDC will set the
-TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag in this case. The KDC's for intermediate
-realms may also check the transited field as they issue
-ticket-granting-tickets for other realms, but they are encouraged not to do
-so. A client may request that the KDC's not check the transited field by
-setting the DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK flag. KDC's are encouraged but not
-required to honor this flag.
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- realm a service is in? Something like:
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- The client may not immediately know what realm a particular service
- principal is in. There are 2 basic mechanisms that can be used to
- determine the realm of a service. The first requires that the client
- fully specify the service principal including the realm in the
- Kerberos protocol request. If the Kerberos server for the specified
- realm does not have a principal that exactly matches the service in
- the request, the Kerberos server will return an error indicating that
- the service principal was not found. Alternatively the client can make
- a request providing just the service principal name and requesting
- name canonicalization from the Kerberos server. The Kerberos server
- will attempt to locate a service principal in its database that best
- matches the request principal or provide a referral to another
- Kerberos realm that may be contain the requested service principal.
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-1.2. Authorization
-
-As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of verifying the
-identity of principals on a network. Authentication is usually useful
-primarily as a first step in the process of authorization, determining
-whether a client may use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
-access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos does not, by
-itself, provide authorization. Possession of a client ticket for a service
-provides only for authentication of the client to that service, and in the
-absence of a separate authorization procedure, it should not be considered
-by an application as authorizing the use of that service.
-
-Such separate authorization methods may be implemented as application
-specific access control functions and may be based on files such as the
-application server, or on separately issued authorization credentials such
-as those based on proxies [Neu93], or on other authorization services.
-Separately authenticated authorization credentials may be embedded in a
-tickets authorization data when encapsulated by the kdc-issued
-authorization data element.
-
-Applications should not be modified to accept the mere issuance of a
-service ticket by the Kerberos server (even by a modified Kerberos server)
-as granting authority to use the service, since such applications may
-become vulnerable to the bypass of this authorization check in an
-environment if they interoperate with other KDCs or where other options for
-application authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP proposal) are provided.
-
-1.3. Environmental assumptions
-
-Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
-properly function:
-
- * 'Denial of service' attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There are
- places in these protocols where an intruder can prevent an application
- from participating in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
- solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to be nnot-uncommon
- 'normal' failure modes for the system) is usually best left to the
- human administrators and users.
- * Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder somehow
- steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade as that
- principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate principal.
- * 'Password guessing' attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user
- chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to
- successfully mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly
- attempting to decrypt, with successive entries from a dictionary,
- messages obtained which are encrypted under a key derived from the
- user's password.
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- * Each host on the network must have a clock which is 'loosely
- synchronized' to the time of the other hosts; this synchronization is
- used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of application servers when they
- do replay detection. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
- per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5 minutes. If the
- clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock synchronization
- protocol must itself be secured from network attackers.
- * Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A
- typical mode of access control will use access control lists (ACLs) to
- grant permissions to particular principals. If a stale ACL entry
- remains for a deleted principal and the principal identifier is
- reused, the new principal will inherit rights specified in the stale
- ACL entry. By not re-using principal identifiers, the danger of
- inadvertent access is removed.
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-1.4. Glossary of terms
-
-Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
-
-Authentication
- Verifying the claimed identity of a principal.
-Authentication header
- A record containing a Ticket and an Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication process.
-Authentication path
- A sequence of intermediate realms transited in the authentication
- process when communicating from one realm to another.
-Authenticator
- A record containing information that can be shown to have been
- recently generated using the session key known only by the client and
- server.
-Authorization
- The process of determining whether a client may use a service, which
- objects the client is allowed to access, and the type of access
- allowed for each.
-Capability
- A token that grants the bearer permission to access an object or
- service. In Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose use is restricted
- by the contents of the authorization data field, but which lists no
- network addresses, together with the session key necessary to use the
- ticket.
-Ciphertext
- The output of an encryption function. Encryption transforms plaintext
- into ciphertext.
-Client
- A process that makes use of a network service on behalf of a user.
- Note that in some cases a Server may itself be a client of some other
- server (e.g. a print server may be a client of a file server).
-Credentials
- A ticket plus the secret session key necessary to successfully use
- that ticket in an authentication exchange.
-KDC
- Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
- temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host on
- which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and
- ticket-granting ticket requests. The initial ticket portion is
- sometimes referred to as the Authentication Server (or service). The
- ticket-granting ticket portion is sometimes referred to as the
- ticket-granting server (or service).
-Kerberos
- Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the protocol used by that service, or
- the code used to implement the authentication service.
-Plaintext
- The input to an encryption function or the output of a decryption
- function. Decryption transforms ciphertext into plaintext.
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- A uniquely named client or server instance that participates in a
- network communication.
-Principal identifier
- The name used to uniquely identify each different principal.
-Seal
- To encipher a record containing several fields in such a way that the
- fields cannot be individually replaced without either knowledge of the
- encryption key or leaving evidence of tampering.
-Secret key
- An encryption key shared by a principal and the KDC, distributed
- outside the bounds of the system, with a long lifetime. In the case of
- a human user's principal, the secret key is derived from a password.
-Server
- A particular Principal which provides a resource to network clients.
- The server is sometimes refered to as the Application Server.
-Service
- A resource provided to network clients; often provided by more than
- one server (for example, remote file service).
-Session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, with a
- lifetime limited to the duration of a single login "session".
-Sub-session key
- A temporary encryption key used between two principals, selected and
- exchanged by the principals using the session key, and with a lifetime
- limited to the duration of a single association.
-Ticket
- A record that helps a client authenticate itself to a server; it
- contains the client's identity, a session key, a timestamp, and other
- information, all sealed using the server's secret key. It only serves
- to authenticate a client when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
-
-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
-
-Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to indicate
-various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be requested by a client
-when the ticket is obtained; some are automatically turned on and off by a
-Kerberos server as required. The following sections explain what the
-various flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
-The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS protocol
-and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket. Application servers that
-want to require the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
-password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set in any tickets
-they accept, and thus be assured that the client's key was recently
-presented to the application client.
-
-The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information about the
-initial authentication, regardless of whether the current ticket was issued
-directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of
-a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is clear, but the
-PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried forward from the
-ticket-granting ticket).
-
-2.2. Invalid tickets
-
-The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application servers
-must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated ticket will
-usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the
-KDC before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the
-VALIDATE option specified. The KDC will only validate tickets after their
-starttime has passed. The validation is required so that postdated tickets
-which have been stolen before their starttime can be rendered permanently
-invalid (through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
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-Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long periods
-of time. However, this can expose their credentials to potential theft for
-equally long periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until the
-expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-lived tickets and
-obtaining new ones periodically would require the client to have long-term
-access to its secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be
-used to mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
-"expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the ticket
-expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an individual
-expiration time. An application client must periodically (i.e. before it
-expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the RENEW option set
-in the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new ticket with a new session key
-and a later expiration time. All other fields of the ticket are left
-unmodified by the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration
-time arrives, the ticket expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may
-consult a hot-list to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen
-since its last renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and
-thus the usable lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
-
-The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can usually be
-ignored by application servers. However, some particularly careful
-application servers may wish to disallow renewable tickets.
-
-If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC will
-not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default, but a client
-may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ
-message. If it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains the
-time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
-
-2.4. Postdated tickets
-
-Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much later,
-e.g. a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid at the time
-the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets
-in a batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more prone to
-theft. Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain these tickets from the KDC
-at job submission time, but to leave them "dormant" until they are
-activated and validated by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft
-were reported in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket,
-and the thief would be foiled.
-
-The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. This
-flag must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated
-ticket based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it may be
-requested by a client by setting the ALLOW-POSTDATE option in the
-KRB_AS_REQ message. This flag does not allow a client to obtain a postdated
-ticket-granting ticket; postdated ticket-granting tickets can only by
-obtained by requesting the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life
-(endtime-starttime) of a postdated ticket will be the remaining life of the
-ticket-granting ticket at the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE
-option is also set, in which case it can be the full life
-(endtime-starttime) of the ticket-granting ticket. The KDC may limit how
-far in the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
-The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
-application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see when
-the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose to reject
-postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain period
-after the original authentication. When the KDC issues a POSTDATED ticket,
-it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the application client must
-present the ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
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-At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to perform
-an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take on the
-identity of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A principal can
-allow a service to take on the principal's identity for a particular
-purpose by granting it a proxy.
-
-The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and proxiable flags is used
-to provide credentials for use with specific services. Though conceptually
-also a proxy, user's wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose
-must use the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next section to
-forward a ticket granting ticket.
-
-The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. When
-set, this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to issue a
-new ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network
-address based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the client
-on initial authentication. By default, the client will request that it be
-set when requesting a ticket granting ticket, and reset when requesting any
-other ticket.
-
-This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a remote
-request on its behalf, e.g. a print service client can give the print
-server a proxy to access the client's files on a particular file server in
-order to satisfy a print request.
-
-In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos tickets are
-usually valid from only those network addresses specifically included in
-the ticket[4]. When granting a proxy, the client must specify the new
-network address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that the
-proxy is to be issued for use from any address.
-
-The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a proxy ticket.
-Application servers may check this flag and at their option they may
-require additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in
-order to provide an audit trail.
-
-2.6. Forwardable tickets
-
-Authentication forwarding is an instance of a proxy where the service is
-granted complete use of the client's identity. An example where it might be
-used is when a user logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to
-work from that system as if the login were local.
-
-The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
-ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. The
-FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE
-flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
-network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users may request
-that it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in the AS request when
-they request their initial ticket- granting ticket.
-
-This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the user
-to enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then authentication
-forwarding is not permitted, but the same result can still be achieved if
-the user engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
-addresses and supplies a password.
-
-The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket with
-the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests a forwarded ticket by specifying the
-FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket.
-It is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the FORWARDED
-flag set. Application servers may choose to process FORWARDED tickets
-differently than non-FORWARDED tickets.
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-If a client does not have the full name information for a principal, it can
-request that the Kerberos server attempt to lookup the name in its database
-and return a canonical form of the requested principal or a referral to a
-realm that has the requested principal in its namespace. Name
-canonicalization allows a principal to have alternate names. Name
-canonicalization must not be used to locate principal names supplied from
-wildcards and is not a mechanism to be used to search a Kerberos database.
-
-The CANONICALIZE flag in a ticket request is used to indicate to the
-Kerberos server that the client will accept an alternative name to the
-principal in the request or a referral to another realm. Both the AS and
-TGS must be able to interpret requests with this flag.
-
-By using this flag, the client can avoid extensive configuration needed to
-map specific host names to a particular realm.
-
-2.8. Other KDC options
-
-There are two additional options which may be set in a client's request of
-the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the client will accept a
-renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be
-provided. If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then the
-KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal to the the
-requested endtime. The value of the renew-till field may still be adjusted
-by site-determined limits or limits imposed by the individual principal or
-server.
-
-The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting service.
-It indicates that the ticket to be issued for the end server is to be
-encrypted in the session key from the a additional second ticket-granting
-ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific details.
-
-3. Message Exchanges
-
-The following sections describe the interactions between network clients
-and servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
-
-3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
-
- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the
-Kerberos Authentication Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to
-obtain authentication credentials for a given server but currently holds no
-credentials. In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for
-encryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at the
-initiation of a login session to obtain credentials for a Ticket-Granting
-Server which will subsequently be used to obtain credentials for other
-servers (see section 3.3) without requiring further use of the client's
-secret key. This exchange is also used to request credentials for services
-which must not be mediated through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather
-require a principal's secret key, such as the password-changing service[5].
-This exchange does not by itself provide any assurance of the the identity
-of the user[6].
-
-The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
-Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
-messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
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-In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and the
-identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials. The
-response, KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present to the
-server, and a session key that will be shared by the client and the server.
-The session key and additional information are encrypted in the client's
-secret key. The KRB_AS_REP message contains information which can be used
-to detect replays, and to associate it with the message to which it
-replies. Various errors can occur; these are indicated by an error response
-(KRB_ERROR) instead of the KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not
-encrypted. The KRB_ERROR message contains information which can be used to
-associate it with the message to which it replies. The lack of encryption
-in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays,
-fabrications, or modifications of such messages.
-
-Without preautentication, the authentication server does not know whether
-the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply sends
-a reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same. This is
-acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in the
-request will be able to use the reply. Its critical information is
-encrypted in that principal's key. The initial request supports an optional
-field that can be used to pass additional information that might be needed
-for the initial exchange. This field may be used for preauthentication as
-described in section [hl<>].
-
-3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-The client may specify a number of options in the initial request. Among
-these options are whether pre-authentication is to be performed; whether
-the requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable; whether
-it should be postdated or allow postdating of derivative tickets; whether
-the client requests name-canonicalization; and whether a renewable ticket
-will be accepted in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the requested ticket
-expiration date cannot be satisfied by a non-renewable ticket (due to
-configuration constraints; see section 4). See section A.1 for pseudocode.
-
-The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
-
-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
-If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in the
-creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server. The format
-for the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket
-are determined as follows.
-
-3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-The authentication server looks up the client and server principals named
-in the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective keys. If
-the requested client principal named in the request is not found in its
-database, then an error message with a KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN is
-returned. If the request had the CANONICALIZE option set, then the AS can
-attempt to lookup the client principal name in an alternate database, if it
-is found an error message with a KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM error code and the
-cname and crealm in the error message must contain the true client
-principal name and realm.
-
-If required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if the
-pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate the
-requested encryption type, an error message with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP
-is returned. Otherwise it generates a 'random' session key[7].
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-If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a client in the
-Kerberos database (or if the key registered supports multiple encryption
-types; e.g. DES3-CBC-SHA1 and DES3-CBC-SHA1-KD), then the etype field from
-the AS request is used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be
-used for encrypting the response to the client. If there is more than one
-supported, strong encryption type in the etype list, the first valid etype
-for which an encryption key is available is used. The encryption method
-used to respond to a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session
-key found in the ticket granting ticket.
-
- JBrezak - the behavior of PW-SALT, and ETYPE-INFO should be explained
- here; also about using keys that have different string-to-key
- functions like AFSsalt
-
-When the etype field is present in a KDC request, whether an AS or TGS
-request, the KDC will attempt to assign the type of the random session key
-from the list of methods in the etype field. The KDC will select the
-appropriate type using the list of methods provided together with
-information from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable encryption
-methods for the application server. The KDC will not issue tickets with a
-weak session key encryption type.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned.
-Otherwise the requested start time is checked against the policy of the
-local realm (the administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or
-ranges of postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is
-set as requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The
-postdated ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC
-after the start time has been reached.
-
-The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
-following:
-
- * The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the client principal (the authentication server's database
- includes a maximum ticket lifetime field in each principal's record;
- see section 4).
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
- with the server principal.
- * The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by the policy of
- the local realm.
-
-If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined above)
-is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error message with code
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested expiration time for the
-ticket exceeds what was determined as above, and if the 'RENEWABLE-OK'
-option was requested, then the 'RENEWABLE' flag is set in the new ticket,
-and the renew-till value is set as if the 'RENEWABLE' option were requested
-(the field and option names are described fully in section 5.4.1).
-
-If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option
-has been set and a renewable ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till
-field is set to the minimum of:
-
- * Its requested value.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two maximum
- renewable lifetimes associated with the principals' database entries.
- * The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable lifetime set
- by the policy of the local realm.
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-they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm allows:
-FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new
-ticket is post-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
-will also be set.
-
-If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message (see
-section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the caddr of the
-response, placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata of
-the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the client's key using
-the requested encryption method, and sends it to the client. See section
-A.2 for pseudocode.
-
-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
-
-Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
-returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the error-code
-and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error message contents and
-details are described in Section 5.9.1.
-
-3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies that the
-cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the reply match what it
-requested. If any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive the
-proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client decrypts the encrypted
-part of the response using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the
-encrypted part matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect
-replays). It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match
-those in the request (or are otherwise expected values), and that the host
-address field is also correct. It then stores the ticket, session key,
-start and expiration times, and other information for later use. The
-key-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may be checked
-to notify the user of impending key expiration (the client program could
-then suggest remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3
-for pseudocode.
-
-Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to verify the
-identity of the user; the user and an attacker could cooperate to generate
-a KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts properly but is not from the
-proper KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user, it must
-require the user to present application credentials which can be verified
-using a securely-stored secret key for the host. If those credentials can
-be verified, then the identity of the user can be assured.
-
-3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
-
-If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client interprets it as an
-error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are necessary to
-recover. If the client set the CANONICALIZE option and a
-KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM error was returned, the AS request should be retried to
-the realm and client principal name specified in the error message crealm
-and cname field respectively.
-
-3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange
-
- Summary
-Message direction Message type Section
-Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
-[optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
-applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa. The
-client must have already acquired credentials for the server using the AS
-or TGS exchange.
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-The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be part of
-the first message in an authenticated transaction. It contains a ticket, an
-authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
-5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insufficient to
-authenticate a client, since tickets are passed across the network in
-cleartext[DS90], so the authenticator is used to prevent invalid replay of
-tickets by proving to the server that the client knows the session key of
-the ticket and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-is referred to elsewhere as the 'authentication header.'
-
-3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it obtains
-(either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the TGS exchange)
-a ticket and session key for the desired service. The client may re-use any
-tickets it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client constructs a
-new Authenticator from the the system time, its name, and optionally an
-application specific checksum, an initial sequence number to be used in
-KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in
-negotiations for a session key unique to this particular session.
-Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if replayed to a
-server[LGDSR87]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should be
-randomly chosen so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is
-not likely to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
-The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the use
-of a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s) in the
-ap-options field of the message.
-
-The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with the
-ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the end server
-along with any additional application-specific information. See section A.9
-for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
-Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks must be
-loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket. Several errors
-are possible. If an error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the
-client with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated in the
-application protocol if its 'raw' form is not acceptable to the protocol.
-The format of error messages is described in section 5.9.1.
-
-The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows. If
-the message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket in
-the KRB_AP_REQ is not one the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old
-key, and the server no longer possesses a copy of the old key), the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is returned. If the USE-SESSION-KEY flag is set
-in the ap-options field, it indicates to the server that the ticket is
-encrypted in the session key from the server's ticket-granting ticket
-rather than its secret key[10]. Since it is possible for the server to be
-registered in multiple realms, with different keys in each, the srealm
-field in the unencrypted portion of the ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to
-specify which secret key the server should use to decrypt that ticket. The
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is returned if the server doesn't have the
-proper key to decipher the ticket.
-
-The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key specified by
-the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a modification of the ticket
-(each encryption system must provide safeguards to detect modified
-ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned
-(chances are good that different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
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-decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm of the
-client from the ticket are compared against the same fields in the
-authenticator. If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is
-returned (they might not match, for example, if the wrong session key was
-used to encrypt the authenticator). The addresses in the ticket (if any)
-are then searched for an address matching the operating-system reported
-address of the client. If no match is found or the server insists on ticket
-addresses but none are present in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error
-is returned.
-
-If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator differ
-by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is returned. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is returned[11]. The
-server must remember any authenticator presented within the allowable clock
-skew, so that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses
-track of any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, it
-must reject all requests until the clock skew interval has passed. This
-assures that any lost or re-played authenticators will fall outside the
-allowable clock skew and can no longer be successfully replayed (If this is
-not done, an attacker could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator
-sent over the network to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as
-the disabled host, and replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the
-authentication.). If a sequence number is provided in the authenticator,
-the server saves it for later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV
-messages. If a subkey is present, the server either saves it for later use
-or uses it to help generate its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a
-KRB_AP_REP message.
-
-The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus the
-start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than the current
-time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
-the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Otherwise, if the
-current time is later than end time by more than the allowable clock skew,
-the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error is returned.
-
-If all these checks succeed without an error, the server is assured that
-the client possesses the credentials of the principal named in the ticket
-and thus, the client has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10
-for pseudocode.
-
-Passing these checks provides only authentication of the named principal;
-it does not imply authorization to use the named service. Applications must
-make a separate authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name
-of the user, the requested operation, local acces control information such
-as that contained in a .k5login or .k5users file, and possibly a separate
-distributed authorization service.
-
-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
-
-Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
-information and its initial request in the same message, and the server
-need not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual
-authentication (not only authenticating the client to the server, but also
-the server to the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message will
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-have MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a KRB_AP_REP message
-is required in response. As with the error message, this message may be
-encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not
-acceptable to the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond
-field used in the reply must be the client's timestamp and microsecond
-field (as provided in the authenticator)[12]. If a sequence number is to be
-included, it should be randomly chosen as described above for the
-authenticator. A subkey may be included if the server desires to negotiate
-a different subkey. The KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in the session key
-extracted from the ticket. See section A.11 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
-
-If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key from
-the credentials obtained for the server[13] to decrypt the message, and
-verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
-Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client is
-assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey (if
-present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
-
-After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and
-server share an encryption key which can be used by the application. The
-'true session key' to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
-application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on the
-subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some cases,
-the use of this session key will be implicit in the protocol; in others the
-method of use must be chosen from several alternatives. We leave the
-protocol negotiations of how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption
-or checksum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does
-not constrain the implementation options, but an example of how this might
-be done follows.
-
-One way that an application may choose to negotiate a key to be used for
-subequent integrity and privacy protection is for the client to propose a
-key in the subkey field of the authenticator. The server can then choose a
-key using the proposed key from the client as input, returning the new
-subkey in the subkey field of the application reply. This key could then be
-used for subsequent communication. To make this example more concrete, if
-the encryption method in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever
-reason, one of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than 40
-unknown bits, this method would allow the the party which is prevented from
-using more than 40 bits to either propose (if the client) an initial key
-with a known quantity for 16 of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if
-the server) with the known quantity. The application implementor is warned,
-however, that this is only an example, and that an analysis of the
-particular crytosystem to be used, and the reasons for limiting the key
-length, must be made before deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits
-of the key.
-
-With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers should
-take care not to send sensitive information to each other without proper
-assurances. In particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
-should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client to assure both
-client and server of their peer's identity. If an application protocol
-requires privacy of its messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section
-3.5). The KRB_SAFE message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
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- Summary
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
-The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server
-is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication
-credentials for a given server (which might be registered in a remote
-realm), when it wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when it
-wishes to obtain a proxy ticket. In the first case, the client must already
-have acquired a ticket for the Ticket-Granting Service using the AS
-exchange (the ticket-granting ticket is usually obtained when a client
-initially authenticates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The
-message format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS
-exchange. The primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the
-TGS exchange does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or
-sub-session key from an Authenticator is used. As is the case for all
-application servers, expired tickets are not accepted by the TGS, so once a
-renewable or ticket-granting ticket expires, the client must use a separate
-exchange to obtain valid tickets.
-
-The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ) from the
-client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or
-KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating the
-client plus a request for credentials. The authentication information
-consists of the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the
-client's previously obtained ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket.
-In the ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one
-or more of: a list of network addresses, a collection of typed
-authorization data to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the
-application server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described
-later). The TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials,
-encrypted in the session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable
-ticket, or if present, in the sub-session key from the Authenticator (part
-of the authentication header). The KRB_ERROR message contains an error code
-and text explaining what went wrong. The KRB_ERROR message is not
-encrypted. The KRB_TGS_REP message contains information which can be used
-to detect replays, and to associate it with the message to which it
-replies. The KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can be used
-to associate it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of
-encryption in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays
-or fabrications of such messages.
-
-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client must
-determine in which realm the application server is registered[15], if it is
-known. If the client does know the service principal name and realm and it
-does not already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
-realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted by requesting a
-ticket-granting ticket for the destination realm from a Kerberos server for
-which the client does posess a ticket-granting ticket (using the
-KRB_TGS_REQ message recursively). The Kerberos server may return a TGT for
-the desired realm in which case one can proceed.
-
-If the client does not know the realm of the service or the true service
-principal name, then the CANONICALIZE option must be used in the request.
-This will cause the TGS to locate the service principal based on the target
-service name in the ticket and return the service principal name in the
-response. Alternatively, the Kerberos server may return a TGT for a realm
-which is 'closer' to the desired realm (further along the standard
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-hierarchical path) or the realm that may contain the requested service
-principal name in a request with the CANONCALIZE option set [JBrezak], in
-which case this step must be repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm
-specified in the returned TGT. If neither are returned, then the request
-must be retried with a Kerberos server for a realm higher in the hierarchy.
-This request will itself require a ticket-granting ticket for the higher
-realm which must be obtained by recursively applying these directions.
-
-Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate realm,
-it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and contacts one.
-The list might be obtained through a configuration file or network service
-or it may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as the secret
-keys exchanged by realms are kept secret, only denial of service results
-from using a false Kerberos server.
-
-As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in the
-KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing
-an authentication header as an element of the padata field, and including
-the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
-optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for application server
-use and additional tickets required by some options.
-
-In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-session
-key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be
-encrypted[16]. If the sub-session key is not specified, the session key
-from the ticket-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data
-is present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from
-the authenticator portion of the authentication header, or if not present,
-using the session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the destination
-realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
-The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the KRB_AS_REQ
-message, but there are many additional checks to be performed. First, the
-Kerberos server must determine which server the accompanying ticket is for
-and it must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
-KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting service, and the
-TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued by another realm, then the
-appropriate inter-realm key must be used. If the accompanying ticket is not
-a ticket granting ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
-server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are
-specified in the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is
-the server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the
-ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server for which
-it was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata field, the
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied checksum
-in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents of the request,
-and the message rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
-of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum is not keyed or not
-collision-proof (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the
-checksum type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is
-returned. If the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
-the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
-
-If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. If the CANONICALIZE option is
-set in the KRB_TGS_REQ, then the requested service name may not be the true
-principal name or the service may not be in the TGS realm.
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-The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP
-(KRB_KDC_REP), but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed
-specification is in section 5.4.2.
-
-The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The Kerberos
-database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested server
-(including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request
-is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key is shared
-with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server will select the realm
-"closest" to the requested realm with which it does share a key, and use
-that realm instead. If the CANONICALIZE option is set, the TGS may return a
-ticket containing the server name of the true service principal. If the
-requested server cannot be found in the TGS database, then a TGT for
-another trusted realm may be returned instead of a ticket for the service.
-This TGT is a referral mechanism to cause the client to retry the request
-to the realm of the TGT. These are the only cases where the response for
-the KDC will be for a different server than that requested by the client.
-
-By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list of
-transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the expiration time,
-and the authorization data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from
-the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the transited
-field needs to be updated, but the transited type is not supported, the
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
-If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new ticket is
-set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime from the TGT, and
-(c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the
-application server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
-life for the requesting principal was already applied when the TGT was
-issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal, then the endtime above is
-replaced by the minimum of (a) the value of the renew_till field of the
-ticket and (b) the starttime for the new ticket plus the life
-(endtime-starttime) of the old ticket.
-
-If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket will
-contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will only be
-honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is
-similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
-client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE flag in the TGT is set.
-The PROXY option will not be honored on requests for additional
-ticket-granting tickets.
-
-If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
-within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
-option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
-the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
-future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
-been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is not set in the TGT, then the
-error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the
-ticket-granting ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then the resulting
-ticket will be postdated and the requested starttime is checked against the
-policy of the local realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as
-requested, and the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be
-validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has
-been reached. However, in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-till
-time of a newly-issued postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time
-of the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional ticket
-has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the additional
-ticket using the key for the server to which the additional ticket was
-issued and verify that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the
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-requested server is missing from the request, the name of the client in the
-additional ticket will be used. Otherwise the name of the requested server
-will be compared to the name of the client in the additional ticket and if
-different, the request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the
-session key from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new
-ticket that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
-new ticket will be used[17].
-
-If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-granting server
-itself, the server is registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW
-option is requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag is
-set in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in the ticket, and that
-the renew_till time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is
-rqeuested, the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID
-flag is set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check that
-the PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed, and the
-ticket passes the hotlist check described in the next paragraph, the KDC
-will issue the appropriate new ticket.
-
-3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
-
-Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the presented
-ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets which have been
-canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by storing a range of issue
-timestamps for 'suspect tickets'; if a presented ticket had an authtime in
-that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen ticket-granting
-ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to gain additional tickets
-(renewals or otherwise) once the theft has been reported. Any normal ticket
-obtained before it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
-require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal
-expiration time.
-
-The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is encrypted
-in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present, or the session
-key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
-client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's expiration date and
-the key version number fields are left out since these values are stored
-along with the client's database record, and that record is not needed to
-satisfy a request based on a ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6 for
-pseudocode.
-
-3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
-
-If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC as
-part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting service,
-but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look up the
-inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
-ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the request,
-subject to the constraints outlined above in the section describing the AS
-exchange. The realm part of the client's identity will be taken from the
-ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm that issued the
-ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the ticket
-to be issued. This is accomplished by reading the transited field from the
-ticket-granting ticket (which is treated as an unordered set of realm
-names), adding the new realm to the set, then constructing and writing out
-its encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement of the
-existing encoding).
-
-Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its own
-realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the previous
-realm. This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving
-out its own name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
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-included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the ticket and
-both are known to have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since
-the endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop inter-realm
-authentication result in a transited field that is empty.
-
-Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field, it might
-potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this field, its
-contents are encoded. The initially supported encoding is optimized for the
-normal case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrangement of
-realms using either domain or X.500 style realm names. This encoding
-(called DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now described.
-
-Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",", "\",
-trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters, and if they
-are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the transited field by
-preced- ing them with a "\".
-
-A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to the
-previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU,
-ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
-Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-points, that
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
-
-A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to the
-previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded
-by a space (" "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO,
-/COM/HP, /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
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- "/COM,/HP,/APOLLO, /COM/DEC".
-
-Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints, they
-they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "/COM,/HP"
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-A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all realms
-between the previous realm and the next realm have been traversed[19].
-Thus, "," means that all realms along the path between the client and the
-server have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms from
-the client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have been
-traversed, and that everything from /COM down to the server's realm in an
-X.500 style has also been traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in
-one hierarchy shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm in
-another hierarchy.
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-3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message
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-When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in the same
-manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The primary difference
-is that the ciphertext part of the response must be decrypted using the
-session key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the client's secret
-key. The server name returned in the reply is the true principal name of
-the service. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
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-The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to detect
-modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by including a
-keyed collision-proof checksum of the user data and some control
-information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually the last
-key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
-occured).
-
-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information and computes a checksum over them.
-The checksum algorithm should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the
-RSA- MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES
-MAC), generated using the sub-session key if present, or the session key.
-Different algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
-message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable for this
-use.
-
-The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a timestamp
-and a sequence number. The designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE
-message must choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice should
-be based on the needs of the application protocol.
-
-Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received by
-one's peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain the session
-key, so maintaining the next sequence number should not present an
-additional problem.
-
-If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages without
-them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the appropriate replay
-detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
-multi-cast protocols where all of one's peers share a common sub-session
-key, but some messages will be sent to a subset of one's peers.
-
-After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the information and
-checksum to the recipient in the message format specified in section 5.6.1.
-
-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and
-type fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively. A
-mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error.
-The application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-proof keyed
-checksum, and if it is not, a KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. If
-the sender's address was included in the control information, the recipient
-verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's address matches
-the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient address is
-specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's
-addresses appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match
-for either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp
-and usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and
-usec are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen (sent or received[20] ) such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT
-error is generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or a
-sequence number is expected but not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error
-is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is
-present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated. Finally, the checksum is
-computed over the data and control information, and if it doesn't match the
-received checksum, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
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-generated by its peer and was not modi- fied in transit.
-
-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
-The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality and
-the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It achieves this
-by encrypting the messages and adding control information.
-
-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects its data
-and the appropriate control information (specified in section 5.7.1) and
-encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via
-subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part of the
-control information, the client must choose to use either a timestamp or a
-sequence number (or both); see the discussion in section 3.4.1 for
-guidelines on which to use. After the user data and control information are
-encrypted, the client transmits the ciphertext and some 'envelope'
-information to the recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as follows.
-If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
-
-The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and
-type fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively. A
-mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error.
-The application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant
-plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been modified, a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. If the sender's address was
-included in the control information, the recipient verifies that the
-operating system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's
-address in the message, and (if a recipient address is specified or the
-recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's addresses
-appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for
-either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and
-usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec
-are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
-client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
-recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an
-incorrect sequence number is included, or a sequence number is expected but
-not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a
-time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED
-error is generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
-generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without intruders able
-to see the unencrypted contents).
-
-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
-The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to send
-Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this by sending
-the tickets together with encrypted data containing the session keys and
-other information associated with the tickets.
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-When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using the
-KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote host. It
-then constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or tickets so obtained,
-placing the session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of the
-corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part of the the
-KRB_CRED message.
-
-Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
-KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence
-in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if
-specifically required by the application the nonce, s-address, and
-r-address fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message
-which is then encrypted under an encryption key previosuly exchanged in the
-KRB_AP exchange (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the
-session key if no negotiation has occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
-When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If any
-error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application. The
-message is verified by checking that the protocol version and type fields
-match the current version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates
-a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then
-decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If
-decryption shows the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY
-error is generated.
-
-If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating system's
-report of the sender's address matches the sender's address in the message,
-and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's
-address in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields (and the nonce
-field if required) are checked next. If the timestamp and usec are not
-present, or they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is
-generated.
-
-If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new tickets
-in its ticket cache together with the session key and other information in
-the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the
-KRB_CRED message.
-
-4. The Kerberos Database
-
-The Kerberos server must have access to a database containing the principal
-identifiers and secret keys of principals to be authenticated[21].
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
-A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
-
-Field Value
-
-name Principal's identifier
-key Principal's secret key
-p_kvno Principal's key version
-max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
-max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable Tickets
-
-The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key field
-contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret key. (The
-key can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos "master key" to
-protect it in case the database is compromised but the master key is not.
-In that case, an extra field must be added to indicate the master key
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-version used, see below.) The p_kvno field is the key version number of the
-principal's secret key. The max_life field contains the maximum allowable
-lifetime (endtime - starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal.
-The max_renewable_life field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime
-for any renewable Ticket issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a
-description of how these lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of
-a given Ticket.)
-
-A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the database
-representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between principal
-records with identifiers which differ only in the realm name.
-
-When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine (i.e.
-not the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key should be
-retained by the server until all tickets that had been issued using that
-key have expired. Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be
-active for a single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a principal's key is
-always tagged with the version of the key that was used for encryption, to
-help the recipient find the proper key for decryption.
-
-When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the principal
-will have more than one record in the Kerberos database. The keys and key
-version numbers will differ between the records (the rest of the fields may
-or may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos issues a ticket, or responds to
-a request for initial authentication, the most recent key (known by the
-Kerberos server) will be used for encryption. This is the key with the
-highest key version number.
-
-4.2. Additional fields
-
-Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its database:
-
-Field Value
-
-K_kvno Kerberos' key version
-expiration Expiration date for entry
-attributes Bit field of attributes
-mod_date Timestamp of last modification
-mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
-
-The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key under
-which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
-
-After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an error
-to any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the principal. (A
-database may want to maintain two expiration dates: one for the principal,
-and one for the principal's current key. This allows password aging to work
-independently of the principal's expiration date. However, due to the
-limited space in the responses, the KDC must combine the key expiration and
-principal expiration date into a single value called 'key_exp', which is
-used as a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
-
-The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations involving
-the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction with user
-registration procedures, for site-specific policy implementations (Project
-Athena currently uses it for their user registration process controlled by
-the system-wide database service, Moira [LGDSR87]), to identify whether a
-principal can play the role of a client or server or both, to note whether
-a server is appropriate trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a
-client, or to identify the 'string to key' conversion algorithm used for a
-principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that certain ticket
-options should not be allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key
-(one bit each): Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing
-forwardable tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
-disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable tickets, and
-disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the server.
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-the mod_name field contains the name of the principal which last modified
-the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
-Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a request
-was made by a particular principal. Information that might be maintained
-includes the time of the last request, the time of the last request for a
-ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a ticket-granting
-ticket, or other times. This information can then be returned to the user
-in the last-req field (see section 5.2).
-
-Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the latest
-expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using each key. This
-field would be used to indicate how long old keys must remain valid to
-allow the continued use of outstanding tickets.
-
-4.4. Site Constants
-
-The KDC implementation should have the following configurable constants or
-options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce policy decisions:
-
- * The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant should
- reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the KDC,
- encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client and
- target server, and it should allow for a minimum 'useful' lifetime.
- * The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
- (renew_till - starttime).
- * The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
- * Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
- (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be issued
- if the request specifies some authorization_data).
- * Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets are
- to be issued.
-
-5. Message Specifications
-
-The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of protocol
-messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are presented in the first
-subsection. The remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
-and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryption and checksum
-techniques, and the fields related to them, appear in section 6.
-
-Optional field in ASN.1 sequences
-
-For optional integer value and date fields in ASN.1 sequences where a
-default value has been specified, certain default values will not be
-allowed in the encoding because these values will always be represented
-through defaulting by the absence of the optional field. For example, one
-will not send a microsecond zero value because one must make sure that
-there is only one way to encode this value.
-
-Additional fields in ASN.1 sequences
-
-Implementations receiving Kerberos messages with additional fields present
-in ASN.1 sequences should carry the those fields through, unmodified, when
-the message is forwarded. Implementations should not drop such fields if
-the sequence is reencoded.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
-All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
-Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509
-specification, section 8.7 [X509-88].
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-The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this section.
-Note that since the underscore character (_) is not permitted in ASN.1
-names, the hyphen (-) is used in its place for the purposes of ASN.1 names.
-
-Realm ::= GeneralString
-PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
-}
-
-Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not contain a
-character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms will usually consist
-of several components separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet
-Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500 names.
-Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in section 7. A
-PrincipalName is a typed sequence of components consisting of the following
-sub-fields:
-
-name-type
- This field specifies the type of name that follows. Pre-defined values
- for this field are specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the
- same (i.e. at least one of the components, or the realm, must be
- different). This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-name-string
- This field encodes a sequence of components that form a name, each
- component encoded as a GeneralString. Taken together, a PrincipalName
- and a Realm form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames will have
- only a few components (typically one or two).
-
-KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
-The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An
-encoding shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include any
-fractional portions of the seconds. It further shall not include any
-separators. Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27
-seconds after 9 pm on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
-HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF HostAddress
-
-The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
-addr-type
- This field specifies the type of address that follows. Pre-defined
- values for this field are specified in section 8.1.
-address
- This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
-
-The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one address;
-HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many addresses.
-
-AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
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- This field contains authorization data to be interpreted according to
- the value of the corresponding ad-type field.
-ad-type
- This field specifies the format for the ad-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved
- for registered use.
-
-Each sequence of type and data is refered to as an authorization element.
-Elements may be application specific, however, there is a common set of
-recursive elements that should be understood by all implementations. These
-elements contain other elements embedded within them, and the
-interpretation of the encapsulating element determines which of the
-embedded elements must be interpreted, and which may be ignored.
-Definitions for these common elements may be found in Appendix B.
-
-TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- te-type[0] INTEGER,
- te-data[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-
-
-te-data
- This field contains opaque data that must be caried with the ticket to
- support extensions to the Kerberos protocol including but not limited
- to some forms of inter-realm key exchange and plaintext authorization
- data. See appendix C for some common uses of this field.
-te-type
- This field specifies the format for the te-data subfield. All negative
- values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved
- for registered use.
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- use-session-key(1),
- -- mutual-required(2)
-
-TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- may-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- invalid(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- initial(9),
- -- pre-authent(10),
- -- hw-authent(11),
- -- transited-policy-checked(12),
- -- ok-as-delegate(13)
-
-KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING io
- -- reserved(0),
- -- forwardable(1),
- -- forwarded(2),
- -- proxiable(3),
- -- proxy(4),
- -- allow-postdate(5),
- -- postdated(6),
- -- unused7(7),
- -- renewable(8),
- -- unused9(9),
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- -- unused11(11),
- -- unused12(12),
- -- unused13(13),
- -- requestanonymous(14),
- -- canonicalize(15),
- -- disable-transited-check(26),
- -- renewable-ok(27),
- -- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- -- renew(30),
- -- validate(31)
-
-ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When used in Kerberos for the
-APOptions, TicketFlags, and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
-generated values should be the smallest number of bits needed to include
-the highest order bit that is set (1), but in no case less than 32 bits.
-The ASN.1 representation of the bit strings uses unnamed bits, with the
-meaning of the individual bits defined by the comments in the specification
-above. Implementations should accept values of bit strings of any length
-and treat the value of flags corresponding to bits beyond the end of the
-bit string as if the bit were reset (0). Comparison of bit strings of
-different length should treat the smaller string as if it were padded with
-zeros beyond the high order bits to the length of the longer string[23].
-
-LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
-}
-
-lr-type
- This field indicates how the following lr-value field is to be
- interpreted. Negative values indicate that the information pertains
- only to the responding server. Non-negative values pertain to all
- servers for the realm. If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no
- information is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the absolute
- value of the lr-type field is one (1), then the lr-value subfield is
- the time of last initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last initial request. If it is three
- (3), then the lr-value subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of the last renewal. If it is five (5), then the
- lr-value subfield is the time of last request (of any type). If it is
- (6), then the lr-value subfield is the time when the password will
- expire.
-lr-value
- This field contains the time of the last request. the time must be
- interpreted according to the contents of the accompanying lr-type
- subfield.
-
-See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType, EncryptedData,
-EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
-
-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
-
-This section describes the format and encryption parameters for tickets and
-authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is included in a protocol
-message it is treated as an opaque object.
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-A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service. A
-Ticket contains the following information:
-
-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData,
- extensions[4] TicketExtensions OPTIONAL
-}
-
--- Encrypted part of ticket
-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be
-registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
-The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by Kerberos
-and the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6 for the format
-of the ciphertext.
-
-tkt-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the ticket format. This
- document describes version number 5.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It also serves to
- identify the realm part of the server's principal identifier. Since a
- Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers within its realm,
- the two will always be identical.
-sname
- This field specifies all components of the name part of the server's
- identity, including those parts that identify a specific instance of a
- service.
-enc-part
- This field holds the encrypted encoding of the EncTicketPart sequence.
-extensions
- This optional field contains a sequence of extentions that may be used
- to carry information that must be carried with the ticket to support
- several extensions, including but not limited to plaintext
- authorization data, tokens for exchanging inter-realm keys, and other
- information that must be associated with a ticket for use by the
- application server. See Appendix C for definitions of some common
- extensions.
-
- Note that some older versions of Kerberos did not support this field.
- Because this is an optional field it will not break older clients, but
- older clients might strip this field from the ticket before sending it
- to the application server. This limits the usefulness of this ticket
- field to environments where the ticket will not be parsed and
- reconstructed by these older Kerberos clients.
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- as an interim measure the KDC may append this field to the end of the
- enc-part of the ticket and append a traler indicating the lenght of
- the appended extensions field. (this paragraph is open for discussion,
- including the form of the traler).
-flags
- This field indicates which of various options were used or requested
- when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
- options and reserved fields being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most
- significant bit. The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
- The flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The
- meanings of the flags are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set, this
- flag tells the ticket-granting server
- that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
- granting ticket with a different network
- address based on the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- When set, this flag indicates that the
- ticket has either been forwarded or was
- issued based on authentication involving
- a forwarded ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical to
- that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
- that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
- ticket-granting server that only non-
- ticket-granting tickets may be issued
- with different network addresses.
-
- 4 PROXY
- When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
-
- 5 MAY-POSTDATE
- The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. This flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that a post-
- dated ticket may be issued based on this
- ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- This flag indicates that this ticket has
- been postdated. The end-service can
- check the authtime field to see when the
- original authentication occurred.
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- This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by the
- KDC before use. Application servers
- must reject tickets which have this flag
- set.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
- be ignored by end servers (some particu-
- larly careful servers may wish to disal-
- low renewable tickets). A renewable
- ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
- ment ticket that expires at a later
- date.
-
- 9 INITIAL
- This flag indicates that this ticket was
- issued using the AS protocol, and not
- issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 10 PRE-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that during initial
- authentication, the client was authenti-
- cated by the KDC before a ticket was
- issued. The strength of the pre-
- authentication method is not indicated,
- but is acceptable to the KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT
- This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected to
- be possessed solely by the named client.
- The hardware authentication method is
- selected by the KDC and the strength of
- the method is not indicated.
-
- 12 TRANSITED This flag indicates that the KDC for the
- POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
- against a realm defined policy for
- trusted certifiers. If this flag is
- reset (0), then the application server
- must check the transited field itself,
- and if unable to do so it must reject
- the authentication. If the flag is set
- (1) then the application server may skip
- its own validation of the transited
- field, relying on the validation
- performed by the KDC. At its option the
- application server may still apply its
- own validation based on a separate
- policy for acceptance.
-
- 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
- the client) specified in the ticket has
- been determined by policy of the realm
- to be a suitable recipient of
- delegation. A client can use the
- presence of this flag to help it make a
- decision whether to delegate credentials
- (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
- ticket granting ticket) to this server.
-
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- of this flag. When setting this flag,
- an administrator should consider the
- Security and placement of the server on
- which the service will run, as well as
- whether the service requires the use of
- delegated credentials.
-
- 14 ANONYMOUS
- This flag indicates that the principal
- named in the ticket is a generic princi-
- pal for the realm and does not identify
- the individual using the ticket. The
- purpose of the ticket is only to
- securely distribute a session key, and
- not to identify the user. Subsequent
- requests using the same ticket and ses-
- sion may be considered as originating
- from the same user, but requests with
- the same username but a different ticket
- are likely to originate from different
- users.
-
- 15-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-key
- This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is used to
- pass the session key from Kerberos to the application server and the
- client. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-crealm
- This field contains the name of the realm in which the client is
- registered and in which initial authentication took place.
-cname
- This field contains the name part of the client's principal
- identifier.
-transited
- This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took part in
- authenticating the user to whom this ticket was issued. It does not
- specify the order in which the realms were transited. See section
- 3.3.3.2 for details on how this field encodes the traversed realms.
- When the names of CA's are to be embedded inthe transited field (as
- specified for some extentions to the protocol), the X.500 names of the
- CA's should be mapped into items in the transited field using the
- mapping defined by RFC2253.
-authtime
- This field indicates the time of initial authentication for the named
- principal. It is the time of issue for the original ticket on which
- this ticket is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
- additional information to the end service, and to provide the
- necessary information for implementation of a `hot list' service at
- the KDC. An end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to
- accept tickets for which the initial authentication occurred "too far"
- in the past. This field is also returned as part of the response from
- the KDC. When returned as part of the response to initial
- authentication (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on the Kerberos
- server[24].
-starttime
- This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the ticket is
- valid. Together with endtime, this field specifies the life of the
- ticket. If it is absent from the ticket, its value should be treated
- as that of the authtime field.
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- This field contains the time after which the ticket will not be
- honored (its expiration time). Note that individual services may place
- their own limits on the life of a ticket and may reject tickets which
- have not yet expired. As such, this is really an upper bound on the
- expiration time for the ticket.
-renew-till
- This field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set
- in the flags field. It indicates the maximum endtime that may be
- included in a renewal. It can be thought of as the absolute expiration
- time for the ticket, including all renewals.
-caddr
- This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more (if present)
- host addresses. These are the addresses from which the ticket can be
- used. If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used from any
- location. The decision by the KDC to issue or by the end server to
- accept zero-address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to issue or
- accept such tickets. The suggested and default policy, however, is
- that such tickets will only be issued or accepted when additional
- information that can be used to restrict the use of the ticket is
- included in the authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
- capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it harder for an
- attacker to use stolen credentials. Because the session key is not
- sent over the network in cleartext, credentials can't be stolen simply
- by listening to the network; an attacker has to gain access to the
- session key (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a
- careless user's unattended session) to make use of stolen tickets.
-
- It is important to note that the network address from which a
- connection is received cannot be reliably determined. Even if it could
- be, an attacker who has compromised the client's workstation could use
- the credentials from there. Including the network addresses only makes
- it more difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk off with
- stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe" location.
-authorization-data
- The authorization-data field is used to pass authorization data from
- the principal on whose behalf a ticket was issued to the application
- service. If no authorization data is included, this field will be left
- out. Experience has shown that the name of this field is confusing,
- and that a better name for this field would be restrictions.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the name of this field at
- this time.
-
- This field contains restrictions on any authority obtained on the
- basis of authentication using the ticket. It is possible for any
- principal in posession of credentials to add entries to the
- authorization data field since these entries further restrict what can
- be done with the ticket. Such additions can be made by specifying the
- additional entries when a new ticket is obtained during the TGS
- exchange, or they may be added during chained delegation using the
- authorization data field of the authenticator.
-
- Because entries may be added to this field by the holder of
- credentials, except when an entry is separately authenticated by
- encapulation in the kdc-issued element, it is not allowable for the
- presence of an entry in the authorization data field of a ticket to
- amplify the priveleges one would obtain from using a ticket.
-
- The data in this field may be specific to the end service; the field
- will contain the names of service specific objects, and the rights to
- those objects. The format for this field is described in section 5.2.
- Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of the contents of
- the sub-fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
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- proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For example, a client
- wishing to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to be passed to
- the print server. By specifying the name of the file in the
- authorization_data field, the file server knows that the print server
- can only use the client's rights when accessing the particular file to
- be printed.
-
- A separate service providing authorization or certifying group
- membership may be built using the authorization-data field. In this
- case, the entity granting authorization (not the authorized entity),
- may obtain a ticket in its own name (e.g. the ticket is issued in the
- name of a privelege server), and this entity adds restrictions on its
- own authority and delegates the restricted authority through a proxy
- to the client. The client would then present this authorization
- credential to the application server separately from the
- authentication exchange. Alternatively, such authorization credentials
- may be embedded in the ticket authenticating the authorized entity,
- when the authorization is separately authenticated using the
- kdc-issued authorization data element (see B.4).
-
- Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data field of a proxy
- and leaves the host addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session
- key can be treated as a capability. See [Neu93] for some suggested
- uses of this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does not have to be
- included in a ticket.
-
-5.3.2. Authenticators
-
-An authenticator is a record sent with a ticket to a server to certify the
-client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket, to help the server
-detect replays, and to help choose a "true session key" to use with the
-particular session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session key
-shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
-
-
-authenticator-vno
- This field specifies the version number for the format of the
- authenticator. This document specifies version 5.
-crealm and cname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-cksum
- This field contains a checksum of the the applica- tion data that
- accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
- Its value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to 999999. It often
- appears along with ctime. The two fields are used together to specify
- a reasonably accurate timestamp.
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- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-subkey
- This field contains the client's choice for an encryption key which is
- to be used to protect this specific application session. Unless an
- application specifies otherwise, if this field is left out the session
- key from the ticket will be used.
-seq-number
- This optional field includes the initial sequence number to be used by
- the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when sequence numbers are used to
- detect replays (It may also be used by application specific messages).
- When included in the authenticator this field specifies the initial
- sequence number for messages from the client to the server. When
- included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number is that
- for messages from the server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
- KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after each message is
- sent. Sequence numbers fall in the range of 0 through 2^32 - 1 and
- wrap to zero following the value 2^32 - 1.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of replays
- they should be non-repeating, even across connection boundaries. The
- initial sequence number should be random and uniformly distributed
- across the full space of possible sequence numbers, so that it cannot
- be guessed by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
- numbers do not repeat other sequences.
-authorization-data
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
- It is optional and will only appear when additional restrictions are
- to be placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those carried in the
- ticket itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used in the exchange
-between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible error
-messages appears in section 5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is one of
-KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is for an
-initial ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent
-from the client to the Authentication Server to request credentials for a
-service.
-
-The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
-
-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
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- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
- -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
- addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
- -- encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The fields in this message are:
-
-pvno
- This field is included in each message, and specifies the protocol
- version number. This document specifies protocol version 5.
-msg-type
- This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It will almost
- always be the same as the application identifier associated with a
- message. It is included to make the identifier more readily accessible
- to the application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
- KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
-padata
- The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a sequence of
- authentication information which may be needed before credentials can
- be issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for additional tickets
- (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will include an element with padata-type of
- PA-TGS-REQ and data of an authentication header (ticket-granting
- ticket and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator (which
- must be collision-proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY
- encoding. In most requests for initial authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and
- most replies (KDC-REP), the padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by certain extensions
- to the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might be used to initially
- verify the identity of a client before any response is returned. When
- this field is used to authenticate or pre-authenticate a request, it
- should contain a keyed checksum over the KDC-REQ-BODY to bind the
- pre-authentication data to rest of the request. The KDC, as a matter
- of policy, may decide whether to honor a KDC-REQ which includes any
- pre-authentication data that does not contain the checksum field.
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP defines a pre-authentication data type that is used
- for authenticating a client by way of an encrypted timestamp. This is
- accomplished with a padata field with padata-type equal to
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and padata-value defined as follows (query: the
- checksum is new in this definition. If the optional field will break
- things we can keep the old PA-ENC-TS-ENC, and define a new alternate
- form that includes the checksum). :
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- padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
- PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- pachecksum[2] checksum OPTIONAL
- -- keyed checksum of
-KDC-REQ-BODY
- }
-
- with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec containing
- the microseconds which may be omitted if a client will not generate
- more than one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-value)
- consists of the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence, encrypted using the client's
- secret key.
-
- [use-specified-kvno item is here for discussion and may be removed] It
- may also be used by the client to specify the version of a key that is
- being used for accompanying preauthentication, and/or which should be
- used to encrypt the reply from the KDC.
-
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO ::= Integer
-
- The KDC should only accept and abide by the value of the
- use-specified-kvno preauthentication data field when the specified key
- is still valid and until use of a new key is confirmed. This situation
- is likely to occur primarily during the period during which an updated
- key is propagating to other KDC's in a realm.
-
- The padata field can also contain information needed to help the KDC
- or the client select the key needed for generating or decrypting the
- response. This form of the padata is useful for supporting the use of
- certain token cards with Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
- specified in separate documents. See [Pat92] for additional uses of
- this field.
-padata-type
- The padata-type element of the padata field indicates the way that the
- padata-value element is to be interpreted. Negative values of
- padata-type are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative values are
- used for a registered interpretation of the element type.
-req-body
- This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the remaining
- fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over the request, it is
- calculated over an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
- enclosed within the req-body field.
-kdc-options
- This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the
- KDC and indicates the flags that the client wants set on the tickets
- as well as other information that is to modify the behavior of the
- KDC. Where appropriate, the name of an option may be the same as the
- flag that is set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
- options field will be the same as that in the flags field, this is not
- guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply copy the options field
- to the flags field. There are various checks that must be made before
- honoring an option anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected options are
- indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected options and
- reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is specified
- in section 5.2. The options are described in more detail above in
- section 2. The meanings of the options are:
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- Bit(s) Name Description
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of
-this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE
- The FORWARDABLE option indicates
-that
- the ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- forwardable flag set. It may only
-be
- set on the initial request, or in a
-sub-
- sequent request if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based is also
-for-
- wardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED
- The FORWARDED option is only
-specified
- in a request to the
-ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if
-the
- ticket-granting ticket in the
-request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set.
-This
- option indicates that this is a
-request
- for forwarding. The address(es) of
-the
- host from which the resulting ticket
-is
- to be valid are included in
-the
- addresses field of the request.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE
- The PROXIABLE option indicates that
-the
- ticket to be issued is to have its
-prox-
- iable flag set. It may only be set
-on
- the initial request, or in a
-subsequent
- request if the ticket-granting ticket
-on
- which it is based is also proxiable.
-
- 4 PROXY
- The PROXY option indicates that this
-is
- a request for a proxy. This option
-will
- only be honored if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket in the request has its
-PROXIABLE
- bit set. The address(es) of the
-host
- from which the resulting ticket is to
-be
- valid are included in the
-addresses
- field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE
- The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates
-that
- the ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only
-be
- set on the initial request, or in a
-sub-
- sequent request if the
-ticket-granting
- ticket on which it is based also has
-its
- MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
-
- 6 POSTDATED
- The POSTDATED option indicates that
-this
- is a request for a postdated
-ticket.
- This option will only be honored if
-the
- ticket-granting ticket on which it
-is
- based has its MAY-POSTDATE flag
-set.
- The resulting ticket will also have
-its
- INVALID flag set, and that flag may
-be
- reset by a subsequent request to the
-KDC
- after the starttime in the ticket
-has
- been reached.
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- This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE
- The RENEWABLE option indicates that
-the
- ticket to be issued is to have
-its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be
-set
- on the initial request, or when
-the
- ticket-granting ticket on which
-the
- request is based is also renewable.
-If
- this option is requested, then the
-rtime
- field in the request contains
-the
- desired absolute expiration time for
-the
- ticket.
-
- 9 RESERVED
- Reserved for PK-Cross
-
- 10-13 UNUSED
- These options are presently unused.
-
- 14 REQUEST-ANONYMOUS
- The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option
-indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is not
-to
- identify the user to which it
-was
- issued. Instead, the principal
-identif-
- ier is to be generic, as specified
-by
- the policy of the realm (e.g.
-usually
- anonymous@realm). The purpose of
-the
- ticket is only to securely distribute
-a
- session key, and not to identify
-the
- user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the
-ticket
- to be returned should be set. If
-the
- local realms policy does not
-permit
- anonymous credentials, the request is
-to
- be rejected.
-
- 15 CANONICALIZE
- The CANONICALIZE option indicates that
- the client will accept the return of a
- true server name instead of the name
- specified in the request. In addition
- the client will be able to process
- any TGT referrals that will direct
- the client to another realm to locate
- the requested server. If a KDC does
- not support name- canonicalization,
- the option is ignored and the
- appropriate
- KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN or
- KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN error is
- returned. [JBrezak]
-
- 16-25 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
- By default the KDC will check the
- transited field of a ticket-granting-
- ticket against the policy of the local
- realm before it will issue derivative
- tickets based on the ticket granting
- ticket. If this flag is set in the
- request, checking of the transited
-field
- is disabled. Tickets issued without
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-noted
- by the reset (0) value of the
- TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
- indicating to the application server
- that the tranisted field must be
-checked
- locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
- required to honor the
- DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
-
- 27 RENEWABLE-OK
- The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that
-a
- renewable ticket will be acceptable if
-a
- ticket with the requested life
-cannot
- otherwise be provided. If a ticket
-with
- the requested life cannot be
-provided,
- then a renewable ticket may be
-issued
- with a renew-till equal to the
-the
- requested endtime. The value of
-the
- renew-till field may still be limited
-by
- local limits, or limits selected by
-the
- individual principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The
-ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY
- option indicates that the ticket for
-the
- end server is to be encrypted in
-the
- session key from the additional
-ticket-
- granting ticket provided.
-
- 29 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The RENEW
-option
- indicates that the present request
-is
- for a renewal. The ticket provided
-is
- encrypted in the secret key for
-the
- server on which it is valid.
-This
- option will only be honored if
-the
- ticket to be renewed has its
-RENEWABLE
- flag set and if the time in its
-renew-
- till field has not passed. The
-ticket
- to be renewed is passed in the
-padata
- field as part of the
-authentication
- header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE
- This option is used only by the
-ticket-
- granting service. The VALIDATE
-option
- indicates that the request is to
-vali-
- date a postdated ticket. It will
-only
- be honored if the ticket presented
-is
- postdated, presently has its
-INVALID
- flag set, and would be otherwise
-usable
- at this time. A ticket cannot be
-vali-
- dated before its starttime. The
-ticket
- presented for validation is encrypted
-in
- the key of the server for which it
-is
- valid and is passed in the padata
-field
- as part of the authentication header.
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- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is
- specified. If absent, the name of the server is taken from the name of
- the client in the ticket passed as additional-tickets.
-enc-authorization-data
- The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can only be present in
- the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of the desired authorization-data
- encrypted under the sub-session key if present in the Authenticator,
- or alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting ticket,
- both from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-realm
- This field specifies the realm part of the server's principal
- identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the realm part of the
- client's principal identifier. If the CANONICALIZE option is set, the
- realm is used as a hint to the KDC for its database lookup.
-from
- This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ ticket
- requests when the requested ticket is to be postdated. It specifies
- the desired start time for the requested ticket. If this field is
- omitted then the KDC should use the current time instead.
-till
- This field contains the expiration date requested by the client in a
- ticket request. It is optional and if omitted the requested ticket is
- to have the maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy for the
- parties to the authentication exchange as limited by expiration date
- of the ticket granting ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
-rtime
- This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a client to the
- KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
-nonce
- This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it intended to
- hold a random number generated by the client. If the same number is
- included in the encrypted response from the KDC, it provides evidence
- that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker.
- Nonces must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be generated
- randomly, but if the correct time is known, it may suffice[25].
-etype
- This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be used in
- the response.
-addresses
- This field is included in the initial request for tickets, and
- optionally included in requests for additional tickets from the
- ticket-granting server. It specifies the addresses from which the
- requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it includes the addresses
- for the client's host. If a proxy is requested, this field will
- contain other addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied
- by the KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
-additional-tickets
- Additional tickets may be optionally included in a request to the
- ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been
- specified, then the session key from the additional ticket will be
- used in place of the server's key to encrypt the new ticket. When he
- ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is used for user-to-user authentication, this
- addional ticket may be a TGT issued by the local realm or an
- inter-realm TGT issued for the current KDC's realm by a remote KDC. If
- more than one option which requires additional tickets has been
- specified, then the additional tickets are used in the order specified
- by the ordering of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
-
-The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending on
-whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional
-ticket (TGS-REQ).
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-are only included if necessary to perform the operation specified in the
-kdc-options field.
-
-It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number appears
-twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message
-contains these fields as does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that
-is passed in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for
-either an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There is no
-message type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either KRB_AS_REP
-or KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of the reply
-depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in
-the client's secret key, and the client's key version number is included in
-the key version number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the
-ciphertext is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, or
-if absent, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket used in the
-request. In that case, no version number will be present in the
-EncryptedData sequence.
-
-The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
-
-AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
-TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
-KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
- enc-part[6] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
-EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
-EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is either
- KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
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- This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One possible use
- for this field is to encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
- with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is described in section
- 6.3.2). This ability is useful to ease transitions if a realm name
- needs to change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such a case all
- existing password-derived entries in the KDC database would be flagged
- as needing a special mix-in string until the next password change.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
- 5.3.1.
-ticket
- The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-enc-part
- This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related
- information that forms the encrypted part of a message. The
- description of the encrypted part of the message follows each
- appearance of this field. The encrypted part is encoded as described
- in section 6.1.
-key
- This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-last-req
- This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s) of the
- last request by a principal. Depending on what information is
- available, this might be the last time that a request for a
- ticket-granting ticket was made, or the last time that a request based
- on a ticket-granting ticket was successful. It also might cover all
- servers for a realm, or just the particular server. Some
- implementations may display this information to the user to aid in
- discovering unauthorized use of one's identity. It is similar in
- spirit to the last login time displayed when logging into timesharing
- systems.
-nonce
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-key-expiration
- The key-expiration field is part of the response from the KDC and
- specifies the time that the client's secret key is due to expire. The
- expiration might be the result of password aging or an account
- expiration. This field will usually be left out of the TGS reply since
- the response to the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no
- client information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is up
- to the application client (usually the login program) to take
- appropriate action (such as notifying the user) if the expiration time
- is imminent.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
- These fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted portion of
- the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1), provided so the client may
- verify they match the intended request and to assist in proper ticket
- caching. If the message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will
- only be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded ticket,
- or if the user is substituting a subset of the addresses from the
- ticket granting ticket. If the client-requested addresses are not
- present or not used, then the addresses contained in the ticket will
- be the same as those included in the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
-This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
-authentication of the client to the application server.
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-The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options in use,
-and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is
-often referred to as the 'authentication header'.
-
-AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
-}
-
-APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REQ.
-ap-options
- This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects
- the way the request is processed. It is a bit-field, where the
- selected options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the
- unselected options and reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding
- of the bits is specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options
- are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED
- Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 USE-SESSION-KEY
- The USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
- that the ticket the client is presenting
- to a server is encrypted in the session
- key from the server's ticket-granting
- ticket. When this option is not speci-
- fied, the ticket is encrypted in the
- server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIRED
- The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
- server that the client requires mutual
- authentication, and that it must respond
- with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED
- Reserved for future use.
-
-ticket
- This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the server.
-authenticator
- This contains the authenticator, which includes the client's choice of
- a subkey. Its encoding is described in section 5.3.2.
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-The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
-message type, and an encrypted time- stamp. The message is sent in in
-response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
-authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
-
-AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
-}
-
-The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of the
-ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an application-arranged
-negotiation to choose a per association session key.
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_AP_REP.
-enc-part
- This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-ctime
- This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-cusec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
-subkey
- This field contains an encryption key which is to be used to protect
- this specific application session. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on
- how this field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an application
- specifies otherwise, if this field is left out, the sub-session key
- from the authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from the
- ticket will be used.
-
-5.5.3. Error message reply
-
-If an error occurs while processing the application request, the KRB_ERROR
-message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for the format of the
-error message. The cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server
-cannot determine their appropriate values from the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ
-message. If the authenticator was decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields
-will contain the values from it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-proof message to
-its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged (for
-example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
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-The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
-checksum keyed with the last encryption key negotiated via subkeys, or the
-session key if no negotiation has occured. The message fields are:
-
-KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
-}
-
-KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_SAFE.
-safe-body
- This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE message.
-cksum
- This field contains the checksum of the application data. Checksum
- details are described in section 6.4. The checksum is computed over
- the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence. First, the cksum is zeroed and
- the checksum is computed over the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence,
- then the checksum is set to the result of that computation, and
- finally the KRB-SAFE sequence is encoded again.
-user-data
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages and contain
- the application specific data that is being passed from the sender to
- the recipient.
-timestamp
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages. Its contents
- are the current time as known by the sender of the message. By
- checking the timestamp, the recipient of the message is able to make
- sure that it was recently generated, and is not a replay.
-usec
- This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers. It contains
- the microsecond part of the timestamp.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-s-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the sender of the message.
- It may be omitted if not required by the application protocol. The
- application designer considering omission of this field is warned,
- that the inclusion of this address prevents some kinds of replay
- attacks (e.g., reflection attacks) and that it is only acceptable to
- omit this address if there is sufficient information in the integrity
- protected part of the application message for the recipient to
- unambiguously determine if it was the intended recipient.
-r-address
- This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of the
- message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as broadcast
- protocols), but the recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages.
- This field along with s-address can be used to help detect messages
- which have been incorrectly or maliciously delivered to the wrong
- recipient.
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-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
-side (client or server) of an application to securely and privately send a
-message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been
-exchanged (for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
-The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
-
-EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's
-addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's
-addr
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_PRIV.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key[32]. This encrypted encoding is used for the
- enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for the format
- of the ciphertext.
-user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
-seq-number
- This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
-
-This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to send
-Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is presented here to
-encourage a common mechanism to be used by applications when forwarding
-tickets or providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that a
-session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using the
-KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
-The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
-information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from each.
-The information needed to use the tickets is encrypted under an encryption
-key previously exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message. The
-message fields are:
-
-KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
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- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
-}
-
-KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
-}
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_CRED.
-tickets
- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically for use by
- the intended recipient. Successive tickets are paired with the
- corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the KRB-CRED
- message.
-enc-part
- This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence encrypted
- under the session key shared between the sender and the intended
- recipient. This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part field of
- the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-nonce
- If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a nonce
- generated by the recipient of the message. If the same value is
- included as the nonce in the message, it provides evidence that the
- message is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. A nonce
- must never be re-used; it should be generated randomly by the
- recipient of the message and provided to the sender of the message in
- an application specific manner.
-timestamp and usec
- These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED message was generated.
- The time is used to provide assurance that the message is fresh.
-s-address and r-address
- These fields are described above in section 5.6.1. They are used
- optionally to provide additional assurance of the integrity of the
- KRB-CRED message.
-key
- This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the KRB-CRED
- message and is used to pass the session key from the sender to the
- intended recipient. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
-
-The following fields are optional. If present, they can be associated with
-the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left out, then it is assumed
-that the recipient of the credentials already knows their value.
-
-prealm and pname
- The name and realm of the delegated principal identity.
-flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname, and caddr
- These fields contain the values of the correspond- ing fields from the
- ticket found in the ticket field. Descriptions of the fields are
- identical to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
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-This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The fields
-included in the message are intended to return as much information as
-possible about an error. It is not expected that all the information
-required by the fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
-appropriate information is not available when the message is composed, the
-corresponding field will be left out of the message.
-
-Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is only optionally integrity
-protected, it is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or modify
-such a message. In particular, this means that unless appropriate integrity
-protection mechanisms have been applied to the KRB_ERROR message, the
-client should not use any fields in this message for security-critical
-purposes, such as setting a system clock or generating a fresh
-authenticator. The message can be useful, however, for advising a user on
-the reason for some failure.
-
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-
-The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
-KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL,
-}
-
-
-
-pvno and msg-type
- These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
- KRB_ERROR.
-ctime
- This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-cusec
- This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-stime
- This field contains the current time on the server. It is of type
- KerberosTime.
-susec
- This field contains the microsecond part of the server's timestamp.
- Its value ranges from 0 to 999999. It appears along with stime. The
- two fields are used in conjunction to specify a reasonably accurate
- timestamp.
-error-code
- This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or the server
- when a request fails. To interpret the value of this field see the
- list of error codes in section 8. Implementations are encouraged to
- provide for national language support in the display of error
- messages.
-crealm, cname, srealm and sname
- These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
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- This field contains additional text to help explain the error code
- associated with the failed request (for example, it might include a
- principal name which was unknown).
-e-data
- This field contains additional data about the error for use by the
- application to help it recover from or handle the error. If present,
- this field will contain the encoding of a sequence of TypedData
- (TYPED-DATA below), unless the errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED,
- in which case it will contain the encoding of a sequence of of padata
- fields (METHOD-DATA below), each corresponding to an acceptable
- pre-authentication method and optionally containing data for the
- method:
-
- TYPED-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of TypeData
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
- TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- data-type[0] INTEGER,
- data-value[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- Note that e-data-types have been reserved for all PA data types
- defined prior to July 1999. For the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message,
- when using new PA data types defined in July 1999 or later, the
- METHOD-DATA sequence must itself be encapsulated in an TypedData
- element of type TD-PADATA. All new implementations interpreting the
- METHOD-DATA field for the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message must accept
- a type of TD-PADATA, extract the typed data field and interpret the
- use any elements encapsulated in the TD-PADATA elements as if they
- were present in the METHOD-DATA sequence.
-e-cksum
- This field contains an optional checksum for the KRB-ERROR message.
- The checksum is calculated over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the
- KRB-ERROR message with the checksum absent. The checksum is then added
- to the KRB-ERROR structure and the message is re-encoded. The Checksum
- should be calculated using the session key from the ticket granting
- ticket or service ticket, where available. If the error is in response
- to a TGS or AP request, the checksum should be calculated uing the the
- session key from the client's ticket. If the error is in response to
- an AS request, then the checksum should be calulated using the
- client's secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preauthentication
- to prove knowledge of the secret key by the client[33]. If a checksum
- can not be computed because the key to be used is not available, no
- checksum will be included.
-
- 6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
-
- The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use
- stream encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly
- available block encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption
- Standard [DES77], and triple DES variants, in conjunction with block
- chaining and checksum methods [DESM80]. Encryption is used to prove
- the identities of the network entities participating in message
- exchanges. The Key Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by
- all principals registered in that realm to store a secret key in
- confidence. Proof of knowledge of this secret key is used to verify
- the authenticity of a principal.
-
- The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a
- shared session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to
- ticket requests; the ability to obtain the secret key or session key
- implies the knowledge of the appropriate keys and the identity of the
- KDC. The ability of a principal to decrypt the KDC response and
- present a Ticket and a properly formed Authenticator (generated with
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- identity of the principal; likewise the ability of the service to
- extract the session key from the Ticket and prove its knowledge
- thereof in a response verifies the identity of the service.
-
- The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is
- secure from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of fields
- in the encrypted portions of messages are arranged to minimize the
- effects of poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose good
- keys. If keys are derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords
- need to be well chosen to make brute force attacks more difficult.
- Poorly chosen keys still make easy targets for intruders.
-
- The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
- currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
- requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is
- often desirable to place random information (often referred to as a
- confounder) at the start of the message. The requirements for a
- confounder are specified with each encryption mechanism.
-
- Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the the
- security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these chaining
- methods often don't provide an integrity check upon decryption. Such
- systems (such as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of
- the plain-text which can be verified at decryption and used to detect
- any tampering or damage. Such checksums should be good at detecting
- burst errors in the input. If any damage is detected, the decryption
- routine is expected to return an error indicating the failure of an
- integrity check. Each encryption type is expected to provide and
- verify an appropriate checksum. The specification of each encryption
- method sets out its checksum requirements.
-
- Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an
- algorithm for converting the password to a key of the appropriate type
- is included. It is desirable for the string to key function to be
- one-way, and for the mapping to be different in different realms. This
- is important because users who are registered in more than one realm
- will often use the same password in each, and it is desirable that an
- attacker compromising the Kerberos server in one realm not obtain or
- derive the user's key in another.
-
- For an discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
- encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the reader is
- referred to [SG92].
-
- 6.1. Encryption Specifications
-
- The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
- enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in
- section 5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional
- key version number, and the ciphertext.
-
- EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
- }
-
-
-
- etype
- This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used to
- encipher the cipher. Detailed specifications for selected
- encryption types appear later in this section.
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- This field contains the version number of the key under which
- data is encrypted. It is only present in messages encrypted under
- long lasting keys, such as principals' secret keys.
- cipher
- This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an OCTET
- STRING.
- The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption
- algorithm to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific
- inputs. Encryption mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must take
- sufficient measures to guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and
- we recommend they also take measures to protect against precomputed
- dictionary attacks. If the encryption algorithm is not itself capable
- of doing so, the protections can often be enhanced by adding a
- checksum and a confounder.
-
- The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a
- confounder, a checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary
- padding. The msg-seq field contains the part of the protocol message
- described in section 5 which is to be encrypted. The confounder,
- checksum, and padding are all untagged and untyped, and their length
- is exactly sufficient to hold the appropriate item. The type and
- length is implicit and specified by the particular encryption type
- being used (etype). The format for the data to be encrypted for some
- methods is described in the following diagram, but other methods may
- deviate from this layour - so long as the definition of the method
- defines the layout actually in use.
-
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length)
-OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length)
-OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
- }
-
- One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing
- it in confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate
- checksum over confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in
- check; adds the necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified
- encryption type and the appropriate key.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm
- that specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an
- octet boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format[36]. Those
- fields which are not specified will be omitted.
-
- In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
- encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
- specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is
- needed as part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum
- is to be used, a new encryption type must be defined.
-
- Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and
- the data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in
- cipher-block-chaining mode, requires an initialization vector. If
- required, the description for each encryption type must specify the
- source of such additional information. 6.2. Encryption Keys
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-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- keytype
- This field specifies the type of encryption that is to be
- performed using the key that follows in the keyvalue field. It
- will always correspond to the etype to be used to generate or
- decode the EncryptedData. In cases when multiple algorithms use a
- common kind of key (e.g., if the encryption algorithm uses an
- alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity check, or a
- different chaining mechanism), the keytype provides information
- needed to determine which algorithm is to be used.
- keyvalue
- This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet string.
- All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
- fields and interpreta- tions.
-
- 6.3. Encryption Systems
-
- 6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
- If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the
- NULL encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no
- checksum, confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the
- plaintext. The NULL Key is used by the null encryption system and is
- zero octets in length, with keytype zero (0).
-
- 6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
-
- The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
- [DESM80]. A CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]) is
- applied to the confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in
- the cksum field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be
- encrypted (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message)
- must be padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of
- the encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5
- encryption mode.
-
- Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-proof, an
- attacker could use a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack to generate
- a valid message even if a confounder is used [SG92]. The use of
- collision-proof checksums is recommended for environments where such
- attacks represent a significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the
- checksum for ticket or authenticator is no longer mandated as an
- interoperability requirement for Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1
- (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
- 6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
-
- The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
- [DESM80]. An MD4 checksum (described in [MD492]) is applied to the
- confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
- field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
- (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be
- padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of the
- encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5
- encryption mode.
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-
- The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
- [DESM80]. An MD5 checksum (described in [MD5-92].) is applied to the
- confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
- field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
- (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be
- padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption.
-
- Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which
- are concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The
- first octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's
- MSbit used as the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the
- next 8 bits, ..., and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least
- significant bits.
-
- Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an
- additional input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless
- otherwise specified, zero should be used as the initialization vector.
- Kerberos' use of DES requires an 8 octet confounder.
-
- The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys;
- those keys shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in
- Kerberos. Additionally, because of the way that keys are derived for
- the encryption of checksums, keys shall not be used that yield 'weak'
- or 'semi-weak' keys when eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant
- F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
-
- A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists of
- 56 bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded
- as a series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits within
- the key are also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption
- key is (B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8)
- where B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8
- are the parity bits, the first octet of the key would be
- B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction
- for reference.]
-
- String to key transformation
-
- To generate a DES key from a text string (password), a "salt" is
- concatenated to the text string, and then padded with ASCII nulls to
- an 8 byte boundary. This "salt" is normally the realm and each
- component of the principal's name appended. However, sometimes
- different salts are used --- for example, when a realm is renamed, or
- if a user changes her username, or for compatibility with Kerberos V4
- (whose string-to-key algorithm uses a null string for the salt). This
- string is then fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed with itself to form an 8
- byte DES key. Before eXclusive-ORing a block, every byte is shifted
- one bit to the left to leave the lowest bit zero. The key is the
- "corrected" by correcting the parity on the key, and if the key
- matches a 'weak' or 'semi-weak' key as described in the DES
- specification, it is eXclusive-ORed with the constant
- 00000000000000F0. This key is then used to generate a DES CBC checksum
- on the initial string (with the salt appended). The result of the CBC
- checksum is the "corrected" as described above to form the result
- which is return as the key. Pseudocode follows:
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- name_to_default_salt(realm, name) {
- s = realm
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- return s;
- }
-
- key_correction(key) {
- fixparity(key);
- if (is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
-
- string_to_key(string,salt) {
-
- odd = 1;
- s = string + salt;
- tempkey = NULL;
- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- left shift every byte in 8byteblock one bit;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- tempkey = key_correction(tempkey);
- key = key_correction(DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey));
- return(key);
- }
-
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- without Key Derivation [Original draft by Marc Horowitz, revisions by
- David Miller]
-
- There are still a few pieces of this specification to be included
- by falue, rather than by reference. This will be done before the
- Pittsburgh IETF.
- This encryption type is based on the Triple DES cryptosystem, the
- HMAC-SHA1 [Krawczyk96] message authentication algorithm, and key
- derivation for Kerberos V5 [HorowitzB96]. Key derivation may or may
- not be used in conjunction with the use of Triple DES keys.
-
- Algorithm Identifiers
-
- The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 encryption type has been assigned the value 7.
- The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1-kd encryption type, specifying the key
- derivation variant of the encryption type, has been assigned the value
- 16. The hmac-sha1-des3 checksum type has been assigned the value 13.
- The hmac-sha1-des3-kd checksum type, specifying the key derivation
- variant of the checksum, has been assigned the value 12.
-
- Triple DES Key Production
-
- The EncryptionKey value is 24 octets long. The 7 most significant bits
- of each octet contain key bits, and the least significant bit is the
- inverse of the xor of the key bits.
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- key size is 168 bits. The 168 bits output by key derivation are
- converted to an EncryptionKey value as follows. First, the 168 bits
- are divided into three groups of 56 bits, which are expanded
- individually into 64 bits as follows:
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 p
- 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 p
- 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 p
- 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 p
- 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 p
- 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 p
- 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 p
- 56 48 40 32 24 16 8 p
-
- The "p" bits are parity bits computed over the data bits. The output
- of the three expansions are concatenated to form the EncryptionKey
- value.
-
- When the HMAC-SHA1 of a string is computed, the key is used in the
- EncryptedKey form.
-
- The string-to-key function is used to tranform UNICODE passwords into
- DES3 keys. The DES3 string-to-key function relies on the "N-fold"
- algorithm, which is detailed in [9]. The description of the N-fold
- algorithm in that document is as follows:
- o To n-fold a number X, replicate the input value to a length that
- is the least common multiple of n and the length of X. Before
- each repetition, the input is rotated to the right by 13 bit
- positions. The successive n-bit chunks are added together using
- 1's-complement addition (that is, addition with end-around carry)
- to yield an n-bit result"
- o The n-fold algorithm, as with DES string-to-key, is applied to
- the password string concatenated with a salt value. The salt
- value is derived in the same was as for the DES string-to-key
- algorithm. For 3-key triple DES then, the operation will involve
- a 168-fold of the input password string. The remainder of the
- string-to-key function for DES3 is shown here in pseudocode:
-
- DES3string-to-key(passwordString, key)
-
- salt = name_to_default_salt(realm, name)
- s = passwordString + salt
- tmpKey1 = 168-fold(s)
- parityFix(tmpKey1);
- if not weakKey(tmpKey1)
- /*
- * Encrypt temp key in itself with a
- * zero initialization vector
- *
- * Function signature is DES3encrypt(plain, key, iv)
- * with cipher as the return value
- */
- tmpKey2 = DES3encrypt(tmpKey1, tmpKey1, zeroIvec)
- /*
- * Encrypt resultant temp key in itself with third component
- * of first temp key as initialization vector
- */
- key = DES3encrypt(tmpKey2, tmpKey1, tmpKey1[2])
- parityFix(key)
- if not weakKey(key)
- return SUCCESS
- else
- return FAILURE
- else
- return FAILURE
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- keys, but applied to each of the three single DES keys that comprise
- the triple DES key.
-
- The lengths of UNICODE encoded character strings include the trailing
- terminator character (0).
-
- Encryption Types des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 and des3-cbc-hmac-sha1-kd
-
- EncryptedData using this type must be generated as described in
- [Horowitz96]. The encryption algorithm is Triple DES in Outer-CBC
- mode. The checksum algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. If the key derivation
- variant of the encryption type is used, encryption key values are
- modified according to the method under the Key Derivation section
- below.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, a zero IV must be used.
-
- If the length of the input data is not a multiple of the block size,
- zero octets must be used to pad the plaintext to the next eight-octet
- boundary. The counfounder must be eight random octets (one block).
-
- Checksum Types hmac-sha1-des3 and hmac-sha1-des3-kd
-
- Checksums using this type must be generated as described in
- [Horowitz96]. The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. If the key
- derivation variant of the checksum type is used, checksum key values
- are modified according to the method under the Key Derivation section
- below.
-
- Key Derivation
-
- In the Kerberos protocol, cryptographic keys are used in a number of
- places. In order to minimize the effect of compromising a key, it is
- desirable to use a different key for each of these places. Key
- derivation [Horowitz96] can be used to construct different keys for
- each operation from the keys transported on the network. For this to
- be possible, a small change to the specification is necessary.
-
- This section specifies a profile for the use of key derivation
- [Horowitz96] with Kerberos. For each place where a key is used, a
- ``key usage'' must is specified for that purpose. The key, key usage,
- and encryption/checksum type together describe the transformation from
- plaintext to ciphertext, or plaintext to checksum.
-
- Key Usage Values
-
- This is a complete list of places keys are used in the kerberos
- protocol, with key usage values and RFC 1510 section numbers:
-
- 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
- client key (section 5.4.1)
- 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
- application session key), encrypted with the service key
- (section 5.4.2)
- 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
- session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
- 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- session key (section 5.4.1)
- 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
- authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
- 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
- with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
- 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
- authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
- (section 5.3.2)
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- encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
- 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
- encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
- 10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
- key (section 5.3.2)
- 11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
- subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
- 5.3.2)
- 12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
- encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
- 13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.7.1)
- 14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
- application (section 5.6.1)
- 15. KRB-SAVE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
- (section 5.8.1)
- 18. KRB-ERROR checksum (e-cksum in section 5.9.1)
- 19. AD-KDCIssued checksum (ad-checksum in appendix B.1)
- 20. Checksum for Mandatory Ticket Extensions (appendix B.6)
- 21. Checksum in Authorization Data in Ticket Extensions (appendix B.7)
-
- Key usage values between 1024 and 2047 (inclusive) are reserved for
- application use. Applications should use even values for encryption
- and odd values for checksums within this range.
-
- A few of these key usages need a little clarification. A service which
- receives an AP-REQ has no way to know if the enclosed Ticket was part
- of an AS-REP or TGS-REP. Therefore, key usage 2 must always be used
- for generating a Ticket, whether it is in response to an AS- REQ or
- TGS-REQ.
-
- There might exist other documents which define protocols in terms of
- the RFC1510 encryption types or checksum types. Such documents would
- not know about key usages. In order that these documents continue to
- be meaningful until they are updated, key usages 1024 and 1025 must be
- used to derive keys for encryption and checksums, respectively. New
- protocols defined in terms of the Kerberos encryption and checksum
- types should use their own key usages. Key usages may be registered
- with IANA to avoid conflicts. Key usages must be unsigned 32 bit
- integers. Zero is not permitted.
-
- Defining Cryptosystems Using Key Derivation
-
- Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
- tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption and
- integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys. So,
- for each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for encryption
- (Ke), and one for integrity (Ki):
-
- Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
- Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
-
- where the protocol key is from the EncryptionKey from the wire
- protocol, and the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in
- network byte order. The ciphertest must be generated from the
- plaintext as follows:
-
- ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | plaintext | padding) |
- H(Ki, confounder | plaintext | padding)
-
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- padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be
- generated from the plaintext as follows:
-
- Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
- MAC = H(Kc, plaintext)
-
- Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and a
- keyed hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a keyed
- hash algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is required for use
- as H.
-
- Key Derivation from Passwords
-
- The well-known constant for password key derivation must be the byte
- string {0x6b 0x65 0x72 0x62 0x65 0x72 0x6f 0x73}. These values
- correspond to the ASCII encoding for the string "kerberos".
-
- 6.4. Checksums
-
- The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- cksumtype
- This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the
- accompanying checksum.
- checksum
- This field contains the checksum itself, encoded as an octet
- string.
- Detailed specification of selected checksum types appear later in this
- section. Negative values for the checksum type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
- fields and interpretations.
-
- Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties:
- whether they are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is
- infeasible to find two plaintexts which generate the same checksum
- value for a collision-proof checksum. A key is required to perturb or
- initialize the algorithm in a keyed checksum. To prevent
- message-stream modification by an active attacker, unkeyed checksums
- should only be used when the checksum and message will be subsequently
- encrypted (e.g. the checksums defined as part of the encryption
- algorithms covered earlier in this section).
-
- Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if the checksum
- value is encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the
- composition of the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be
- considered a separate checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using
- DES is a new checksum algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed
- checksums, as well as for the encrypted forms of unkeyed
- collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends a confounder before the
- checksum is calculated.
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-
- The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic redundancy
- check as described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]. The resulting checksum is
- four (4) octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed nor
- collision-proof. The use of this checksum is not recommended. An
- attacker using a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack as described in
- [SG92] might be able to generate an alternative message that satisfies
- the checksum. The use of collision-proof checksums is recommended for
- environments where such attacks represent a significant threat.
-
- 6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
- The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4 algorithm
- [MD4-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary
- length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4
- is believed to be collision-proof.
-
- 6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-des)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
- by prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA
- MD4 checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the
- key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
- constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization vector should be
- zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are
- redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys';
- those keys shall not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use
- in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the follow- ing diagram:
-
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
- | des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0)
-|
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
- }
-
- 6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
-
- The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5
- algorithm. [MD5-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of
- arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum.
- RSA-MD5 is believed to be collision-proof.
-
- 6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-des)
-
- The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
- by prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA
- MD5 checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the
- key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
- hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector
- should be zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of
- which are redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof.
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- those keys shall not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use
- in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
- | des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0)
-|
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
- }
-
- 6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
- The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder
- to the plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result
- using the key and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last
- block of the ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and encrypting
- the pair using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a
- variant of the key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing
- the key with the hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The
- initialization vector should be zero. The resulting checksum is 128
- bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are redundant. This checksum
- is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
- | des-cbc(confounder + des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0)
-|
-
-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
- }
-
- The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys;
- those keys shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use
- in Kerberos, nor shall a key be used whose variant is 'weak' or
- 'semi-weak'.
-
- 6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative
- (rsa-md4-des-k)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
- by applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting the results
- using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both
- key and initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets
- long. This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof. Note that this checksum type is the old method for
- encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it is no longer recommended.
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-
- The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode
- encryption of the plaintext, and using the last block of the
- ciphertext as the checksum value. It is keyed with an encryption key
- and an initialization vector; any uses which do not specify an
- additional initialization vector will use the key as both key and
- initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 64 bits (8 octets)
- long. This checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note that
- this checksum type is the old method for encoding the DES-MAC checksum
- and it is no longer recommended. The DES specifications identify some
- 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those keys shall not be used for
- generating DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
- 7. Naming Constraints
-
- 7.1. Realm Names
-
- Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a
- realm can technically select any name it chooses, interoperability
- across realm boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to
- be assigned, and what information they imply.
-
- To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the
- conventions itself, and it must require that any realms with which
- inter-realm keys are shared also conform to the conventions and
- require the same from its neighbors.
-
- Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names that differ only
- in the case of the characters are not equivalent. There are presently
- four styles of realm names: domain, X500, other, and reserved.
- Examples of each style follow:
-
- domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
- Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
- separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor
- slashes (/). Though domain names themselves are case insensitive, in
- order for realms to match, the case must match as well. When
- establishing a new realm name based on an internet domain name it is
- recommended by convention that the characters be converted to upper
- case.
-
- X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:) before
- the equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string
- representations of the names with components separated by slashes.
- Leading and trailing slashes will not be included.
-
- Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
- contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed by
- a colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be assigned
- before they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
-
- The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the
- first three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It is
- unlikely that names will be assigned to this category unless there is
- a very strong argument for not using the 'other' category.
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- various name styles. The following additional constraints apply to the
- assignment of realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the name
- of a realm for the domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the
- organization owning (to whom it was assigned) an Internet domain name
- or X.500 name, or in the case that no such names are registered,
- authority to use a realm name may be derived from the authority of the
- parent realm. For example, if there is no domain name for E40.MIT.EDU,
- then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm can authorize the creation
- of a realm with that name.
-
- This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is
- assigned is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to
- its children in the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the
- parent assigns a realm name without also registering it in the domain
- name or X.500 hierarchy, it is the parent's responsibility to make
- sure that there will not in the future exists a name identical to the
- realm name of the child unless it is assigned to the same entity as
- the realm name.
-
- 7.2. Principal Names
-
- As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure that
- all agree on what information is implied by a principal name. The
- name-type field that is part of the principal name indicates the kind
- of information implied by the name. The name-type should be treated as
- a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the same (i.e. at
- least one of the components, or the realm, must be different). The
- following name types are defined:
-
- name-type value meaning
-
- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, DCE
-principal)
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcmds)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
- NT-X500-PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
- NT-SMTP-NAME 7 Name in form of SMTP email name (e.g.
-user@foo.com)
-
- When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a
- particular time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The principal
- name type should be used for users, and it might also be used for a
- unique server. If the name is a unique machine generated ID that is
- guaranteed never to be reassigned then the name type of UID should be
- used (note that it is generally a bad idea to reassign names of any
- type since stale entries might remain in access control lists).
-
- If the first component of a name identifies a service and the
- remaining components identify an instance of the service in a server
- specified manner, then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An
- example of this name type is the Kerberos ticket-granting service
- whose name has a first component of krbtgt and a second component
- identifying the realm for which the ticket is valid.
-
- If instance is a single component following the service name and the
- instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the
- name type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for
- Internet services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the
- separate components of the host name appear as successive components
- following the name of the service, then the name type SRV-XHST should
- be used. This type might be used to identify servers on hosts with
- X.500 names where the slash (/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
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- X.509 certificiate is translated into a Kerberos name. The encoding of
- the X.509 name as a Kerberos principal shall conform to the encoding
- rules specified in RFC 2253.
-
- A name type of SMTP allows a name to be of a form that resembles a
- SMTP email name. This name type can be used in conjunction with
- name-canonicalization to allow a free-form of username to be specified
- as a client name and allow the KDC to determine the Kerberos principal
- name for the requested name. [JBrezak]
-
- A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is not
- known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match
- principals authenticated with names of any type. A principal
- authenticated with a name of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match
- other names of type UNKNOWN.
-
- Names of any type with an initial component of 'krbtgt' are reserved
- for the Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the
- form of such names.
-
- 7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
- The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be
- composed of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server
- is registered, and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the
- host name is an Internet domain name or a multi-component name of type
- NT-SRV-XHST if the name of the host is of a form such as X.500 that
- allows slash (/) separators. The first component of the two- or
- multi-component name will identify the service and the latter
- components will identify the host. Where the name of the host is not
- case sensitive (for example, with Internet domain names) the name of
- the host must be lower case. If specified by the application protocol
- for services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands which run with
- system privileges, the first component may be the string 'host'
- instead of a service specific identifier. When a host has an official
- name and one or more aliases, the official name of the host must be
- used when constructing the name of the server principal.
-
- 8. Constants and other defined values
-
- 8.1. Host address types
-
- All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
- fields and interpretations.
-
- The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to
- match the defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard
- Distributions of Unix. They can be found in with symbolic names AF_xxx
- (where xxx is an abbreviation of the address family name).
-
- Internet (IPv4) Addresses
-
- Internet (IPv4) addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in
- MSB order. The type of IPv4 addresses is two (2).
-
- Internet (IPv6) Addresses [Westerlund]
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- order. The type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24). [RFC1883]
- [RFC1884]. The following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in
- any Kerberos packet:
- o the Unspecified Address
- o the Loopback Address
- o Link-Local addresses
- IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
-
- CHAOSnet addresses
-
- CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
- order. The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
-
- ISO addresses
-
- ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is seven
- (7).
-
- Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
- XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
- The type of XNS addresses is six (6).
-
- AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
-
- AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number and a 16-bit
- network number. The first octet of the address is the node number; the
- remaining two octets encode the network number in MSB order. The type
- of AppleTalk DDP addresses is sixteen (16).
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB order.
- The type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
-
- Netbios addresses
-
- Netbios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to 15
- characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16th octet
- of 0x0. The type of Netbios addresses is 20 (0x14).
-
- 8.2. KDC messages
-
- 8.2.1. UDP/IP transport
-
- When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request
- using UDP IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram
- containing only an encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the
- KDC's IP address; the KDC will respond with a reply datagram
- containing only an encoding of the reply message (either a KRB_ERROR
- or a KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at the sender's IP address.
- Kerberos servers supporting IP transport must accept UDP requests on
- port 88 (decimal). The response to a request made through UDP/IP
- transport must also use UDP/IP transport.
-
- 8.2.2. TCP/IP transport [Westerlund,Danielsson]
-
- Kerberos servers (KDC's) should accept TCP requests on port 88
- (decimal) and clients should support the sending of TCP requests on
- port 88 (decimal). When the KRB_KDC_REQ message is sent to the KDC
- over a TCP stream, a new connection will be established for each
- authentication exchange (request and response). The KRB_KDC_REP or
- KRB_ERROR message will be returned to the client on the same TCP
- stream that was established for the request. The response to a request
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- Implementors should note that some extentions to the Kerberos protocol
- will not work if any implementation not supporting the TCP transport
- is involved (client or KDC). Implementors are strongly urged to
- support the TCP transport on both the client and server and are
- advised that the current notation of "should" support will likely
- change in the future to must support. The KDC may close the TCP stream
- after sending a response, but may leave the stream open if it expects
- a followup - in which case it may close the stream at any time if
- resource constratints or other factors make it desirable to do so.
- Care must be taken in managing TCP/IP connections with the KDC to
- prevent denial of service attacks based on the number of TCP/IP
- connections with the KDC that remain open. If multiple exchanges with
- the KDC are needed for certain forms of preauthentication, multiple
- TCP connections may be required. A client may close the stream after
- receiving response, and should close the stream if it does not expect
- to send followup messages. The client must be prepared to have the
- stream closed by the KDC at anytime, in which case it must simply
- connect again when it is ready to send subsequent messages.
-
- The first four octets of the TCP stream used to transmit the request
- request will encode in network byte order the length of the request
- (KRB_KDC_REQ), and the length will be followed by the request itself.
- The response will similarly be preceeded by a 4 octet encoding in
- network byte order of the length of the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR
- message and will be followed by the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR
- response. If the sign bit is set on the integer represented by the
- first 4 octets, then the next 4 octets will be read, extending the
- length of the field by another 4 octets (less the sign bit which is
- reserved for future expansion).
-
- 8.2.3. OSI transport
-
- During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI server, the mutual
- authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
- credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange of
- private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may
- be treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication
- mechanism will be:
-
- OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(6),internet(1),
-security(5),kerberosv5(2)}
-
- Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an
- authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply
- (KRB_AP_REP), a safe message (KRB_SAFE), a private message (KRB_PRIV),
- or a credentials message (KRB_CRED). The opaque data contains an
- application code as specified in the ASN.1 description for each
- message. The application code may be used by Kerberos to determine the
- message type.
-
- 8.2.3. Name of the TGS
-
- The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be
- composed of three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS
- ticket (2) a two-part name of type NT-SRV-INST, with the first part
- "krbtgt" and the second part the name of the realm which will accept
- the ticket-granting ticket. For example, a ticket-granting ticket
- issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
- ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
- (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU") (name). A ticket-granting ticket
- issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
- MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm),
- ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
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-
- The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines
- their meanings. Ranges are specified in the "specification" section
- that limit the values of constants for which values are defined here.
- This allows implementations to make assumptions about the maximum
- values that will be received for these constants. Implementation
- receiving values outside the range specified in the "specification"
- section may reject the request, but they must recover cleanly.
-
- Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad confounder
-size
- NULL 0 1 0 0
- des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
- des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
- des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
- reserved 4
- des3-cbc-md5 5 8 0 8
- reserved 6
- des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
- dsaWithSHA1-CmsOID 9
-(pkinit)
- md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
-(pkinit)
- sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
-(pkinit)
- rc2CBC-EnvOID 12
-(pkinit)
- rsaEncryption-EnvOID 13 (pkinit from PKCS#1
-v1.5)
- rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID 14 (pkinit from PKCS#1
-v2.0)
- des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
-(pkinit)
- des3-cbc-sha1-kd 16 (Tom
-Yu)
- rc4-hmac 23
-(swift)
- rc4-hmac-exp 24
-(swift)
-
- reserved 0x8003
-
- Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
- CRC32 1 4
- rsa-md4 2 16
- rsa-md4-des 3 24
- des-mac 4 16
- des-mac-k 5 8
- rsa-md4-des-k 6 16 (drop rsa ?)
- rsa-md5 7 16 (drop rsa ?)
- rsa-md5-des 8 24 (drop rsa ?)
- rsa-md5-des3 9 24 (drop rsa ?)
- hmac-sha1-des3-kd 12 20
- hmac-sha1-des3 13 20
- sha1 (unkeyed) 14 20
-
- padata type padata-type value
-
- PA-TGS-REQ 1
- PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
- PA-PW-SALT 3
- reserved 4
- PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5 (depricated)
- PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
- PA-SESAME 7
- PA-OSF-DCE 8
- PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
- PA-AFS3-SALT 10
- PA-ETYPE-INFO 11
- PA-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
- PA-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
- PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
- PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
- PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO 20
- PA-SAM-REDIRECT 21 (sam/otp)
- PA-GET-FROM-TYPED-DATA 22
- PA-SAM-ETYPE-INFO 23 (sam/otp)
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- data-type value form of typed-data
-
- reserved 1-21
- TD-PADATA 22
- TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101 CertificateSet from CMS
- TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL 102
- TD-KRB-REALM 103
- TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
- TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
- TD-APP-DEFINED-ERROR 106
-
- authorization data type ad-type value
- AD-IF-RELEVANT 1
- AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER 2
- AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS 3
- AD-KDC-ISSUED 4
- AD-OR 5
- AD-MANDATORY-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 6
- AD-IN-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 7
- reserved values 8-63
- OSF-DCE 64
- SESAME 65
- AD-OSF-DCE-PKI-CERTID 66 (hemsath@us.ibm.com)
- AD-WIN200-PAC 128
-(jbrezak@exchange.microsoft.com)
-
- Ticket Extension Types
-
- TE-TYPE-NULL 0 Null ticket extension
- TE-TYPE-EXTERNAL-ADATA 1 Integrity protected authorization
-data
- reserved 2 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC
- TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3 PKCROSS cross realm key ticket
- TE-TYPE-CYBERSAFE-EXT 4 Assigned to CyberSafe Corp
- reserved 5 TE-TYPE-DEST-HOST
-
- alternate authentication type method-type value
- reserved values 0-63
- ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
- transited encoding type tr-type value
- DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
- reserved values all others
-
- Label Value Meaning or MIT code
-
- pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
-
- message types
-
- KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
- KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
- KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
- KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
- KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
- KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
- KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
- KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
- KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward
-credentials
- KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
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- KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or
-for users
- KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
-rcommands)
- KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
- KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
- KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 2253]
-
- error codes
-
- KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
- KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has
-expired
- KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has
-expired
- KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version number
-not supported
- KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old
-master key
- KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old
-master key
- KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos
-database
- KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos
-database
- KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in
-database
- KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
- KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than
-end time
- KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
- KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested
-option
- KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption
-type
- KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum
-type
- KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
- KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited
-type
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been
-revoked
- KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been
-revoked
- KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again
-later
- KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again
-later
- KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change
-password to reset
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was
-invalid
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional
-pre-authenticationrequired [40]
- KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't
-match
- KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for
-user2user only
- KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
- KDC_ERR_SVC_UNAVAILABLE 29 A service is not available
- KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field
-failed
- KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
- KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
- KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
- KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't
-match
- KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
- KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
- KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not
-available
- KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
- KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
- KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method
-required
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in
-message
- KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in
-message
- KRB_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCEPTED 51 Policy rejects transited path
- KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG 52 Response too big for UDP, retry
-with TCP
- KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in
-e-text)
- KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this
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- KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66 (pkinit)
- KRB_AP_ERR_NO_TGT 67 (user-to-user)
- KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM 68 (user-to-user)
- KRB_AP_ERR_USER_TO_USER_REQUIRED 69 (user-to-user)
- KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75 (pkinit)
- KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76 (pkinit)
-
- 9. Interoperability requirements
-
- Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options. Among
- these are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative encoding
- schemes for the transited field, optional mechanisms for
- pre-authentication, the handling of tickets with no addresses, options
- for mutual authentication, user to user authentication, support for
- proxies, forwarding, postdating, and renewing tickets, the format of
- realm names, and the handling of authorization data.
-
- In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to
- define a minimal configuration which must be supported by all
- implementations. This minimal configuration is subject to change as
- technology does. For example, if at some later date it is discovered
- that one of the required encryption or checksum algorithms is not
- secure, it will be replaced.
-
- 9.1. Specification 2
-
- This section defines the second specification of these options.
- Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to
- support Kerberos Version 5 Specification 2 (5.1). Specification 1
- (depricated) may be found in RFC1510.
-
- Transport
-
- TCP/IP and UDP/IP transport must be supported by KDCs claiming
- conformance to specification 2. Kerberos clients claiming conformance
- to specification 2 must support UDP/IP transport for messages with the
- KDC and should support TCP/IP transport.
-
- Encryption and checksum methods
-
- The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
- Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the
- additional mechanisms may only be used when communicating with
- principals known to also support them: This list is to be determined.
-
- Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5, one triple des variant (tbd)
- Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5 (tbd)
-
- Realm Names
-
- All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the
- Internet Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket for
- an unknown realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine the
- names of the intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the
- requested realm.
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- DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be supported.
- Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be used only when
- that encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
-
- Pre-authentication methods
-
- The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used
- on the initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported
- by clients but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on a
- realm by realm basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP as an
- acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request using
- the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not
- support the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server
- should ignore the presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in a
- request.
-
- Mutual authentication
-
- Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
-
- Ticket addresses and flags
-
- All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e. if a TGT
- contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets), but
- each realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and each
- application server will set its own policy with respect to accepting
- them.
-
- Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms and
- application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets will
- be accepted.
-
- All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets,
- but need not actually implement them. If these options are not
- supported, the starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a
- ticket's entire useful life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a
- server, all implementations shall make the presence of the postdated
- flag visible to the calling server.
-
- User-to-user authentication
-
- Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY KDC
- option) must be provided by implementations, but individual realms may
- decide as a matter of policy to reject such requests on a
- per-principal or realm-wide basis.
-
- Authorization data
-
- Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
- ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
- suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered
- subfield type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no
- registered subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
-
- Implementations must make the contents of any authorization data
- subfields available to the server when a ticket is used.
- Implementations are not required to allow clients to specify the
- contents of the authorization data fields.
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- Constant ranges
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- All protocol constants are constrained to 32 bit (signed) values
- unless further constrained by the protocol definition. This limit is
- provided to allow implementations to make assumptions about the
- maximum values that will be received for these constants.
- Implementation receiving values outside this range may reject the
- request, but they must recover cleanly.
-
- 9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
- Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation,
- based on the list of suggested configuration constants (see section
- 4.4).
-
- minimum lifetime 5 minutes
- maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
- maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
- empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
- proxiable, etc. Allowed.
-
- 10. REFERENCES
-
- [NT94] B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Y. Ts'o, "An Authenti-
- cation Service for Computer Networks," IEEE Communica-
- tions Magazine, Vol. 32(9), pp. 33-38 (September 1994).
-
- [MNSS87] S. P. Miller, B. C. Neuman, J. I. Schiller, and J. H.
- Saltzer, Section E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and
- Authorization System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge,
- Massachusetts (December 21, 1987).
-
- [SNS88] J. G. Steiner, B. C. Neuman, and J. I. Schiller, "Ker-
- beros: An Authentication Service for Open Network Sys-
- tems," pp. 191-202 in Usenix Conference Proceedings,
- Dallas, Texas (February, 1988).
-
- [NS78] Roger M. Needham and Michael D. Schroeder, "Using
- Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Com-
- puters," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21(12),
- pp. 993-999 (December, 1978).
-
- [DS81] Dorothy E. Denning and Giovanni Maria Sacco, "Time-
- stamps in Key Distribution Protocols," Communications
- of the ACM, Vol. 24(8), pp. 533-536 (August 1981).
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- [KNT92] John T. Kohl, B. Clifford Neuman, and Theodore Y. Ts'o,
- "The Evolution of the Kerberos Authentication Service,"
- in an IEEE Computer Society Text soon to be published
- (June 1992).
-
- [Neu93] B. Clifford Neuman, "Proxy-Based Authorization and
- Accounting for Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of
- the 13th International Conference on Distributed Com-
- puting Systems, Pittsburgh, PA (May, 1993).
-
- [DS90] Don Davis and Ralph Swick, "Workstation Services and
- Kerberos Authentication at Project Athena," Technical
- Memorandum TM-424, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- (February 1990).
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- [LGDSR87] P. J. Levine, M. R. Gretzinger, J. M. Diaz, W. E. Som-
- merfeld, and K. Raeburn, Section E.1: Service Manage-
- ment System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge, Mas-
- sachusetts (1987).
-
- [X509-88] CCITT, Recommendation X.509: The Directory Authentica-
- tion Framework, December 1988.
-
- [Pat92]. J. Pato, Using Pre-Authentication to Avoid Password
- Guessing Attacks, Open Software Foundation DCE Request
- for Comments 26 (December 1992).
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- [DES77] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "Data Encryption Standard," Federal Information
- Processing Standards Publication 46, Washington, DC
- (1977).
-
- [DESM80] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce, "DES Modes of Operation," Federal Information
- Processing Standards Publication 81, Springfield, VA
- (December 1980).
-
- [SG92] Stuart G. Stubblebine and Virgil D. Gligor, "On Message
- Integrity in Cryptographic Protocols," in Proceedings
- of the IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and
- Privacy, Oakland, California (May 1992).
-
- [IS3309] International Organization for Standardization, "ISO
- Information Processing Systems - Data Communication -
- High-Level Data Link Control Procedure - Frame Struc-
- ture," IS 3309 (October 1984). 3rd Edition.
-
- [MD4-92] R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1320, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
- [MD5-92] R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm," RFC
- 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
- 1992).
-
- [KBC96] H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
- Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
- draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
-
- [Horowitz96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Authentication,
- Integrity, and Privacy",
-draft-horowitz-key-derivation-02.txt,
- August 1998.
-
- [HorowitzB96] Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Kerberos V5", draft-
- horowitz-kerb-key-derivation-01.txt, September 1998.
-
- [Krawczyk96] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, and M., Canetti, R., "HMAC:
- Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication",
-draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-
- md5-01.txt, August, 1996.
-
- A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
-
- This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to
- be constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
-
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-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt",
-"localrealm" */
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
- A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
-
- decode message into req;
-
- client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
-
- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
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- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable
-skew) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
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- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted
-*/
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE
-*/
- endif
-
- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key,
-server.p_kvno;
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
-
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-
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
-
- A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP))
-then
- set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno,
-resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
- A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
-
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all
-that */
- /* should be are set
-*/
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags))
-then
-
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-
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
- endif
- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
-
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly
-*/
- /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting
-ticket */
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
-
-
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- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or
-servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
- A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
-
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and
-choosing the
- correct key for decryption. The name of the server appears in
-the
- plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is
-operating is
- determined by the instance from the ticket-granting ticket.
-The realm
- in the ticket-granting ticket is the realm under which the
-ticket
- granting ticket was issued. It is possible for a single
-Kerberos
- server to support more than one realm. */
-
- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not
-req.sname) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof
-and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
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-
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(req.sname)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(req.sname);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
-
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- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
- and those already processed) is set) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket
-would */
- /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so
-*/
- /* there is no need to check again here
-*/
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till < kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
-
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-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later
-processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
- endif
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
-
-new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the renew-till
-field out */
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into
-decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data :=
-req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data +
- decrypted_authorization_data;
-
- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
-
- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited := compress_transited(tgt.transited +
-tgt.realm)
- /* Don't check tranited field if TGT for foreign realm,
- * or requested not to check */
- if (is_not_foreign_tgt_name(new_tkt.server)
- && req.kdc-options.DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK not set)
-then
- /* Check it, so end-server does not have to
- * but don't fail, end-server may still accept
-it */
- if (check_transited_field(new_tkt.transited) ==
-OK)
- set
-new_tkt.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED;
- endif
- endif
- endif
-
- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
-
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- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key),
-second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key,
-server.p_kvno;
- endif
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- resp.cname := tgt.cname;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := session;
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- omit resp.key-expiration;
-
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
-tgt.key;
-
- send(resp);
-
- A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification
-
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key
-from
- the response immediately */
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
-resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
-resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's
-session key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
-
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-
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
- A.8. Authenticator generation
-
- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
-
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
-
- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using
-session_key;
-
- A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
- else
-
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- retrieve service key for
-
-packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using retrieved
-key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr)
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm}))
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.transited) then
- /* caller may ignore the TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED and do
- * check anyway */
- if (decr_ticket.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED not set)
-then
- if (check_transited_field(decr_ticket.transited) then
- error_out(KDC_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED);
- endif
- endif
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent
-details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
-
- A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
-
- body.ctime := packet.ctime;
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- body.cusec := packet.cusec;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
-
- A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session
-key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
-
- A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
-
- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
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- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
-
- A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof and
-keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
- A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
-
- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it
-*/
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected))
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address))
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
-
- if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
- ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
- (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected))
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number not
-present) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
- sender_principal(packet));
-
- return PACKET_IS_OK;
-
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-
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
-
- A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
-
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
- return(cleartext.DATA,
-PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
- A.18. KRB_CRED generation
-
- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
-
- for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
- done
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
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- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
- body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
-
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
-
- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
-
- if (using s-address) then
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
- using negotiated encryption key;
-
- A.19. KRB_CRED verification
-
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it
-*/
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address))
-then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
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- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
- return
-
- A.20. KRB_ERROR generation
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
-
- get system_time;
- packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
- packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
-
- if (client time available) then
- packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
- endif
- packet.error-code := error code;
- if (client name available) then
- packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
- endif
- if (error text available) then
- packet.e-text := error text;
- endif
- if (error data available) then
- packet.e-data := error data;
- endif
-
- B. Definition of common authorization data elements
-
- This appendix contains the definitions of common authorization data
- elements. These common authorization data elements are recursivly
- defined, meaning the ad-data for these types will itself contain a
- sequence of authorization data whose interpretation is affected by the
- encapsulating element. Depending on the meaning of the encapsulating
- element, the encapsulated elements may be ignored, might be
- interpreted as issued directly by the KDC, or they might be stored in
- a separate plaintext part of the ticket. The types of the
- encapsulating elements are specified as part of the Kerberos
- specification because the behavior based on these values should be
- understood across implementations whereas other elements need only be
- understood by the applications which they affect.
-
- In the definitions that follow, the value of the ad-type for the
- element will be specified in the subsection number, and the value of
- the ad-data will be as shown in the ASN.1 structure that follows the
- subsection heading.
-
- B.1. If relevant
-
- AD-IF-RELEVANT AuthorizationData
-
- AD elements encapsulated within the if-relevant element are intended
- for interpretation only by application servers that understand the
- particular ad-type of the embedded element. Application servers that
- do not understand the type of an element embedded within the
- if-relevant element may ignore the uninterpretable element. This
- element promotes interoperability across implementations which may
- have local extensions for authorization.
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- AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER SEQUENCE {
- intended-server[0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
- }
-
- AD elements encapsulated within the intended-for-server element may be
- ignored if the application server is not in the list of principal
- names of intended servers. Further, a KDC issuing a ticket for an
- application server can remove this element if the application server
- is not in the list of intended servers.
-
- Application servers should check for their principal name in the
- intended-server field of this element. If their principal name is not
- found, this element should be ignored. If found, then the encapsulated
- elements should be evaluated in the same manner as if they were
- present in the top level authorization data field. Applications and
- application servers that do not implement this element should reject
- tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
- B.3. Intended for application class
-
- AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS SEQUENCE {
- intended-application-class[0] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString elements[1]
- AuthorizationData } AD elements encapsulated within the
- intended-for-application-class element may be ignored if the
- application server is not in one of the named classes of application
- servers. Examples of application server classes include "FILESYSTEM",
- and other kinds of servers.
-
- This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
- applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
- element.
-
- B.4. KDC Issued
-
- AD-KDCIssued SEQUENCE {
- ad-checksum[0] Checksum,
- i-realm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- i-sname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- elements[3] AuthorizationData.
- }
-
- ad-checksum
- A checksum over the elements field using a cryptographic checksum
- method that is identical to the checksum used to protect the
- ticket itself (i.e. using the same hash function and the same
- encryption algorithm used to encrypt the ticket) and using a key
- derived from the same key used to protect the ticket.
- i-realm, i-sname
- The name of the issuing principal if different from the KDC
- itself. This field would be used when the KDC can verify the
- authenticity of elements signed by the issuing principal and it
- allows this KDC to notify the application server of the validity
- of those elements.
- elements
- A sequence of authorization data elements issued by the KDC.
- The KDC-issued ad-data field is intended to provide a means for
- Kerberos principal credentials to embed within themselves privilege
- attributes and other mechanisms for positive authorization, amplifying
- the priveleges of the principal beyond what can be done using a
- credentials without such an a-data element.
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- of the authorization-data field allows elements to be added at will by
- the bearer of a TGT at the time that they request service tickets and
- elements may also be added to a delegated ticket by inclusion in the
- authenticator.
-
- For KDC-issued elements this is prevented because the elements are
- signed by the KDC by including a checksum encrypted using the server's
- key (the same key used to encrypt the ticket - or a key derived from
- that key). Elements encapsulated with in the KDC-issued element will
- be ignored by the application server if this "signature" is not
- present. Further, elements encapsulated within this element from a
- ticket granting ticket may be interpreted by the KDC, and used as a
- basis according to policy for including new signed elements within
- derivative tickets, but they will not be copied to a derivative ticket
- directly. If they are copied directly to a derivative ticket by a KDC
- that is not aware of this element, the signature will not be correct
- for the application ticket elements, and the field will be ignored by
- the application server.
-
- This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
- applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
- element.
-
- B.5. And-Or
-
- AD-AND-OR SEQUENCE {
- condition-count[0] INTEGER,
- elements[1] AuthorizationData
- }
-
- When restrictive AD elements encapsulated within the and-or element
- are encountered, only the number specified in condition-count of the
- encapsulated conditions must be met in order to satisfy this element.
- This element may be used to implement an "or" operation by setting the
- condition-count field to 1, and it may specify an "and" operation by
- setting the condition count to the number of embedded elements.
- Application servers that do not implement this element must reject
- tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
-
- B.6. Mandatory ticket extensions
-
- AD-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions SEQUENCE {
- te-type[0] INTEGER,
- te-checksum[0] Checksum
- }
-
- An authorization data element of type mandatory-ticket-extensions
- specifies the type and a collision-proof checksum using the same hash
- algorithm used to protect the integrity of the ticket itself. This
- checksum will be calculated over an individual extension field of the
- type indicated. If there are more than one extension, multiple
- Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions authorization data elements may be
- present, each with a checksum for a different extension field. This
- restriction indicates that the ticket should not be accepted if a
- ticket extension is not present in the ticket for which the type and
- checksum do not match that checksum specified in the authorization
- data element. Note that although the type is redundant for the
- purposes of the comparison, it makes the comparison easier when
- multiple extensions are present. Application servers that do not
- implement this element must reject tickets that contain authorization
- data elements of this type.
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- AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
-
- An authorization data element of type in-ticket-extensions specifies a
- collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect
- the integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum is calculated over a
- separate external AuthorizationData field carried in the ticket
- extensions. Application servers that do not implement this element
- must reject tickets that contain authorization data elements of this
- type. Application servers that do implement this element will search
- the ticket extensions for authorization data fields, calculate the
- specified checksum over each authorization data field and look for one
- matching the checksum in this in-ticket-extensions element. If not
- found, then the ticket must be rejected. If found, the corresponding
- authorization data elements will be interpreted in the same manner as
- if they were contained in the top level authorization data field.
-
- Note that if multiple external authorization data fields are present
- in a ticket, each will have a corresponding element of type
- in-ticket-extensions in the top level authorization data field, and
- the external entries will be linked to the corresponding element by
- their checksums.
-
- C. Definition of common ticket extensions
-
- This appendix contains the definitions of common ticket extensions.
- Support for these extensions is optional. However, certain extensions
- have associated authorization data elements that may require rejection
- of a ticket containing an extension by application servers that do not
- implement the particular extension. Other extensions have been defined
- beyond those described in this specification. Such extensions are
- described elswhere and for some of those extensions the reserved
- number may be found in the list of constants.
-
- It is known that older versions of Kerberos did not support this
- field, and that some clients will strip this field from a ticket when
- they parse and then reassemble a ticket as it is passed to the
- application servers. The presence of the extension will not break such
- clients, but any functionaly dependent on the extensions will not work
- when such tickets are handled by old clients. In such situations, some
- implementation may use alternate methods to transmit the information
- in the extensions field.
-
- C.1. Null ticket extension
-
- TE-NullExtension OctetString -- The empty Octet String
-
- The te-data field in the null ticket extension is an octet string of
- lenght zero. This extension may be included in a ticket granting
- ticket so that the KDC can determine on presentation of the ticket
- granting ticket whether the client software will strip the extensions
- field.
-
- C.2. External Authorization Data
-
- TE-ExternalAuthorizationData AuthorizationData
-
- The te-data field in the external authorization data ticket extension
- is field of type AuthorizationData containing one or more
- authorization data elements. If present, a corresponding authorization
- data element will be present in the primary authorization data for the
- ticket and that element will contain a checksum of the external
- authorization data ticket extension.
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- [TM] Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of the
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of
- these trademarks may be made without prior written permission of MIT.
-
- [1] Note, however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only
- upon the initiation of a stream-based network connection. Unless an
- application subsequently provides integrity protection for the data
- stream, the identity verification applies only to the initiation of
- the connection, and does not guarantee that subsequent messages on the
- connection originate from the same principal.
-
- [2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably in the
- literature. In our usage, it takes two (or more) to share a secret,
- thus a shared DES key is a secret key. Something is only private when
- no one but its owner knows it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one
- has a public and a private key.
-
- [3] Of course, with appropriate permission the client could arrange
- registration of a separately-named prin- cipal in a remote realm, and
- engage in normal exchanges with that realm's services. However, for
- even small numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more
- automatic methods as described here are necessary.
-
- [4] Though it is permissible to request or issue tick- ets with no
- network addresses specified.
-
- [5] The password-changing request must not be honored unless the
- requester can provide the old password (the user's current secret
- key). Otherwise, it would be possible for someone to walk up to an
- unattended ses- sion and change another user's password.
-
- [6] To authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the
- credentials obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS
- exchange to obtain credentials for a local server. Those credentials
- must then be verified by a local server through successful completion
- of the Client/Server exchange.
-
- [7] "Random" means that, among other things, it should be impossible
- to guess the next session key based on knowledge of past session keys.
- This can only be achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is
- based on cryptographic principles. It is more desirable to use a truly
- random number generator, such as one based on measurements of random
- physical phenomena.
-
- [8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted portion, so
- cleartext here refers to the entire unit, which can be copied from one
- message and replayed in another without any cryptographic skill.
-
- [9] Note that this can make applications based on unreliable
- transports difficult to code correctly. If the transport might deliver
- duplicated messages, either a new authenticator must be generated for
- each retry, or the application server must match requests and replies
- and replay the first reply in response to a detected duplicate.
-
- [10] This is used for user-to-user authentication as described in [8].
-
- [11] Note that the rejection here is restricted to authenticators from
- the same principal to the same server. Other client principals
- communicating with the same server principal should not be have their
- authenticators rejected if the time and microsecond fields happen to
- match some other client's authenticator.
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- [12] In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the timestamp in the reply
- was the client's timestamp plus one. This is not necessary in version
- 5 because version 5 messages are formatted in such a way that it is
- not possible to create the reply by judicious message surgery (even in
- encrypted form) without knowledge of the appropriate encryption keys.
-
- [13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session
- key is not used, even if present in the Authenticator.
-
- [14] Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to
- choose subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to
- generate a negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- [15]This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known
- beforehand (since the realm is part of the principal identifier), it
- might be stored in a nameserver, or it might be obtained from a
- configura- tion file. If the realm to be used is obtained from a
- nameserver, there is a danger of being spoofed if the nameservice
- providing the realm name is not authenti- cated. This might result in
- the use of a realm which has been compromised, and would result in an
- attacker's ability to compromise the authentication of the application
- server to the client.
-
- [16] If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to
- ensure the randomness of the selected sub- session key. One approach
- would be to generate a random number and XOR it with the session key
- from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
- [17] This allows easy implementation of user-to-user authentication
- [8], which uses ticket-granting ticket session keys in lieu of secret
- server keys in situa- tions where such secret keys could be easily
- comprom- ised.
-
- [18] For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding the first
- listed realm is considered to be the null realm ("").
-
- [19] For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the client's
- realm is considered to precede those in the transited field, and the
- server's realm is considered to follow them.
-
- [20] This means that a client and server running on the same host and
- communicating with one another using the KRB_SAFE messages should not
- share a common replay cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
-
- [21] The implementation of the Kerberos server need not combine the
- database and the server on the same machine; it is feasible to store
- the principal database in, say, a network name service, as long as the
- entries stored therein are protected from disclosure to and
- modification by unauthorized parties. However, we recommend against
- such strategies, as they can make system management and threat
- analysis quite complex.
-
- [22] See the discussion of the padata field in section 5.4.2 for
- details on why this can be useful.
-
- [23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack data
- structures during the generation and verification of embedded
- checksums: Because any checksums applied to data structures must be
- checked against the original data the length of bit strings must be
- preserved within a data structure between the time that a checksum is
- generated through transmission to the time that the checksum is
- verified.
-
-
-Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
-2001
-
-^L
-
-INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
-2000
-
- [24] It is NOT recommended that this time value be used to adjust the
- workstation's clock since the workstation cannot reliably determine
- that such a KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely
- manner.
-
- [25] Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one must
- make sure that the workstation time is monotonically increasing. If
- the time is ever reset backwards, there is a small, but finite,
- probability that a nonce will be reused.
-
- [27] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides
- an additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
- [29] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides
- an additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
- [31] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides
- an additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
-
- [32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an initialization
- vector may be passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve
- proper cipher chaining. The initialization vector might come from the
- last block of the ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV message, but
- it is the application's choice whether or not to use such an
- initialization vector. If left out, the default initialization vector
- for the encryption algorithm will be used.
-
- [33] This prevents an attacker who generates an incorrect AS request
- from obtaining verifiable plaintext for use in an off-line password
- guessing attack.
-
- [35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
- notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is
- not a valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from
- the confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the
- message starts with random data, but the tag and its length are fixed.
- For other fields, the length and tag would be redundant if they were
- included because they are specified by the encryption type. [36] The
- ordering of the fields in the CipherText is important. Additionally,
- messages encoded in this format must include a length as part of the
- msg-seq field. This allows the recipient to verify that the message
- has not been truncated. Without a length, an attacker could use a
- chosen plaintext attack to generate a message which could be
- truncated, while leaving the checksum intact. Note that if the msg-seq
- is an encoding of an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length
- is part of that encoding.
-
- [37] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in"
- string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in
- section 5.4.2.
-
- [38] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in"
- string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in
- section 5.4.2.
-
- [39] A variant of the key is used to limit the use of a key to a
- particular function, separating the functions of generating a checksum
- from other encryption performed using the session key. The constant
- F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0 was chosen because it maintains key parity. The
- properties of DES precluded the use of the complement. The same
- constant is used for similar purpose in the Message Integrity Check in
- the Privacy Enhanced Mail standard.
-
- [40] This error carries additional information in the e- data field.
- The contents of the e-data field for this message is described in
- section 5.9.1.
-
-
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-
-INTERNET-DRAFT Mike Swift
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-set-passwd-02.txt Microsoft
-March 2000 Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco Systems
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
- Bill Gossman
- Cybersafe
-
- Kerberos Set/Change Password: Version 2
-
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1].
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as
- Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-
- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
- "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- Comments and suggestions on this document are encouraged. Comments
- on this document should be sent to the CAT working group discussion
- list:
- ietf-cat-wg@stanford.edu
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Kerberos (RFC 1510 [3]) change password protocol (Horowitz [4]),
- does not allow for an administrator to set a password for a new user.
- This functionality is useful in some environments, and this proposal
- extends [4] to allow password setting. The changes are: adding new
- fields to the request message to indicate the principal which is
- having its password set, not requiring the initial flag in the service
- ticket, using a new protocol version number, and adding three new
- result codes. We also extend the set/change protocol to allow a
- client to send a sequence of keys to the KDC instead of a cleartext
- password. If in the cleartext password case, the cleartext password
- fails to satisfy password policy, the server should use the result
- code KRB5_KPASSWD_POLICY_REJECT.
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-3. The Protocol
-
- The service must accept requests on UDP port 464 and TCP port 464 as
- well. The protocol consists of a single request message followed by
- a single reply message. For UDP transport, each message must be fully
- contained in a single UDP packet.
-
- For TCP transport, there is a 4 octet header in network byte order
- precedes the message and specifies the length of the message. This
- requirement is consistent with the TCP transport header in 1510bis.
-
-Request Message
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REQ length | AP-REQ data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- All 16 bit fields are in network byte order.
-
- message length field: contains the number of bytes in the message
- including this field.
-
- protocol version number: contains the hex constant 0x0002 (network
- byte order).
-
- AP-REQ length: length of AP-REQ data, in bytes. If the length is zero,
- then the last field contains a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-PRIV
- message.
-
- AP-REQ data: (see [3]) The AP-REQ message must be for the service
- principal kadmin/changepw@REALM, where REALM is the REALM of the user
- who wishes to change/set his password. The ticket in the AP-REQ must
- must include a subkey in the Authenticator. To enable setting of
- passwords/keys, it is not required that the initial flag be set in the
- Kerberos service ticket. The initial flag is required for change requests,
- but not for set password requests. We have the following definitions:
-
- old passwd initial flag target principal can be
- in request? required? distinct from
- authenticating principal?
-
- change password: yes yes no
-
- set password: no no yes
-
- set key: no policy yes
- determined
-
- KRB-PRIV message (see [3]) This KRB-PRIV message must be generated
- using the subkey from the authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The user-data component of the message consists of the following ASN.1
- structure encoded as an OCTET STRING:
-
- ChangePasswdData :: = SEQUENCE {
- newpasswdorkeys[0] NewPasswdOrKeys,
- targname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- only present in set password: the principal
- -- which will have its password set
- targrealm[2] Realm OPTIONAL,
- -- only present in set password: the realm for
- -- the principal which will have its password set
-
- }
-
- NewPasswdOrKeys :: = CHOICE {
- passwords[0] PasswordSequence,
- keyseq[1] KeySequences
- }
-
- KeySequences :: = SEQUENCE OF KeySequence
-
- KeySequence :: = SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- salt[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- salt-type[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- PasswordSequence :: = SEQUENCE {
- newpasswd[0] OCTET STRING,
- oldpasswd[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- -- oldpasswd always present for change password
- -- but not present for set password
- }
-
- The server must verify the AP-REQ message, check whether the client
- principal in the ticket is authorized to set or change the password
- (either for that principal, or for the principal in the targname
- field if present), and decrypt the new password/keys. The server
- also checks whether the initial flag is required for this request,
- replying with status 0x0007 if it is not set and should be. An
- authorization failure is cause to respond with status 0x0005. For
- forward compatibility, the server should be prepared to ignore fields
- after targrealm in the structure that it does not understand.
-
- The newpasswdorkeys field contains either the new cleartext password
- (with the old cleartext password for a change password operation),
- or a sequence of encryption keys with their respective salts.
-
- In the cleartext password case, if the old password is sent in the
- request, the request is defined to be a change password request. If
- the old password is not present in the request, the request is a set
- password request. The server should apply policy checks to the old
- and new password after verifying that the old password is valid.
- The server can check validity by obtaining a key from the old
- password with a keytype that is present in the KDC database for the
- user and comparing the keys for equality. The server then generates
- the appropriate keytypes from the password and stores them in the KDC
-
- database. If all goes well, status 0x0000 is returned to the client
- in the reply message (see below). For a change password operation,
- the initial flag in the service ticket MUST be set.
-
- In the key sequence case, the sequence of keys is sent to the set
- password service. For a principal that can act as a server, its
- preferred keytype should be sent as the first key in the sequence,
- but the KDC is not required to honor this preference. Application
- servers should use the key sequence option for changing/setting their
- keys. The set password service should check that all keys are in the
- proper format, returning the KRB5_KPASSWD_MALFORMED error otherwise.
-
-Reply Message
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REP length | AP-REP data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
-
- All 16 bit fields are in network byte order.
-
- message length field: contains the number of bytes in the message
- including this field.
-
- protocol version number: contains the hex constant 0x0002 (network
- byte order). (The reply message has the same format as in [4]).
-
- AP-REP length: length of AP-REP data, in bytes. If the length is zero,
- then the last field contains a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-PRIV
- message.
-
- AP-REP data: the AP-REP is the response to the AP-REQ in the request
- packet.
-
- KRB-PRIV from [4]: This KRB-PRIV message must be generated using the
- subkey in the authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The server will respond with a KRB-PRIV message unless it cannot
- validate the client AP-REQ or KRB-PRIV message, in which case it will
- respond with a KRB-ERROR message. NOTE: Unlike change password version
- 1, the KRB-ERROR message will be sent back without any encapsulation.
-
- The user-data component of the KRB-PRIV message, or e-data component
- of the KRB-ERROR message, must consist of the following data.
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | result code | result string /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | edata /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- result code (16 bits) (result codes 0-4 are from [4]):
- The result code must have one of the following values (network
- byte order):
- KRB5_KPASSWD_SUCCESS 0 request succeeds (This value is not
- allowed in a KRB-ERROR message)
- KRB5_KPASSWD_MALFORMED 1 request fails due to being malformed
- KRB5_KPASSWD_HARDERROR 2 request fails due to "hard" error in
- processing the request (for example,
- there is a resource or other problem
- causing the request to fail)
- KRB5_KPASSWD_AUTHERROR 3 request fails due to an error in
- authentication processing
- KRB5_KPASSWD_SOFTERROR 4 request fails due to a soft error
- in processing the request
- KRB5_KPASSWD_ACCESSDENIED 5 requestor not authorized
- KRB5_KPASSWD_BAD_VERSION 6 protocol version unsupported
- KRB5_KPASSWD_INITIAL_FLAG_NEEDED 7 initial flag required
- KRB5_KPASSWD_POLICY_REJECT 8 new cleartext password fails policy;
- the result string should include a text message to be presented
- to the user.
- KRB5_KPASSWD_BAD_PRINCIPAL 9 target principal does not exist
- (only in response to a set password request).
- KRB5_KPASSWD_ETYPE_NOSUPP 10 the request contains a key sequence
- containing at least one etype that is not supported by the KDC.
- The response edata contains an ASN.1 encoded PKERB-ETYPE-INFO
- type that specifies the etypes that the KDC supports:
-
- KERB-ETYPE-INFO-ENTRY :: = SEQUENCE {
- encryption-type[0] INTEGER,
- salt[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL -- not sent
- }
-
- PKERB-ETYPE-INFO ::= SEQUENCE OF KERB-ETYPE-INFO-ENTRY
-
- The client should retry the request using only etypes (keytypes)
- that are contained within the PKERB-ETYPE-INFO structure in the
- previous response.
- 0xFFFF if the request fails for some other reason.
- The client must interpret any non-zero result code as a failure.
- result string - from [4]:
- This field is a UTF-8 encoded string which should be displayed
- to the user by the client. Specific reasons for a password
- set/change policy failure is one use for this string.
- edata: used to convey additional information as defined by the
- result code.
-
-4. References
-
- [1] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
-
- [2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- [3] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5), Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [4] M. Horowitz. Kerberos Change Password Protocol,
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/
- draft-ietf-cat-kerb-chg-password-02.txt
-
-5. Expiration Date
-
- This draft expires in September 2000.
-
-6. Authors' Addresses
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco Systems
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134
- Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
-
- Mike Swift
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA 98052
- Email: mikesw@microsoft.com
-
- John Brezak
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA 98052
- Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com
-
- Bill Gossman
- Cybersafe Corporation
- 1605 NW Sammamish Rd.
- Issaquah, WA 98027-5378
- Email: bill.gossman@cybersafe.com
-
diff --git a/crypto/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-set-passwd-03.txt b/crypto/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-set-passwd-03.txt
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-
-INTERNET-DRAFT Mike Swift
-draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-set-passwd-03.txt Microsoft
-April 2000 Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco Systems
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
- Bill Gossman
- Cybersafe
-
- Kerberos Set/Change Password: Version 2
-
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1].
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as
- Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-
- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
- "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- Comments and suggestions on this document are encouraged. Comments
- on this document should be sent to the CAT working group discussion
- list:
- ietf-cat-wg@stanford.edu
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Kerberos (RFC 1510 [3]) change password protocol (Horowitz [4]),
- does not allow for an administrator to set a password for a new user.
- This functionality is useful in some environments, and this proposal
- extends [4] to allow password setting. The changes are: adding new
- fields to the request message to indicate the principal which is
- having its password set, not requiring the initial flag in the service
- ticket, using a new protocol version number, and adding three new
- result codes. We also extend the set/change protocol to allow a
- client to send a sequence of keys to the KDC instead of a cleartext
- password. If in the cleartext password case, the cleartext password
- fails to satisfy password policy, the server should use the result
- code KRB5_KPASSWD_POLICY_REJECT.
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-3. The Protocol
-
- The service must accept requests on UDP port 464 and TCP port 464 as
- well. The protocol consists of a single request message followed by
- a single reply message. For UDP transport, each message must be fully
- contained in a single UDP packet.
-
- For TCP transport, there is a 4 octet header in network byte order
- precedes the message and specifies the length of the message. This
- requirement is consistent with the TCP transport header in 1510bis.
-
-Request Message
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REQ length | AP-REQ data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- All 16 bit fields are in network byte order.
-
- message length field: contains the number of bytes in the message
- including this field.
-
- protocol version number: contains the hex constant 0x0002 (network
- byte order).
-
- AP-REQ length: length of AP-REQ data, in bytes. If the length is zero,
- then the last field contains a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-PRIV
- message.
-
- AP-REQ data: (see [3]) For a change password/key request, the AP-REQ
- message service ticket sname, srealm principal identifier is
- kadmin/changepw@REALM where REALM is the realm of the change password
- service. The same applies to a set password/key request except the
- principal identifier is kadmin/setpw@REALM. The ticket in the AP-REQ
- must include a subkey in the Authenticator. To enable setting of
- passwords/keys, it is not required that the initial flag be set in the
- Kerberos service ticket. The initial flag is required for change requests,
- but not for set requests. We have the following definitions:
-
- old passwd initial flag target principal can be
- in request? required? distinct from
- authenticating principal?
-
- change password: yes yes no
-
- set password: no policy (*) yes
-
- set key: no policy (*) yes
-
- change key: no yes no
-
- policy (*): implementations SHOULD allow administrators to set the
- initial flag required for set requests policy to either yes or no.
- Clients MUST be able to retry set requests that fail due to error 7
- (initial flag required) with an initial ticket. Clients SHOULD NOT
- cache service tickets targetted at kadmin/changepw.
-
- KRB-PRIV message (see [3]) This KRB-PRIV message must be generated
- using the subkey from the authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The user-data component of the message consists of the following ASN.1
- structure encoded as an OCTET STRING:
-
- ChangePasswdData :: = SEQUENCE {
- newpasswdorkeys[0] NewPasswdOrKeys,
- targname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- only present in set password/key: the principal
- -- which will have its password or keys set. Not
- -- present in a set request if the client principal
- -- from the ticket is the principal having its
- -- passwords or keys set.
- targrealm[2] Realm OPTIONAL,
- -- only present in set password/key: the realm for
- -- the principal which will have its password or
- -- keys set. Not present in a set request if the
- -- client principal from the ticket is the principal
- -- having its passwords or keys set.
- }
-
- NewPasswdOrKeys :: = CHOICE {
- passwords[0] PasswordSequence, -- change/set passwd
- keyseq[1] KeySequences -- change/set key
- }
-
- KeySequences :: = SEQUENCE OF KeySequence
-
- KeySequence :: = SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- salt[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
- salt-type[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- PasswordSequence :: = SEQUENCE {
- newpasswd[0] OCTET STRING,
- oldpasswd[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- -- oldpasswd always present for change password
- -- but not present for set password, set key, or
- -- change key
- }
-
- The server must verify the AP-REQ message, check whether the client
- principal in the ticket is authorized to set or change the password
- (either for that principal, or for the principal in the targname
- field if present), and decrypt the new password/keys. The server
- also checks whether the initial flag is required for this request,
- replying with status 0x0007 if it is not set and should be. An
- authorization failure is cause to respond with status 0x0005. For
- forward compatibility, the server should be prepared to ignore fields
- after targrealm in the structure that it does not understand.
-
- The newpasswdorkeys field contains either the new cleartext password
- (with the old cleartext password for a change password operation),
- or a sequence of encryption keys with their respective salts.
-
- In the cleartext password case, if the old password is sent in the
- request, the request MUST be a change password request. If the old
- password is not present in the request, the request MUST be a set
- password request. The server should apply policy checks to the old
- and new password after verifying that the old password is valid.
- The server can check validity by obtaining a key from the old
- password with a keytype that is present in the KDC database for the
- user and comparing the keys for equality. The server then generates
- the appropriate keytypes from the password and stores them in the KDC
- database. If all goes well, status 0x0000 is returned to the client
- in the reply message (see below). For a change password operation,
- the initial flag in the service ticket MUST be set.
-
- In the key sequence case, the sequence of keys is sent to the change
- or set password service (kadmin/changepw or kadmin/setpw respectively).
- For a principal that can act as a server, its preferred keytype should
- be sent as the first key in the sequence, but the KDC is not required
- to honor this preference. Application servers should use the key
- sequence option for changing/setting their keys. The change/set password
- services should check that all keys are in the proper format, returning
- the KRB5_KPASSWD_MALFORMED error otherwise.
-
-Reply Message
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REP length | AP-REP data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
-
- All 16 bit fields are in network byte order.
-
- message length field: contains the number of bytes in the message
- including this field.
-
- protocol version number: contains the hex constant 0x0002 (network
- byte order). (The reply message has the same format as in [4]).
-
- AP-REP length: length of AP-REP data, in bytes. If the length is zero,
- then the last field contains a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-PRIV
- message.
-
- AP-REP data: the AP-REP is the response to the AP-REQ in the request
- packet.
-
- KRB-PRIV from [4]: This KRB-PRIV message must be generated using the
- subkey in the authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The server will respond with a KRB-PRIV message unless it cannot
- validate the client AP-REQ or KRB-PRIV message, in which case it will
- respond with a KRB-ERROR message. NOTE: Unlike change password version
- 1, the KRB-ERROR message will be sent back without any encapsulation.
-
- The user-data component of the KRB-PRIV message, or e-data component
- of the KRB-ERROR message, must consist of the following data.
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | result code | result string /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | edata /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- result code (16 bits) (result codes 0-4 are from [4]):
- The result code must have one of the following values (network
- byte order):
- KRB5_KPASSWD_SUCCESS 0 request succeeds (This value is not
- allowed in a KRB-ERROR message)
- KRB5_KPASSWD_MALFORMED 1 request fails due to being malformed
- KRB5_KPASSWD_HARDERROR 2 request fails due to "hard" error in
- processing the request (for example,
- there is a resource or other problem
- causing the request to fail)
- KRB5_KPASSWD_AUTHERROR 3 request fails due to an error in
- authentication processing
- KRB5_KPASSWD_SOFTERROR 4 request fails due to a soft error
- in processing the request
- KRB5_KPASSWD_ACCESSDENIED 5 requestor not authorized
- KRB5_KPASSWD_BAD_VERSION 6 protocol version unsupported
- KRB5_KPASSWD_INITIAL_FLAG_NEEDED 7 initial flag required
- KRB5_KPASSWD_POLICY_REJECT 8 new cleartext password fails policy;
- the result string should include a text message to be presented
- to the user.
- KRB5_KPASSWD_BAD_PRINCIPAL 9 target principal does not exist
- (only in response to a set password request).
- KRB5_KPASSWD_ETYPE_NOSUPP 10 the request contains a key sequence
- containing at least one etype that is not supported by the KDC.
- The response edata contains an ASN.1 encoded PKERB-ETYPE-INFO
- type that specifies the etypes that the KDC supports:
-
- KERB-ETYPE-INFO-ENTRY :: = SEQUENCE {
- encryption-type[0] INTEGER,
- salt[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL -- not sent
- }
-
- PKERB-ETYPE-INFO ::= SEQUENCE OF KERB-ETYPE-INFO-ENTRY
-
- The client should retry the request using only etypes (keytypes)
- that are contained within the PKERB-ETYPE-INFO structure in the
- previous response.
- 0xFFFF if the request fails for some other reason.
- The client must interpret any non-zero result code as a failure.
- result string - from [4]:
- This field is a UTF-8 encoded string which should be displayed
- to the user by the client. Specific reasons for a password
-
- set/change policy failure is one use for this string.
- edata: used to convey additional information as defined by the
- result code.
-
-4. Acknowledgements
-
- The authors thank Tony Andrea for his input to the document.
-
-5. References
-
- [1] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
-
- [2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- [3] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5), Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [4] M. Horowitz. Kerberos Change Password Protocol,
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/
- draft-ietf-cat-kerb-chg-password-02.txt
-
-6. Expiration Date
-
- This draft expires in October 2000.
-
-7. Authors' Addresses
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco Systems
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134
- Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
-
- Mike Swift
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA 98052
- Email: mikesw@microsoft.com
-
- John Brezak
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA 98052
- Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com
-
- Bill Gossman
- Cybersafe Corporation
- 1605 NW Sammamish Rd.
- Issaquah, WA 98027-5378
- Email: bill.gossman@cybersafe.com
-
diff --git a/crypto/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-cat-krb-dns-locate-00.txt b/crypto/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-cat-krb-dns-locate-00.txt
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Ken Hornstein
-<draft-ietf-cat-krb-dns-locate-00.txt> NRL
-June 21, 1999 Jeffrey Altman
-Expires: December 21, 1999 Columbia University
-
- Distributing Kerberos KDC and Realm Information with DNS
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
- Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as <draft-ietf-
- cat-krb-dns-locate-00.txt>, and expires on December 21, 1999. Please
- send comments to the authors.
-
-Abstract
-
- Neither the Kerberos V5 protocol [RFC1510] nor the Kerberos V4 proto-
- col [RFC????] describe any mechanism for clients to learn critical
- configuration information necessary for proper operation of the pro-
- tocol. Such information includes the location of Kerberos key dis-
- tribution centers or a mapping between DNS domains and Kerberos
- realms.
-
- Current Kerberos implementations generally store such configuration
- information in a file on each client machine. Experience has shown
- this method of storing configuration information presents problems
- with out-of-date information and scaling problems, especially when
-
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-
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-
- using cross-realm authentication.
-
- This memo describes a method for using the Domain Name System
- [RFC1035] for storing such configuration information. Specifically,
- methods for storing KDC location and hostname/domain name to realm
- mapping information are discussed.
-
-Overview - KDC location information
-
- KDC location information is to be stored using the DNS SRV RR [RFC
- 2052]. The format of this RR is as follows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for Kerberos is always "_kerberos".
-
- The Proto can be either "_udp" or "_tcp". If these records are to be
- used, a "_udp" record MUST be included. If the Kerberos implementa-
- tion supports TCP transport, a "_tcp" record SHOULD be included.
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, Port, and Target have the standard
- meaning as defined in RFC 2052.
-
-Example - KDC location information
-
- These are DNS records for a Kerberos realm ASDF.COM. It has two Ker-
- beros servers, kdc1.asdf.com and kdc2.asdf.com. Queries should be
- directed to kdc1.asdf.com first as per the specified priority.
- Weights are not used in these records.
-
- _kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 0 0 88 kdc1.asdf.com.
- _kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 1 0 88 kdc2.asdf.com.
-
-Overview - KAdmin location information
-
- Kadmin location information is to be stored using the DNS SRV RR [RFC
- 2052]. The format of this RR is as follows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for Kadmin is always "_kadmin".
-
- The Proto can be either "_udp" or "_tcp". If these records are to be
- used, a "_tcp" record MUST be included. If the Kadmin implementation
- supports UDP transport, a "_udp" record SHOULD be included.
-
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-
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-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, Port, and Target have the standard
- meaning as defined in RFC 2052.
-
-Example - Kadmin location information
-
- These are DNS records for a Kerberos realm ASDF.COM. It has one Kad-
- min server, kdc1.asdf.com.
-
- _kadmin._tcp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 0 0 88 kdc1.asdf.com.
-
-Overview - Hostname/domain name to Kerberos realm mapping
-
- Information on the mapping of DNS hostnames and domain names to Ker-
- beros realms is stored using DNS TXT records [RFC 1035]. These
- records have the following format.
-
- Service.Name TTL Class TXT Realm
-
- The Service field is always "_kerberos", and prefixes all entries of
- this type.
-
- The Name is a DNS hostname or domain name. This is explained in
- greater detail below.
-
- TTL, Class, and TXT have the standard DNS meaning as defined in RFC
- 1035.
-
- The Realm is the data for the TXT RR, and consists simply of the Ker-
- beros realm that corresponds to the Name specified.
-
- When a Kerberos client wishes to utilize a host-specific service, it
- will perform a DNS TXT query, using the hostname in the Name field of
- the DNS query. If the record is not found, the first label of the
- name is stripped and the query is retried.
-
- Compliant implementations MUST query the full hostname and the most
- specific domain name (the hostname with the first label removed).
- Compliant implementations SHOULD try stripping all subsequent labels
- until a match is found or the Name field is empty.
-
-Example - Hostname/domain name to Kerberos realm mapping
-
- For the previously mentioned ASDF.COM realm and domain, some sample
- records might be as follows:
-
- _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT "ASDF.COM"
-
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-
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-
- _kerberos.mrkserver.asdf.com. IN TXT "MARKETING.ASDF.COM"
- _kerberos.salesserver.asdf.com. IN TXT "SALES.ASDF.COM"
-
- Let us suppose that in this case, a Kerberos client wishes to use a
- Kerberized service on the host foo.asdf.com. It would first query:
-
- _kerberos.foo.asdf.com. IN TXT
-
- Finding no match, it would then query:
-
- _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT
-
- And find an answer of ASDF.COM. This would be the realm that
- foo.asdf.com resides in.
-
- If another Kerberos client wishes to use a Kerberized service on the
- host salesserver.asdf.com, it would query:
-
- _kerberos.salesserver.asdf.com IN TXT
-
- And find an answer of SALES.ASDF.COM.
-
-Security considerations
-
- As DNS is deployed today, it is an unsecure service. Thus the infor-
- mation returned by it cannot be trusted. However, the use of DNS to
- store this configuration information does not introduce any new secu-
- rity risks to the Kerberos protocol.
-
- Current practice is to use hostnames to indicate KDC hosts (stored in
- some implementation-dependent location, but generally a local config
- file). These hostnames are vulnerable to the standard set of DNS
- attacks (denial of service, spoofed entries, etc). The design of the
- Kerberos protocol limits attacks of this sort to denial of service.
- However, the use of SRV records does not change this attack in any
- way. They have the same vulnerabilities that already exist in the
- common practice of using hostnames for KDC locations.
-
- The same holds true for the TXT records used to indicate the domain
- name to realm mapping. Current practice is to configure these map-
- pings locally. But this again is vulnerable to spoofing via CNAME
- records that point to hosts in other domains. This has the same
- effect as a spoofed TXT record.
-
- While the described protocol does not introduce any new security
- risks to the best of our knowledge, implementations SHOULD provide a
- way of specifying this information locally without the use of DNS.
- However, to make this feature worthwhile a lack of any configuration
-
-Hornstein, Altman [Page 4]
-
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-
- information on a client should be interpretted as permission to use
- DNS.
-
-Expiration
-
- This Internet-Draft expires on December 21, 1999.
-
-References
-
- [RFC1510]
- The Kerberos Network Authentication System; Kohl, Newman; Sep-
- tember 1993.
-
- [RFC1035]
- Domain Names - Implementation and Specification; Mockapetris;
- November 1987
-
- [RFC2052]
- A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV); Gul-
- brandsen, Vixie; October 1996
-
-Authors' Addresses
-
- Ken Hornstein
- US Naval Research Laboratory
- Bldg A-49, Room 2
- 4555 Overlook Avenue
- Washington DC 20375 USA
-
- Phone: +1 (202) 404-4765
- EMail: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
-
- Jeffrey Altman
- The Kermit Project
- Columbia University
- 612 West 115th Street #716
- New York NY 10025-7799 USA
-
- Phone: +1 (212) 854-1344
- EMail: jaltman@columbia.edu
-
-Hornstein, Altman [Page 5]
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-
-
-
-
-
-INTERNET-DRAFT Ken Hornstein
-<draft-ietf-cat-krb-dns-locate-02.txt> NRL
-March 10, 2000 Jeffrey Altman
-Expires: September 10, 2000 Columbia University
-
-
-
- Distributing Kerberos KDC and Realm Information with DNS
-
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
- Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as <draft-ietf-
- cat-krb-dns-locate-02.txt>, and expires on September 10, 2000. Please
- send comments to the authors.
-
-Abstract
-
- Neither the Kerberos V5 protocol [RFC1510] nor the Kerberos V4 proto-
- col [RFC????] describe any mechanism for clients to learn critical
- configuration information necessary for proper operation of the pro-
- tocol. Such information includes the location of Kerberos key dis-
- tribution centers or a mapping between DNS domains and Kerberos
- realms.
-
- Current Kerberos implementations generally store such configuration
- information in a file on each client machine. Experience has shown
- this method of storing configuration information presents problems
- with out-of-date information and scaling problems, especially when
-
-
-
-Hornstein, Altman [Page 1]
-
-RFC DRAFT March 10, 2000
-
-
- using cross-realm authentication.
-
- This memo describes a method for using the Domain Name System
- [RFC1035] for storing such configuration information. Specifically,
- methods for storing KDC location and hostname/domain name to realm
- mapping information are discussed.
-
-DNS vs. Kerberos - Case Sensitivity of Realm Names
-
- In Kerberos, realm names are case sensitive. While it is strongly
- encouraged that all realm names be all upper case this recommendation
- has not been adopted by all sites. Some sites use all lower case
- names and other use mixed case. DNS on the other hand is case insen-
- sitive for queries but is case preserving for responses to TXT
- queries. Since "MYREALM", "myrealm", and "MyRealm" are all different
- it is necessary that the DNS entries be distinguishable.
-
- Since the recommend realm names are all upper case, we will not
- require any quoting to be applied to upper case names. If the realm
- name contains lower case characters each character is to be quoted by
- a '=' character. So "MyRealm" would be represented as "M=yR=e=a=l=m"
- and "myrealm" as "=m=y=r=e=a=l=m". If the realm name contains the
- '=' character it will be represented as "==".
-
-
-Overview - KDC location information
-
- KDC location information is to be stored using the DNS SRV RR [RFC
- 2052]. The format of this RR is as follows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for Kerberos is always "_kerberos".
-
- The Proto can be either "_udp" or "_tcp". If these records are to be
- used, a "_udp" record MUST be included. If the Kerberos implementa-
- tion supports TCP transport, a "_tcp" record SHOULD be included.
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, Port, and Target have the standard
- meaning as defined in RFC 2052.
-
-Example - KDC location information
-
- These are DNS records for a Kerberos realm ASDF.COM. It has two Ker-
- beros servers, kdc1.asdf.com and kdc2.asdf.com. Queries should be
- directed to kdc1.asdf.com first as per the specified priority.
-
-
-
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-
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-
-
- Weights are not used in these records.
-
- _kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 0 0 88 kdc1.asdf.com.
- _kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 1 0 88 kdc2.asdf.com.
-
-Overview - Kerberos password changing server location information
-
- Kerberos password changing server [KERB-CHG] location is to be stored
- using the DNS SRV RR [RFC 2052]. The format of this RR is as fol-
- lows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for the password server is always "_kpasswd".
-
- The Proto MUST be "_udp".
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, Port, and Target have the standard
- meaning as defined in RFC 2052.
-
-Overview - Kerberos admin server location information
-
- Kerberos admin location information is to be stored using the DNS SRV
- RR [RFC 2052]. The format of this RR is as follows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for the admin server is always "_kerberos-adm".
-
- The Proto can be either "_udp" or "_tcp". If these records are to be
- used, a "_tcp" record MUST be included. If the Kerberos admin imple-
- mentation supports UDP transport, a "_udp" record SHOULD be included.
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, Port, and Target have the standard
- meaning as defined in RFC 2052.
-
- Note that there is no formal definition of a Kerberos admin protocol,
- so the use of this record is optional and implementation-dependent.
-
-Example - Kerberos administrative server location information
-
- These are DNS records for a Kerberos realm ASDF.COM. It has one
- administrative server, kdc1.asdf.com.
-
-
-
-
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-
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-
-
- _kerberos-adm._tcp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 0 0 88 kdc1.asdf.com.
-
-Overview - Hostname/domain name to Kerberos realm mapping
-
- Information on the mapping of DNS hostnames and domain names to Ker-
- beros realms is stored using DNS TXT records [RFC 1035]. These
- records have the following format.
-
- Service.Name TTL Class TXT Realm
-
- The Service field is always "_kerberos", and prefixes all entries of
- this type.
-
- The Name is a DNS hostname or domain name. This is explained in
- greater detail below.
-
- TTL, Class, and TXT have the standard DNS meaning as defined in RFC
- 1035.
-
- The Realm is the data for the TXT RR, and consists simply of the Ker-
- beros realm that corresponds to the Name specified.
-
- When a Kerberos client wishes to utilize a host-specific service, it
- will perform a DNS TXT query, using the hostname in the Name field of
- the DNS query. If the record is not found, the first label of the
- name is stripped and the query is retried.
-
- Compliant implementations MUST query the full hostname and the most
- specific domain name (the hostname with the first label removed).
- Compliant implementations SHOULD try stripping all subsequent labels
- until a match is found or the Name field is empty.
-
-Example - Hostname/domain name to Kerberos realm mapping
-
- For the previously mentioned ASDF.COM realm and domain, some sample
- records might be as follows:
-
- _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT "ASDF.COM"
- _kerberos.mrkserver.asdf.com. IN TXT "MARKETING.ASDF.COM"
- _kerberos.salesserver.asdf.com. IN TXT "SALES.ASDF.COM"
-
- Let us suppose that in this case, a Kerberos client wishes to use a
- Kerberized service on the host foo.asdf.com. It would first query:
-
- _kerberos.foo.asdf.com. IN TXT
-
- Finding no match, it would then query:
-
-
-
-
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-
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-
-
- _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT
-
- And find an answer of ASDF.COM. This would be the realm that
- foo.asdf.com resides in.
-
- If another Kerberos client wishes to use a Kerberized service on the
- host salesserver.asdf.com, it would query:
-
- _kerberos.salesserver.asdf.com IN TXT
-
- And find an answer of SALES.ASDF.COM.
-
-Security considerations
-
- As DNS is deployed today, it is an unsecure service. Thus the infor-
- mation returned by it cannot be trusted.
-
- Current practice for REALM to KDC mapping is to use hostnames to
- indicate KDC hosts (stored in some implementation-dependent location,
- but generally a local config file). These hostnames are vulnerable
- to the standard set of DNS attacks (denial of service, spoofed
- entries, etc). The design of the Kerberos protocol limits attacks of
- this sort to denial of service. However, the use of SRV records does
- not change this attack in any way. They have the same vulnerabili-
- ties that already exist in the common practice of using hostnames for
- KDC locations.
-
- Current practice for HOSTNAME to REALM mapping is to provide a local
- configuration of mappings of hostname or domain name to realm which
- are then mapped to KDCs. But this again is vulnerable to spoofing
- via CNAME records that point to hosts in other domains. This has the
- same effect as when a TXT record is spoofed. In a realm with no
- cross-realm trusts this is a DoS attack. However, when cross-realm
- trusts are used it is possible to redirect a client to use a comprom-
- ised realm.
-
- This is not an exploit of the Kerberos protocol but of the Kerberos
- trust model. The same can be done to any application that must
- resolve the hostname in order to determine which domain a non-FQDN
- belongs to.
-
- Implementations SHOULD provide a way of specifying this information
- locally without the use of DNS. However, to make this feature
- worthwhile a lack of any configuration information on a client should
- be interpretted as permission to use DNS.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Hornstein, Altman [Page 5]
-
-RFC DRAFT March 10, 2000
-
-
-Expiration
-
- This Internet-Draft expires on September 10, 2000.
-
-References
-
-
- [RFC1510]
- The Kerberos Network Authentication System; Kohl, Newman; Sep-
- tember 1993.
-
- [RFC1035]
- Domain Names - Implementation and Specification; Mockapetris;
- November 1987
-
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- brandsen, Vixie; Feburary 2000
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- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-kerb-chg-
- password-02.txt
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- Ken Hornstein
- US Naval Research Laboratory
- Bldg A-49, Room 2
- 4555 Overlook Avenue
- Washington DC 20375 USA
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- Phone: +1 (202) 404-4765
- EMail: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
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- Jeffrey Altman
- The Kermit Project
- Columbia University
- 612 West 115th Street #716
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-draft-ietf-cat-krb5gss-mech2-03.txt 04 March 2000
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- The Kerberos Version 5 GSSAPI Mechanism, Version 2
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-Status of This Memo
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- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
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- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
- Drafts.
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- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
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- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
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- Comments on this document should be sent to
- "ietf-cat-wg@lists.stanford.edu", the IETF Common Authentication
- Technology WG discussion list.
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-Abstract
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- This document defines protocols, procedures, and conventions to be
- employed by peers implementing the Generic Security Service
- Application Program Interface (as specified in RFC 2743) when using
- Kerberos Version 5 technology (as specified in RFC 1510). This
- obsoletes RFC 1964.
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-Acknowledgements
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- Much of the material in this specification is based on work done for
- Cygnus Solutions by Marc Horowitz.
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-Table of Contents
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- Status of This Memo ............................................ 1
- Abstract ....................................................... 1
- Acknowledgements ............................................... 1
- Table of Contents .............................................. 1
- 1. Introduction ............................................... 3
- 2. Token Formats .............................................. 3
- 2.1. Packet Notation ....................................... 3
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- 2.2. Mechanism OID ......................................... 4
- 2.3. Context Establishment ................................. 4
- 2.3.1. Option Format .................................... 4
- 2.3.1.1. Delegated Credentials Option ................ 5
- 2.3.1.2. Null Option ................................. 5
- 2.3.2. Initial Token .................................... 6
- 2.3.2.1. Data to be Checksummed in APREQ ............. 8
- 2.3.3. Response Token ................................... 10
- 2.4. Per-message Tokens .................................... 12
- 2.4.1. Sequence Number Usage ............................ 12
- 2.4.2. MIC Token ........................................ 12
- 2.4.2.1. Data to be Checksummed in MIC Token ......... 13
- 2.4.3. Wrap Token ....................................... 14
- 2.4.3.1. Wrap Token With Integrity Only .............. 14
- 2.4.3.2. Wrap Token With Integrity and Encryption
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- 2.4.3.2.1. Data to be Encrypted in Wrap Token ..... 16
- 3. ASN.1 Encoding of Octet Strings ............................ 17
- 4. Name Types ................................................. 18
- 4.1. Mandatory Name Forms .................................. 18
- 4.1.1. Kerberos Principal Name Form ..................... 18
- 4.1.2. Exported Name Object Form for Kerberos5
- Mechanism ........................................ 19
- 5. Credentials ................................................ 20
- 6. Parameter Definitions ...................................... 20
- 6.1. Minor Status Codes .................................... 20
- 6.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes ...................... 21
- 6.1.2. Kerberos-specific-codes .......................... 21
- 7. Kerberos Protocol Dependencies ............................. 22
- 8. Security Considerations .................................... 22
- 9. References ................................................. 22
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-1. Introduction
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- The original Kerberos 5 GSSAPI mechanism[RFC1964] has a number of
- shortcomings. This document attempts to remedy them by defining a
- completely new Kerberos 5 GSSAPI mechanism.
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- The context establishment token format requires that the
- authenticator of AP-REQ messages contain a cleartext data structure
- in its checksum field, which is a needless and potentially confusing
- overloading of that field. This is implemented by a special checksum
- algorithm whose purpose is to copy the input data directly into the
- checksum field of the authenticator.
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- The number assignments for checksum algorithms and for encryption
- types are inconsistent between the Kerberos protocol and the original
- GSSAPI mechanism. If new encryption or checksum algorithms are added
- to the Kerberos protocol at some point, the GSSAPI mechanism will
- need to be separately updated to use these new algorithms.
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- The original mechanism specifies a crude method of key derivation (by
- using the XOR of the context key with a fixed constant), which is
- incompatible with newer cryptosystems which specify key derivation
- procedures themselves. The original mechanism also assumes that both
- checksums and cryptosystem blocksizes are eight bytes.
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- Defining all GSSAPI tokens for the new Kerberos 5 mechanism in terms
- of the Kerberos protocol specification ensures that new encryption
- types and checksum types may be automatically used as they are
- defined for the Kerberos protocol.
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-2. Token Formats
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- All tokens, not just the initial token, are framed as the
- InitialContextToken described in RFC 2743 section 3.1. The
- innerContextToken element of the token will not itself be encoded in
- ASN.1, with the exception of caller-provided application data.
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- One rationale for avoiding the use of ASN.1 in the inner token is
- that some implementors may wish to implement this mechanism in a
- kernel or other similarly constrained application where handling of
- full ASN.1 encoding may be cumbersome. Also, due to the poor
- availability of the relevant standards documents, ASN.1 encoders and
- decoders are difficult to implement completely correctly, so keeping
- ASN.1 usage to a minimum decreases the probability of bugs in the
- implementation of the mechanism. In particular, bit strings need to
- be transferred at certain points in this mechanism. There are many
- conflicting common misunderstandings of how to encode and decode
- ASN.1 bit strings, which have led difficulties in the implementaion
- of the Kerberos protocol.
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- The order of transmission of this protocol is described at the octet
- level. Packet diagrams depict bits in the order of transmission,
- assuming that individual octets are transmitted with the most
- significant bit (MSB) first. The diagrams read from left to right
- and from top to bottom, as in printed English. In each octet, bit
- number 7 is the MSB and bit number 0 is the LSB.
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- Numbers prefixed by the characters "0x" are in hexadecimal notation,
- as in the C programming language. Even though packet diagrams are
- drawn 16 bits wide, no padding should be used to align the ends of
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- All integer fields are in network byte order. All other fields have
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- {iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
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- Context establishment tokens, i.e., the initial ones that the
- GSS_Init_sec_context() and the GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls emit
- while a security context is being set up, may contain options that
- influence the subsequent behavior of the context. This document
- describes only a small set of options, but additional types may be
- added by documents intended to supplement this one. The generic
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- bit| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | option type |
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- 2 | |
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- 4 | |
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- 6 | . |
- / option data (variable length) /
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- The type identifier of the following option.
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- The length in bytes of the following option.
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- The actual option data.
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- Any number of options may appear in an initator or acceptor token.
- The final option in a token must be the null option, in order to mark
- the end of the list. Option type 0xffff is reserved.
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- The initiator and acceptor shall ignore any options that they do not
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- Only the initiator may use this option. The format of the delegated
- credentials option is as follows:
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | option type = 0x00001 |
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- 2 | |
- +-- KRB-CRED length --+
- 4 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | . |
- / KRB-CRED message /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- The option type for this option shall be 0x0001.
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- KRB-CRED length (32 bits)
- The length in bytes of the following KRB-CRED message.
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- KRB-CRED message (variable length)
- The option data for this option shall be the KRB-CRED message
- that contains the credentials being delegated (forwarded) to the
- context acceptor. Only the initiator may use this option.
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- The length of this option must be zero.
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- This is the initial token sent by the context initiator, generated by
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- bit| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | initial token id = 0x0101 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 2 | |
- +-- reserved flag bits +-----------------------+
- 4 | | I | C | S | R | M | D |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | checksum type count |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 8 | . |
- / checksum type list /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n | . |
- / options /
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- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- m | |
- +-- AP-REQ length --+
- m+2 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- m+4 | . |
- / AP-REQ data /
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- These bits are reserved for future expansion. They must be set
- to zero by the initiator and be ignored by the acceptor.
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- I flag (1 bit)
- 0x00000020 -- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
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- C flag (1 bit)
- 0x00000010 -- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
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- S flag (1 bit)
- 0x00000008 -- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
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- R flag (1 bit)
- 0x00000004 -- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
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- M flag (1 bit)
- 0x00000002 -- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
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- D flag (1 bit)
- 0x00000001 -- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG; This flag must be set if the
- "delegated credentials" option is included.
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- The number of checksum types supported by the initiator.
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- checksum type list (variable length)
- A list of Kerberos checksum types, as defined in RFC 1510
- section 6.4. These checksum types must be collision-proof and
- keyed with the context key; no checksum types that are
- incompatible with the encryption key shall be used. Each
- checksum type number shall be 32 bits wide. This list should
- contain all the checksum types supported by the initiator. If
- mutual authentication is not used, then this list shall contain
- only one checksum type.
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- options (variable length)
- The context initiation options, described in section 2.3.1.
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- AP-REQ length (32 bits)
- The length of the following KRB_AP_REQ message.
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- AP-REQ data (variable length)
- The AP-REQ message as described in RFC 1510. The checksum in
- the authenticator will be computed over the items listed in the
- next section.
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- The optional sequence number field shall be used in the AP-REQ. The
- initiator should generate a subkey in the authenticator, and the
- acceptor should generate a subkey in the AP-REP. The key used for
- the per-message tokens will be the AP-REP subkey, or if that is not
- present, the authenticator subkey, or if that is not present, the
- session key. When subkeys are generated, it is strongly recommended
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- XXX The above is not secure. There should be an algorithmic process
- to arrive at a subsession key which both sides of the authentication
- exchange can perform based on the ticket sessions key and data known
- to both parties, and this should probably be part of the revised
- Kerberos protocol rather than bound to the GSSAPI mechanism.
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- The checksum in the AP-REQ message is calculated over the following
- items. Like in the actual tokens, no padding should be added to
- force integer fields to align on 32 bit boundaries. This particular
- set of data should not be sent as a part of any token; it merely
- specifies what is to be checksummed in the AP-REQ. The items in this
- encoding that precede the initial token ID correspond to the channel
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | |
- +-- initiator address type --+
- 2 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 4 | initiator address length |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | . |
- / initiator address /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n | |
- +-- acceptor address type --+
- | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n+4 | acceptor address length |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n+6 | . |
- / acceptor address /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- m | . |
- / application data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- k | initial token id = 0x0101 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- k+2 | |
- +-- flags --+
- k+4 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- k+6 | checksum type count |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- k+8 | . |
- / checksum type list /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- j | . |
- / options /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- initiator address type (32 bits)
- The initiator address type, as defined in the Kerberos protocol
- specification. If no initiator address is provided, this must
- be zero.
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- initiator address length (16 bits)
- The length in bytes of the following initiator address. If
- there is no inititator address provided, this must be zero.
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- The actual initiator address, in network byte order.
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- acceptor address type (32 bits)
- The acceptor address type, as defined in the Kerberos protocol
- specification. If no acceptor address is provided, this must be
- zero.
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- acceptor address length (16 bits)
- The length in bytes of the following acceptor address. This
- must be zero is there is no acceptor address provided.
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- initiator address (variable length)
- The actual acceptor address, in network byte order.
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- applicatation data (variable length)
- The application data, if provided, encoded as a ASN.1 octet
- string using DER. If no application data are passed as input
- channel bindings, this shall be a zero-length ASN.1 octet
- string.
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- initial token ID (16 bits)
- The initial token ID from the initial token.
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- flags (32 bits)
- The context establishment flags from the initial token.
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- checksum type count (16 bits)
- The number of checksum types supported by the initiator.
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- checksum type list (variable length)
- The same list of checksum types contained in the initial token.
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- The options list from the initial token.
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | response token id = 0x0202 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 2 | |
- +-- reserved flag bits +-------+
- 4 | | D | E |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | |
- +-- checksum type --+
- 8 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 10 | . |
- / options /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n | |
- +-- AP-REP or KRB-ERROR length --+
- n+2 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n+4 | . |
- / AP-REP or KRB-ERROR data /
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- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- / MIC data /
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- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- response token id (16 bits)
- Contains the integer 0x0202, which identifies this as the
- response token in the context setup.
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- reserved flag bits (30 bits)
- These bits are reserved for future expansion. They must be set
- to zero by the acceptor and be ignored by the initiator.
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- D flag -- delegated creds accepted (1 bit)
- 0x00000002 -- If this flag is set, the acceptor processed the
- delegated credentials, and GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG should be returned
- to the caller.
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- E flag -- error (1 bit)
- 0x00000001 -- If this flag is set, a KRB-ERROR message shall be
- present, rather than an AP-REP message. If this flag is not
- set, an AP-REP message shall be present.
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- The number of checksum types supported by both the initiator and
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- A Kerberos checksum type, as defined in RFC 1510 section 6.4.
- This checksum type must be among the types listed by the
- initiator, and will be used in for subsequent checksums
- generated during this security context.
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- options (variable length)
- The option list, as described earlier. At this time, no options
- are defined for the acceptor, but an implementation might make
- use of these options to acknowledge an option from the initial
- token. After all the options are specified, a null option must
- be used to terminate the list.
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- AP-REP or KRB-ERROR length (32 bits)
- Depending on the value of the error flag, length in bytes of the
- AP-REP or KRB-ERROR message.
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- AP-REP or KRB-ERROR data (variable length)
- Depending on the value of the error flag, the AP-REP or
- KRB-ERROR message as described in RFC 1510. If this field
- contains an AP-REP message, the sequence number field in the
- AP-REP shall be filled. If this is a KRB-ERROR message, no
- further fields will be in this message.
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- MIC data (variable length)
- A MIC token, as described in section 2.4.2, computed over the
- concatentation of the response token ID, flags, checksum length
- and type fields, and all option fields. This field and the
- preceding length field must not be present if the error flag is
- set.
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- Sequence numbers for per-message tokens are 31 bit unsigned integers,
- which are incremented by 1 after each token. An overflow condition
- should result in a wraparound of the sequence number to zero. The
- initiator and acceptor each keep their own sequence numbers per
- connection.
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- The intial sequence number for tokens sent from the initiator to the
- acceptor shall be the least significant 31 bits of sequence number in
- the AP-REQ message. The initial sequence number for tokens sent from
- the acceptor to the initiator shall be the least significant 31 bits
- of the sequence number in the AP-REP message if mutual authentication
- is used; if mutual authentication is not used, the initial sequence
- number from acceptor to initiator shall be the least significant 31
- bits of the sequence number in the AP-REQ message.
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- Use of the GSS_GetMIC() call yields a token, separate from the user
- data being protected, which can be used to verify the integrity of
- that data when it is received. The MIC token has the following
- format:
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- bit| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | MIC token id = 0x0303 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 2 | D | |
- +---+ sequence number --+
- 4 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | checksum length |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 8 | . |
- / checksum data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- MIC token id (16 bits)
- Contains the integer 0x0303, which identifies this as a MIC
- token.
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- D -- direction bit (1 bit)
- This bit shall be zero if the message is sent from the context
- initiator. If the message is sent from the context acceptor,
- this bit shall be one.
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- sequence number (31 bits)
- The sequence number.
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- checksum length (16 bits)
- The number of bytes in the following checksum data field.
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- checksum data (variable length)
- The checksum itself, as defined in RFC 1510 section 6.4. The
- checksum is calculated over the encoding described in the
- following section. The key usage GSS_TOK_MIC -- 22 [XXX need to
- register this] shall be used in cryptosystems that support key
- derivation.
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- The mechanism implementation shall only use the checksum type
- returned by the acceptor in the case of mutual authentication. If
- mutual authentication is not requested, then only the checksum type
- in the initiator token shall be used.
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- The checksum in the MIC token shall be calculated over the following
- elements. This set of data is not actually included in the token as
- is; the description only appears for the purpose of specifying the
- method of calculating the checksum.
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- bit| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | MIC token id = 0x0303 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 2 | D | |
- +---+ sequence number --+
- 4 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | . |
- / application data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
-
-
- MIC token ID (16 bits)
- The MIC token ID from the MIC message.
-
- D -- direction bit (1 bit)
- This bit shall be zero if the message is sent from the context
- initiator. If the message is sent from the context acceptor,
- this bit shall be one.
-
- sequence number (31 bits)
- The sequence number.
-
- application data (variable length)
- The application-supplied data, encoded as an ASN.1 octet string
- using DER.
-
-2.4.3. Wrap Token
-
- Use of the GSS_Wrap() call yields a token which encapsulates the
- input user data (optionally encrypted) along with associated
- integrity check quantities.
-
-2.4.3.1. Wrap Token With Integrity Only
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 0 | integrity wrap token id = 0x0404 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 2 | D | |
- +---+ sequence number --+
- 4 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 6 | . |
- / application data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n | checksum length |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- n+2 | . |
- / checksum data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
-
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- integrity wrap token id (16 bits)
- Contains the integer 0x0404, which identifies this as a Wrap
- token with integrity only.
-
- D -- direction bit (1 bit)
- This bit shall be zero if the message is sent from the context
- initiator. If the message is sent from the context acceptor,
- this bit shall be one.
-
- sequence number (31 bits)
- The sequence number.
-
- application data (variable length)
- The application-supplied data, encoded as an ASN.1 octet string
- using DER.
-
- checksum length (16 bits)
- The number of bytes in the following checksum data field.
-
- checksum data (variable length)
- The checksum itself, as defined in RFC 1510 section 6.4,
- computed over the concatenation of the token ID, sequence
- number, direction field, application data length, and
- application data, as in the MIC token checksum in the previous
- section. The key usage GSS_TOK_WRAP_INTEG -- 23 [XXX need to
- register this] shall be used in cryptosystems that support key
- derivation.
-
- The mechanism implementation should only use checksum types which it
- knows to be valid for both peers, as described for MIC tokens.
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- | encrypted wrap token id = 0x0505 |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 2 | . |
- / encrypted data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
-
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- encrypted wrap token id (16 bits)
- Contains the integer 0x0505, which identifies this as a Wrap
- token with integrity and encryption.
-
- encrypted data (variable length)
- The encrypted data itself, as defined in RFC 1510 section 6.3,
- encoded as an ASN.1 octet string using DER. Note that this is
- not the ASN.1 type EncryptedData as defined in RFC 1510
- section 6.1, but rather the ciphertext without encryption type
- or kvno information. The encryption is performed using the
- key/enctype exchanged during context setup. The confounder and
- checksum are as specified in the Kerberos protocol
- specification. The key usage GSS_TOK_WRAP_PRIV -- 24 [XXX need
- to register this] shall be used in cryptosystems that support
- key derivation. The actual data to be encrypted are specified
- below.
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-byte +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- +---+ sequence number --+
- 2 | |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
- 4 | . |
- / application data /
- | . |
- +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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- This bit shall be zero if the message is sent from the context
- initiator. If the message is sent from the context acceptor,
- this bit shall be one.
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- The sequence number.
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-3. ASN.1 Encoding of Octet Strings
-
- In order to encode arbitirarly-sized application data, ASN.1 octet
- string encoding is in this protocol. The Distinguished Encoding
- Rules (DER) shall always be used in such cases. For reference
- purposes, the DER encoding of an ASN.1 octet string, adapted from
- ITU-T X.690, follows:
-
- +--------+-------//-------+-------//-------+
- |00000100| length octets |contents octets |
- +--------+-------//-------+-------//-------+
- |
- +-- identifier octet = 0x04 = [UNIVERSAL 4]
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- In this section only, the bits in each octet shall be numbered as in
- the ASN.1 specification, from 8 to 1, with bit 8 being the MSB of the
- octet, and with bit 1 being the LSB of the octet.
-
- identifier octet (8 bits)
- Contains the constant 0x04, the tag for primitive encoding of an
- octet string with the default (UNIVERSAL 4) tag.
-
- length octets (variable length)
- Contains the length of the contents octets, in definite form
- (since this encoding uses DER).
-
- contents octets (variable length)
- The contents of the octet string.
-
- The length octets shall consist of either a short form (one byte
- only), which is to be used only if the number of octets in the
- contents octets is less than or equal to 127, or a long form, which
- is to be used in all other cases. The short form shall consist of a
- single octet with bit 8 (the MSB) equal to zero, and the remaining
- bits encoding the number of contents octets (which may be zero) as an
- unsigned binary integer.
-
- The long form shall consist of an initial octet and one or more
- subsequent octets. The first octet shall have bit 8 (the MSB) set to
- one, and the remaining bits shall encode the number of subsequent
- octets in the length encoding as an unsigned binary integer. The
- length must be encoded in the minimum number of octets. An initial
- octet of 0xFF is reserved by the ASN.1 specification. Bits 8 to 1 of
- the first subsequent octet, followed by bits 8 to 1 of each
- subsequent octet in order, shall be the encoding of an unsigned
- binary integer, with bit 8 of the first octet being the most
- significant bit. Thus, the length encoding within is in network byte
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- reserved by the ASN.1 specification for indefinite lengths in
- conjunction with constructed contents encodings, which are not to be
- used with DER.
-
-4. Name Types
-
- This section discusses the name types which may be passed as input to
- the Kerberos 5 GSSAPI mechanism's GSS_Import_name() call, and their
- associated identifier values. It defines interface elements in
- support of portability, and assumes use of C language bindings per
- RFC 2744. In addition to specifying OID values for name type
- identifiers, symbolic names are included and recommended to GSSAPI
- implementors in the interests of convenience to callers. It is
- understood that not all implementations of the Kerberos 5 GSSAPI
- mechanism need support all name types in this list, and that
- additional name forms will likely be added to this list over time.
- Further, the definitions of some or all name types may later migrate
- to other, mechanism-independent, specifications. The occurrence of a
- name type in this specification is specifically not intended to
- suggest that the type may be supported only by an implementation of
- the Kerberos 5 mechanism. In particular, the occurrence of the
- string "_KRB5_" in the symbolic name strings constitutes a means to
- unambiguously register the name strings, avoiding collision with
- other documents; it is not meant to limit the name types' usage or
- applicability.
-
- For purposes of clarification to GSSAPI implementors, this section's
- discussion of some name forms describes means through which those
- forms can be supported with existing Kerberos technology. These
- discussions are not intended to preclude alternative implementation
- strategies for support of the name forms within Kerberos mechanisms
- or mechanisms based on other technologies. To enhance application
- portability, implementors of mechanisms are encouraged to support
- name forms as defined in this section, even if their mechanisms are
- independent of Kerberos 5.
-
-4.1. Mandatory Name Forms
-
- This section discusses name forms which are to be supported by all
- conformant implementations of the Kerberos 5 GSSAPI mechanism.
-
-4.1.1. Kerberos Principal Name Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) us(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2) krb5(2)
- krb5_name(1)}. The recommended symbolic name for this type is
- "GSS_KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL_NAME".
-
- This name type corresponds to the single-string representation of a
- Kerberos name. (Within the MIT Kerberos 5 implementation, such names
- are parseable with the krb5_parse_name() function.) The elements
- included within this name representation are as follows, proceeding
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- (1) One or more principal name components; if more than one
- principal name component is included, the components are
- separated by '/'. Arbitrary octets may be included within
- principal name components, with the following constraints and
- special considerations:
-
- (1a) Any occurrence of the characters '@' or '/' within a
- name component must be immediately preceded by the '\'
- quoting character, to prevent interpretation as a component
- or realm separator.
-
- (1b) The ASCII newline, tab, backspace, and null characters
- may occur directly within the component or may be
- represented, respectively, by '\n', '\t', '\b', or '\0'.
-
- (1c) If the '\' quoting character occurs outside the contexts
- described in (1a) and (1b) above, the following character is
- interpreted literally. As a special case, this allows the
- doubled representation '\\' to represent a single occurrence
- of the quoting character.
-
- (1d) An occurrence of the '\' quoting character as the last
- character of a component is illegal.
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- (2) Optionally, a '@' character, signifying that a realm name
- immediately follows. If no realm name element is included, the
- local realm name is assumed. The '/' , ':', and null characters
- may not occur within a realm name; the '@', newline, tab, and
- backspace characters may be included using the quoting
- conventions described in (1a), (1b), and (1c) above.
-
-4.1.2. Exported Name Object Form for Kerberos 5 Mechanism
-
- When generated by the Kerberos 5 mechanism, the Mechanism OID within
- the exportable name shall be that of the original Kerberos 5
- mechanism[RFC1964]. The Mechanism OID for the original Kerberos 5
- mechanism is:
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- {iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- krb5(2)}
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- The name component within the exportable name shall be a contiguous
- string with structure as defined for the Kerberos Principal Name
- Form.
-
- In order to achieve a distinguished encoding for comparison purposes,
- the following additional constraints are imposed on the export
- operation:
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- (1) all occurrences of the characters '@', '/', and '\' within
- principal components or realm names shall be quoted with an
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- (2) all occurrences of the null, backspace, tab, or newline
- characters within principal components or realm names will be
- represented, respectively, with '\0', '\b', '\t', or '\n'.
-
- (3) the '\' quoting character shall not be emitted within an
- exported name except to accomodate cases (1) and (2).
-
-5. Credentials
-
- The Kerberos 5 protocol uses different credentials (in the GSSAPI
- sense) for initiating and accepting security contexts. Normal
- clients receive a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) and an associated
- session key at "login" time; the pair of a TGT and its corresponding
- session key forms a credential which is suitable for initiating
- security contexts. A ticket-granting ticket, its session key, and
- any other (ticket, key) pairs obtained through use of the
- ticket-granting-ticket, are typically stored in a Kerberos 5
- credentials cache, sometimes known as a ticket file.
-
- The encryption key used by the Kerberos server to seal tickets for a
- particular application service forms the credentials suitable for
- accepting security contexts. These service keys are typically stored
- in a Kerberos 5 key table (keytab), or srvtab file (the Kerberos 4
- terminology). In addition to their use as accepting credentials,
- these service keys may also be used to obtain initiating credentials
- for their service principal.
-
- The Kerberos 5 mechanism's credential handle may contain references
- to either or both types of credentials. It is a local matter how the
- Kerberos 5 mechanism implementation finds the appropriate Kerberos 5
- credentials cache or key table.
-
- However, when the Kerberos 5 mechanism attempts to obtain initiating
- credentials for a service principal which are not available in a
- credentials cache, and the key for that service principal is
- available in a Kerberos 5 key table, the mechanism should use the
- service key to obtain initiating credentials for that service. This
- should be accomplished by requesting a ticket-granting-ticket from
- the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), and decrypting the KDC's
- reply using the service key.
-
-6. Parameter Definitions
-
- This section defines parameter values used by the Kerberos V5 GSSAPI
- mechanism. It defines interface elements in support of portability,
- and assumes use of C language bindings per RFC 2744.
-
-6.1. Minor Status Codes
-
- This section recommends common symbolic names for minor_status values
- to be returned by the Kerberos 5 GSSAPI mechanism. Use of these
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- application portability across different implementations of the
- mechanism defined in this specification. (In all cases,
- implementations of GSS_Display_status() will enable callers to
- convert minor_status indicators to text representations.) Each
- implementation should make available, through include files or other
- means, a facility to translate these symbolic names into the concrete
- values which a particular GSSAPI implementation uses to represent the
- minor_status values specified in this section.
-
- It is recognized that this list may grow over time, and that the need
- for additional minor_status codes specific to particular
- implementations may arise. It is recommended, however, that
- implementations should return a minor_status value as defined on a
- mechanism-wide basis within this section when that code is accurately
- representative of reportable status rather than using a separate,
- implementation-defined code.
-
-6.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes
-
- These symbols should likely be incorporated into the generic GSSAPI
- C-bindings document, since they really are more general.
-
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_SERVICE_NAME
- /* "No @ in SERVICE-NAME name string" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_STRING_UID
- /* "STRING-UID-NAME contains nondigits" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_NOUSER
- /* "UID does not resolve to username" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_VALIDATE_FAILED
- /* "Validation error" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_BUFFER_ALLOC
- /* "Couldn't allocate gss_buffer_t data" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_MSG_CTX
- /* "Message context invalid" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_WRONG_SIZE
- /* "Buffer is the wrong size" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_USAGE
- /* "Credential usage type is unknown" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_G_UNKNOWN_QOP
- /* "Unknown quality of protection specified" */
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- /* "Principal in credential cache does not match desired name" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_KEYTAB_NOMATCH
- /* "No principal in keytab matches desired name" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_TGT_MISSING
- /* "Credential cache has no TGT" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_NO_SUBKEY
- /* "Authenticator has no subkey" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CONTEXT_ESTABLISHED
- /* "Context is already fully established" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_SIGN_TYPE
- /* "Unknown signature type in token" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_LENGTH
- /* "Invalid field length in token" */
-GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CTX_INCOMPLETE
- /* "Attempt to use incomplete security context" */
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-7. Kerberos Protocol Dependencies
-
- This protocol makes several assumptions about the Kerberos protocol,
- which may require changes to the successor of RFC 1510.
-
- Sequence numbers, checksum types, and address types are assumed to be
- no wider than 32 bits. The Kerberos protocol specification might
- need to be modified to accomodate this. This obviously requires some
- further discussion.
-
- Key usages need to be registered within the Kerberos protocol for use
- with GSSAPI per-message tokens. The current specification of the
- Kerberos protocol does not include descriptions of key derivations or
- key usages, but planned revisions to the protocol will include them.
-
- This protocol also makes the assumption that any cryptosystem used
- with the session key will include integrity protection, i.e., it
- assumes that no "raw" cryptosystems will be used.
-
-8. Security Considerations
-
- The GSSAPI is a security protocol; therefore, security considerations
- are discussed throughout this document. The original Kerberos 5
- GSSAPI mechanism's constraints on possible cryptosystems and checksum
- types do not permit it to be readily extended to accomodate more
- secure cryptographic technologies with larger checksums or encryption
- block sizes. Sites are strongly encouraged to adopt the mechanism
- specified in this document in the light of recent publicity about the
- deficiencies of DES.
-
-9. References
-
- [X.680] ISO/IEC, "Information technology -- Abstract Syntax Notation
- One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation", ITU-T X.680 (1997) |
- ISO/IEC 8824-1:1998
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- [X.690] ISO/IEC, "Information technology -- ASN.1 encoding rules:
- Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules
- (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)", ITU-T X.690 (1997) |
- ISO/IEC 8825-1:1998.
-
- [RFC1510] Kohl, J., Neumann, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", RFC 1510.
-
- [RFC1964] Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism",
- RFC 1964.
-
- [RFC2743] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface, Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743.
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- [RFC2744] Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API Version 2:
- C-bindings", RFC 2744.
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-10. Author's Address
-
- Tom Yu
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Room E40-345
- 77 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
- USA
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- In order to overcome the problems caused by the undefined format of
- the current FTP LIST command output, a new command is needed to
- transfer standardized listing information from Server-FTP to User-
- FTP. Commands to enable this are defined in this document.
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- In order to allow consenting clients and servers to interact more
- freely, a quite basic, and optional, virtual file store structure is
- defined.
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- This proposal also extends the FTP protocol to allow character sets
- other than US-ASCII[1] by allowing the transmission of 8-bit
- characters and the recommended use of UTF-8[2] encoding.
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- Much implemented, but long undocumented, mechanisms to permit
- restarts of interrupted data transfers in STREAM mode, are also
- included here.
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- Lastly, the HOST command has been added to allow a style of "virtual
- site" to be constructed.
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- Abstract ................................................ 2
- 1 Introduction ............................................ 4
- 2 Document Conventions .................................... 4
- 2.1 Basic Tokens ............................................ 5
- 2.2 Pathnames ............................................... 5
- 2.3 Times ................................................... 7
- 2.4 Server Replies .......................................... 8
- 3 File Modification Time (MDTM) ........................... 8
- 3.1 Syntax .................................................. 9
- 3.2 Error responses ......................................... 9
- 3.3 FEAT response for MDTM .................................. 9
- 3.4 MDTM Examples ........................................... 10
- 4 File SIZE ............................................... 11
- 4.1 Syntax .................................................. 11
- 4.2 Error responses ......................................... 11
- 4.3 FEAT response for SIZE .................................. 12
- 4.4 Size Examples ........................................... 12
- 5 Restart of Interrupted Transfer (REST) .................. 13
- 5.1 Restarting in STREAM Mode ............................... 13
- 5.2 Error Recovery and Restart .............................. 14
- 5.3 Syntax .................................................. 14
- 5.4 FEAT response for REST .................................. 16
- 5.5 REST Example ............................................ 16
- 6 Virtual FTP servers ..................................... 16
- 6.1 The HOST command ........................................ 18
- 6.2 Syntax of the HOST command .............................. 18
- 6.3 HOST command semantics .................................. 19
- 6.4 HOST command errors ..................................... 21
- 6.5 FEAT response for HOST command .......................... 22
- 7 A Trivial Virtual File Store (TVFS) ..................... 23
- 7.1 TVFS File Names ......................................... 23
- 7.2 TVFS Path Names ......................................... 24
- 7.3 FEAT Response for TVFS .................................. 25
- 7.4 OPTS for TVFS ........................................... 26
- 7.5 TVFS Examples ........................................... 26
- 8 Listings for Machine Processing (MLST and MLSD) ......... 28
- 8.1 Format of MLSx Requests ................................. 29
- 8.2 Format of MLSx Response ................................. 29
- 8.3 Filename encoding ....................................... 32
- 8.4 Format of Facts ......................................... 33
- 8.5 Standard Facts .......................................... 33
- 8.6 System Dependent and Local Facts ........................ 41
- 8.7 MLSx Examples ........................................... 42
- 8.8 FEAT response for MLSx .................................. 50
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- 9 Impact On Other FTP Commands ............................ 55
- 10 Character sets and Internationalization ................. 56
- 11 IANA Considerations ..................................... 56
- 11.1 The OS specific fact registry ........................... 56
- 11.2 The OS specific filetype registry ....................... 57
- 12 Security Considerations ................................. 57
- 13 References .............................................. 58
- Acknowledgments ......................................... 59
- Copyright ............................................... 60
- Editors' Addresses ...................................... 60
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-1. Introduction
-
- This document amends the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) [3]. Five new
- commands are added: "SIZE", "HOST", "MDTM", "MLST", and "MLSD". The
- existing command "REST" is modified. Of those, the "SIZE" and "MDTM"
- commands, and the modifications to "REST" have been in wide use for
- many years. The others are new.
-
- These commands allow a client to restart an interrupted transfer in
- transfer modes not previously supported in any documented way, to
- support the notion of virtual hosts, and to obtain a directory
- listing in a machine friendly, predictable, format.
-
- An optional structure for the server's file store (NVFS) is also
- defined, allowing servers that support such a structure to convey
- that information to clients in a standard way, thus allowing clients
- more certainty in constructing and interpreting path names.
-
-2. Document Conventions
-
- This document makes use of the document conventions defined in BCP14
- [4]. That provides the interpretation of capitalized imperative
- words like MUST, SHOULD, etc.
-
- This document also uses notation defined in STD 9 [3]. In
- particular, the terms "reply", "user", "NVFS", "file", "pathname",
- "FTP commands", "DTP", "user-FTP process", "user-PI", "user-DTP",
- "server-FTP process", "server-PI", "server-DTP", "mode", "type",
- "NVT", "control connection", "data connection", and "ASCII", are all
- used here as defined there.
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- Syntax required is defined using the Augmented BNF defined in [5].
- Some general ABNF definitions are required throughout the document,
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- those will be defined later in this section. At first reading, it
- may be wise to simply recall that these definitions exist here, and
- skip to the next section.
-
-2.1. Basic Tokens
-
- This document imports the core definitions given in Appendix A of
- [5]. There definitions will be found for basic ABNF elements like
- ALPHA, DIGIT, SP, etc. To that, the following terms are added for
- use in this document.
-
- TCHAR = VCHAR / SP / HTAB ; visible plus white space
- RCHAR = ALPHA / DIGIT / "," / "." / ":" / "!" /
- "@" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "^" /
- "&" / "(" / ")" / "-" / "_" /
- "+" / "?" / "/" / "\" / "'" /
- DQUOTE ; <"> -- double quote character (%x22)
-
- The VCHAR (from [5]), TCHAR, and RCHAR types give basic character
- types from varying sub-sets of the ASCII character set for use in
- various commands and responses.
-
- token = 1*RCHAR
-
- A "token" is a string whose precise meaning depends upon the context
- in which it is used. In some cases it will be a value from a set of
- possible values maintained elsewhere. In others it might be a string
- invented by one party to an FTP conversation from whatever sources it
- finds relevant.
-
- Note that in ABNF, string literals are case insensitive. That
- convention is preserved in this document, and implies that FTP
- commands added by this specification have names that can be
- represented in any case. That is, "MDTM" is the same as "mdtm",
- "Mdtm" and "MdTm" etc. However note that ALPHA, in particular, is
- case sensitive. That implies that a "token" is a case sensitive
- value. That implication is correct.
-
-2.2. Pathnames
-
- Various FTP commands take pathnames as arguments, or return pathnames
- in responses. When the MLST command is supported, as indicated in
- the response to the FEAT command [6], pathnames are to be transferred
- in one of the following two formats.
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- utf-8-name = <a UTF-8 encoded Unicode string>
- raw = <any string not being a valid UTF-8 encoding>
-
- Which format is used is at the option of the user-PI or server-PI
- sending the pathname. UTF-8 encodings [2] contain enough internal
- structure that it is always, in practice, possible to determine
- whether a UTF-8 or raw encoding has been used, in those cases where
- it matters. While it is useful for the user-PI to be able to
- correctly display a pathname received from the server-PI to the user,
- it is far more important for the user-PI to be able to retain and
- retransmit the identical pathname when required. Implementations are
- advised against converting a UTF-8 pathname to a local encoding, and
- then attempting to invert the encoding later. Note that ASCII is a
- subset of UTF-8.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, the pathname is terminated by the CRLF
- that terminates the FTP command, or by the CRLF that ends a reply.
- Any trailing spaces preceding that CRLF form part of the name.
- Exactly one space will precede the pathname and serve as a separator
- from the preceding syntax element. Any additional spaces form part
- of the pathname. See [7] for a fuller explanation of the character
- encoding issues. All implementations supporting MLST MUST support
- [7].
-
- Implementations should also beware that the control connection uses
- Telnet NVT conventions [8], and that the Telnet IAC character, if
- part of a pathname sent over the control connection, MUST be
- correctly escaped as defined by the Telnet protocol.
-
- Implementors should also be aware that although Telnet NVT
- conventions are used over the control connections, Telnet option
- negotiation MUST NOT be attempted. See section 4.1.2.12 of [9].
-
-2.2.1. Pathname Syntax
-
- Except where TVFS is supported (see section 7) this specification
- imposes no syntax upon pathnames. Nor does it restrict the character
- set from which pathnames are created. This does not imply that the
- NVFS is required to make sense of all possible pathnames. Server-PIs
- may restrict the syntax of valid pathnames in their NVFS in any
- manner appropriate to their implementation or underlying file system.
- Similarly, a server-PI may parse the pathname, and assign meaning to
- the components detected.
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- For the commands defined in this specification, all pathnames are to
- be treated literally. That is, for a pathname given as a parameter
- to a command, the file whose name is identical to the pathname given
- is implied. No characters from the pathname may be treated as
- special or "magic", thus no pattern matching (other than for exact
- equality) between the pathname given and the files present in the
- NVFS of the Server-FTP is permitted.
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- Clients that desire some form of pattern matching functionality must
- obtain a listing of the relevant directory, or directories, and
- implement their own filename selection procedures.
-
-2.3. Times
-
- The syntax of a time value is:
-
- time-val = 14DIGIT [ "." 1*DIGIT ]
-
- The leading, mandatory, fourteen digits are to be interpreted as, in
- order from the leftmost, four digits giving the year, with a range of
- 1000-9999, two digits giving the month of the year, with a range of
- 01-12, two digits giving the day of the month, with a range of 01-31,
- two digits giving the hour of the day, with a range of 00-23, two
- digits giving minutes past the hour, with a range of 00-59, and
- finally, two digits giving seconds past the minute, with a range of
- 00-60 (with 60 being used only at a leap second). Years in the tenth
- century, and earlier, cannot be expressed. This is not considered a
- serious defect of the protocol.
-
- The optional digits, which are preceded by a period, give decimal
- fractions of a second. These may be given to whatever precision is
- appropriate to the circumstance, however implementations MUST NOT add
- precision to time-vals where that precision does not exist in the
- underlying value being transmitted.
-
- Symbolically, a time-val may be viewed as
-
- YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.sss
-
- The "." and subsequent digits ("sss") are optional. However the "."
- MUST NOT appear unless at least one following digit also appears.
-
- Time values are always represented in UTC (GMT), and in the Gregorian
- calendar regardless of what calendar may have been in use at the date
- and time indicated at the location of the server-PI.
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- not considered here. A server-FTP process should always use the same
- time reference, so the times it returns will be consistent. Clients
- are not expected to be time synchronized with the server, so the
- possible difference in times that might be reported by the different
- time standards is not considered important.
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-2.4. Server Replies
-
- Section 4.2 of [3] defines the format and meaning of replies by the
- server-PI to FTP commands from the user-PI. Those reply conventions
- are used here without change.
-
- error-response = error-code SP *TCHAR CRLF
- error-code = ("4" / "5") 2DIGIT
-
- Implementors should note that the ABNF syntax (which was not used in
- [3]) used in this document, and other FTP related documents,
- sometimes shows replies using the one line format. Unless otherwise
- explicitly stated, that is not intended to imply that multi-line
- responses are not permitted. Implementors should assume that, unless
- stated to the contrary, any reply to any FTP command (including QUIT)
- may be of the multi-line format described in [3].
-
- Throughout this document, replies will be identified by the three
- digit code that is their first element. Thus the term "500 reply"
- means a reply from the server-PI using the three digit code "500".
-
-3. File Modification Time (MDTM)
-
- The FTP command, MODIFICATION TIME (MDTM), can be used to determine
- when a file in the server NVFS was last modified. This command has
- existed in many FTP servers for many years, as an adjunct to the REST
- command for STREAM mode, thus is widely available. However, where
- supported, the "modify" fact which can be provided in the result from
- the new MLST command is recommended as a superior alternative.
-
- When attempting to restart a RETRieve, if the User-FTP makes use of
- the MDTM command, or "modify" fact, it can check and see if the
- modification time of the source file is more recent than the
- modification time of the partially transferred file. If it is, then
- most likely the source file has changed and it would be unsafe to
- restart the previously incomplete file transfer.
-
- When attempting to restart a STORe, the User FTP can use the MDTM
- command to discover the modification time of the partially
- transferred file. If it is older than the modification time of the
- file that is about to be STORed, then most likely the source file has
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-
- Note that using MLST (described below) where available, can provide
- this information, and much more, thus giving an even better
- indication that a file has changed, and that restarting a transfer
- would not give valid results.
-
- Note that this is applicable to any RESTart attempt, regardless of
- the mode of the file transfer.
-
-3.1. Syntax
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- The syntax for the MDTM command is:
-
- mdtm = "MdTm" SP pathname CRLF
-
- As with all FTP commands, the "MDTM" command label is interpreted in
- a case insensitive manner.
-
- The "pathname" specifies an object in the NVFS which may be the
- object of a RETR command. Attempts to query the modification time of
- files that are unable to be retrieved generate undefined responses.
-
- The server-PI will respond to the MDTM command with a 213 reply
- giving the last modification time of the file whose pathname was
- supplied, or a 550 reply if the file does not exist, the modification
- time is unavailable, or some other error has occurred.
-
- mdtm-response = "213" SP time-val CRLF /
- error-response
-
-3.2. Error responses
-
- Where the command is correctly parsed, but the modification time is
- not available, either because the pathname identifies no existing
- entity, or because the information is not available for the entity
- named, then a 550 reply should be sent. Where the command cannot be
- correctly parsed, a 500 or 501 reply should be sent, as specified in
- [3].
-
-3.3. FEAT response for MDTM
-
- When replying to the FEAT command [6], an FTP server process that
- supports the MDTM command MUST include a line containing the single
- word "MDTM". This MAY be sent in upper or lower case, or a mixture
- of both (it is case insensitive) but SHOULD be transmitted in upper
- case only. That is, the response SHOULD be
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- S> 211- <any descriptive text>
- S> ...
- S> MDTM
- S> ...
- S> 211 End
-
- The ellipses indicate place holders where other features may be
- included, and are not required. The one space indentation of the
- feature lines is mandatory [6].
-
-3.4. MDTM Examples
-
- If we assume the existence of three files, A B and C, and a directory
- D, and no other files at all, then the MTDM command may behave as
- indicated. The "C>" lines are commands from user-PI to server-PI,
- the "S>" lines are server-PI replies.
-
- C> MDTM A
- S> 213 19980615100045.014
- C> MDTM B
- S> 213 19980615100045.014
- C> MDTM C
- S> 213 19980705132316
- C> MDTM D
- S> 550 D is not retrievable
- C> MDTM E
- S> 550 No file named "E"
- C> mdtm file6
- S> 213 19990929003355
- C> MdTm 19990929043300 File6
- S> 213 19991005213102
- C> MdTm 19990929043300 file6
- S> 550 19990929043300 file6: No such file or directory.
-
- From that we can conclude that both A and B were last modified at the
- same time (to the nearest millisecond), and that C was modified 21
- days and several hours later.
-
- The times are in GMT, so file A was modified on the 15th of June,
- 1998, at approximately 11am in London (summer time was then in
- effect), or perhaps at 8pm in Melbourne, Australia, or at 6am in New
- York. All of those represent the same absolute time of course. The
- location where the file was modified, and consequently the local wall
- clock time at that location, is not available.
-
- There is no file named "E" in the current directory, but there are
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-4. File SIZE
-
- The FTP command, SIZE OF FILE (SIZE), is used to obtain the transfer
- size of a file from the server-FTP process. That is, the exact
- number of octets (8 bit bytes) which would be transmitted over the
- data connection should that file be transmitted. This value will
- change depending on the current STRUcture, MODE and TYPE of the data
- connection, or a data connection which would be created were one
- created now. Thus, the result of the SIZE command is dependent on
- the currently established STRU, MODE and TYPE parameters.
-
- The SIZE command returns how many octets would be transferred if the
- file were to be transferred using the current transfer structure,
- mode and type. This command is normally used in conjunction with the
- RESTART (REST) command. The server-PI might need to read the
- partially transferred file, do any appropriate conversion, and count
- the number of octets that would be generated when sending the file in
- order to correctly respond to this command. Estimates of the file
- transfer size MUST NOT be returned, only precise information is
- acceptable.
-
-4.1. Syntax
-
- The syntax of the SIZE command is:
-
- size = "Size" SP pathname CRLF
-
- The server-PI will respond to the SIZE command with a 213 reply
- giving the transfer size of the file whose pathname was supplied, or
- an error response if the file does not exist, the size is
- unavailable, or some other error has occurred. The value returned is
- in a format suitable for use with the RESTART (REST) command for mode
- STREAM, provided the transfer mode and type are not altered.
-
- size-response = "213" SP 1*DIGIT CRLF /
- error-response
-
-4.2. Error responses
-
- Where the command is correctly parsed, but the size is not available,
- either because the pathname identifies no existing entity, or because
- the entity named cannot be transferred in the current MODE and TYPE
- (or at all), then a 550 reply should be sent. Where the command
- cannot be correctly parsed, a 500 or 501 reply should be sent, as
- specified in [3].
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- When replying to the FEAT command [6], an FTP server process that
- supports the SIZE command MUST include a line containing the single
- word "SIZE". This word is case insensitive, and MAY be sent in any
- mixture of upper or lower case, however it SHOULD be sent in upper
- case. That is, the response SHOULD be
-
- C> FEAT
- S> 211- <any descriptive text>
- S> ...
- S> SIZE
- S> ...
- S> 211 END
-
- The ellipses indicate place holders where other features may be
- included, and are not required. The one space indentation of the
- feature lines is mandatory [6].
-
-4.4. Size Examples
-
- Consider a text file "Example" stored on a Unix(TM) server where each
- end of line is represented by a single octet. Assume the file
- contains 112 lines, and 1830 octets total. Then the SIZE command
- would produce:
-
- C> TYPE I
- S> 200 Type set to I.
- C> size Example
- S> 213 1830
- C> TYPE A
- S> 200 Type set to A.
- C> Size Example
- S> 213 1942
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- Notice that with TYPE=A the SIZE command reports an extra 112 octets.
- Those are the extra octets that need to be inserted, one at the end
- of each line, to provide correct end of line semantics for a transfer
- using TYPE=A. Other systems might need to make other changes to the
- transfer format of files when converting between TYPEs and MODEs.
- The SIZE command takes all of that into account.
-
- Since calculating the size of a file with this degree of precision
- may take considerable effort on the part of the server-PI, user-PIs
- should not used this command unless this precision is essential (such
- as when about to restart an interrupted transfer). For other uses,
- the "Size" fact of the MLST command (see section 8.5.7) ought be
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- To avoid having to resend the entire file if the file is only
- partially transferred, both sides need some way to be able to agree
- on where in the data stream to restart the data transfer.
-
- The FTP specification [3] includes three modes of data transfer,
- Stream, Block and Compressed. In Block and Compressed modes, the
- data stream that is transferred over the data connection is
- formatted, allowing the embedding of restart markers into the stream.
- The sending DTP can include a restart marker with whatever
- information it needs to be able to restart a file transfer at that
- point. The receiving DTP can keep a list of these restart markers,
- and correlate them with how the file is being saved. To restart the
- file transfer, the receiver just sends back that last restart marker,
- and both sides know how to resume the data transfer. Note that there
- are some flaws in the description of the restart mechanism in RFC 959
- [3]. See section 4.1.3.4 of RFC 1123 [9] for the corrections.
-
-5.1. Restarting in STREAM Mode
-
- In Stream mode, the data connection contains just a stream of
- unformatted octets of data. Explicit restart markers thus cannot be
- inserted into the data stream, they would be indistinguishable from
- data. For this reason, the FTP specification [3] did not provide the
- ability to do restarts in stream mode. However, there is not really
- a need to have explicit restart markers in this case, as restart
- markers can be implied by the octet offset into the data stream.
-
- Because the data stream defines the file in STREAM mode, a different
- data stream would represent a different file. Thus, an offset will
- always represent the same position within a file. On the other hand,
- in other modes than STREAM, the same file can be transferred using
- quite different octet sequences, and yet be reconstructed into the
- one identical file. Thus an offset into the data stream in transfer
- modes other than STREAM would not give an unambiguous restart point.
-
- If the data representation TYPE is IMAGE, and the STRUcture is File,
- for many systems the file will be stored exactly in the same format
- as it is sent across the data connection. It is then usually very
- easy for the receiver to determine how much data was previously
- received, and notify the sender of the offset where the transfer
- should be restarted. In other representation types and structures
- more effort will be required, but it remains always possible to
- determine the offset with finite, but perhaps non-negligible, effort.
- In the worst case an FTP process may need to open a data connection
- to itself, set the appropriate transfer type and structure, and
- actually transmit the file, counting the transmitted octets.
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- directly calculate the restart marker, and send that information in
- the RESTart command. However, if the user-FTP process is intending
- to restart sending the file, it needs to be able to determine how
- much data was previously sent, and correctly received and saved. A
- new FTP command is needed to get this information. This is the
- purpose of the SIZE command, as documented in section 4.
-
-5.2. Error Recovery and Restart
-
- STREAM MODE transfers with FILE STRUcture may be restarted even
- though no restart marker has been transferred in addition to the data
- itself. This is done by using the SIZE command, if needed, in
- combination with the RESTART (REST) command, and one of the standard
- file transfer commands.
-
- When using TYPE ASCII or IMAGE, the SIZE command will return the
- number of octets that would actually be transferred if the file were
- to be sent between the two systems. I.e. with type IMAGE, the SIZE
- normally would be the number of octets in the file. With type ASCII,
- the SIZE would be the number of octets in the file including any
- modifications required to satisfy the TYPE ASCII CR-LF end of line
- convention.
-
-5.3. Syntax
-
- The syntax for the REST command when the current transfer mode is
- STREAM is:
-
- rest = "Rest" SP 1*DIGIT CRLF
-
- The numeric value gives the number of octets of the immediately
- following transfer to not actually send, effectively causing the
- transmission to be restarted at a later point. A value of zero
- effectively disables restart, causing the entire file to be
- transmitted. The server-PI will respond to the REST command with a
- 350 reply, indicating that the REST parameter has been saved, and
- that another command, which should be either RETR or STOR, should
- then follow to complete the restart.
-
- rest-response = "350" SP *TCHAR CRLF /
- error-response
-
- Server-FTP processes may permit transfer commands other than RETR and
- STOR, such as APPE and STOU, to complete a restart, however, this is
- not recommended. STOU (store unique) is undefined in this usage, as
- storing the remainder of a file into a unique filename is rarely
- going to be useful. If APPE (append) is permitted, it MUST act
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- both cases, octets from the data connection are placed into the file
- at the location indicated by the restart marker value.
-
- The REST command is intended to complete a failed transfer. Use with
- RETR is comparatively well defined in all cases, as the client bears
- the responsibility of merging the retrieved data with the partially
- retrieved file. If it chooses to use the data obtained other than to
- complete an earlier transfer, or if it chooses to re-retrieve data
- that had been retrieved before, that is its choice. With STOR,
- however, the server must insert the data into the file named. The
- results are undefined if a client uses REST to do other than restart
- to complete a transfer of a file which had previously failed to
- completely transfer. In particular, if the restart marker set with a
- REST command is not at the end of the data currently stored at the
- server, as reported by the server, or if insufficient data are
- provided in a STOR that follows a REST to extend the destination file
- to at least its previous size, then the effects are undefined.
-
- The REST command must be the last command issued before the data
- transfer command which is to cause a restarted rather than complete
- file transfer. The effect of issuing a REST command at any other
- time is undefined. The server-PI may react to a badly positioned
- REST command by issuing an error response to the following command,
- not being a restartable data transfer command, or it may save the
- restart value and apply it to the next data transfer command, or it
- may silently ignore the inappropriate restart attempt. Because of
- this, a user-PI that has issued a REST command, but which has not
- successfully transmitted the following data transfer command for any
- reason, should send another REST command before the next data
- transfer command. If that transfer is not to be restarted, then
- "REST 0" should be issued.
-
- An error-response will follow a REST command only when the server
- does not implement the command, or the restart marker value is
- syntactically invalid for the current transfer mode. That is, in
- STREAM mode, if something other than one or more digits appears in
- the parameter to the REST command. Any other errors, including such
- problems as restart marker out of range, should be reported when the
- following transfer command is issued. Such errors will cause that
- transfer request to be rejected with an error indicating the invalid
- restart attempt.
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- Where a server-FTP process supports RESTart in STREAM mode, as
- specified here, it MUST include in the response to the FEAT command
- [6], a line containing exactly the string "REST STREAM". This string
- is not case sensitive, but SHOULD be transmitted in upper case.
- Where REST is not supported at all, or supported only in block or
- compressed modes, the REST line MUST NOT be included in the FEAT
- response. Where required, the response SHOULD be
-
- C> feat
- S> 211- <any descriptive text>
- S> ...
- S> REST STREAM
- S> ...
- S> 211 end
-
- The ellipses indicate place holders where other features may be
- included, and are not required. The one space indentation of the
- feature lines is mandatory [6].
-
-5.5. REST Example
-
- Assume that the transfer of a largish file has previously been
- interrupted after 802816 octets had been received, that the previous
- transfer was with TYPE=I, and that it has been verified that the file
- on the server has not since changed.
-
- C> TYPE I
- S> 200 Type set to I.
- C> PORT 127,0,0,1,15,107
- S> 200 PORT command successful.
- C> REST 802816
- S> 350 Restarting at 802816. Send STORE or RETRIEVE
- C> RETR cap60.pl198.tar
- S> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection
- [...]
- S> 226 Transfer complete.
-
-6. Virtual FTP servers
-
- It has become common in the Internet for many domain names to be
- allocated to a single IP address. This has introduced the concept of
- a "virtual host", where a host appears to exist as an independent
- entity, but in reality shares all of its resources with one, or more,
- other such hosts.
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- the FTP Server can detect is an incoming FTP connection to a
- particular IP address. That is, all domain names which share the IP
- address also share the FTP server, and more importantly, its NVFS.
- This means that the various virtual hosts cannot offer different
- virtual file systems to clients, nor can they offer different
- authentication systems.
-
- No scheme can overcome this without modifications of some kind to the
- user-PI and the user-FTP process. That process is the only entity
- that knows which virtual host is required. It has performed the
- domain name to IP address translation, and thus has the original
- domain name available.
-
- One method which could be used to allow a style of virtual host would
- be for the client to simply send a "CWD" command after connecting,
- using the virtual host name as the argument to the CWD command. This
- would allow the server-FTP process to implement the file stores of
- the virtual hosts as sub-directories in its NVFS. This is simple,
- and supported by essentially all server-FTP implementations without
- requiring any code changes.
-
- While that method is simple to describe, and to implement, it suffers
- from several drawbacks. First, the "CWD" command is available only
- after the user-PI has authenticated itself to the server-FTP process.
- Thus, all virtual hosts would be required to share a common
- authentication scheme. Second, either the server-FTP process needs
- to be modified to understand the special nature of this first CWD
- command, negating most of the advantage of this scheme, or all users
- must see the same identical NVFS view upon connecting (they must
- connect in the same initial directory) or the NVFS must implement the
- full set of virtual host directories at each possible initial
- directory for any possible user, or the virtual host will not be
- truly transparent. Third, and again unless the server is specially
- modified, a user connecting this way to a virtual host would be able
- to trivially move to any other virtual host supported at the same
- server-FTP process, exposing the nature of the virtual host.
-
- Other schemes overloading other existing FTP commands have also been
- proposed. None of those have sufficient merit to be worth
- discussion.
-
- The conclusion from the examination of the possibilities seems to be
- that to obtain an adequate emulation of "real" FTP servers, server
- modifications to support virtual hosts are required. A new command
- seems most likely to provide the support required.
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- A new command "HOST" is added to the FTP command set to allow
- server-FTP process to determine to which of possibly many virtual
- hosts the client wishes to connect. This command is intended to be
- issued before the user is authenticated, allowing the authentication
- scheme, and set of legal users, to be dependent upon the virtual host
- chosen. Server-FTP processes may, if they desire, permit the HOST
- command to be issued after the user has been authenticated, or may
- treat that as an erroneous sequence of commands. The behavior of the
- server-FTP process which does allow late HOST commands is undefined.
- One reasonable interpretation would be for the user-PI to be returned
- to the state that existed after the TCP connection was first
- established, before user authentication.
-
- Servers should note that the response to the HOST command is a
- sensible time to send their "welcome" message. This allows the
- message to be personalized for any virtual hosts that are supported,
- and also allows the client to have determined supported languages, or
- representations, for the message, and other messages, via the FEAT
- response, and selected an appropriate one via the LANG command. See
- [7] for more information.
-
-6.2. Syntax of the HOST command
-
- The HOST command is defined as follows.
-
- host-command = "Host" SP hostname CRLF
- hostname = 1*DNCHAR 1*( "." 1*DNCHAR ) [ "." ]
- DNCHAR = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "_" / "$" /
- "!" / "%" / "[" / "]" / ":"
- host-response = host-ok / error-response
- host-ok = "220" [ SP *TCHAR ] CRLF
-
- As with all FTP commands, the "host" command word is case
- independent, and may be specified in any character case desired.
-
- The "hostname" given as a parameter specifies the virtual host to
- which access is desired. It should normally be the same name that
- was used to obtain the IP address to which the FTP control connection
- was made, after any client conversions to convert an abbreviated or
- local alias to a complete (fully qualified) domain name, but before
- resolving a DNS alias (owner of a CNAME resource record) to its
- canonical name.
-
- If the client was given a network literal address, and consequently
- was not required to derive it from a hostname, it should send the
- HOST command with the network address, as specified to it, enclosed
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- brackets, but is not required to be, from which the server deduced
- that a literal address had been specified.) That is, for example
-
- HOST [10.1.2.3]
-
- should be sent if the client had been instructed to connect to
- "10.1.2.3", or "[10.1.2.3]", or perhaps even IPv4:10.1.2.3. The
- method of indicating to a client that a literal address is to be used
- is beyond the scope of this specification.
-
- The parameter is otherwise to be treated as a "complete domain name",
- as that term is defined in section 3.1 of RFC 1034 [10]. That
- implies that the name is to be treated as a case independent string,
- in that upper case ASCII characters are to be treated as equivalent
- to the corresponding lower case ASCII characters, but otherwise
- preserved as given. It also implies some limits on the length of the
- parameter and of the components that create its internal structure.
- Those limits are not altered in any way here.
-
- RFC 1034 imposes no other restrictions upon what kinds of names can
- be stored in the DNS. Nor does RFC 1035. This specification,
- however, allows only a restricted set of names for the purposes of
- the HOST command. Those restrictions can be inferred from the ABNF
- grammar given for the "hostname".
-
-6.3. HOST command semantics
-
- Upon receiving the HOST command, before authenticating the user-PI, a
- server-FTP process should validate that the hostname given represents
- a valid virtual host for that server, and if so, establish the
- appropriate environment for that virtual host. The meaning of that
- is not specified here, and may range from doing nothing at all, or
- performing a simple change of working directory, to much more
- elaborate state changes, as required.
-
- If the hostname specified is unknown at the server, or if the server
- is otherwise unwilling to treat the particular connection as a
- connection to the hostname specified, the server will respond with a
- 504 reply.
-
- Note: servers may require that the name specified is in some sense
- equivalent to the particular network address that was used to reach
- the server.
-
- If the hostname specified would normally be acceptable, but for any
- reason is temporarily unavailable, the server SHOULD reply to the
- HOST command with a 434 reply.
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- used on the initial connection established "welcome" message. This
- is done deliberately so as to allow the implementation to implement
- the front end FTP server as a wrapper which simply waits for the HOST
- command, and then invokes an older, RFC959 compliant, server in the
- appropriate environment for the particular hostname received.
-
-6.3.1. The REIN command
-
- As specified in [3], the REIN command returns the state of the
- connection to that it was immediately after the transport connection
- was opened. That is not changed here. The effect of a HOST command
- will be lost if a REIN command is performed, a new HOST command must
- be issued.
-
- Implementors of user-FTP should be aware that server-FTP
- implementations which implement the HOST command as a wrapper around
- older implementations will be unable to correctly implement the REIN
- command. In such an implementation, REIN will typically return the
- server-FTP to the state that existed immediately after the HOST
- command was issued, instead of to the state immediately after the
- connection was opened.
-
-6.3.2. User-PI usage of HOST
-
- A user-PI that conforms to this specification, MUST send the HOST
- command after opening the transport connection, or after any REIN
- command, before attempting to authenticate the user with the USER
- command.
-
- The following state diagram shows a typical sequence of flow of
- control, where the "B" (begin) state is assumed to occur after the
- transport connection has opened, or a REIN command has succeeded.
- Other commands (such as FEAT [6]) which require no authentication may
- have intervened. This diagram is modeled upon (and largely borrowed
- from) the similar diagram in section 6 of [3].
-
- In this diagram, a three digit reply indicates that precise server
- reply code, a single digit on a reply path indicates any server reply
- beginning with that digit, other than any three digit replies that
- might take another path.
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- | B |---------->| W |-----------------
- +---+ +---+ |
- | | |
- 2,500,502 | | 4,501,503,504 |
- -------------- ------------- |
- | | |
- V 1 | V
- +---+ USER +---+-------------->+---+
- | |---------->| W | 2 ----->| E |
- +---+ +---+------ | --->+---+
- | | | | | |
- 3 | | 4,5 | | | |
- -------------- ----- | | | |
- | | | | | |
- | | | | | |
- | --------- | |
- | 1| | | | |
- V | | | | |
- +---+ PASS +---+ 2 | ------->+---+
- | |---------->| W |-------------->| S |
- +---+ +---+ ----------->+---+
- | | | | | |
- 3 | |4,5| | | |
- -------------- -------- | |
- | | | | | ----
- | | | | | |
- | ----------- |
- | 1,3| | | | |
- V | 2| | | V
- +---+ ACCT +---+-- | ------>+---+
- | |---------->| W | 4,5 --------->| F |
- +---+ +---+-------------->+---+
-
-6.4. HOST command errors
-
- The server-PI shall reply with a 500 or 502 reply if the HOST command
- is unrecognized or unimplemented. A 503 reply may be sent if the
- HOST command is given after a previous HOST command, or after a user
- has been authenticated. Alternately, the server may accept the
- command at such a time, with server defined behavior. A 501 reply
- should be sent if the hostname given is syntactically invalid, and a
- 504 reply if a syntactically valid hostname is not a valid virtual
- host name for the server.
-
- In all such cases the server-FTP process should act as if no HOST
- command had been given.
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- server-PI does not implement the HOST command style virtual server.
- It may then proceed to login as if the HOST command had succeeded,
- and perhaps, attempt a CWD command to the hostname after
- authenticating the user.
-
- A user-PI receiving some other error reply should assume that the
- virtual HOST is unavailable, and terminate communications.
-
- A server-PI that receives a USER command, beginning the
- authentication sequence, without having received a HOST command
- SHOULD NOT reject the USER command. Clients conforming to earlier
- FTP specifications do not send HOST commands. In this case the
- server may act as if some default virtual host had been explicitly
- selected, or may enter an environment different from that of all
- supported virtual hosts, perhaps one in which a union of all
- available accounts exists, and which presents a NVFS which appears to
- contain sub-directories containing the NVFS for all virtual hosts
- supported.
-
-6.5. FEAT response for HOST command
-
- A server-FTP process that supports the host command, and virtual FTP
- servers, MUST include in the response to the FEAT command [6], a
- feature line indicating that the HOST command is supported. This
- line should contain the single word "HOST". This MAY be sent in
- upper or lower case, or a mixture of both (it is case insensitive)
- but SHOULD be transmitted in upper case only. That is, the response
- SHOULD be
-
- C> Feat
- S> 211- <any descriptive text>
- S> ...
- S> HOST
- S> ...
- S> 211 End
-
- The ellipses indicate place holders where other features may be
- included, and are not required. The one space indentation of the
- feature lines is mandatory [6].
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-
- Traditionally, FTP has placed almost no constraints upon the file
- store (NVFS) provided by a server. This specification does not alter
- that. However, it has become common for servers to attempt to
- provide at least file system naming conventions modeled loosely upon
- those of the UNIX(TM) file system. That is, a tree structured file
- system, built of directories, each of which can contain other
- directories, or other kinds of files, or both. Each file and
- directory has a file name relative to the directory that contains it,
- except for the directory at the root of the tree, which is contained
- in no other directory, and hence has no name of its own.
-
- That which has so far been described is perfectly consistent with the
- standard FTP NVFS and access mechanisms. The "CWD" command is used
- to move from one directory to an embedded directory. "CDUP" may be
- provided to return to the parent directory, and the various file
- manipulation commands ("RETR", "STOR", the rename commands, etc) are
- used to manipulate files within the current directory.
-
- However, it is often useful to be able to reference files other than
- by changing directories, especially as FTP provides no guaranteed
- mechanism to return to a previous directory. The Trivial Virtual
- File Store (TVFS), if implemented, provides that mechanism.
-
-7.1. TVFS File Names
-
- Where a server implements the TVFS, no elementary filename shall
- contain the character "/". Where the underlying natural file store
- permits files, or directories, to contain the "/" character in their
- names, a server-PI implementing TVFS must encode that character in
- some manner whenever file or directory names are being returned to
- the user-PI, and reverse that encoding whenever such names are being
- accepted from the user-PI.
-
- The encoding method to be used is not specified here. Where some
- other character is illegal in file and directory names in the
- underlying file store, a simple transliteration may be sufficient.
- Where there is no suitable substitute character a more complex
- encoding scheme, possibly using an escape character, is likely to be
- required.
-
- With the one exception of the unnamed root directory, a TVFS file
- name may not be empty. That is, all other file names contain at
- least one character.
-
- With the sole exception of the "/" character, any valid IS10646
- character [11] may be used in a TVFS filename. When transmitted,
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-
-7.2. TVFS Path Names
-
- A TVFS "Path Name" combines the file or directory name of a target
- file or directory, with the directory names of zero or more enclosing
- directories, so as to allow the target file or directory to be
- referenced other than when the server's "current working directory"
- is the directory directly containing the target file or directory.
-
- By definition, every TVFS file or directory name is also a TVFS path
- name. Such a path name is valid to reference the file from the
- directory containing the name, that is, when that directory is the
- server-FTP's current working directory.
-
- Other TVFS path names are constructed by prefixing a path name by a
- name of a directory from which the path is valid, and separating the
- two with the "/" character. Such a path name is valid to reference
- the file or directory from the directory containing the newly added
- directory name.
-
- Where a path name has been extended to the point where the directory
- added is the unnamed root directory, the path name will begin with
- the "/" character. Such a path is known as a fully qualified path
- name. Fully qualified paths may, obviously, not be further extended,
- as, by definition, no directory contains the root directory. Being
- unnamed, it cannot be represented in any other directory. A fully
- qualified path name is valid to reference the named file or directory
- from any location (that is, regardless of what the current working
- directory may be) in the virtual file store.
-
- Any path name which is not a fully qualified path name may be
- referred to as a "relative path name" and will only correctly
- reference the intended file when the current working directory of the
- server-FTP is a directory from which the relative path name is valid.
-
- As a special case, the path name "/" is defined to be a fully
- qualified path name referring to the root directory. That is, the
- root directory does not have a directory (or file) name, but does
- have a path name. This special path name may be used only as is as a
- reference to the root directory. It may not be combined with other
- path names using the rules above, as doing so would lead to a path
- name containing two consecutive "/" characters, which is an undefined
- sequence.
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- + It is not required, or expected, that there be only one fully
- qualified path name that will reference any particular file or
- directory.
- + As a caveat, though the TVFS file store is basically tree
- structured, there is no requirement that any file or directory
- have only one parent directory.
- + As defined, no TVFS path name will ever contain two consecutive
- "/" characters. Such a name is not illegal however, and may be
- defined by the server for any purpose that suits it. Clients
- implementing this specification should not assume any semantics
- at all for such names.
- + Similarly, other than the special case path that refers to the
- root directory, no TVFS path name constructed as defined here
- will ever end with the "/" character. Such names are also not
- illegal, but are undefined.
- + While any legal IS10646 character is permitted to occur in a TVFS
- file or directory name, other than "/", server FTP
- implementations are not required to support all possible IS10646
- characters. The subset supported is entirely at the discretion
- of the server. The case (where it exists) of the characters that
- make up file, directory, and path names may be significant.
- Unless determined otherwise by means unspecified here, clients
- should assume that all such names are comprised of characters
- whose case is significant. Servers are free to treat case (or
- any other attribute) of a name as irrelevant, and hence map two
- names which appear to be distinct onto the same underlying file.
- + There are no defined "magic" names, like ".", ".." or "C:".
- Servers may implement such names, with any semantics they choose,
- but are not required to do so.
- + TVFS imposes no particular semantics or properties upon files,
- guarantees no access control schemes, or any of the other common
- properties of a file store. Only the naming scheme is defined.
-
-7.3. FEAT Response for TVFS
-
- In response to the FEAT command [6] a server that wishes to indicate
- support for the TVFS as defined here will include a line that begins
- with the four characters "TVFS" (in any case, or mixture of cases,
- upper case is not required). Servers SHOULD send upper case.
-
- Such a response to the FEAT command MUST NOT be returned unless the
- server implements TVFS as defined here.
-
- Later specifications may add to the TVFS definition. Such additions
- should be notified by means of additional text appended to the TVFS
- feature line. Such specifications, if any, will define the extra
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- Until such a specification is defined, servers should not include
- anything after "TVFS" in the TVFS feature line. Clients, however,
- should be prepared to deal with arbitrary text following the four
- defined characters, and simply ignore it if unrecognized.
-
- A typical response to the FEAT command issued by a server
- implementing only this specification would be:
-
- C> feat
- S> 211- <any descriptive text>
- S> ...
- S> TVFS
- S> ...
- S> 211 end
-
- The ellipses indicate place holders where other features may be
- included, and are not required. The one space indentation of the
- feature lines is mandatory [6], and is not counted as one of the
- first four characters for the purposes of this feature listing.
-
- The TVFS feature adds no new commands to the FTP command repertoire.
-
-7.4. OPTS for TVFS
-
- There are no options in this TVFS specification, and hence there is
- no OPTS command defined.
-
-7.5. TVFS Examples
-
- Assume a TVFS file store is comprised of a root directory, which
- contains two directories (A and B) and two non-directory files (X and
- Y). The A directory contains two directories (C and D) and one other
- file (Z). The B directory contains just two non-directory files (P
- and Q) and the C directory also two non-directory files (also named P
- and Q, by chance). The D directory is empty, that is, contains no
- files or directories.
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- (unnamed root)
- / | \ \
- / | \ \
- A X B Y
- /|\ / \
- / | \ / \
- C D Z P Q
- / \
- / \
- P Q
-
- Given this structure, the following fully qualified path names exist.
-
- /
- /A
- /B
- /X
- /Y
- /A/C
- /A/D
- /A/Z
- /A/C/P
- /A/C/Q
- /B/P
- /B/Q
-
- It is clear that none of the paths / /A /B or /A/D refer to the same
- directory, as the contents of each is different. Nor do any of / /A
- /A/C or /A/D. However /A/C and /B might be the same directory, there
- is insufficient information given to tell. Any of the other path
- names (/X /Y /A/Z /A/C/P /A/C/Q /B/P and /B/Q) may refer to the same
- underlying files, in almost any combination.
-
- If the current working directory of the server-FTP is /A then the
- following path names, in addition to all the fully qualified path
- names, are valid
-
- C
- D
- Z
- C/P
- C/Q
-
- These all refer to the same files or directories as the corresponding
- fully qualified path with "/A/" prepended.
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- will necessarily grant any kind of access rights to the named paths,
- or that access to the same file via different path names will
- necessarily be granted equal rights.
-
- None of the following relative paths are valid when the current
- directory is /A
-
- A
- B
- X
- Y
- B/P
- B/Q
- P
- Q
-
- Any of those could be made valid by changing the server-FTP's current
- working directory to the appropriate directory. Note that the paths
- "P" and "Q" might refer to different files depending upon which
- directory is selected to cause those to become valid TVFS relative
- paths.
-
-8. Listings for Machine Processing (MLST and MLSD)
-
- The MLST and MLSD commands are intended to standardize the file and
- directory information returned by the Server-FTP process. These
- commands differ from the LIST command in that the format of the
- replies is strictly defined although extensible.
-
- Two commands are defined, MLST which provides data about exactly the
- object named on its command line, and no others. MLSD on the other
- hand will list the contents of a directory if a directory is named,
- otherwise a 501 reply will be returned. In either case, if no object
- is named, the current directory is assumed. That will cause MLST to
- send a one line response, describing the current directory itself,
- and MLSD to list the contents of the current directory.
-
- In the following, the term MLSx will be used wherever either MLST or
- MLSD may be inserted.
-
- The MLST and MLSD commands also extend the FTP protocol as presented
- in RFC 959 [3] and RFC 1123 [9] to allow that transmission of 8-bit
- data over the control connection. Note this is not specifying
- character sets which are 8-bit, but specifying that FTP
- implementations are to specifically allow the transmission and
- reception of 8-bit bytes, with all bits significant, over the control
- connection. That is, all 256 possible octet values are permitted.
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- arguments, and in responses both to the MLST and MLSD commands, and
- all other FTP commands which take pathnames as arguments.
-
-8.1. Format of MLSx Requests
-
- The MLST and MLSD commands each allow a single optional argument.
- This argument may be either a directory name or, for MLST only, a
- filename. For these purposes, a "filename" is the name of any entity
- in the server NVFS which is not a directory. Where TVFS is
- supported, any TVFS relative path name valid in the current working
- directory, or any TVFS fully qualified path name, may be given. If a
- directory name is given then MLSD must return a listing of the
- contents of the named directory, otherwise it issues a 501 reply, and
- does not open a data connection. In all cases for MLST, a single set
- of fact lines (usually a single fact line) containing the information
- about the named file or directory shall be returned over the control
- connection, without opening a data connection.
-
- If no argument is given then MLSD must return a listing of the
- contents of the current working directory, and MLST must return a
- listing giving information about the current working directory
- itself. For these purposes, the contents of a directory are whatever
- filenames (not pathnames) the server-PI will allow to be referenced
- when the current working directory is the directory named, and which
- the server-PI desires to reveal to the user-PI.
-
- No title, header, or summary, lines, or any other formatting, other
- than as is specified below, is ever returned in the output of an MLST
- or MLSD command.
-
- If the Client-FTP sends an invalid argument, the Server-FTP MUST
- reply with an error code of 501.
-
- The syntax for the MLSx command is:
-
- mlst = "MLst" [ SP pathname ] CRLF
- mlsd = "MLsD" [ SP pathname ] CRLF
-
-8.2. Format of MLSx Response
-
- The format of a response to an MLSx command is as follows:
-
- mlst-response = control-response / error-response
- mlsd-response = ( initial-response final-response ) /
- error-response
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- 1*( SP entry CRLF )
- "250" [ SP response-message ] CRLF
-
- initial-response = "150" [ SP response-message ] CRLF
- final-response = "226" SP response-message CRLF
-
- response-message = *TCHAR
-
- data-response = *( entry CRLF )
-
- entry = [ facts ] SP pathname
- facts = 1*( fact ";" )
- fact = factname "=" value
- factname = "Size" / "Modify" / "Create" /
- "Type" / "Unique" / "Perm" /
- "Lang" / "Media-Type" / "CharSet" /
- os-depend-fact / local-fact
- os-depend-fact = <IANA assigned OS name> "." token
- local-fact = "X." token
- value = *RCHAR
-
- Upon receipt of a MLSx command, the server will verify the parameter,
- and if invalid return an error-response. For this purpose, the
- parameter should be considered to be invalid if the client issuing
- the command does not have permission to perform the request
- operation.
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- If valid, then for an MLST command, the server-PI will send the first
- (leading) line of the control response, the entry for the pathname
- given, or the current directory if no pathname was provided, and the
- terminating line. Normally exactly one entry would be returned, more
- entries are permitted only when required to represent a file that is
- to have multiple "Type" facts returned.
-
- Note that for MLST the fact set is preceded by a space. That is
- provided to guarantee that the fact set cannot be accidentally
- interpreted as the terminating line of the control response, but is
- required even when that would not be possible. Exactly one space
- exists between the set of facts and the pathname. Where no facts are
- present, there will be exactly two leading spaces before the
- pathname. No spaces are permitted in the facts, any other spaces in
- the response are to be treated as being a part of the pathname.
-
- If the command was an MLSD command, the server will open a data
- connection as indicated in section 3.2 of RFC959 [3]. If that fails,
- the server will return an error-response. If all is OK, the server
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- the final-response over the control connection. The grammar above
- defines the format for the data-response, which defines the format of
- the data returned over the data connection established.
-
- The data connection opened for a MLSD response shall be a connection
- as if the "TYPE L 8", "MODE S", and "STRU F" commands had been given,
- whatever FTP transfer type, mode and structure had actually been set,
- and without causing those settings to be altered for future commands.
- That is, this transfer type shall be set for the duration of the data
- connection established for this command only. While the content of
- the data sent can be viewed as a series of lines, implementations
- should note that there is no maximum line length defined.
- Implementations should be prepared to deal with arbitrarily long
- lines.
-
- The facts part of the specification would contain a series of "file
- facts" about the file or directory named on the same line. Typical
- information to be presented would include file size, last
- modification time, creation time, a unique identifier, and a
- file/directory flag.
-
- The complete format for a successful reply to the MLSD command would
- be:
-
- facts SP pathname CRLF
- facts SP pathname CRLF
- facts SP pathname CRLF
- ...
-
- Note that the format is intended for machine processing, not human
- viewing, and as such the format is very rigid. Implementations MUST
- NOT vary the format by, for example, inserting extra spaces for
- readability, replacing spaces by tabs, including header or title
- lines, or inserting blank lines, or in any other way alter this
- format. Exactly one space is always required after the set of facts
- (which may be empty). More spaces may be present on a line if, and
- only if, the file name presented contains significant spaces. The
- set of facts must not contain any spaces anywhere inside it. Facts
- should be provided in each output line only if they both provide
- relevant information about the file named on the same line, and they
- are in the set requested by the user-PI. There is no requirement
- that the same set of facts be provided for each file, or that the
- facts presented occur in the same order for each file.
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- An FTP implementation supporting the MLSx commands must be 8-bit
- clean. This is necessary in order to transmit UTF-8 encoded
- filenames. This specification recommends the use of UTF-8 encoded
- filenames. FTP implementations SHOULD use UTF-8 whenever possible to
- encourage the maximum interoperability.
-
- Filenames are not restricted to UTF-8, however treatment of arbitrary
- character encodings is not specified by this standard. Applications
- are encouraged to treat non-UTF-8 encodings of filenames as octet
- sequences.
-
- Note that this encoding is unrelated to that of the contents of the
- file, even if the file contains character data.
-
- Further information about filename encoding for FTP may be found in
- "Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol" [7].
-
-8.3.1. Notes about the Filename
-
- The filename returned in the MLST response should be the same name as
- was specified in the MLST command, or, where TVFS is supported, a
- fully qualified TVFS path naming the same file. Where no argument
- was given to the MLST command, the server-PI may either include an
- empty filename in the response, or it may supply a name that refers
- to the current directory, if such a name is available. Where TVFS is
- supported, a fully qualified path name of the current directory
- SHOULD be returned.
-
- Filenames returned in the output from an MLSD command SHOULD be
- unqualified names within the directory named, or the current
- directory if no argument was given. That is, the directory named in
- the MLSD command SHOULD NOT appear as a component of the filenames
- returned.
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- If the server-FTP process is able, and the "type" fact is being
- returned, it MAY return in the MLSD response, an entry whose type is
- "cdir", which names the directory from which the contents of the
- listing were obtained. Where TVFS is supported, the name MAY be the
- fully qualified path name of the directory, or MAY be any other path
- name which is valid to refer to that directory from the current
- working directory of the server-FTP. Where more than one name
- exists, multiple of these entries may be returned. In a sense, the
- "cdir" entry can be viewed as a heading for the MLSD output.
- However, it is not required to be the first entry returned, and may
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- in the listing by combining a type "cdir" name, with the appropriate
- name from the directory listing using the procedure defined in
- section 7.2.
-
- Alternatively, whether TVFS is supported or not, the user-PI can
- issue a CWD command ([3]) giving a name of type "cdir" from the
- listing returned, and from that point reference the files returned in
- the MLSD response from which the cdir was obtained by using the
- filename components of the listing.
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-8.4. Format of Facts
-
- The "facts" for a file in a reply to a MLSx command consist of
- information about that file. The facts are a series of keyword=value
- pairs each followed by semi-colon (";") characters. An individual
- fact may not contain a semi-colon in its name or value. The complete
- series of facts may not contain the space character. See the
- definition or "RCHAR" in section 2.1 for a list of the characters
- that can occur in a fact value. Not all are applicable to all facts.
-
- A sample of a typical series of facts would be: (spread over two
- lines for presentation here only)
-
- size=4161;lang=en-US;modify=19970214165800;create=19961001124534;
- type=file;x.myfact=foo,bar;
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-8.5. Standard Facts
-
- This document defines a standard set of facts as follows:
-
- size -- Size in octets
- modify -- Last modification time
- create -- Creation time
- type -- Entry type
- unique -- Unique id of file/directory
- perm -- File permissions, whether read, write, execute is
- allowed for the login id.
- lang -- Language of the filename per IANA[12] registry.
- media-type -- MIME media-type of file contents per IANA registry.
- charset -- Character set per IANA registry (if not UTF-8)
-
- Fact names are case-insensitive. Size, size, SIZE, and SiZe are the
- same fact.
-
- Further operating system specific keywords could be specified by
- using the IANA operating system name as a prefix (examples only):
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- MACOS.rf -- MacIntosh resource forks
- UNIX.mode -- Unix file modes (permissions)
-
- Implementations may define keywords for experimental, or private use.
- All such keywords MUST begin with the two character sequence "x.".
- As type names are case independent, "x." and "X." are equivalent.
- For example:
-
- x.ver -- Version information
- x.desc -- File description
- x.type -- File type
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-8.5.1. The type Fact
-
- The type fact needs a special description. Part of the problem with
- current practices is deciding when a file is a directory. If it is a
- directory, is it the current directory, a regular directory, or a
- parent directory? The MLST specification makes this unambiguous
- using the type fact. The type fact given specifies information about
- the object listed on the same line of the MLST response.
-
- Five values are possible for the type fact:
-
- file -- a file entry
- cdir -- the listed directory
- pdir -- a parent directory
- dir -- a directory or sub-directory
- OS.name=type -- an OS or file system dependent file type
-
- The syntax is defined to be:
-
- type-fact = type-label "=" type-val
- type-label = "Type"
- type-val = "File" / "cdir" / "pdir" / "dir" /
- os-type
-
-8.5.1.1. type=file
-
- The presence of the type=file fact indicates the listed entry is a
- file containing non-system data. That is, it may be transferred from
- one system to another of quite different characteristics, and perhaps
- still be meaningful.
-
-8.5.1.2. type=cdir
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- The type=cdir fact indicates the listed entry contains a pathname of
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- type fact is included, and provides a name for the listed directory,
- and facts about that directory. In a sense, it can be viewed as
- representing the title of the listing, in a machine friendly format.
- It may appear at any point of the listing, it is not restricted to
- appearing at the start, though frequently may do so, and may occur
- multiple times. It MUST NOT be included if the type fact is not
- included, or there would be no way for the user-PI to distinguish the
- name of the directory from an entry in the directory.
-
- Where TVFS is supported by the server-FTP, this name may be used to
- construct path names with which to refer to the files and directories
- returned in the same MLSD output (see section 7.2). These path names
- are only expected to work when the server-PI's position in the NVFS
- file tree is the same as its position when the MLSD command was
- issued, unless a fully qualified path name results.
-
- Where TVFS is not supported, the only defined semantics associated
- with a "type=cdir" entry are that, provided the current working
- directory of the server-PI has not been changed, a pathname of type
- "cdir" may be used as an argument to a CWD command, which will cause
- the current directory of the server-PI to change so that the
- directory which was listed in its current working directory.
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-8.5.1.3. type=dir
-
- If present, the type=dir entry gives the name of a directory. Such
- an entry typically cannot be transferred from one system to another
- using RETR, etc, but should (permissions permitting) be able to be
- the object of an MLSD command.
-
-8.5.1.4. type=pdir
-
- If present, which will occur only in the response to a MLSD command
- when the type fact is included, the type=pdir entry represents a
- pathname of the parent directory of the listed directory. As well as
- having the properties of a type=dir, a CWD command that uses the
- pathname from this entry should change the user to a parent directory
- of the listed directory. If the listed directory is the current
- directory, a CDUP command may also have the effect of changing to the
- named directory. User-FTP processes should note not all responses
- will include this information, and that some systems may provide
- multiple type=pdir responses.
-
- Where TVFS is supported, a "type=pdir" name may be a relative path
- name, or a fully qualified path name. A relative path name will be
- relative to the directory being listed, not to the current directory
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- directory in which there is an entry of type=dir which refers to the
- directory in which the type=pdir entity was found. Thus it is not
- required that all entities with type=pdir refer to the same
- directory. The "unique" fact (if supported) can be used to determine
- whether there is a relationship between the type=pdir entries or not.
-
-8.5.1.5. System defined types
-
- Files types that are specific to a specific operating system, or file
- system, can be encoded using the "OS." type names. The format is:
-
- os-type = "OS." os-name "=" os-type
- os-name = <an IANA registered operating system name>
- os-type = token
-
- The "os-name" indicates the specific system type which supports the
- particular localtype. OS specific types are registered by the IANA
- using the procedures specified in section 11. The "os-type" provides
- the system dependent information as to the type of the file listed.
- The os-name and os-type strings in an os-type are case independent.
- "OS.unix=block" and "OS.Unix=BLOCK" represent the same type (or
- would, if such a type were registered.)
-
- Note: Where the underlying system supports a file type which is
- essentially an indirect pointer to another file, the NVFS
- representation of that type should normally be to represent the file
- which the reference indicates. That is, the underlying basic file
- will appear more than once in the NVFS, each time with the "unique"
- fact (see immediately following section) containing the same value,
- indicating that the same file is represented by all such names.
- User-PIs transferring the file need then transfer it only once, and
- then insert their own form of indirect reference to construct
- alternate names where desired, or perhaps even copy the local file if
- that is the only way to provide two names with the same content. A
- file which would be a reference to another file, if only the other
- file actually existed, may be represented in any OS dependent manner
- appropriate, or not represented at all.
-
-8.5.1.6. Multiple types
-
- Where a file is such that it may validly, and sensibly, treated by
- the server-PI as being of more than one of the above types, then
- multiple entries should be returned, each with its own "Type" fact of
- the appropriate type, and each containing the same pathname. This
- may occur, for example, with a structured file, which may contain
- sub-files, and where the server-PI permits the structured file to be
- treated as a unit, or treated as a directory allowing the sub-files
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-8.5.2. The unique Fact
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- The unique fact is used to present a unique identifier for a file or
- directory in the NVFS accessed via a server-FTP process. The value
- of this fact should be the same for any number of pathnames that
- refer to the same underlying file. The fact should have different
- values for names which reference distinct files. The mapping between
- files, and unique fact tokens should be maintained, and remain
- consistent, for at least the lifetime of the control connection from
- user-PI to server-PI.
-
- unique-fact = "Unique" "=" token
-
- This fact would be expected to be used by Server-FTPs whose host
- system allows things such as symbolic links so that the same file may
- be represented in more than one directory on the server. The only
- conclusion that should be drawn is that if two different names each
- have the same value for the unique fact, they refer to the same
- underlying object. The value of the unique fact (the token) should
- be considered an opaque string for comparison purposes, and is a case
- dependent value. The tokens "A" and "a" do not represent the same
- underlying object.
-
-8.5.3. The modify Fact
-
- The modify fact is used to determine the last time the content of the
- file (or directory) indicated was modified. Any change of substance
- to the file should cause this value to alter. That is, if a change
- is made to a file such that the results of a RETR command would
- differ, then the value of the modify fact should alter. User-PIs
- should not assume that a different modify fact value indicates that
- the file contents are necessarily different than when last retrieved.
- Some systems may alter the value of the modify fact for other
- reasons, though this is discouraged wherever possible. Also a file
- may alter, and then be returned to its previous content, which would
- often be indicated as two incremental alterations to the value of the
- modify fact.
-
- For directories, this value should alter whenever a change occurs to
- the directory such that different filenames would (or might) be
- included in MLSD output of that directory.
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-8.5.4. The create Fact
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- The create fact indicates when a file, or directory, was first
- created. Exactly what "creation" is for this purpose is not
- specified here, and may vary from server to server. About all that
- can be said about the value returned is that it can never indicate a
- later time than the modify fact.
-
- create-fact = "Create" "=" time-val
-
- Implementation Note: Implementors of this fact on UNIX(TM) systems
- should note that the unix "stat" "st_ctime" field does not give
- creation time, and that unix file systems do not record creation
- time at all. Unix (and POSIX) implementations will normally not
- include this fact.
-
-8.5.5. The perm Fact
-
- The perm fact is used to indicate access rights the current FTP user
- has over the object listed. Its value is always an unordered
- sequence of alphabetic characters.
-
- perm-fact = "Perm" "=" *pvals
- pvals = "a" / "c" / "d" / "e" / "f" /
- "l" / "m" / "p" / "r" / "w"
-
- There are ten permission indicators currently defined. Many are
- meaningful only when used with a particular type of object. The
- indicators are case independent, "d" and "D" are the same indicator.
-
- The "a" permission applies to objects of type=file, and indicates
- that the APPE (append) command may be applied to the file named.
-
- The "c" permission applies to objects of type=dir (and type=pdir,
- type=cdir). It indicates that files may be created in the directory
- named. That is, that a STOU command is likely to succeed, and that
- STOR and APPE commands might succeed if the file named did not
- previously exist, but is to be created in the directory object that
- has the "c" permission. It also indicates that the RNTO command is
- likely to succeed for names in the directory.
-
- The "d" permission applies to all types. It indicates that the
- object named may be deleted, that is, that the RMD command may be
- applied to it if it is a directory, and otherwise that the DELE
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- object of type=dir, type=cdir, or type=pdir it indicates that a CWD
- command naming the object should succeed, and the user should be able
- to enter the directory named. For type=pdir it also indicates that
- the CDUP command may succeed (if this particular pathname is the one
- to which a CDUP would apply.)
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- The "f" permission for objects indicates that the object named may be
- renamed - that is, may be the object of an RNFR command.
-
- The "l" permission applies to the directory file types, and indicates
- that the listing commands, LIST, NLST, and MLSD may be applied to the
- directory in question.
-
- The "m" permission applies to directory types, and indicates that the
- MKD command may be used to create a new directory within the
- directory under consideration.
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- The "p" permission applies to directory types, and indicates that
- objects in the directory may be deleted, or (stretching naming a
- little) that the directory may be purged. Note: it does not indicate
- that the RMD command may be used to remove the directory named
- itself, the "d" permission indicator indicates that.
-
- The "r" permission applies to type=file objects, and for some
- systems, perhaps to other types of objects, and indicates that the
- RETR command may be applied to that object.
-
- The "w" permission applies to type=file objects, and for some
- systems, perhaps to other types of objects, and indicates that the
- STOR command may be applied to the object named.
-
- Note: That a permission indicator is set can never imply that the
- appropriate command is guaranteed to work - just that it might.
- Other system specific limitations, such as limitations on
- available space for storing files, may cause an operation to
- fail, where the permission flags may have indicated that it was
- likely to succeed. The permissions are a guide only.
-
- Implementation note: The permissions are described here as they apply
- to FTP commands. They may not map easily into particular
- permissions available on the server's operating system. Servers
- are expected to synthesize these permission bits from the
- permission information available from operating system. For
- example, to correctly determine whether the "D" permission bit
- should be set on a directory for a server running on the
- UNIX(TM) operating system, the server should check that the
- directory named is empty, and that the user has write permission
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- directory.
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- Some systems may have more specific permissions than those
- listed here, such systems should map those to the flags defined
- as best they are able. Other systems may have only more broad
- access controls. They will generally have just a few possible
- permutations of permission flags, however they should attempt to
- correctly represent what is permitted.
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-8.5.6. The lang Fact
-
- The lang fact describes the natural language of the filename for use
- in display purposes. Values used here should be taken from the
- language registry of the IANA. See [13] for the syntax, and
- procedures, related to language tags.
-
- lang-fact = "Lang" "=" token
-
- Server-FTP implementations MUST NOT guess language values. Language
- values must be determined in an unambiguous way such as file system
- tagging of language or by user configuration. Note that the lang
- fact provides no information at all about the content of a file, only
- about the encoding of its name.
-
-8.5.7. The size Fact
-
- The size fact applies to non-directory file types and should always
- reflect the approximate size of the file. This should be as accurate
- as the server can make it, without going to extraordinary lengths,
- such as reading the entire file. The size is expressed in units of
- octets of data in the file.
-
- Given limitations in some systems, Client-FTP implementations must
- understand this size may not be precise and may change between the
- time of a MLST and RETR operation.
-
- Clients that need highly accurate size information for some
- particular reason should use the SIZE command as defined in section
- 4. The most common need for this accuracy is likely to be in
- conjunction with the REST command described in section 5. The size
- fact, on the other hand, should be used for purposes such as
- indicating to a human user the approximate size of the file to be
- transferred, and perhaps to give an idea of expected transfer
- completion time.
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-8.5.8. The media-type Fact
-
- The media-type fact represents the IANA media type of the file named,
- and applies only to non-directory types. The list of values used
- must follow the guidelines set by the IANA registry.
-
- media-type = "Media-Type" "=" <per IANA guidelines>
-
- Server-FTP implementations MUST NOT guess media type values. Media
- type values must be determined in an unambiguous way such as file
- system tagging of media-type or by user configuration. This fact
- gives information about the content of the file named. Both the
- primary media type, and any appropriate subtype should be given,
- separated by a slash "/" as is traditional.
-
-8.5.9. The charset Fact
-
- The charset fact provides the IANA character set name, or alias, for
- the encoded pathnames in a MLSx response. The default character set
- is UTF-8 unless specified otherwise. FTP implementations SHOULD use
- UTF-8 if possible to encourage maximum interoperability. The value
- of this fact applies to the pathname only, and provides no
- information about the contents of the file.
-
- charset-type = "Charset" "=" token
-
-8.5.10. Required facts
-
- Servers are not required to support any particular set of the
- available facts. However, servers SHOULD, if conceivably possible,
- support at least the type, perm, size, unique, and modify facts.
-
-8.6. System Dependent and Local Facts
-
- By using an system dependent fact, or a local fact, a server-PI may
- communicate to the user-PI information about the file named which is
- peculiar to the underlying file system.
-
-8.6.1. System Dependent Facts
-
- System dependent fact names are labeled by prefixing a label
- identifying the specific information returned by the name of the
- appropriate operating system from the IANA maintained list of
- operating system names.
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- convey the information available. It must be encoded as a "token" as
- defined in section 2.1 however.
-
- In order to allow reliable interoperation between users of system
- dependent facts, the IANA will maintain a registry of system
- dependent fact names, their syntax, and the interpretation to be
- given to their values. Registrations of system dependent facts are
- to be accomplished according to the procedures of section 11.
-
-8.6.2. Local Facts
-
- Implementations may also make available other facts of their own
- choosing. As the method of interpretation of such information will
- generally not be widely understood, server-PIs should be aware that
- clients will typically ignore any local facts provided. As there is
- no registration of locally defined facts, it is entirely possible
- that different servers will use the same local fact name to provide
- vastly different information. Hence user-PIs should be hesitant
- about making any use of any information in a locally defined fact
- without some other specific assurance that the particular fact is one
- that they do comprehend.
-
- Local fact names all begin with the sequence "X.". The rest of the
- name is a "token" (see section 2.1). The value of a local fact can
- be anything at all, provided it can be encoded as a "token".
-
-8.7. MLSx Examples
-
- The following examples are all taken from dialogues between existing
- FTP clients and servers. Because of this, not all possible
- variations of possible response formats are shown in the examples.
- This should not be taken as limiting the options of other server
- implementors. Where the examples show OS dependent information, that
- is to be treated as being purely for the purposes of demonstration of
- some possible OS specific information that could be defined. As at
- the time of the writing of this document, no OS specific facts or
- file types have been defined, the examples shown here should not be
- treated as in any way to be preferred over other possible similar
- definitions. Consult the IANA registries to determine what types and
- facts have been defined.
-
- In the examples shown, only relevant commands and responses have been
- included. This is not to imply that other commands (including
- authentication, directory modification, PORT or PASV commands, or
- similar) would not be present in an actual connection, or were not,
- in fact, actually used in the examples before editing. Note also
- that the formats shown are those that are transmitted between client
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- user of the client.
-
- In the examples, lines that begin "C> " were sent over the control
- connection from the client to the server, lines that begin "S> " were
- sent over the control connection from the server to the client, and
- lines that begin "D> " were sent from the server to the client over a
- data connection created just to send those lines and closed
- immediately after. No examples here show data transferred over a
- data connection from the client to the server. In all cases, the
- prefixes shown above, including the one space, have been added for
- the purposes of this document, and are not a part of the data
- exchanged between client and server.
-
-8.7.1. Simple MLST
-
- C> PWD
- S> 257 "/tmp" is current directory.
- C> MLst cap60.pl198.tar.gz
- S> 250- Listing cap60.pl198.tar.gz
- S> Type=file;Size=1024990;Perm=r; /tmp/cap60.pl198.tar.gz
- S> 250 End
-
- The client first asked to be told the current directory of the
- server. This was purely for the purposes of clarity of this example.
- The client then requested facts about a specific file. The server
- returned the "250-" first control-response line, followed by a single
- line of facts about the file, followed by the terminating "250 "
- line. The text on the control-response line and the terminating line
- can be anything the server decides to send. Notice that the fact
- line is indented by a single space. Notice also that there are no
- spaces in the set of facts returned, until the single space before
- the filename. The filename returned on the fact line is a fully
- qualified pathname of the file listed. The facts returned show that
- the line refers to a file, that file contains approximately 1024990
- bytes, though more or less than that may be transferred if the file
- is retrieved, and a different number may be required to store the
- file at the client's file store, and the connected user has
- permission to retrieve the file but not to do anything else
- particularly interesting.
-
-8.7.2. MLST of a directory
-
- C> PWD
- S> 257 "/" is current directory.
- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> Type=dir;Modify=19981107085215;Perm=el; /tmp
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-
- Again the PWD is just for the purposes of demonstration for the
- example. The MLST fact line this time shows that the file listed is
- a directory, that it was last modified at 08:52:15 on the 7th of
- November, 1998 UTC, and that the user has permission to enter the
- directory, and to list its contents, but not to modify it in any way.
- Again, the fully qualified path name of the directory listed is
- given.
-
-8.7.3. MLSD of a directory
-
- C> MLSD tmp
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD tmp
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19981107085215;Perm=el; tmp
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19981107085215;Perm=el; /tmp
- D> Type=pdir;Modify=19990112030508;Perm=el; ..
- D> Type=file;Size=25730;Modify=19940728095854;Perm=; capmux.tar.z
- D> Type=file;Size=1830;Modify=19940916055648;Perm=r; hatch.c
- D> Type=file;Size=25624;Modify=19951003165342;Perm=r; MacIP-02.txt
- D> Type=file;Size=2154;Modify=19950501105033;Perm=r; uar.netbsd.patch
- D> Type=file;Size=54757;Modify=19951105101754;Perm=r; iptnnladev.1.0.sit.hqx
- D> Type=file;Size=226546;Modify=19970515023901;Perm=r; melbcs.tif
- D> Type=file;Size=12927;Modify=19961025135602;Perm=r; tardis.1.6.sit.hqx
- D> Type=file;Size=17867;Modify=19961025135602;Perm=r; timelord.1.4.sit.hqx
- D> Type=file;Size=224907;Modify=19980615100045;Perm=r; uar.1.2.3.sit.hqx
- D> Type=file;Size=1024990;Modify=19980130010322;Perm=r; cap60.pl198.tar.gz
- S> 226 MLSD completed
-
- In this example notice that there is no leading space on the fact
- lines returned over the data connection. Also notice that two lines
- of "type=cdir" have been given. These show two alternate names for
- the directory listed, one a fully qualified pathname, and the other a
- local name relative to the servers current directory when the MLSD
- was performed. Note that all other filenames in the output are
- relative to the directory listed, though the server could, if it
- chose, give a fully qualified path name for the "type=pdir" line.
- This server has chosen not to. The other files listed present a
- fairly boring set of files that are present in the listed directory.
- Note that there is no particular order in which they are listed.
- They are not sorted by filename, by size, or by modify time. Note
- also that the "perm" fact has an empty value for the file
- "capmux.tar.z" indicating that the connected user has no permissions
- at all for that file. This server has chosen to present the "cdir"
- and "pdir" lines before the lines showing the content of the
- directory, it is not required to do so. The "size" fact does not
- provide any meaningful information for a directory, so is not
- included in the fact lines for the directory types shown.
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- C> MLst test
- S> 250- Listing test
- S> Type=dir;Perm=el;Unique=keVO1+ZF4 test
- S> 250 End
- C> MLSD test
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD test
- D> Type=cdir;Perm=el;Unique=keVO1+ZF4; test
- D> Type=pdir;Perm=e;Unique=keVO1+d?3; ..
- D> Type=OS.unix=slink:/foobar;Perm=;Unique=keVO1+4G4; foobar
- D> Type=OS.unix=chr-13/29;Perm=;Unique=keVO1+5G4; device
- D> Type=OS.unix=blk-11/108;Perm=;Unique=keVO1+6G4; block
- D> Type=file;Perm=awr;Unique=keVO1+8G4; writable
- D> Type=dir;Perm=cpmel;Unique=keVO1+7G4; promiscuous
- D> Type=dir;Perm=;Unique=keVO1+1t2; no-exec
- D> Type=file;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+EG4; two words
- D> Type=file;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+IH4; leading space
- D> Type=file;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+1G4; file1
- D> Type=dir;Perm=cpmel;Unique=keVO1+7G4; incoming
- D> Type=file;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+1G4; file2
- D> Type=file;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+1G4; file3
- D> Type=file;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+1G4; file4
- S> 226 MLSD completed
- C> MLSD test/incoming
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD test/incoming
- D> Type=cdir;Perm=cpmel;Unique=keVO1+7G4; test/incoming
- D> Type=pdir;Perm=el;Unique=keVO1+ZF4; ..
- D> Type=file;Perm=awdrf;Unique=keVO1+EH4; bar
- D> Type=file;Perm=awdrf;Unique=keVO1+LH4;
- D> Type=file;Perm=rf;Unique=keVO1+1G4; file5
- D> Type=file;Perm=rf;Unique=keVO1+1G4; file6
- D> Type=dir;Perm=cpmdelf;Unique=keVO1+!s2; empty
- S> 226 MLSD completed
-
- For the purposes of this example the fact set requested has been
- modified to delete the "size" and "modify" facts, and add the
- "unique" fact. First, facts about a filename have been obtained via
- MLST. Note that no fully qualified path name was given this time.
- That was because the server was unable to determine that information.
- Then having determined that the filename represents a directory, that
- directory has been listed. That listing also shows no fully
- qualified path name, for the same reason, thus has but a single
- "type=cdir" line. This directory (which was created especially for
- the purpose) contains several interesting files. There are some with
- OS dependent file types, several sub-directories, and several
- ordinary files.
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- of the information shown there should be treated as any more than
- possibilities. It can be seen that the OS type of the server is
- "unix" though, which is one of the OS types in the IANA registry of
- Operating System names.
-
- Of the three directories listed, "no-exec" has no permission granted
- to this user to access at all. From the "Unique" fact values, it can
- be determined that "promiscuous" and "incoming" in fact represent the
- same directory. Its permissions show that the connected user has
- permission to do essentially anything other than to delete the
- directory. That directory was later listed. It happens that the
- directory can not be deleted because it is not empty.
-
- Of the normal files listed, two contain spaces in their names. The
- file called " leading space" actually contains two spaces in its
- name, one before the "l" and one between the "g" and the "s". The
- two spaces that separate the facts from the visible part of the path
- name make that clear. The file "writable" has the "a" and "w"
- permission bits set, and consequently the connected user should be
- able to STOR or APPE to that file.
-
- The other four file names, "file1", "file2", "file3", and "file4" all
- represent the same underlying file, as can be seen from the values of
- the "unique" facts of each. It happens that "file1" and "file2" are
- Unix "hard" links, and that "file3" and "file4" are "soft" or
- "symbolic" links to the first two. None of that information is
- available via standard MLST facts, it is sufficient for the purposes
- of FTP to note that all represent the same file, and that the same
- data would be fetched no matter which of them was retrieved, and that
- all would be simultaneously modified were data stored in any.
-
- Finally, the sub-directory "incoming" is listed. Since "promiscuous"
- is the same directory there would be no point listing it as well. In
- that directory, the files "file5" and "file6" represent still more
- names for the "file1" file we have seen before. Notice the entry
- between that for "bar" and "file5". Though it is not possible to
- easily represent it in this document, that shows a file with a name
- comprising exactly three spaces (" "). A client will have no
- difficulty determining that name from the output presented to it
- however. The directory "empty" is, as its name implies, empty,
- though that is not shown here. It can, however, be deleted, as can
- file "bar" and the file whose name is three spaces. All the files
- that reside in this directory can be renamed. This is a consequence
- of the UNIX semantics of the directory that contains them being
- modifiable.
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- C> MLst file1
- S> 250- Listing file1
- S> Type=file;Modify=19990929003355.237; file1
- S> 250 End
-
- In this example, the server-FTP is indicating that "file1" was last
- modified 237 milliseconds after 00:33:55 UTC on the 29th of
- September, 1999.
-
-8.7.6. A different server
-
- C> MLST
- S> 250-Begin
- S> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABCAAA; /
- S> 250 End.
- C> MLSD .
- S> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for MLS.
- D> type=cdir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABCAAA; /
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABEAAA; bin
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABGAAA; etc
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAAB8AwA; halflife
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABoAAA; incoming
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABIAAA; lib
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABWAEA; linux
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABKAEA; ncftpd
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABGAEA; outbox
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABuAAA; quake2
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABQAEA; winstuff
- S> 226 Listing completed.
- C> MLSD linux
- S> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for MLS.
- D> type=cdir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABWAEA; /linux
- D> type=pdir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABCAAA; /
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABeAEA; firewall
- D> type=file;size=12;unique=AQkAAAAAAAACWAEA; helo_world
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABYAEA; kernel
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABmAEA; scripts
- D> type=dir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABkAEA; security
- S> 226 Listing completed.
- C> MLSD linux/kernel
- S> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for MLS.
- D> type=cdir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABYAEA; /linux/kernel
- D> type=pdir;unique=AQkAAAAAAAABWAEA; /linux
- D> type=file;size=6704;unique=AQkAAAAAAAADYAEA; k.config
- D> type=file;size=7269221;unique=AQkAAAAAAAACYAEA; linux-2.0.36.tar.gz
- D> type=file;size=12514594;unique=AQkAAAAAAAAEYAEA; linux-2.1.130.tar.gz
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- S> 226 Listing completed.
-
- Note that this server returns its "unique" fact value in quite a
- different format. It also returns fully qualified path names for the
- "pdir" entry.
-
-8.7.7. Some IANA files
-
- C> MLSD .
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD .
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990219183438; /iana/assignments
- D> Type=pdir;Modify=19990112030453; ..
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990219073522; media-types
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990112033515; character-set-info
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990112033529; languages
- D> Type=file;Size=44242;Modify=19990217230400; character-sets
- D> Type=file;Size=1947;Modify=19990209215600; operating-system-names
- S> 226 MLSD completed
- C> MLSD media-types
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD media-types
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990219073522; media-types
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990219073522; /iana/assignments/media-types
- D> Type=pdir;Modify=19990219183438; ..
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990112033045; text
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990219183442; image
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990112033216; multipart
- D> Type=dir;Modify=19990112033254; video
- D> Type=file;Size=30249;Modify=19990218032700; media-types
- S> 226 MLSD completed
- C> MLSD character-set-info
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD character-set-info
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990112033515; character-set-info
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990112033515; /iana/assignments/character-set-info
- D> Type=pdir;Modify=19990219183438; ..
- D> Type=file;Size=1234;Modify=19980903020400; windows-1251
- D> Type=file;Size=4557;Modify=19980922001400; tis-620
- D> Type=file;Size=801;Modify=19970324130000; ibm775
- D> Type=file;Size=552;Modify=19970320130000; ibm866
- D> Type=file;Size=922;Modify=19960505140000; windows-1258
- S> 226 MLSD completed
- C> MLSD languages
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD languages
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990112033529; languages
- D> Type=cdir;Modify=19990112033529; /iana/assignments/languages
- D> Type=pdir;Modify=19990219183438; ..
- D> Type=file;Size=2391;Modify=19980309130000; default
- D> Type=file;Size=943;Modify=19980309130000; tags
- D> Type=file;Size=870;Modify=19971026130000; navajo
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- S> 226 MLSD completed
- C> PWD
- S> 257 "/iana/assignments" is current directory.
-
- This example shows some of the IANA maintained files that are
- relevant for this specification in MLSD format. Note that these
- listings have been edited by deleting many entries, the actual
- listings are much longer.
-
-8.7.8. A stress test of case (in)dependence
-
- The following example is intended to make clear some cases where case
- dependent strings are permitted in the MLSx commands, and where case
- independent strings are required.
-
- C> MlsD .
- S> 150 BINARY connection open for MLSD .
- D> Type=pdir;Modify=19990929011228;Perm=el;Unique=keVO1+ZF4; ..
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+Bd8; FILE2
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+aG8; file3
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+ag8; FILE3
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+bD8; file1
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+bD8; file2
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+Ag8; File3
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+bD8; File1
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+Bd8; File2
- D> Type=file;Size=4096;Modify=19990929011440;Perm=r;Unique=keVO1+bd8; FILE1
- S> 226 MLSD completed
-
- Note first that the "MLSD" command, shown here as "MlsD" is case
- independent. Clients may issue this command in any case, or
- combination of cases, they desire. This is the case for all FTP
- commands.
-
- Next, notice the labels of the facts. These are also case
- independent strings, Server-FTP is permitted to return them in any
- case they desire. User-FTP must be prepared to deal with any case,
- though it may do this by mapping the labels to a common case if
- desired.
-
- Then, notice that there are nine objects of "type" file returned. In
- a case independent NVFS these would represent three different file
- names, "file1", "file2", and "file3". With a case dependent NVFS all
- nine represent different file names. Either is possible, server-FTPs
- may implement a case dependent or a case independent NVFS. User-FTPs
- must allow for case dependent selection of files to manipulate on the
- server.
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- In the example shown, "file1", "File1", and "file2" all have the same
- "unique" fact value "keVO1+bD8", and thus all represent the same
- underlying file. On the other hand, "FILE1" has a different "unique"
- fact value ("keVO1+bd8") and hence represents a different file.
- Similarly, "FILE2" and "File2" are two names for the same underlying
- file, whereas "file3", "File3" and "FILE3" all represent different
- underlying files.
-
- That the approximate sizes ("size" fact) and last modification times
- ("modify" fact) are the same in all cases might be no more than a
- coincidence.
-
- It is not suggested that the operators of server-FTPs create NVFS
- which stress the protocols to this extent, however both user and
- server implementations must be prepared to deal with such extreme
- examples.
-
-8.8. FEAT response for MLSx
-
- When responding to the FEAT command, a server-FTP process that
- supports MLST, and MLSD, plus internationalization of pathnames, MUST
- indicate that this support exists. It does this by including a MLST
- feature line. As well as indicating the basic support, the MLST
- feature line indicates which MLST facts are available from the
- server, and which of those will be returned if no subsequent "OPTS
- MLST" command is sent.
-
- mlst-feat = SP "MLST" [SP factlist] CRLF
- factlist = 1*( factname ["*"] ";" )
-
- The initial space shown in the mlst-feat response is that required by
- the FEAT command, two spaces are not permitted. If no factlist is
- given, then the server-FTP process is indicating that it supports
- MLST, but implements no facts. Only pathnames can be returned. This
- would be a minimal MLST implementation, and useless for most
- practical purposes. Where the factlist is present, the factnames
- included indicate the facts supported by the server. Where the
- optional asterisk appears after a factname, that fact will be
- included in MLST format responses, until an "OPTS MLST" is given to
- alter the list of facts returned. After that, subsequent FEAT
- commands will return the asterisk to show the facts selected by the
- most recent "OPTS MLST".
-
- Note that there is no distinct FEAT output for MLSD. The presence of
- the MLST feature indicates that both MLST and MLSD are supported.
-
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- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> REST STREAM
- S> MDTM
- S> SIZE
- S> TVFS
- S> UTF8
- S> MLST Type*;Size*;Modify*;Perm*;Unique*;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
-
- Aside from some features irrelevant here, this server indicates that
- it supports MLST including several, but not all, standard facts, all
- of which it will send by default. It also supports two OS dependent
- facts, and one locally defined fact. The latter three must be
- requested expressly by the client for this server to supply them.
-
- C> Feat
- S> 211-Extensions supported:
- S> CLNT
- S> MDTM
- S> MLST type*;size*;modify*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner;UNIX.group;unique;
- S> PASV
- S> REST STREAM
- S> SIZE
- S> TVFS
- S> Compliance Level: 19981201 (IETF mlst-05)
- S> 211 End.
-
- Again, in addition to some irrelevant features here, this server
- indicates that it supports MLST, four of the standard facts, one of
- which ("unique") is not enabled by default, and several OS dependent
- facts, one of which is provided by the server by default. This
- server actually supported more OS dependent facts. Others were
- deleted for the purposes of this document to comply with document
- formatting restrictions.
-
-8.9. OPTS parameters for MLST
-
- For the MLSx commands, the Client-FTP may specify a list of facts it
- wishes to be returned in all subsequent MLSx commands until another
- OPTS MLST command is sent. The format is specified by:
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- [ SP 1*( factname ";" ) ]
-
- By sending the "OPTS MLST" command, the client requests the server to
- include only the facts listed as arguments to the command in
- subsequent output from MLSx commands. Facts not included in the
- "OPTS MLST" command MUST NOT be returned by the server. Facts that
- are included should be returned for each entry returned from the MLSx
- command where they meaningfully apply. Facts requested that are not
- supported, or which are inappropriate to the file or directory being
- listed should simply be omitted from the MLSx output. This is not an
- error. Note that where no factname arguments are present, the client
- is requesting that only the file names be returned. In this case,
- and in any other case where no facts are included in the result, the
- space that separates the fact names and their values from the file
- name is still required. That is, the first character of the output
- line will be a space, (or two characters will be spaces when the line
- is returned over the control connection,) and the file name will
- start immediately thereafter.
-
- Clients should note that generating values for some facts can be
- possible, but very expensive, for some servers. It is generally
- acceptable to retrieve any of the facts that the server offers as its
- default set before any "OPTS MLST" command has been given, however
- clients should use particular caution before requesting any facts not
- in that set. That is, while other facts may be available from the
- server, clients should refrain from requesting such facts unless
- there is a particular operational requirement for that particular
- information, which ought be more significant than perhaps simply
- improving the information displayed to an end user.
-
- Note, there is no "OPTS MLSD" command, the fact names set with the
- "OPTS MLST" command apply to both MLST and MLSD commands.
-
- Servers are not required to accept "OPTS MLST" commands before
- authentication of the user-PI, but may choose to permit them.
-
-8.9.1. OPTS MLST Response
-
- The "response-message" from [6] to a successful OPTS MLST command has
- the following syntax.
-
- mlst-opt-resp = "MLST OPTS" [ SP 1*( factname ";" ) ]
-
- This defines the "response-message" as used in the "opts-good"
- message in RFC2389 [6].
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- include in MLST (and MLSD) response, after the processing of the
- "OPTS MLST" command. Any facts from the request not supported by the
- server will be omitted from this response message. If no facts will
- be included, the list of facts will be empty. Note that the list of
- facts returned will be the same as those marked by a trailing
- asterisk ("*") in a subsequent FEAT command response. There is no
- requirement that the order of the facts returned be the same as that
- in which they were requested, or that in which they will be listed in
- a FEAT command response, or that in which facts are returned in MLST
- responses. The fixed string "MLST OPTS" in the response may be
- returned in any case, or mixture of cases.
-
-8.9.2. Examples
-
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type*;Size;Modify*;Perm;Unique;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
- C> OptS Mlst Type;UNIX.mode;Perm;
- S> 201 MLST OPTS Type;Perm;UNIX.mode;
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type*;Size;Modify;Perm*;Unique;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
- C> opts MLst lang;type;charset;create;
- S> 201 MLST OPTS Type;
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type*;Size;Modify;Perm;Unique;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
- C> OPTS mlst size;frogs;
- S> 201 MLST OPTS Size;
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type;Size*;Modify;Perm;Unique;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
- C> opts MLst unique type;
- S> 501 Invalid MLST options
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type;Size*;Modify;Perm;Unique;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
-
- For the purposes of this example, features other than MLST have been
- deleted from the output to avoid clutter. The example shows the
- initial default feature output for MLST. The facts requested are
- then changed by the client. The first change shows facts that are
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- available from the server being selected. Subsequent FEAT output
- shows the altered features as being returned. The client then
- attempts to select some standard features which the server does not
- support. This is not an error, however the server simply ignores the
- requests for unsupported features, as the FEAT output that follows
- shows. Then, the client attempts to request a non-standard, and
- unsupported, feature. The server ignores that, and selects only the
- supported features requested. Lastly, the client sends a request
- containing a syntax error (spaces cannot appear in the factlist.) The
- server-FTP sends an error response and completely ignores the
- request, leaving the fact set selected as it had been previously.
-
- Note that in all cases, except the error response, the response lists
- the facts that have been selected.
-
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type*;Size*;Modify*;Perm*;Unique*;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
- C> Opts MLST
- S> 201 MLST OPTS
- C> Feat
- S> 211- Features supported
- S> MLST Type;Size;Modify;Perm;Unique;UNIX.mode;UNIX.chgd;X.hidden;
- S> 211 End
- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> /tmp
- S> 250 End
- C> OPTS mlst unique;size;
- S> 201 MLST OPTS Size;Unique;
- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> Unique=keVO1+YZ5; /tmp
- S> 250 End
- C> OPTS mlst unique;type;modify;
- S> 201 MLST OPTS Type;Modify;Unique;
- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> Type=dir;Modify=19990930152225;Unique=keVO1+YZ5; /tmp
- S> 250 End
- C> OPTS mlst fish;cakes;
- S> 201 MLST OPTS
- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> /tmp
- S> 250 End
- C> OptS Mlst Modify;Unique;
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- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> Modify=19990930152225;Unique=keVO1+YZ5; /tmp
- S> 250 End
- C> opts MLst fish cakes;
- S> 501 Invalid MLST options
- C> MLst tmp
- S> 250- Listing tmp
- S> Modify=19990930152225;Unique=keVO1+YZ5; /tmp
- S> 250 End
-
- This example shows the effect of changing the facts requested upon
- subsequent MLST commands. Notice that a syntax error leaves the set
- of selected facts unchanged. Also notice exactly two spaces
- preceding the pathname when no facts were selected, either
- deliberately, or because none of the facts requested were available.
-
-9. Impact On Other FTP Commands
-
- Along with the introduction of MLST, traditional FTP commands must be
- extended to allow for the use of more than US-ASCII or EBCDIC
- character sets. In general, the support of MLST requires support for
- arbitrary character sets wherever filenames and directory names are
- allowed. This applies equally to both arguments given to the
- following commands and to the replies from them, as appropriate.
-
- CWD
- RETR
- STOR
- STOU
- APPE
- RNFR
- RNTO
- DELE
- RMD
- MKD
- PWD
- STAT
-
- The arguments to all of these commands should be processed the same
- way that MLST commands and responses are processed with respect to
- handling embedded spaces, CRs and NULs. See section 2.2.
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-10. Character sets and Internationalization
-
- FTP commands are protocol elements, and are always expressed in
- ASCII. FTP responses are composed of the numeric code, which is a
- protocol element, and a message, which is often expected to convey
- information to the user. It is not expected that users normally
- interact directly with the protocol elements, rather the user FTP-
- process constructs the commands, and interprets the results, in the
- manner best suited for the particular user. Explanatory text in
- responses generally has no particular meaning to the protocol. The
- numeric codes provide all necessary information. Server-PIs are free
- to provide the text in any language that can be adequately
- represented in ASCII, or where an alternative language and
- representation has been negotiated (see [7]) in that language and
- representation.
-
- Pathnames are expected to be encoded in UTF-8 allowing essentially
- any character to be represented in a pathname. Meaningful pathnames
- are defined by the server NVFS.
-
- No restrictions at all are placed upon the contents of files
- transferred using the FTP protocols. Unless the "media-type" fact is
- provided in a MLSx response nor is any advice given here which would
- allow determining the content type. That information is assumed to
- be obtained via other means.
-
-11. IANA Considerations
-
- This specification makes use of some lists of values currently
- maintained by the IANA, and creates two new lists for the IANA to
- maintain. It does not add any values to any existing registries.
-
- The existing IANA registries used by this specification are modified
- using mechanisms specified elsewhere.
-
-11.1. The OS specific fact registry
-
- A registry of OS specific fact names shall be maintained by the IANA.
- The OS names for the OS portion of the fact name must be taken from
- the IANA's list of registered OS names. To add a fact name to this
- OS specific registry of OS specific facts, an applicant must send to
- the IANA a request, in which is specified the OS name, the OS
- specific fact name, a definition of the syntax of the fact value,
- which must conform to the syntax of a token as given in this
- document, and a specification of the semantics to be associated with
- the particular fact and its values. Upon receipt of such an
- application, and if the combination of OS name and OS specific fact
- name has not been previously defined, the IANA will add the
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-
- Any examples of OS specific facts found in this document are to be
- treated as examples of possible OS specific facts, and do not form a
- part of the IANA's registry merely because of being included in this
- document.
-
-11.2. The OS specific filetype registry
-
- A registry of OS specific file types shall be maintained by the IANA.
- The OS names for the OS portion of the fact name must be taken from
- the IANA's list of registered OS names. To add a file type to this
- OS specific registry of OS specific file types, an applicant must
- send to the IANA a request, in which is specified the OS name, the OS
- specific file type, a definition of the syntax of the fact value,
- which must conform to the syntax of a token as given in this
- document, and a specification of the semantics to be associated with
- the particular fact and its values. Upon receipt of such an
- application, and if the combination of OS name and OS specific file
- type has not been previously defined, the IANA will add the
- specification to the registry.
-
- Any examples of OS specific file types found in this document are to
- be treated as potential OS specific file types only, and do not form
- a part of the IANA's registry merely because of being included in
- this document.
-
-12. Security Considerations
-
- This memo does not directly concern security. It is not believed
- that any of the mechanisms documented here impact in any particular
- way upon the security of FTP.
-
- Implementing the SIZE command, and perhaps some of the facts of the
- MDLx commands, may impose a considerable load on the server, which
- could lead to denial of service attacks. Servers have, however,
- implemented this for many years, without significant reported
- difficulties.
-
- With the introduction of virtual hosts to FTP, and the possible
- accompanying multiple authentication environments, server
- implementors will need to take some care to ensure that integrity is
- maintained.
-
- The FEAT and OPTS commands may be issued before the FTP
- authentication has occurred [6]. This allows unauthenticated clients
- to determine which of the features defined here are supported, and to
- negotiate the fact list for MLSx output. No actual MLSx commands may
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- be issued however, and no problems with permitting the selection of
- the format prior to authentication are foreseen.
-
- A general discussion of issues related to the security of FTP can be
- found in [14].
-
-13. References
-
- [1] Coded Character Set--7-bit American Standard Code for Information
- Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986.
-
- [2] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO
- 10646", RFC 2044, October 1996.
-
- [3] Postel, J., Reynolds, J., "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)",
- STD 9, RFC 959, October 1985
-
- [4] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
- Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- [5] Crocker, D., Overell, P., "Augmented BNF for Syntax
- Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997
-
- [6] Hethmon, P., Elz, R., "Feature negotiation mechanism for the
- File Transfer Protocol", RFC 2389, August 1998
-
- [7] Curtin, W., "Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol",
- RFC 2640, July 1999
-
- [8] Postel, J., Reynolds, J., "Telnet protocol Specification"
- STD 8, RFC 854, May 1983
-
- [9] Braden, R,. "Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application
- and Support", STD 3, RFC 1123, October 1989
-
- [10] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities"
- STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987
-
- [11] ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 "Universal multiple-octet coded character set
- (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and basic multilingual plane",
- International Standard -- Information Technology, 1993
-
- [12] Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. http://www.iana.org
- Email: iana@iana.org.
-
- [13] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages"
- RFC 1766, March 1995
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- [14] Allman, M., Ostermann, S., "FTP Security Considerations"
- RFC 2577, May 1999
-
-Acknowledgments
-
- This document is a product of the FTPEXT working group of the IETF.
-
- The following people are among those who have contributed to this
- document:
-
- Alex Belits
- D. J. Bernstein
- Dave Cridland
- Martin J. Duerst
- Mike Gleason
- Mark Harris
- Alun Jones
- James Matthews
- Luke Mewburn
- Jan Mikkelsen
- Keith Moore
- Buz Owen
- Mark Symons
- Stephen Tihor
- and the entire FTPEXT working group of the IETF.
-
- Apologies are offered to any inadvertently omitted.
-
- Bernhard Rosenkraenzer suggested the HOST command, and initially
- described it.
-
- The description of the modifications to the REST command and the MDTM
- and SIZE commands comes from a set of modifications suggested for
- RFC959 by Rick Adams in 1989. A draft containing just those
- commands, edited by David Borman, has been merged with this document.
-
- Mike Gleason provided access to the FTP server used in some of the
- examples.
-
- All of the examples in this document are taken from actual
- client/server exchanges, though some have been edited for brevity, or
- to meet document formatting requirements.
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- This document is in the public domain. Any and all copyright
- protection that might apply in any jurisdiction is expressly
- disclaimed.
-
-Editors' Addresses
-
- Robert Elz
- University of Melbourne
- Department of Computer Science
- Parkville, Vic 3052
- Australia
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- Email: kre@munnari.OZ.AU
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- Paul Hethmon
- Hethmon Brothers
- 2305 Chukar Road
- Knoxville, TN 37923 USA
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-Kerberos Working Group M. Swift
-Internet Draft University of WA
-Document: draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-referrals-00.txt J. Brezak
-Category: Standards Track Microsoft
- J. Trostle
- Cisco Systems
- K. Raeburn
- MIT
- February 2001
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- Generating KDC Referrals to locate Kerberos realms
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1].
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of
- six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts
- as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in
- progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The draft documents a new method for a Kerberos Key Distribution
- Center (KDC) to respond to client requests for kerberos tickets when
- the client does not have detailed configuration information on the
- realms of users or services. The KDC will handle requests for
- principals in other realms by returning either a referral error or a
- cross-realm TGT to another realm on the referral path. The clients
- will use this referral information to reach the realm of the target
- principal and then receive the ticket.
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-3. Introduction
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- Current implementations of the Kerberos AS and TGS protocols, as
- defined in RFC 1510 [3], use principal names constructed from a
- known user or service name and realm. A service name is typically
- constructed from a name of the service and the DNS host name of the
- computer that is providing the service. Many existing deployments of
- Kerberos use a single Kerberos realm where all users and services
- would be using the same realm. However in an environment where there
- are multiple trusted Kerberos realms, the client needs to be able to
- determine what realm a particular user or service is in before
- making an AS or TGS request. Traditionally this requires client
- configuration to make this possible.
-
- When having to deal with multiple trusted realms, users are forced
- to know what realm they are in before they can obtain a ticket
- granting ticket (TGT) with an AS request. However, in many cases the
- user would like to use a more familiar name that is not directly
- related to the realm of their Kerberos principal name. A good
- example of this is an RFC-822 style email name. This document
- describes a mechanism that would allow a user to specify a user
- principal name that is an alias for the user's Kerberos principal
- name. In practice this would be the name that the user specifies to
- obtain a TGT from a Kerberos KDC. The user principal name no longer
- has a direct relationship with the Kerberos principal or realm. Thus
- the administrator is able to move the user's principal to other
- realms without the user having to know that it happened.
-
- Once a user has a TGT, they would like to be able to access services
- in any trusted Kerberos realm. To do this requires that the client
- be able to determine what realm the target service's host is in
- before making the TGS request. Current implementations of Kerberos
- typically have a table that maps DNS host names to corresponding
- Kerberos realms. In order for this to work on the client, each
- application canonicalizes the host name of the service by doing a
- DNS lookup followed by a reverse lookup using the returned IP
- address. The returned primary host name is then used in the
- construction of the principal name for the target service. In order
- for the correct realm to be added for the target host, the mapping
- table [domain_to_realm] is consulted for the realm corresponding to
- the DNS host name. The corresponding realm is then used to complete
- the target service principal name.
-
- This traditional mechanism requires that each client have very
- detailed configuration information about the hosts that are
- providing services and their corresponding realms. Having client
- side configuration information can be very costly from an
- administration point of view - especially if there are many realms
- and computers in the environment.
-
- Current implementations of Kerberos also have difficulty with
- services on hosts that can have multiple host names (multi-homed
- hosts). Traditionally, each host name would need to have a distinct
- principal and a corresponding key. An extreme example of this would
- be a Web server with multiple host names for each domain that it is
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- supporting. Principal aliases allow multi-homed hosts to have a
- single Kerberos principal (with a single key) that can have
- identities for each distinct host name. This mechanism allows the
- Kerberos client to request a service ticket for the distinct
- hostname and allows the KDC to return a ticket for the single
- principal that the host is using. This canonical principal name
- allows the host to only have to manage a single key for all of the
- identities that it supports. In addition, the client only needs to
- know the realm of the canonical service name, not all of the
- identities.
-
- This draft proposes a solution for these problems and simplifies
- administration by minimizing the configuration information needed on
- each computer using Kerberos. Specifically it describes a mechanism
- to allow the KDC to handle Canonicalization of names, provide for
- principal aliases for users and services and provide a mechanism for
- the KDC to determine the trusted realm authentication path by being
- able to generate referrals to other realms in order to locate
- principals.
-
- To rectify these problems, this draft introduces three new kinds of
- KDC referrals:
-
- 1. AS ticket referrals, in which the client doesn't know which realm
- contains a user account.
- 2. TGS ticket referrals, in which the client doesn't know which
- realm contains a server account.
- 3. Cross realm shortcut referrals, in which the KDC chooses the next
- path on a referral chain
-
-4. Realm Organization Model
-
- This draft assumes that the world of principals is arranged on
- multiple levels: the realm, the enterprise, and the world. A KDC may
- issue tickets for any principal in its realm or cross-realm tickets
- for realms with which it has a direct trust relationship. The KDC
- also has access to a trusted name service that can resolve any name
- from within its enterprise into a realm. This trusted name service
- removes the need to use an untrusted DNS lookup for name resolution.
-
- For example, consider the following configuration, where lines
- indicate trust relationships:
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- MS.COM
- / \
- / \
- OFFICE.MS.COM NT.MS.COM
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- In this configuration, all users in the MS.COM enterprise could have
- a principal name such as alice@MS.COM, with the same realm portion.
- In addition, servers at MS.COM should be able to have DNS host names
- from any DNS domain independent of what Kerberos realm their
- principal resides in.
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-5.1 Service Principal Names
-
- The standard Kerberos model in RFC 1510 [3] gives each Kerberos
- principal a single name. However, if a service is reachable by
- several addresses, it is useful for a principal to have multiple
- names. Consider a service running on a multi-homed machine. Rather
- than requiring a separate principal and password for each name it
- exports, a single account with multiple names could be used.
-
- Multiple names are also useful for services in that clients need not
- perform DNS lookups to resolve a host name into a full DNS address.
- Instead, the service may have a name for each of its supported host
- names, including its IP address. Nonetheless, it is still convenient
- for the service to not have to be aware of all these names. Thus a
- new name may be added to DNS for a service by updating DNS and the
- KDC database without having to notify the service. In addition, it
- implies that these aliases are globally unique: they do not include
- a specifier dictating what realm contains the principal. Thus, an
- alias for a server is of the form "class/instance/name" and may be
- transmitted as any name type.
-
-5.2 Client Principal Names
-
- Similarly, a client account may also have multiple principal names.
- More useful, though, is a globally unique name that allows
- unification of email and security principal names. For example, all
- users at MS may have a client principal name of the form
- "joe@MS.COM" even though the principals are contained in multiple
- realms. This global name is again an alias for the true client
- principal name, which is indicates what realm contains the
- principal. Thus, accounts "alice" in the realm ntdev.MS.COM and
- "bob" in office.MS.COM may logon as "alice@MS.COM" and "bob@MS.COM".
- This requires a new client principal name type, as the AS-REQ
- message only contains a single realm field, and the realm portion of
- this name doesn't correspond to any Kerberos realm. Thus, the entire
- name "alice@MS.COM" is transmitted in the client name field of the
- AS-REQ message, with a name type of KRB-NT-ENTERPRISE-PRINCIPAL.
-
- KRB-NT-ENTERPRISE-PRINCIPAL 10
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-5.3 Name Canonicalization
-
- In order to support name aliases, the Kerberos client must
- explicitly request the name-canonicalization KDC option (bit 15) in
- the ticket flags for the TGS-REQ. This flag indicates to the KDC
- that the client is prepared to receive a reply with a different
- client or server principal name than the request. Thus, the
- KDCOptions types is redefined as:
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- allow-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
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- renewable(8),
- unused9(9),
- unused10(10),
- unused11(11),
- name-canonicalize(15),
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-6. Client Referrals
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- The simplest form of ticket referral is for a user requesting a
- ticket using an AS-REQ. In this case, the client machine will send
- the AS request to a convenient trusted realm, either the realm of
- the client machine or the realm of the client name. In the case of
- the name Alice@MS.COM, the client may optimistically choose to send
- the request to MS.COM.
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- The client will send the string "alice@MS.COM" in the client
- principal name field using the KRB-NT-ENTERPRISE-PRINCIPAL name type
- with the crealm set to MS.COM. The KDC will try to lookup the name
- in its local account database. If the account is present in the
- crealm of the request, it MUST return a KDC reply structure with the
- appropriate ticket. If the account is not present in the crealm
- specified in the request and the name-canonicalize flag in the
- KDCoptions is set, the KDC will try to lookup the entire name,
- Alice@MS.COM, using a name service. If this lookup is unsuccessful,
- it MUST return the error KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN. If the lookup
- is successful, it MUST return an error KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM (0x44)
- and in the error message the cname and crealm field MUST contain the
- client name and the true realm of the client. If the KDC contains
- the account locally, it MUST return a normal ticket. The client name
- and realm portions of the ticket and KDC reply message MUST be the
- client's true name in the realm, not the globally unique name.
-
- If the client receives a KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM error, it will issue a
- new AS request with the same client principal name used to generate
- the first referral to the realm specified by the crealm field of the
- kerberos error message from the first request. This request MUST
- produce a valid AS response with a ticket for the canonical user
- name. The ticket MUST also include the ticket extension containing
- the TE-REFERRAL-DATA with the referred-names set to the name from
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- request and result in a failed AS request.
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-7. Server Referrals
-
- The server referral mechanism is a bit more complex than the client
- referral mechanism. The primary problem is that the KDC must return
- a referral ticket rather than an error message, so it will include
- in the TGS response information about what realm contains the
- service. This is done by returning information about the server name
- in the pre-auth data field of the KDC reply.
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- If the KDC resolves the server principal name into a principal in
- its realm, it may return a normal ticket. If the name-canonicalize
- flag in the KDCoptions is not set, then the KDC MUST only look up
- the name as a normal principal name. Otherwise, it MUST search all
- aliases as well. The server principal name in both the ticket and
- the KDC reply MUST be the true server principal name instead of one
- of the aliases. This frees the application server from needing to
- know about all its aliases.
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- If the name-canonicalize flag in the KDCoptions is set and the KDC
- doesn't find the principal locally, the KDC can return a cross-realm
- ticket granting ticket to the next hop on the trust path towards a
- realm that may be able to resolve the principal name.
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- If the KDC can determine the service principal's realm, it can
- return the server realm as ticket extension data. The ticket
- extension MUST be encrypted using the session key from the ticket,
- and the same etype as is used to protect the TGS reply body.
-
- The data itself is an ASN.1 encoded structure containing the
- server's realm, and if known, canonical principal name and alias
- names. The first name in the sequence is the canonical principal
- name.
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- TE-REFERRAL-INFO 20
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- TE-REFERRAL-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- referred-server-realm[0] KERB-REALM
- referred-names[1] SEQUENCE OF
- PrincipalNames OPTIONAL
- }
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- The client can use this information to request a chain of cross-
- realm ticket granting tickets until it reaches the realm of the
- server, and can then expect to receive a valid service ticket.
-
- In order to facilitate cross-realm interoperability, a client SHOULD
- NOT send short names in TGS requests to the KDC. A short name is
- defined as a Kerberos name that includes a DNS name that is not
- fully qualified. The client MAY use forward DNS lookups to obtain
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- the long name that corresponds to the user entered short name (the
- short name will be a prefix of the corresponding long name).
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- The client may use the referred-names field to tell if it already
- has a ticket to the server in its ticket cache.
-
- The client can use this information to request a chain of cross-
- realm ticket granting tickets until it reaches the realm of the
- server, and can then expect to receive a valid service ticket.
- However an implementation should limit the number of referrals that
- it processes to avoid infinite referral loops. A suggested limit is
- 5 referrals before giving up.
-
-8. Cross Realm Routing
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- The current Kerberos protocol requires the client to explicitly
- request a cross-realm TGT for each pair of realms on a referral
- chain. As a result, the client machines need to be aware of the
- trust hierarchy and of any short-cut trusts (those that aren't
- parent-child trusts). This requires more configurations on the
- client. Instead, the client should be able to request a TGT to the
- target realm from each realm on the route. The KDC will determine
- the best path for the client and return a cross-realm TGT. The
- client has to be aware that a request for a cross-realm TGT may
- return a TGT for a realm different from the one requested.
-
-9. Security Considerations
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- The original Kerberos specification stated that the server principal
- name in the KDC reply was the same as the server name in the
- request. These protocol changes break that assumption, so the client
- may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack by an attacker that
- replays replies from previous requests. It can verify that the
- request was one of its own by checking the client-address field or
- authtime field, though, so the damage is limited and detectable.
-
- For the AS exchange case, it is important that the logon mechanism
- not trust a name that has not been used to authenticate the user.
- For example, the name that the user enters as part of a logon
- exchange may not be the name that the user authenticates as, given
- that the KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM error may have been returned. The
- relevant Kerberos naming information for logon (if any), is the
- client name and client realm in the service ticket targeted at the
- workstation that was obtained using the user's initial TGT.
-
- How the client name and client realm is mapped into a local account
- for logon is a local matter, but the client logon mechanism MUST use
- additional information such as the client realm and/or authorization
- attributes from the service ticket presented to the workstation by
- the user, when mapping the logon credentials to a local account on
- the workstation.
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- This section contains issues and suggestions that need to be
- incorporated into this draft. From Ken Raeburn [raeburn@mit.edu]:
-
- 1) No means to do name canonicalization if you're not
- authenticating. Is it okay to require credentials in order to do
- canonicalization? If so, how about this: Send a TGS_REQ for the
- service name you have. If you get back a TGS_REP for a service,
- great; pull out the name and throw out the credentials. If you
- get back a TGS_REP for a TGT service, ask again in the specified
- realm. If you get back a KRB_ERROR because policy prohibits you
- from authenticating to that service, we can add to the
- specification that the {realm,sname} in the KRB_ERROR must be the
- canonical name, and the checksum must be used. As long as the
- checksum is present, it's still a secure exchange with the KDC.
-
- If we have to be able to do name canonicalization without any
- sort of credentials, either client-side (tickets) or server-side
- (tickets automatically acquired via service key), I think we just
- lose. But maybe GSSAPI should be changed if that's the case.
-
- 2) Can't refer to another realm and specify a different service name
- to give to that realm's KDC. The local KDC can tell you a
- different service name or a different realm name, but not both.
- This comes up in the "gnuftp.raeburn.org CNAME ftp.gnu.org" type
- of case I've mentioned.
-
- Except ... the KDC-REP structure includes padata and ticket
- extensions fields that are extensible. We could add a required
- value to one of them -- perhaps only in the case where you return
- a TGT when not asked -- that contains signed information about
- the principal name to ask for in the other realm. (It would have
- to be required, otherwise a man-in-the-middle could make it go
- away.) Signing would be done using the session key for the TGS.
-
- 3) Secure canonicalization of service name in AS_REQ. If the
- response is an AS_REP, we need a way to tell that the altered
- server name wasn't a result of a MITM attack on the AS_REQ
- message. Again, the KDC-REP extensible fields could have a new
- required value added when name canonicalization happens,
- indicating what the original principal name (in the AS_REQ
- message) was, and signed using the same key as protects the
- AS_REP. If it doesn't match what the client requested, the
- messages were altered in transit.
-
- 4) Client name needs referral to another realm, and server name
- needs canonicalization of some sort. The above fixes wouldn't
- work for this case, and I'm not even sure which KDC should be
- doing the canonicalization anyways.
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- name[0] PrincipalName,
- nonce[1] INTEGER -- copied from KDC_REQ
- }
- SignedPrincipal ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-and-nonce[0] PrincipalAndNonce,
- cksum[1] Checksum
- }
- {PA,TE}-ORIGINAL-SERVER-PRINCIPAL ::= SignedPrincipal
- {PA,TE}-REMOTE-SERVER-PRINCIPAL ::= SignedPrincipal
-
- with the checksum computed over the encoding of the 'name-and-nonce'
- field, and appropriate PA- or TE- numbers assigned. I don't have a
- strong opinion on whether it'd be a pa-data or ticket extension;
- conceptually it seems like an abuse of either, but, well, I think
- I'd rather abuse them than leave the facility both in and
- inadequate.
-
- The nonce is needed because multiple exchanges may be made with the
- same key, and these extension fields aren't packed in with the other
- encrypted data in the same response, so a MITM could pick apart
- multiple messages and mix-and-match components. (In a TGS_REQ
- exchange, a subsession key would help, but it's not required.)
-
- The extension field would be required to prevent a MITM from
- discarding the field from a response; a flag bit in a protected part
- of the message (probably in 'flags' in EncKDCRepPart) could also let
- us know of a cases where the information can be omitted, namely,
- when no name change is done. Perhaps the bit should be set to
- indicate that a name change *was* done, and clear if it wasn't,
- making the no-change case more directly compatible with RFC1510.
-
-11. References
-
-
- 1 Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
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- 2 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
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- 3 Kohl, J., Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993
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-12. Author's Addresses
-
- Michael Swift
- University of Washington
- Seattle, Washington
- Email: mikesw@cs.washington.edu
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- John Brezak
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- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington
- Email: jbrezak@Microsoft.com
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- Cisco Systems
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134
- Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
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-INTERNET-DRAFT Ken Hornstein
-<draft-ietf-krb-wg-krb-dns-locate-02.txt> NRL
-February 28, 2001 Jeffrey Altman
-Expires: August 28, 2001 Columbia University
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- Distributing Kerberos KDC and Realm Information with DNS
-
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-
- Drafts.
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- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
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- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
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- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as <draft-ietf-
- krb-wg-krb-dns-locate-02.txt>, and expires on August 28, 2001.
- Please send comments to the authors.
-
-Abstract
-
- Neither the Kerberos V5 protocol [RFC1510] nor the Kerberos V4 proto-
- col [RFC????] describe any mechanism for clients to learn critical
- configuration information necessary for proper operation of the pro-
- tocol. Such information includes the location of Kerberos key dis-
- tribution centers or a mapping between DNS domains and Kerberos
- realms.
-
- Current Kerberos implementations generally store such configuration
- information in a file on each client machine. Experience has shown
- this method of storing configuration information presents problems
- with out-of-date information and scaling problems, especially when
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- using cross-realm authentication.
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- This memo describes a method for using the Domain Name System
- [RFC1035] for storing such configuration information. Specifically,
- methods for storing KDC location and hostname/domain name to realm
- mapping information are discussed.
-
-DNS vs. Kerberos - Case Sensitivity of Realm Names
-
- In Kerberos, realm names are case sensitive. While it is strongly
- encouraged that all realm names be all upper case this recommendation
- has not been adopted by all sites. Some sites use all lower case
- names and other use mixed case. DNS on the other hand is case insen-
- sitive for queries but is case preserving for responses to TXT
- queries. Since "MYREALM", "myrealm", and "MyRealm" are all different
- it is necessary that only one of the possible combinations of upper
- and lower case characters be used. This restriction may be lifted in
- the future as the DNS naming scheme is expanded to support non-ASCII
- names.
-
-Overview - KDC location information
-
- KDC location information is to be stored using the DNS SRV RR [RFC
- 2052]. The format of this RR is as follows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for Kerberos is always "_kerberos".
-
- The Proto can be either "_udp" or "_tcp". If these records are to be
- used, a "_udp" record MUST be included. If the Kerberos implementa-
- tion supports TCP transport, a "_tcp" record SHOULD be included.
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, and Target have the standard mean-
- ing as defined in RFC 2052.
-
- As per RFC 2052 the Port number should be the value assigned to "ker-
- beros" by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (88).
-
-Example - KDC location information
-
- These are DNS records for a Kerberos realm ASDF.COM. It has two Ker-
- beros servers, kdc1.asdf.com and kdc2.asdf.com. Queries should be
- directed to kdc1.asdf.com first as per the specified priority.
- Weights are not used in these records.
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- _kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 0 0 88 kdc1.asdf.com.
- _kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 1 0 88 kdc2.asdf.com.
-
-Overview - Kerberos password changing server location information
-
- Kerberos password changing server [KERB-CHG] location is to be stored
- using the DNS SRV RR [RFC 2052]. The format of this RR is as fol-
- lows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for the password server is always "_kpasswd".
-
- The Proto MUST be "_udp".
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, and Target have the standard mean-
- ing as defined in RFC 2052.
-
- As per RFC 2052 the Port number should be the value assigned to
- "kpasswd" by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (464).
-
-Overview - Kerberos admin server location information
-
- Kerberos admin location information is to be stored using the DNS SRV
- RR [RFC 2052]. The format of this RR is as follows:
-
- Service.Proto.Realm TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target
-
- The Service name for the admin server is always "_kerberos-adm".
-
- The Proto can be either "_udp" or "_tcp". If these records are to be
- used, a "_tcp" record MUST be included. If the Kerberos admin imple-
- mentation supports UDP transport, a "_udp" record SHOULD be included.
-
- The Realm is the Kerberos realm that this record corresponds to.
-
- TTL, Class, SRV, Priority, Weight, and Target have the standard mean-
- ing as defined in RFC 2052.
-
- As per RFC 2052 the Port number should be the value assigned to
- "kerberos-adm" by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (749).
-
- Note that there is no formal definition of a Kerberos admin protocol,
- so the use of this record is optional and implementation-dependent.
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-Example - Kerberos administrative server location information
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- These are DNS records for a Kerberos realm ASDF.COM. It has one
- administrative server, kdc1.asdf.com.
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- _kerberos-adm._tcp.ASDF.COM. IN SRV 0 0 749 kdc1.asdf.com.
-
-Overview - Hostname/domain name to Kerberos realm mapping
-
- Information on the mapping of DNS hostnames and domain names to Ker-
- beros realms is stored using DNS TXT records [RFC 1035]. These
- records have the following format.
-
- Service.Name TTL Class TXT Realm
-
- The Service field is always "_kerberos", and prefixes all entries of
- this type.
-
- The Name is a DNS hostname or domain name. This is explained in
- greater detail below.
-
- TTL, Class, and TXT have the standard DNS meaning as defined in RFC
- 1035.
-
- The Realm is the data for the TXT RR, and consists simply of the Ker-
- beros realm that corresponds to the Name specified.
-
- When a Kerberos client wishes to utilize a host-specific service, it
- will perform a DNS TXT query, using the hostname in the Name field of
- the DNS query. If the record is not found, the first label of the
- name is stripped and the query is retried.
-
- Compliant implementations MUST query the full hostname and the most
- specific domain name (the hostname with the first label removed).
- Compliant implementations SHOULD try stripping all subsequent labels
- until a match is found or the Name field is empty.
-
-Example - Hostname/domain name to Kerberos realm mapping
-
- For the previously mentioned ASDF.COM realm and domain, some sample
- records might be as follows:
-
- _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT "ASDF.COM"
- _kerberos.mrkserver.asdf.com. IN TXT "MARKETING.ASDF.COM"
- _kerberos.salesserver.asdf.com. IN TXT "SALES.ASDF.COM"
-
- Let us suppose that in this case, a Kerberos client wishes to use a
- Kerberized service on the host foo.asdf.com. It would first query:
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- _kerberos.foo.asdf.com. IN TXT
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- Finding no match, it would then query:
-
- _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT
-
- And find an answer of ASDF.COM. This would be the realm that
- foo.asdf.com resides in.
-
- If another Kerberos client wishes to use a Kerberized service on the
- host salesserver.asdf.com, it would query:
-
- _kerberos.salesserver.asdf.com IN TXT
-
- And find an answer of SALES.ASDF.COM.
-
-Security considerations
-
- As DNS is deployed today, it is an unsecure service. Thus the infor-
- mation returned by it cannot be trusted.
-
- Current practice for REALM to KDC mapping is to use hostnames to
- indicate KDC hosts (stored in some implementation-dependent location,
- but generally a local config file). These hostnames are vulnerable
- to the standard set of DNS attacks (denial of service, spoofed
- entries, etc). The design of the Kerberos protocol limits attacks of
- this sort to denial of service. However, the use of SRV records does
- not change this attack in any way. They have the same vulnerabili-
- ties that already exist in the common practice of using hostnames for
- KDC locations.
-
- Current practice for HOSTNAME to REALM mapping is to provide a local
- configuration of mappings of hostname or domain name to realm which
- are then mapped to KDCs. But this again is vulnerable to spoofing
- via CNAME records that point to hosts in other domains. This has the
- same effect as when a TXT record is spoofed. In a realm with no
- cross-realm trusts this is a DoS attack. However, when cross-realm
- trusts are used it is possible to redirect a client to use a comprom-
- ised realm.
-
- This is not an exploit of the Kerberos protocol but of the Kerberos
- trust model. The same can be done to any application that must
- resolve the hostname in order to determine which domain a non-FQDN
- belongs to.
-
- Implementations SHOULD provide a way of specifying this information
- locally without the use of DNS. However, to make this feature
- worthwhile a lack of any configuration information on a client should
-
-
-
-Hornstein, Altman [Page 5]
-
-RFC DRAFT February 28, 2001
-
-
- be interpretted as permission to use DNS.
-
-Expiration
-
- This Internet-Draft expires on August 28, 2001.
-
-References
-
-
- [RFC1510]
- The Kerberos Network Authentication System; Kohl, Newman; Sep-
- tember 1993.
-
- [RFC1035]
- Domain Names - Implementation and Specification; Mockapetris;
- November 1987
-
- [RFC2782]
- A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV); Gul-
- brandsen, Vixie; Feburary 2000
-
- [KERB-CHG]
- Kerberos Change Password Protocol; Horowitz;
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-kerb-chg-
- password-02.txt
-
-Authors' Addresses
-
- Ken Hornstein
- US Naval Research Laboratory
- Bldg A-49, Room 2
- 4555 Overlook Avenue
- Washington DC 20375 USA
-
- Phone: +1 (202) 404-4765
- EMail: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
-
- Jeffrey Altman
- The Kermit Project
- Columbia University
- 612 West 115th Street #716
- New York NY 10025-7799 USA
-
- Phone: +1 (212) 854-1344
- EMail: jaltman@columbia.edu
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Hornstein, Altman [Page 6]
-
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-CAT Working Group K. Raeburn
-Internet-draft MIT
-Category: July 14, 2000
-Updates: RFC 1964
-Document: draft-raeburn-cat-gssapi-krb5-3des-00.txt
-
- Triple-DES Support for the Kerberos 5 GSSAPI Mechanism
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [RFC2026]. Internet-Drafts
- are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force
- (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups
- may also distribute working documents as
- Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a
- maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by
- other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use
- Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
- "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The MIT Kerberos 5 release version 1.2 includes support for
- triple-DES with key derivation [KrbRev]. Recent work by the EFF
- [EFF] has demonstrated the vulnerability of single-DES mechanisms
- to brute-force attacks by sufficiently motivated and well-funded
- parties.
-
- The GSSAPI Kerberos 5 mechanism definition [GSSAPI-KRB5]
- specifically enumerates encryption and checksum types,
- independently of how such schemes may be used in Kerberos. In the
- long run, a new Kerberos-based mechanism, which does not require
- separately enumerating for the GSSAPI mechanism each of the
- encryption types defined by Kerberos, appears to be a better
- approach. Efforts to produce such a specification are under way.
-
- In the interest of providing increased security in the interim,
- however, MIT is proposing adding support for triple-DES to the
- existing mechanism, as described here.
-
-2. Conventions Used in this Document
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
-
-3. New Algorithm Identifiers
-
- One new sealing algorithm is defined, for use in WRAP tokens:
-
- 02 00 - DES3-KD
-
- This algorithm uses triple-DES with key derivation, with a usage
- value KG_USAGE_SEAL. Padding is still to 8-byte multiples, and the
- IV for encrypting application data is zero.
-
- One new signing algorithm is defined, for use in MIC, Wrap, and
- Delete tokens:
-
- 04 00 - HMAC SHA1 DES3-KD
-
- This algorithm generates an HMAC using SHA-1 and a derived DES3 key
- with usage KG_USAGE_SIGN, as (ought to be described) in [KrbRev].
-
- [XXX: The current [KrbRev] description refers to expired I-Ds from
- Marc Horowitz. The text in [KrbRev] may be inadequate to produce
- an interoperable implementation.]
-
- The checksum size for this algorithm is 20 octets. See section 5.3
- below for the use of checksum lengths of other than eight bytes.
-
-4. Key Derivation
-
- For purposes of key derivation, we add three new usage values to the
- list defined in [KrbRev]; one for signing messages, one for
- sealing messages, and one for encrypting sequence numbers:
-
- #define KG_USAGE_SEAL 22
- #define KG_USAGE_SIGN 23
- #define KG_USAGE_SEQ 24
-
-5. Adjustments to Previous Definitions
-
-5.1. Quality of Protection
-
- The GSSAPI specification [GSSAPI] says that a zero QOP value
- indicates the "default". The original specification for the
- Kerberos 5 mechanism says that a zero QOP value (or a QOP value
- with the appropriate bits clear) means DES encryption.
-
- Rather than continue to force the use of plain DES when the
- application doesn't use mechanism-specific QOP values, the better
- choice appears to be to redefine the DES QOP value as some non-zero
- value, and define a triple-DES value as well. Then a zero value
- continues to imply the default, which would be triple-DES
- protection when given a triple-DES session key.
-
- Our values are:
-
- GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_HMAC_SHA1 0x0004
- /* SHA-1 checksum encrypted with key derivation */
-
- GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES 0x0100
- /* plain DES encryption */
- GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES3_KD 0x0200
- /* triple-DES with key derivation */
-
- Rather than open the question of whether to specify means for
- deriving a key of one type given a key of another type, and the
- security implications of whether to generate a long key from a
- shorter one, our implementation will simply return an error if the
- QOP value specified does not correspond to the session key type.
-
- [Implementation note: MIT's code does not implement QoP, and
- returns an error for any non-zero QoP value.]
-
-5.2. MIC Sequence Number Encryption
-
- The sequence numbers are encrypted in the context key (as defined
- in [GSSAPI-KRB5] -- this will be either the Kerberos session key or
- asubkey provided by the context initiator), using whatever
- encryption system is designated by the type of that context key.
- The IV is formed from the first N bytes of the SGN_CKSUM field,
- where N is the number of bytes needed for the IV. (With all
- algorithms described here and in [GSSAPI-KRB5], the checksum is at
- least as large as the IV.)
-
-5.3. Message Layout
-
- Both MIC and Wrap tokens, as defined in [GSSAPI-KRB5], contain an
- checksum field SGN_CKSUM. In [GSSAPI-KRB5], this field was
- specified as being 8 bytes long. We now change this size to be
- "defined by the checksum algorithm", and retroactively amend the
- descriptions of all the checksum algorithms described in
- [GSSAPI-KRB5] to explicitly specify 8-byte output. Application
- data continues to immediately follow the checksum field in the Wrap
- token.
-
- The revised message descriptions are thus:
-
- MIC:
-
- Byte no Name Description
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Integrity algorithm indicator.
- 4..7 Filler Contains ff ff ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field.
- 16..s+15 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of "to-be-signed data",
- calculated according to algorithm
- specified in SGN_ALG field.
-
- Wrap:
-
- Byte no Name Description
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field.
- Tokens emitted by GSS_Wrap() contain
- the hex value 02 01 in this field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Checksum algorithm indicator.
- 4..5 SEAL_ALG Sealing algorithm indicator.
- 6..7 Filler Contains ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Encrypted sequence number field.
- 16..s+15 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of plaintext padded data,
- calculated according to algorithm
- specified in SGN_ALG field.
- s+16..last Data encrypted or plaintext padded data
-
- Where "s" indicates the size of the checksum.
-
- As indicated above in section 2, we define the HMAC SHA1 DES3-KD
- checksum algorithm to produce a 20-byte output, so encrypted data
- begins at byte 36.
-
-6. Backwards Compatibility Considerations
-
- The context initiator SHOULD request of the KDC credentials using
- session-key cryptosystem types supported by that implementation; if
- the only types returned by the KDC are not supported by the
- mechanism implementation, it MUST indicate a failure. This may
- seem obvious, but early implementations of both Kerberos and the
- GSSAPI Kerberos mechanism supported only DES keys, so the
- cryptosystem compatibility question was easy to overlook.
-
- Under the current mechanism, no negotiation of algorithm types
- occurs, so server-side (acceptor) implementations cannot request
- that clients not use algorithm types not understood by the server.
- However, administration of the server's Kerberos data has to be
- done in communication with the KDC, and it is from the KDC that the
- client will request credentials. The KDC could therefore be tasked
- with limiting session keys for a given service to types actually
- supported by the Kerberos and GSSAPI software on the server.
-
- This does have a drawback for cases where a service principal name
- is used both for GSSAPI-based and non-GSSAPI-based communication,
- if the GSSAPI implementation does not understand triple-DES but the
- Kerberos implementation does. It means that triple-DES session
- keys cannot be issued for that service principal, which keeps the
- protection of non-GSSAPI services weaker than necessary. However,
- in the most recent MIT releases thus far, while triple-DES support
- has been present, it has required additional work to enable, so it
- is not likely to be in use for many services.
-
- It would also be possible to have clients attempt to get single-DES
- session keys before trying to get triple-DES session keys, and have
- the KDC refuse to issue the single-DES keys only for the most
- critical of services, for which single-DES protection is considered
- inadequate. However, that would eliminate the possibility of
- connecting with the more secure cryptosystem to any service that
- can be accessed with the weaker cryptosystem.
-
- We have chosen to go with the former approach, putting the burden
- on the KDC administration and gaining the best protection possible
- for GSSAPI services, possibly at the cost of protection of
- non-GSSAPI Kerberos services running earlier versions of the
- software.
-
-6. Security Considerations
-
- Various tradeoffs arise regarding the mixing of new and old
- software, or GSSAPI-based and non-GSSAPI Kerberos authentication.
- They are discussed in section 5.
-
-7. References
-
- [EFF] Electronic Frontier Foundation, "Cracking DES: Secrets of
- Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design", O'Reilly &
- Associates, Inc., May, 1998.
-
- [GSSAPI] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January, 2000.
-
- [GSSAPI-KRB5] Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism",
- RFC 1964, June, 1996.
-
- [KrbRev] Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)",
- draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-05.txt, March 10, 2000.
-
- [RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
- 3", RFC 2026, October, 1996.
-
-8. Author's Address
-
- Kenneth Raeburn
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 77 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
-
-9. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
- others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
- or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
- and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
- kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
- are included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this
- document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
- the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
- Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
- developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
- copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
- followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
- English.
-
- The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
- revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
-
- This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
- "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
- TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
- BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
- HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
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-
-
-
-
-
-Kerberos Working Group K. Raeburn
-Category: Informational MIT
-Document: draft-raeburn-krb-gssapi-krb5-3des-01.txt November 24, 2000
-
-
- Triple-DES Support for the Kerberos 5 GSSAPI Mechanism
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are
- draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated,
- replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
- inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite
- them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The GSSAPI Kerberos 5 mechanism definition [GSSAPI-KRB5] specifically
- enumerates encryption and checksum types, independently of how such
- schemes may be used in Kerberos. In the long run, a new Kerberos-
- based mechanism, which does not require separately enumerating for
- the GSSAPI mechanism each of the various encryption types defined by
- Kerberos, is probably a better approach. Various people have
- expressed interest in designing one, but the work has not yet been
- completed.
-
- The MIT Kerberos 5 release version 1.2 includes support for triple-
- DES with key derivation [KrbRev]. Recent work by the EFF [EFF] has
- demonstrated the vulnerability of single-DES mechanisms to brute-
- force attacks by sufficiently motivated and well-funded parties. So,
- in the interest of providing increased security in the near term, MIT
- is adding support for triple-DES to the existing mechanism
- implementation we ship, as an interim measure.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
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-
-2. New Algorithm Identifiers
-
- One new sealing algorithm is defined, for use in Wrap tokens.
-
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | name octet values |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | DES3-KD 02 00 |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- This algorithm uses triple-DES with key derivation, with a usage
- value KG_USAGE_SEAL. (Unlike the EncryptedData definition in
- [KrbRev], no integrity protection is needed, so this is "raw" triple-
- DES, with no checksum attached to the encrypted data.) Padding is
- still to 8-byte multiples, and the IV for encrypting application data
- is zero.
-
- One new signing algorithm is defined, for use in MIC, Wrap, and
- Delete tokens.
-
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | name octet values |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | HMAC SHA1 DES3-KD 04 00 |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- This algorithm generates an HMAC using SHA-1 and a derived DES3 key
- with usage KG_USAGE_SIGN, as described in [KrbRev].
-
- [N.B.: The current [KrbRev] description refers to expired I-Ds from
- Marc Horowitz. The text in [KrbRev] may be inadequate to produce an
- interoperable implementation.]
-
- The checksum size for this algorithm is 20 octets. See section 4.3
- below for the use of checksum lengths of other than eight bytes.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
-3. Key Derivation
-
- For purposes of key derivation, we add three new usage values to the
- list defined in [KrbRev]; one for signing messages, one for sealing
- messages, and one for encrypting sequence numbers:
-
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | name value |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | KG_USAGE_SEAL 22 |
- | KG_USAGE_SIGN 23 |
- | KG_USAGE_SEQ 24 |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-4. Adjustments to Previous Definitions
-
-4.1. Quality of Protection
-
- The GSSAPI specification [GSSAPI] says that a zero QOP value
- indicates the "default". The original specification for the Kerberos
- 5 mechanism says that a zero QOP value (or a QOP value with the
- appropriate bits clear) means DES encryption.
-
- Rather than forcing the use of plain DES when the application doesn't
- use mechanism-specific QOP values, we redefine the explicit DES QOP
- value as a non-zero value, and define a triple-DES value as well.
- Then a zero value continues to imply the default, which would be
- triple-DES protection when given a triple-DES session key.
-
- Our values are:
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | name value meaning |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_HMAC_SHA1 0x0004 SHA-1 HMAC, using |
- | key derivation |
- | |
- | GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES 0x0100 plain DES encryption |
- | |
- | GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES3_KD 0x0200 triple-DES with key |
- | derivation |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Rather than attempt to specify a generic mechanism for deriving a key
- of one type given a key of another type, and evaluate the security
- implications of using a short key to generate a longer key to satisfy
- the requested quality of protection, our implementation will simply
-
-
-
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-
- return an error if the nonzero QOP value specified does not
- correspond to the session key type.
-
-4.2. MIC Sequence Number Encryption
-
- The sequence numbers are encrypted in the context key (as defined in
- [GSSAPI-KRB5] -- this will be either the Kerberos session key or
- asubkey provided by the context initiator), using whatever encryption
- system is designated by the type of that context key. The IV is
- formed from the first N bytes of the SGN_CKSUM field, where N is the
- number of bytes needed for the IV. (With all algorithms described
- here and in [GSSAPI-KRB5], the checksum is at least as large as the
- IV.)
-
-4.3. Message Layout
-
- Both MIC and Wrap tokens, as defined in [GSSAPI-KRB5], contain an
- checksum field SGN_CKSUM. In [GSSAPI-KRB5], this field was specified
- as being 8 bytes long. We now change this size to be "defined by the
- checksum algorithm", and retroactively amend the descriptions of all
- the checksum algorithms described in [GSSAPI-KRB5] to explicitly
- specify 8-byte output. Application data continues to immediately
- follow the checksum field in the Wrap token.
-
- The revised message descriptions are thus:
-
- MIC token:
-
- Byte # Name Description
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Integrity algorithm indicator.
- 4..7 Filler Contains ff ff ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field.
- 16..s+15 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of "to-be-signed
- data", calculated according to
- algorithm specified in SGN_ALG
- field.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
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-
-
- Wrap token:
-
- Byte # Name Description
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field. Tokens
- emitted by GSS_Wrap() contain the
- hex value 02 01 in this field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Checksum algorithm indicator.
- 4..5 SEAL_ALG Sealing algorithm indicator.
- 6..7 Filler Contains ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Encrypted sequence number field.
- 16..s+15 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of plaintext padded data,
- calculated according to algorithm
- specified in SGN_ALG field.
- s+16..last Data encrypted or plaintext padded data
-
-
- Where "s" indicates the size of the checksum.
-
- As indicated above in section 2, we define the HMAC SHA1 DES3-KD
- checksum algorithm to produce a 20-byte output, so encrypted data
- begins at byte 36.
-
-5. Backwards Compatibility Considerations
-
- The context initiator should request of the KDC credentials using
- session-key cryptosystem types supported by that implementation; if
- the only types returned by the KDC are not supported by the mechanism
- implementation, it should indicate a failure. This may seem obvious,
- but early implementations of both Kerberos and the GSSAPI Kerberos
- mechanism supported only DES keys, so the cryptosystem compatibility
- question was easy to overlook.
-
- Under the current mechanism, no negotiation of algorithm types
- occurs, so server-side (acceptor) implementations cannot request that
- clients not use algorithm types not understood by the server.
- However, administration of the server's Kerberos data (e.g., the
- service key) has to be done in communication with the KDC, and it is
- from the KDC that the client will request credentials. The KDC could
- therefore be tasked with limiting session keys for a given service to
- types actually supported by the Kerberos and GSSAPI software on the
- server.
-
- This does have a drawback for cases where a service principal name is
- used both for GSSAPI-based and non-GSSAPI-based communication (most
- notably the "host" service key), if the GSSAPI implementation does
- not understand triple-DES but the Kerberos implementation does. It
- means that triple-DES session keys cannot be issued for that service
-
-
-
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-
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-
-
- principal, which keeps the protection of non-GSSAPI services weaker
- than necessary.
-
- It would also be possible to have clients attempt to get single-DES
- session keys before trying to get triple-DES session keys, and have
- the KDC refuse to issue the single-DES keys only for the most
- critical of services, for which single-DES protection is considered
- inadequate. However, that would eliminate the possibility of
- connecting with the more secure cryptosystem to any service that can
- be accessed with the weaker cryptosystem.
-
- For MIT's 1.2 release, we chose to go with the former approach,
- putting the burden on the KDC administration and gaining the best
- protection possible for GSSAPI services, possibly at the cost of
- weaker protection of non-GSSAPI Kerberos services running earlier
- versions of the software.
-
-6. Security Considerations
-
- Various tradeoffs arise regarding the mixing of new and old software,
- or GSSAPI-based and non-GSSAPI Kerberos authentication. They are
- discussed in section 5.
-
-7. References
-
- [EFF] Electronic Frontier Foundation, "Cracking DES: Secrets of
- Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design", O'Reilly &
- Associates, Inc., May, 1998.
-
- [GSSAPI] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January, 2000.
-
- [GSSAPI-KRB5] Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism",
- RFC 1964, June, 1996.
-
- [KrbRev] Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-
- revisions-06.txt, July 4, 2000.
-
-8. Author's Address
-
- Kenneth Raeburn Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77
- Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
-
-9. Full Copyright Statement
-
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-Status of this Memo
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- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
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-1. Abstract
-
- The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) [1] includes an
- option that allows authentication of all DHCP messages, as specified
- in [2]. This document specifies a DHCP authentication mode based on
- Kerberos V tickets. This provides mutual authentication between a
- DHCP client and server, as well as authentication of all DHCP
- messages.
-
- This document specifies Kerberos message exchanges between an
- uninitialized client and the KDC (Key Distribution Center) using an
- IAKERB proxy [7] so that the Kerberos key management phase is
- decoupled from, and precedes the address allocation and network
- configuration phase that uses the DHCP authentication option. In
- order to make use of the IAKERB proxy, this document specifies a
- transport mechanism that works with an uninitialized client (i.e. a
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- client without an assigned IP address). In addition, the document
- specifies the format of the Kerberos authenticator to be used with
- the DHCP authentication option.
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119.
-
-3. Introduction
-
- 3.1 Terminology
-
- o "DHCP client"
-
- A DHCP client is an Internet host using DHCP to obtain configuration
- parameters such as a network address.
-
- o "DHCP server"
-
- A DHCP server is an Internet host that returns configuration
- parameters to DHCP clients.
-
- O "Ticket"
-
- A Kerberos term for a record that helps a client authenticate itself
- to a server; it contains the client's identity, a session key, a
- timestamp, and other information, all sealed using the server's
- secret key. It only serves to authenticate a client when presented
- along with a fresh Authenticator.
-
- o "Key Distribution Center"
-
- Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
- temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host
- on which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and Ticket-
- Granting Ticket (TGT) requests. The initial ticket portion is
- sometimes referred to as the Authentication Server (or service. The
- Ticket-Granting Ticket portion is sometimes referred to as the
- Ticket-Granting Server (or service).
-
- o "Realm"
-
- A Kerberos administrative domain that represents a group of
- principals registered at a KDC. A single KDC may be responsible for
- one or more realms. A fully qualified principal name includes a
- realm name along with a principal name unique within that realm.
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- DHCP as defined in [1] defines the protocol exchanges for a client
- to obtain its IP address and network configuration information from
- a DHCP Server. Kerberos V5 as described in [6] defines the protocol
- and message exchanges to mutually authenticate two parties. It is
- our goal to provide authentication support for DHCP using Kerberos.
- This implies that the Kerberos key management exchange has to take
- place before a client gets its IP address from the DHCP Server.
- Kerberos assumes that the client has a network address and can
- contact the Key Distribution Center to obtain its credentials for
- authenticated communication with an application server.
-
- In this specification we utilize the key exchange using an IAKERB
- proxy described in [7]. This does not require any changes to either
- the IAKERB or the Kerberos V5 specification. This document also
- specifies a particular transport that allows an uninitialized client
- to contact an IAKERB proxy.
-
- The Kerberos ticket returned from the key management exchange
- discussed in Section 5 of this document is passed to the DHCP Server
- inside the DHCP authentication option with the new Kerberos
- authenticator type. This is described in Section 6 of this draft.
-
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-3.3 Related Work
-
- A prior Internet Draft [3] outlined the use of Kerberos-based
- authentication for DHCP. The proposal tightly coupled the Kerberos
- client state machines and the DHCP client state machines. As a
- result, the Kerberos key management messages were carried in DHCP
- messages, along with the Kerberos authenticators. In addition, the
- first DHCP message exchange (request, offer) is not authenticated.
-
- We propose a protocol exchange where Kerberos key management is
- decoupled from and precedes authenticated DHCP exchanges. This
- implies that the Kerberos ticket returned in the initial key
- management exchange could be used to authenticate servers assigning
- addresses by non-DHCP address assignment mechanisms like RSIP [4]
- and for service specific parameter provisioning mechanisms using SLP
- [5].
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- Client
- -------- --------
- | | 5.Authenticated DHCP | |
- | DHCP |<------------------------>| DHCP |
- | client | | server |
- | | | |
- | | | |
- |Kerberos| | |
- | Client | | |
- -------- --------
- ^
- |
- |
- |
- | -------
- ------------------------------>| |
- Kerberos Key Mgmt | Proxy |
- messages: | |
- 1. AS Request / 2.AS Reply -------
- 3. TGS Request / 4.TGS Reply ^
- | Kerberos
- | Key Mgmt messages
- v (1, 2, 3, 4)
- --------
- | |
- | KDC |
- | |
- --------
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- Figure 1: System blocks and message interactions between them
-
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- In this architecture, the DHCP client obtains a Kerberos ticket from
- the Key Distribution Center (KDC) using standard Kerberos messages,
- as specified in [6]. The client, however, contacts the KDC via a
- proxy server, according to the IAKERB mechanism, described in [7].
- The are several reasons why a client has to go through this proxy in
- order to contact the KDC:
-
- a)The client may not know the host address of the KDC and may be
- sending its first request message as a broadcast on a local
- network. The KDC may not be located on the local network, and
- even if it were - it will be unable to communicate with a client
- without an IP address. This document describes a specific
- mechanism that may be used by a client to communicate with the
- Kerberos proxy.
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- b)The client may not know its Kerberos realm name. The proxy is
- able to fill in the missing client realm name in an AS Request
- message, as specified in IAKERB. Note that in the case that
- PKINIT pre-authenticator is used [8], the realm name in the AS
- Request may be the KDC realm name and not the clientĘs realm name.
-
- c) The client does not know the realm name of the DHCP server.
-
- According to IAKERB, when the client sends a TGS Request with a
- missing server realm name, the proxy will return to the client an
- error message containing the missing realm name.
-
- Note that in this case the proxy could return the client a wrong
- realm name and the client could be fooled into obtaining a ticket
- for the wrong DHCP server (on the same local network). However,
- the wrong DHCP server must still be a registered principal in a
- KDC database. In some circumstances this may be an acceptable
- compromise. Also, see the security considerations section.
-
- IAKERB describes the proxy as part of an application server - the
- DHCP server in this case. However, in this document we are not
- requiring the proxy to be integrated with the DHCP server. The
- same IAKERB mechanisms apply in the more general case, where the
- proxy is an independent application. This proxy, however, MUST be
- reachable by a client via a local network broadcast.
-
- After a client has obtained a Kerberos ticket for the DHCP server,
- it will use it as part of an authentication option in the DHCP
- messages. The only extension to the DHCP protocol is the addition
- of a new authenticator type based on Kerberos tickets.
-
-4.1 Cross-Realm Authentication
-
- Figure 1 shows a client communicating with a single KDC via a proxy.
- However, the DHCP clientĘs realm may be different from the DHCP
- serverĘs realm. In that case, the client may need to first contact
- the KDC in its local realm to obtain a cross-realm TGT. Then, the
- client would use the cross-realm TGT to contact the KDC in the DHCP
- serverĘs realm, as specified in [6].
-
- In the following example a client doesnĘt know its realm or the DHCP
- serverĘs realm, which happens to be different from the clientĘs
- realm. Here are the steps in obtaining the ticket for the DHCP
- server (based on [6] and [7]):
-
- 1) The client sends AS Request with NULL realm to the proxy.
- 2) The proxy fills in the realm and forwards the AS Request to
- the KDC in the clientĘs realm.
- 3) The KDC issues a TGT and sends back an AS Reply to the
- proxy.
- 4) The proxy forwards AS Reply to the client.
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- 5) The client sends TGS Request for a principal name "dhcpsrvr"
- with NULL realm to the proxy.
- 6) The proxy returns KRB_AP_ERR_REALM_REQUIRED error with the
- DHCP serverĘs realm to the client.
- 7) The client sends another TGS Request for a cross-realm TGT
- to the proxy.
- 8) The proxy forwards the TGS Request to the KDC in the
- clientĘs realm.
- 9) The KDC issues a cross-realm TGT and sends back a TGS Reply
- to the proxy.
- 10) The proxy forwards TGS Reply to the client.
- 11) The client sends a TGS Request to the proxy for a principal
- "dhcpsrvr" with the realm name filled in, using a cross-realm
- TGT.
- 12) The proxy forwards TGS Request to the KDC in the DHCP
- server's realm.
- 13) The KDC issues a ticket for the DHCP server and sends TGS
- Reply back to the proxy.
- 14) The proxy forwards TGS Reply to the client.
-
- In a most general case, the client may need to contact any number of
- KDCs in different realms before it can get a ticket for the DHCP
- server. In each case, the client would contact a KDC via the proxy
- server, as specified in Section 5 of this document.
-
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- This specification also allows clients to perform public key
- authentication to the KDC, based on the PKINIT specification [8].
- In this case, the size of an AS Request and AS Reply messages is
- likely to exceed the size of typical link MTU's.
-
- Here is an example, where PKINIT is used by a DHCP client that is
- not a registered principal in the KDC principal database:
-
- 1) The client sends AS Request with a PKINIT Request pre-
- authenticator to the proxy. This includes the clientĘs
- signature and X.509 certificate. The KDC realm field is
- left as NULL.
- 2) The proxy fills in the realm and forwards the AS Request to
- the KDC in the filled in realm. This is the realm of the
- DHCP server. Here, the clientĘs realm is the name of a
- Certification Authority - not the same as the KDC realm.
- 3) The KDC issues a TGT and sends back an AS Reply with a
- PKINIT Reply pre-authenticator to the proxy.
- 4) The proxy forwards the AS Reply to the client.
- 5) The client sends TGS Request for a principal name "dhcpsrvr"
- with the realm found in the TGT to the proxy.
- 6) The proxy forwards TGS Request to the KDC in the DHCP
- serverĘs realm.
- 7) The KDC issues a ticket for the DHCP server and sends TGS
- Reply back to the proxy.
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- 5. Key Management Exchange that Precedes Network Address Allocation
-
- An uninitialized host (e.g. on power-on and reset) does not have a
- network address. It does have a link layer address or hardware
- address. At this time, the client may not have any information on
- its realm or the realm of the address allocation server (DHCP
- Server).
-
- In the Kerberos key management exchange, a client gets its ticket
- granting ticket (TGT) by contacting the Authentication Server in the
- KDC using the AS_Request / Reply messages (shown as messages 1 and 2
- in Figure 1). The client then contacts the Ticket Granting Server in
- the KDC to get the DHCP server ticket (to be used for mutual
- authentication with the DHCP server) using the TGS_REQ / TGS_REP
- messages (shown as messages 3 and 4 in the above figure). It is
- also possible for the client to obtain a DHCP server ticket directly
- with the AS Request / Reply exchange, without the use of the TGT.
-
- In the use of Kerberos for DHCP authentication, the client (a) does
- not have an IP/network address (b) does not know he KDCĘs IP address
- (c) the KDC may not be on the local network and (d) the client may
- not know the DHCP ServerĘs IP address and realm. We therefore
- require a Kerberos proxy on the local network to accept broadcast
- Kerberos request messages (AS_REQ and TGS_REQ) from uninitialized
- clients and relay them to the appropriate KDC.
-
- The uninitialized client formulates a broadcast AS_REQ or TGS_REQ as
- follows:
-
- The request payload contains the client hardware address in
- addresses field with a negative value for the address type. Kerberos
- v5 [6] allows for the usage of negative address types for "local"
- use. Note that IAKERB [7] discourages the use of the addresses field
- as network addresses may not be known or may change in situation
- where proxies are used. In this draft we incorporate the negative
- values permitted in the Kerberos transport in the address type field
- of both the AS_REQ and TGS_REQ messages. The negative value SHOULD
- be the negative number of the hardware address type "htype" value
- (from assigned numbers RFC) used in RFC 2131. The address field of
- the message contains the clients hardware address.
-
- The request payload is UDP encapsulated and addressed to port 88 on
- the server/proxy. The UDP source port is selected by the client. The
- source and destination network addresses are the all-zeroĘs address
- and the broadcast address, respectively. For IPv4, the source IP
- address is set to 0.0.0.0 and the destination IP address is set to
- 255.255.255.255. The data link layer header source address
- corresponds to the link layer/hardware address of the client. The
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- destination link layer address is the broadcast address at the link
- layer (e.g. for Ethernet the address is ffffffff).
-
- In the case where AS_REQ message contains a PKINIT pre-authenticator
- for public key-based client authentication (based on [8]), the
- message will probably not fit into a single UDP packet given typical
- link MTU's.
-
- It is assumed that the proxy server on a network is configured with
- a list of KDCĘs, their realms and their IP addresses. The proxy
- server will act as a client to the KDC and forward standard Kerberos
- messages to/from the KDC using unicast UDP or TCP transport
- mechanisms, according to [6].
-
- Upon receiving a broadcast request from a client, the proxy MUST
- record the clientĘs hardware address that appears as the source
- address on the frame as well as in the addresses field of the
- request message. Based on the realm of the KDC specified in the
- request, the proxy determines the KDC to which this message is
- relayed as a unicast message from the proxy to the KDC. In the case
- that the client left the KDC realm name as NULL, it is up to the
- proxy to first determine the correct realm name and fill it in the
- request (according to [7]).
-
- On receiving a request, the KDC formulates a response (AS_REP or
- TGS_REP). It includes the clientĘs addresses field in the encrypted
- part of the ticket (according to [6]). This response is unicast to
- the proxy.
-
- Upon receiving the reply, the proxy MUST first determine the
- previously saved hardware address of the client. The proxy
- broadcasts the reply on its local network. This is a network layer
- broadcast. At the link level, it uses the hardware address obtained
- from the addresses field of the request.
-
- The client on receiving the response (link layer destination address
- as its hardware address, network layer address is the broadcast
- address) must verify that the hardware address in the ticket
- corresponds to its link layer address.
-
- Upon receiving a TGS_REP (or an AS_REP with the application server
- ticket) from the proxy, the client will have enough information to
- securely communicate with the application server (the DHCP Server in
- this case), as specified in the following section.
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- DHCP Server
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- The ticket returned in the TGS response is used by the DHCP client
- in the construction of the Kerberos authenticator. The Kerberos
- ticket serves two purposes: to establish a shared session key with
- the DHCP server, and is also included as part of a Kerberos
- authenticator in the DHCP request.
-
- If the size of the authenticator is greater than 255 bytes, the DHCP
- authentication option is repeated multiple times. When the values
- of all the authentication options are concatenated together, they
- will make up the complete authenticator.
-
- Once the session key is established, the Kerberos structure
- containing the ticket (AP REQ) can be omitted from the authenticator
- for subsequent messages sent by both the DHCP client and the DHCP
- server.
-
- The Kerberos authenticator for a DHCP request message is specified
- below:
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | Code | Length | Protocol | Algorithm |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | |
- + Replay Detection (64 bits) +
- | |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | |
- + Authentication token (n octets) ... +
- | |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- The format of this authenticator is in accordance with [2]. The code
- for the authentication option is TBD, and the length field contains
- the length of the remainder of the option, starting with the
- protocol field.
-
- The value of the protocol field for this authenticator MUST be set
- to 2.
-
- The algorithm field MUST take one of the following values:
- 1 - HMAC-MD5
- 2 - HMAC-SHA-1
-
- Replay protection field is a monotonically increasing counter field.
- When the Kerberos AP REQ structure is present in the authenticator
- the counter may be set to any value. The AP REQ contains its own
- replay protection mechanism in the form of a timestamp.
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- Once the session key has been established and the AP REQ is not
- included in the authenticator, this field MUST be monotonically
- increasing in the messages sent by the client.
-
- Kerberos authenticator token consists of type-length-value
- attributes:
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | Type | Reserved | Payload Length |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | attribute value...
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- The following attributes are included in the Kerberos authenticator
- token:
-
- Type Attribute Name Value
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- 0 Message Integrity Code Depends on the value of the
- algorithm field. Its length is
- 16 bytes for HMAC-MD5 [9, 10]
- and 20 bytes for HMAC-SHA-1
- [11, 10]. The HMAC key must be
- derived from Kerberos session
- key found in the Kerberos
- ticket according to the key
- derivation rules in [6]:
-
- HMAC Key = DK(sess key,
- key usage | 0x99)
-
- Here, DK is defined in [12] and
- the key usage value for DHCP is
- TBD.
-
- The HMAC is calculated over the
- entire DHCP message. The
- Message Integrity Code
- attribute MUST be set to all 0s
- for the computation of the
- HMAC. Because a DHCP relay
- agent may alter the values of
- the 'giaddr' and 'hops' fields
- in the DHCP message, the
- contents of those two fields
- MUST also be set to zero for
- the computation of the HMAC.
- Rules specified in Section 3 of
- [2] for the exclusion and
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- processing of the relay agent
- information are applicable here
- too.
-
- This field MUST always be
- present in the Kerberos
- authenticator.
-
- 1 AP_REQ ASN.1 encoding of a Kerberos
- AP_REQ message, as specified
- in [6]. This MUST be included
- by the client when establishing
- a new session key. In all
- other cases, this attribute
- MUST be omitted.
-
- AP_REQ contains the Kerberos ticket for the DHCP server and also
- contains information needed by the DHCP server to authenticate the
- client. After verifying the AP_REQ and decrypting the Kerberos
- ticket, the DHCP server is able to extract a session key which it
- now shares with the DHCP client.
-
- The Kerberos authenticator token contains its own replay protection
- mechanism inside the AP_REQ structure. The AP_REQ contains a
- timestamp that must be within an agreed upon time window at the DHCP
- server. However, this does not require the DHCP clients to maintain
- an accurate clock between reboots. Kerberos allows clients to
- synchronize their clock with the KDC with the help of Kerberos
- KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error message, as specified in [6].
-
- The DHCP server MUST save both the session key and its associated
- expiration time found in the Kerberos ticket. Up until the
- expiration time, the server must accept client requests with the
- Kerberos authenticator that does not include the AP REQ, using the
- saved session key in calculating HMAC values.
-
- The Kerberos authenticator inside all DHCP server responses MUST NOT
- contain the AP REQ and MUST use the saved Kerberos session key in
- calculating HMAC values.
-
- When the session key expires, it is the client's responsibility to
- obtain a new ticket from the KDC and to include an AP REQ inside the
- Kerberos authenticator for the next DHCP request message.
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-
- The following flow depicts the Kerberos exchange in which a AS REQ
- message is used to directly request the DHCP Server ticket. There
- are no changes to transport mechanisms below when the additional
- phase of using TGS requests/responses with TGTĘs is used.
-
- Client IAKERB Proxy KDC
-
- KB-client-------- AS_REQ ------>
-
- AS REQ Address type = - (htype)
- AS REQ Address= hw address
-
- src UDP port = senders port
- destination UDP port = 88
-
- src IP = 0.0.0.0
- destination IP = 255.255.255.255
-
- src link layer address =
- clientĘs HW/link address [e.g Ethernet address]
-
- destination link layer address =
- link broadcast address [e.g. ffffffff for Ethernet]
-
-
- --------------------------->
- (unicast to UDP port 88)
-
-
-
- <--------------------------
- (unicast AS REP)
- Encrypted portion of ticket
- Includes clients HW address
-
-
- <---------------AS_REP -----------
-
-
- Ticket includes clientĘs hardware address
-
- src UDP port = 88
- destination UDP port = copied from src port in AS_REQ
-
- src IP = ProxyĘs IP address
- destination IP = 255.255.255.255
-
- src link layer address = ProxyĘs HW/link address
- destination link layer address =
- ClientĘs link layer address from AS_REQ
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-
-
-
- The client uses the ticket received from the KDC in the DHCP
-Authentication option as described in Section 6.
-
-
- Client
- DHCP-client DHCP Server
-
- ------DHCPDISCOVER ---->
- (Auth Protocol = 2, includes Kerberos
- authenticator with AP REQ )
- -----------------------------------
- | HMAC | AP REQ |
- ----------------------------------
- | Ticket| Client Authent |
- --------------------------
-
- 1. Server decrypts ticket
- (inside AP REQ) with service
- key
- 2. Server decrypts client
- authenticator (inside AP REQ)
- and checks content and
- checksum to validate the
- client.
- 3. Recompute HMAC with session
- key and compare.
-
-
- <-------DHCPOFFER----------
- (Auth Protocol = 2, no AP REQ )
-
-
-
- ---------DHCPREQUEST------->
- (Auth Protocol = 2, no AP REQ)
-
-
- <--------DHCPACK-------------
- (Auth Protocol = 2, no AP REQ )
-
-
-
-
-8. Security Considerations
-
- DHCP clients that do not know the DHCP serverĘs realm name will get
- it from the proxy, as specified in IAKERB [7]. Since the proxy is
- not authenticated, a DHCP client can be fooled into obtaining a
- ticket for the wrong DHCP server in the wrong realm.
-
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-
- This could happen when the client leaves out the server realm name
- in a TGS Request message to the proxy. It is also possible,
- however, for a client to directly request a DHCP server ticket with
- an AS Request message. In those cases, the same situation occurs
- when the client leaves out the realm name in an AS Request.
-
- This wrong DHCP server is still registered as a valid principal in a
- database of a KDC that can be trusted by the client. In some
- circumstances a client may assume that a DHCP server that is a
- Kerberos principal registered with a trusted KDC will not attempt to
- deliberately misconfigure a client.
-
- This specification provides a tradeoff between:
-
- 1) The DHCP clients knowing DHCP serverĘs realm ahead of time,
- which provides for full 2-way authentication at the cost of
- an additional configuration parameter.
- 2) The DHCP clients not requiring any additional configuration
- information, besides a password or a key (and a public key
- certificate if PKINIT is used). This is at the cost of not
- being able to fully authenticate the identity of the DHCP
- server.
-
-
-
-9. References
-
-
- [1]Droms, R., Arbaugh, W., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",
- RFC 2131, Bucknell University, March 1997.
-
- [2]Droms, R., Arbaugh, W., "Authentication for DHCP Messages",
- draft-ietf-dhc-authentication-13.txt, June 2000.
-
- [3]Hornstein, K., Lemon, T., "DHCP Authentication Via Kerberos V",
- draft-hornstein-dhc-kerbauth-02.txt, February 2000.
-
- [4]Borella, M., Grabelsky, D., Lo, J., Tuniguchi, K., "Realm
- Specific IP: Protocol Specification ", draft-ietf-nat-rsip-
- protocol-06.txt, March 2000.
-
- [5]Guttman, E., Perkins, C., Veizades, J., Day, M., "Service
- Location Protocol, Version 2", RFC 2608, June 1999.
-
- [6]Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-
- 05.txt, March 2000.
-
-
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-
-
-
- [7]Swift, M., Trostle, J., "Initial Authentication and Pass Through
- Authentication Using Kerberos V5 and the GSS-API (IAKERB)",
- draft-ietf-cat-iakerb-03.txt, September 1999.
-
- [8]Tung, B., C. Neuman, M. Hur, A. Medvinsky, S. Medvinsky, J. Wray,
- J. Trostle, "Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication
- in Kerberos", draft-ietf-cat-pk-init-11.txt, March 2000.
-
- [9]Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321, April
- 1992.
-
- [10]Krawczyk H., M. Bellare and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for
- Message Authentication," RFC 2104, February 1997.
-
- [11]NIST, FIPS PUB 180-1, "Secure Hash Standard", April 1995.
-
- [12]Horowitz, M., "Key Derivation for Authentication, Integrity, and
- Privacy", draft-horowitz-key-derivation-02.txt, August 1998.
-
- [13]Bradner, S. "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", RFC
- 2026.
-
-
-
- 10. Author's Addresses
-
- Sasha Medvinsky
- Motorola
- 6450 Sequence Drive
- San Diego, CA 92121
- Email: smedvinsky@gi.com
-
- Poornima Lalwaney
- Nokia
- 12278 Scripps Summit Drive
- San Diego, CA 92131
- Email: poornima.lalwaney@nokia.com
-
-
-11. Expiration
-
- This memo is filed as <draft-smedvinsky-dhc-kerbauth-01.txt>, and
- expires January 1, 2001.
-
-
-
-12. Intellectual Property Notices
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
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- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
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-Abstract
-
- The KerbUSM MIB provides a means of leveraging a trusted third party
- authentication and authorization mechanism using Kerberos for SNMP V3
- USM users and their associated VACM views. The MIB encodes the normal
- Kerberos AP-REQ and AP-REP means of both authenticating and creating
- a shared secret between the SNMP V3 Manager and Agent.
-
-The SNMP Management Framework
-
- The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
- components: An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571
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- [RFC2571]. Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events
- for the purpose of management. The first version of this Structure
- of Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in STD
- 16, RFC 1155 [RFC1155], STD 16, RFC 1212 [RFC1212] and RFC 1215
- [RFC1215]. The second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58,
- RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580
- [RFC2580]. Message protocols for transferring management
- information. The first version of the SNMP message protocol is
- called SNMPv1 and described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [RFC1157]. A second
- version of the SNMP message protocol, which is not an Internet
- standards track protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901
- [RFC1901] and RFC 1906 [RFC1906]. The third version of the message
- protocol is called SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [RFC1906], RFC
- 2572 [RFC2572] and RFC 2574 [RFC2574]. Protocol operations for
- accessing management information. The first set of protocol
- operations and associated PDU formats is described in STD 15, RFC
- 1157 [RFC1157]. A second set of protocol operations and associated
- PDU formats is described in RFC 1905 [RFC1905]. A set of fundamental
- applications described in RFC 2573 [RFC2573] and the view-based
- access control mechanism described in RFC 2575 [RFC2575].
-
- A more detailed introduction to the current SNMP Management Framework
- can be found in RFC 2570 [RFC2570].
-
- Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
- the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are
- defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.
-
- This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A
- MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate
- translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically
- equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no
- translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable
- information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in
- SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine
- readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the
- MIB.
-
-
-Introduction
-
- The User based Security Model of SNMP V3 (USM) [2] provides a means
- of associating different users with different access privileges of
- the various MIB's that an agent supports. In conjunction with the
- View based Access Control Model of SNMP V3 (VACM) [3], SNMP V3
- provides a means of providing resistance from various threats both
- from outside attacks such as spoofing, and inside attacks such as an
- user having, say, SET access to MIB variable for which they are not
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- authorized.
-
- SNMP V3, unfortunately, does not specify a means of doing key
- distribution between the managers and the agents. For small numbers
- of agents and managers, the O(n*m) manual keying is a cumbersome, but
- possibly tractable problem. For a large number of agents with
- distribution of managers, the key distribution quickly goes from
- cumbersome to unmanageable. Also: there is always the lingering
- concern of the security precautions taken for keys on either local
- management stations, or even directories.
-
- Kerberos [1] provides a means of centralizing key management into an
- authentication and authorization server known as a Key Distribution
- Center (KDC). At a minimum, Kerberos changes the key distribution
- problem from a O(n*m) problem to a O(n) problem since keys are shared
- between the KDC and the Kerberos principals rather directly between
- each host pair. Kerberos also provides a means to use public key
- based authentication which can be used to further scale down the
- number of pre-shared secrets required. Furthermore, a KDC is intended
- and explicitly expected to be a standalone server which is managed
- with a much higher level of security concern than a management
- station or even a central directory which may host many services and
- thus be exposed to many more possible vectors of attack.
-
- The MIB defined in this memo describes a means of using the desirable
- properties of Kerberos within the context of SNMP V3. Kerberos
- defines a standardized means of communicating with the KDC as well as
- a standard format of Kerberos tickets which Kerberos principals
- exchange in order to authenticate to one another. The actual means of
- exchanging tickets, however, is left as application specific. This
- MIB defines the SNMP MIB designed to transport Kerberos tickets and
- by doing so set up SNMP V3 USM keys for authentication and privacy.
-
- It should be noted that using Kerberos does introduce reliance on a
- key network element, the KDC. This flies in the face of one of SNMP's
- dictums of working when the network is misbehaving. While this is a
- valid concern, the risk of reliance on the KDC can be significantly
- diminished with a few common sense actions. Since Kerberos tickets
- can have long life times (days, weeks) a manager of key network
- elements can and should maintain Kerberos tickets well ahead ticket
- expiration so that likelihood of not being able to rekey a session
- while the network is misbehaving is minimized. For non-critical, but
- high fanout elements such as user CPE, etc, requiring a pre-fetched
- ticket may not be practical, which puts the KDC into the critical
- path. However, if all KDC's are unreachable, the non-critical network
- elements are probably the least of the worries.
-
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-Operation
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- The normal Kerberos application ticket exchange is accomplished by a
- client first fetching a service ticket from a KDC for the service
- principal and then sending an AP-REQ to a server to authenticate
- itself to the server. The server then sends a AP-REP to finish the
- exchange. This MIB maps Kerberos' concept of client and server into
- the SNMP V3 concept of Manager and Agent by designating that the
- Kerberos Client is the SNMP V3 Agent. Although it could be argued
- that an Agent is really a server, in practice there may be many, many
- agents and relatively few managers. Also: Kerberos clients may make
- use of public key authentication as defined in [4], and it is very
- advantageous to take advantage of that capability for Agents rather
- than Managers.
-
- The MIB is intended to be stateless and map USM users to Kerberos
- principals. This mapping is explicitly done by putting a Kerberos
- principal name into the usmUserSecurityName in the usmUser MIB and
- instatiating the krbUsmMibEntry for the usmUserEntry. MIB variables
- are accessed with INFORM's or TRAP PDU's and SET's to perform a
- normal Kerberos AP-REQ/AP-REP exchange transaction which causes the
- keys for a USM user to be derived and installed. The basic structure
- of the MIB is a table which augements usmUserEntry's with a Kerberos
- principal name as well as the transaction varbinds. In the normal
- case, multiple varbinds should be sent in a single PDU which prevents
- various race conditions, as well as increasing efficiency.
-
- It should be noted that this MIB is silent on the subject of how the
- Agent and Manager find the KDC. In practice, this may be either
- statically provisioned or use either DNS SRV records (RFC 2782) or
- Service Location (RFC 2608). This MIB is does not provide for a means
- of doing cipher suite negotiation either. It is expected that the
- choices for ciphers in the USM MIB will reflect site specific choices
- for ciphers. This matches well with the general philosophy of
- centralized keying.
-
-Keying Transactions
-
- The following shows an error free transaction:
-
- Note: optional steps or parameters are shown like [ ]
-
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- +-- --+
- | 1) <------------------------------- |
- | SET (krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibNonce = xxxx; |
- | [ krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibTgt = |
- | TGT[usmUserSecurityName] ]); |
- | |
- | 2) -------------------------------> |
- | Response |
- +-- (optional) --+
-
- 3) --------------------------------------------------------------->
- TGS-REQ (krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibMgrPrinName
- [, krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibTgt]);
-
- 4) <--------------------------------------------------------------
- Tick[usmUserSecurityName] = TGS-REP ();
-
- 5) ------------------------------>
- INFORM (krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibApReq =
- AP_REQ[Tick[usmUserSecurityName]];
- [ krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibNonce = xxxx]);
-
- 6) <------------------------------
- SET (krbUsmPrinTable[usmUserName].krbUsmMibApRep = AP_REP[]);
-
-
- 7) ------------------------------>
- Response
-
-
- The above flow translates to:
-
-
- 1) This step is used when the Manager does not currently have a ses-
- sion with the Agent but wishes to start one. The Manager MAY
- place a ticket granting ticket into the krbUsmMibMgrTgt varbind
- in the same PDU as the krbUsmMibNonce if it does not share a
- secret with the KDC (as would be the case if the Manager used
- PKinit to do initial authentication with the KDC).
-
-
- 2) This step acknowledges the SET. There are no MIB specific errors
- which can happen here.
-
-
- 3) If the Agent is not already in possession of a service ticket for
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- the Manager in its ticket cache, it MUST request a service ticket
- from the Agent's KDC for the service principal given by
- krbUsmMibMgrPrinName in the row that the krbUsmMibNonce was SET
- in, optionally adding a krbUsmMibMgrTgt. If the TGT is speci-
- fied, the Manager's TGT must be placed in the additional-tickets
- field with the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option set in the TGS-REQ to
- obtain a service ticket (see section 3.3.3 of [1]).
-
- Note: a Kerberos TGS-REQ is but one way to obtain a service
- ticket. An Agent may use any normal Kerberos means to
- obtain the service ticket. This flow has also elided ini-
- tial authentication (ie, AS-REQ) and any cross realm con-
- siderations, though those may be necessary prerequisites
- to obtaining the service ticket.
-
- 4) If step 3 was performed, this step receives the ticket or an
- error from the KDC.
-
-
- 5) This step sends a krbUsmMibApReq to the Manager via an INFORM or
- TRAP PDU. If the message is the result of a request by the
- Manager, krbUsmMibNonce received from the Manager MUST be sent in
- the same PDU. If the Manager did not initiate the transaction,
- the Agent MUST NOT send a krbUsmMibNonce varbind. The Agent also
- MUST check krbUsmMibUnsolicitedNotify is not false, otherwise it
- MUST abort the transaction. All krbUsmMibApReq's MUST contain a
- sequence nonce so that the resulting krbUsmMibApRep can provide a
- proof of the freshness of the message to prevent replay attacks.
-
- If the Agent encounters an error either generated by the KDC or
- internally, the Agent MUST send an INFORM or TRAP PDU indicating
- the error in the form of a KRB-ERROR placed in krbUsmMibApReq
- with the same rules applied to krbUsmMibNonce and krbUsmMibUnsol-
- icitedNotify above. If the Agent suspects that it is being
- attacked by a purported Manager which is generating many failed
- TGS-REQ's to the KDC, it SHOULD meter its TGS-REQ transactions
- for that Manager to the KDC using an exponential backoff mechan-
- ism truncated at 10 seconds.
-
-
-
- 6) Upon recepit of an INFORM or TRAP PDU with a krbUsmMibApReq, a
- Manager may accept the AP-REQ. If it is accompanied with a
- krbUsmMibNonce it MUST correlate it with any outstanding transac-
- tions using its stored nonce for the transaction. If it does not
- correlate with a current nonce, the request MUST be rejected as
- it may be a replay.
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- If the Manager chooses to reject an unsolicited keying request,
- it SHOULD send a WrongValue Error to the Agent with the krbUsmMi-
- bApReq as the subject of the WrongValue. If an Agent receives a
- WrongValue Error from a Manager it MUST cease retransmission of
- the INFORM or TRAP PDU's so as to mitigate event avalanches by
- Agents. There is a possible denial of service attack here, but it
- must be weighed against the larger problem of network congestion,
- flapping, etc. Therefore, if the Agent finds that it cannot can-
- cel an unsolicited Notify (ie, it must be reliable), it MUST use
- a truncated exponential backoff mechanism with the maximum trun-
- cation interval set to 10 minutes.
-
- Otherwise, the Manager MUST send a SET PDU to the Agent which
- contains a krbUsmMibApRep.
-
-
- 7) If the Agent detects an error (including detecting replays) in
- the final AP-REP, it MUST send a WrongValue error with a pointer
- to the krbUsmMibApRep varbind to indicate its inability to estab-
- lish the security association. Otherwise, receipt of the positive
- acknowledgement from the final SET indicates to the Manager that
- the proper keys have been installed on the Agent in the USM MIB.
-
-Unsolicited Agent Keying Requests
-
- An Agent may find that it needs to set up a security association for
- a USM user in order to notify a Manager of some event. When the Agent
- engine receives a request for a notify, it SHOULD check to see if
- keying material has been established for the user and that the keying
- material is valid. If the keying material is not valid and the USM
- user has been tagged as being a Kerberos principal in a realm, the
- Agent SHOULD first try to instantiate a security association by
- obtaining a service ticket for the USM User and follow steps 3-7 of
- the flow above. This insures that the USM User will have proper key-
- ing material and providing a mechanism to allow for casual security
- associations to be built up and torn down. This is especially useful
- for Agents which may not normally need to be under constant Manager
- supervision, such as the case with high fan out user residential CPE
- and other SNMP managed "appliances". In all cases, the Agent MUST NOT
- send an unsolicited Notify if krbUsmUnsolicitedNotify is set to
- false.
-
- How the Agent obtains the Manager's address, how it determines
- whether a Manager, realm, and whether it can be keyed using this MIB
- is outside of the scope of this memo.
-
- Note: Although the MIB allows for a Manager to set up a session
- using User-User mode of Kerberos by sending a TGT along with
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- only since there is no easy way to store the Manager's ticket
- in the MIB since it is publicly writable and as such would be
- subject to denial of service attacks. Another method might be
- to have the Agent send a krbUsmMibNonce to the Manager which
- would tell it to instigate a session. Overall, it seems like
- a marginal feature to allow a PKinit authenticated user be
- the target of unsolicited informs and it would complicate the
- transactions. For this reason, this scenario has been omitted
- in favor of simplicity.
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-Retransmissions
-
- Since this MIB defines not only variables, but transactions, discus-
- sion of the retransmission state machine is in order. There are two
- similar but different state machines for the Manager Solicited and
- Agent Unsolicited transactions. There is one timer Timeout which
- SHOULD take into consideration round trip considerations and MUST
- implement a truncated exponential backoff mechanism. In addition, in
- the case where an Agent makes an unsolicited Agent keying request,
- the Agent SHOULD perform an initial random backoff if the keying
- request to the Manager may result in a restart avalanche. A suitable
- method is described in section 4.3.4 of [5].
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- | |------------>| |
- | Set-Nonce | | Ap-Req |
- | (1) |<------------| (5) |
- +-----------+ Timeout +----------+
- ^ |
- | | Set-Ap-Rep
- | +----------+ | (6)
- +------| |<------+
- Timeout | Estab-wt |
- | (7) |
- +----------+
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- | Set-Ap-Rep-Ack (7)
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- | (7) |
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-Session Duration and Failures
-
- The KerbUsmMib uses the ticket lifetime to determine the life of the
- USM session. The Agent MUST keep track of whether the ticket which
- instigated the session is valid whenever it forms PDU's for that par-
- ticular user. If a session expires, or if it wasn't valid to begin
- with (from the Agent's perspective), the Agent MUST reject the PDU by
- sending a XXX Error [mat: help me here Keith... what does USM say
- about this?].
-
- Kerberos also inherently implies adding state to the Agent and
- Manager since they share not only a key, but a lifetime associated
- with that key. This is in some sense soft state because failure of an
- Agent will cause it to reject PDU's for Managers with whom it does
- not share a secret. The Manager can use the Error PDU's as an indica-
- tion that it needs to reauthenticate with the Agent, taking care not
- to loop. The Manager is even easier: when it reboots, it can either
- check its credential cache to reconstruct state or cause the Agent to
- reauthenticate to the Manager with its service ticket by initiating a
- authentication transaction with the manager.
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- Managers may freely set up keys for different USM users using this
- MIB without problem since they access different rows in the krbUsm-
- PrinTable. However, multiple Managers trying to set up keys for the
- same USM user is possible but discouraged. The requirement for the
- Manager is that they MUST share the same service key with the KDC so
- that they can all decrypt the same service ticket. There are two race
- conditions, however, which are not well handled:
-
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-1) At the end of a ticket lifetime, one manager may request the agent
- to refresh its service ticket causing a new session key to be
- installed for the USM user leaving the other managers with stale
- keys. The workaround here is that the Agent will reject the stale
- manager's PDU's which should inform them to do their own rekeying
- operations.
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-2) If multiple managers try to access the same row at the same time,
- the Agent SHOULD try to keep the transactions separate based on the
- nonce values. The Managers or the Agents SHOULD NOT break the
- krbUsmMibNonce and any other additional varbinds into separate PDU's
- as this may result in a meta stable state. Given normal MTU sizes,
- this should not be an issue in practice, and this should at worst
- devolve into the case above.
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- In all cases, the krbUsmMibNonce MUST be the last value to be
- transmitted, though its position within a PDU is unimportant.
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- KRB-USM-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
- IMPORTS
- MODULE-IDENTITY,
- OBJECT-TYPE, OBJECT-IDENTITY,
- snmpModules, Counter32, Unsigned32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI
- TruthValue, DisplayString FROM SNMPv2-TC
- usmUserEntry FROM SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
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- krbUsmMib MODULE-IDENTITY
- LAST-UPDATED "00071300Z"
- ORGANIZATION "IETF SNMP V3 Working Group"
- CONTACT-INFO
- "Michael Thomas
- Cisco Systems
- 375 E Tasman Drive
- San Jose, Ca 95134
- Phone: +1 408-525-5386
- Fax: +1 801-382-5284
- email: mat@cisco.com"
- DESCRIPTION
- "This MIB contains the MIB variables to
- exchange Kerberos credentials and a session
- key to be used to authenticate and set up
- USM keys"
-
- ::= { snmpModules nnn } -- not sure what needs to be here.
- krbUsmMibObjects OBJECT INDENTIFIER ::= { krbUsmMib 1 }
-
- krbUsmMibAuthInAttemps
- SYNTAX Counter32
- MAX-ACCESS read-only
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "Counter of the number of Kerberos
- authorization attempts as defined by
- receipt of a PDU from a Manager with a
- krbUsmMibNonce set in the principal table."
- ::= { krbUsmMibObjects 1 }
-
- krbUsmMibAuthOutAttemps
- SYNTAX Counter32
- MAX-ACCESS read-only
- STATUS current
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- DESCRIPTION
- "Counter of the number of unsolicited Kerberos
- authorization attempts as defined by
- an Agent sending an INFORM or TRAP PDU with a
- krbUsmMibApRep but without krbUsmApMibNonce
- varbind."
- ::= { krbUsmMibObjects 2 }
- krbUsmMibAuthInFail
- SYNTAX Counter32
- MAX-ACCESS read-only
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "Counter of the number of Kerberos
- authorization failures as defined by
- a Manager setting the krbUsmMibNonce
- in the principal table which results
- in some sort of failure to install keys
- in the requested USM user entry."
- ::= { krbUsmMibObjects 3 }
-
- krbUsmMibAuthOutFail
- SYNTAX Counter32
- MAX-ACCESS read-only
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "Counter of the number of unsolicited Kerberos
- authorization failures as defined by
- an Agent sending an INFORM or TRAP PDU with a
- krbUsmMibApRep but without a krbUsmMibNonce
- varbind which does not result in keys being
- installed for that USM user entry."
- ::= { krbUsmMibObjects 4 }
-
- krbUsmMibPrinTable OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF krbUsmMibEntry
- MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "Table which maps Kerberos principals with USM
- users as well as the per user variables to key
- up sessions"
- ::= { krbUsmMibObjects 5 }
-
- krbUsmMibPrinEntry OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX KrbUsmMibPrinEntry
- MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
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- parallel table to UsmUserEntry table"
- AUGMENTS { usmUserEntry }
- ::= { krbUsmMibPrinTable 1 }
-
- KrbUsmMibPrinEntry SEQUENCE
- {
- krbUsmMibApReq OCTET STRING,
- krbUsmMibApRep OCTET STRING,
- krbUsmMibNonce OCTET STRING,
- krbUsmMibMgrTGT OCTET STRING,
- krbUsmMibUnsolicitedNotify TruthValue,
- }
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- krbUsmMibApReq OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX OCTET STRING
- MAX-ACCESS accessible-for-notify
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "This variable contains a DER encoded Kerberos
- AP-REQ or KRB-ERROR for the USM user which is
- to be keyed. This is sent from the Agent to
- the Manager in an INFORM or TRAP request.
- KRB-ERROR MUST only be sent to the Manager
- if it is in response to a keying request from
- the Manager.
- "
- ::= { krbUsmMibPrinEntry 1 }
-
- krbUsmMibApRep OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX OCTET STRING
- MAX-ACCESS read-write
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "This variable contains the DER encoded response
- to an AP-REQ. This variable is SET by the
- Manager to acknowledge receipt of an AP-REQ. If
- krbUsmMibApRep contains a Kerberos AP-REP, the
- Agent must derive keys from the session key
- of the Kerberos ticket in the AP-REQ and place
- them in the USM database in a manner specified
- by [RFC2574]. If the Manager detects an error,
- it will instead place a KRB-ERROR in this
- variable to inform the Agent of the error.
-
- This variable is in effect a write-only variable.
- attempts to read this variable will result in a
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- krbUsmMibNonce OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX OCTET STRING
- MAX-ACCESS read-write
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "SET'ing a krbUsmMibnonce allows a Manager to
- determine whether an INFORM or TRAP from an
- Agent is an outstanding keying request, or
- unsolicited from the Agent. The Manager
- initiates keying for a particular USM user
- by writing a nonce into the row for which
- desires to establish a security association.
- The nonce is an ASCII string of the form
- ``host:port?nonce'' where:
-
- host: is either an FQDN, or valid ipv4 or ipv6
- numerical notation of the Manager which
- desires to initiate keying
- port: is the destination port at which that the
- Manager may be contacted
- nonce: is a number generated by the Manager to
- correlate the transaction
-
- The same nonce MUST be sent to the Manager in a
- subsequent INFORM or TRAP with a krbUsmApReq.
- The Agent MUST use the host address and port
- supplied in the nonce as the destination of a
- subsequent INFORM or TRAP. Unsolicited keying
- requests MUST NOT contain a nonce, and should
- instead use the destination stored Notifies of
- this type.
-
- Nonces MUST be highly collision resistant either
- using a time based method or a suitable random
- number generator. Managers MUST never create
- nonces which are 0.
-
- This variable is in effect a write-only variable.
- Attempts to read this variable will result in a
- nonce of value 0 being returned"
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- krbUsmMibMgrTgt OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX OCTET STRING
- MAX-ACCESS read-write
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "If the Manager does not possess a symmetric
- key with the KDC as would be the case with
- a Manager using PKinit for authentication,
- the Manager MUST SET its DER encoded ticket
- granting ticket into KrbUsmMgrTgt along
- with krbUsmMibNonce.
-
- The agent will then attach the Manager's TGT
- into the additional tickets field of the
- TGS-REQ message to the KDC to get a User-User
- service ticket.
-
- This variable is in effect a write-only variable.
- Attempts to read this variable will result in a
- null octet string being returned"
- ::= { krbUsmMibPrinEntry 4 }
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- krbUsmMibUnsolicitedNotify OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX TruthValue
- MAX-ACCESS read-write
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "If this variable is false, the Agent MUST NOT
- send unsolicited INFORM or TRAP PDU's to the
- Manager.
-
- Attempts to SET this variable by the no-auth
- no-priv user MUST be rejected."
- ::= { krbUsmMibPrinEntry 5 }
-
- --
- -- Conformance section... nothing optional.
-
- krbUsmMibCompliences MODULE-COMPLIANCE
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION "The compliance statement for SNMP
- engines whichimplement the KRB-USM-MIB
- "
- MODULE -- this module
- MANDATORY-GROUPS { krbUsmMib }
- ::= { krbUsmMibCompliances 1 }
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-Key Derivation
-
- The session key provides the basis for the keying material for the
- USM user specified in the AP-REQ. The actual keys for use for the
- authentication and privacy are produced using the cryptographic hash-
- ing function used to protect the ticket itself. The keying material
- is derived using this function, F(key, salt), using successive
- interations of F over the salt string "SNMPV3RULZ%d", where %d is a
- monotonic counter starting at zero. The bits are taken directly from
- the successive interations to produce two keys of appropriate size
- (as specified in the USM user row) for the authentication transform
- first, and the privacy transform second. If the authentication
- transform is null, the first bits of the derived key are used for the
- privacy transform.
-
-Security Considerations
-
- Various elements of this MIB must be readable and writable as the
- no-auth, no-priv user. Unless specifically necessary for the key
- negotiation, elements of this MIB SHOULD be protected by VACM views
- which limit access. In particular, there is no reason anything in
- this MIB should be visible to a no-auth, no-priv user with the excep-
- tion of KrbUsmMibApReq, KrbUsmMibApRep, KrbUsmMibNonce, and
- KrbUsmMibMgrTgt, and then only with the restrictions placed on them
- in the MIB. As such, probing attacks are still possible, but should
- not be profitable: all of the writable variables with interesting
- information in them are defined in such a way as to be write only.
-
- There are some interesting denial of service attacks which are possi-
- ble by attackers spoofing managers and putting load on the KDC to
- generate unnecessary tickets. For large numbers or agents this could
- be problematic. This can probably be mitigated by the KDC prioritiz-
- ing TGS-REQ's though.
-
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-References
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-[1] The CAT Working Group, J. Kohl, C.Neuman, "The Kerberos
- Network Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September
- 1993
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-[2] The SNMPV3 Working Group, U. Blumenthal, B. Wijnen, "The
- User-based Security Model of SNMP V3", RFC 2574, April 1999
-
-[3] The SNMPV3 Working Group, B. Wijnen, R. Presuhn,
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- V3", RFC 2575, April 1999
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-[4] The CAT Working Group, Tung, et al, "Public Key Cryptography
- for Initial Authentication in Kerberos", draft-ietf-cat-pk-
- init-11, November 1999
-
-[5] Arango, et al, "Media Gateway Control Protocl (MGCP)", RFC
- 2705, October 1999
-
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-[RFC2571] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, An Architecture
- for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks, RFC 2571, April
- 1999.
-
-[RFC1155] Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie, Structure and Identification of
- Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets, STD 16,
- RFC 1155, May 1990.
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-[RFC1212] Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie, Concise MIB Definitions, STD
- 16, RFC 1212, March 1991.
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-[RFC1215] M. Rose, A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the
- SNMP, RFC 1215, March 1991.
-
-[RFC2578] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
- Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, Structure of Management Infor-
- mation Version 2 (SMIv2), STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999.
-
-[RFC2579] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
- Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, Textual Conventions for SMIv2,
- STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999.
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-[RFC2580] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
- Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, Conformance Statements for
- SMIv2, STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999.
-
-[RFC1157] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., and J. Davin, Simple
- Network Management Protocol, STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.
-
-[RFC1901] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser,
- Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2, RFC 1901, January
- 1996.
-
-[RFC1906] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, Tran-
- sport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Manage-
- ment Protocol (SNMPv2), RFC 1906, January 1996.
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-[RFC2572] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R., and B. Wijnen, Message
- Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management
- Protocol (SNMP), RFC 2572, April 1999.
-
-[RFC2574] Blumenthal, U., and B. Wijnen, User-based Security Model
- (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Proto-
- col (SNMPv3), RFC 2574, April 1999.
-
-[RFC1905] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, Pro-
- tocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Manage-
- ment Protocol (SNMPv2), RFC 1905, January 1996.
-
-[RFC2573] Levi, D., Meyer, P., and B. Stewart, SNMPv3 Applications,
- RFC 2573, April 1999.
-
-[RFC2575] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R., and K. McCloghrie, View-based
- Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Manage-
- ment Protocol (SNMP), RFC 2575, April 1999.
-
-[RFC2570] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D., and B. Stewart, Introduc-
- tion to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Manage-
- ment Framework, RFC 2570, April 1999.
-
-Author's Address
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- Michael Thomas
- Cisco Systems
- 375 E Tasman Rd
- San Jose, Ca, 95134, USA
- Tel: +1 408-525-5386
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-CAT Working Group Mike Swift
-draft-trostle-win2k-cat-kerberos-set-passwd-00.txt Microsoft
-February 2000 Jonathan Trostle
-Category: Informational Cisco Systems
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
-
- Extending Change Password for Setting Kerberos Passwords
-
-
-0. Status Of This Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
- Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that
- other groups may also distribute working documents as
- Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
- documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-
- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
- "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- Comments and suggestions on this document are encouraged. Comments
- on this document should be sent to the CAT working group discussion
- list:
- ietf-cat-wg@stanford.edu
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Kerberos [1] change password protocol [2], does not allow for
- an administrator to set a password for a new user. This functionality
- is useful in some environments, and this proposal extends [2] to
- allow password setting. The changes are: adding new fields to the
- request message to indicate the principal which is having its
- password set, not requiring the initial flag in the service ticket,
- using a new protocol version number, and adding three new result
- codes.
-
-2. The Protocol
-
- The service must accept requests on UDP port 464 and TCP port 464 as
- well. The protocol consists of a single request message followed by
- a single reply message. For UDP transport, each message must be fully
- contained in a single UDP packet.
-
- For TCP transport, there is a 4 octet header in network byte order
- precedes the message and specifies the length of the message. This
-
- requirement is consistent with the TCP transport header in 1510bis.
-
-Request Message
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REQ length | AP_REQ data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- All 16 bit fields are in big-endian order.
-
- message length field: contains the number of bytes in the message
- including this field.
-
- protocol version number: contains the hex constant 0xff80 (big-endian
- integer).
-
- AP-REQ length: length of AP-REQ data, in bytes. If the length is zero,
- then the last field contains a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-PRIV
- message.
-
- AP-REQ data: (see [1]) The AP-REQ message must be for the service
- principal kadmin/changepw@REALM, where REALM is the REALM of the user
- who wishes to change/set his password. The ticket in the AP-REQ must
- must include a subkey in the Authenticator. To enable setting of
- passwords, it is not required that the initial flag be set in the
- Kerberos service ticket.
-
- KRB-PRIV message (see [1]) This KRB-PRIV message must be generated
- using the subkey from the authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The user-data component of the message consists of the following ASN.1
- structure encoded as an OCTET STRING:
-
- ChangePasswdData ::= SEQUENCE {
- newpasswd[0] OCTET STRING,
- targname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- targrealm[3] Realm OPTIONAL
- }
-
- The server must verify the AP-REQ message, check whether the client
- principal in the ticket is authorized to set/change the password
- (either for that principal, or for the principal in the targname
- field if present), and decrypt the new password. The server also
- checks whether the initial flag is required for this request,
- replying with status 0x0007 if it is not set and should be. An
- authorization failure is cause to respond with status 0x0005. For
- forward compatibility, the server should be prepared to ignore fields
- after targrealm in the structure that it does not understand.
-
- The newpasswd field contains the cleartext password, and the server
- should apply any local policy checks including password policy checks.
- The server then generates the appropriate keytypes from the password
-
- and stores them in the KDC database. If all goes well, status 0x0000
- is returned to the client in the reply message (see below).
-
-Reply Message
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | message length | protocol version number |
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | AP_REP length | AP-REP data /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- / KRB-PRIV message /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
-
- All 16 bit fields are in big-endian order.
-
- message length field: contains the number of bytes in the message
- including this field.
-
- protocol version number: contains the hex constant 0x0001 (big-endian
- integer). (The reply message has the same format as in [2]).
-
- AP-REP length: length of AP-REP data, in bytes. If the length is zero,
- then the last field contains a KRB-ERROR message instead of a KRB-PRIV
- message.
-
- AP-REP data: the AP-REP is the response to the AP-REQ in the request
- packet.
-
- KRB-PRIV from [2]: This KRB-PRIV message must be generated using the
- subkey in the authenticator in the AP-REQ data.
-
- The server will respond with a KRB-PRIV message unless it cannot
- decode the client AP-REQ or KRB-PRIV message, in which case it will
- respond with a KRB-ERROR message. NOTE: Unlike change password version
- 1, the KRB-ERROR message will be sent back without any encapsulation.
-
- The user-data component of the KRB-PRIV message, or e-data component
- of the KRB-ERROR message, must consist of the following data.
-
- 0 1 2 3
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
- | result code | result string /
- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-
- result code (16 bits) (result codes 0-4 are from [2]):
- The result code must have one of the following values (big-
- endian integer):
- KRB5_KPASSWD_SUCCESS 0 request succeeds (This value is not
- allowed in a KRB-ERROR message)
- KRB5_KPASSWD_MALFORMED 1 request fails due to being malformed
- KRB5_KPASSWD_HARDERROR 2 request fails due to "hard" error in
- processing the request (for example,
- there is a resource or other problem
- causing the request to fail)
-
- KRB5_KPASSWD_AUTHERROR 3 request fails due to an error in
- authentication processing
- KRB5_KPASSWD_SOFTERROR 4 request fails due to a "soft" error
- in processing the request
- KRB5_KPASSWD_ACCESSDENIED 5 requestor not authorized
- KRB5_KPASSWD_BAD_VERSION 6 protocol version unsupported
- KRB5_KPASSWD_INITIAL_FLAG_NEEDED 7 initial flag required
- 0xFFFF if the request fails for some other reason.
- Although only a few non-zero result codes are specified here,
- the client should accept any non-zero result code as indicating
- failure.
- result string - from [2]:
- This field should contain information which the server thinks
- might be useful to the user, such as feedback about policy
- failures. The string must be encoded in UTF-8. It may be
- omitted if the server does not wish to include it. If it is
- present, the client should display the string to the user.
- This field is analogous to the string which follows the numeric
- code in SMTP, FTP, and similar protocols.
-
-3. References
-
- [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
-
- [2] M. Horowitz. Kerberos Change Password Protocol.
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/
- draft-ietf-cat-kerb-chg-password-02.txt
-
-4. Expiration Date
-
- This draft expires in August 2000.
-
-5. Authors' Addresses
-
- Jonathan Trostle
- Cisco Systems
- 170 W. Tasman Dr.
- San Jose, CA 95134
- Email: jtrostle@cisco.com
-
- Mike Swift
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA 98052
- mikesw@microsoft.com
-
- John Brezak
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA 98052
- jbrezak@microsoft.com
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-Network Working Group T. Ts'o, Editor
-Internet-Draft Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-draft-tso-telnet-krb5-04.txt April 2000
-
- Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 5
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas,
- and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
- working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
- and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
- time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference mate-
- rial or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
- document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
-
-0. Abstract
-
- This document describes how Kerberos Version 5 [1] is used with the
- telnet protocol. It describes an telnet authentication sub-option
- to be used with the telnet authentication option [2]. This mecha-
- nism can also used to provide keying material to provide data confi-
- dentiality services in conjuction with the telnet encryption option
- [3].
-
-1. Command Names and Codes
-
- Authentication Types
-
- KERBEROS_V5 2
-
- Sub-option Commands
-
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- AUTH 0
- REJECT 1
- ACCEPT 2
- RESPONSE 3
- FORWARD 4
- FORWARD_ACCEPT 5
- FORWARD_REJECT 6
-
-2. Command Meanings
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS <authentication-type-pair> AUTH <Kerberos V5
- KRB_AP_REQ message> IAC SE
-
- This is used to pass the Kerberos V5 [1] KRB_AP_REQ message to the
- remote side of the connection. The first octet of the <authenti-
- cation-type-pair> value is KERBEROS_V5, to indicate that Version 5
- of Kerberos is being used. The Kerberos V5 authenticator in the
- KRB_AP_REQ message must contain a Kerberos V5 checksum of the
- two-byte authentication type pair. This checksum must be verified
- by the server to assure that the authentication type pair was cor-
- rectly negotiated. The Kerberos V5 authenticator must also in-
- clude the optional subkey field, which shall be filled in with a
- randomly chosen key. This key shall be used for encryption pur-
- poses if encryption is negotiated, and shall be used as the nego-
- tiated session key (i.e., used as keyid 0) for the purposes of the
- telnet encryption option; if the subkey is not filled in, then the
- ticket session key will be used instead.
-
- If data confidentiality services is desired the ENCRYPT_US-
- ING_TELOPT flag must be set in the authentication-type-pair as
- specified in [2].
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> ACCEPT IAC SE
-
- This command indicates that the authentication was successful.
-
- If the AUTH_HOW_MUTUAL bit is set in the second octet of the au-
- thentication-type-pair, the RESPONSE command must be sent before
- the ACCEPT command is sent.
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> REJECT <op-
- tional reason for rejection> IAC SE
-
- This command indicates that the authentication was not successful,
- and if there is any more data in the sub-option, it is an ASCII
- text message of the reason for the rejection.
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> RESPONSE
- <KRB_AP_REP message> IAC SE
-
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- This command is used to perform mutual authentication. It is only
- used when the AUTH_HOW_MUTUAL bit is set in the second octet of
- the authentication-type-pair. After an AUTH command is verified,
- a RESPONSE command is sent which contains a Kerberos V5 KRB_AP_REP
- message to perform the mutual authentication.
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION <authentication-type-pair> FORWARD <KRB_CRED
- message> IAC SE
-
- This command is used to forward kerberos credentials for use by
- the remote session. The credentials are passed as a Kerberos V5
- KRB_CRED message which includes, among other things, the forwarded
- Kerberos ticket and a session key associated with the ticket. Part
- of the KRB_CRED message is encrypted in the key previously ex-
- changed for the telnet session by the AUTH suboption.
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION <authentication-type-pair> FORWARD_ACCEPT IAC
- SE
-
- This command indicates that the credential forwarding was success-
- ful.
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION <authentication-type-pair> FORWARD_REJECT <op-
- tional reason for rejection> IAC SE
-
- This command indicates that the credential forwarding was not suc-
- cessful, and if there is any more data in the sub-option, it is an
- ASCII text message of the reason for the rejection.
-
-3. Implementation Rules
-
- If the second octet of the authentication-type-pair has the AUTH_WHO
- bit set to AUTH_CLIENT_TO_SERVER, then the client sends the initial
- AUTH command, and the server responds with either ACCEPT or REJECT.
- In addition, if the AUTH_HOW bit is set to AUTH_HOW_MUTUAL, the serv-
- er will send a RESPONSE before it sends the ACCEPT.
-
- If the second octet of the authentication-type-pair has the AUTH_WHO
- bit set to AUTH_SERVER_TO_CLIENT, then the server sends the initial
- AUTH command, and the client responds with either ACCEPT or REJECT.
- In addition, if the AUTH_HOW bit is set to AUTH_HOW_MUTUAL, the
- client will send a RESPONSE before it sends the ACCEPT.
-
- The Kerberos principal used by the server will generally be of the
- form "host/<hostname>@realm". That is, the first component of the
- Kerberos principal is "host"; the second component is the fully qual-
- ified lower-case hostname of the server; and the realm is the Ker-
- beros realm to which the server belongs.
-
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- Any Telnet IAC characters that occur in the KRB_AP_REQ or KRB_AP_REP
- messages, the KRB_CRED structure, or the optional rejection text
- string must be doubled as specified in [4]. Otherwise the following
- byte might be mis-interpreted as a Telnet command.
-
-4. Examples
-
- User "joe" may wish to log in as user "pete" on machine "foo". If
- "pete" has set things up on "foo" to allow "joe" access to his ac-
- count, then the client would send IAC SB AUTHENTICATION NAME "pete"
- IAC SE IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS KERBEROS_V5 AUTH <KRB_AP_REQ_MESSAGE>
- IAC SE
-
- The server would then authenticate the user as "joe" from the
- KRB_AP_REQ_MESSAGE, and if the KRB_AP_REQ_MESSAGE was accepted by
- Kerberos, and if "pete" has allowed "joe" to use his account, the
- server would then continue the authentication sequence by sending a
- RESPONSE (to do mutual authentication, if it was requested) followed
- by the ACCEPT.
-
- If forwarding has been requested, the client then sends IAC SB AU-
- THENTICATION IS KERBEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL FORWARD <KRB_CRED structure
- with credentials to be forwarded> IAC SE. If the server succeeds in
- reading the forwarded credentials, the server sends FORWARD_ACCEPT
- else, a FORWARD_REJECT is sent back.
-
- Client Server
- IAC DO AUTHENTICATION
- IAC WILL AUTHENTICATION
-
- [ The server is now free to request authentication information.
- ]
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION SEND
- KERBEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL
- KERBEROS_V5 CLIENT|ONE_WAY IAC
- SE
-
- [ The server has requested mutual Version 5 Kerberos
- authentication. If mutual authentication is not supported,
- then the server is willing to do one-way authentication.
-
- The client will now respond with the name of the user that it
- wants to log in as, and the Kerberos ticket. ]
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION NAME
- "pete" IAC SE
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS
- KERBEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL AUTH
- <KRB_AP_REQ message> IAC SE
-
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- [ Since mutual authentication is desired, the server sends across
- a RESPONSE to prove that it really is the right server. ]
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY
- KERBEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL
- RESPONSE <KRB_AP_REP message>
- IAC SE
-
- [ The server responds with an ACCEPT command to state that the
- authentication was successful. ]
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY KER-
- BEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL ACCEPT
- IAC SE
-
- [ If so requested, the client now sends the FORWARD command to
- forward credentials to the remote site. ]
-
- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS KER-
- BEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL
- FORWARD <KRB_CRED message> IAC
- SE
-
- [ The server responds with a FORWARD_ACCEPT command to state that
- the credential forwarding was successful. ]
-
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- IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY KER-
- BEROS_V5 CLIENT|MUTUAL FOR-
- WARD_ACCEPT IAC SE
-
-5. Security Considerations
-
- The selection of the random session key in the Kerberos V5 authenti-
- cator is critical, since this key will be used for encrypting the
- telnet data stream if encryption is enabled. It is strongly advised
- that the random key selection be done using cryptographic techniques
- that involve the Kerberos ticket's session key. For example, using
- the current time, encrypting it with the ticket session key, and then
- correcting for key parity is a strong way to generate a subsession
- key, since the ticket session key is assumed to be never disclosed to
- an attacker.
-
- Care should be taken before forwarding a user's Kerberos credentials
- to the remote server. If the remote server is not trustworthy, this
- could result in the user's credentials being compromised. Hence, the
- user interface should not forward credentials by default; it would be
- far safer to either require the user to explicitly request creden-
- tials forwarding for each connection, or to have a trusted list of
- hosts for which credentials forwarding is enabled, but to not enable
- credentials forwarding by default for all machines.
-
-6. IANA Considerations
-
- The authentication type KERBEROS_V5 and its associated suboption values
- are registered with IANA. Any suboption values used to extend
- the protocol as described in this document must be registered
- with IANA before use. IANA is instructed not to issue new suboption
- values without submission of documentation of their use.
-
-7. Acknowledgments
-
- This document was originally written by Dave Borman of Cray Research,
- Inc. Theodore Ts'o of MIT revised it to reflect the latest implemen-
- tation experience. Cliff Neuman and Prasad Upasani of USC's Informa-
- tion Sciences Institute developed the credential forwarding support.
-
- In addition, the contributions of the Telnet Working Group are also
- gratefully acknowledged.
-
-8. References
-
- [1] Kohl, J. and B. Neuman, "The Kerberos Network Authentication Sys-
- tem (V5)", RFC 1510, USC/Information Sciences Institute, Septem-
- ber 1993.
-
- [2] Internet Engineering Task Force, "Telnet Authentication", draft-
- tso-telnet-auth-enc-04.txt, T. Ts'o, Editor, VA Linux Systems,
- April 2000.
-
- [3] Internet Engineering Task Force, "Telnet Data Encryption Option",
- draft-tso-telnet-encryption-04.txt, T. Ts'o, Editor, VA Linux
- Systems, April 2000.
-
- [4] Postel, J.B. and J. Reynolds, "Telnet Option Specifications", RFC
-
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-
- 855, STD 8, USC/Information Sciences Institute, May 1983.
-
-Editor's Address
-
- Theodore Ts'o
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT Room E40-343
- 77 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
-
- Phone: (617) 253-8091
- EMail: tytso@mit.edu
-
- Expires Sept 2000 [Page 7]
-
-
- Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
- The Kermit Project * Columbia University
- 612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
- http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org
-
-
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-CAT working group M. Swift
-Internet Draft J. Brezak
-Document: draft-brezak-win2k-krb-rc4-hmac-03.txt Microsoft
-Category: Informational June 2000
-
-
- The Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos encryption type
-
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
- all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
- areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
- distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are
- draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be
- updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It
- is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to
- cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos introduces a new
- encryption type based on the RC4 encryption algorithm and using an
- MD5 HMAC for checksum. This is offered as an alternative to using
- the existing DES based encryption types.
-
- The RC4-HMAC encryption types are used to ease upgrade of existing
- Windows NT environments, provide strong crypto (128-bit key
- lengths), and provide exportable (meet United States government
- export restriction requirements) encryption.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation of Kerberos contains new encryption
- and checksum types for two reasons: for export reasons early in the
- development process, 56 bit DES encryption could not be exported,
- and because upon upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000,
- accounts will not have the appropriate DES keying material to do the
- standard DES encryption. Furthermore, 3DES is not available for
- export, and there was a desire to use a single flavor of encryption
- in the product for both US and international products.
-
- As a result, there are two new encryption types and one new checksum
- type introduced in Windows 2000.
-
-
-2. Conventions used in this document
-
-
-
-Swift Category - Informational 1
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
- this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [2].
-
-3. Key Generation
-
- On upgrade from existing Windows NT domains, the user accounts would
- not have a DES based key available to enable the use of DES base
- encryption types specified in RFC 1510. The key used for RC4-HMAC is
- the same as the existing Windows NT key (NT Password Hash) for
- compatibility reasons. Once the account password is changed, the DES
- based keys are created and maintained. Once the DES keys are
- available DES based encryption types can be used with Kerberos.
-
- The RC4-HMAC String to key function is defined as follow:
-
- String2Key(password)
-
- K = MD4(UNICODE(password))
-
- The RC4-HMAC keys are generated by using the Windows UNICODE version
- of the password. Each Windows UNICODE character is encoded in
- little-endian format of 2 octets each. Then performing an MD4 [6]
- hash operation on just the UNICODE characters of the password (not
- including the terminating zero octets).
-
- For an account with a password of "foo", this String2Key("foo") will
- return:
-
- 0xac, 0x8e, 0x65, 0x7f, 0x83, 0xdf, 0x82, 0xbe,
- 0xea, 0x5d, 0x43, 0xbd, 0xaf, 0x78, 0x00, 0xcc
-
-4. Basic Operations
-
- The MD5 HMAC function is defined in [3]. It is used in this
- encryption type for checksum operations. Refer to [3] for details on
- its operation. In this document this function is referred to as
- HMAC(Key, Data) returning the checksum using the specified key on
- the data.
-
- The basic MD5 hash operation is used in this encryption type and
- defined in [7]. In this document this function is referred to as
- MD5(Data) returning the checksum of the data.
-
- RC4 is a stream cipher licensed by RSA Data Security [RSADSI]. A
- compatible cipher is described in [8]. In this document the function
- is referred to as RC4(Key, Data) returning the encrypted data using
- the specified key on the data.
-
- These encryption types use key derivation as defined in [9] (RFC-
- 1510BIS) in Section titled "Key Derivation". With each message, the
- message type (T) is used as a component of the keying material. This
- summarizes the different key derivation values used in the various
-
-Swift Category - Informational 2
-
- Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos E-Type June 2000
-
-
- operations. Note that these differ from the key derivations used in
- other Kerberos encryption types.
-
- T = 1 for TS-ENC-TS in the AS-Request
- T = 8 for the AS-Reply
- T = 7 for the Authenticator in the TGS-Request
- T = 8 for the TGS-Reply
- T = 2 for the Server Ticket in the AP-Request
- T = 11 for the Authenticator in the AP-Request
- T = 12 for the Server returned AP-Reply
- T = 15 in the generation of checksum for the MIC token
- T = 0 in the generation of sequence number for the MIC token
- T = 13 in the generation of checksum for the WRAP token
- T = 0 in the generation of sequence number for the WRAP token
- T = 0 in the generation of encrypted data for the WRAPPED token
-
- All strings in this document are ASCII unless otherwise specified.
- The lengths of ASCII encoded character strings include the trailing
- terminator character (0).
-
- The concat(a,b,c,...) function will return the logical concatenation
- (left to right) of the values of the arguments.
-
- The nonce(n) function returns a pseudo-random number of "n" octets.
-
-5. Checksum Types
-
- There is one checksum type used in this encryption type. The
- Kerberos constant for this type is:
- #define KERB_CHECKSUM_HMAC_MD5 (-138)
-
- The function is defined as follows:
-
- K - is the Key
- T - the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer
-
- CHKSUM(K, T, data)
-
- Ksign = HMAC(K, "signaturekey") //includes zero octet at end
- tmp = MD5(concat(T, data))
- CHKSUM = HMAC(Ksign, tmp)
-
-
-6. Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types used in these encryption types. The
- Kerberos constants for these types are:
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC 23
- #define KERB_ETYPE_RC4_HMAC_EXP 24
-
- The basic encryption function is defined as follow:
-
- T = the message type, encoded as a little-endian four byte integer.
-
-Swift Category - Informational 3
-
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-
-
-
- BYTE L40[14] = "fortybits";
- BYTE SK = "signaturekey";
-
- ENCRYPT (K, fRC4_EXP, T, data, data_len, edata, edata_len)
- {
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 10 + 4, K1);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K1);
- }
- memcpy (K2, K1, 16);
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset (K1+7, 0xAB, 9);
- add_8_random_bytes(data, data_len, conf_plus_data);
- HMAC (K2, conf_plus_data, 8 + data_len, checksum);
- HMAC (K1, checksum, 16, K3);
- RC4(K3, conf_plus_data, 8 + data_len, edata + 16);
- memcpy (edata, checksum, 16);
- edata_len = 16 + 8 + data_len;
- }
-
- DECRYPT (K, fRC4_EXP, T, edata, edata_len, data, data_len)
- {
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K1);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K1);
- }
- memcpy (K2, K1, 16);
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset (K1+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC (K1, edata, 16, K3); // checksum is at edata
- RC4(K3, edata + 16, edata_len - 16, edata + 16);
- data_len = edata_len - 16 - 8;
- memcpy (data, edata + 16 + 8, data_len);
-
- // verify generated and received checksums
- HMAC (K2, edata + 16, edata_len - 16, checksum);
- if (memcmp(edata, checksum, 16) != 0)
- printf("CHECKSUM ERROR !!!!!!\n");
- }
-
- The header field on the encrypted data in KDC messages is:
-
- typedef struct _RC4_MDx_HEADER {
- UCHAR Checksum[16];
- UCHAR Confounder[8];
- } RC4_MDx_HEADER, *PRC4_MDx_HEADER;
-
- The KDC message is encrypted using the ENCRYPT function not
- including the Checksum in the RC4_MDx_HEADER.
-
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-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-7. Key Strength Negotiation
-
- A Kerberos client and server can negotiate over key length if they
- are using mutual authentication. If the client is unable to perform
- full strength encryption, it may propose a key in the "subkey" field
- of the authenticator, using a weaker encryption type. The server
- must then either return the same key or suggest its own key in the
- subkey field of the AP reply message. The key used to encrypt data
- is derived from the key returned by the server. If the client is
- able to perform strong encryption but the server is not, it may
- propose a subkey in the AP reply without first being sent a subkey
- in the authenticator.
-
-8. GSSAPI Kerberos V5 Mechanism Type
-
-8.1 Mechanism Specific Changes
-
- The GSSAPI per-message tokens also require new checksum and
- encryption types. The GSS-API per-message tokens must be changed to
- support these new encryption types (See [5] Section 1.2.2). The
- sealing algorithm identifier (SEAL_ALG) for an RC4 based encryption
- is:
- Byte 4..5 SEAL_ALG 0x10 0x00 - RC4
-
- The signing algorithm identifier (SGN_ALG) for MD5 HMAC is:
- Byte 2..3 SGN ALG 0x11 0x00 - HMAC
-
- The only support quality of protection is:
- #define GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0x0
-
- In addition, when using an RC4 based encryption type, the sequence
- number is sent in big-endian rather than little-endian order.
-
- The Windows 2000 implementation also defines new GSSAPI flags in the
- initial token passed when initializing a security context. These
- flags are passed in the checksum field of the authenticator (See [5]
- Section 1.1.1).
-
- GSS_C_DCE_STYLE - This flag was added for use with Microsoft’s
- implementation of DCE RPC, which initially expected three legs of
- authentication. Setting this flag causes an extra AP reply to be
- sent from the client back to the server after receiving the server’s
- AP reply. In addition, the context negotiation tokens do not have
- GSSAPI framing - they are raw AP message and do not include object
- identifiers.
- #define GSS_C_DCE_STYLE 0x1000
-
-
-
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-
-
- GSS_C_IDENTIFY_FLAG - This flag allows the client to indicate to the
- server that it should only allow the server application to identify
- the client by name and ID, but not to impersonate the client.
- #define GSS_C_IDENTIFY_FLAG 0x2000
-
- GSS_C_EXTENDED_ERROR_FLAG - Setting this flag indicates that the
- client wants to be informed of extended error information. In
- particular, Windows 2000 status codes may be returned in the data
- field of a Kerberos error message. This allows the client to
- understand a server failure more precisely. In addition, the server
- may return errors to the client that are normally handled at the
- application layer in the server, in order to let the client try to
- recover. After receiving an error message, the client may attempt to
- resubmit an AP request.
- #define GSS_C_EXTENDED_ERROR_FLAG 0x4000
-
- These flags are only used if a client is aware of these conventions
- when using the SSPI on the Windows platform, they are not generally
- used by default.
-
- When NetBIOS addresses are used in the GSSAPI, they are identified
- by the GSS_C_AF_NETBIOS value. This value is defined as:
- #define GSS_C_AF_NETBIOS 0x14
- NetBios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to th 15 characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16
- octet of 0x0.
-
-8.2 GSSAPI Checksum Type
-
- The GSSAPI checksum type and algorithm is defined in Section 5. Only
- the first 8 octets of the checksum are used. The resulting checksum
- is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field (See [5] Section 1.2) for
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap(conf_flag=FALSE).
-
- MIC (K, fRC4_EXP, seq_num, MIC_hdr, msg, msg_len,
- MIC_seq, MIC_checksum)
- {
- HMAC (K, SK, 13, K4);
- T = 15;
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 00, &T, 4);
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 04, MIC_hdr, 8);
- // 0101 1100 FFFFFFFF
- memcpy (T_plus_hdr_plus_msg + 12, msg, msg_len);
- MD5 (T_hdr_msg, 4 + 8 + msg_len, MD5_of_T_hdr_msg);
- HMAC (K4, MD5_of_T_hdr_msg, CHKSUM);
- memcpy (MIC_checksum, CHKSUM, 8); // use only first 8 bytes
-
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K5);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K5);
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-
- }
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset(K5+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC(K5, MIT_checksum, 8, K6);
- copy_seq_num_in_big_endian(seq_num, seq_plus_direction);
- //0x12345678
- copy_direction_flag (direction_flag, seq_plus_direction +
- 4); //0x12345678FFFFFFFF
- RC4(K6, seq_plus_direction, 8, MIC_seq);
- }
-
-8.3 GSSAPI Encryption Types
-
- There are two encryption types for GSSAPI message tokens, one that
- is 128 bits in strength, and one that is 56 bits in strength as
- defined in Section 6.
-
- All padding is rounded up to 1 byte. One byte is needed to say that
- there is 1 byte of padding. The DES based mechanism type uses 8 byte
- padding. See [5] Section 1.2.2.3.
-
- The encryption mechanism used for GSS wrap based messages is as
- follow:
-
-
- WRAP (K, fRC4_EXP, seq_num, WRAP_hdr, msg, msg_len,
- WRAP_seq, WRAP_checksum, edata, edata_len)
- {
- HMAC (K, SK, 13, K7);
- T = 13;
- PAD = 1;
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 00, &T, 4);
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 04, WRAP_hdr, 8); // 0101 1100
- FFFFFFFF
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 12, msg, msg_len);
- memcpy (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 12 + msg_len, &PAD, 1);
- MD5 (T_hdr_conf_msg_pad,
- 4 + 8 + 8 + msg_len + 1,
- MD5_of_T_hdr_conf_msg_pad);
- HMAC (K7, MD5_of_T_hdr_conf_msg_pad, CHKSUM);
- memcpy (WRAP_checksum, CHKSUM, 8); // use only first 8
- bytes
-
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *((DWORD *)(L40+10)) = T;
- HMAC (K, L40, 14, K8);
- }else{
- HMAC (K, &T, 4, K8);
- }
- if (fRC4_EXP) memset(K8+7, 0xAB, 9);
- HMAC(K8, WRAP_checksum, 8, K9);
- copy_seq_num_in_big_endian(seq_num, seq_plus_direction);
- //0x12345678
-
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-
- copy_direction_flag (direction_flag, seq_plus_direction +
- 4); //0x12345678FFFFFFFF
- RC4(K9, seq_plus_direction, 8, WRAP_seq);
-
- for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) K10 [i] ^= 0xF0; // XOR each byte
- of key with 0xF0
- T = 0;
- if (fRC4_EXP){
- *(DWORD *)(L40+10) = T;
- HMAC(K10, L40, 14, K11);
- memset(K11+7, 0xAB, 9);
- }else{
- HMAC(K10, &T, 4, K11);
- }
- HMAC(K11, seq_num, 4, K12);
- RC4(K12, T_hdr_conf_msg_pad + 4 + 8, 8 + msg_len + 1,
- edata); /* skip T & hdr */
- edata_len = 8 + msg_len + 1; // conf + msg_len + pad
- }
-
-
- The character constant "fortybits" evolved from the time when a 40-
- bit key length was all that was exportable from the United States.
- It is now used to recognize that the key length is of "exportable"
- length. In this description, the key size is actually 56-bits.
-
-9. Security Considerations
-
- Care must be taken in implementing this encryption type because it
- uses a stream cipher. If a different IV isn’t used in each direction
- when using a session key, the encryption is weak. By using the
- sequence number as an IV, this is avoided.
-
-10. Acknowledgements
-
- We would like to thank Salil Dangi for the valuable input in
- refining the descriptions of the functions and review input.
-
-11. References
-
- 1 Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
- 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
-
- 2 Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
-
- 3 Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., Canetti, R.,"HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for
- Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February 1997
-
- 4 Kohl, J., Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication
- Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993
-
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- 5 Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism", RFC-1964,
- June 1996
-
- 6 R. Rivest, "The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1320, April
- 1992
-
- 7 R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC-1321, April
- 1992
-
- 8 Thayer, R. and K. Kaukonen, "A Stream Cipher Encryption
- Algorithm", Work in Progress.
-
- 9 RC4 is a proprietary encryption algorithm available under license
- from RSA Data Security Inc. For licensing information, contact:
-
- RSA Data Security, Inc.
- 100 Marine Parkway
- Redwood City, CA 94065-1031
-
- 10 Neuman, C., Kohl, J., Ts'o, T., "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-
- 04.txt, June 25, 1999
-
-
-12. Author's Addresses
-
- Mike Swift
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Sieg Hall
- University of Washington
- Seattle, WA 98105
- Email: mikesw@cs.washington.edu
-
- John Brezak
- Microsoft
- One Microsoft Way
- Redmond, Washington
- Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com
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-Network Working Group J. Linn
-Request for Comments: 1508 Geer Zolot Associates
- September 1993
-
-
- Generic Security Service Application Program Interface
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This RFC specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status
- of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Abstract
-
- This Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API)
- definition provides security services to callers in a generic
- fashion, supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms and
- technologies and hence allowing source-level portability of
- applications to different environments. This specification defines
- GSS-API services and primitives at a level independent of underlying
- mechanism and programming language environment, and is to be
- complemented by other, related specifications:
-
- documents defining specific parameter bindings for particular
- language environments
-
- documents defining token formats, protocols, and procedures to
- be implemented in order to realize GSS-API services atop
- particular security mechanisms
-
-Table of Contents
-
- 1. GSS-API Characteristics and Concepts ....................... 2
- 1.1. GSS-API Constructs ....................................... 5
- 1.1.1. Credentials ........................................... 5
- 1.1.2. Tokens ................................................ 6
- 1.1.3. Security Contexts ..................................... 7
- 1.1.4. Mechanism Types ....................................... 8
- 1.1.5. Naming ................................................ 9
- 1.1.6. Channel Bindings ...................................... 10
- 1.2. GSS-API Features and Issues ............................. 11
- 1.2.1. Status Reporting ...................................... 11
- 1.2.2. Per-Message Security Service Availability ............. 12
- 1.2.3. Per-Message Replay Detection and Sequencing ........... 13
- 1.2.4. Quality of Protection ................................. 15
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- 2. Interface Descriptions ..................................... 15
- 2.1. Credential management calls ............................. 17
- 2.1.1. GSS_Acquire_cred call ................................. 17
- 2.1.2. GSS_Release_cred call ................................. 19
- 2.1.3. GSS_Inquire_cred call ................................. 20
- 2.2. Context-level calls ..................................... 21
- 2.2.1. GSS_Init_sec_context call ............................. 21
- 2.2.2. GSS_Accept_sec_context call ........................... 26
- 2.2.3. GSS_Delete_sec_context call ........................... 29
- 2.2.4. GSS_Process_context_token call ........................ 30
- 2.2.5. GSS_Context_time call ................................. 31
- 2.3. Per-message calls ....................................... 32
- 2.3.1. GSS_Sign call ......................................... 32
- 2.3.2. GSS_Verify call ....................................... 33
- 2.3.3. GSS_Seal call ......................................... 35
- 2.3.4. GSS_Unseal call ....................................... 36
- 2.4. Support calls ........................................... 37
- 2.4.1. GSS_Display_status call ............................... 37
- 2.4.2. GSS_Indicate_mechs call ............................... 38
- 2.4.3. GSS_Compare_name call ................................. 38
- 2.4.4. GSS_Display_name call ................................. 39
- 2.4.5. GSS_Import_name call .................................. 40
- 2.4.6. GSS_Release_name call ................................. 41
- 2.4.7. GSS_Release_buffer call ............................... 41
- 2.4.8. GSS_Release_oid_set call .............................. 42
- 3. Mechanism-Specific Example Scenarios ....................... 42
- 3.1. Kerberos V5, single-TGT ................................. 43
- 3.2. Kerberos V5, double-TGT ................................. 43
- 3.3. X.509 Authentication Framework .......................... 44
- 4. Related Activities ......................................... 45
- 5. Acknowledgments ............................................ 46
- 6. Security Considerations .................................... 46
- 7. Author's Address ........................................... 46
- Appendix A .................................................... 47
- Appendix B .................................................... 48
- Appendix C .................................................... 49
-
-1. GSS-API Characteristics and Concepts
-
- The operational paradigm in which GSS-API operates is as follows. A
- typical GSS-API caller is itself a communications protocol, calling
- on GSS-API in order to protect its communications with
- authentication, integrity, and/or confidentiality security services.
- A GSS-API caller accepts tokens provided to it by its local GSS-API
- implementation and transfers the tokens to a peer on a remote system;
- that peer passes the received tokens to its local GSS-API
- implementation for processing. The security services available
- through GSS-API in this fashion are implementable (and have been
-
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- implemented) over a range of underlying mechanisms based on secret-
- key and public-key cryptographic technologies.
-
- The GSS-API separates the operations of initializing a security
- context between peers, achieving peer entity authentication (This
- security service definition, and other definitions used in this
- document, corresponds to that provided in International Standard ISO
- 7498-2-1988(E), Security Architecture.) (GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls), from the operations of providing
- per-message data origin authentication and data integrity protection
- (GSS_Sign() and GSS_Verify() calls) for messages subsequently
- transferred in conjunction with that context. Per-message GSS_Seal()
- and GSS_Unseal() calls provide the data origin authentication and
- data integrity services which GSS_Sign() and GSS_Verify() offer, and
- also support selection of confidentiality services as a caller
- option. Additional calls provide supportive functions to the GSS-
- API's users.
-
- The following paragraphs provide an example illustrating the
- dataflows involved in use of the GSS-API by a client and server in a
- mechanism-independent fashion, establishing a security context and
- transferring a protected message. The example assumes that credential
- acquisition has already been completed. The example assumes that the
- underlying authentication technology is capable of authenticating a
- client to a server using elements carried within a single token, and
- of authenticating the server to the client (mutual authentication)
- with a single returned token; this assumption holds for presently-
- documented CAT mechanisms but is not necessarily true for other
- cryptographic technologies and associated protocols.
-
- The client calls GSS_Init_sec_context() to establish a security
- context to the server identified by targ_name, and elects to set the
- mutual_req_flag so that mutual authentication is performed in the
- course of context establishment. GSS_Init_sec_context() returns an
- output_token to be passed to the server, and indicates
- GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED status pending completion of the mutual
- authentication sequence. Had mutual_req_flag not been set, the
- initial call to GSS_Init_sec_context() would have returned
- GSS_COMPLETE status. The client sends the output_token to the server.
-
- The server passes the received token as the input_token parameter to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). GSS_Accept_sec_context indicates
- GSS_COMPLETE status, provides the client's authenticated identity in
- the src_name result, and provides an output_token to be passed to the
- client. The server sends the output_token to the client.
-
- The client passes the received token as the input_token parameter to
- a successor call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), which processes data
-
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- included in the token in order to achieve mutual authentication from
- the client's viewpoint. This call to GSS_Init_sec_context() returns
- GSS_COMPLETE status, indicating successful mutual authentication and
- the completion of context establishment for this example.
-
- The client generates a data message and passes it to GSS_Seal().
- GSS_Seal() performs data origin authentication, data integrity, and
- (optionally) confidentiality processing on the message and
- encapsulates the result into output_message, indicating GSS_COMPLETE
- status. The client sends the output_message to the server.
-
- The server passes the received message to GSS_Unseal(). GSS_Unseal
- inverts the encapsulation performed by GSS_Seal(), deciphers the
- message if the optional confidentiality feature was applied, and
- validates the data origin authentication and data integrity checking
- quantities. GSS_Unseal() indicates successful validation by
- returning GSS_COMPLETE status along with the resultant
- output_message.
-
- For purposes of this example, we assume that the server knows by
- out-of-band means that this context will have no further use after
- one protected message is transferred from client to server. Given
- this premise, the server now calls GSS_Delete_sec_context() to flush
- context-level information. GSS_Delete_sec_context() returns a
- context_token for the server to pass to the client.
-
- The client passes the returned context_token to
- GSS_Process_context_token(), which returns GSS_COMPLETE status after
- deleting context-level information at the client system.
-
- The GSS-API design assumes and addresses several basic goals,
- including:
-
- Mechanism independence: The GSS-API defines an interface to
- cryptographically implemented strong authentication and other
- security services at a generic level which is independent of
- particular underlying mechanisms. For example, GSS-API-provided
- services can be implemented by secret-key technologies (e.g.,
- Kerberos) or public-key approaches (e.g., X.509).
-
- Protocol environment independence: The GSS-API is independent of
- the communications protocol suites with which it is employed,
- permitting use in a broad range of protocol environments. In
- appropriate environments, an intermediate implementation "veneer"
- which is oriented to a particular communication protocol (e.g.,
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)) may be interposed between
- applications which call that protocol and the GSS-API, thereby
- invoking GSS-API facilities in conjunction with that protocol's
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- communications invocations.
-
- Protocol association independence: The GSS-API's security context
- construct is independent of communications protocol association
- constructs. This characteristic allows a single GSS-API
- implementation to be utilized by a variety of invoking protocol
- modules on behalf of those modules' calling applications. GSS-API
- services can also be invoked directly by applications, wholly
- independent of protocol associations.
-
- Suitability to a range of implementation placements: GSS-API
- clients are not constrained to reside within any Trusted Computing
- Base (TCB) perimeter defined on a system where the GSS-API is
- implemented; security services are specified in a manner suitable
- to both intra-TCB and extra-TCB callers.
-
-1.1. GSS-API Constructs
-
- This section describes the basic elements comprising the GSS-API.
-
-1.1.1. Credentials
-
- Credentials structures provide the prerequisites enabling peers to
- establish security contexts with each other. A caller may designate
- that its default credential be used for context establishment calls
- without presenting an explicit handle to that credential.
- Alternately, those GSS-API callers which need to make explicit
- selection of particular credentials structures may make references to
- those credentials through GSS-API-provided credential handles
- ("cred_handles").
-
- A single credential structure may be used for initiation of outbound
- contexts and acceptance of inbound contexts. Callers needing to
- operate in only one of these modes may designate this fact when
- credentials are acquired for use, allowing underlying mechanisms to
- optimize their processing and storage requirements. The credential
- elements defined by a particular mechanism may contain multiple
- cryptographic keys, e.g., to enable authentication and message
- encryption to be performed with different algorithms.
-
- A single credential structure may accommodate credential information
- associated with multiple underlying mechanisms (mech_types); a
- credential structure's contents will vary depending on the set of
- mech_types supported by a particular GSS-API implementation.
- Commonly, a single mech_type will be used for all security contexts
- established by a particular initiator to a particular target; the
- primary motivation for supporting credential sets representing
- multiple mech_types is to allow initiators on systems which are
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- equipped to handle multiple types to initiate contexts to targets on
- other systems which can accommodate only a subset of the set
- supported at the initiator's system.
-
- It is the responsibility of underlying system-specific mechanisms and
- OS functions below the GSS-API to ensure that the ability to acquire
- and use credentials associated with a given identity is constrained
- to appropriate processes within a system. This responsibility should
- be taken seriously by implementors, as the ability for an entity to
- utilize a principal's credentials is equivalent to the entity's
- ability to successfully assert that principal's identity.
-
- Once a set of GSS-API credentials is established, the transferability
- of that credentials set to other processes or analogous constructs
- within a system is a local matter, not defined by the GSS-API. An
- example local policy would be one in which any credentials received
- as a result of login to a given user account, or of delegation of
- rights to that account, are accessible by, or transferable to,
- processes running under that account.
-
- The credential establishment process (particularly when performed on
- behalf of users rather than server processes) is likely to require
- access to passwords or other quantities which should be protected
- locally and exposed for the shortest time possible. As a result, it
- will often be appropriate for preliminary credential establishment to
- be performed through local means at user login time, with the
- result(s) cached for subsequent reference. These preliminary
- credentials would be set aside (in a system-specific fashion) for
- subsequent use, either:
-
- to be accessed by an invocation of the GSS-API GSS_Acquire_cred()
- call, returning an explicit handle to reference that credential
-
- as the default credentials installed on behalf of a process
-
-1.1.2. Tokens
-
- Tokens are data elements transferred between GSS-API callers, and are
- divided into two classes. Context-level tokens are exchanged in order
- to establish and manage a security context between peers. Per-message
- tokens are exchanged in conjunction with an established context to
- provide protective security services for corresponding data messages.
- The internal contents of both classes of tokens are specific to the
- particular underlying mechanism used to support the GSS-API; Appendix
- B of this document provides a uniform recommendation for designers of
- GSS-API support mechanisms, encapsulating mechanism-specific
- information along with a globally-interpretable mechanism identifier.
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- Tokens are opaque from the viewpoint of GSS-API callers. They are
- generated within the GSS-API implementation at an end system,
- provided to a GSS-API caller to be transferred to the peer GSS-API
- caller at a remote end system, and processed by the GSS-API
- implementation at that remote end system. Tokens may be output by
- GSS-API primitives (and are to be transferred to GSS-API peers)
- independent of the status indications which those primitives
- indicate. Token transfer may take place in an in-band manner,
- integrated into the same protocol stream used by the GSS-API callers
- for other data transfers, or in an out-of-band manner across a
- logically separate channel.
-
- Development of GSS-API support primitives based on a particular
- underlying cryptographic technique and protocol does not necessarily
- imply that GSS-API callers invoking that GSS-API mechanism type will
- be able to interoperate with peers invoking the same technique and
- protocol outside the GSS-API paradigm. For example, the format of
- GSS-API tokens defined in conjunction with a particular mechanism,
- and the techniques used to integrate those tokens into callers'
- protocols, may not be the same as those used by non-GSS-API callers
- of the same underlying technique.
-
-1.1.3. Security Contexts
-
- Security contexts are established between peers, using credentials
- established locally in conjunction with each peer or received by
- peers via delegation. Multiple contexts may exist simultaneously
- between a pair of peers, using the same or different sets of
- credentials. Coexistence of multiple contexts using different
- credentials allows graceful rollover when credentials expire.
- Distinction among multiple contexts based on the same credentials
- serves applications by distinguishing different message streams in a
- security sense.
-
- The GSS-API is independent of underlying protocols and addressing
- structure, and depends on its callers to transport GSS-API-provided
- data elements. As a result of these factors, it is a caller
- responsibility to parse communicated messages, separating GSS-API-
- related data elements from caller-provided data. The GSS-API is
- independent of connection vs. connectionless orientation of the
- underlying communications service.
-
- No correlation between security context and communications protocol
- association is dictated. (The optional channel binding facility,
- discussed in Section 1.1.6 of this document, represents an
- intentional exception to this rule, supporting additional protection
- features within GSS-API supporting mechanisms.) This separation
- allows the GSS-API to be used in a wide range of communications
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- environments, and also simplifies the calling sequences of the
- individual calls. In many cases (depending on underlying security
- protocol, associated mechanism, and availability of cached
- information), the state information required for context setup can be
- sent concurrently with initial signed user data, without interposing
- additional message exchanges.
-
-1.1.4. Mechanism Types
-
- In order to successfully establish a security context with a target
- peer, it is necessary to identify an appropriate underlying mechanism
- type (mech_type) which both initiator and target peers support. The
- definition of a mechanism embodies not only the use of a particular
- cryptographic technology (or a hybrid or choice among alternative
- cryptographic technologies), but also definition of the syntax and
- semantics of data element exchanges which that mechanism will employ
- in order to support security services.
-
- It is recommended that callers initiating contexts specify the
- "default" mech_type value, allowing system-specific functions within
- or invoked by the GSS-API implementation to select the appropriate
- mech_type, but callers may direct that a particular mech_type be
- employed when necessary.
-
- The means for identifying a shared mech_type to establish a security
- context with a peer will vary in different environments and
- circumstances; examples include (but are not limited to):
-
- use of a fixed mech_type, defined by configuration, within an
- environment
-
- syntactic convention on a target-specific basis, through
- examination of a target's name
-
- lookup of a target's name in a naming service or other database in
- order to identify mech_types supported by that target
-
- explicit negotiation between GSS-API callers in advance of
- security context setup
-
- When transferred between GSS-API peers, mech_type specifiers (per
- Appendix B, represented as Object Identifiers (OIDs)) serve to
- qualify the interpretation of associated tokens. (The structure and
- encoding of Object Identifiers is defined in ISO/IEC 8824,
- "Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)" and in
- ISO/IEC 8825, "Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract
- Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)".) Use of hierarchically structured OIDs
- serves to preclude ambiguous interpretation of mech_type specifiers.
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- The OID representing the DASS MechType, for example, is
- 1.3.12.2.1011.7.5.
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-1.1.5. Naming
-
- The GSS-API avoids prescription of naming structures, treating the
- names transferred across the interface in order to initiate and
- accept security contexts as opaque octet string quantities. This
- approach supports the GSS-API's goal of implementability atop a range
- of underlying security mechanisms, recognizing the fact that
- different mechanisms process and authenticate names which are
- presented in different forms. Generalized services offering
- translation functions among arbitrary sets of naming environments are
- outside the scope of the GSS-API; availability and use of local
- conversion functions to translate among the naming formats supported
- within a given end system is anticipated.
-
- Two distinct classes of name representations are used in conjunction
- with different GSS-API parameters:
-
- a printable form (denoted by OCTET STRING), for acceptance from
- and presentation to users; printable name forms are accompanied by
- OID tags identifying the namespace to which they correspond
-
- an internal form (denoted by INTERNAL NAME), opaque to callers and
- defined by individual GSS-API implementations; GSS-API
- implementations supporting multiple namespace types are
- responsible for maintaining internal tags to disambiguate the
- interpretation of particular names
-
- Tagging of printable names allows GSS-API callers and underlying
- GSS-API mechanisms to disambiguate name types and to determine
- whether an associated name's type is one which they are capable of
- processing, avoiding aliasing problems which could result from
- misinterpreting a name of one type as a name of another type.
-
- In addition to providing means for names to be tagged with types,
- this specification defines primitives to support a level of naming
- environment independence for certain calling applications. To provide
- basic services oriented towards the requirements of callers which
- need not themselves interpret the internal syntax and semantics of
- names, GSS-API calls for name comparison (GSS_Compare_name()),
- human-readable display (GSS_Display_name()), input conversion
- (GSS_Import_name()), and internal name deallocation
- (GSS_Release_name()) functions are defined. (It is anticipated that
- these proposed GSS-API calls will be implemented in many end systems
- based on system-specific name manipulation primitives already extant
- within those end systems; inclusion within the GSS-API is intended to
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- offer GSS-API callers a portable means to perform specific
- operations, supportive of authorization and audit requirements, on
- authenticated names.)
-
- GSS_Import_name() implementations can, where appropriate, support
- more than one printable syntax corresponding to a given namespace
- (e.g., alternative printable representations for X.500 Distinguished
- Names), allowing flexibility for their callers to select among
- alternative representations. GSS_Display_name() implementations
- output a printable syntax selected as appropriate to their
- operational environments; this selection is a local matter. Callers
- desiring portability across alternative printable syntaxes should
- refrain from implementing comparisons based on printable name forms
- and should instead use the GSS_Compare_name() call to determine
- whether or not one internal-format name matches another.
-
-1.1.6. Channel Bindings
-
- The GSS-API accommodates the concept of caller-provided channel
- binding ("chan_binding") information, used by GSS-API callers to bind
- the establishment of a security context to relevant characteristics
- (e.g., addresses, transformed representations of encryption keys) of
- the underlying communications channel and of protection mechanisms
- applied to that communications channel. Verification by one peer of
- chan_binding information provided by the other peer to a context
- serves to protect against various active attacks. The caller
- initiating a security context must determine the chan_binding values
- before making the GSS_Init_sec_context() call, and consistent values
- must be provided by both peers to a context. Callers should not
- assume that underlying mechanisms provide confidentiality protection
- for channel binding information.
-
- Use or non-use of the GSS-API channel binding facility is a caller
- option, and GSS-API supporting mechanisms can support operation in an
- environment where NULL channel bindings are presented. When non-NULL
- channel bindings are used, certain mechanisms will offer enhanced
- security value by interpreting the bindings' content (rather than
- simply representing those bindings, or signatures computed on them,
- within tokens) and will therefore depend on presentation of specific
- data in a defined format. To this end, agreements among mechanism
- implementors are defining conventional interpretations for the
- contents of channel binding arguments, including address specifiers
- (with content dependent on communications protocol environment) for
- context initiators and acceptors. (These conventions are being
- incorporated into related documents.) In order for GSS-API callers to
- be portable across multiple mechanisms and achieve the full security
- functionality available from each mechanism, it is strongly
- recommended that GSS-API callers provide channel bindings consistent
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- which they operate.
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-1.2. GSS-API Features and Issues
-
- This section describes aspects of GSS-API operations, of the security
- services which the GSS-API provides, and provides commentary on
- design issues.
-
-1.2.1. Status Reporting
-
- Each GSS-API call provides two status return values. Major_status
- values provide a mechanism-independent indication of call status
- (e.g., GSS_COMPLETE, GSS_FAILURE, GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED), sufficient to
- drive normal control flow within the caller in a generic fashion.
- Table 1 summarizes the defined major_status return codes in tabular
- fashion.
-
- Table 1: GSS-API Major Status Codes
-
- FATAL ERROR CODES
-
- GSS_BAD_BINDINGS channel binding mismatch
- GSS_BAD_MECH unsupported mechanism requested
- GSS_BAD_NAME invalid name provided
- GSS_BAD_NAMETYPE name of unsupported type provided
- GSS_BAD_STATUS invalid input status selector
- GSS_BAD_SIG token had invalid signature
- GSS_CONTEXT_EXPIRED specified security context expired
- GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED expired credentials detected
- GSS_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL defective credential detected
- GSS_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN defective token detected
- GSS_FAILURE failure, unspecified at GSS-API
- level
- GSS_NO_CONTEXT no valid security context specified
- GSS_NO_CRED no valid credentials provided
-
- INFORMATORY STATUS CODES
-
- GSS_COMPLETE normal completion
- GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED continuation call to routine
- required
- GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN duplicate per-message token
- detected
- GSS_OLD_TOKEN timed-out per-message token
- detected
- GSS_UNSEQ_TOKEN out-of-order per-message token
- detected
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- Minor_status provides more detailed status information which may
- include status codes specific to the underlying security mechanism.
- Minor_status values are not specified in this document.
-
- GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status returns, and optional message
- outputs, are provided in GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls so that different mechanisms'
- employment of different numbers of messages within their
- authentication sequences need not be reflected in separate code paths
- within calling applications. Instead, such cases are accomodated with
- sequences of continuation calls to GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). The same mechanism is used to encapsulate
- mutual authentication within the GSS-API's context initiation calls.
-
- For mech_types which require interactions with third-party servers in
- order to establish a security context, GSS-API context establishment
- calls may block pending completion of such third-party interactions.
- On the other hand, no GSS-API calls pend on serialized interactions
- with GSS-API peer entities. As a result, local GSS-API status
- returns cannot reflect unpredictable or asynchronous exceptions
- occurring at remote peers, and reflection of such status information
- is a caller responsibility outside the GSS-API.
-
-1.2.2. Per-Message Security Service Availability
-
- When a context is established, two flags are returned to indicate the
- set of per-message protection security services which will be
- available on the context:
-
- the integ_avail flag indicates whether per-message integrity and
- data origin authentication services are available
-
- the conf_avail flag indicates whether per-message confidentiality
- services are available, and will never be returned TRUE unless the
- integ_avail flag is also returned TRUE
-
- GSS-API callers desiring per-message security services should
- check the values of these flags at context establishment time, and
- must be aware that a returned FALSE value for integ_avail means
- that invocation of GSS_Sign() or GSS_Seal() primitives on the
- associated context will apply no cryptographic protection to user
- data messages.
-
- The GSS-API per-message protection service primitives, as the
- category name implies, are oriented to operation at the granularity
- of protocol data units. They perform cryptographic operations on the
- data units, transfer cryptographic control information in tokens,
- and, in the case of GSS_Seal(), encapsulate the protected data unit.
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- protection for stream-paradigm protocols (e.g., Telnet) if
- cryptography must be applied on an octet-by-octet basis.
-
-1.2.3. Per-Message Replay Detection and Sequencing
-
- Certain underlying mech_types are expected to offer support for
- replay detection and/or sequencing of messages transferred on the
- contexts they support. These optionally-selectable protection
- features are distinct from replay detection and sequencing features
- applied to the context establishment operation itself; the presence
- or absence of context-level replay or sequencing features is wholly a
- function of the underlying mech_type's capabilities, and is not
- selected or omitted as a caller option.
-
- The caller initiating a context provides flags (replay_det_req_flag
- and sequence_req_flag) to specify whether the use of per-message
- replay detection and sequencing features is desired on the context
- being established. The GSS-API implementation at the initiator system
- can determine whether these features are supported (and whether they
- are optionally selectable) as a function of mech_type, without need
- for bilateral negotiation with the target. When enabled, these
- features provide recipients with indicators as a result of GSS-API
- processing of incoming messages, identifying whether those messages
- were detected as duplicates or out-of-sequence. Detection of such
- events does not prevent a suspect message from being provided to a
- recipient; the appropriate course of action on a suspect message is a
- matter of caller policy.
-
- The semantics of the replay detection and sequencing services applied
- to received messages, as visible across the interface which the GSS-
- API provides to its clients, are as follows:
-
- When replay_det_state is TRUE, the possible major_status returns for
- well-formed and correctly signed messages are as follows:
-
- 1. GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the message was within the window
- (of time or sequence space) allowing replay events to be detected,
- and that the message was not a replay of a previously-processed
- message within that window.
-
- 2. GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the
- received message was correct, but that the message was recognized
- as a duplicate of a previously-processed message.
-
- 3. GSS_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the received
- message was correct, but that the message is too old to be checked
- for duplication.
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- When sequence_state is TRUE, the possible major_status returns for
- well-formed and correctly signed messages are as follows:
-
- 1. GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the message was within the window
- (of time or sequence space) allowing replay events to be detected,
- and that the message was not a replay of a previously-processed
- message within that window.
-
- 2. GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the
- received message was correct, but that the message was recognized
- as a duplicate of a previously-processed message.
-
- 3. GSS_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the received
- message was correct, but that the token is too old to be checked
- for duplication.
-
- 4. GSS_UNSEQ_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the received
- message was correct, but that it is earlier in a sequenced stream
- than a message already processed on the context. [Note:
- Mechanisms can be architected to provide a stricter form of
- sequencing service, delivering particular messages to recipients
- only after all predecessor messages in an ordered stream have been
- delivered. This type of support is incompatible with the GSS-API
- paradigm in which recipients receive all messages, whether in
- order or not, and provide them (one at a time, without intra-GSS-
- API message buffering) to GSS-API routines for validation. GSS-
- API facilities provide supportive functions, aiding clients to
- achieve strict message stream integrity in an efficient manner in
- conjunction with sequencing provisions in communications
- protocols, but the GSS-API does not offer this level of message
- stream integrity service by itself.]
-
- As the message stream integrity features (especially sequencing) may
- interfere with certain applications' intended communications
- paradigms, and since support for such features is likely to be
- resource intensive, it is highly recommended that mech_types
- supporting these features allow them to be activated selectively on
- initiator request when a context is established. A context initiator
- and target are provided with corresponding indicators
- (replay_det_state and sequence_state), signifying whether these
- features are active on a given context.
-
- An example mech_type supporting per-message replay detection could
- (when replay_det_state is TRUE) implement the feature as follows: The
- underlying mechanism would insert timestamps in data elements output
- by GSS_Sign() and GSS_Seal(), and would maintain (within a time-
- limited window) a cache (qualified by originator-recipient pair)
- identifying received data elements processed by GSS_Verify() and
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- GSS_Unseal(). When this feature is active, exception status returns
- (GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_ OLD_TOKEN) will be provided when
- GSS_Verify() or GSS_Unseal() is presented with a message which is
- either a detected duplicate of a prior message or which is too old to
- validate against a cache of recently received messages.
-
-1.2.4. Quality of Protection
-
- Some mech_types will provide their users with fine granularity
- control over the means used to provide per-message protection,
- allowing callers to trade off security processing overhead
- dynamically against the protection requirements of particular
- messages. A per-message quality-of-protection parameter (analogous to
- quality-of-service, or QOS) selects among different QOP options
- supported by that mechanism. On context establishment for a multi-QOP
- mech_type, context-level data provides the prerequisite data for a
- range of protection qualities.
-
- It is expected that the majority of callers will not wish to exert
- explicit mechanism-specific QOP control and will therefore request
- selection of a default QOP. Definitions of, and choices among, non-
- default QOP values are mechanism-specific, and no ordered sequences
- of QOP values can be assumed equivalent across different mechanisms.
- Meaningful use of non-default QOP values demands that callers be
- familiar with the QOP definitions of an underlying mechanism or
- mechanisms, and is therefore a non-portable construct.
-
-2. Interface Descriptions
-
- This section describes the GSS-API's service interface, dividing the
- set of calls offered into four groups. Credential management calls
- are related to the acquisition and release of credentials by
- principals. Context-level calls are related to the management of
- security contexts between principals. Per-message calls are related
- to the protection of individual messages on established security
- contexts. Support calls provide ancillary functions useful to GSS-API
- callers. Table 2 groups and summarizes the calls in tabular fashion.
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- CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT
-
- GSS_Acquire_cred acquire credentials for use
- GSS_Release_cred release credentials after use
- GSS_Inquire_cred display information about
- credentials
-
- CONTEXT-LEVEL CALLS
-
- GSS_Init_sec_context initiate outbound security context
- GSS_Accept_sec_context accept inbound security context
- GSS_Delete_sec_context flush context when no longer needed
- GSS_Process_context_token process received control token on
- context
- GSS_Context_time indicate validity time remaining on
- context
-
- PER-MESSAGE CALLS
-
- GSS_Sign apply signature, receive as token
- separate from message
- GSS_Verify validate signature token along with
- message
- GSS_Seal sign, optionally encrypt,
- encapsulate
- GSS_Unseal decapsulate, decrypt if needed,
- validate signature
-
- SUPPORT CALLS
-
- GSS_Display_status translate status codes to printable
- form
- GSS_Indicate_mechs indicate mech_types supported on
- local system
- GSS_Compare_name compare two names for equality
- GSS_Display_name translate name to printable form
- GSS_Import_name convert printable name to
- normalized form
- GSS_Release_name free storage of normalized-form
- name
- GSS_Release_buffer free storage of printable name
- GSS_Release_oid_set free storage of OID set object
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-
- These GSS-API calls provide functions related to the management of
- credentials. Their characterization with regard to whether or not
- they may block pending exchanges with other network entities (e.g.,
- directories or authentication servers) depends in part on OS-specific
- (extra-GSS-API) issues, so is not specified in this document.
-
- The GSS_Acquire_cred() call is defined within the GSS-API in support
- of application portability, with a particular orientation towards
- support of portable server applications. It is recognized that (for
- certain systems and mechanisms) credentials for interactive users may
- be managed differently from credentials for server processes; in such
- environments, it is the GSS-API implementation's responsibility to
- distinguish these cases and the procedures for making this
- distinction are a local matter. The GSS_Release_cred() call provides
- a means for callers to indicate to the GSS-API that use of a
- credentials structure is no longer required. The GSS_Inquire_cred()
- call allows callers to determine information about a credentials
- structure.
-
-2.1.1. GSS_Acquire_cred call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o desired_name INTERNAL NAME, -NULL requests locally-determined
- default
-
- o lifetime_req INTEGER,-in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o desired_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER,-empty set requests
- system-selected default
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER-0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_cred_handle OCTET STRING,
-
- o actual_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -in seconds, or reserved value for
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- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that requested credentials were
- successfully established, for the duration indicated in
- lifetime_rec, suitable for the usage requested in cred_usage, for
- the set of mech_types indicated in actual_mechs, and that those
- credentials can be referenced for subsequent use with the handle
- returned in output_cred_handle.
-
- o GSS_BAD_MECH indicates that a mech_type unsupported by the GSS-API
- implementation type was requested, causing the credential
- establishment operation to fail.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided desired_name is
- uninterpretable or of a type unsupported by the supporting GSS-API
- implementation, so no credentials could be established for the
- accompanying desired_name.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided desired_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so no credentials could be established for the
- accompanying desired_name.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that credential establishment failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, including lack of
- authorization to establish and use credentials associated with the
- identity named in the input desired_name argument.
-
- GSS_Acquire_cred() is used to acquire credentials so that a
- principal can (as a function of the input cred_usage parameter)
- initiate and/or accept security contexts under the identity
- represented by the desired_name input argument. On successful
- completion, the returned output_cred_handle result provides a handle
- for subsequent references to the acquired credentials. Typically,
- single-user client processes using only default credentials for
- context establishment purposes will have no need to invoke this call.
-
- A caller may provide the value NULL for desired_name, signifying a
- request for credentials corresponding to a default principal
- identity. The procedures used by GSS-API implementations to select
- the appropriate principal identity in response to this form of
- request are local matters. It is possible that multiple pre-
- established credentials may exist for the same principal identity
- (for example, as a result of multiple user login sessions) when
- GSS_Acquire_cred() is called; the means used in such cases to select
- a specific credential are local matters. The input lifetime_req
- argument to GSS_Acquire_cred() may provide useful information for
- local GSS-API implementations to employ in making this disambiguation
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-
- The lifetime_rec result indicates the length of time for which the
- acquired credentials will be valid, as an offset from the present. A
- mechanism may return a reserved value indicating INDEFINITE if no
- constraints on credential lifetime are imposed. A caller of
- GSS_Acquire_cred() can request a length of time for which acquired
- credentials are to be valid (lifetime_req argument), beginning at the
- present, or can request credentials with a default validity interval.
- (Requests for postdated credentials are not supported within the
- GSS-API.) Certain mechanisms and implementations may bind in
- credential validity period specifiers at a point preliminary to
- invocation of the GSS_Acquire_cred() call (e.g., in conjunction with
- user login procedures). As a result, callers requesting non-default
- values for lifetime_req must recognize that such requests cannot
- always be honored and must be prepared to accommodate the use of
- returned credentials with different lifetimes as indicated in
- lifetime_rec.
-
- The caller of GSS_Acquire_cred() can explicitly specify a set of
- mech_types which are to be accommodated in the returned credentials
- (desired_mechs argument), or can request credentials for a system-
- defined default set of mech_types. Selection of the system-specified
- default set is recommended in the interests of application
- portability. The actual_mechs return value may be interrogated by the
- caller to determine the set of mechanisms with which the returned
- credentials may be used.
-
-2.1.2. GSS_Release_cred call
-
- Input:
-
- o cred_handle OCTET STRING-NULL specifies default credentials
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle were released for purposes of subsequent access
- by the caller. The effect on other processes which may be
- authorized shared access to such credentials is a local matter.
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- o GSS_NO_CRED indicates that no release operation was performed,
- either because the input cred_handle was invalid or because the
- caller lacks authorization to access the referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the release operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Provides a means for a caller to explicitly request that credentials
- be released when their use is no longer required. Note that system-
- specific credential management functions are also likely to exist,
- for example to assure that credentials shared among processes are
- properly deleted when all affected processes terminate, even if no
- explicit release requests are issued by those processes. Given the
- fact that multiple callers are not precluded from gaining authorized
- access to the same credentials, invocation of GSS_Release_cred()
- cannot be assumed to delete a particular set of credentials on a
- system-wide basis.
-
-2.1.3. GSS_Inquire_cred call
-
- Input:
-
- o cred_handle OCTET STRING -NULL specifies default credentials
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o cred_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER, -0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle argument were valid, and that the output
- cred_name, lifetime_rec, and cred_usage values represent,
- respectively, the credentials' associated principal name,
- remaining lifetime, suitable usage modes, and supported
- mechanism types.
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- o GSS_NO_CRED indicates that no information could be returned
- about the referenced credentials, either because the input
- cred_handle was invalid or because the caller lacks
- authorization to access the referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the release operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- The GSS_Inquire_cred() call is defined primarily for the use of
- those callers which make use of default credentials rather than
- acquiring credentials explicitly with GSS_Acquire_cred(). It enables
- callers to determine a credential structure's associated principal
- name, remaining validity period, usability for security context
- initiation and/or acceptance, and supported mechanisms.
-
-2.2. Context-level calls
-
- This group of calls is devoted to the establishment and management of
- security contexts between peers. A context's initiator calls
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), resulting in generation of a token which the
- caller passes to the target. At the target, that token is passed to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). Depending on the underlying mech_type and
- specified options, additional token exchanges may be performed in the
- course of context establishment; such exchanges are accommodated by
- GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns from GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). Either party to an established context may
- invoke GSS_Delete_sec_context() to flush context information when a
- context is no longer required. GSS_Process_context_token() is used
- to process received tokens carrying context-level control
- information. GSS_Context_time() allows a caller to determine the
- length of time for which an established context will remain valid.
-
-2.2.1. GSS_Init_sec_context call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o claimant_cred_handle OCTET STRING, -NULL specifies "use
- default"
-
- o input_context_handle INTEGER, -0 specifies "none assigned
- yet"
-
- o targ_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -NULL parameter specifies "use
- default"
-
- o deleg_req_flag BOOLEAN,
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- o mutual_req_flag BOOLEAN,
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- o replay_det_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_req INTEGER,-0 specifies default lifetime
-
- o chan_bindings OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_token OCTET STRING-NULL or token received from target
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -actual mechanism always
- indicated, never NULL
-
- o output_token OCTET STRING, -NULL or token to pass to context
- target
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for those mech_types
- in which an authentication server or other network entity must be
- consulted on behalf of a context initiator in order to generate an
- output_token suitable for presentation to a specified target.
-
- Return major_status codes:
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- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that context-level information was
- successfully initialized, and that the returned output_token will
- provide sufficient information for the target to perform per-
- message processing on the newly-established context.
-
- o GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED indicates that control information in the
- returned output_token must be sent to the target, and that a reply
- must be received and passed as the input_token argument to a
- continuation call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), before per-message
- processing can be performed in conjunction with this context.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the input_token failed, preventing further processing from being
- performed based on that token.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential structure referenced by
- claimant_cred_handle failed, preventing further processing from
- being performed using that credential structure.
-
- o GSS_BAD_SIG indicates that the received input_token contains an
- incorrect signature, so context setup cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_NO_CRED indicates that no context was established, either
- because the input cred_handle was invalid, because the referenced
- credentials are valid for context acceptor use only, or because
- the caller lacks authorization to access the referenced
- credentials.
-
- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the credentials provided
- through the input claimant_cred_handle argument are no longer
- valid, so context establishment cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_BAD_BINDINGS indicates that a mismatch between the caller-
- provided chan_bindings and those extracted from the input_token
- was detected, signifying a security-relevant event and preventing
- context establishment. (This result will be returned by
- GSS_Init_sec_context only for contexts where mutual_state is
- TRUE.)
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided; this major status will be
- returned only for successor calls following GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- status returns.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided targ_name is of a
- type uninterpretable or unsupported by the supporting GSS-API
- implementation, so context establishment cannot be completed.
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- o GSS_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided targ_name is inconsistent
- in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier information, so
- context establishment cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that context setup could not be accomplished
- for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, and that no
- interface-defined recovery action is available.
-
- This routine is used by a context initiator, and ordinarily emits one
- (or, for the case of a multi-step exchange, more than one)
- output_token suitable for use by the target within the selected
- mech_type's protocol. Using information in the credentials structure
- referenced by claimant_cred_handle, GSS_Init_sec_context()
- initializes the data structures required to establish a security
- context with target targ_name. The claimant_cred_handle must
- correspond to the same valid credentials structure on the initial
- call to GSS_Init_sec_context() and on any successor calls resulting
- from GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns; different protocol sequences
- modeled by the GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED mechanism will require access to
- credentials at different points in the context establishment
- sequence.
-
- The input_context_handle argument is 0, specifying "not yet
- assigned", on the first GSS_Init_sec_context() call relating to a
- given context. That call returns an output_context_handle for future
- references to this context. When continuation attempts to
- GSS_Init_sec_context() are needed to perform context establishment,
- the previously-returned non-zero handle value is entered into the
- input_context_handle argument and will be echoed in the returned
- output_context_handle argument. On such continuation attempts (and
- only on continuation attempts) the input_token value is used, to
- provide the token returned from the context's target.
-
- The chan_bindings argument is used by the caller to provide
- information binding the security context to security-related
- characteristics (e.g., addresses, cryptographic keys) of the
- underlying communications channel. See Section 1.1.6 of this document
- for more discussion of this argument's usage.
-
- The input_token argument contains a message received from the target,
- and is significant only on a call to GSS_Init_sec_context() which
- follows a previous return indicating GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- major_status.
-
- It is the caller's responsibility to establish a communications path
- to the target, and to transmit any returned output_token (independent
- of the accompanying returned major_status value) to the target over
- that path. The output_token can, however, be transmitted along with
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- the first application-provided input message to be processed by
- GSS_Sign() or GSS_Seal() in conjunction with a successfully-
- established context.
-
- The initiator may request various context-level functions through
- input flags: the deleg_req_flag requests delegation of access rights,
- the mutual_req_flag requests mutual authentication, the
- replay_det_req_flag requests that replay detection features be
- applied to messages transferred on the established context, and the
- sequence_req_flag requests that sequencing be enforced. (See Section
- 1.2.3 for more information on replay detection and sequencing
- features.)
-
- Not all of the optionally-requestable features will be available in
- all underlying mech_types; the corresponding return state values
- (deleg_state, mutual_state, replay_det_state, sequence_state)
- indicate, as a function of mech_type processing capabilities and
- initiator-provided input flags, the set of features which will be
- active on the context. These state indicators' values are undefined
- unless the routine's major_status indicates COMPLETE. Failure to
- provide the precise set of features requested by the caller does not
- cause context establishment to fail; it is the caller's prerogative
- to delete the context if the feature set provided is unsuitable for
- the caller's use. The returned mech_type value indicates the
- specific mechanism employed on the context, and will never indicate
- the value for "default".
-
- The conf_avail return value indicates whether the context supports
- per-message confidentiality services, and so informs the caller
- whether or not a request for encryption through the conf_req_flag
- input to GSS_Seal() can be honored. In similar fashion, the
- integ_avail return value indicates whether per-message integrity
- services are available (through either GSS_Sign() or GSS_Seal()) on
- the established context.
-
- The lifetime_req input specifies a desired upper bound for the
- lifetime of the context to be established, with a value of 0 used to
- request a default lifetime. The lifetime_rec return value indicates
- the length of time for which the context will be valid, expressed as
- an offset from the present; depending on mechanism capabilities,
- credential lifetimes, and local policy, it may not correspond to the
- value requested in lifetime_req. If no constraints on context
- lifetime are imposed, this may be indicated by returning a reserved
- value representing INDEFINITE lifetime_req. The values of conf_avail,
- integ_avail, and lifetime_rec are undefined unless the routine's
- major_status indicates COMPLETE.
-
- If the mutual_state is TRUE, this fact will be reflected within the
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- output_token. A call to GSS_Accept_sec_context() at the target in
- conjunction with such a context will return a token, to be processed
- by a continuation call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), in order to achieve
- mutual authentication.
-
-2.2.2. GSS_Accept_sec_context call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o acceptor_cred_handle OCTET STRING,-NULL specifies "use
- default"
-
- o input_context_handle INTEGER, -0 specifies "not yet assigned"
-
- o chan_bindings OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o src_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o output_context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER, - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o delegated_cred_handle OCTET STRING,
-
- o output_token OCTET STRING -NULL or token to pass to context
-
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-
- This call may block pending network interactions for those mech_types
- in which a directory service or other network entity must be
- consulted on behalf of a context acceptor in order to validate a
- received input_token.
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that context-level data structures were
- successfully initialized, and that per-message processing can now
- be performed in conjunction with this context.
-
- o GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED indicates that control information in the
- returned output_token must be sent to the initiator, and that a
- response must be received and passed as the input_token argument
- to a continuation call to GSS_Accept_sec_context(), before per-
- message processing can be performed in conjunction with this
- context.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the input_token failed, preventing further processing from being
- performed based on that token.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential structure referenced by
- acceptor_cred_handle failed, preventing further processing from
- being performed using that credential structure.
-
- o GSS_BAD_SIG indicates that the received input_token contains an
- incorrect signature, so context setup cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the received
- input_token was correct, but that the input_token was recognized
- as a duplicate of an input_token already processed. No new context
- is established.
-
- o GSS_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the signature on the received
- input_token was correct, but that the input_token is too old to be
- checked for duplication against previously-processed input_tokens.
- No new context is established.
-
- o GSS_NO_CRED indicates that no context was established, either
- because the input cred_handle was invalid, because the referenced
- credentials are valid for context initiator use only, or because
- the caller lacks authorization to access the referenced
- credentials.
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- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the credentials provided
- through the input acceptor_cred_handle argument are no longer
- valid, so context establishment cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_BAD_BINDINGS indicates that a mismatch between the caller-
- provided chan_bindings and those extracted from the input_token
- was detected, signifying a security-relevant event and preventing
- context establishment.
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided; this major status will be
- returned only for successor calls following GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- status returns.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that context setup could not be accomplished
- for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, and that no
- interface-defined recovery action is available.
-
- The GSS_Accept_sec_context() routine is used by a context target.
- Using information in the credentials structure referenced by the
- input acceptor_cred_handle, it verifies the incoming input_token and
- (following the successful completion of a context establishment
- sequence) returns the authenticated src_name and the mech_type used.
- The acceptor_cred_handle must correspond to the same valid
- credentials structure on the initial call to GSS_Accept_sec_context()
- and on any successor calls resulting from GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED status
- returns; different protocol sequences modeled by the
- GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED mechanism will require access to credentials at
- different points in the context establishment sequence.
-
- The input_context_handle argument is 0, specifying "not yet
- assigned", on the first GSS_Accept_sec_context() call relating to a
- given context. That call returns an output_context_handle for future
- references to this context; when continuation attempts to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() are needed to perform context
- establishment, that handle value will be entered into the
- input_context_handle argument.
-
- The chan_bindings argument is used by the caller to provide
- information binding the security context to security-related
- characteristics (e.g., addresses, cryptographic keys) of the
- underlying communications channel. See Section 1.1.6 of this document
- for more discussion of this argument's usage.
-
- The returned state results (deleg_state, mutual_state,
- replay_det_state, and sequence_state) reflect the same context state
- values as returned to GSS_Init_sec_context()'s caller at the
- initiator system.
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- The conf_avail return value indicates whether the context supports
- per-message confidentiality services, and so informs the caller
- whether or not a request for encryption through the conf_req_flag
- input to GSS_Seal() can be honored. In similar fashion, the
- integ_avail return value indicates whether per-message integrity
- services are available (through either GSS_Sign() or GSS_Seal()) on
- the established context.
-
- The lifetime_rec return value indicates the length of time for which
- the context will be valid, expressed as an offset from the present.
- The values of deleg_state, mutual_state, replay_det_state,
- sequence_state, conf_avail, integ_avail, and lifetime_rec are
- undefined unless the accompanying major_status indicates COMPLETE.
-
- The delegated_cred_handle result is significant only when deleg_state
- is TRUE, and provides a means for the target to reference the
- delegated credentials. The output_token result, when non-NULL,
- provides a context-level token to be returned to the context
- initiator to continue a multi-step context establishment sequence. As
- noted with GSS_Init_sec_context(), any returned token should be
- transferred to the context's peer (in this case, the context
- initiator), independent of the value of the accompanying returned
- major_status.
-
- Note: A target must be able to distinguish a context-level
- input_token, which is passed to GSS_Accept_sec_context(), from the
- per-message data elements passed to GSS_Verify() or GSS_Unseal().
- These data elements may arrive in a single application message, and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() must be performed before per-message
- processing can be performed successfully.
-
-2.2.3. GSS_Delete_sec_context call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_context_token OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
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- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the context was recognized, that
- relevant context-specific information was flushed, and that the
- returned output_context_token is ready for transfer to the
- context's peer.
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provide, so no deletion was performed.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that the
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for mech_types in
- which active notification must be made to a central server when a
- security context is to be deleted.
-
- This call can be made by either peer in a security context, to flush
- context-specific information and to return an output_context_token
- which can be passed to the context's peer informing it that the
- peer's corresponding context information can also be flushed. (Once a
- context is established, the peers involved are expected to retain
- cached credential and context-related information until the
- information's expiration time is reached or until a
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() call is made.) Attempts to perform per-
- message processing on a deleted context will result in error returns.
-
-2.2.4. GSS_Process_context_token call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o input_context_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the input_context_token was
- successfully processed in conjunction with the context referenced
- by context_handle.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the received context_token failed, preventing further processing
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-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that the
- GSS_Process_context_token() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call is used to process context_tokens received from a peer once
- a context has been established, with corresponding impact on
- context-level state information. One use for this facility is
- processing of the context_tokens generated by
- GSS_Delete_sec_context(); GSS_Process_context_token() will not block
- pending network interactions for that purpose. Another use is to
- process tokens indicating remote-peer context establishment failures
- after the point where the local GSS-API implementation has already
- indicated GSS_COMPLETE status.
-
-2.2.5. GSS_Context_time call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context is valid, and
- will remain valid for the amount of time indicated in
- lifetime_rec.
-
- o GSS_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that data items related to the
- referenced context have expired.
-
- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired.
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided.
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- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call is used to determine the amount of time for which a
- currently established context will remain valid.
-
-2.3. Per-message calls
-
- This group of calls is used to perform per-message protection
- processing on an established security context. None of these calls
- block pending network interactions. These calls may be invoked by a
- context's initiator or by the context's target. The four members of
- this group should be considered as two pairs; the output from
- GSS_Sign() is properly input to GSS_Verify(), and the output from
- GSS_Seal() is properly input to GSS_Unseal().
-
- GSS_Sign() and GSS_Verify() support data origin authentication and
- data integrity services. When GSS_Sign() is invoked on an input
- message, it yields a per-message token containing data items which
- allow underlying mechanisms to provide the specified security
- services. The original message, along with the generated per-message
- token, is passed to the remote peer; these two data elements are
- processed by GSS_Verify(), which validates the message in
- conjunction with the separate token.
-
- GSS_Seal() and GSS_Unseal() support caller-requested confidentiality
- in addition to the data origin authentication and data integrity
- services offered by GSS_Sign() and GSS_Verify(). GSS_Seal() outputs
- a single data element, encapsulating optionally enciphered user data
- as well as associated token data items. The data element output from
- GSS_Seal() is passed to the remote peer and processed by
- GSS_Unseal() at that system. GSS_Unseal() combines decipherment (as
- required) with validation of data items related to authentication and
- integrity.
-
-2.3.1. GSS_Sign call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o qop_req INTEGER,-0 specifies default QOP
-
- o message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
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- o per_msg_token OCTET STRING
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- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that a signature, suitable for an
- established security context, was successfully applied and that
- the message and corresponding per_msg_token are ready for
- transmission.
-
- o GSS_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items have
- expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so that the
- requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that the
- requested operation could not be performed for reasons unspecified
- at the GSS-API level.
-
- Using the security context referenced by context_handle, apply a
- signature to the input message (along with timestamps and/or other
- data included in support of mech_type-specific mechanisms) and return
- the result in per_msg_token. The qop_req parameter allows quality-
- of-protection control. The caller passes the message and the
- per_msg_token to the target.
-
- The GSS_Sign() function completes before the message and
- per_msg_token is sent to the peer; successful application of
- GSS_Sign() does not guarantee that a corresponding GSS_Verify() has
- been (or can necessarily be) performed successfully when the message
- arrives at the destination.
-
-2.3.2. GSS_Verify call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o message OCTET STRING,
-
- o per_msg_token OCTET STRING
-
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- Outputs:
-
- o qop_state INTEGER,
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the message was successfully verified.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the received per_msg_token failed, preventing further processing
- from being performed with that token.
-
- o GSS_BAD_SIG indicates that the received per_msg_token contains an
- incorrect signature for the message.
-
- o GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_OLD_TOKEN, and GSS_UNSEQ_TOKEN values
- appear in conjunction with the optional per-message replay
- detection features described in Section 1.2.3; their semantics are
- described in that section.
-
- o GSS_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items have
- expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so that the
- requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that the
- GSS_Verify() operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Using the security context referenced by context_handle, verify that
- the input per_msg_token contains an appropriate signature for the
- input message, and apply any active replay detection or sequencing
- features. Return an indication of the quality-of-protection applied
- to the processed message in the qop_state result.
-
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-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o conf_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o qop_req INTEGER,-0 specifies default QOP
-
- o input_message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o conf_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o output_message OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the input_message was successfully
- processed and that the output_message is ready for transmission.
-
- o GSS_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items have
- expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so that the
- requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that the
- GSS_Seal() operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Performs the data origin authentication and data integrity functions
- of GSS_Sign(). If the input conf_req_flag is TRUE, requests that
- confidentiality be applied to the input_message. Confidentiality may
- not be supported in all mech_types or by all implementations; the
- returned conf_state flag indicates whether confidentiality was
- provided for the input_message. The qop_req parameter allows
- quality-of-protection control.
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- In all cases, the GSS_Seal() call yields a single output_message
- data element containing (optionally enciphered) user data as well as
- control information.
-
-2.3.4. GSS_Unseal call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle INTEGER,
-
- o input_message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o conf_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o qop_state INTEGER,
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_message OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the input_message was successfully
- processed and that the resulting output_message is available.
-
- o GSS_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the per_msg_token extracted from the input_message failed,
- preventing further processing from being performed.
-
- o GSS_BAD_SIG indicates that an incorrect signature was detected for
- the message.
-
- o GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_OLD_TOKEN, and GSS_UNSEQ_TOKEN values
- appear in conjunction with the optional per-message replay
- detection features described in Section 1.2.3; their semantics are
- described in that section.
-
- o GSS_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items have
- expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so that the
- requested operation cannot be performed.
-
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- o GSS_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized for
- the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that the
- GSS_Unseal() operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Processes a data element generated (and optionally enciphered) by
- GSS_Seal(), provided as input_message. The returned conf_state value
- indicates whether confidentiality was applied to the input_message.
- If conf_state is TRUE, GSS_Unseal() deciphers the input_message.
- Returns an indication of the quality-of-protection applied to the
- processed message in the qop_state result. GSS_Seal() performs the
- data integrity and data origin authentication checking functions of
- GSS_Verify() on the plaintext data. Plaintext data is returned in
- output_message.
-
-2.4. Support calls
-
- This group of calls provides support functions useful to GSS-API
- callers, independent of the state of established contexts. Their
- characterization with regard to blocking or non-blocking status in
- terms of network interactions is unspecified.
-
-2.4.1. GSS_Display_status call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o status_value INTEGER,-GSS-API major_status or minor_status
- return value
-
- o status_type INTEGER,-1 if major_status, 2 if minor_status
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER-mech_type to be used for minor_
- status translation
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o status_string_set SET OF OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that a valid printable status
- representation (possibly representing more than one status event
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- status_string_set.
-
- o GSS_BAD_MECH indicates that translation in accordance with an
- unsupported mech_type was requested, so translation could not be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_BAD_STATUS indicates that the input status_value was invalid,
- or that the input status_type carried a value other than 1 or 2,
- so translation could not be performed.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Provides a means for callers to translate GSS-API-returned major and
- minor status codes into printable string representations.
-
-2.4.2. GSS_Indicate_mechs call
-
- Input:
-
- o (none)
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that a set of available mechanisms has
- been returned in mech_set.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to determine the set of mechanism types available on
- the local system. This call is intended for support of specialized
- callers who need to request non-default mech_type sets from
- GSS_Acquire_cred(), and should not be needed by other callers.
-
-2.4.3. GSS_Compare_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
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- o name1 INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o name2 INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_equal BOOLEAN
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that name1 and name2 were comparable, and
- that the name_equal result indicates whether name1 and name2 were
- equal or unequal.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that one or both of name1 and name2
- contained internal type specifiers uninterpretable by the
- supporting GSS-API implementation, or that the two names' types
- are different and incomparable, so the equality comparison could
- not be completed.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAME indicates that one or both of the input names was
- ill-formed in terms of its internal type specifier, so the
- equality comparison could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to compare two internal name representations for
- equality.
-
-2.4.4. GSS_Display_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_string OCTET STRING,
-
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-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that a valid printable name representation
- is available in the returned name_string.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided name was of a type
- uninterpretable by the supporting GSS-API implementation, so no
- printable representation could be generated.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAME indicates that the contents of the provided name were
- inconsistent with the internally-indicated name type, so no
- printable representation could be generated.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to translate an internal name representation into a
- printable form with associated namespace type descriptor. The syntax
- of the printable form is a local matter.
-
-2.4.5. GSS_Import_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name_string OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_name_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that a valid name representation is output
- in output_name and described by the type value in
- output_name_type.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input_name_type is unsupported
- by the GSS-API implementation, so the import operation could not
- be completed.
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- o GSS_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided input_name_string is
- ill-formed in terms of the input_name_type, so the import
- operation could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to provide a printable name representation, designate
- the type of namespace in conjunction with which it should be parsed,
- and convert that printable representation to an internal form
- suitable for input to other GSS-API routines. The syntax of the
- input_name is a local matter.
-
-2.4.6. GSS_Release_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the input
- name was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name argument did not
- contain a valid name.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an internal
- name representation.
-
-2.4.7. GSS_Release_buffer call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o buffer OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
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-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the input
- buffer was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an OCTET STRING
- buffer allocated by another GSS-API call.
-
-2.4.8. GSS_Release_oid_set call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o buffer SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the input
- object identifier set was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an object
- identifier set object allocated by another GSS-API call.
-
-3. Mechanism-Specific Example Scenarios
-
- This section provides illustrative overviews of the use of various
- candidate mechanism types to support the GSS-API. These discussions
- are intended primarily for readers familiar with specific security
- technologies, demonstrating how GSS-API functions can be used and
- implemented by candidate underlying mechanisms. They should not be
- regarded as constrictive to implementations or as defining the only
- means through which GSS-API functions can be realized with a
- particular underlying technology, and do not demonstrate all GSS-API
- features with each technology.
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-3.1. Kerberos V5, single-TGT
-
- OS-specific login functions yield a TGT to the local realm Kerberos
- server; TGT is placed in a credentials structure for the client.
- Client calls GSS_Acquire_cred() to acquire a cred_handle in order to
- reference the credentials for use in establishing security contexts.
-
- Client calls GSS_Init_sec_context(). If the requested service is
- located in a different realm, GSS_Init_sec_context() gets the
- necessary TGT/key pairs needed to traverse the path from local to
- target realm; these data are placed in the owner's TGT cache. After
- any needed remote realm resolution, GSS_Init_sec_context() yields a
- service ticket to the requested service with a corresponding session
- key; these data are stored in conjunction with the context. GSS-API
- code sends KRB_TGS_REQ request(s) and receives KRB_TGS_REP
- response(s) (in the successful case) or KRB_ERROR.
-
- Assuming success, GSS_Init_sec_context() builds a Kerberos-formatted
- KRB_AP_REQ message, and returns it in output_token. The client sends
- the output_token to the service.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), which verifies the authenticator, provides
- the service with the client's authenticated name, and returns an
- output_context_handle.
-
- Both parties now hold the session key associated with the service
- ticket, and can use this key in subsequent GSS_Sign(), GSS_Verify(),
- GSS_Seal(), and GSS_Unseal() operations.
-
-3.2. Kerberos V5, double-TGT
-
- TGT acquisition as above.
-
- Note: To avoid unnecessary frequent invocations of error paths when
- implementing the GSS-API atop Kerberos V5, it seems appropriate to
- represent "single-TGT K-V5" and "double-TGT K-V5" with separate
- mech_types, and this discussion makes that assumption.
-
- Based on the (specified or defaulted) mech_type,
- GSS_Init_sec_context() determines that the double-TGT protocol
- should be employed for the specified target. GSS_Init_sec_context()
- returns GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status, and its returned
- output_token contains a request to the service for the service's TGT.
- (If a service TGT with suitably long remaining lifetime already
- exists in a cache, it may be usable, obviating the need for this
- step.) The client passes the output_token to the service. Note: this
- scenario illustrates a different use for the GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED
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- note that both uses can coexist as successive operations within a
- single context establishment operation.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), which recognizes it as a request for TGT.
- (Note that current Kerberos V5 defines no intra-protocol mechanism to
- represent such a request.) GSS_Accept_sec_context() returns
- GSS_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status and provides the service's TGT in
- its output_token. The service sends the output_token to the client.
-
- The client passes the received token as the input_token argument to a
- continuation of GSS_Init_sec_context(). GSS_Init_sec_context() caches
- the received service TGT and uses it as part of a service ticket
- request to the Kerberos authentication server, storing the returned
- service ticket and session key in conjunction with the context.
- GSS_Init_sec_context() builds a Kerberos-formatted authenticator,
- and returns it in output_token along with GSS_COMPLETE return
- major_status. The client sends the output_token to the service.
-
- Service passes the received token as the input_token argument to a
- continuation call to GSS_Accept_sec_context().
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() verifies the authenticator, provides the
- service with the client's authenticated name, and returns
- major_status GSS_COMPLETE.
-
- GSS_Sign(), GSS_Verify(), GSS_Seal(), and GSS_Unseal() as above.
-
-3.3. X.509 Authentication Framework
-
- This example illustrates use of the GSS-API in conjunction with
- public-key mechanisms, consistent with the X.509 Directory
- Authentication Framework.
-
- The GSS_Acquire_cred() call establishes a credentials structure,
- making the client's private key accessible for use on behalf of the
- client.
-
- The client calls GSS_Init_sec_context(), which interrogates the
- Directory to acquire (and validate) a chain of public-key
- certificates, thereby collecting the public key of the service. The
- certificate validation operation determines that suitable signatures
- were applied by trusted authorities and that those certificates have
- not expired. GSS_Init_sec_context() generates a secret key for use
- in per-message protection operations on the context, and enciphers
- that secret key under the service's public key.
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- The enciphered secret key, along with an authenticator quantity
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- signed with the client's private key, is included in the output_token
- from GSS_Init_sec_context(). The output_token also carries a
- certification path, consisting of a certificate chain leading from
- the service to the client; a variant approach would defer this path
- resolution to be performed by the service instead of being asserted
- by the client. The client application sends the output_token to the
- service.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). GSS_Accept_sec_context() validates the
- certification path, and as a result determines a certified binding
- between the client's distinguished name and the client's public key.
- Given that public key, GSS_Accept_sec_context() can process the
- input_token's authenticator quantity and verify that the client's
- private key was used to sign the input_token. At this point, the
- client is authenticated to the service. The service uses its private
- key to decipher the enciphered secret key provided to it for per-
- message protection operations on the context.
-
- The client calls GSS_Sign() or GSS_Seal() on a data message, which
- causes per-message authentication, integrity, and (optional)
- confidentiality facilities to be applied to that message. The service
- uses the context's shared secret key to perform corresponding
- GSS_Verify() and GSS_Unseal() calls.
-
-4. Related Activities
-
- In order to implement the GSS-API atop existing, emerging, and future
- security mechanisms:
-
- object identifiers must be assigned to candidate GSS-API
- mechanisms and the name types which they support
-
- concrete data element formats must be defined for candidate
- mechanisms
-
- Calling applications must implement formatting conventions which will
- enable them to distinguish GSS-API tokens from other data carried in
- their application protocols.
-
- Concrete language bindings are required for the programming
- environments in which the GSS-API is to be employed; such bindings
- for the C language are available in an associated RFC.
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-5. Acknowledgments
-
- This proposal is the result of a collaborative effort.
- Acknowledgments are due to the many members of the IETF Security Area
- Advisory Group (SAAG) and the Common Authentication Technology (CAT)
- Working Group for their contributions at meetings and by electronic
- mail. Acknowledgments are also due to Kannan Alagappan, Doug Barlow,
- Bill Brown, Cliff Kahn, Charlie Kaufman, Butler Lampson, Richard
- Pitkin, Joe Tardo, and John Wray of Digital Equipment Corporation,
- and John Carr, John Kohl, Jon Rochlis, Jeff Schiller, and Ted T'so of
- MIT and Project Athena. Joe Pato and Bill Sommerfeld of HP/Apollo,
- Walt Tuvell of OSF, and Bill Griffith and Mike Merritt of AT&T,
- provided inputs which helped to focus and clarify directions.
- Precursor work by Richard Pitkin, presented to meetings of the
- Trusted Systems Interoperability Group (TSIG), helped to demonstrate
- the value of a generic, mechanism-independent security service API.
-
-6. Security Considerations
-
- Security issues are discussed throughout this memo.
-
-7. Author's Address
-
- John Linn
- Geer Zolot Associates
- One Main St.
- Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
-
- Phone: +1 617.374.3700
- Email: Linn@gza.com
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-APPENDIX A
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-PACS AND AUTHORIZATION SERVICES
-
- Consideration has been given to modifying the GSS-API service
- interface to recognize and manipulate Privilege Attribute
- Certificates (PACs) as in ECMA 138, carrying authorization data as a
- side effect of establishing a security context, but no such
- modifications have been incorporated at this time. This appendix
- provides rationale for this decision and discusses compatibility
- alternatives between PACs and the GSS-API which do not require that
- PACs be made visible to GSS-API callers.
-
- Existing candidate mechanism types such as Kerberos and X.509 do not
- incorporate PAC manipulation features, and exclusion of such
- mechanisms from the set of candidates equipped to fully support the
- GSS-API seems inappropriate. Inclusion (and GSS-API visibility) of a
- feature supported by only a limited number of mechanisms could
- encourage the development of ostensibly portable applications which
- would in fact have only limited portability.
-
- The status quo, in which PACs are not visible across the GSS-API
- interface, does not preclude implementations in which PACs are
- carried transparently, within the tokens defined and used for certain
- mech_types, and stored within peers' credentials and context-level
- data structures. While invisible to API callers, such PACs could be
- used by operating system or other local functions as inputs in the
- course of mediating access requests made by callers. This course of
- action allows dynamic selection of PAC contents, if such selection is
- administratively-directed rather than caller-directed.
-
- In a distributed computing environment, authentication must span
- different systems; the need for such authentication provides
- motivation for GSS-API definition and usage. Heterogeneous systems in
- a network can intercommunicate, with globally authenticated names
- comprising the common bond between locally defined access control
- policies. Access control policies to which authentication provides
- inputs are often local, or specific to particular operating systems
- or environments. If the GSS-API made particular authorization models
- visible across its service interface, its scope of application would
- become less general. The current GSS-API paradigm is consistent with
- the precedent set by Kerberos, neither defining the interpretation of
- authorization-related data nor enforcing access controls based on
- such data.
-
- The GSS-API is a general interface, whose callers may reside inside
- or outside any defined TCB or NTCB boundaries. Given this
- characteristic, it appears more realistic to provide facilities which
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- provide "value-added" security services to its callers than to offer
- facilities which enforce restrictions on those callers. Authorization
- decisions must often be mediated below the GSS-API level in a local
- manner against (or in spite of) applications, and cannot be
- selectively invoked or omitted at those applications' discretion.
- Given that the GSS-API's placement prevents it from providing a
- comprehensive solution to the authorization issue, the value of a
- partial contribution specific to particular authorization models is
- debatable.
-
-APPENDIX B
-
-MECHANISM-INDEPENDENT TOKEN FORMAT
-
- This appendix specifies a mechanism-independent level of
- encapsulating representation for the initial token of a GSS-API
- context establishment sequence, incorporating an identifier of the
- mechanism type to be used on that context. Use of this format (with
- ASN.1-encoded data elements represented in BER, constrained in the
- interests of parsing simplicity to the Distinguished Encoding Rule
- (DER) BER subset defined in X.509, clause 8.7) is recommended to the
- designers of GSS-API implementations based on various mechanisms, so
- that tokens can be interpreted unambiguously at GSS-API peers. There
- is no requirement that the mechanism-specific innerContextToken,
- innerMsgToken, and sealedUserData data elements be encoded in ASN.1
- BER.
-
- -- optional top-level token definitions to
- -- frame different mechanisms
-
- GSS-API DEFINITIONS ::=
-
- BEGIN
-
- MechType ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- -- data structure definitions
-
- -- callers must be able to distinguish among
- -- InitialContextToken, SubsequentContextToken,
- -- PerMsgToken, and SealedMessage data elements
- -- based on the usage in which they occur
-
- InitialContextToken ::=
- -- option indication (delegation, etc.) indicated within
- -- mechanism-specific token
- [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
- thisMech MechType,
- innerContextToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
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- }
-
- SubsequentContextToken ::= innerContextToken ANY
- -- interpretation based on predecessor InitialContextToken
-
- PerMsgToken ::=
- -- as emitted by GSS_Sign and processed by GSS_Verify
- innerMsgToken ANY
-
- SealedMessage ::=
- -- as emitted by GSS_Seal and processed by GSS_Unseal
- -- includes internal, mechanism-defined indicator
- -- of whether or not encrypted
- sealedUserData ANY
-
- END
-
-APPENDIX C
-
-MECHANISM DESIGN CONSTRAINTS
-
- The following constraints on GSS-API mechanism designs are adopted in
- response to observed caller protocol requirements, and adherence
- thereto is anticipated in subsequent descriptions of GSS-API
- mechanisms to be documented in standards-track Internet
- specifications.
-
- Use of the approach defined in Appendix B of this specification,
- applying a mechanism type tag to the InitialContextToken, is
- required.
-
- It is strongly recommended that mechanisms offering per-message
- protection services also offer at least one of the replay detection
- and sequencing services, as mechanisms offering neither of the latter
- will fail to satisfy recognized requirements of certain candidate
- caller protocols.
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-Network Working Group J. Wray
-Request for Comments: 1509 Digital Equipment Corporation
- September 1993
-
-
- Generic Security Service API : C-bindings
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This RFC specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status
- of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Abstract
-
- This document specifies C language bindings for the Generic Security
- Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), which is described
- at a language-independent conceptual level in other documents.
-
- The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-
- API) provides security services to its callers, and is intended for
- implementation atop alternative underlying cryptographic mechanisms.
- Typically, GSS-API callers will be application protocols into which
- security enhancements are integrated through invocation of services
- provided by the GSS-API. The GSS-API allows a caller application to
- authenticate a principal identity associated with a peer application,
- to delegate rights to a peer, and to apply security services such as
- confidentiality and integrity on a per-message basis.
-
-1. INTRODUCTION
-
- The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface [1]
- provides security services to calling applications. It allows a
- communicating application to authenticate the user associated with
- another application, to delegate rights to another application, and
- to apply security services such as confidentiality and integrity on a
- per-message basis.
-
- There are four stages to using the GSSAPI:
-
- (a) The application acquires a set of credentials with which it may
- prove its identity to other processes. The application's
- credentials vouch for its global identity, which may or may not
- be related to the local username under which it is running.
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- (b) A pair of communicating applications establish a joint security
- context using their credentials. The security context is a
- pair of GSSAPI data structures that contain shared state
- information, which is required in order that per-message
- security services may be provided. As part of the
- establishment of a security context, the context initiator is
- authenticated to the responder, and may require that the
- responder is authenticated in turn. The initiator may
- optionally give the responder the right to initiate further
- security contexts. This transfer of rights is termed
- delegation, and is achieved by creating a set of credentials,
- similar to those used by the originating application, but which
- may be used by the responder. To establish and maintain the
- shared information that makes up the security context, certain
- GSSAPI calls will return a token data structure, which is a
- cryptographically protected opaque data type. The caller of
- such a GSSAPI routine is responsible for transferring the token
- to the peer application, which should then pass it to a
- corresponding GSSAPI routine which will decode it and extract
- the information.
-
- (c) Per-message services are invoked to apply either:
-
- (i) integrity and data origin authentication, or
-
- (ii) confidentiality, integrity and data origin authentication
- to application data, which are treated by GSSAPI as
- arbitrary octet-strings. The application transmitting a
- message that it wishes to protect will call the appropriate
- GSSAPI routine (sign or seal) to apply protection, specifying
- the appropriate security context, and send the result to the
- receiving application. The receiver will pass the received
- data to the corresponding decoding routine (verify or unseal)
- to remove the protection and validate the data.
-
- (d) At the completion of a communications session (which may extend
- across several connections), the peer applications call GSSAPI
- routines to delete the security context. Multiple contexts may
- also be used (either successively or simultaneously) within a
- single communications association.
-
-2. GSSAPI Routines
-
- This section lists the functions performed by each of the GSSAPI
- routines and discusses their major parameters, describing how they
- are to be passed to the routines. The routines are listed in figure
- 4-1.
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- Figure 4-1 GSSAPI Routines
-
-
- Routine Function
-
- gss_acquire_cred Assume a global identity
-
- gss_release_cred Discard credentials
-
- gss_init_sec_context Initiate a security context
- with a peer application
-
- gss_accept_sec_context Accept a security context
- initiated by a peer
- application
-
- gss_process_context_token Process a token on a security
- context from a peer
- application
-
- gss_delete_sec_context Discard a security context
-
- gss_context_time Determine for how long a
- context will remain valid
-
- gss_sign Sign a message; integrity
- service
-
- gss_verify Check signature on a message
-
- gss_seal Sign (optionally encrypt) a
- message; confidentiality
- service
-
- gss_unseal Verify (optionally decrypt)
- message
-
- gss_display_status Convert an API status code
- to text
-
- gss_indicate_mechs Determine underlying
- authentication mechanism
-
- gss_compare_name Compare two internal-form
- names
-
- gss_display_name Convert opaque name to text
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- gss_import_name Convert a textual name to
- internal-form
-
- gss_release_name Discard an internal-form
- name
-
- gss_release_buffer Discard a buffer
-
- gss_release_oid_set Discard a set of object
- identifiers
-
- gss_inquire_cred Determine information about
- a credential
-
- Individual GSSAPI implementations may augment these routines by
- providing additional mechanism-specific routines if required
- functionality is not available from the generic forms. Applications
- are encouraged to use the generic routines wherever possible on
- portability grounds.
-
-2.1. Data Types and Calling Conventions
-
- The following conventions are used by the GSSAPI:
-
-2.1.1. Structured data types
-
- Wherever these GSSAPI C-bindings describe structured data, only
- fields that must be provided by all GSSAPI implementation are
- documented. Individual implementations may provide additional
- fields, either for internal use within GSSAPI routines, or for use by
- non-portable applications.
-
-2.1.2. Integer types
-
- GSSAPI defines the following integer data type:
-
- OM_uint32 32-bit unsigned integer
-
- Where guaranteed minimum bit-count is important, this portable data
- type is used by the GSSAPI routine definitions. Individual GSSAPI
- implementations will include appropriate typedef definitions to map
- this type onto a built-in data type.
-
-2.1.3. String and similar data
-
- Many of the GSSAPI routines take arguments and return values that
- describe contiguous multiple-byte data. All such data is passed
- between the GSSAPI and the caller using the gss_buffer_t data type.
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- This data type is a pointer to a buffer descriptor, which consists of
- a length field that contains the total number of bytes in the datum,
- and a value field which contains a pointer to the actual datum:
-
- typedef struct gss_buffer_desc_struct {
- size_t length;
- void *value;
- } gss_buffer_desc, *gss_buffer_t;
-
- Storage for data passed to the application by a GSSAPI routine using
- the gss_buffer_t conventions is allocated by the GSSAPI routine. The
- application may free this storage by invoking the gss_release_buffer
- routine. Allocation of the gss_buffer_desc object is always the
- responsibility of the application; Unused gss_buffer_desc objects
- may be initialized to the value GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER.
-
-2.1.3.1. Opaque data types
-
- Certain multiple-word data items are considered opaque data types at
- the GSSAPI, because their internal structure has no significance
- either to the GSSAPI or to the caller. Examples of such opaque data
- types are the input_token parameter to gss_init_sec_context (which is
- opaque to the caller), and the input_message parameter to gss_seal
- (which is opaque to the GSSAPI). Opaque data is passed between the
- GSSAPI and the application using the gss_buffer_t datatype.
-
-2.1.3.2. Character strings
-
- Certain multiple-word data items may be regarded as simple ISO
- Latin-1 character strings. An example of this is the
- input_name_buffer parameter to gss_import_name. Some GSSAPI routines
- also return character strings. Character strings are passed between
- the application and the GSSAPI using the gss_buffer_t datatype,
- defined earlier.
-
-2.1.4. Object Identifiers
-
- Certain GSSAPI procedures take parameters of the type gss_OID, or
- Object identifier. This is a type containing ISO-defined tree-
- structured values, and is used by the GSSAPI caller to select an
- underlying security mechanism. A value of type gss_OID has the
- following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_desc_struct {
- OM_uint32 length;
- void *elements;
- } gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
-
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- The elements field of this structure points to the first byte of an
- octet string containing the ASN.1 BER encoding of the value of the
- gss_OID. The length field contains the number of bytes in this
- value. For example, the gss_OID value corresponding to {iso(1)
- identified- oganization(3) icd-ecma(12) member-company(2) dec(1011)
- cryptoAlgorithms(7) SPX(5)} meaning SPX (Digital's X.509
- authentication mechanism) has a length field of 7 and an elements
- field pointing to seven octets containing the following octal values:
- 53,14,2,207,163,7,5. GSSAPI implementations should provide constant
- gss_OID values to allow callers to request any supported mechanism,
- although applications are encouraged on portability grounds to accept
- the default mechanism. gss_OID values should also be provided to
- allow applications to specify particular name types (see section
- 2.1.10). Applications should treat gss_OID_desc values returned by
- GSSAPI routines as read-only. In particular, the application should
- not attempt to deallocate them. The gss_OID_desc datatype is
- equivalent to the X/Open OM_object_identifier datatype [2].
-
-2.1.5. Object Identifier Sets
-
- Certain GSSAPI procedures take parameters of the type gss_OID_set.
- This type represents one or more object identifiers (section 2.1.4).
- A gss_OID_set object has the following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct {
- int count;
- gss_OID elements;
- } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
-
- The count field contains the number of OIDs within the set. The
- elements field is a pointer to an array of gss_OID_desc objects, each
- of which describes a single OID. gss_OID_set values are used to name
- the available mechanisms supported by the GSSAPI, to request the use
- of specific mechanisms, and to indicate which mechanisms a given
- credential supports. Storage associated with gss_OID_set values
- returned to the application by the GSSAPI may be deallocated by the
- gss_release_oid_set routine.
-
-2.1.6. Credentials
-
- A credential handle is a caller-opaque atomic datum that identifies a
- GSSAPI credential data structure. It is represented by the caller-
- opaque type gss_cred_id_t, which may be implemented as either an
- arithmetic or a pointer type. Credentials describe a principal, and
- they give their holder the ability to act as that principal. The
- GSSAPI does not make the actual credentials available to
- applications; instead the credential handle is used to identify a
- particular credential, held internally by GSSAPI or underlying
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- mechanism. Thus the credential handle contains no security-relavent
- information, and requires no special protection by the application.
- Depending on the implementation, a given credential handle may refer
- to different credentials when presented to the GSSAPI by different
- callers. Individual GSSAPI implementations should define both the
- scope of a credential handle and the scope of a credential itself
- (which must be at least as wide as that of a handle). Possibilities
- for credential handle scope include the process that acquired the
- handle, the acquiring process and its children, or all processes
- sharing some local identification information (e.g., UID). If no
- handles exist by which a given credential may be reached, the GSSAPI
- may delete the credential.
-
- Certain routines allow credential handle parameters to be omitted to
- indicate the use of a default credential. The mechanism by which a
- default credential is established and its scope should be defined by
- the individual GSSAPI implementation.
-
-2.1.7. Contexts
-
- The gss_ctx_id_t data type contains a caller-opaque atomic value that
- identifies one end of a GSSAPI security context. It may be
- implemented as either an arithmetic or a pointer type. Depending on
- the implementation, a given gss_ctx_id_t value may refer to different
- GSSAPI security contexts when presented to the GSSAPI by different
- callers. The security context holds state information about each end
- of a peer communication, including cryptographic state information.
- Individual GSSAPI implementations should define the scope of a
- context. Since no way is provided by which a new gss_ctx_id_t value
- may be obtained for an existing context, the scope of a context
- should be the same as the scope of a gss_ctx_id_t.
-
-2.1.8. Authentication tokens
-
- A token is a caller-opaque type that GSSAPI uses to maintain
- synchronization between the context data structures at each end of a
- GSSAPI security context. The token is a cryptographically protected
- bit-string, generated by the underlying mechanism at one end of a
- GSSAPI security context for use by the peer mechanism at the other
- end. Encapsulation (if required) and transfer of the token are the
- responsibility of the peer applications. A token is passed between
- the GSSAPI and the application using the gss_buffer_t conventions.
-
-2.1.9. Status values
-
- One or more status codes are returned by each GSSAPI routine. Two
- distinct sorts of status codes are returned. These are termed GSS
- status codes and Mechanism status codes.
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-
- GSSAPI routines return GSS status codes as their OM_uint32 function
- value. These codes indicate errors that are independent of the
- underlying mechanism used to provide the security service. The
- errors that can be indicated via a GSS status code are either generic
- API routine errors (errors that are defined in the GSSAPI
- specification) or calling errors (errors that are specific to these
- bindings).
-
- A GSS status code can indicate a single fatal generic API error from
- the routine and a single calling error. In addition, supplementary
- status information may be indicated via the setting of bits in the
- supplementary info field of a GSS status code.
-
- These errors are encoded into the 32-bit GSS status code as follows:
-
- MSB LSB
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Calling Error | Routine Error | Supplementary Info |
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- Bit 31 24 23 16 15 0
-
- Hence if a GSSAPI routine returns a GSS status code whose upper 16
- bits contain a non-zero value, the call failed. If the calling error
- field is non-zero, the invoking application's call of the routine was
- erroneous. Calling errors are defined in table 5-1. If the routine
- error field is non-zero, the routine failed for one of the routine-
- specific reasons listed below in table 5-2. Whether or not the upper
- 16 bits indicate a failure or a success, the routine may indicate
- additional information by setting bits in the supplementary info
- field of the status code. The meaning of individual bits is listed
- below in table 5-3.
-
- Table 5-1 Calling Errors
-
- Name Value in Meaning
- Field
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ 1 A required input
- parameter could
- not be read.
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE 2 A required output
- parameter could
- not be written.
- GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE 3 A parameter was
- malformed
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- Name Value in Meaning
- Field
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH 1 An unsupported mechanism was
- requested
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME 2 An invalid name was supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE 3 A supplied name was of an
- unsupported type
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS 4 Incorrect channel bindings
- were supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS 5 An invalid status code was
- supplied
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG 6 A token had an invalid
- signature
- GSS_S_NO_CRED 7 No credentials were supplied
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT 8 No context has been
- established
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN 9 A token was invalid
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL 10 A credential was invalid
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED 11 The referenced credentials
- have expired
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED 12 The context has expired
- GSS_S_FAILURE 13 Miscellaneous failure
- (see text)
-
- Table 5-3 Supplementary Status Bits
-
- Name Bit Number Meaning
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED 0 (LSB) The routine must be called
- again to complete its
- function.
- See routine documentation for
- detailed description.
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN 1 The token was a duplicate of
- an earlier token
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN 2 The token's validity period
- has expired
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN 3 A later token has already been
- processed
-
- The routine documentation also uses the name GSS_S_COMPLETE, which is
- a zero value, to indicate an absence of any API errors or
- supplementary information bits.
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- All GSS_S_xxx symbols equate to complete OM_uint32 status codes,
- rather than to bitfield values. For example, the actual value of the
- symbol GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE (value 3 in the routine error field) is 3
- << 16.
-
- The macros GSS_CALLING_ERROR(), GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR() and
- GSS_SUPPLEMENTARY_INFO() are provided, each of which takes a GSS
- status code and removes all but the relevant field. For example, the
- value obtained by applying GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR to a status code removes
- the calling errors and supplementary info fields, leaving only the
- routine errors field. The values delivered by these macros may be
- directly compared with a GSS_S_xxx symbol of the appropriate type.
- The macro GSS_ERROR() is also provided, which when applied to a GSS
- status code returns a non-zero value if the status code indicated a
- calling or routine error, and a zero value otherwise.
-
- A GSSAPI implementation may choose to signal calling errors in a
- platform-specific manner instead of, or in addition to the routine
- value; routine errors and supplementary info should be returned via
- routine status values only.
-
-2.1.9.2. Mechanism-specific status codes
-
- GSSAPI routines return a minor_status parameter, which is used to
- indicate specialized errors from the underlying security mechanism.
- This parameter may contain a single mechanism-specific error,
- indicated by a OM_uint32 value.
-
- The minor_status parameter will always be set by a GSSAPI routine,
- even if it returns a calling error or one of the generic API errors
- indicated above as fatal, although other output parameters may remain
- unset in such cases. However, output parameters that are expected to
- return pointers to storage allocated by a routine must always set set
- by the routine, even in the event of an error, although in such cases
- the GSSAPI routine may elect to set the returned parameter value to
- NULL to indicate that no storage was actually allocated. Any length
- field associated with such pointers (as in a gss_buffer_desc
- structure) should also be set to zero in such cases.
-
- The GSS status code GSS_S_FAILURE is used to indicate that the
- underlying mechanism detected an error for which no specific GSS
- status code is defined. The mechanism status code will provide more
- details about the error.
-
-2.1.10. Names
-
- A name is used to identify a person or entity. GSSAPI authenticates
- the relationship between a name and the entity claiming the name.
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-
- (a) A printable form, for presentation to a user
-
- (b) An internal form, for presentation at the API
-
- The syntax of a printable name is defined by the GSSAPI
- implementation, and may be dependent on local system configuration,
- or on individual user preference. The internal form provides a
- canonical representation of the name that is independent of
- configuration.
-
- A given GSSAPI implementation may support names drawn from multiple
- namespaces. In such an implementation, the internal form of the name
- must include fields that identify the namespace from which the name
- is drawn. The namespace from which a printable name is drawn is
- specified by an accompanying object identifier.
-
- Routines (gss_import_name and gss_display_name) are provided to
- convert names between their printable representations and the
- gss_name_t type. gss_import_name may support multiple syntaxes for
- each supported namespace, allowing users the freedom to choose a
- preferred name representation. gss_display_name should use an
- implementation-chosen preferred syntax for each supported name-type.
-
- Comparison of internal-form names is accomplished via the
- gss_compare_names routine. This removes the need for the application
- program to understand the syntaxes of the various printable names
- that a given GSSAPI implementation may support.
-
- Storage is allocated by routines that return gss_name_t values. A
- procedure, gss_release_name, is provided to free storage associated
- with a name.
-
-2.1.11. Channel Bindings
-
- GSSAPI supports the use of user-specified tags to identify a given
- context to the peer application. These tags are used to identify the
- particular communications channel that carries the context. Channel
- bindings are communicated to the GSSAPI using the following
- structure:
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- typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
- OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
- OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
- gss_buffer_desc application_data;
- } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
-
- The initiator_addrtype and acceptor_addrtype fields denote the type
- of addresses contained in the initiator_address and acceptor_address
- buffers. The address type should be one of the following:
-
- GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC Unspecified address type
- GSS_C_AF_LOCAL Host-local address type
- GSS_C_AF_INET DARPA Internet address type
- GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK ARPAnet IMP address type (eg IP)
- GSS_C_AF_PUP pup protocols (eg BSP) address type
- GSS_C_AF_CHAOS MIT CHAOS protocol address type
- GSS_C_AF_NS XEROX NS address type
- GSS_C_AF_NBS nbs address type
- GSS_C_AF_ECMA ECMA address type
- GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT datakit protocols address type
- GSS_C_AF_CCITT CCITT protocols (eg X.25)
- GSS_C_AF_SNA IBM SNA address type
- GSS_C_AF_DECnet DECnet address type
- GSS_C_AF_DLI Direct data link interface address type
- GSS_C_AF_LAT LAT address type
- GSS_C_AF_HYLINK NSC Hyperchannel address type
- GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK AppleTalk address type
- GSS_C_AF_BSC BISYNC 2780/3780 address type
- GSS_C_AF_DSS Distributed system services address type
- GSS_C_AF_OSI OSI TP4 address type
- GSS_C_AF_X25 X25
- GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR No address specified
-
- Note that these name address families rather than specific addressing
- formats. For address families that contain several alternative
- address forms, the initiator_address and acceptor_address fields must
- contain sufficient information to determine which address form is
- used. When not otherwise specified, addresses should be specified in
- network byte-order.
-
- Conceptually, the GSSAPI concatenates the initiator_addrtype,
- initiator_address, acceptor_addrtype, acceptor_address and
- application_data to form an octet string. The mechanism signs this
- octet string, and binds the signature to the context establishment
- token emitted by gss_init_sec_context. The same bindings are
- presented by the context acceptor to gss_accept_sec_context, and a
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- signature is calculated in the same way. The calculated signature is
- compared with that found in the token, and if the signatures differ,
- gss_accept_sec_context will return a GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS error, and
- the context will not be established. Some mechanisms may include the
- actual channel binding data in the token (rather than just a
- signature); applications should therefore not use confidential data
- as channel-binding components. Individual mechanisms may impose
- additional constraints on addresses and address types that may appear
- in channel bindings. For example, a mechanism may verify that the
- initiator_address field of the channel bindings presented to
- gss_init_sec_context contains the correct network address of the host
- system.
-
-2.1.12. Optional parameters
-
- Various parameters are described as optional. This means that they
- follow a convention whereby a default value may be requested. The
- following conventions are used for omitted parameters. These
- conventions apply only to those parameters that are explicitly
- documented as optional.
-
-2.1.12.1. gss_buffer_t types
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_BUFFER as a value. For an input parameter this
- signifies that default behavior is requested, while for an output
- parameter it indicates that the information that would be returned
- via the parameter is not required by the application.
-
-2.1.12.2. Integer types (input)
-
- Individual parameter documentation lists values to be used to
- indicate default actions.
-
-2.1.12.3. Integer types (output)
-
- Specify NULL as the value for the pointer.
-
-2.1.12.4. Pointer types
-
- Specify NULL as the value.
-
-2.1.12.5. Object IDs
-
- Specify GSS_C_NULL_OID as the value.
-
-2.1.12.6. Object ID Sets
-
- Specify GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET as the value.
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-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to use the default credential handle.
-
-2.1.12.8. Channel Bindings
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS to indicate that channel bindings
- are not to be used.
-
-3. GSSAPI routine descriptions
-
-2.1. gss_acquire_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_acquire_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_name_t desired_name,
- OM_uint32 time_req,
- gss_OID_set desired_mechs,
- int cred_usage,
- gss_cred_id_t * output_cred_handle,
- gss_OID_set * actual_mechs,
- OM_int32 * time_rec)
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to acquire a handle for a pre-existing
- credential by name. GSSAPI implementations must impose a local
- access-control policy on callers of this routine to prevent
- unauthorized callers from acquiring credentials to which they are not
- entitled. This routine is not intended to provide a "login to the
- network" function, as such a function would result in the creation of
- new credentials rather than merely acquiring a handle to existing
- credentials. Such functions, if required, should be defined in
- implementation-specific extensions to the API.
-
- If credential acquisition is time-consuming for a mechanism, the
- mechanism may chooses to delay the actual acquisition until the
- credential is required (e.g., by gss_init_sec_context or
- gss_accept_sec_context). Such mechanism-specific implementation
- decisions should be invisible to the calling application; thus a call
- of gss_inquire_cred immediately following the call of
- gss_acquire_cred must return valid credential data, and may therefore
- incur the overhead of a deferred credential acquisition.
-
- Parameters:
-
- desired_name gss_name_t, read
- Name of principal whose credential
- should be acquired
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- time_req integer, read
- number of seconds that credentials
- should remain valid
-
- desired_mechs Set of Object IDs, read
- set of underlying security mechanisms that
- may be used. GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET may be used
- to obtain an implementation-specific default.
-
- cred_usage integer, read
- GSS_C_BOTH - Credentials may be used
- either to initiate or accept
- security contexts.
- GSS_C_INITIATE - Credentials will only be
- used to initiate security
- contexts.
- GSS_C_ACCEPT - Credentials will only be used to
- accept security contexts.
-
- output_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify
- The returned credential handle.
-
- actual_mechs Set of Object IDs, modify, optional
- The set of mechanisms for which the
- credential is valid. Specify NULL
- if not required.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid. If the
- implementation does not support expiration of
- credentials, the value GSS_C_INDEFINITE will
- be returned. Specify NULL if not required
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Unavailable mechanism requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE Type contained within desired_name parameter is
- not supported
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME Value supplied for desired_name parameter is
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-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Unspecified failure. The minor_status parameter
- contains more detailed information
-
-3.2. gss_release_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_cred_id_t * cred_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Informs GSSAPI that the specified credential handle is no longer
- required by the process. When all processes have released a
- credential, it will be deleted.
-
- Parameters:
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify, optional
- buffer containing opaque credential
- handle. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is supplied,
- the default credential will be released
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED Credentials could not be accessed.
-
-
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-3.3. gss_init_sec_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_init_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_cred_id_t claimant_cred_handle,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- gss_name_t target_name,
- gss_OID mech_type,
- int req_flags,
- int time_req,
- gss_channel_bindings_t
- input_chan_bindings,
- gss_buffer_t input_token
- gss_OID * actual_mech_type,
- gss_buffer_t output_token,
- int * ret_flags,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Initiates the establishment of a security context between the
- application and a remote peer. Initially, the input_token parameter
- should be specified as GSS_C_NO_BUFFER. The routine may return a
- output_token which should be transferred to the peer application,
- where the peer application will present it to gss_accept_sec_context.
- If no token need be sent, gss_init_sec_context will indicate this by
- setting the length field of the output_token argument to zero. To
- complete the context establishment, one or more reply tokens may be
- required from the peer application; if so, gss_init_sec_context will
- return a status indicating GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED in which case it
- should be called again when the reply token is received from the peer
- application, passing the token to gss_init_sec_context via the
- input_token parameters.
-
- The values returned via the ret_flags and time_rec parameters are not
- defined unless the routine returns GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- Parameters:
-
- claimant_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read, optional
- handle for credentials claimed. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to use default
- credentials.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read/modify
- context handle for new context. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT for first call; use value
- returned by first call in continuation calls.
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- target_name gss_name_t, read
- Name of target
-
- mech_type OID, read, optional
- Object ID of desired mechanism. Supply
- GSS_C_NULL_OID to obtain an implementation
- specific default
-
- req_flags bit-mask, read
- Contains four independent flags, each of
- which requests that the context support a
- specific service option. Symbolic
- names are provided for each flag, and the
- symbolic names corresponding to the required
- flags should be logically-ORed
- together to form the bit-mask value. The
- flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Delegate credentials to remote peer
- False - Don't delegate
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Request that remote peer
- authenticate itself
- False - Authenticate self to remote peer
- only
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - Enable replay detection for signed
- or sealed messages
- False - Don't attempt to detect
- replayed messages
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - Enable detection of out-of-sequence
- signed or sealed messages
- False - Don't attempt to detect
- out-of-sequence messages
-
- time_req integer, read
- Desired number of seconds for which context
- should remain valid. Supply 0 to request a
- default validity period.
-
- input_chan_bindings channel bindings, read
- Application-specified bindings. Allows
- application to securely bind channel
- identification information to the security
- context.
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- input_token buffer, opaque, read, optional (see text)
- Token received from peer application.
- Supply GSS_C_NO_BUFFER on initial call.
-
- actual_mech_type OID, modify
- actual mechanism used.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token to be sent to peer application. If
- the length field of the returned buffer is
- zero, no token need be sent to the peer
- application.
-
- ret_flags bit-mask, modify
- Contains six independent flags, each of which
- indicates that the context supports a specific
- service option. Symbolic names are provided
- for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags should be
- logically-ANDed with the ret_flags value to test
- whether a given option is supported by the
- context. The flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Credentials were delegated to
- the remote peer
- False - No credentials were delegated
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Remote peer has been asked to
- authenticated itself
- False - Remote peer has not been asked to
- authenticate itself
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of signed or sealed messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence signed or sealed
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will not
- be detected
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be
- invoked by calling seal routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- seal) available. seal will provide
- message encapsulation, data-origin
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- services only.
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_sign or gss_seal
- routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
-
- time_rec integer, modify, optional
- number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. If the implementation does
- not support credential expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED Indicates that a token from the peer
- application is required to complete thecontext, and
- that gss_init_sec_context must be called again with
- that token.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the input_token failed
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL Indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential failed.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The supplied credentials were not valid for context
- initiation, or the credential handle did not
- reference any credentials.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired
-
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS The input_token contains different channel
- bindings to those specified via the
- input_chan_bindings parameter
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The input_token contains an invalid signature, or a
- signature that could not be verified
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- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The input_token was too old. This is a fatal error
- during context establishment
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The input_token is valid, but is a duplicate of
- a token already processed. This is a fatal error
- during context establishment.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT Indicates that the supplied context handle did not
- refer to a valid context
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The provided target_name parameter contained an
- invalid or unsupported type of name
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provided target_name parameter was ill-formed.
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure. See minor_status for more information
-
-3.4. gss_accept_sec_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_accept_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- gss_cred_id_t verifier_cred_handle,
- gss_buffer_t input_token_buffer
- gss_channel_bindings_t
- input_chan_bindings,
- gss_name_t * src_name,
- gss_OID * mech_type,
- gss_buffer_t output_token,
- int * ret_flags,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec,
- gss_cred_id_t * delegated_cred_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows a remotely initiated security context between the application
- and a remote peer to be established. The routine may return a
- output_token which should be transferred to the peer application,
- where the peer application will present it to gss_init_sec_context.
- If no token need be sent, gss_accept_sec_context will indicate this
- by setting the length field of the output_token argument to zero. To
- complete the context establishment, one or more reply tokens may be
- required from the peer application; if so, gss_accept_sec_context
- will return a status flag of GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, in which case it
- should be called again when the reply token is received from the peer
- application, passing the token to gss_accept_sec_context via the
- input_token parameters.
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- The values returned via the src_name, ret_flags, time_rec, and
- delegated_cred_handle parameters are not defined unless the routine
- returns GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- Parameters:
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read/modify
- context handle for new context. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT for first call; use value
- returned in subsequent calls.
-
- verifier_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read, optional
- Credential handle claimed by context
- acceptor.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to use default
- credentials. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is
- specified, but the caller has no default
- credentials established, an
- implementation-defined default credential
- may be used.
-
- input_token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- token obtained from remote application
-
- input_chan_bindings channel bindings, read
- Application-specified bindings. Allows
- application to securely bind channel
- identification information to the security
- context.
-
- src_name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- Authenticated name of context initiator.
- After use, this name should be deallocated by
- passing it to gss_release_name. If not required,
- specify NULL.
-
- mech_type Object ID, modify
- Security mechanism used. The returned
- OID value will be a pointer into static
- storage, and should be treated as read-only
- by the caller.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify
- Token to be passed to peer application. If the
- length field of the returned token buffer is 0,
- then no token need be passed to the peer
- application.
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- ret_flags bit-mask, modify
- Contains six independent flags, each of
- which indicates that the context supports a
- specific service option. Symbolic names are
- provided for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags
- should be logically-ANDed with the ret_flags
- value to test whether a given option is
- supported by the context. The flags are:
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Delegated credentials are available
- via the delegated_cred_handle
- parameter
- False - No credentials were delegated
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Remote peer asked for mutual
- authentication
- False - Remote peer did not ask for mutual
- authentication
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of signed or sealed messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence signed or sealed
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will not
- be detected
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be
- invoked by calling seal routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- seal) available. seal will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked
- by calling either gss_sign or
- gss_seal routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
-
- time_rec integer, modify, optional
- number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. Specify NULL if not required.
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- gss_cred_id_t, modify
- credential handle for credentials received from
- context initiator. Only valid if deleg_flag in
- ret_flags is true.
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED Indicates that a token from the peer
- application is required to complete the context,
- and that gss_accept_sec_context must be called
- again with that token.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the input_token failed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL Indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential failed.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The supplied credentials were not valid for
- context acceptance, or the credential handle
- did not reference any credentials.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have
- expired.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS The input_token contains different channel
- bindings to those specified via the
- input_chan_bindings parameter.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT Indicates that the supplied context handle did
- not refer to a valid context.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The input_token contains an invalid signature.
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The input_token was too old. This is a fatal
- error during context establishment.
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The input_token is valid, but is a
- duplicate of a token already processed. This
- is a fatal error during context establishment.
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-
-3.5. gss_process_context_token
-
- OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t token_buffer)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Provides a way to pass a token to the security service. Usually,
- tokens are associated either with context establishment (when they
- would be passed to gss_init_sec_context or gss_accept_sec_context) or
- with per-message security service (when they would be passed to
- gss_verify or gss_unseal). Occasionally, tokens may be received at
- other times, and gss_process_context_token allows such tokens to be
- passed to the underlying security service for processing. At
- present, such additional tokens may only be generated by
- gss_delete_sec_context. GSSAPI implementation may use this service
- to implement deletion of the security context.
-
- Parameters:
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- context handle of context on which token is to
- be processed
-
- token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- pointer to first byte of token to process
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the token failed
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure. See minor_status for more information
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle did not refer to a valid
- context
-
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-
- OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t * context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t output_token)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Delete a security context. gss_delete_sec_context will delete the
- local data structures associated with the specified security context,
- and generate an output_token, which when passed to the peer
- gss_process_context_token will instruct it to do likewise. No
- further security services may be obtained using the context specified
- by context_handle.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, modify
- context handle identifying context to delete.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token to be sent to remote application to
- instruct it to also delete the context
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure, see minor_status for more information
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT No valid context was supplied
-
-3.7. gss_context_time
-
- OM_uint32 gss_context_time (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- OM_uint32 * time_rec)
- Purpose:
-
- Determines the number of seconds for which the specified context will
- remain valid.
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- Parameters:
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- minor_status integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context to be interrogated.
-
- time_rec integer, modify
- Number of seconds that the context will remain
- valid. If the context has already expired,
- zero will be returned.
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The context is recognized, but
- associated credentials have expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
-3.8. gss_sign
-
- OM_uint32 gss_sign (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- int qop_req,
- gss_buffer_t message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t msg_token)
- Purpose:
-
- Generates a cryptographic signature for the supplied message, and
- places the signature in a token for transfer to the peer application.
- The qop_req parameter allows a choice between several cryptographic
- algorithms, if supported by the chosen mechanism.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- identifies the context on which the message
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- will be sent
-
- qop_req integer, read, optional
- Specifies requested quality of protection.
- Callers are encouraged, on portability grounds,
- to accept the default quality of protection
- offered by the chosen mechanism, which may be
- requested by specifying GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT for
- this parameter. If an unsupported protection
- strength is requested, gss_sign will return a
- major_status of GSS_S_FAILURE.
-
- message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- message to be signed
-
- msg_token buffer, opaque, modify
- buffer to receive token
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The context is recognized, but
- associated credentials have expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure. See minor_status for more information.
-
-3.9. gss_verify
-
- OM_uint32 gss_verify (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t token_buffer,
- int * qop_state)
- Purpose:
-
- Verifies that a cryptographic signature, contained in the token
- parameter, fits the supplied message. The qop_state parameter allows
- a message recipient to determine the strength of protection that was
- applied to the message.
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- identifies the context on which the message
- arrived
-
- message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- message to be verified
-
- token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- token associated with message
-
- qop_state integer, modify
- quality of protection gained from signature
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token failed consistency checks
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The signature was incorrect
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- signature for the message, but it had already
- been processed
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- signature for the message, but it is too old
-
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- signature for the message, but has been
- verified out of sequence; an earlier token has
- been signed or sealed by the remote
- application, but not yet been processed
- locally.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The context is recognized, but
- associated credentials have expired
-
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure. See minor_status for more information.
-
-3.10. gss_seal
-
- OM_uint32 gss_seal (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- int conf_req_flag,
- int qop_req
- gss_buffer_t input_message_buffer,
- int * conf_state,
- gss_buffer_t output_message_buffer)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Cryptographically signs and optionally encrypts the specified
- input_message. The output_message contains both the signature and
- the message. The qop_req parameter allows a choice between several
- cryptographic algorithms, if supported by the chosen mechanism.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- identifies the context on which the message
- will be sent
-
- conf_req_flag boolean, read
- True - Both confidentiality and integrity
- services are requested
- False - Only integrity service is requested
-
- qop_req integer, read, optional
- Specifies required quality of protection. A
- mechanism-specific default may be requested by
- setting qop_req to GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT. If an
- unsupported protection strength is requested,
- gss_seal will return a major_status of
- GSS_S_FAILURE.
-
- input_message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- message to be sealed
-
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- True - Confidentiality, data origin
- authentication and integrity services
- have been applied
- False - Integrity and data origin services only
- has been applied.
-
- output_message_buffer buffer, opaque, modify
- buffer to receive sealed message
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The context is recognized, but
- associated credentials have expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure. See minor_status for more information.
-
-3.11. gss_unseal
-
- OM_uint32 gss_unseal (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t input_message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t output_message_buffer,
- int * conf_state,
- int * qop_state)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Converts a previously sealed message back to a usable form, verifying
- the embedded signature. The conf_state parameter indicates whether
- the message was encrypted; the qop_state parameter indicates the
- strength of protection that was used to provide the confidentiality
- and integrity services.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
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- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- identifies the context on which the message
- arrived
-
- input_message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- sealed message
-
- output_message_buffer buffer, opaque, modify
- buffer to receive unsealed message
-
- conf_state boolean, modify
- True - Confidentiality and integrity protection
- were used
- False - Inteegrity service only was used
-
- qop_state integer, modify
- quality of protection gained from signature
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token failed consistency checks
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The signature was incorrect
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a
- correct signature for the message, but it had
- already been processed
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- signature for the message, but it is too old
-
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- signature for the message, but has been
- verified out of sequence; an earlier token has
- been signed or sealed by the remote
- application, but not yet been processed
- locally.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The context is recognized, but
- associated credentials have expired
-
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- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
- GSS_S_FAILURE Failure. See minor_status for more information.
-
-3.12. gss_display_status
-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_status (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- int status_value,
- int status_type,
- gss_OID mech_type,
- int * message_context,
- gss_buffer_t status_string)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of a GSSAPI
- status code, for display to the user or for logging purposes. Since
- some status values may indicate multiple errors, applications may
- need to call gss_display_status multiple times, each call generating
- a single text string. The message_context parameter is used to
- indicate which error message should be extracted from a given
- status_value; message_context should be initialized to 0, and
- gss_display_status will return a non-zero value if there are further
- messages to extract.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- status_value integer, read
- Status value to be converted
-
- status_type integer, read
- GSS_C_GSS_CODE - status_value is a GSS status
- code
- GSS_C_MECH_CODE - status_value is a mechanism
- status code
-
- mech_type Object ID, read, optional
- Underlying mechanism (used to interpret a
- minor status value) Supply GSS_C_NULL_OID to
- obtain the system default.
-
- message_context integer, read/modify
- Should be initialized to zero by caller
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- contained in the status_value parameter,
- message_context will be non-zero on return,
- and this value should be passed back to
- subsequent calls, along with the same
- status_value, status_type and mech_type
- parameters.
-
- status_string buffer, character string, modify
- textual interpretation of the status_value
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Indicates that translation in accordance with
- an unsupported mechanism type was requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS The status value was not recognized, or the
- status type was neither GSS_C_GSS_CODE nor
- GSS_C_MECH_CODE.
-
-
-3.13. gss_indicate_mechs
-
- OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_OID_set * mech_set)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to determine which underlying security
- mechanisms are available.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- mech_set set of Object IDs, modify
- set of implementation-supported mechanisms.
- The returned gss_OID_set value will be a
- pointer into static storage, and should be
- treated as read-only by the caller.
-
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- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-3.14. gss_compare_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_compare_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_name_t name1,
- gss_name_t name2,
- int * name_equal)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to compare two internal-form names to determine
- whether they refer to the same entity.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- name1 gss_name_t, read
- internal-form name
-
- name2 gss_name_t, read
- internal-form name
-
- name_equal boolean, modify
- True - names refer to same entity
- False - names refer to different entities
- (strictly, the names are not known to
- refer to the same identity).
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The type contained within either name1 or
- name2 was unrecognized, or the names were of
- incomparable types.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME One or both of name1 or name2 was ill-formed
-
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-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_buffer_t output_name_buffer,
- gss_OID * output_name_type)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of an opaque
- internal-form name for display purposes. The syntax of a printable
- name is defined by the GSSAPI implementation.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- name to be displayed
-
- output_name_buffer buffer, character-string, modify
- buffer to receive textual name string
-
- output_name_type Object ID, modify
- The type of the returned name. The returned
- gss_OID will be a pointer into static storage,
- and should be treated as read-only by the caller
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code:
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The type of input_name was not recognized
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME input_name was ill-formed
-
-3.16. gss_import_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_import_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_buffer_t input_name_buffer,
- gss_OID input_name_type,
- gss_name_t * output_name)
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- Purpose:
-
- Convert a printable name to internal form.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name_buffer buffer, character-string, read
- buffer containing printable name to convert
-
- input_name_type Object ID, read, optional
- Object Id specifying type of printable
- name. Applications may specify either
- GSS_C_NULL_OID to use a local system-specific
- printable syntax, or an OID registered by the
- GSSAPI implementation to name a particular
- namespace.
-
- output_name gss_name_t, modify
- returned name in internal form
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The input_name_type was unrecognized
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The input_name parameter could not be
- interpreted as a name of the specified type
-
-3.17. gss_release_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_name (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_name_t * name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Free GSSAPI-allocated storage associated with an internal form name.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
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- name gss_name_t, modify
- The name to be deleted
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The name parameter did not contain a valid name
-
-3.18. gss_release_buffer
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_buffer (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_buffer_t buffer)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Free storage associated with a buffer format name. The storage must
- have been allocated by a GSSAPI routine. In addition to freeing the
- associated storage, the routine will zero the length field in the
- buffer parameter.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- buffer buffer, modify
- The storage associated with the buffer will be
- deleted. The gss_buffer_desc object will not
- be freed, but its length field will be zeroed.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-3.19. gss_release_oid_set
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_OID_set * set)
-
- Purpose:
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- Free storage associated with a gss_OID_set object. The storage must
- have been allocated by a GSSAPI routine.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- set Set of Object IDs, modify
- The storage associated with the gss_OID_set
- will be deleted.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-3.20. gss_inquire_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred (
- OM_uint32 * minor_status,
- gss_cred_id_t cred_handle,
- gss_name_t * name,
- OM_uint32 * lifetime,
- int * cred_usage,
- gss_OID_set * mechanisms )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Obtains information about a credential. The caller must already have
- obtained a handle that refers to the credential.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the target credential.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to inquire about
- the default credential.
-
- name gss_name_t, modify
- The name whose identity the credential asserts.
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- lifetime Integer, modify
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- The number of seconds for which the credential
- will remain valid. If the credential has
- expired, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support
- credential expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- cred_usage Integer, modify
- How the credential may be used. One of the
- following:
- GSS_C_INITIATE
- GSS_C_ACCEPT
- GSS_C_BOTH
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- mechanisms gss_OID_set, modify
- Set of mechanisms supported by the credential.
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- Function value:
-
- GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The referenced credentials could not be
- accessed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL The referenced credentials were
- invalid.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired.
- If the lifetime parameter was not passed as
- NULL, it will be set to 0.
-
-
- #ifndef GSSAPI_H_
- #define GSSAPI_H_
-
- /*
- * First, define the platform-dependent types.
- */
- typedef <platform-specific> OM_uint32;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_ctx_id_t;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_cred_id_t;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_name_t;
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- /*
- * Note that a platform supporting the xom.h X/Open header file
- * may make use of that header for the definitions of OM_uint32
- * and the structure to which gss_OID_desc equates.
- */
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_desc_struct {
- OM_uint32 length;
- void *elements;
- } gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct {
- int count;
- gss_OID elements;
- } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
-
- typedef struct gss_buffer_desc_struct {
- size_t length;
- void *value;
- } gss_buffer_desc, *gss_buffer_t;
-
- typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
- OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
- OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
- gss_buffer_desc application_data;
- } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
-
-
- /*
- * Six independent flags each of which indicates that a context
- * supports a specific service option.
- */
- #define GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG 1
- #define GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG 2
- #define GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG 4
- #define GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG 8
- #define GSS_C_CONF_FLAG 16
- #define GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG 32
-
-
- /*
- * Credential usage options
- */
- #define GSS_C_BOTH 0
- #define GSS_C_INITIATE 1
- #define GSS_C_ACCEPT 2
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- /*
- * Status code types for gss_display_status
- */
- #define GSS_C_GSS_CODE 1
- #define GSS_C_MECH_CODE 2
-
- /*
- * The constant definitions for channel-bindings address families
- */
- #define GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC 0;
- #define GSS_C_AF_LOCAL 1;
- #define GSS_C_AF_INET 2;
- #define GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK 3;
- #define GSS_C_AF_PUP 4;
- #define GSS_C_AF_CHAOS 5;
- #define GSS_C_AF_NS 6;
- #define GSS_C_AF_NBS 7;
- #define GSS_C_AF_ECMA 8;
- #define GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT 9;
- #define GSS_C_AF_CCITT 10;
- #define GSS_C_AF_SNA 11;
- #define GSS_C_AF_DECnet 12;
- #define GSS_C_AF_DLI 13;
- #define GSS_C_AF_LAT 14;
- #define GSS_C_AF_HYLINK 15;
- #define GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK 16;
- #define GSS_C_AF_BSC 17;
- #define GSS_C_AF_DSS 18;
- #define GSS_C_AF_OSI 19;
- #define GSS_C_AF_X25 21;
-
- #define GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR 255;
-
- #define GSS_C_NO_BUFFER ((gss_buffer_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NULL_OID ((gss_OID) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET ((gss_OID_set) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT ((gss_ctx_id_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL ((gss_cred_id_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS ((gss_channel_bindings_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER {0, NULL}
-
- /*
- * Define the default Quality of Protection for per-message
- * services. Note that an implementation that offers multiple
- * levels of QOP may either reserve a value (for example zero,
- * as assumed here) to mean "default protection", or alternatively
- * may simply equate GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT to a specific explicit QOP
- * value.
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- #define GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0
-
- /*
- * Expiration time of 2^32-1 seconds means infinite lifetime for a
- * credential or security context
- */
- #define GSS_C_INDEFINITE 0xfffffffful
-
-
- /* Major status codes */
-
- #define GSS_S_COMPLETE 0
-
- /*
- * Some "helper" definitions to make the status code macros obvious.
- */
- #define GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET 24
- #define GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET 16
- #define GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET 0
- #define GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK 0377ul
- #define GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK 0377ul
- #define GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK 0177777ul
-
- /*
- * The macros that test status codes for error conditions
- */
- #define GSS_CALLING_ERROR(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_SUPPLEMENTARY_INFO(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK << GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_ERROR(x) \
- ((GSS_CALLING_ERROR(x) != 0) || (GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR(x) != 0))
-
-
- /*
- * Now the actual status code definitions
- */
-
- /*
- * Calling errors:
- */
- #define GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ \
- (1ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE \
- (2ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
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- #define GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE \
- (3ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
-
- /*
- * Routine errors:
- */
- #define GSS_S_BAD_MECH (1ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_NAME (2ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE (3ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS (4ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_STATUS (5ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_SIG (6ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_NO_CRED (7ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT (8ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN (9ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL (10ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED (11ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED (12ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_FAILURE (13ul << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
-
- /*
- * Supplementary info bits:
- */
- #define GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 0))
- #define GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 1))
- #define GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 2))
- #define GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 3))
-
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- /*
- * Finally, function prototypes for the GSSAPI routines.
- */
-
- OM_uint32 gss_acquire_cred
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_name_t, /* desired_name */
- OM_uint32, /* time_req */
- gss_OID_set, /* desired_mechs */
- int, /* cred_usage */
- gss_cred_id_t*, /* output_cred_handle */
- gss_OID_set*, /* actual_mechs */
- OM_uint32* /* time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_cred,
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_cred_id_t* /* cred_handle */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_init_sec_context
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_cred_id_t, /* claimant_cred_handle */
- gss_ctx_id_t*, /* context_handle */
- gss_name_t, /* target_name */
- gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- int, /* req_flags */
- OM_uint32, /* time_req */
- gss_channel_bindings_t,
- /* input_chan_bindings */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_token */
- gss_OID*, /* actual_mech_type */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_token */
- int*, /* ret_flags */
- OM_uint32* /* time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_accept_sec_context
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t*, /* context_handle */
- gss_cred_id_t, /* verifier_cred_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_token_buffer */
- gss_channel_bindings_t,
- /* input_chan_bindings */
- gss_name_t*, /* src_name */
- gss_OID*, /* mech_type */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_token */
- int*, /* ret_flags */
- OM_uint32*, /* time_rec */
- gss_cred_id_t* /* delegated_cred_handle */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t /* token_buffer */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t*, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_token */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_context_time
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- OM_uint32* /* time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_sign
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* qop_req */
- gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t /* message_token */
- );
-
- OM_uitn32 gss_verify
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* token_buffer */
- int* /* qop_state */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_seal
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- int, /* qop_req */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- int*, /* conf_state */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_message_buffer */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_unseal
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_message_buffer */
- int*, /* conf_state */
- int* /* qop_state */
- );
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- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- OM_uint32, /* status_value */
- int, /* status_type */
- gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- int*, /* message_context */
- gss_buffer_t /* status_string */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set* /* mech_set */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_compare_name
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_name_t, /* name1 */
- gss_name_t, /* name2 */
- int* /* name_equal */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_name,
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_name_buffer */
- gss_OID* /* output_name_type */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_import_name
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_name_buffer */
- gss_OID, /* input_name_type */
- gss_name_t* /* output_name */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_name
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_name_t* /* input_name */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_buffer
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_buffer_t /* buffer */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_oid_set
- (OM_uint32*, /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set* /* set */
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- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_cred_id_t, /* cred_handle */
- gss_name_t *, /* name */
- OM_uint32 *, /* lifetime */
- int *, /* cred_usage */
- gss_OID_set * /* mechanisms */
- );
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-References
-
- [1] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface", RFC 1508, Geer Zolot Associate, September 1993.
-
- [2] "OSI Object Management API Specification, Version 2.0 t", X.400
- API Association & X/Open Company Limited, August 24, 1990.
- Specification of datatypes and routines for manipulating
- information objects.
-
-Security Considerations
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- Security issues are discussed throughout this memo.
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-Author's Address
-
- John Wray
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 550 King Street, LKG2-2/AA6
- Littleton, MA 01460
- USA
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-Network Working Group J. Kohl
-Request for Comments: 1510 Digital Equipment Corporation
- C. Neuman
- ISI
- September 1993
-
-
- The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This RFC specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status
- of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Abstract
-
- This document gives an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
- protocol for the Kerberos network authentication system. Version 4,
- described elsewhere [1,2], is presently in production use at MIT's
- Project Athena, and at other Internet sites.
-
-Overview
-
- Project Athena, Athena, Athena MUSE, Discuss, Hesiod, Kerberos,
- Moira, and Zephyr are trademarks of the Massachusetts Institute of
- Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these trademarks may be made
- without prior written permission of MIT.
-
- This RFC describes the concepts and model upon which the Kerberos
- network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version 5
- of the Kerberos protocol.
-
- The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
- decisions are treated cursorily; for Version 4 they are fully
- described in the Kerberos portion of the Athena Technical Plan [1].
- The protocols are under review, and are not being submitted for
- consideration as an Internet standard at this time. Comments are
- encouraged. Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for
- discussion of Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to
- kerberos-request@MIT.EDU. This mailing list is gatewayed onto the
- Usenet as the group comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further
- information, including documents and code availability, may be sent
- to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
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-Background
-
- The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's
- trusted third-party authentication protocol [3] and on modifications
- suggested by Denning and Sacco [4]. The original design and
- implementation of Kerberos Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two
- former Project Athena staff members, Steve Miller of Digital
- Equipment Corporation and Clifford Neuman (now at the Information
- Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California), along
- with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of Project Athena, and
- Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many other members of
- Project Athena have also contributed to the work on Kerberos.
- Version 4 is publicly available, and has seen wide use across the
- Internet.
-
- Version 5 (described in this document) has evolved from Version 4
- based on new requirements and desires for features not available in
- Version 4. Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4
- and 5 can be found in [5].
-
-Table of Contents
-
- 1. Introduction ....................................... 5
- 1.1. Cross-Realm Operation ............................ 7
- 1.2. Environmental assumptions ........................ 8
- 1.3. Glossary of terms ................................ 9
- 2. Ticket flag uses and requests ...................... 12
- 2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets ............ 12
- 2.2. Invalid tickets .................................. 12
- 2.3. Renewable tickets ................................ 12
- 2.4. Postdated tickets ................................ 13
- 2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets ...................... 14
- 2.6. Forwardable tickets .............................. 15
- 2.7. Other KDC options ................................ 15
- 3. Message Exchanges .................................. 16
- 3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange .............. 16
- 3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message ............... 17
- 3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message .................. 17
- 3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message ............... 17
- 3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message ................ 19
- 3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message .................. 19
- 3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message ................... 20
- 3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange ........ 20
- 3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message ......................... 20
- 3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message ............. 20
- 3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message .................. 21
- 3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message ............. 23
- 3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message .................. 23
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- 3.2.6. Using the encryption key ....................... 24
- 3.3. The Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) Exchange ....... 24
- 3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message .............. 25
- 3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message ................. 26
- 3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message .............. 27
- 3.3.3.1. Encoding the transited field ................. 29
- 3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message ................. 31
- 3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange ............................ 31
- 3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message ............... 31
- 3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message .................... 32
- 3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange ............................ 33
- 3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message ............... 33
- 3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message .................... 33
- 3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange ............................ 34
- 3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message ............... 34
- 3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message .................... 34
- 4. The Kerberos Database .............................. 35
- 4.1. Database contents ................................ 35
- 4.2. Additional fields ................................ 36
- 4.3. Frequently Changing Fields ....................... 37
- 4.4. Site Constants ................................... 37
- 5. Message Specifications ............................. 38
- 5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation ...... 38
- 5.2. ASN.1 Base Definitions ........................... 38
- 5.3. Tickets and Authenticators ....................... 42
- 5.3.1. Tickets ........................................ 42
- 5.3.2. Authenticators ................................. 47
- 5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges ...... 49
- 5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition ......................... 49
- 5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition ......................... 56
- 5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications ........ 58
- 5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition .......................... 58
- 5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition .......................... 60
- 5.5.3. Error message reply ............................ 61
- 5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification ................... 61
- 5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition ............................ 61
- 5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification ................... 62
- 5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition ............................ 62
- 5.8. KRB_CRED message specification ................... 63
- 5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition ............................ 63
- 5.9. Error message specification ...................... 65
- 5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition ........................... 66
- 6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications ............. 67
- 6.1. Encryption Specifications ........................ 68
- 6.2. Encryption Keys .................................. 71
- 6.3. Encryption Systems ............................... 71
- 6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null) .............. 71
- 6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (descbc-crc)71
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- 6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (descbc-md4) 72
- 6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (descbc-md5) 72
- 6.4. Checksums ........................................ 74
- 6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32) .................... 74
- 6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4) ................. 75
- 6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES
- (rsa-md4-des) ......................................... 75
- 6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5) ................. 76
- 6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES
- (rsa-md5-des) ......................................... 76
- 6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
- 6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES
- alternative (rsa-md4-des-k) ........................... 77
- 6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative
- (des-mac-k) ........................................... 77
- 7. Naming Constraints ................................. 78
- 7.1. Realm Names ...................................... 77
- 7.2. Principal Names .................................. 79
- 7.2.1. Name of server principals ...................... 80
- 8. Constants and other defined values ................. 80
- 8.1. Host address types ............................... 80
- 8.2. KDC messages ..................................... 81
- 8.2.1. IP transport ................................... 81
- 8.2.2. OSI transport .................................. 82
- 8.2.3. Name of the TGS ................................ 82
- 8.3. Protocol constants and associated values ......... 82
- 9. Interoperability requirements ...................... 86
- 9.1. Specification 1 .................................. 86
- 9.2. Recommended KDC values ........................... 88
- 10. Acknowledgments ................................... 88
- 11. References ........................................ 89
- 12. Security Considerations ........................... 90
- 13. Authors' Addresses ................................ 90
- A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing ................ 91
- A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation ............................ 91
- A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation 92
- A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification .......................... 95
- A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks ......... 96
- A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation ........................... 97
- A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation 98
- A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification ......................... 104
- A.8. Authenticator generation ......................... 104
- A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation ............................ 105
- A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification ......................... 105
- A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation ........................... 106
- A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification ......................... 107
- A.13. KRB_SAFE generation ............................. 107
- A.14. KRB_SAFE verification ........................... 108
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- A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks ............. 108
- A.16. KRB_PRIV generation ............................. 109
- A.17. KRB_PRIV verification ........................... 110
- A.18. KRB_CRED generation ............................. 110
- A.19. KRB_CRED verification ........................... 111
- A.20. KRB_ERROR generation ............................ 112
-
-1. Introduction
-
- Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals,
- (e.g., a workstation user or a network server) on an open
- (unprotected) network. This is accomplished without relying on
- authentication by the host operating system, without basing trust on
- host addresses, without requiring physical security of all the hosts
- on the network, and under the assumption that packets traveling along
- the network can be read, modified, and inserted at will. (Note,
- however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only upon the
- initiation of a stream-based network connection, and assume the
- absence of any "hijackers" who might subvert such a connection. Such
- use implicitly trusts the host addresses involved.) Kerberos
- performs authentication under these conditions as a trusted third-
- party authentication service by using conventional cryptography,
- i.e., shared secret key. (shared secret key - Secret and private are
- often used interchangeably in the literature. In our usage, it takes
- two (or more) to share a secret, thus a shared DES key is a secret
- key. Something is only private when no one but its owner knows it.
- Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one has a public and a private
- key.)
-
- The authentication process proceeds as follows: A client sends a
- request to the authentication server (AS) requesting "credentials"
- for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials,
- encrypted in the client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a
- "ticket" for the server and 2) a temporary encryption key (often
- called a "session key"). The client transmits the ticket (which
- contains the client's identity and a copy of the session key, all
- encrypted in the server's key) to the server. The session key (now
- shared by the client and server) is used to authenticate the client,
- and may optionally be used to authenticate the server. It may also
- be used to encrypt further communication between the two parties or
- to exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt further
- communication.
-
- The implementation consists of one or more authentication servers
- running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
- maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their
- secret keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the
- Kerberos protocol. In order to add authentication to its
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- transactions, a typical network application adds one or two calls to
- the Kerberos library, which results in the transmission of the
- necessary messages to achieve authentication.
-
- The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or
- exchanges). There are two methods by which a client can ask a
- Kerberos server for credentials. In the first approach, the client
- sends a cleartext request for a ticket for the desired server to the
- AS. The reply is sent encrypted in the client's secret key. Usually
- this request is for a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) which can later be
- used with the ticket-granting server (TGS). In the second method,
- the client sends a request to the TGS. The client sends the TGT to
- the TGS in the same manner as if it were contacting any other
- application server which requires Kerberos credentials. The reply is
- encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
-
- Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
- principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages
- exchanged between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The
- application is free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
-
- To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the
- client transmits the ticket to the server. Since the ticket is sent
- "in the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption
- doesn't thwart replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an
- attacker, additional information is sent to prove that the message
- was originated by the principal to whom the ticket was issued. This
- information (called the authenticator) is encrypted in the session
- key, and includes a timestamp. The timestamp proves that the message
- was recently generated and is not a replay. Encrypting the
- authenticator in the session key proves that it was generated by a
- party possessing the session key. Since no one except the requesting
- principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent over
- the network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
-
- The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also
- be guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and
- contained in the credentials). This approach provides detection of
- both replay attacks and message stream modification attacks. It is
- accomplished by generating and transmitting a collision-proof
- checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest function) of the client's
- message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and integrity of the
- messages exchanged between principals can be secured by encrypting
- the data to be passed using the session key passed in the ticket, and
- contained in the credentials.
-
- The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access
- to the Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the
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- database must be modified, such as when adding new principals or
- changing a principal's key. This is done using a protocol between a
- client and a third Kerberos server, the Kerberos Administration
- Server (KADM). The administration protocol is not described in this
- document. There is also a protocol for maintaining multiple copies of
- the Kerberos database, but this can be considered an implementation
- detail and may vary to support different database technologies.
-
-1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
-
- The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
- boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a
- server in another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos
- server establishes its own "realm". The name of the realm in which a
- client is registered is part of the client's name, and can be used by
- the end-service to decide whether to honor a request.
-
- By establishing "inter-realm" keys, the administrators of two realms
- can allow a client authenticated in the local realm to use its
- authentication remotely (Of course, with appropriate permission the
- client could arrange registration of a separately-named principal in
- a remote realm, and engage in normal exchanges with that realm's
- services. However, for even small numbers of clients this becomes
- cumbersome, and more automatic methods as described here are
- necessary). The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate key may be
- used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service of
- each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able
- to obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-
- granting service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting
- ticket is used, the remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-
- realm key (which usually differs from its own normal TGS key) to
- decrypt the ticket-granting ticket, and is thus certain that it was
- issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets issued by the remote ticket-
- granting service will indicate to the end-service that the client was
- authenticated from another realm.
-
- A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms
- share an inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm
- key with an intermediate realm that communicates with the remote
- realm. An authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms
- that are transited in communicating from one realm to another.
-
- Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a
- key with its parent and a different key with each child. If an
- inter-realm key is not directly shared by two realms, the
- hierarchical organization allows an authentication path to be easily
- constructed. If a hierarchical organization is not used, it may be
- necessary to consult some database in order to construct an
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- authentication path between realms.
-
- Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may
- be bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
- authentication paths (these might be established to make
- communication between two realms more efficient). It is important
- for the end-service to know which realms were transited when deciding
- how much faith to place in the authentication process. To facilitate
- this decision, a field in each ticket contains the names of the
- realms that were involved in authenticating the client.
-
-1.2. Environmental assumptions
-
- Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
- properly function:
-
- + "Denial of service" attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There
- are places in these protocols where an intruder intruder can
- prevent an application from participating in the proper
- authentication steps. Detection and solution of such attacks
- (some of which can appear to be not-uncommon "normal" failure
- modes for the system) is usually best left to the human
- administrators and users.
-
- + Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder
- somehow steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade
- as that principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate
- principal.
-
- + "Password guessing" attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a
- user chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to
- successfully mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly
- attempting to decrypt, with successive entries from a
- dictionary, messages obtained which are encrypted under a key
- derived from the user's password.
-
- + Each host on the network must have a clock which is "loosely
- synchronized" to the time of the other hosts; this
- synchronization is used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of
- application servers when they do replay detection. The degree
- of "looseness" can be configured on a per-server basis. If the
- clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock
- synchronization protocol must itself be secured from network
- attackers.
-
- + Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A
- typical mode of access control will use access control lists
- (ACLs) to grant permissions to particular principals. If a
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- stale ACL entry remains for a deleted principal and the
- principal identifier is reused, the new principal will inherit
- rights specified in the stale ACL entry. By not re-using
- principal identifiers, the danger of inadvertent access is
- removed.
-
-1.3. Glossary of terms
-
- Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
-
-
- Authentication Verifying the claimed identity of a
- principal.
-
-
- Authentication header A record containing a Ticket and an
- Authenticator to be presented to a
- server as part of the authentication
- process.
-
-
- Authentication path A sequence of intermediate realms transited
- in the authentication process when
- communicating from one realm to another.
-
- Authenticator A record containing information that can
- be shown to have been recently generated
- using the session key known only by the
- client and server.
-
-
- Authorization The process of determining whether a
- client may use a service, which objects
- the client is allowed to access, and the
- type of access allowed for each.
-
-
- Capability A token that grants the bearer permission
- to access an object or service. In
- Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose
- use is restricted by the contents of the
- authorization data field, but which
- lists no network addresses, together
- with the session key necessary to use
- the ticket.
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- Ciphertext The output of an encryption function.
- Encryption transforms plaintext into
- ciphertext.
-
-
- Client A process that makes use of a network
- service on behalf of a user. Note that
- in some cases a Server may itself be a
- client of some other server (e.g., a
- print server may be a client of a file
- server).
-
-
- Credentials A ticket plus the secret session key
- necessary to successfully use that
- ticket in an authentication exchange.
-
-
- KDC Key Distribution Center, a network service
- that supplies tickets and temporary
- session keys; or an instance of that
- service or the host on which it runs.
- The KDC services both initial ticket and
- ticket-granting ticket requests. The
- initial ticket portion is sometimes
- referred to as the Authentication Server
- (or service). The ticket-granting
- ticket portion is sometimes referred to
- as the ticket-granting server (or service).
-
- Kerberos Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding
- Hades, the name given to Project
- Athena's authentication service, the
- protocol used by that service, or the
- code used to implement the authentication
- service.
-
-
- Plaintext The input to an encryption function or
- the output of a decryption function.
- Decryption transforms ciphertext into
- plaintext.
-
-
- Principal A uniquely named client or server
- instance that participates in a network
- communication.
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- Principal identifier The name used to uniquely identify each
- different principal.
-
-
- Seal To encipher a record containing several
- fields in such a way that the fields
- cannot be individually replaced without
- either knowledge of the encryption key
- or leaving evidence of tampering.
-
-
- Secret key An encryption key shared by a principal
- and the KDC, distributed outside the
- bounds of the system, with a long lifetime.
- In the case of a human user's
- principal, the secret key is derived
- from a password.
-
-
- Server A particular Principal which provides a
- resource to network clients.
-
-
- Service A resource provided to network clients;
- often provided by more than one server
- (for example, remote file service).
-
-
- Session key A temporary encryption key used between
- two principals, with a lifetime limited
- to the duration of a single login "session".
-
-
- Sub-session key A temporary encryption key used between
- two principals, selected and exchanged
- by the principals using the session key,
- and with a lifetime limited to the duration
- of a single association.
-
-
- Ticket A record that helps a client authenticate
- itself to a server; it contains the
- client's identity, a session key, a
- timestamp, and other information, all
- sealed using the server's secret key.
- It only serves to authenticate a client
- when presented along with a fresh
- Authenticator.
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-2. Ticket flag uses and requests
-
- Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to
- indicate various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be
- requested by a client when the ticket is obtained; some are
- automatically turned on and off by a Kerberos server as required.
- The following sections explain what the various flags mean, and gives
- examples of reasons to use such a flag.
-
-2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
-
- The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS
- protocol and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket.
- Application servers that want to require the knowledge of a client's
- secret key (e.g., a passwordchanging program) can insist that this
- flag be set in any tickets they accept, and thus be assured that the
- client's key was recently presented to the application client.
-
- The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information
- about the initial authentication, regardless of whether the current
- ticket was issued directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set)
- or issued on the basis of a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the
- INITIAL flag is clear, but the PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are
- carried forward from the ticket-granting ticket).
-
-2.2. Invalid tickets
-
- The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application
- servers must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated
- ticket will usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be
- validated by the KDC before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a
- TGS request with the VALIDATE option specified. The KDC will only
- validate tickets after their starttime has passed. The validation is
- required so that postdated tickets which have been stolen before
- their starttime can be rendered permanently invalid (through a hot-
- list mechanism).
-
-2.3. Renewable tickets
-
- Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long
- periods of time. However, this can expose their credentials to
- potential theft for equally long periods, and those stolen
- credentials would be valid until the expiration time of the
- ticket(s). Simply using shortlived tickets and obtaining new ones
- periodically would require the client to have long-term access to its
- secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be used to
- mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
- "expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the
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- ticket expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an
- individual expiration time. An application client must periodically
- (i.e., before it expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with
- the RENEW option set in the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new
- ticket with a new session key and a later expiration time. All other
- fields of the ticket are left unmodified by the renewal process.
- When the latest permissible expiration time arrives, the ticket
- expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may consult a hot-list
- to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen since its last
- renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and thus the
- usable lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
-
- The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
- ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can
- usually be ignored by application servers. However, some
- particularly careful application servers may wish to disallow
- renewable tickets.
-
- If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC
- will not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default,
- but a client may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option
- in the KRB_AS_REQ message. If it is set, then the renew-till field
- in the ticket contains the time after which the ticket may not be
- renewed.
-
-2.4. Postdated tickets
-
- Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much
- later, e.g., a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid
- at the time the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to
- hold valid tickets in a batch queue, since they will be on-line
- longer and more prone to theft. Postdated tickets provide a way to
- obtain these tickets from the KDC at job submission time, but to
- leave them "dormant" until they are activated and validated by a
- further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft were reported in the
- interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket, and the thief
- would be foiled.
-
- The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
- ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers.
- This flag must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a
- postdated ticket based on the presented ticket. It is reset by
- default; it may be requested by a client by setting the ALLOW-
- POSTDATE option in the KRB_AS_REQ message. This flag does not allow
- a client to obtain a postdated ticket-granting ticket; postdated
- ticket-granting tickets can only by obtained by requesting the
- postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life (endtime-starttime)
- of a postdated ticket will be the remaining life of the ticket-
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- granting ticket at the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE
- option is also set, in which case it can be the full life (endtime-
- starttime) of the ticket-granting ticket. The KDC may limit how far
- in the future a ticket may be postdated.
-
- The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
- application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see
- when the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose
- to reject postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a
- certain period after the original authentication. When the KDC issues
- a POSTDATED ticket, it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the
- application client must present the ticket to the KDC to be validated
- before use.
-
-2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets
-
- At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to
- perform an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take
- on the identity of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A
- principal can allow a service to take on the principal's identity for
- a particular purpose by granting it a proxy.
-
- The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
- ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers.
- When set, this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to
- issue a new ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a
- different network address based on this ticket. This flag is set by
- default.
-
- This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a
- remote request on its behalf, e.g., a print service client can give
- the print server a proxy to access the client's files on a particular
- file server in order to satisfy a print request.
-
- In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos
- tickets are usually valid from only those network addresses
- specifically included in the ticket (It is permissible to request or
- issue tickets with no network addresses specified, but we do not
- recommend it). For this reason, a client wishing to grant a proxy
- must request a new ticket valid for the network address of the
- service to be granted the proxy.
-
- The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a
- proxy ticket. Application servers may check this flag and require
- additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in
- order to provide an audit trail.
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-
- Authentication forwarding is an instance of the proxy case where the
- service is granted complete use of the client's identity. An example
- where it might be used is when a user logs in to a remote system and
- wants authentication to work from that system as if the login were
- local.
-
- The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
- ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers.
- The FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the
- PROXIABLE flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued
- with different network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but
- users may request that it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in
- the AS request when they request their initial ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the
- user to enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then
- authentication forwarding is not permitted, but the same end result
- can still be achieved if the user engages in the AS exchange with the
- requested network addresses and supplies a password.
-
- The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket
- with the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests it be set by specifying
- the FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new
- ticket. It is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with
- the FORWARDED flag set. Application servers may wish to process
- FORWARDED tickets differently than non-FORWARDED tickets.
-
-2.7. Other KDC options
-
- There are two additional options which may be set in a client's
- request of the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the
- client will accept a renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested
- life cannot otherwise be provided. If a ticket with the requested
- life cannot be provided, then the KDC may issue a renewable ticket
- with a renew-till equal to the the requested endtime. The value of
- the renew-till field may still be adjusted by site-determined limits
- or limits imposed by the individual principal or server.
-
- The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting
- service. It indicates that the to-be-issued ticket for the end
- server is to be encrypted in the session key from the additional
- ticket-granting ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3
- for specific details.
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-3. Message Exchanges
-
- The following sections describe the interactions between network
- clients and servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
-
-3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
-
- Summary
-
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
- The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the
- Kerberos Authentication Server is usually initiated by a client when
- it wishes to obtain authentication credentials for a given server but
- currently holds no credentials. The client's secret key is used for
- encryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at the
- initiation of a login session, to obtain credentials for a Ticket-
- Granting Server, which will subsequently be used to obtain
- credentials for other servers (see section 3.3) without requiring
- further use of the client's secret key. This exchange is also used
- to request credentials for services which must not be mediated
- through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather require a principal's
- secret key, such as the password-changing service. (The password-
- changing request must not be honored unless the requester can provide
- the old password (the user's current secret key). Otherwise, it
- would be possible for someone to walk up to an unattended session and
- change another user's password.) This exchange does not by itself
- provide any assurance of the the identity of the user. (To
- authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the credentials
- obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS exchange to
- obtain credentials for a local server. Those credentials must then
- be verified by the local server through successful completion of the
- Client/Server exchange.)
-
- The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
- Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
- messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
-
- In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and
- the identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials.
- The response, KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present
- to the server, and a session key that will be shared by the client
- and the server. The session key and additional information are
- encrypted in the client's secret key. The KRB_AS_REP message
- contains information which can be used to detect replays, and to
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- associate it with the message to which it replies. Various errors
- can occur; these are indicated by an error response (KRB_ERROR)
- instead of the KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not
- encrypted. The KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can
- be used to associate it with the message to which it replies. The
- lack of encryption in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to
- detect replays or fabrications of such messages.
-
- In the normal case the authentication server does not know whether
- the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply
- sends a reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same.
- This is acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity
- was given in the request will be able to use the reply. Its critical
- information is encrypted in that principal's key. The initial
- request supports an optional field that can be used to pass
- additional information that might be needed for the initial exchange.
- This field may be used for preauthentication if desired, but the
- mechanism is not currently specified.
-
-3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
- The client may specify a number of options in the initial request.
- Among these options are whether preauthentication is to be performed;
- whether the requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or
- forwardable; whether it should be postdated or allow postdating of
- derivative tickets; and whether a renewable ticket will be accepted
- in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the requested ticket expiration
- date cannot be satisfied by a nonrenewable ticket (due to
- configuration constraints; see section 4). See section A.1 for
- pseudocode.
-
- The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
-
-3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
-
- If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in
- the creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server.
- The format for the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The
- contents of the ticket are determined as follows.
-
-3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
-
- The authentication server looks up the client and server principals
- named in the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective
- keys. If required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if
- the pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
- KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate
- the requested encryption type, an error message with code
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- KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP is returned. Otherwise it generates a "random"
- session key ("Random" means that, among other things, it should be
- impossible to guess the next session key based on knowledge of past
- session keys. This can only be achieved in a pseudo-random number
- generator if it is based on cryptographic principles. It would be
- more desirable to use a truly random number generator, such as one
- based on measurements of random physical phenomena.).
-
- If the requested start time is absent or indicates a time in the
- past, then the start time of the ticket is set to the authentication
- server's current time. If it indicates a time in the future, but the
- POSTDATED option has not been specified, then the error
- KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise the requested start
- time is checked against the policy of the local realm (the
- administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or ranges of
- postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is set
- as requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The
- postdated ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the
- KDC after the start time has been reached.
-
- The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
- following:
-
- +The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ
- message.
-
- +The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime
- associated with the client principal (the authentication
- server's database includes a maximum ticket lifetime field
- in each principal's record; see section 4).
-
- +The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime
- associated with the server principal.
-
- +The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by
- the policy of the local realm.
-
- If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined
- above) is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error
- message with code KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested
- expiration time for the ticket exceeds what was determined as above,
- and if the "RENEWABLE-OK" option was requested, then the "RENEWABLE"
- flag is set in the new ticket, and the renew-till value is set as if
- the "RENEWABLE" option were requested (the field and option names are
- described fully in section 5.4.1). If the RENEWABLE option has been
- requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option has been set and a renewable
- ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till field is set to the
- minimum of:
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- +Its requested value.
-
- +The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two
- maximum renewable lifetimes associated with the principals'
- database entries.
-
- +The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable
- lifetime set by the policy of the local realm.
-
- The flags field of the new ticket will have the following options set
- if they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm
- allows: FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE.
- If the new ticket is postdated (the start time is in the future), its
- INVALID flag will also be set.
-
- If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message
- (see section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the
- caddr of the response, placing any required pre-authentication data
- into the padata of the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in
- the client's key using the requested encryption method, and sends it
- to the client. See section A.2 for pseudocode.
-
-3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
-
- Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
- returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the
- error-code and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error
- message contents and details are described in Section 5.9.1.
-
-3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
-
- If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies
- that the cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the
- reply match what it requested. If any padata fields are present,
- they may be used to derive the proper secret key to decrypt the
- message. The client decrypts the encrypted part of the response
- using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the encrypted part
- matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect replays). It
- also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match those
- in the request, and that the host address field is also correct. It
- then stores the ticket, session key, start and expiration times, and
- other information for later use. The key-expiration field from the
- encrypted part of the response may be checked to notify the user of
- impending key expiration (the client program could then suggest
- remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3 for
- pseudocode.
-
- Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to
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- verify the identity of the user; the user and an attacker could
- cooperate to generate a KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts
- properly but is not from the proper KDC. If the host wishes to
- verify the identity of the user, it must require the user to present
- application credentials which can be verified using a securely-stored
- secret key. If those credentials can be verified, then the identity
- of the user can be assured.
-
-3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
-
- If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client interprets it
- as an error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are
- necessary to recover.
-
-3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange
-
- Summary
-
- Message direction Message type Section
- Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
- [optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
- The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
- applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa.
- The client must have already acquired credentials for the server
- using the AS or TGS exchange.
-
-3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
-
- The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be
- part of the first message in an authenticated transaction. It
- contains a ticket, an authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping
- information (see section 5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by
- itself is insufficient to authenticate a client, since tickets are
- passed across the network in cleartext(Tickets contain both an
- encrypted and unencrypted portion, so cleartext here refers to the
- entire unit, which can be copied from one message and replayed in
- another without any cryptographic skill.), so the authenticator is
- used to prevent invalid replay of tickets by proving to the server
- that the client knows the session key of the ticket and thus is
- entitled to use it. The KRB_AP_REQ message is referred to elsewhere
- as the "authentication header."
-
-3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
-
- When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it
- obtains (either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the
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- TGS exchange) a ticket and session key for the desired service. The
- client may re-use any tickets it holds until they expire. The client
- then constructs a new Authenticator from the the system time, its
- name, and optionally an application specific checksum, an initial
- sequence number to be used in KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a
- session subkey to be used in negotiations for a session key unique to
- this particular session. Authenticators may not be re-used and will
- be rejected if replayed to a server (Note that this can make
- applications based on unreliable transports difficult to code
- correctly, if the transport might deliver duplicated messages. In
- such cases, a new authenticator must be generated for each retry.).
- If a sequence number is to be included, it should be randomly chosen
- so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is not likely
- to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
-
- The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the
- use of a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s)
- in the ap-options field of the message.
-
- The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with
- the ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the
- end server along with any additional application-specific
- information. See section A.9 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
-
- Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks
- must be loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket.
- Several errors are possible. If an error occurs, the server is
- expected to reply to the client with a KRB_ERROR message. This
- message may be encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw"
- form is not acceptable to the protocol. The format of error messages
- is described in section 5.9.1.
-
- The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows.
- If the message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the
- KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket
- in the KRB_AP_REQ is not one the server can use (e.g., it indicates
- an old key, and the server no longer possesses a copy of the old
- key), the KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is returned. If the USE-
- SESSION-KEY flag is set in the ap-options field, it indicates to the
- server that the ticket is encrypted in the session key from the
- server's ticket-granting ticket rather than its secret key (This is
- used for user-to-user authentication as described in [6]). Since it
- is possible for the server to be registered in multiple realms, with
- different keys in each, the srealm field in the unencrypted portion
- of the ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to specify which secret key
- the server should use to decrypt that ticket. The KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY
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- error code is returned if the server doesn't have the proper key to
- decipher the ticket.
-
- The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key
- specified by the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a
- modification of the ticket (each encryption system must provide
- safeguards to detect modified ciphertext; see section 6), the
- KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned (chances are good that
- different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
-
- The authenticator is decrypted using the session key extracted from
- the decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified,
- the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm
- of the client from the ticket are compared against the same fields in
- the authenticator. If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH
- error is returned (they might not match, for example, if the wrong
- session key was used to encrypt the authenticator). The addresses in
- the ticket (if any) are then searched for an address matching the
- operating-system reported address of the client. If no match is
- found or the server insists on ticket addresses but none are present
- in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error is returned.
-
- If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator
- differ by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the
- KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is returned. If the server name, along with
- the client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator
- match any recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is
- returned (Note that the rejection here is restricted to
- authenticators from the same principal to the same server. Other
- client principals communicating with the same server principal should
- not be have their authenticators rejected if the time and microsecond
- fields happen to match some other client's authenticator.). The
- server must remember any authenticator presented within the allowable
- clock skew, so that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a
- server loses track of any authenticator presented within the
- allowable clock skew, it must reject all requests until the clock
- skew interval has passed. This assures that any lost or re-played
- authenticators will fall outside the allowable clock skew and can no
- longer be successfully replayed (If this is not done, an attacker
- could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator sent over the
- network to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as the
- disabled host, and replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the
- authentication.). If a sequence number is provided in the
- authenticator, the server saves it for later use in processing
- KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV messages. If a subkey is present, the
- server either saves it for later use or uses it to help generate its
- own choice for a subkey to be returned in a KRB_AP_REP message.
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- The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus
- the start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than
- the current time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the
- INVALID flag is set in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is
- returned. Otherwise, if the current time is later than end time by
- more than the allowable clock skew, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error
- is returned.
-
- If all these checks succeed without an error, the server is assured
- that the client possesses the credentials of the principal named in
- the ticket and thus, the client has been authenticated to the server.
- See section A.10 for pseudocode.
-
-3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
-
- Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
- information and its initial request in the same message, and the
- server need not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if
- mutual authentication (not only authenticating the client to the
- server, but also the server to the client) is being performed, the
- KRB_AP_REQ message will have MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options
- field, and a KRB_AP_REP message is required in response. As with the
- error message, this message may be encapsulated in the application
- protocol if its "raw" form is not acceptable to the application's
- protocol. The timestamp and microsecond field used in the reply must
- be the client's timestamp and microsecond field (as provided in the
- authenticator). [Note: In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the
- timestamp in the reply was the client's timestamp plus one. This is
- not necessary in version 5 because version 5 messages are formatted
- in such a way that it is not possible to create the reply by
- judicious message surgery (even in encrypted form) without knowledge
- of the appropriate encryption keys.] If a sequence number is to be
- included, it should be randomly chosen as described above for the
- authenticator. A subkey may be included if the server desires to
- negotiate a different subkey. The KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in
- the session key extracted from the ticket. See section A.11 for
- pseudocode.
-
-3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
-
- If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key
- from the credentials obtained for the server (Note that for
- encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session key is not used,
- even if present in the Authenticator.) to decrypt the message, and
- verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
- Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client
- is assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey
- (if present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for
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-3.2.6. Using the encryption key
-
- After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and
- server share an encryption key which can be used by the application.
- The "true session key" to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
- application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on
- the subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator
- (Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to
- choose subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to
- orchestrate a negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP
- message.). In some cases, the use of this session key will be
- implicit in the protocol; in others the method of use must be chosen
- from a several alternatives. We leave the protocol negotiations of
- how to use the key (e.g., selecting an encryption or checksum type)
- to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does not
- constrain the implementation options.
-
- With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers
- should take care not to send sensitive information to each other
- without proper assurances. In particular, applications that require
- privacy or integrity should use the KRB_AP_REP or KRB_ERROR responses
- from the server to client to assure both client and server of their
- peer's identity. If an application protocol requires privacy of its
- messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section 3.5). The KRB_SAFE
- message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
-
-3.3. The Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) Exchange
-
- Summary
-
- Message direction Message type Section
- 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
- 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
- KRB_ERROR 5.9.1
-
- The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting
- Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain
- authentication credentials for a given server (which might be
- registered in a remote realm), when it wishes to renew or validate an
- existing ticket, or when it wishes to obtain a proxy ticket. In the
- first case, the client must already have acquired a ticket for the
- Ticket-Granting Service using the AS exchange (the ticket-granting
- ticket is usually obtained when a client initially authenticates to
- the system, such as when a user logs in). The message format for the
- TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS exchange. The
- primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the TGS
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- exchange does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the
- session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or
- sub-session key from an Authenticator is used. As is the case for
- all application servers, expired tickets are not accepted by the TGS,
- so once a renewable or ticket-granting ticket expires, the client
- must use a separate exchange to obtain valid tickets.
-
- The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ)
- from the client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply
- (KRB_TGS_REP or KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes
- information authenticating the client plus a request for credentials.
- The authentication information consists of the authentication header
- (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the client's previously obtained ticket-
- granting, renewable, or invalid ticket. In the ticket-granting
- ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one or more of: a
- list of network addresses, a collection of typed authorization data
- to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the application
- server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described later).
- The TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials,
- encrypted in the session key from the ticket-granting ticket or
- renewable ticket, or if present, in the subsession key from the
- Authenticator (part of the authentication header). The KRB_ERROR
- message contains an error code and text explaining what went wrong.
- The KRB_ERROR message is not encrypted. The KRB_TGS_REP message
- contains information which can be used to detect replays, and to
- associate it with the message to which it replies. The KRB_ERROR
- message also contains information which can be used to associate it
- with the message to which it replies, but the lack of encryption in
- the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays or
- fabrications of such messages.
-
-3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
- Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client
- must determine in which realm the application server is registered
- [Note: This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known
- beforehand (since the realm is part of the principal identifier), or
- it might be stored in a nameserver. Presently, however, this
- information is obtained from a configuration file. If the realm to
- be used is obtained from a nameserver, there is a danger of being
- spoofed if the nameservice providing the realm name is not
- authenticated. This might result in the use of a realm which has
- been compromised, and would result in an attacker's ability to
- compromise the authentication of the application server to the
- client.]. If the client does not already possess a ticket-granting
- ticket for the appropriate realm, then one must be obtained. This is
- first attempted by requesting a ticket-granting ticket for the
- destination realm from the local Kerberos server (using the
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- KRB_TGS_REQ message recursively). The Kerberos server may return a
- TGT for the desired realm in which case one can proceed.
- Alternatively, the Kerberos server may return a TGT for a realm which
- is "closer" to the desired realm (further along the standard
- hierarchical path), in which case this step must be repeated with a
- Kerberos server in the realm specified in the returned TGT. If
- neither are returned, then the request must be retried with a
- Kerberos server for a realm higher in the hierarchy. This request
- will itself require a ticket-granting ticket for the higher realm
- which must be obtained by recursively applying these directions.
-
- Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
- realm, it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and
- contacts one. The list might be obtained through a configuration file
- or network service; as long as the secret keys exchanged by realms
- are kept secret, only denial of service results from a false Kerberos
- server.
-
- As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in
- the KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ
- message, providing an authentication header as an element of the
- padata field, and including the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ
- message along with several optional fields: the enc-authorization-
- data field for application server use and additional tickets required
- by some options.
-
- In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-
- session key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be
- encrypted (If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be
- taken to ensure the randomness of the selected subsession key. One
- approach would be to generate a random number and XOR it with the
- session key from the ticket-granting ticket.). If the sub-session key
- is not specified, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket
- will be used. If the enc-authorization-data is present, it must be
- encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from the authenticator
- portion of the authentication header, or if not present in the
- session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
-
- Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the
- destination realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
-
- The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the
- KRB_AS_REQ message, but there are many additional checks to be
- performed. First, the Kerberos server must determine which server
- the accompanying ticket is for and it must select the appropriate key
- to decrypt it. For a normal KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the
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- ticket granting service, and the TGS's key will be used. If the TGT
- was issued by another realm, then the appropriate inter-realm key
- must be used. If the accompanying ticket is not a ticket granting
- ticket for the current realm, but is for an application server in the
- current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are specified in
- the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is the
- server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt
- the ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server
- for which it was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata
- field, the KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
-
- Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied
- checksum in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents
- of the request, and the message rejected if the checksums do not
- match (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum
- is not keyed or not collision-proof (with an error code of
- KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the checksum type is not supported, the
- KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned. If the authorization-data
- are present, they are decrypted using the sub-session key from the
- Authenticator.
-
- If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
- KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned.
-
-3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
- The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP
- (KRB_KDC_REP), but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The
- detailed specification is in section 5.4.2.
-
- The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The
- Kerberos database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested
- server (including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted).
- If the request is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm,
- and if no key is shared with the requested realm, then the Kerberos
- server will select the realm "closest" to the requested realm with
- which it does share a key, and use that realm instead. This is the
- only case where the response from the KDC will be for a different
- server than that requested by the client.
-
- By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list
- of transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the
- expiration time, and the authorization data of the newly-issued
- ticket will be copied from the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or
- renewable ticket. If the transited field needs to be updated, but
- the transited type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error
- is returned.
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- If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new
- ticket is set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime
- from the TGT, and (c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of
- the maximum life for the application server and the maximum life for
- the local realm (the maximum life for the requesting principal was
- already applied when the TGT was issued). If the new ticket is to be
- a renewal, then the endtime above is replaced by the minimum of (a)
- the value of the renew_till field of the ticket and (b) the starttime
- for the new ticket plus the life (endtimestarttime) of the old
- ticket.
-
- If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket
- will contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will
- only be honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY
- option is similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses
- specified by the client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE
- flag in the TGT is set. The PROXY option will not be honored on
- requests for additional ticket-granting tickets.
-
- If the requested start time is absent or indicates a time in the
- past, then the start time of the ticket is set to the authentication
- server's current time. If it indicates a time in the future, but the
- POSTDATED option has not been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is
- not set in the TGT, then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is
- returned. Otherwise, if the ticket-granting ticket has the
- MAYPOSTDATE flag set, then the resulting ticket will be postdated and
- the requested starttime is checked against the policy of the local
- realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as requested,
- and the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be validated
- before use by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has been
- reached. However, in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-
- till time of a newly-issued postdated ticket extend beyond the
- renew-till time of the ticket-granting ticket.
-
- If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional
- ticket has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the
- additional ticket using the key for the server to which the
- additional ticket was issued and verify that it is a ticket-granting
- ticket. If the name of the requested server is missing from the
- request, the name of the client in the additional ticket will be
- used. Otherwise the name of the requested server will be compared to
- the name of the client in the additional ticket and if different, the
- request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the session key
- from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new ticket
- that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
- new ticket will be used (This allows easy implementation of user-to-
- user authentication [6], which uses ticket-granting ticket session
- keys in lieu of secret server keys in situations where such secret
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- keys could be easily compromised.).
-
- If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC
- as part of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-
- granting server itself, and the server is registered in the realm of
- the KDC, If the RENEW option is requested, then the KDC will verify
- that the RENEWABLE flag is set in the ticket and that the renew_till
- time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is rqeuested,
- the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID flag
- is set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check
- that the PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed,
- the KDC will issue the appropriate new ticket.
-
- Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the
- presented ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets
- which have been canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by
- storing a range of issue dates for "suspect tickets"; if a presented
- ticket had an authtime in that range, it would be rejected. In this
- way, a stolen ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket cannot be
- used to gain additional tickets (renewals or otherwise) once the
- theft has been reported. Any normal ticket obtained before it was
- reported stolen will still be valid (because they require no
- interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal expiration
- time.
-
- The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is
- encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present,
- or the session key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not
- encrypted using the client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's
- key's expiration date and the key version number fields are left out
- since these values are stored along with the client's database
- record, and that record is not needed to satisfy a request based on a
- ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6 for pseudocode.
-
-3.3.3.1. Encoding the transited field
-
- If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC
- as part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting
- service, but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look
- up the inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to
- decrypt the ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor
- the request, subject to the constraints outlined above in the section
- describing the AS exchange. The realm part of the client's identity
- will be taken from the ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm
- that issued the ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited
- field of the ticket to be issued. This is accomplished by reading
- the transited field from the ticket-granting ticket (which is treated
- as an unordered set of realm names), adding the new realm to the set,
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- then constructing and writing out its encoded (shorthand) form (this
- may involve a rearrangement of the existing encoding).
-
- Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its
- own realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the
- previous realm. This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from
- intentionally leaving out its own name (it could, however, omit other
- realms' names).
-
- The names of neither the local realm nor the principal's realm are to
- be included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the
- ticket and both are known to have taken part in authenticating the
- principal. Since the endpoints are not included, both local and
- single-hop inter-realm authentication result in a transited field
- that is empty.
-
- Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field,
- it might potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this
- field, its contents are encoded. The initially supported encoding is
- optimized for the normal case of inter-realm communication: a
- hierarchical arrangement of realms using either domain or X.500 style
- realm names. This encoding (called DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now
- described.
-
- Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",",
- "\", trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters,
- and if they are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the
- transited field by preceding them with a "\".
-
- A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to
- the previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU,
- MIT.EDU, ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
-
- Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were endpoints,
- that they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
-
- A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to
- the previous realm (For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding
- the first listed realm is considered to be the null realm ("")). If
- it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded by a space ("
- "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO, /COM/HP,
- /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
-
- "/COM,/HP,/APOLLO, /COM/DEC".
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- Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints,
- they they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
-
- "/COM,/HP"
-
- A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all
- realms between the previous realm and the next realm have been
- traversed (For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the
- client's realm is considered to precede those in the transited field,
- and the server's realm is considered to follow them.). Thus, ","
- means that all realms along the path between the client and the
- server have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms
- from the client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have
- been traversed, and that everything from /COM down to the server's
- realm in an X.500 style has also been traversed. This could occur if
- the EDU realm in one hierarchy shares an inter-realm key directly
- with the /COM realm in another hierarchy.
-
-3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message
-
- When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in
- the same manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The
- primary difference is that the ciphertext part of the response must
- be decrypted using the session key from the ticket-granting ticket
- rather than the client's secret key. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
-
-3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange
-
- The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to
- detect modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by
- including a keyed collisionproof checksum of the user data and some
- control information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key
- (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if
- no negotiation has occured).
-
-3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
-
- When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects
- its data and the appropriate control information and computes a
- checksum over them. The checksum algorithm should be some sort of
- keyed one-way hash function (such as the RSA-MD5-DES checksum
- algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES MAC), generated
- using the sub-session key if present, or the session key. Different
- algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
- message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable
- for this use.
-
- The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a
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- timestamp and a sequence number. The designer of an application
- using the KRB_SAFE message must choose at least one of the two
- mechanisms. This choice should be based on the needs of the
- application protocol.
-
- Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received
- by one's peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain
- the session key, so maintaining the next sequence number should not
- present an additional problem.
-
- If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages
- without them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the
- appropriate replay detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the
- appropriate mechanism for multi-cast protocols where all of one's
- peers share a common sub-session key, but some messages will be sent
- to a subset of one's peers.
-
- After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the
- information and checksum to the recipient in the message format
- specified in section 5.6.1.
-
-3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
-
- When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as
- follows. If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by
- the application.
-
- The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version
- and type fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively.
- A mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE
- error. The application verifies that the checksum used is a
- collisionproof keyed checksum, and if it is not, a
- KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. The recipient verifies
- that the operating system's report of the sender's address matches
- the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient address is
- specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the
- recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's address in the
- message. A failed match for either case generates a
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and usec and/or the
- sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec are
- expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
- KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with
- the client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator
- match any recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is
- generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or a
- sequence number is expected but not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER
- error is generated. If neither a timestamp and usec or a sequence
- number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
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- Finally, the checksum is computed over the data and control
- information, and if it doesn't match the received checksum, a
- KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
- If all the checks succeed, the application is assured that the
- message was generated by its peer and was not modified in transit.
-
-3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
-
- The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality
- and the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It
- achieves this by encrypting the messages and adding control
- information.
-
-3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
-
- When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects
- its data and the appropriate control information (specified in
- section 5.7.1) and encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the
- last key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation
- has occured). As part of the control information, the client must
- choose to use either a timestamp or a sequence number (or both); see
- the discussion in section 3.4.1 for guidelines on which to use.
- After the user data and control information are encrypted, the client
- transmits the ciphertext and some "envelope" information to the
- recipient.
-
-3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
-
- When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as
- follows. If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by
- the application.
-
- The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version
- and type fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively.
- A mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE
- error. The application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes
- the resultant plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been
- modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. The
- recipient verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's
- address matches the sender's address in the message, and (if a
- recipient address is specified or the recipient requires an address)
- that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's
- address in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
- KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and usec and/or the
- sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec are
- expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
- KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with
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- the client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator
- match any recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is
- generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or a
- sequence number is expected but not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER
- error is generated. If neither a timestamp and usec or a sequence
- number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
-
- If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
- generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without
- intruders able to see the unencrypted contents).
-
-3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
-
- The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to
- send Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this
- by sending the tickets together with encrypted data containing the
- session keys and other information associated with the tickets.
-
-3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
-
- When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using
- the KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote
- host. It then constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or
- tickets so obtained, placing the session key needed to use each
- ticket in the key field of the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of
- the encrypted part of the the KRB_CRED message.
-
- Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
- KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo
- sequence in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current
- time and, if specifically required by the application the nonce, s-
- address, and raddress fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the
- KRB_CRED message which is then encrypted under an encryption key
- previosuly exchanged in the KRB_AP exchange (usually the last key
- negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
- occured).
-
-3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
-
- When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If
- any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the
- application. The message is verified by checking that the protocol
- version and type fields match the current version and KRB_CRED,
- respectively. A mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or
- KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then decrypts the
- ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If decryption shows
- the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is
- generated.
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- If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating
- system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's address
- in the message, and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as
- the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for either
- case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec
- fields (and the nonce field if required) are checked next. If the
- timestamp and usec are not present, or they are present but not
- current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated.
-
- If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new
- tickets in its ticket cache together with the session key and other
- information in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the
- encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message.
-
-4. The Kerberos Database
-
- The Kerberos server must have access to a database containing the
- principal identifiers and secret keys of principals to be
- authenticated (The implementation of the Kerberos server need not
- combine the database and the server on the same machine; it is
- feasible to store the principal database in, say, a network name
- service, as long as the entries stored therein are protected from
- disclosure to and modification by unauthorized parties. However, we
- recommend against such strategies, as they can make system management
- and threat analysis quite complex.).
-
-4.1. Database contents
-
- A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
-
- Field Value
-
- name Principal's identifier
- key Principal's secret key
- p_kvno Principal's key version
- max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
- max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable
- Tickets
-
- The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key
- field contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret
- key. (The key can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos
- "master key" to protect it in case the database is compromised but
- the master key is not. In that case, an extra field must be added to
- indicate the master key version used, see below.) The p_kvno field is
- the key version number of the principal's secret key. The max_life
- field contains the maximum allowable lifetime (endtime - starttime)
- for any Ticket issued for this principal. The max_renewable_life
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- field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime for any renewable
- Ticket issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a description
- of how these lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of a
- given Ticket.)
-
- A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the
- database representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between
- principal records with identifiers which differ only in the realm
- name.
-
- When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine
- (i.e., not the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key
- should be retained by the server until all tickets that had been
- issued using that key have expired. Because of this, it is possible
- for several keys to be active for a single principal. Ciphertext
- encrypted in a principal's key is always tagged with the version of
- the key that was used for encryption, to help the recipient find the
- proper key for decryption.
-
- When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the
- principal will have more than one record in the Kerberos database.
- The keys and key version numbers will differ between the records (the
- rest of the fields may or may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos
- issues a ticket, or responds to a request for initial authentication,
- the most recent key (known by the Kerberos server) will be used for
- encryption. This is the key with the highest key version number.
-
-4.2. Additional fields
-
- Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its
- database:
-
- Field Value
-
- K_kvno Kerberos' key version
- expiration Expiration date for entry
- attributes Bit field of attributes
- mod_date Timestamp of last modification
- mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
-
- The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key
- under which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
-
- After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an
- error to any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the
- principal. (A database may want to maintain two expiration dates:
- one for the principal, and one for the principal's current key. This
- allows password aging to work independently of the principal's
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- expiration date. However, due to the limited space in the responses,
- the KDC must combine the key expiration and principal expiration date
- into a single value called "key_exp", which is used as a hint to the
- user to take administrative action.)
-
- The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations
- involving the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction
- with user registration procedures, for site-specific policy
- implementations (Project Athena currently uses it for their user
- registration process controlled by the system-wide database service,
- Moira [7]), or to identify the "string to key" conversion algorithm
- used for a principal's key. (See the discussion of the padata field
- in section 5.4.2 for details on why this can be useful.) Other bits
- are used to indicate that certain ticket options should not be
- allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key (one bit each):
- Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing forwardable
- tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
- disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable
- tickets, and disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the
- server.
-
- The mod_date field contains the time of last modification of the
- entry, and the mod_name field contains the name of the principal
- which last modified the entry.
-
-4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
-
- Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a
- request was made by a particular principal. Information that might
- be maintained includes the time of the last request, the time of the
- last request for a ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use
- of a ticket-granting ticket, or other times. This information can
- then be returned to the user in the last-req field (see section 5.2).
-
- Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the
- latest expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using
- each key. This field would be used to indicate how long old keys
- must remain valid to allow the continued use of outstanding tickets.
-
-4.4. Site Constants
-
- The KDC implementation should have the following configurable
- constants or options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce
- policy decisions:
-
- + The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
- KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant
- should reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the
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- KDC, encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client
- and target server, and it should allow for a minimum "useful"
- lifetime.
-
- + The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
- (renew_till - starttime).
-
- + The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
-
- + Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
- (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be
- issued if the request specifies some authorization_data).
-
- + Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets
- are to be issued.
-
-5. Message Specifications
-
- The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of
- protocol messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are
- presented in the first subsection. The remaining subsections specify
- the protocol objects (tickets and authenticators) and messages.
- Specification of encryption and checksum techniques, and the fields
- related to them, appear in section 6.
-
-5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
-
- All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
- Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509
- specification, section 8.7 [8].
-
-5.2. ASN.1 Base Definitions
-
- The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this
- section. Note that since the underscore character (_) is not
- permitted in ASN.1 names, the hyphen (-) is used in its place for the
- purposes of ASN.1 names.
-
- Realm ::= GeneralString
- PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
- name-type[0] INTEGER,
- name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
- }
-
- Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not
- contain a character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms
- will usually consist of several components separated by periods (.),
- in the style of Internet Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in
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- the style of X.500 names. Acceptable forms for realm names are
- specified in section 7. A PrincipalName is a typed sequence of
- components consisting of the following sub-fields:
-
- name-type This field specifies the type of name that follows.
- Pre-defined values for this field are
- specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two
- names can be the same (i.e., at least one of the
- components, or the realm, must be different).
- This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
-
- name-string This field encodes a sequence of components that
- form a name, each component encoded as a General
- String. Taken together, a PrincipalName and a Realm
- form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames
- will have only a few components (typically one or two).
-
- KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
- -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
-
- The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An
- encoding shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include
- any fractional portions of the seconds. It further shall not include
- any separators. Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6
- minutes, 27 seconds after 9 pm on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
-
- HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- addr-type[0] INTEGER,
- address[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
- The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
-
- addr-type This field specifies the type of address that
- follows. Pre-defined values for this field are
- specified in section 8.1.
-
-
- address This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
-
- The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one
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- address; HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many
- addresses.
-
- AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- ad-type[0] INTEGER,
- ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
-
- ad-data This field contains authorization data to be
- interpreted according to the value of the
- corresponding ad-type field.
-
- ad-type This field specifies the format for the ad-data
- subfield. All negative values are reserved for
- local use. Non-negative values are reserved for
- registered use.
-
- APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
- }
-
-
- TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- forwardable(1),
- forwarded(2),
- proxiable(3),
- proxy(4),
- may-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
- invalid(7),
- renewable(8),
- initial(9),
- pre-authent(10),
- hw-authent(11)
- }
-
- KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- forwardable(1),
- forwarded(2),
- proxiable(3),
- proxy(4),
- allow-postdate(5),
- postdated(6),
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- unused7(7),
- renewable(8),
- unused9(9),
- unused10(10),
- unused11(11),
- renewable-ok(27),
- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
- renew(30),
- validate(31)
- }
-
-
- LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
- lr-type[0] INTEGER,
- lr-value[1] KerberosTime
- }
-
- lr-type This field indicates how the following lr-value
- field is to be interpreted. Negative values indicate
- that the information pertains only to the
- responding server. Non-negative values pertain to
- all servers for the realm.
-
- If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no information
- is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the
- absolute value of the lr-type field is one (1),
- then the lr-value subfield is the time of last
- initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then
- the lr-value subfield is the time of last initial
- request. If it is three (3), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of issue for the newest
- ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4),
- then the lr-value subfield is the time of the last
- renewal. If it is five (5), then the lr-value
- subfield is the time of last request (of any
- type).
-
- lr-value This field contains the time of the last request.
- The time must be interpreted according to the contents
- of the accompanying lr-type subfield.
-
- See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType,
- EncryptedData, EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
-
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-5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
-
- This section describes the format and encryption parameters for
- tickets and authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is
- included in a protocol message it is treated as an opaque object.
-
-5.3.1. Tickets
-
- A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service.
- A Ticket contains the following information:
-
-Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno[0] INTEGER,
- realm[1] Realm,
- sname[2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
-}
--- Encrypted part of ticket
-EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
-}
--- encoded Transited field
-TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
- tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be registered
- contents[1] OCTET STRING
-}
-
- The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by
- Kerberos and the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6
- for the format of the ciphertext.
-
- tkt-vno This field specifies the version number for the ticket
- format. This document describes version number 5.
-
- realm This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It
- also serves to identify the realm part of the server's
- principal identifier. Since a Kerberos server can only
- issue tickets for servers within its realm, the two will
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-
- sname This field specifies the name part of the server's
- identity.
-
- enc-part This field holds the encrypted encoding of the
- EncTicketPart sequence.
-
- flags This field indicates which of various options were used or
- requested when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field,
- where the selected options are indicated by the bit being
- set (1), and the unselected options and reserved fields
- being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most significant bit. The
- encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2. The
- flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The
- meanings of the flags are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. When set,
- this flag tells the ticket-granting
- server that it is OK to issue a new
- ticket- granting ticket with a
- different network address based on
- the presented ticket.
-
- 2 FORWARDED When set, this flag indicates that
- the ticket has either been forwarded
- or was issued based on authentication
- involving a forwarded ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 3 PROXIABLE The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can be
- ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
- flag has an interpretation identical
- to that of the FORWARDABLE flag,
- except that the PROXIABLE flag tells
- the ticket-granting server that only
- non- ticket-granting tickets may be
- issued with different network
- addresses.
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- 4 PROXY When set, this flag indicates that a
- ticket is a proxy.
-
- 5 MAY-POSTDATE The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally
- only interpreted by the TGS, and can
- be ignored by end servers. This flag
- tells the ticket-granting server that
- a post- dated ticket may be issued
- based on this ticket-granting ticket.
-
- 6 POSTDATED This flag indicates that this ticket
- has been postdated. The end-service
- can check the authtime field to see
- when the original authentication
- occurred.
-
- 7 INVALID This flag indicates that a ticket is
- invalid, and it must be validated by
- the KDC before use. Application
- servers must reject tickets which
- have this flag set.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
- interpreted by the TGS, and can
- usually be ignored by end servers
- (some particularly careful servers
- may wish to disallow renewable
- tickets). A renewable ticket can be
- used to obtain a replacement ticket
- that expires at a later date.
-
- 9 INITIAL This flag indicates that this ticket
- was issued using the AS protocol, and
- not issued based on a ticket-granting
- ticket.
-
- 10 PRE-AUTHENT This flag indicates that during
- initial authentication, the client
- was authenticated by the KDC before a
- ticket was issued. The strength of
- the preauthentication method is not
- indicated, but is acceptable to the
- KDC.
-
- 11 HW-AUTHENT This flag indicates that the protocol
- employed for initial authentication
- required the use of hardware expected
- to be possessed solely by the named
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- method is selected by the KDC and the
- strength of the method is not
- indicated.
-
- 12-31 RESERVED Reserved for future use.
-
- key This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is
- used to pass the session key from Kerberos to the
- application server and the client. The field's encoding is
- described in section 6.2.
-
- crealm This field contains the name of the realm in which the
- client is registered and in which initial authentication
- took place.
-
- cname This field contains the name part of the client's principal
- identifier.
-
- transited This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took
- part in authenticating the user to whom this ticket was
- issued. It does not specify the order in which the realms
- were transited. See section 3.3.3.1 for details on how
- this field encodes the traversed realms.
-
- authtime This field indicates the time of initial authentication for
- the named principal. It is the time of issue for the
- original ticket on which this ticket is based. It is
- included in the ticket to provide additional information to
- the end service, and to provide the necessary information
- for implementation of a `hot list' service at the KDC. An
- end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to
- accept tickets for which the initial authentication
- occurred "too far" in the past.
-
- This field is also returned as part of the response from
- the KDC. When returned as part of the response to initial
- authentication (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on
- the Kerberos server (It is NOT recommended that this time
- value be used to adjust the workstation's clock since the
- workstation cannot reliably determine that such a
- KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely
- manner.).
-
- starttime This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the
- ticket is valid. Together with endtime, this field
- specifies the life of the ticket. If it is absent from
- the ticket, its value should be treated as that of the
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-
- endtime This field contains the time after which the ticket will
- not be honored (its expiration time). Note that individual
- services may place their own limits on the life of a ticket
- and may reject tickets which have not yet expired. As
- such, this is really an upper bound on the expiration time
- for the ticket.
-
- renew-till This field is only present in tickets that have the
- RENEWABLE flag set in the flags field. It indicates the
- maximum endtime that may be included in a renewal. It can
- be thought of as the absolute expiration time for the
- ticket, including all renewals.
-
- caddr This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more
- (if present) host addresses. These are the addresses from
- which the ticket can be used. If there are no addresses,
- the ticket can be used from any location. The decision
- by the KDC to issue or by the end server to accept zero-
- address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
- Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to
- issue or accept such tickets. The suggested and default
- policy, however, is that such tickets will only be issued
- or accepted when additional information that can be used to
- restrict the use of the ticket is included in the
- authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a capability.
-
- Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it
- harder for an attacker to use stolen credentials. Because
- the session key is not sent over the network in cleartext,
- credentials can't be stolen simply by listening to the
- network; an attacker has to gain access to the session key
- (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a
- careless user's unattended session) to make use of stolen
- tickets.
-
- It is important to note that the network address from which
- a connection is received cannot be reliably determined.
- Even if it could be, an attacker who has compromised the
- client's workstation could use the credentials from there.
- Including the network addresses only makes it more
- difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk off with
- stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe"
- location.
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- authorization-data The authorization-data field is used to pass
- authorization data from the principal on whose behalf a
- ticket was issued to the application service. If no
- authorization data is included, this field will be left
- out. The data in this field are specific to the end
- service. It is expected that the field will contain the
- names of service specific objects, and the rights to those
- objects. The format for this field is described in section
- 5.2. Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of
- the contents of the subfields, it does carry type
- information (ad-type).
-
- By using the authorization_data field, a principal is able
- to issue a proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For
- example, a client wishing to print a file can obtain a file
- server proxy to be passed to the print server. By
- specifying the name of the file in the authorization_data
- field, the file server knows that the print server can only
- use the client's rights when accessing the particular file
- to be printed.
-
- It is interesting to note that if one specifies the
- authorization-data field of a proxy and leaves the host
- addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session key can
- be treated as a capability. See [9] for some suggested
- uses of this field.
-
- The authorization-data field is optional and does not have
- to be included in a ticket.
-
-5.3.2. Authenticators
-
- An authenticator is a record sent with a ticket to a server to
- certify the client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket,
- to help the server detect replays, and to help choose a "true session
- key" to use with the particular session. The encoding is encrypted
- in the ticket's session key shared by the client and the server:
-
--- Unencrypted authenticator
-Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
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- }
-
- authenticator-vno This field specifies the version number for the
- format of the authenticator. This document specifies
- version 5.
-
- crealm and cname These fields are the same as those described for the
- ticket in section 5.3.1.
-
- cksum This field contains a checksum of the the application data
- that accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
-
- cusec This field contains the microsecond part of the client's
- timestamp. Its value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to
- 999999. It often appears along with ctime. The two fields
- are used together to specify a reasonably accurate
- timestamp.
-
- ctime This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-
- subkey This field contains the client's choice for an encryption
- key which is to be used to protect this specific
- application session. Unless an application specifies
- otherwise, if this field is left out the session key from
- the ticket will be used.
-
- seq-number This optional field includes the initial sequence number
- to be used by the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when
- sequence numbers are used to detect replays (It may also be
- used by application specific messages). When included in
- the authenticator this field specifies the initial sequence
- number for messages from the client to the server. When
- included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number
- is that for messages from the server to the client. When
- used in KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by
- one after each message is sent.
-
- For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of
- replays they should be non-repeating, even across
- connection boundaries. The initial sequence number should
- be random and uniformly distributed across the full space
- of possible sequence numbers, so that it cannot be guessed
- by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
- numbers do not repeat other sequences.
-
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- authorization-data This field is the same as described for the ticket
- in section 5.3.1. It is optional and will only appear when
- additional restrictions are to be placed on the use of a
- ticket, beyond those carried in the ticket itself.
-
-5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
-
- This section specifies the format of the messages used in exchange
- between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible
- error messages appears in section 5.9.1.
-
-5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
-
- The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is
- one of KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is
- for an initial ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the
- message is sent from the client to the Authentication Server to
- request credentials for a service.
-
-The message fields are:
-
-AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
-TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
-
-KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[1] INTEGER,
- msg-type[2] INTEGER,
- padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
-}
-
-PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- padata-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
- -- might be encoded AP-REQ
-}
-
-KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
- cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- -- Used only in AS-REQ
- realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
- -- Also client's in AS-REQ
- sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- till[5] KerberosTime,
- rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- nonce[7] INTEGER,
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- etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER, -- EncryptionType,
- -- in preference order
- addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
- -- Encrypted AuthorizationData encoding
- additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
-}
-
- The fields in this message are:
-
- pvno This field is included in each message, and specifies the
- protocol version number. This document specifies protocol
- version 5.
-
- msg-type This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It
- will almost always be the same as the application
- identifier associated with a message. It is included to
- make the identifier more readily accessible to the
- application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
- KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
-
- padata The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a of
- authentication information which may be needed before
- credentials can be issued or decrypted. In the case of
- requests for additional tickets (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field
- will include an element with padata-type of PA-TGS-REQ and
- data of an authentication header (ticket-granting ticket
- and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator
- (which must be collisionproof) is to be computed over the
- KDC-REQ-BODY encoding. In most requests for initial
- authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and most replies (KDC-REP), the
- padata field will be left out.
-
- This field may also contain information needed by certain
- extensions to the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might
- be used to initially verify the identity of a client before
- any response is returned. This is accomplished with a
- padata field with padata-type equal to PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and
- padata-value defined as follows:
-
- padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
- padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
-
- PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
- patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
- pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
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- with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec
- containing the microseconds which may be omitted if a
- client will not generate more than one request per second.
- The ciphertext (padata-value) consists of the PA-ENC-TS-ENC
- sequence, encrypted using the client's secret key.
-
- The padata field can also contain information needed to
- help the KDC or the client select the key needed for
- generating or decrypting the response. This form of the
- padata is useful for supporting the use of certain
- "smartcards" with Kerberos. The details of such extensions
- are beyond the scope of this specification. See [10] for
- additional uses of this field.
-
- padata-type The padata-type element of the padata field indicates the
- way that the padata-value element is to be interpreted.
- Negative values of padata-type are reserved for
- unregistered use; non-negative values are used for a
- registered interpretation of the element type.
-
- req-body This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the
- remaining fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over
- the request, it is calculated over an encoding of the KDC-
- REQ-BODY sequence which is enclosed within the req-body
- field.
-
- kdc-options This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ
- requests to the KDC and indicates the flags that the client
- wants set on the tickets as well as other information that
- is to modify the behavior of the KDC. Where appropriate,
- the name of an option may be the same as the flag that is
- set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
- options field will be the same as that in the flags field,
- this is not guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply
- copy the options field to the flags field. There are
- various checks that must be made before honoring an option
- anyway.
-
- The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected
- options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the
- unselected options and reserved fields being reset (0).
- The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2. The
- options are described in more detail above in section 2.
- The meanings of the options are:
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- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED Reserved for future expansion of this
- field.
-
- 1 FORWARDABLE The FORWARDABLE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- forwardable flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or in a
- subsequent request if the ticket-
- granting ticket on which it is based
- is also forwardable.
-
- 2 FORWARDED The FORWARDED option is only specified
- in a request to the ticket-granting
- server and will only be honored if the
- ticket-granting ticket in the request
- has its FORWARDABLE bit set. This
- option indicates that this is a
- request for forwarding. The
- address(es) of the host from which the
- resulting ticket is to be valid are
- included in the addresses field of the
- request.
-
-
- 3 PROXIABLE The PROXIABLE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- proxiable flag set. It may only be set
- on the initial request, or in a
- subsequent request if the ticket-
- granting ticket on which it is based
- is also proxiable.
-
- 4 PROXY The PROXY option indicates that this
- is a request for a proxy. This option
- will only be honored if the ticket-
- granting ticket in the request has its
- PROXIABLE bit set. The address(es) of
- the host from which the resulting
- ticket is to be valid are included in
- the addresses field of the request.
-
- 5 ALLOW-POSTDATE The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates
- that the ticket to be issued is to
- have its MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It
- may only be set on the initial
- request, or in a subsequent request if
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- the ticket-granting ticket on which it
- is based also has its MAY-POSTDATE
- flag set.
-
- 6 POSTDATED The POSTDATED option indicates that
- this is a request for a postdated
- ticket. This option will only be
- honored if the ticket-granting ticket
- on which it is based has its MAY-
- POSTDATE flag set. The resulting
- ticket will also have its INVALID flag
- set, and that flag may be reset by a
- subsequent request to the KDC after
- the starttime in the ticket has been
- reached.
-
- 7 UNUSED This option is presently unused.
-
- 8 RENEWABLE The RENEWABLE option indicates that
- the ticket to be issued is to have its
- RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be
- set on the initial request, or when
- the ticket-granting ticket on which
- the request is based is also
- renewable. If this option is
- requested, then the rtime field in the
- request contains the desired absolute
- expiration time for the ticket.
-
- 9-26 RESERVED Reserved for future use.
-
- 27 RENEWABLE-OK The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that
- a renewable ticket will be acceptable
- if a ticket with the requested life
- cannot otherwise be provided. If a
- ticket with the requested life cannot
- be provided, then a renewable ticket
- may be issued with a renew-till equal
- to the the requested endtime. The
- value of the renew-till field may
- still be limited by local limits, or
- limits selected by the individual
- principal or server.
-
- 28 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY This option is used only by the
- ticket-granting service. The ENC-
- TKT-IN-SKEY option indicates that the
- ticket for the end server is to be
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- additional ticket-granting ticket
- provided.
-
- 29 RESERVED Reserved for future use.
-
- 30 RENEW This option is used only by the
- ticket-granting service. The RENEW
- option indicates that the present
- request is for a renewal. The ticket
- provided is encrypted in the secret
- key for the server on which it is
- valid. This option will only be
- honored if the ticket to be renewed
- has its RENEWABLE flag set and if the
- time in its renew till field has not
- passed. The ticket to be renewed is
- passed in the padata field as part of
- the authentication header.
-
- 31 VALIDATE This option is used only by the
- ticket-granting service. The VALIDATE
- option indicates that the request is
- to validate a postdated ticket. It
- will only be honored if the ticket
- presented is postdated, presently has
- its INVALID flag set, and would be
- otherwise usable at this time. A
- ticket cannot be validated before its
- starttime. The ticket presented for
- validation is encrypted in the key of
- the server for which it is valid and
- is passed in the padata field as part
- of the authentication header.
-
- cname and sname These fields are the same as those described for the
- ticket in section 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the
- ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is specified. If absent, the name
- of the server is taken from the name of the client in the
- ticket passed as additional-tickets.
-
- enc-authorization-data The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it
- can only be present in the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of
- the desired authorization-data encrypted under the sub-
- session key if present in the Authenticator, or
- alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting
- ticket, both from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
-
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- realm This field specifies the realm part of the server's
- principal identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the
- realm part of the client's principal identifier.
-
- from This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ
- ticket requests when the requested ticket is to be
- postdated. It specifies the desired start time for the
- requested ticket.
-
- till This field contains the expiration date requested by the
- client in a ticket request.
-
- rtime This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a
- client to the KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
-
- nonce This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it
- intended to hold a random number generated by the client.
- If the same number is included in the encrypted response
- from the KDC, it provides evidence that the response is
- fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. Nonces
- must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be gen erated
- randomly, but if the correct time is known, it may suffice
- (Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one
- must make sure that the workstation time is monotonically
- increasing. If the time is ever reset backwards, there is
- a small, but finite, probability that a nonce will be
- reused.).
-
- etype This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be
- used in the response.
-
- addresses This field is included in the initial request for tickets,
- and optionally included in requests for additional tickets
- from the ticket-granting server. It specifies the
- addresses from which the requested ticket is to be valid.
- Normally it includes the addresses for the client's host.
- If a proxy is requested, this field will contain other
- addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied
- by the KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
-
- additional-tickets Additional tickets may be optionally included in a
- request to the ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-
- SKEY option has been specified, then the session key from
- the additional ticket will be used in place of the server's
- key to encrypt the new ticket. If more than one option
- which requires additional tickets has been specified, then
- the additional tickets are used in the order specified by
- the ordering of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
-
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- The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending
- on whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an
- additional ticket (TGS-REQ).
-
- The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and additional-
- tickets) are only included if necessary to perform the operation
- specified in the kdc-options field.
-
- It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number
- appears twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ
- message contains these fields as does the authentication header
- (KRB_AP_REQ) that is passed in the padata field.
-
-5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
-
- The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for
- either an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There
- is no message type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either
- KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext
- part of the reply depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the
- ciphertext is encrypted in the client's secret key, and the client's
- key version number is included in the key version number for the
- encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in the
- sub-session key from the Authenticator, or if absent, the session key
- from the ticket-granting ticket used in the request. In that case,
- no version number will be present in the EncryptedData sequence.
-
- The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
-
- AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
- TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
-
- KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
- crealm[3] Realm,
- cname[4] PrincipalName,
- ticket[5] Ticket,
- enc-part[6] EncryptedData
- }
-
- EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[25]] EncKDCRepPart
- EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
-
- EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- last-req[1] LastReq,
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- nonce[2] INTEGER,
- key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- flags[4] TicketFlags,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[9] Realm,
- sname[10] PrincipalName,
- caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
- }
-
- NOTE: In EncASRepPart, the application code in the encrypted
- part of a message provides an additional check that
- the message was decrypted properly.
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is either KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
-
- padata This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One
- possible use for this field is to encode an alternate
- "mix-in" string to be used with a string-to-key algorithm
- (such as is described in section 6.3.2). This ability is
- useful to ease transitions if a realm name needs to change
- (e.g., when a company is acquired); in such a case all
- existing password-derived entries in the KDC database would
- be flagged as needing a special mix-in string until the
- next password change.
-
- crealm, cname, srealm and sname These fields are the same as those
- described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
-
- ticket The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
-
- enc-part This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related
- information that forms the encrypted part of a message.
- The description of the encrypted part of the message
- follows each appearance of this field. The encrypted part
- is encoded as described in section 6.1.
-
- key This field is the same as described for the ticket in
- section 5.3.1.
-
- last-req This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s)
- of the last request by a principal. Depending on what
- information is available, this might be the last time that
- a request for a ticket-granting ticket was made, or the
- last time that a request based on a ticket-granting ticket
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- was successful. It also might cover all servers for a
- realm, or just the particular server. Some implementations
- may display this information to the user to aid in
- discovering unauthorized use of one's identity. It is
- similar in spirit to the last login time displayed when
- logging into timesharing systems.
-
- nonce This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-
- key-expiration The key-expiration field is part of the response from
- the KDC and specifies the time that the client's secret key
- is due to expire. The expiration might be the result of
- password aging or an account expiration. This field will
- usually be left out of the TGS reply since the response to
- the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no client
- information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is
- up to the application client (usually the login program) to
- take appropriate action (such as notifying the user) if the
- expira tion time is imminent.
-
- flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr These
- fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted
- portion of the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1),
- provided so the client may verify they match the intended
- request and to assist in proper ticket caching. If the
- message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will only
- be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded
- ticket, or if the user is substituting a subset of the
- addresses from the ticket granting ticket. If the client-
- requested addresses are not present or not used, then the
- addresses contained in the ticket will be the same as those
- included in the ticket-granting ticket.
-
-5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
-
- This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
- authentication of the client to the application server.
-
-5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
-
- The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number,
- the message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options
- in use, and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ
- message is often referred to as the "authentication header".
-
- AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
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- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
- }
-
- APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved(0),
- use-session-key(1),
- mutual-required(2)
- }
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_AP_REQ.
-
- ap-options This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ)
- and affects the way the request is processed. It is a
- bit-field, where the selected options are indicated by the
- bit being set (1), and the unselected options and reserved
- fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is
- specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options are:
-
- Bit(s) Name Description
-
- 0 RESERVED Reserved for future expansion of
- this field.
-
- 1 USE-SESSION-KEYThe USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
- that the ticket the client is
- presenting to a server is encrypted in
- the session key from the server's
- ticket-granting ticket. When this
- option is not specified, the ticket is
- encrypted in the server's secret key.
-
- 2 MUTUAL-REQUIREDThe MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
- server that the client requires mutual
- authentication, and that it must
- respond with a KRB_AP_REP message.
-
- 3-31 RESERVED Reserved for future use.
-
- ticket This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the
- server.
-
- authenticator This contains the authenticator, which includes the
- client's choice of a subkey. Its encoding is described in
- section 5.3.2.
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- The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number,
- the message type, and an encrypted timestamp. The message is sent in
- in response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
- authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
-
- AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[2] EncryptedData
- }
-
- EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27] SEQUENCE {
- ctime[0] KerberosTime,
- cusec[1] INTEGER,
- subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- NOTE: in EncAPRepPart, the application code in the encrypted part of
- a message provides an additional check that the message was decrypted
- properly.
-
- The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of
- the ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an
- application-arranged negotiation to choose a per association session
- key.
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_AP_REP.
-
- enc-part This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
-
- ctime This field contains the current time on the client's host.
-
- cusec This field contains the microsecond part of the client's
- timestamp.
-
- subkey This field contains an encryption key which is to be used
- to protect this specific application session. See section
- 3.2.6 for specifics on how this field is used to negotiate
- a key. Unless an application specifies otherwise, if this
- field is left out, the sub-session key from the
- authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from
- the ticket will be used.
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- If an error occurs while processing the application request, the
- KRB_ERROR message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for
- the format of the error message. The cname and crealm fields may be
- left out if the server cannot determine their appropriate values from
- the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ message. If the authenticator was
- decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields will contain the values from
- it.
-
-5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
-
- This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by
- either side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-
- proof message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has
- previously been exchanged (for example, by using the
- KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
-
- The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
- checksum keyed with the session key. The message fields are:
-
- KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
- cksum[3] Checksum
- }
-
- KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
- }
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_SAFE.
-
- safe-body This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE
- message. It is to be encoded separately and then have the
- checksum computed over it, for use in the cksum field.
-
- cksum This field contains the checksum of the application data.
- Checksum details are described in section 6.4. The
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- checksum is computed over the encoding of the KRB-SAFE-BODY
- sequence.
-
- user-data This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages
- and contain the application specific data that is being
- passed from the sender to the recipient.
-
- timestamp This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages.
- Its contents are the current time as known by the sender of
- the message. By checking the timestamp, the recipient of
- the message is able to make sure that it was recently
- generated, and is not a replay.
-
- usec This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers.
- It contains the microsecond part of the timestamp.
-
- seq-number This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
- s-address This field specifies the address in use by the sender of
- the message.
-
- r-address This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of
- the message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as
- broadcast protocols), but the recipient may arbitrarily
- reject such messages. This field along with s-address can
- be used to help detect messages which have been incorrectly
- or maliciously delivered to the wrong recipient.
-
-5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
-
- This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by
- either side (client or server) of an application to securely and
- privately send a message to its peer. It presumes that a session key
- has previously been exchanged (for example, by using the
- KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
-
-5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
-
- The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key.
- The message fields are:
-
- KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
- }
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- EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28] SEQUENCE {
- user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
- timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress, -- sender's addr
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
- -- recip's addr
- }
-
- NOTE: In EncKrbPrivPart, the application code in the encrypted part
- of a message provides an additional check that the message was
- decrypted properly.
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_PRIV.
-
- enc-part This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence
- encrypted under the session key (If supported by the
- encryption method in use, an initialization vector may be
- passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve
- proper cipher chaining. The initialization vector might
- come from the last block of the ciphertext from the
- previous KRB_PRIV message, but it is the application's
- choice whether or not to use such an initialization vector.
- If left out, the default initialization vector for the
- encryption algorithm will be used.). This encrypted
- encoding is used for the enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV
- message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
-
- user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address These fields are
- described above in section 5.6.1.
-
- seq-number This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
-
-5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
-
- This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to
- send Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is
- presented here to encourage a common mechanism to be used by
- applications when forwarding tickets or providing proxies to
- subordinate servers. It presumes that a session key has already been
- exchanged perhaps by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
-
-5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
-
- The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
- information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from
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- each. The information needed to use the tickets is encryped under an
- encryption key previously exchanged. The message fields are:
-
- KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
- tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
- enc-part[3] EncryptedData
- }
-
- EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
- ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
- nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
- r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
- }
-
- KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
- key[0] EncryptionKey,
- prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
- pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
- authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
- renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
- sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
- }
-
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_CRED.
-
- tickets
- These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically
- for use by the intended recipient. Successive tickets are
- paired with the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the
- enc-part of the KRB-CRED message.
-
- enc-part This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence
- encrypted under the session key shared between the sender
- and the intended recipient. This encrypted encoding is
- used for the enc-part field of the KRB-CRED message. See
- section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
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- nonce If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a
- nonce generated by the recipient of the message. If the
- same value is included as the nonce in the message, it
- provides evidence that the message is fresh and has not
- been replayed by an attacker. A nonce must never be re-
- used; it should be generated randomly by the recipient of
- the message and provided to the sender of the mes sage in
- an application specific manner.
-
- timestamp and usec These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED
- message was generated. The time is used to provide
- assurance that the message is fresh.
-
- s-address and r-address These fields are described above in section
- 5.6.1. They are used optionally to provide additional
- assurance of the integrity of the KRB-CRED message.
-
- key This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the
- KRB-CRED message and is used to pass the session key from
- the sender to the intended recipient. The field's encoding
- is described in section 6.2.
-
- The following fields are optional. If present, they can be
- associated with the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left
- out, then it is assumed that the recipient of the credentials already
- knows their value.
-
- prealm and pname The name and realm of the delegated principal
- identity.
-
- flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname,
- and caddr These fields contain the values of the
- corresponding fields from the ticket found in the ticket
- field. Descriptions of the fields are identical to the
- descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
-
-5.9. Error message specification
-
- This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The
- fields included in the message are intended to return as much
- information as possible about an error. It is not expected that all
- the information required by the fields will be available for all
- types of errors. If the appropriate information is not available
- when the message is composed, the corresponding field will be left
- out of the message.
-
- Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is not protected by any
- encryption, it is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or
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- modify such a message. In particular, this means that the client
- should not use any fields in this message for security-critical
- purposes, such as setting a system clock or generating a fresh
- authenticator. The message can be useful, however, for advising a
- user on the reason for some failure.
-
-5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition
-
- The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
-
- KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- pvno and msg-type These fields are described above in section 5.4.1.
- msg-type is KRB_ERROR.
-
- ctime This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
-
- cusec This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
-
- stime This field contains the current time on the server. It is
- of type KerberosTime.
-
- susec This field contains the microsecond part of the server's
- timestamp. Its value ranges from 0 to 999. It appears
- along with stime. The two fields are used in conjunction to
- specify a reasonably accurate timestamp.
-
- error-code This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or
- the server when a request fails. To interpret the value of
- this field see the list of error codes in section 8.
- Implementations are encouraged to provide for national
- language support in the display of error messages.
-
- crealm, cname, srealm and sname These fields are described above in
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-
- e-text This field contains additional text to help explain the
- error code associated with the failed request (for example,
- it might include a principal name which was unknown).
-
- e-data This field contains additional data about the error for use
- by the application to help it recover from or handle the
- error. If the errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED, then
- the e-data field will contain an encoding of a sequence of
- padata fields, each corresponding to an acceptable pre-
- authentication method and optionally containing data for
- the method:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
-
- If the error-code is KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD, then the e-data field will
- contain an encoding of the following sequence:
-
- METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
- method-type[0] INTEGER,
- method-data[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- method-type will indicate the required alternate method; method-data
- will contain any required additional information.
-
-6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
-
- The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use
- stream encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly
- available block encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption
- Standard [11], in conjunction with block chaining and checksum
- methods [12]. Encryption is used to prove the identities of the
- network entities participating in message exchanges. The Key
- Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by all principals
- registered in that realm to store a secret key in confidence. Proof
- of knowledge of this secret key is used to verify the authenticity of
- a principal.
-
- The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a
- shared session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to
- ticket requests; the ability to obtain the secret key or session key
- implies the knowledge of the appropriate keys and the identity of the
- KDC. The ability of a principal to decrypt the KDC response and
- present a Ticket and a properly formed Authenticator (generated with
- the session key from the KDC response) to a service verifies the
- identity of the principal; likewise the ability of the service to
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- extract the session key from the Ticket and prove its knowledge
- thereof in a response verifies the identity of the service.
-
- The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is
- secure from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of
- fields in the encrypted portions of messages are arranged to minimize
- the effects of poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose
- good keys. If keys are derived from user-typed passwords, those
- passwords need to be well chosen to make brute force attacks more
- difficult. Poorly chosen keys still make easy targets for intruders.
-
- The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
- currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
- requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is
- often desirable to place random information (often referred to as a
- confounder) at the start of the message. The requirements for a
- confounder are specified with each encryption mechanism.
-
- Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the
- the security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these
- chaining methods often don't provide an integrity check upon
- decryption. Such systems (such as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented
- with a checksum of the plaintext which can be verified at decryption
- and used to detect any tampering or damage. Such checksums should be
- good at detecting burst errors in the input. If any damage is
- detected, the decryption routine is expected to return an error
- indicating the failure of an integrity check. Each encryption type is
- expected to provide and verify an appropriate checksum. The
- specification of each encryption method sets out its checksum
- requirements.
-
- Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an
- algorithm for converting the password to a key of the appropriate
- type is included. It is desirable for the string to key function to
- be one-way, and for the mapping to be different in different realms.
- This is important because users who are registered in more than one
- realm will often use the same password in each, and it is desirable
- that an attacker compromising the Kerberos server in one realm not
- obtain or derive the user's key in another.
-
- For a discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
- encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the the
- reader is referred to [13].
-
-6.1. Encryption Specifications
-
- The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
- enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in
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- section 5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional
- key version number, and the ciphertext.
-
- EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
- etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
- kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
- }
-
- etype This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used
- to encipher the cipher. Detailed specifications for
- selected encryption types appear later in this section.
-
- kvno This field contains the version number of the key under
- which data is encrypted. It is only present in messages
- encrypted under long lasting keys, such as principals'
- secret keys.
-
- cipher This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an
- OCTET STRING.
-
- The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption
- algorithm to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific
- inputs. Encryption mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must
- take sufficient measures to guarantee the integrity of the plaintext,
- and we recommend they also take measures to protect against
- precomputed dictionary attacks. If the encryption algorithm is not
- itself capable of doing so, the protections can often be enhanced by
- adding a checksum and a confounder.
-
- The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a
- confounder, a checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary
- padding. The msg-seq field contains the part of the protocol message
- described in section 5 which is to be encrypted. The confounder,
- checksum, and padding are all untagged and untyped, and their length
- is exactly sufficient to hold the appropriate item. The type and
- length is implicit and specified by the particular encryption type
- being used (etype). The format for the data to be encrypted is
- described in the following diagram:
-
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
- |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
- +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
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-CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(conf_length) OPTIONAL,
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length) OPTIONAL,
- msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
- pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
-}
-
- In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
- notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is
- not a valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from
- the confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the
- message starts with random data, but the tag and its length are
- fixed. For other fields, the length and tag would be redundant if
- they were included because they are specified by the encryption type.
-
- One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing
- it in confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate
- checksum over confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in
- check; adds the necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified
- encryption type and the appropriate key.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm
- that specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an
- octet boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format (The ordering
- of the fields in the CipherText is important. Additionally, messages
- encoded in this format must include a length as part of the msg-seq
- field. This allows the recipient to verify that the message has not
- been truncated. Without a length, an attacker could use a chosen
- plaintext attack to generate a message which could be truncated,
- while leaving the checksum intact. Note that if the msg-seq is an
- encoding of an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length is
- part of that encoding.). Those fields which are not specified will be
- omitted.
-
- In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
- encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
- specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is
- needed as part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum
- is to be used, a new encryption type must be defined.
-
- Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and
- the data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in cipher-
- block-chaining mode, requires an initialization vector. If required,
- the description for each encryption type must specify the source of
- such additional information.
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-
- The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption key:
-
- EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
- keytype[0] INTEGER,
- keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- keytype This field specifies the type of encryption key that
- follows in the keyvalue field. It will almost always
- correspond to the encryption algorithm used to generate the
- EncryptedData, though more than one algorithm may use the
- same type of key (the mapping is many to one). This might
- happen, for example, if the encryption algorithm uses an
- alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity check, or a
- different chaining mechanism.
-
- keyvalue This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet
- string.
-
- All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for
- local use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially
- assigned type fields and interpretations.
-
-6.3. Encryption Systems
-
-6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
-
- If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the
- NULL encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no
- checksum, confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the
- plaintext. The NULL Key is used by the null encryption system and is
- zero octets in length, with keytype zero (0).
-
-6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
-
- The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [11] using the cipher block chaining mode [12].
- A CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [14]) is applied to the
- confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
- field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be
- encrypted (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message)
- must be padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details
- of the encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-
- cbc-md5 encryption mode.
-
- Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collisionproof, an
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- attacker could use a probabilistic chosenplaintext attack to generate
- a valid message even if a confounder is used [13]. The use of
- collision-proof checksums is recommended for environments where such
- attacks represent a significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the
- checksum for ticket or authenticator is no longer mandated as an
- interoperability requirement for Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1
- (See section 9.1 for specific details).
-
-6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
-
- The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [11] using the cipher block chaining mode [12].
- An MD4 checksum (described in [15]) is applied to the confounder and
- message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks
- are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the
- concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to
- an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of the encryption
- of this data are identical to those for the descbc-md5 encryption
- mode.
-
-6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
-
- The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
- Encryption Standard [11] using the cipher block chaining mode [12].
- An MD5 checksum (described in [16]) is applied to the confounder and
- message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum field. DES blocks
- are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted (the
- concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be padded to
- an 8 byte boundary before encryption.
-
- Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as 8-octet blocks which are
- concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The
- first octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's
- MSbit used as the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet
- the next 8 bits, ..., and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least
- significant bits.
-
- Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an
- additional input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless
- otherwise specified, zero should be used as the initialization
- vector. Kerberos' use of DES requires an 8-octet confounder.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak" and "semiweak" keys;
- those keys shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in
- Kerberos. Additionally, because of the way that keys are derived for
- the encryption of checksums, keys shall not be used that yield "weak"
- or "semi-weak" keys when eXclusive-ORed with the constant
- F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0.
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- A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists
- of 56 bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is
- encoded as a series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits
- within the key are also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the
- encryption key is:
- (B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8) where
- B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8 are the
- parity bits, the first octet of the key would be B1,B2,...,B7,P1
- (with B1 as the MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction for
- reference.]
-
- To generate a DES key from a text string (password), the text string
- normally must have the realm and each component of the principal's
- name appended(In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different
- "mix-in" string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of
- padata in section 5.4.2.), then padded with ASCII nulls to an 8 byte
- boundary. This string is then fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed with
- itself to form an 8 byte DES key. The parity is corrected on the
- key, and it is used to generate a DES CBC checksum on the initial
- string (with the realm and name appended). Next, parity is corrected
- on the CBC checksum. If the result matches a "weak" or "semiweak"
- key as described in the DES specification, it is eXclusive-ORed with
- the constant 00000000000000F0. Finally, the result is returned as
- the key. Pseudocode follows:
-
- string_to_key(string,realm,name) {
- odd = 1;
- s = string + realm;
- for(each component in name) {
- s = s + component;
- }
- tempkey = NULL;
- pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
- for(8byteblock in s) {
- if(odd == 0) {
- odd = 1;
- reverse(8byteblock)
- }
- else odd = 0;
- tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
- }
- fixparity(tempkey);
- key = DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey);
- fixparity(key);
- if(is_weak_key_key(key))
- key = key XOR 0xF0;
- return(key);
- }
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-
- The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
-
- Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
- cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
- checksum[1] OCTET STRING
- }
-
- cksumtype This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the
- accompanying checksum.
-
- checksum This field contains the checksum itself, encoded
- as an octet string.
-
- Detailed specification of selected checksum types appear later in
- this section. Negative values for the checksum type are reserved for
- local use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially
- assigned type fields and interpretations.
-
- Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties:
- whether they are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is
- infeasible to find two plaintexts which generate the same checksum
- value for a collision-proof checksum. A key is required to perturb
- or initialize the algorithm in a keyed checksum. To prevent
- message-stream modification by an active attacker, unkeyed checksums
- should only be used when the checksum and message will be
- subsequently encrypted (e.g., the checksums defined as part of the
- encryption algorithms covered earlier in this section). Collision-
- proof checksums can be made tamper-proof as well if the checksum
- value is encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the
- composition of the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be
- considered a separate checksum algorithm (e.g., RSA-MD5 encrypted
- using DES is a new checksum algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most
- keyed checksums, as well as for the encrypted forms of collisionproof
- checksums, Kerberos prepends a confounder before the checksum is
- calculated.
-
-6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
-
- The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic
- redundancy check as described in ISO 3309 [14]. The resulting
- checksum is four (4) octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed
- nor collision-proof. The use of this checksum is not recommended.
- An attacker using a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack as
- described in [13] might be able to generate an alternative message
- that satisfies the checksum. The use of collision-proof checksums is
- recommended for environments where such attacks represent a
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-
-6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
-
- The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4
- algorithm [15]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of
- arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet)
- checksum. RSA-MD4 is believed to be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4des)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collisionproof checksum
- by prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA
- MD4 checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the
- checksum using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a
- variant of the key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing
- the key with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0 (A variant of the key is
- used to limit the use of a key to a particular function, separating
- the functions of generating a checksum from other encryption
- performed using the session key. The constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0 was
- chosen because it maintains key parity. The properties of DES
- precluded the use of the complement. The same constant is used for
- similar purpose in the Message Integrity Check in the Privacy
- Enhanced Mail standard.). The initialization vector should be zero.
- The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are
- redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak keys"; those keys shall
- not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
- | des-cbc(confounder
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
- rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
- }
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-6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
-
- The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5
- algorithm [16]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of
- arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet)
- checksum. RSA-MD5 is believed to be collision-proof.
-
-6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5des)
-
- The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collisionproof checksum
- by prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA
- MD5 checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the
- checksum using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a
- variant of the key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing
- the key with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization
- vector should be zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8
- octets of which are redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and
- believed to be collision-proof.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak keys"; those keys shall
- not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
- | des-cbc(confounder
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
- rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0) |
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
- }
-
-6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
-
- The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder
- to the plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result
- using the key and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last
- block of the ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and
- encrypting the pair using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode
- using a a variant of the key, where the variant is computed by
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- eXclusive-ORing the key with the constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The
- initialization vector should be zero. The resulting checksum is 128
- bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are redundant. This checksum
- is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
-
- The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
-
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
- | des-cbc(confounder
- +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
-
- +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
- des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0) |
- +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
- The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
- ASN.1-like notation:
-
- des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
- confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
- check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
- }
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak" and "semiweak" keys;
- those keys shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use
- in Kerberos, nor shall a key be used whose veriant is "weak" or
- "semi-weak".
-
-6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative
- (rsa-md4-des-k)
-
- The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof
- checksum by applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting
- the results using DES in cipherblock-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES
- key as both key and initialization vector. The resulting checksum is
- 16 octets long. This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
- collision-proof. Note that this checksum type is the old method for
- encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it is no longer recommended.
-
-6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (desmac-k)
-
- The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode
- encryption of the plaintext, and using the last block of the
- ciphertext as the checksum value. It is keyed with an encryption key
- and an initialization vector; any uses which do not specify an
- additional initialization vector will use the key as both key and
- initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 64 bits (8 octets)
- long. This checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note that
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- this checksum type is the old method for encoding the DESMAC checksum
- and it is no longer recommended.
-
- The DES specifications identify some "weak keys"; those keys shall
- not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
-
-7. Naming Constraints
-
-7.1. Realm Names
-
- Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a
- realm can technically select any name it chooses, interoperability
- across realm boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to
- be assigned, and what information they imply.
-
- To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the
- conventions itself, and it must require that any realms with which
- inter-realm keys are shared also conform to the conventions and
- require the same from its neighbors.
-
- There are presently four styles of realm names: domain, X500, other,
- and reserved. Examples of each style follow:
-
- domain: host.subdomain.domain (example)
- X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
- other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
- reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
-
- Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
- separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor
- slashes (/).
-
- X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:)
- before the equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string
- representations of the names with components separated by slashes.
- Leading and trailing slashes will not be included.
-
- Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
- contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed
- by a colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be
- assigned before they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
-
- The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the
- first three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It
- is unlikely that names will be assigned to this category unless there
- is a very strong argument for not using the "other" category.
-
- These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts between the
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- various name styles. The following additional constraints apply to
- the assignment of realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the
- name of a realm for the domain or X.500 formats must either be used
- by the organization owning (to whom it was assigned) an Internet
- domain name or X.500 name, or in the case that no such names are
- registered, authority to use a realm name may be derived from the
- authority of the parent realm. For example, if there is no domain
- name for E40.MIT.EDU, then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm can
- authorize the creation of a realm with that name.
-
- This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is
- assigned is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to
- its children in the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the
- parent assigns a realm name without also registering it in the domain
- name or X.500 hierarchy, it is the parent's responsibility to make
- sure that there will not in the future exists a name identical to the
- realm name of the child unless it is assigned to the same entity as
- the realm name.
-
-7.2. Principal Names
-
- As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure
- that all agree on what information is implied by a principal name.
- The name-type field that is part of the principal name indicates the
- kind of information implied by the name. The name-type should be
- treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the
- same (i.e., at least one of the components, or the realm, must be
- different). This constraint may be eliminated in the future. The
- following name types are defined:
-
- name-type value meaning
- NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
- NT-PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in
- DCE, or for users
- NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
- NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance
- (telnet, rcommands)
- NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
- NT-UID 5 Unique ID
-
- When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a
- particular time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The
- principal name type should be used for users, and it might also be
- used for a unique server. If the name is a unique machine generated
- ID that is guaranteed never to be reassigned then the name type of
- UID should be used (note that it is generally a bad idea to reassign
- names of any type since stale entries might remain in access control
- lists).
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- If the first component of a name identifies a service and the
- remaining components identify an instance of the service in a server
- specified manner, then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An
- example of this name type is the Kerberos ticket-granting ticket
- which has a first component of krbtgt and a second component
- identifying the realm for which the ticket is valid.
-
- If instance is a single component following the service name and the
- instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the
- name type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for
- Internet services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the
- separate components of the host name appear as successive components
- following the name of the service, then the name type SRVXHST should
- be used. This type might be used to identify servers on hosts with
- X.500 names where the slash (/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
-
- A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is
- not known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match
- principals authenticated with names of any type. A principal
- authenticated with a name of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match
- other names of type UNKNOWN.
-
- Names of any type with an initial component of "krbtgt" are reserved
- for the Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the
- form of such names.
-
-7.2.1. Name of server principals
-
- The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be
- composed of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server
- is registered, and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the
- host name is an Internet domain name or a multi-component name of
- type NT-SRV-XHST if the name of the host is of a form such as X.500
- that allows slash (/) separators. The first component of the two- or
- multi-component name will identify the service and the latter
- components will identify the host. Where the name of the host is not
- case sensitive (for example, with Internet domain names) the name of
- the host must be lower case. For services such as telnet and the
- Berkeley R commands which run with system privileges, the first
- component will be the string "host" instead of a service specific
- identifier.
-
-8. Constants and other defined values
-
-8.1. Host address types
-
- All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local
- use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned
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- type fields and interpretations.
-
- The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to
- match the defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard
- Distributions of Unix. They can be found in <sys/socket.h> with
- symbolic names AF_xxx (where xxx is an abbreviation of the address
- family name).
-
-
- Internet addresses
-
- Internet addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
- order. The type of internet addresses is two (2).
-
- CHAOSnet addresses
-
- CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
- order. The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
-
- ISO addresses
-
- ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is
- seven (7).
-
- Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
-
- XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
- order. The type of XNS addresses is six (6).
-
- AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
-
- AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number and a 16-
- bit network number. The first octet of the address is the node
- number; the remaining two octets encode the network number in MSB
- order. The type of AppleTalk DDP addresses is sixteen (16).
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses
-
- DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB
- order. The type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
-
-8.2. KDC messages
-
-8.2.1. IP transport
-
- When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request
- using IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram containing
- only an encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the KDC's IP
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- address; the KDC will respond with a reply datagram containing only
- an encoding of the reply message (either a KRB_ERROR or a
- KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at the sender's IP address.
-
-8.2.2. OSI transport
-
- During authentication of an OSI client to and OSI server, the mutual
- authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
- credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange
- of private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages
- may be treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication
- mechanism will be:
-
- OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(5),internet(1),
- security(5), kerberosv5(2)}
-
- Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an
- authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply
- (KRB_AP_REP), a safe message (KRB_SAFE), a private message
- (KRB_PRIV), or a credentials message (KRB_CRED). The opaque data
- contains an application code as specified in the ASN.1 description
- for each message. The application code may be used by Kerberos to
- determine the message type.
-
-8.2.3. Name of the TGS
-
- The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be
- composed of three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS
- ticket (2) a two-part name of type NT-SRVINST, with the first part
- "krbtgt" and the second part the name of the realm which will accept
- the ticket-granting ticket. For example, a ticket-granting ticket
- issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
- ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
- (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU") (name). A ticket-granting
- ticket issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets
- from the MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
- (realm), ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
-
-8.3. Protocol constants and associated values
-
- The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines
- their meanings.
-
-
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----------------+-----------+----------+----------------+---------------
-Encryption type|etype value|block size|minimum pad size|confounder size
----------------+-----------+----------+----------------+---------------
-NULL 0 1 0 0
-des-cbc-crc 1 8 4 8
-des-cbc-md4 2 8 0 8
-des-cbc-md5 3 8 0 8
-
--------------------------------+-------------------+-------------
-Checksum type |sumtype value |checksum size
--------------------------------+-------------------+-------------
-CRC32 1 4
-rsa-md4 2 16
-rsa-md4-des 3 24
-des-mac 4 16
-des-mac-k 5 8
-rsa-md4-des-k 6 16
-rsa-md5 7 16
-rsa-md5-des 8 24
-
--------------------------------+-----------------
-padata type |padata-type value
--------------------------------+-----------------
-PA-TGS-REQ 1
-PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP 2
-PA-PW-SALT 3
-
--------------------------------+-------------
-authorization data type |ad-type value
--------------------------------+-------------
-reserved values 0-63
-OSF-DCE 64
-SESAME 65
-
--------------------------------+-----------------
-alternate authentication type |method-type value
--------------------------------+-----------------
-reserved values 0-63
-ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
-
--------------------------------+-------------
-transited encoding type |tr-type value
--------------------------------+-------------
-DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
-reserved values all others
-
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---------------+-------+-----------------------------------------
-Label |Value |Meaning or MIT code
---------------+-------+-----------------------------------------
-
-pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
-
-message types
-
-KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
-KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
-KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
-KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
-KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
-KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
-KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
-KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
-KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward
- credentials
-KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
-
-name types
-
-KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
-KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or
- for users
-KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
-KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
- rcommands)
-KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
-KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
-
-error codes
-
-KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
-KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has
- expired
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has
- expired
-KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version number
- not supported
-KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old
- master key
-KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old
- master key
-KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos database
-KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in
- database
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-KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
-KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
-KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than
- end time
-KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
-KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested
- option
-KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption
- type
-KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum type
-KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
-KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited type
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been revoked
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been
- revoked
-KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
-KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again
- later
-KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again
- later
-KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change
- password to reset
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information
- was invalid
-KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional pre-authentication
- required*
-KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field
- failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
-KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
-KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't match
-KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
-KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
-KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not
- available
-KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
-KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
-KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method
- required*
-KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in message
-KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in
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-KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in e-text)
-KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this
- implementation
-
- *This error carries additional information in the e-data field. The
- contents of the e-data field for this message is described in section
- 5.9.1.
-
-9. Interoperability requirements
-
- Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options.
- Among these are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative
- encoding schemes for the transited field, optional mechanisms for
- pre-authentication, the handling of tickets with no addresses,
- options for mutual authentication, user to user authentication,
- support for proxies, forwarding, postdating, and renewing tickets,
- the format of realm names, and the handling of authorization data.
-
- In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to
- define a minimal configuration which must be supported by all
- implementations. This minimal configuration is subject to change as
- technology does. For example, if at some later date it is discovered
- that one of the required encryption or checksum algorithms is not
- secure, it will be replaced.
-
-9.1. Specification 1
-
- This section defines the first specification of these options.
- Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to
- support Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1 (5.1).
-
- Encryption and checksum methods
-
- The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
- Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the
- additional mechanisms may only be used when communicating with
- principals known to also support them: Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5
- Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5
-
- Realm Names
-
- All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the
- Internet Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket
- for an unknown realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine
- the names of the intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the
- requested realm.
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- Transited field encoding
-
- DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.1) must be
- supported. Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be
- used only when that encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
-
- Pre-authentication methods
-
- The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used
- on the initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported
- by clients but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on
- a realm by realm basis. If not used in the initial request and the
- error KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENCTIMESTAMP
- as an acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request
- using the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not
- support the PAENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server
- should ignore the presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in
- a request.
-
- Mutual authentication
-
- Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
-
- Ticket addresses and flags
-
- All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e., if a
- TGT contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets),
- but each realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and
- each application server will set its own policy with respect to
- accepting them. By default, servers should not accept them.
-
- Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms
- and application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets
- will be accepted.
-
- All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets,
- but need not actually implement them. If these options are not
- supported, the starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a
- ticket's entire useful life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a
- server, all implementations shall make the presence of the postdated
- flag visible to the calling server.
-
- User-to-user authentication
-
- Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKTIN-SKEY KDC
- option) must be provided by implementations, but individual realms
- may decide as a matter of policy to reject such requests on a per-
- principal or realm-wide basis.
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- Authorization data
-
- Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
- ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
- suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered
- subfield type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no
- registered subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
-
- Implementations must make the contents of any authorization data
- subfields available to the server when a ticket is used.
- Implementations are not required to allow clients to specify the
- contents of the authorization data fields.
-
-9.2. Recommended KDC values
-
- Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation,
- based on the list of suggested configuration constants (see section
- 4.4).
-
- minimum lifetime 5 minutes
-
- maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
-
- maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
-
- empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
- in authorization data
-
- proxiable, etc. Allowed.
-
-10. Acknowledgments
-
- Early versions of this document, describing version 4 of the
- protocol, were written by Jennifer Steiner (formerly at Project
- Athena); these drafts provided an excellent starting point for this
- current version 5 specification. Many people in the Internet
- community have contributed ideas and suggested protocol changes for
- version 5. Notable contributions came from Ted Anderson, Steve
- Bellovin and Michael Merritt [17], Daniel Bernstein, Mike Burrows,
- Donald Davis, Ravi Ganesan, Morrie Gasser, Virgil Gligor, Bill
- Griffeth, Mark Lillibridge, Mark Lomas, Steve Lunt, Piers McMahon,
- Joe Pato, William Sommerfeld, Stuart Stubblebine, Ralph Swick, Ted
- T'so, and Stanley Zanarotti. Many others commented and helped shape
- this specification into its current form.
-
-
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-11. References
-
- [1] Miller, S., Neuman, C., Schiller, J., and J. Saltzer, "Section
- E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and Authorization System",
- M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 21,
- 1987.
-
- [2] Steiner, J., Neuman, C., and J. Schiller, "Kerberos: An
- Authentication Service for Open Network Systems", pp. 191-202 in
- Usenix Conference Proceedings, Dallas, Texas, February, 1988.
-
- [3] Needham, R., and M. Schroeder, "Using Encryption for
- Authentication in Large Networks of Computers", Communications
- of the ACM, Vol. 21 (12), pp. 993-999, December 1978.
-
- [4] Denning, D., and G. Sacco, "Time stamps in Key Distribution
- Protocols", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 24 (8), pp. 533-536,
- August 1981.
-
- [5] Kohl, J., Neuman, C., and T. Ts'o, "The Evolution of the
- Kerberos Authentication Service", in an IEEE Computer Society
- Text soon to be published, June 1992.
-
- [6] Davis, D., and R. Swick, "Workstation Services and Kerberos
- Authentication at Project Athena", Technical Memorandum TM-424,
- MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, February 1990.
-
- [7] Levine, P., Gretzinger, M, Diaz, J., Sommerfeld, W., and K.
- Raeburn, "Section E.1: Service Management System, M.I.T.
- Project Athena, Cambridge, Mas sachusetts (1987).
-
- [8] CCITT, Recommendation X.509: The Directory Authentication
- Framework, December 1988.
-
- [9] Neuman, C., "Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
- Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of the 13th International
- Conference on Distributed Computing Systems", Pittsburgh, PA,
- May 1993.
-
- [10] Pato, J., "Using Pre-Authentication to Avoid Password Guessing
- Attacks", Open Software Foundation DCE Request for Comments 26,
- December 1992.
-
- [11] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, "Data
- Encryption Standard", Federal Information Processing Standards
- Publication 46, Washington, DC (1977).
-
-
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- [12] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, "DES
- Modes of Operation", Federal Information Processing Standards
- Publication 81, Springfield, VA, December 1980.
-
- [13] Stubblebine S., and V. Gligor, "On Message Integrity in
- Cryptographic Protocols", in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium
- on Research in Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May
- 1992.
-
- [14] International Organization for Standardization, "ISO Information
- Processing Systems - Data Communication High-Level Data Link
- Control Procedure - Frame Structure", IS 3309, October 1984, 3rd
- Edition.
-
- [15] Rivest, R., "The MD4 Message Digest Algorithm", RFC 1320, MIT
- Laboratory for Computer Science, April 1992.
-
- [16] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321, MIT
- Laboratory for Computer Science, April 1992.
-
- [17] Bellovin S., and M. Merritt, "Limitations of the Kerberos
- Authentication System", Computer Communications Review, Vol.
- 20(5), pp. 119-132, October 1990.
-
-12. Security Considerations
-
- Security issues are discussed throughout this memo.
-
-13. Authors' Addresses
-
- John Kohl
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 110 Spit Brook Road, M/S ZKO3-3/U14
- Nashua, NH 03062
-
- Phone: 603-881-2481
- EMail: jtkohl@zk3.dec.com
-
-
- B. Clifford Neuman
- USC/Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way #1001
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
-
- Phone: 310-822-1511
- EMail: bcn@isi.edu
-
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-A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
-
- This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to
- be constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
-
-A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
- request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
- get system_time;
- padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
- encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
- using client.key; /* derived from password */
- endif
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- body.cname := user's name;
- body.realm := user's realm;
- body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt",
- "localrealm" */
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
- omit body.enc-authorization-data;
- request.req-body := body;
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
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-A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
- decode message into req;
-
- client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
- server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
- get system_time;
- kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
-
- if (!client) then
- /* no client in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- if (!server) then
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
-
- if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
- pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
- endif
-
- if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
- decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
- using client.key;
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable
- skew) then error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
- endif
- add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
- endif
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
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- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.ALLOW-POSTDATE;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
- (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
- new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
- new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
- new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
-
- new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- else
- omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when
- omitted */
- endif
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
-
-
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-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := req.till;
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
- else
- omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE */
- endif
-
- if (req.addresses) then
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- else
- omit new_tkt.caddr;
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
-
- encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key, server.p_kvno;
-
-
- /* Start processing the response */
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
- resp.cname := req.cname;
- resp.crealm := req.realm;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := new_tkt.session;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
-
-
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-
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
-
- resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
- send(resp);
-
-A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP))
- then set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
- goto KRB_AS_REQ;
- endif
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
- /* from the response immediately */
-
- key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno, resp.enc-part.etype,
- resp.padata);
- unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
- zero(key);
-
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- if near(resp.princ_exp) then
-
-
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-
- print(warning message);
- endif
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
- if (decryption_error() or
- (req.cname != resp.cname) or
- (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
- (req.sname != resp.sname) or
- (req.realm != resp.realm) or
- (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
- (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that */
- /* all that should be are set */
- if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags))
- then destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.from = 0) and
- (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
- endif
- if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
- endif
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
- (req.till != 0) and
- (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
-
-
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-
- endif
-
-A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
- /* Note that make_application_request might have to */
- /* recursivly call this routine to get the appropriate */
- /* ticket-granting ticket */
-
- request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
- request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
-
- body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
- /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
- /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
- /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
- /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
- /* sending applies */
- body.sname := service's name;
- body.realm := service's realm;
-
- if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- body.from := requested starting time;
- else
- omit body.from;
- endif
- body.till := requested end time;
- if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
- body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
- endif
- body.nonce := random_nonce();
- body.etype := requested etypes;
- if (user supplied addresses) then
- body.addresses := user's addresses;
- else
- omit body.addresses;
- endif
-
- body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
- if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
- body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
- endif
-
- request.req-body := body;
- check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
-
- request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
- request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
- the TGT and checksum
-
-
-
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-
- /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
-
- kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or servers));
- send(packet,kerberos);
-
- wait(for response);
- if (timed_out) then
- retry or use alternate server;
- endif
-
-A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
- /* note that reading the application request requires first
- determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and
- choosing the correct key for decryption. The name of the
- server appears in the plaintext part of the ticket. */
-
- if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
-
- /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is
- operating is determined by the instance from the
- ticket-granting ticket. The realm in the ticket-granting
- ticket is the realm under which the ticket granting ticket was
- issued. It is possible for a single Kerberos server to
- support more than one realm. */
-
- auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
- tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
-
- if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not
- req.sname) then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
-
- realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
-
- decode remainder of request;
-
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof
- and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
-
-
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-
- set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
- if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
-
- if (!server) then
- if (is_foreign_tgt_name(server)) then
- server := best_intermediate_tgs(server);
- else
- /* no server in Database */
- error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
- endif
- endif
-
- session := generate_random_session_key();
-
-
- use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
-
- if (no support for req.etypes) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
- new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
- new_tkt.srealm := realm;
- reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
-
- /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
- /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
- /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
-
- new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
- resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
-
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- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
- if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
- set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
- new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
- resp.caddr := req.addresses;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.POSTDATE is reset)
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATE;
- endif
- if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.POSTDATE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
- set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
- endif
-
-
- if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
- if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
- if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
- endif
- if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
-
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-
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
- endif
-
- if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
- and those already processed) is set) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
-
- if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
- /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket */
- /* would have been rejected in the initial authentication */
- /* stage, so there is no need to check again here */
- if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
- endif
- if (tgt.renew-till >= kdc_time) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- tkt := tgt;
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
- new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
- new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
- else
- new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
- if (req.till = 0) then
- till := infinity;
- else
- till := req.till;
- endif
- new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
- tgt.endtime);
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
- (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
- /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later */
- /* processing */
- set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
- req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
-
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-
- endif
- endif
-
- if (req.rtime = 0) then
- rtime := infinity;
- else
- rtime := req.rtime;
- endif
-
- if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
- (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
- set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
- new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
- new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
- new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
- tgt.renew-till);
- else
- new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT;
- /* leave the renew-till field out */
- endif
- if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
- decrypt req.enc-authorization-data
- into decrypted_authorization_data
- using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
- if (decrypt_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- endif
- new_tkt.authorization_data :=
- req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data +
- decrypted_authorization_data;
-
- new_tkt.key := session;
- new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
-
- if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
- /* tgt issued by local realm */
- new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
- else
- /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
- if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
- endif
- new_tkt.transited
- := compress_transited(tgt.transited + tgt.realm)
- endif
-
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-
- encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
- if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
- if (server not specified) then
- server = req.second_ticket.client;
- endif
- if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
- (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
- error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
- endif
-
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
- using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key),
- second-ticket.key;
- else
- new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key,
- server.p_kvno;
- endif
-
- resp.pvno := 5;
- resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
- resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
- resp.cname := tgt.cname;
- resp.ticket := new_tkt;
-
- resp.key := session;
- resp.nonce := req.nonce;
- resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
- resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
-
- resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
- resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
- resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
-
- omit resp.key-expiration;
-
- resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
- resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
-
- if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
- resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
- endif
-
-
- encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
-
-
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- req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
- else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
- using use_etype, tgt.key;
-
- send(resp);
-
-A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification
- decode response into resp;
-
- if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
- process_error(resp);
- return;
- endif
-
- /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key from
- the response immediately */
-
- if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
- unencrypted part of resp :=
- decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
- else unencrypted part of resp :=
- decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
- using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's session key;
- if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
- destroy resp.key;
- return error;
- endif
-
- check authorization_data as necessary;
- save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
-
-A.8. Authenticator generation
- body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
- body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
- if (supplying checksum) then
- body.cksum := checksum;
- endif
- get system_time;
- body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
-
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-A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
- obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
-
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
-
- if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
- set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
- endif
- if (using session key for ticket) then
- set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- else
- reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
- endif
- packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
- generate authenticator;
- encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator
- using session_key;
-
-A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
- retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
- else
- retrieve service key for
- packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
- endif
- if (no_key_available) then
- if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
- else
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
- endif
-
-
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- endif
- decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket
- using retrieved key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
- using decr_ticket.key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
- decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
- endif
- if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
- if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr)
- then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- elseif (application requires addresses) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
- decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm}))
- then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
- get system_time;
- if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
- (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
- /* it hasn't yet become valid */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
- endif
- if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
- endif
- /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent */
- /* details */
- return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
-
-A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
- body.ctime := packet.ctime;
- body.cusec := packet.cusec;
-
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- if (selecting sub-session key) then
- select sub-session key;
- body.subkey := sub-session key;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- select initial sequence number;
- body.seq-number := initial sequence;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
-
-A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part)
- using ticket's session key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
- endif
- if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
- save cleartext.subkey for future use;
- endif
- if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
- save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
- endif
- return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
-
-A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
-
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- body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
- checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
- compute checksum over body;
- checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
- packet.cksum := checksum;
- packet.safe-body := body;
-
-A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
- if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof
- and keyed) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
- endif
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
- set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
- if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
- return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
- if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
-
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- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
- (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
- (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected))
- then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address))
- then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
- ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
- (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected))
- then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
- endif
- if (packet.timestamp not present and
- packet.seq-number not present) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
- sender_principal(packet));
-
- return PACKET_IS_OK;
-
-A.16. KRB_PRIV generation
- collect user data in buffer;
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- body.user-data := buffer;
- if (using timestamp) then
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
- endif
- if (using sequence numbers) then
- body.seq-number := sequence number;
- endif
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- if (only one recipient) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
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- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
-
-A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
-
- if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
- return(cleartext.DATA, PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
- else
- return common_checks_error;
- endif
-
-A.18. KRB_CRED generation
- invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
-
- for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
- done
-
- packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
- body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
- body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
- body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
- body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
- body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
- body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
-
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- body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
- body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
- body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
- done
-
- get system_time;
- body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
-
- if (using nonce) then
- body.nonce := nonce;
- endif
-
- if (using s-address) then
- body.s-address := sender host addresses;
- endif
- if (limited recipients) then
- body.r-address := recipient host address;
- endif
-
- encode body into OCTET STRING;
-
- select encryption type;
- encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
- using negotiated encryption key;
-
-A.19. KRB_CRED verification
- receive packet;
- if (packet.pvno != 5) then
- either process using other protocol spec
- or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
- endif
- if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
- endif
-
- cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
- if (decryption_error()) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
- (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
- /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
- endif
- if ((packet.r-address is present) and
- (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
- /* was not sent to proper place */
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
-
-
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-
- endif
- if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
- endif
- if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address))
- then error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
- endif
- if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
- (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
- error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
- endif
-
- for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
- save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
- server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
- return
-
-A.20. KRB_ERROR generation
-
- /* assemble packet: */
- packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
- packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
-
- get system_time;
- packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
- packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
-
- if (client time available) then
- packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
- endif
- packet.error-code := error code;
- if (client name available) then
- packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
- endif
- if (error text available) then
- packet.e-text := error text;
- endif
- if (error data available) then
- packet.e-data := error data;
- endif
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
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-Network Working Group D. Eastlake, 3rd
-Request for Comments: 1750 DEC
-Category: Informational S. Crocker
- Cybercash
- J. Schiller
- MIT
- December 1994
-
-
- Randomness Recommendations for Security
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
- does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
- this memo is unlimited.
-
-Abstract
-
- Security systems today are built on increasingly strong cryptographic
- algorithms that foil pattern analysis attempts. However, the security
- of these systems is dependent on generating secret quantities for
- passwords, cryptographic keys, and similar quantities. The use of
- pseudo-random processes to generate secret quantities can result in
- pseudo-security. The sophisticated attacker of these security
- systems may find it easier to reproduce the environment that produced
- the secret quantities, searching the resulting small set of
- possibilities, than to locate the quantities in the whole of the
- number space.
-
- Choosing random quantities to foil a resourceful and motivated
- adversary is surprisingly difficult. This paper points out many
- pitfalls in using traditional pseudo-random number generation
- techniques for choosing such quantities. It recommends the use of
- truly random hardware techniques and shows that the existing hardware
- on many systems can be used for this purpose. It provides
- suggestions to ameliorate the problem when a hardware solution is not
- available. And it gives examples of how large such quantities need
- to be for some particular applications.
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-Acknowledgements
-
- Comments on this document that have been incorporated were received
- from (in alphabetic order) the following:
-
- David M. Balenson (TIS)
- Don Coppersmith (IBM)
- Don T. Davis (consultant)
- Carl Ellison (Stratus)
- Marc Horowitz (MIT)
- Christian Huitema (INRIA)
- Charlie Kaufman (IRIS)
- Steve Kent (BBN)
- Hal Murray (DEC)
- Neil Haller (Bellcore)
- Richard Pitkin (DEC)
- Tim Redmond (TIS)
- Doug Tygar (CMU)
-
-Table of Contents
-
- 1. Introduction........................................... 3
- 2. Requirements........................................... 4
- 3. Traditional Pseudo-Random Sequences.................... 5
- 4. Unpredictability....................................... 7
- 4.1 Problems with Clocks and Serial Numbers............... 7
- 4.2 Timing and Content of External Events................ 8
- 4.3 The Fallacy of Complex Manipulation.................. 8
- 4.4 The Fallacy of Selection from a Large Database....... 9
- 5. Hardware for Randomness............................... 10
- 5.1 Volume Required...................................... 10
- 5.2 Sensitivity to Skew.................................. 10
- 5.2.1 Using Stream Parity to De-Skew..................... 11
- 5.2.2 Using Transition Mappings to De-Skew............... 12
- 5.2.3 Using FFT to De-Skew............................... 13
- 5.2.4 Using Compression to De-Skew....................... 13
- 5.3 Existing Hardware Can Be Used For Randomness......... 14
- 5.3.1 Using Existing Sound/Video Input................... 14
- 5.3.2 Using Existing Disk Drives......................... 14
- 6. Recommended Non-Hardware Strategy..................... 14
- 6.1 Mixing Functions..................................... 15
- 6.1.1 A Trivial Mixing Function.......................... 15
- 6.1.2 Stronger Mixing Functions.......................... 16
- 6.1.3 Diff-Hellman as a Mixing Function.................. 17
- 6.1.4 Using a Mixing Function to Stretch Random Bits..... 17
- 6.1.5 Other Factors in Choosing a Mixing Function........ 18
- 6.2 Non-Hardware Sources of Randomness................... 19
- 6.3 Cryptographically Strong Sequences................... 19
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- 6.3.1 Traditional Strong Sequences....................... 20
- 6.3.2 The Blum Blum Shub Sequence Generator.............. 21
- 7. Key Generation Standards.............................. 22
- 7.1 US DoD Recommendations for Password Generation....... 23
- 7.2 X9.17 Key Generation................................. 23
- 8. Examples of Randomness Required....................... 24
- 8.1 Password Generation................................. 24
- 8.2 A Very High Security Cryptographic Key............... 25
- 8.2.1 Effort per Key Trial............................... 25
- 8.2.2 Meet in the Middle Attacks......................... 26
- 8.2.3 Other Considerations............................... 26
- 9. Conclusion............................................ 27
- 10. Security Considerations.............................. 27
- References............................................... 28
- Authors' Addresses....................................... 30
-
-1. Introduction
-
- Software cryptography is coming into wider use. Systems like
- Kerberos, PEM, PGP, etc. are maturing and becoming a part of the
- network landscape [PEM]. These systems provide substantial
- protection against snooping and spoofing. However, there is a
- potential flaw. At the heart of all cryptographic systems is the
- generation of secret, unguessable (i.e., random) numbers.
-
- For the present, the lack of generally available facilities for
- generating such unpredictable numbers is an open wound in the design
- of cryptographic software. For the software developer who wants to
- build a key or password generation procedure that runs on a wide
- range of hardware, the only safe strategy so far has been to force
- the local installation to supply a suitable routine to generate
- random numbers. To say the least, this is an awkward, error-prone
- and unpalatable solution.
-
- It is important to keep in mind that the requirement is for data that
- an adversary has a very low probability of guessing or determining.
- This will fail if pseudo-random data is used which only meets
- traditional statistical tests for randomness or which is based on
- limited range sources, such as clocks. Frequently such random
- quantities are determinable by an adversary searching through an
- embarrassingly small space of possibilities.
-
- This informational document suggests techniques for producing random
- quantities that will be resistant to such attack. It recommends that
- future systems include hardware random number generation or provide
- access to existing hardware that can be used for this purpose. It
- suggests methods for use if such hardware is not available. And it
- gives some estimates of the number of random bits required for sample
-
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- applications.
-
-2. Requirements
-
- Probably the most commonly encountered randomness requirement today
- is the user password. This is usually a simple character string.
- Obviously, if a password can be guessed, it does not provide
- security. (For re-usable passwords, it is desirable that users be
- able to remember the password. This may make it advisable to use
- pronounceable character strings or phrases composed on ordinary
- words. But this only affects the format of the password information,
- not the requirement that the password be very hard to guess.)
-
- Many other requirements come from the cryptographic arena.
- Cryptographic techniques can be used to provide a variety of services
- including confidentiality and authentication. Such services are
- based on quantities, traditionally called "keys", that are unknown to
- and unguessable by an adversary.
-
- In some cases, such as the use of symmetric encryption with the one
- time pads [CRYPTO*] or the US Data Encryption Standard [DES], the
- parties who wish to communicate confidentially and/or with
- authentication must all know the same secret key. In other cases,
- using what are called asymmetric or "public key" cryptographic
- techniques, keys come in pairs. One key of the pair is private and
- must be kept secret by one party, the other is public and can be
- published to the world. It is computationally infeasible to
- determine the private key from the public key [ASYMMETRIC, CRYPTO*].
-
- The frequency and volume of the requirement for random quantities
- differs greatly for different cryptographic systems. Using pure RSA
- [CRYPTO*], random quantities are required when the key pair is
- generated, but thereafter any number of messages can be signed
- without any further need for randomness. The public key Digital
- Signature Algorithm that has been proposed by the US National
- Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requires good random
- numbers for each signature. And encrypting with a one time pad, in
- principle the strongest possible encryption technique, requires a
- volume of randomness equal to all the messages to be processed.
-
- In most of these cases, an adversary can try to determine the
- "secret" key by trial and error. (This is possible as long as the
- key is enough smaller than the message that the correct key can be
- uniquely identified.) The probability of an adversary succeeding at
- this must be made acceptably low, depending on the particular
- application. The size of the space the adversary must search is
- related to the amount of key "information" present in the information
- theoretic sense [SHANNON]. This depends on the number of different
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- secret values possible and the probability of each value as follows:
-
- -----
- \
- Bits-of-info = \ - p * log ( p )
- / i 2 i
- /
- -----
-
- where i varies from 1 to the number of possible secret values and p
- sub i is the probability of the value numbered i. (Since p sub i is
- less than one, the log will be negative so each term in the sum will
- be non-negative.)
-
- If there are 2^n different values of equal probability, then n bits
- of information are present and an adversary would, on the average,
- have to try half of the values, or 2^(n-1) , before guessing the
- secret quantity. If the probability of different values is unequal,
- then there is less information present and fewer guesses will, on
- average, be required by an adversary. In particular, any values that
- the adversary can know are impossible, or are of low probability, can
- be initially ignored by an adversary, who will search through the
- more probable values first.
-
- For example, consider a cryptographic system that uses 56 bit keys.
- If these 56 bit keys are derived by using a fixed pseudo-random
- number generator that is seeded with an 8 bit seed, then an adversary
- needs to search through only 256 keys (by running the pseudo-random
- number generator with every possible seed), not the 2^56 keys that
- may at first appear to be the case. Only 8 bits of "information" are
- in these 56 bit keys.
-
-3. Traditional Pseudo-Random Sequences
-
- Most traditional sources of random numbers use deterministic sources
- of "pseudo-random" numbers. These typically start with a "seed"
- quantity and use numeric or logical operations to produce a sequence
- of values.
-
- [KNUTH] has a classic exposition on pseudo-random numbers.
- Applications he mentions are simulation of natural phenomena,
- sampling, numerical analysis, testing computer programs, decision
- making, and games. None of these have the same characteristics as
- the sort of security uses we are talking about. Only in the last two
- could there be an adversary trying to find the random quantity.
- However, in these cases, the adversary normally has only a single
- chance to use a guessed value. In guessing passwords or attempting
- to break an encryption scheme, the adversary normally has many,
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- perhaps unlimited, chances at guessing the correct value and should
- be assumed to be aided by a computer.
-
- For testing the "randomness" of numbers, Knuth suggests a variety of
- measures including statistical and spectral. These tests check
- things like autocorrelation between different parts of a "random"
- sequence or distribution of its values. They could be met by a
- constant stored random sequence, such as the "random" sequence
- printed in the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables [CRC].
-
- A typical pseudo-random number generation technique, known as a
- linear congruence pseudo-random number generator, is modular
- arithmetic where the N+1th value is calculated from the Nth value by
-
- V = ( V * a + b )(Mod c)
- N+1 N
-
- The above technique has a strong relationship to linear shift
- register pseudo-random number generators, which are well understood
- cryptographically [SHIFT*]. In such generators bits are introduced
- at one end of a shift register as the Exclusive Or (binary sum
- without carry) of bits from selected fixed taps into the register.
-
- For example:
-
- +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+
- | B | <-- | B | <-- | B | <-- . . . . . . <-- | B | <-+
- | 0 | | 1 | | 2 | | n | |
- +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ |
- | | | |
- | | V +-----+
- | V +----------------> | |
- V +-----------------------------> | XOR |
- +---------------------------------------------------> | |
- +-----+
-
-
- V = ( ( V * 2 ) + B .xor. B ... )(Mod 2^n)
- N+1 N 0 2
-
- The goodness of traditional pseudo-random number generator algorithms
- is measured by statistical tests on such sequences. Carefully chosen
- values of the initial V and a, b, and c or the placement of shift
- register tap in the above simple processes can produce excellent
- statistics.
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- These sequences may be adequate in simulations (Monte Carlo
- experiments) as long as the sequence is orthogonal to the structure
- of the space being explored. Even there, subtle patterns may cause
- problems. However, such sequences are clearly bad for use in
- security applications. They are fully predictable if the initial
- state is known. Depending on the form of the pseudo-random number
- generator, the sequence may be determinable from observation of a
- short portion of the sequence [CRYPTO*, STERN]. For example, with
- the generators above, one can determine V(n+1) given knowledge of
- V(n). In fact, it has been shown that with these techniques, even if
- only one bit of the pseudo-random values is released, the seed can be
- determined from short sequences.
-
- Not only have linear congruent generators been broken, but techniques
- are now known for breaking all polynomial congruent generators
- [KRAWCZYK].
-
-4. Unpredictability
-
- Randomness in the traditional sense described in section 3 is NOT the
- same as the unpredictability required for security use.
-
- For example, use of a widely available constant sequence, such as
- that from the CRC tables, is very weak against an adversary. Once
- they learn of or guess it, they can easily break all security, future
- and past, based on the sequence [CRC]. Yet the statistical
- properties of these tables are good.
-
- The following sections describe the limitations of some randomness
- generation techniques and sources.
-
-4.1 Problems with Clocks and Serial Numbers
-
- Computer clocks, or similar operating system or hardware values,
- provide significantly fewer real bits of unpredictability than might
- appear from their specifications.
-
- Tests have been done on clocks on numerous systems and it was found
- that their behavior can vary widely and in unexpected ways. One
- version of an operating system running on one set of hardware may
- actually provide, say, microsecond resolution in a clock while a
- different configuration of the "same" system may always provide the
- same lower bits and only count in the upper bits at much lower
- resolution. This means that successive reads on the clock may
- produce identical values even if enough time has passed that the
- value "should" change based on the nominal clock resolution. There
- are also cases where frequently reading a clock can produce
- artificial sequential values because of extra code that checks for
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- the clock being unchanged between two reads and increases it by one!
- Designing portable application code to generate unpredictable numbers
- based on such system clocks is particularly challenging because the
- system designer does not always know the properties of the system
- clocks that the code will execute on.
-
- Use of a hardware serial number such as an Ethernet address may also
- provide fewer bits of uniqueness than one would guess. Such
- quantities are usually heavily structured and subfields may have only
- a limited range of possible values or values easily guessable based
- on approximate date of manufacture or other data. For example, it is
- likely that most of the Ethernet cards installed on Digital Equipment
- Corporation (DEC) hardware within DEC were manufactured by DEC
- itself, which significantly limits the range of built in addresses.
-
- Problems such as those described above related to clocks and serial
- numbers make code to produce unpredictable quantities difficult if
- the code is to be ported across a variety of computer platforms and
- systems.
-
-4.2 Timing and Content of External Events
-
- It is possible to measure the timing and content of mouse movement,
- key strokes, and similar user events. This is a reasonable source of
- unguessable data with some qualifications. On some machines, inputs
- such as key strokes are buffered. Even though the user's inter-
- keystroke timing may have sufficient variation and unpredictability,
- there might not be an easy way to access that variation. Another
- problem is that no standard method exists to sample timing details.
- This makes it hard to build standard software intended for
- distribution to a large range of machines based on this technique.
-
- The amount of mouse movement or the keys actually hit are usually
- easier to access than timings but may yield less unpredictability as
- the user may provide highly repetitive input.
-
- Other external events, such as network packet arrival times, can also
- be used with care. In particular, the possibility of manipulation of
- such times by an adversary must be considered.
-
-4.3 The Fallacy of Complex Manipulation
-
- One strategy which may give a misleading appearance of
- unpredictability is to take a very complex algorithm (or an excellent
- traditional pseudo-random number generator with good statistical
- properties) and calculate a cryptographic key by starting with the
- current value of a computer system clock as the seed. An adversary
- who knew roughly when the generator was started would have a
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- relatively small number of seed values to test as they would know
- likely values of the system clock. Large numbers of pseudo-random
- bits could be generated but the search space an adversary would need
- to check could be quite small.
-
- Thus very strong and/or complex manipulation of data will not help if
- the adversary can learn what the manipulation is and there is not
- enough unpredictability in the starting seed value. Even if they can
- not learn what the manipulation is, they may be able to use the
- limited number of results stemming from a limited number of seed
- values to defeat security.
-
- Another serious strategy error is to assume that a very complex
- pseudo-random number generation algorithm will produce strong random
- numbers when there has been no theory behind or analysis of the
- algorithm. There is a excellent example of this fallacy right near
- the beginning of chapter 3 in [KNUTH] where the author describes a
- complex algorithm. It was intended that the machine language program
- corresponding to the algorithm would be so complicated that a person
- trying to read the code without comments wouldn't know what the
- program was doing. Unfortunately, actual use of this algorithm
- showed that it almost immediately converged to a single repeated
- value in one case and a small cycle of values in another case.
-
- Not only does complex manipulation not help you if you have a limited
- range of seeds but blindly chosen complex manipulation can destroy
- the randomness in a good seed!
-
-4.4 The Fallacy of Selection from a Large Database
-
- Another strategy that can give a misleading appearance of
- unpredictability is selection of a quantity randomly from a database
- and assume that its strength is related to the total number of bits
- in the database. For example, typical USENET servers as of this date
- process over 35 megabytes of information per day. Assume a random
- quantity was selected by fetching 32 bytes of data from a random
- starting point in this data. This does not yield 32*8 = 256 bits
- worth of unguessability. Even after allowing that much of the data
- is human language and probably has more like 2 or 3 bits of
- information per byte, it doesn't yield 32*2.5 = 80 bits of
- unguessability. For an adversary with access to the same 35
- megabytes the unguessability rests only on the starting point of the
- selection. That is, at best, about 25 bits of unguessability in this
- case.
-
- The same argument applies to selecting sequences from the data on a
- CD ROM or Audio CD recording or any other large public database. If
- the adversary has access to the same database, this "selection from a
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- large volume of data" step buys very little. However, if a selection
- can be made from data to which the adversary has no access, such as
- system buffers on an active multi-user system, it may be of some
- help.
-
-5. Hardware for Randomness
-
- Is there any hope for strong portable randomness in the future?
- There might be. All that's needed is a physical source of
- unpredictable numbers.
-
- A thermal noise or radioactive decay source and a fast, free-running
- oscillator would do the trick directly [GIFFORD]. This is a trivial
- amount of hardware, and could easily be included as a standard part
- of a computer system's architecture. Furthermore, any system with a
- spinning disk or the like has an adequate source of randomness
- [DAVIS]. All that's needed is the common perception among computer
- vendors that this small additional hardware and the software to
- access it is necessary and useful.
-
-5.1 Volume Required
-
- How much unpredictability is needed? Is it possible to quantify the
- requirement in, say, number of random bits per second?
-
- The answer is not very much is needed. For DES, the key is 56 bits
- and, as we show in an example in Section 8, even the highest security
- system is unlikely to require a keying material of over 200 bits. If
- a series of keys are needed, it can be generated from a strong random
- seed using a cryptographically strong sequence as explained in
- Section 6.3. A few hundred random bits generated once a day would be
- enough using such techniques. Even if the random bits are generated
- as slowly as one per second and it is not possible to overlap the
- generation process, it should be tolerable in high security
- applications to wait 200 seconds occasionally.
-
- These numbers are trivial to achieve. It could be done by a person
- repeatedly tossing a coin. Almost any hardware process is likely to
- be much faster.
-
-5.2 Sensitivity to Skew
-
- Is there any specific requirement on the shape of the distribution of
- the random numbers? The good news is the distribution need not be
- uniform. All that is needed is a conservative estimate of how non-
- uniform it is to bound performance. Two simple techniques to de-skew
- the bit stream are given below and stronger techniques are mentioned
- in Section 6.1.2 below.
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-5.2.1 Using Stream Parity to De-Skew
-
- Consider taking a sufficiently long string of bits and map the string
- to "zero" or "one". The mapping will not yield a perfectly uniform
- distribution, but it can be as close as desired. One mapping that
- serves the purpose is to take the parity of the string. This has the
- advantages that it is robust across all degrees of skew up to the
- estimated maximum skew and is absolutely trivial to implement in
- hardware.
-
- The following analysis gives the number of bits that must be sampled:
-
- Suppose the ratio of ones to zeros is 0.5 + e : 0.5 - e, where e is
- between 0 and 0.5 and is a measure of the "eccentricity" of the
- distribution. Consider the distribution of the parity function of N
- bit samples. The probabilities that the parity will be one or zero
- will be the sum of the odd or even terms in the binomial expansion of
- (p + q)^N, where p = 0.5 + e, the probability of a one, and q = 0.5 -
- e, the probability of a zero.
-
- These sums can be computed easily as
-
- N N
- 1/2 * ( ( p + q ) + ( p - q ) )
- and
- N N
- 1/2 * ( ( p + q ) - ( p - q ) ).
-
- (Which one corresponds to the probability the parity will be 1
- depends on whether N is odd or even.)
-
- Since p + q = 1 and p - q = 2e, these expressions reduce to
-
- N
- 1/2 * [1 + (2e) ]
- and
- N
- 1/2 * [1 - (2e) ].
-
- Neither of these will ever be exactly 0.5 unless e is zero, but we
- can bring them arbitrarily close to 0.5. If we want the
- probabilities to be within some delta d of 0.5, i.e. then
-
- N
- ( 0.5 + ( 0.5 * (2e) ) ) < 0.5 + d.
-
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- Solving for N yields N > log(2d)/log(2e). (Note that 2e is less than
- 1, so its log is negative. Division by a negative number reverses
- the sense of an inequality.)
-
- The following table gives the length of the string which must be
- sampled for various degrees of skew in order to come within 0.001 of
- a 50/50 distribution.
-
- +---------+--------+-------+
- | Prob(1) | e | N |
- +---------+--------+-------+
- | 0.5 | 0.00 | 1 |
- | 0.6 | 0.10 | 4 |
- | 0.7 | 0.20 | 7 |
- | 0.8 | 0.30 | 13 |
- | 0.9 | 0.40 | 28 |
- | 0.95 | 0.45 | 59 |
- | 0.99 | 0.49 | 308 |
- +---------+--------+-------+
-
- The last entry shows that even if the distribution is skewed 99% in
- favor of ones, the parity of a string of 308 samples will be within
- 0.001 of a 50/50 distribution.
-
-5.2.2 Using Transition Mappings to De-Skew
-
- Another technique, originally due to von Neumann [VON NEUMANN], is to
- examine a bit stream as a sequence of non-overlapping pairs. You
- could then discard any 00 or 11 pairs found, interpret 01 as a 0 and
- 10 as a 1. Assume the probability of a 1 is 0.5+e and the
- probability of a 0 is 0.5-e where e is the eccentricity of the source
- and described in the previous section. Then the probability of each
- pair is as follows:
-
- +------+-----------------------------------------+
- | pair | probability |
- +------+-----------------------------------------+
- | 00 | (0.5 - e)^2 = 0.25 - e + e^2 |
- | 01 | (0.5 - e)*(0.5 + e) = 0.25 - e^2 |
- | 10 | (0.5 + e)*(0.5 - e) = 0.25 - e^2 |
- | 11 | (0.5 + e)^2 = 0.25 + e + e^2 |
- +------+-----------------------------------------+
-
- This technique will completely eliminate any bias but at the expense
- of taking an indeterminate number of input bits for any particular
- desired number of output bits. The probability of any particular
- pair being discarded is 0.5 + 2e^2 so the expected number of input
- bits to produce X output bits is X/(0.25 - e^2).
-
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- This technique assumes that the bits are from a stream where each bit
- has the same probability of being a 0 or 1 as any other bit in the
- stream and that bits are not correlated, i.e., that the bits are
- identical independent distributions. If alternate bits were from two
- correlated sources, for example, the above analysis breaks down.
-
- The above technique also provides another illustration of how a
- simple statistical analysis can mislead if one is not always on the
- lookout for patterns that could be exploited by an adversary. If the
- algorithm were mis-read slightly so that overlapping successive bits
- pairs were used instead of non-overlapping pairs, the statistical
- analysis given is the same; however, instead of provided an unbiased
- uncorrelated series of random 1's and 0's, it instead produces a
- totally predictable sequence of exactly alternating 1's and 0's.
-
-5.2.3 Using FFT to De-Skew
-
- When real world data consists of strongly biased or correlated bits,
- it may still contain useful amounts of randomness. This randomness
- can be extracted through use of the discrete Fourier transform or its
- optimized variant, the FFT.
-
- Using the Fourier transform of the data, strong correlations can be
- discarded. If adequate data is processed and remaining correlations
- decay, spectral lines approaching statistical independence and
- normally distributed randomness can be produced [BRILLINGER].
-
-5.2.4 Using Compression to De-Skew
-
- Reversible compression techniques also provide a crude method of de-
- skewing a skewed bit stream. This follows directly from the
- definition of reversible compression and the formula in Section 2
- above for the amount of information in a sequence. Since the
- compression is reversible, the same amount of information must be
- present in the shorter output than was present in the longer input.
- By the Shannon information equation, this is only possible if, on
- average, the probabilities of the different shorter sequences are
- more uniformly distributed than were the probabilities of the longer
- sequences. Thus the shorter sequences are de-skewed relative to the
- input.
-
- However, many compression techniques add a somewhat predicatable
- preface to their output stream and may insert such a sequence again
- periodically in their output or otherwise introduce subtle patterns
- of their own. They should be considered only a rough technique
- compared with those described above or in Section 6.1.2. At a
- minimum, the beginning of the compressed sequence should be skipped
- and only later bits used for applications requiring random bits.
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-5.3 Existing Hardware Can Be Used For Randomness
-
- As described below, many computers come with hardware that can, with
- care, be used to generate truly random quantities.
-
-5.3.1 Using Existing Sound/Video Input
-
- Increasingly computers are being built with inputs that digitize some
- real world analog source, such as sound from a microphone or video
- input from a camera. Under appropriate circumstances, such input can
- provide reasonably high quality random bits. The "input" from a
- sound digitizer with no source plugged in or a camera with the lens
- cap on, if the system has enough gain to detect anything, is
- essentially thermal noise.
-
- For example, on a SPARCstation, one can read from the /dev/audio
- device with nothing plugged into the microphone jack. Such data is
- essentially random noise although it should not be trusted without
- some checking in case of hardware failure. It will, in any case,
- need to be de-skewed as described elsewhere.
-
- Combining this with compression to de-skew one can, in UNIXese,
- generate a huge amount of medium quality random data by doing
-
- cat /dev/audio | compress - >random-bits-file
-
-5.3.2 Using Existing Disk Drives
-
- Disk drives have small random fluctuations in their rotational speed
- due to chaotic air turbulence [DAVIS]. By adding low level disk seek
- time instrumentation to a system, a series of measurements can be
- obtained that include this randomness. Such data is usually highly
- correlated so that significant processing is needed, including FFT
- (see section 5.2.3). Nevertheless experimentation has shown that,
- with such processing, disk drives easily produce 100 bits a minute or
- more of excellent random data.
-
- Partly offsetting this need for processing is the fact that disk
- drive failure will normally be rapidly noticed. Thus, problems with
- this method of random number generation due to hardware failure are
- very unlikely.
-
-6. Recommended Non-Hardware Strategy
-
- What is the best overall strategy for meeting the requirement for
- unguessable random numbers in the absence of a reliable hardware
- source? It is to obtain random input from a large number of
- uncorrelated sources and to mix them with a strong mixing function.
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- Such a function will preserve the randomness present in any of the
- sources even if other quantities being combined are fixed or easily
- guessable. This may be advisable even with a good hardware source as
- hardware can also fail, though this should be weighed against any
- increase in the chance of overall failure due to added software
- complexity.
-
-6.1 Mixing Functions
-
- A strong mixing function is one which combines two or more inputs and
- produces an output where each output bit is a different complex non-
- linear function of all the input bits. On average, changing any
- input bit will change about half the output bits. But because the
- relationship is complex and non-linear, no particular output bit is
- guaranteed to change when any particular input bit is changed.
-
- Consider the problem of converting a stream of bits that is skewed
- towards 0 or 1 to a shorter stream which is more random, as discussed
- in Section 5.2 above. This is simply another case where a strong
- mixing function is desired, mixing the input bits to produce a
- smaller number of output bits. The technique given in Section 5.2.1
- of using the parity of a number of bits is simply the result of
- successively Exclusive Or'ing them which is examined as a trivial
- mixing function immediately below. Use of stronger mixing functions
- to extract more of the randomness in a stream of skewed bits is
- examined in Section 6.1.2.
-
-6.1.1 A Trivial Mixing Function
-
- A trivial example for single bit inputs is the Exclusive Or function,
- which is equivalent to addition without carry, as show in the table
- below. This is a degenerate case in which the one output bit always
- changes for a change in either input bit. But, despite its
- simplicity, it will still provide a useful illustration.
-
- +-----------+-----------+----------+
- | input 1 | input 2 | output |
- +-----------+-----------+----------+
- | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- | 0 | 1 | 1 |
- | 1 | 0 | 1 |
- | 1 | 1 | 0 |
- +-----------+-----------+----------+
-
- If inputs 1 and 2 are uncorrelated and combined in this fashion then
- the output will be an even better (less skewed) random bit than the
- inputs. If we assume an "eccentricity" e as defined in Section 5.2
- above, then the output eccentricity relates to the input eccentricity
-
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- as follows:
-
- e = 2 * e * e
- output input 1 input 2
-
- Since e is never greater than 1/2, the eccentricity is always
- improved except in the case where at least one input is a totally
- skewed constant. This is illustrated in the following table where
- the top and left side values are the two input eccentricities and the
- entries are the output eccentricity:
-
- +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
- | e | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.40 | 0.50 |
- +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
- | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
- | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
- | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.20 |
- | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.24 | 0.30 |
- | 0.40 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.32 | 0.40 |
- | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.40 | 0.50 |
- +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
-
- However, keep in mind that the above calculations assume that the
- inputs are not correlated. If the inputs were, say, the parity of
- the number of minutes from midnight on two clocks accurate to a few
- seconds, then each might appear random if sampled at random intervals
- much longer than a minute. Yet if they were both sampled and
- combined with xor, the result would be zero most of the time.
-
-6.1.2 Stronger Mixing Functions
-
- The US Government Data Encryption Standard [DES] is an example of a
- strong mixing function for multiple bit quantities. It takes up to
- 120 bits of input (64 bits of "data" and 56 bits of "key") and
- produces 64 bits of output each of which is dependent on a complex
- non-linear function of all input bits. Other strong encryption
- functions with this characteristic can also be used by considering
- them to mix all of their key and data input bits.
-
- Another good family of mixing functions are the "message digest" or
- hashing functions such as The US Government Secure Hash Standard
- [SHS] and the MD2, MD4, MD5 [MD2, MD4, MD5] series. These functions
- all take an arbitrary amount of input and produce an output mixing
- all the input bits. The MD* series produce 128 bits of output and SHS
- produces 160 bits.
-
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- Although the message digest functions are designed for variable
- amounts of input, DES and other encryption functions can also be used
- to combine any number of inputs. If 64 bits of output is adequate,
- the inputs can be packed into a 64 bit data quantity and successive
- 56 bit keys, padding with zeros if needed, which are then used to
- successively encrypt using DES in Electronic Codebook Mode [DES
- MODES]. If more than 64 bits of output are needed, use more complex
- mixing. For example, if inputs are packed into three quantities, A,
- B, and C, use DES to encrypt A with B as a key and then with C as a
- key to produce the 1st part of the output, then encrypt B with C and
- then A for more output and, if necessary, encrypt C with A and then B
- for yet more output. Still more output can be produced by reversing
- the order of the keys given above to stretch things. The same can be
- done with the hash functions by hashing various subsets of the input
- data to produce multiple outputs. But keep in mind that it is
- impossible to get more bits of "randomness" out than are put in.
-
- An example of using a strong mixing function would be to reconsider
- the case of a string of 308 bits each of which is biased 99% towards
- zero. The parity technique given in Section 5.2.1 above reduced this
- to one bit with only a 1/1000 deviance from being equally likely a
- zero or one. But, applying the equation for information given in
- Section 2, this 308 bit sequence has 5 bits of information in it.
- Thus hashing it with SHS or MD5 and taking the bottom 5 bits of the
- result would yield 5 unbiased random bits as opposed to the single
- bit given by calculating the parity of the string.
-
-6.1.3 Diffie-Hellman as a Mixing Function
-
- Diffie-Hellman exponential key exchange is a technique that yields a
- shared secret between two parties that can be made computationally
- infeasible for a third party to determine even if they can observe
- all the messages between the two communicating parties. This shared
- secret is a mixture of initial quantities generated by each of them
- [D-H]. If these initial quantities are random, then the shared
- secret contains the combined randomness of them both, assuming they
- are uncorrelated.
-
-6.1.4 Using a Mixing Function to Stretch Random Bits
-
- While it is not necessary for a mixing function to produce the same
- or fewer bits than its inputs, mixing bits cannot "stretch" the
- amount of random unpredictability present in the inputs. Thus four
- inputs of 32 bits each where there is 12 bits worth of
- unpredicatability (such as 4,096 equally probable values) in each
- input cannot produce more than 48 bits worth of unpredictable output.
- The output can be expanded to hundreds or thousands of bits by, for
- example, mixing with successive integers, but the clever adversary's
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- search space is still 2^48 possibilities. Furthermore, mixing to
- fewer bits than are input will tend to strengthen the randomness of
- the output the way using Exclusive Or to produce one bit from two did
- above.
-
- The last table in Section 6.1.1 shows that mixing a random bit with a
- constant bit with Exclusive Or will produce a random bit. While this
- is true, it does not provide a way to "stretch" one random bit into
- more than one. If, for example, a random bit is mixed with a 0 and
- then with a 1, this produces a two bit sequence but it will always be
- either 01 or 10. Since there are only two possible values, there is
- still only the one bit of original randomness.
-
-6.1.5 Other Factors in Choosing a Mixing Function
-
- For local use, DES has the advantages that it has been widely tested
- for flaws, is widely documented, and is widely implemented with
- hardware and software implementations available all over the world
- including source code available by anonymous FTP. The SHS and MD*
- family are younger algorithms which have been less tested but there
- is no particular reason to believe they are flawed. Both MD5 and SHS
- were derived from the earlier MD4 algorithm. They all have source
- code available by anonymous FTP [SHS, MD2, MD4, MD5].
-
- DES and SHS have been vouched for the the US National Security Agency
- (NSA) on the basis of criteria that primarily remain secret. While
- this is the cause of much speculation and doubt, investigation of DES
- over the years has indicated that NSA involvement in modifications to
- its design, which originated with IBM, was primarily to strengthen
- it. No concealed or special weakness has been found in DES. It is
- almost certain that the NSA modification to MD4 to produce the SHS
- similarly strengthened the algorithm, possibly against threats not
- yet known in the public cryptographic community.
-
- DES, SHS, MD4, and MD5 are royalty free for all purposes. MD2 has
- been freely licensed only for non-profit use in connection with
- Privacy Enhanced Mail [PEM]. Between the MD* algorithms, some people
- believe that, as with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", MD2 is strong
- but too slow, MD4 is fast but too weak, and MD5 is just right.
-
- Another advantage of the MD* or similar hashing algorithms over
- encryption algorithms is that they are not subject to the same
- regulations imposed by the US Government prohibiting the unlicensed
- export or import of encryption/decryption software and hardware. The
- same should be true of DES rigged to produce an irreversible hash
- code but most DES packages are oriented to reversible encryption.
-
-
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-6.2 Non-Hardware Sources of Randomness
-
- The best source of input for mixing would be a hardware randomness
- such as disk drive timing affected by air turbulence, audio input
- with thermal noise, or radioactive decay. However, if that is not
- available there are other possibilities. These include system
- clocks, system or input/output buffers, user/system/hardware/network
- serial numbers and/or addresses and timing, and user input.
- Unfortunately, any of these sources can produce limited or
- predicatable values under some circumstances.
-
- Some of the sources listed above would be quite strong on multi-user
- systems where, in essence, each user of the system is a source of
- randomness. However, on a small single user system, such as a
- typical IBM PC or Apple Macintosh, it might be possible for an
- adversary to assemble a similar configuration. This could give the
- adversary inputs to the mixing process that were sufficiently
- correlated to those used originally as to make exhaustive search
- practical.
-
- The use of multiple random inputs with a strong mixing function is
- recommended and can overcome weakness in any particular input. For
- example, the timing and content of requested "random" user keystrokes
- can yield hundreds of random bits but conservative assumptions need
- to be made. For example, assuming a few bits of randomness if the
- inter-keystroke interval is unique in the sequence up to that point
- and a similar assumption if the key hit is unique but assuming that
- no bits of randomness are present in the initial key value or if the
- timing or key value duplicate previous values. The results of mixing
- these timings and characters typed could be further combined with
- clock values and other inputs.
-
- This strategy may make practical portable code to produce good random
- numbers for security even if some of the inputs are very weak on some
- of the target systems. However, it may still fail against a high
- grade attack on small single user systems, especially if the
- adversary has ever been able to observe the generation process in the
- past. A hardware based random source is still preferable.
-
-6.3 Cryptographically Strong Sequences
-
- In cases where a series of random quantities must be generated, an
- adversary may learn some values in the sequence. In general, they
- should not be able to predict other values from the ones that they
- know.
-
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- The correct technique is to start with a strong random seed, take
- cryptographically strong steps from that seed [CRYPTO2, CRYPTO3], and
- do not reveal the complete state of the generator in the sequence
- elements. If each value in the sequence can be calculated in a fixed
- way from the previous value, then when any value is compromised, all
- future values can be determined. This would be the case, for
- example, if each value were a constant function of the previously
- used values, even if the function were a very strong, non-invertible
- message digest function.
-
- It should be noted that if your technique for generating a sequence
- of key values is fast enough, it can trivially be used as the basis
- for a confidentiality system. If two parties use the same sequence
- generating technique and start with the same seed material, they will
- generate identical sequences. These could, for example, be xor'ed at
- one end with data being send, encrypting it, and xor'ed with this
- data as received, decrypting it due to the reversible properties of
- the xor operation.
-
-6.3.1 Traditional Strong Sequences
-
- A traditional way to achieve a strong sequence has been to have the
- values be produced by hashing the quantities produced by
- concatenating the seed with successive integers or the like and then
- mask the values obtained so as to limit the amount of generator state
- available to the adversary.
-
- It may also be possible to use an "encryption" algorithm with a
- random key and seed value to encrypt and feedback some or all of the
- output encrypted value into the value to be encrypted for the next
- iteration. Appropriate feedback techniques will usually be
- recommended with the encryption algorithm. An example is shown below
- where shifting and masking are used to combine the cypher output
- feedback. This type of feedback is recommended by the US Government
- in connection with DES [DES MODES].
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- +---------------+
- | V |
- | | n |
- +--+------------+
- | | +---------+
- | +---------> | | +-----+
- +--+ | Encrypt | <--- | Key |
- | +-------- | | +-----+
- | | +---------+
- V V
- +------------+--+
- | V | |
- | n+1 |
- +---------------+
-
- Note that if a shift of one is used, this is the same as the shift
- register technique described in Section 3 above but with the all
- important difference that the feedback is determined by a complex
- non-linear function of all bits rather than a simple linear or
- polynomial combination of output from a few bit position taps.
-
- It has been shown by Donald W. Davies that this sort of shifted
- partial output feedback significantly weakens an algorithm compared
- will feeding all of the output bits back as input. In particular,
- for DES, repeated encrypting a full 64 bit quantity will give an
- expected repeat in about 2^63 iterations. Feeding back anything less
- than 64 (and more than 0) bits will give an expected repeat in
- between 2**31 and 2**32 iterations!
-
- To predict values of a sequence from others when the sequence was
- generated by these techniques is equivalent to breaking the
- cryptosystem or inverting the "non-invertible" hashing involved with
- only partial information available. The less information revealed
- each iteration, the harder it will be for an adversary to predict the
- sequence. Thus it is best to use only one bit from each value. It
- has been shown that in some cases this makes it impossible to break a
- system even when the cryptographic system is invertible and can be
- broken if all of each generated value was revealed.
-
-6.3.2 The Blum Blum Shub Sequence Generator
-
- Currently the generator which has the strongest public proof of
- strength is called the Blum Blum Shub generator after its inventors
- [BBS]. It is also very simple and is based on quadratic residues.
- It's only disadvantage is that is is computationally intensive
- compared with the traditional techniques give in 6.3.1 above. This
- is not a serious draw back if it is used for moderately infrequent
- purposes, such as generating session keys.
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- Simply choose two large prime numbers, say p and q, which both have
- the property that you get a remainder of 3 if you divide them by 4.
- Let n = p * q. Then you choose a random number x relatively prime to
- n. The initial seed for the generator and the method for calculating
- subsequent values are then
-
- 2
- s = ( x )(Mod n)
- 0
-
- 2
- s = ( s )(Mod n)
- i+1 i
-
- You must be careful to use only a few bits from the bottom of each s.
- It is always safe to use only the lowest order bit. If you use no
- more than the
-
- log ( log ( s ) )
- 2 2 i
-
- low order bits, then predicting any additional bits from a sequence
- generated in this manner is provable as hard as factoring n. As long
- as the initial x is secret, you can even make n public if you want.
-
- An intersting characteristic of this generator is that you can
- directly calculate any of the s values. In particular
-
- i
- ( ( 2 )(Mod (( p - 1 ) * ( q - 1 )) ) )
- s = ( s )(Mod n)
- i 0
-
- This means that in applications where many keys are generated in this
- fashion, it is not necessary to save them all. Each key can be
- effectively indexed and recovered from that small index and the
- initial s and n.
-
-7. Key Generation Standards
-
- Several public standards are now in place for the generation of keys.
- Two of these are described below. Both use DES but any equally
- strong or stronger mixing function could be substituted.
-
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-7.1 US DoD Recommendations for Password Generation
-
- The United States Department of Defense has specific recommendations
- for password generation [DoD]. They suggest using the US Data
- Encryption Standard [DES] in Output Feedback Mode [DES MODES] as
- follows:
-
- use an initialization vector determined from
- the system clock,
- system ID,
- user ID, and
- date and time;
- use a key determined from
- system interrupt registers,
- system status registers, and
- system counters; and,
- as plain text, use an external randomly generated 64 bit
- quantity such as 8 characters typed in by a system
- administrator.
-
- The password can then be calculated from the 64 bit "cipher text"
- generated in 64-bit Output Feedback Mode. As many bits as are needed
- can be taken from these 64 bits and expanded into a pronounceable
- word, phrase, or other format if a human being needs to remember the
- password.
-
-7.2 X9.17 Key Generation
-
- The American National Standards Institute has specified a method for
- generating a sequence of keys as follows:
-
- s is the initial 64 bit seed
- 0
-
- g is the sequence of generated 64 bit key quantities
- n
-
- k is a random key reserved for generating this key sequence
-
- t is the time at which a key is generated to as fine a resolution
- as is available (up to 64 bits).
-
- DES ( K, Q ) is the DES encryption of quantity Q with key K
-
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- g = DES ( k, DES ( k, t ) .xor. s )
- n n
-
- s = DES ( k, DES ( k, t ) .xor. g )
- n+1 n
-
- If g sub n is to be used as a DES key, then every eighth bit should
- be adjusted for parity for that use but the entire 64 bit unmodified
- g should be used in calculating the next s.
-
-8. Examples of Randomness Required
-
- Below are two examples showing rough calculations of needed
- randomness for security. The first is for moderate security
- passwords while the second assumes a need for a very high security
- cryptographic key.
-
-8.1 Password Generation
-
- Assume that user passwords change once a year and it is desired that
- the probability that an adversary could guess the password for a
- particular account be less than one in a thousand. Further assume
- that sending a password to the system is the only way to try a
- password. Then the crucial question is how often an adversary can
- try possibilities. Assume that delays have been introduced into a
- system so that, at most, an adversary can make one password try every
- six seconds. That's 600 per hour or about 15,000 per day or about
- 5,000,000 tries in a year. Assuming any sort of monitoring, it is
- unlikely someone could actually try continuously for a year. In
- fact, even if log files are only checked monthly, 500,000 tries is
- more plausible before the attack is noticed and steps taken to change
- passwords and make it harder to try more passwords.
-
- To have a one in a thousand chance of guessing the password in
- 500,000 tries implies a universe of at least 500,000,000 passwords or
- about 2^29. Thus 29 bits of randomness are needed. This can probably
- be achieved using the US DoD recommended inputs for password
- generation as it has 8 inputs which probably average over 5 bits of
- randomness each (see section 7.1). Using a list of 1000 words, the
- password could be expressed as a three word phrase (1,000,000,000
- possibilities) or, using case insensitive letters and digits, six
- would suffice ((26+10)^6 = 2,176,782,336 possibilities).
-
- For a higher security password, the number of bits required goes up.
- To decrease the probability by 1,000 requires increasing the universe
- of passwords by the same factor which adds about 10 bits. Thus to
- have only a one in a million chance of a password being guessed under
- the above scenario would require 39 bits of randomness and a password
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- that was a four word phrase from a 1000 word list or eight
- letters/digits. To go to a one in 10^9 chance, 49 bits of randomness
- are needed implying a five word phrase or ten letter/digit password.
-
- In a real system, of course, there are also other factors. For
- example, the larger and harder to remember passwords are, the more
- likely users are to write them down resulting in an additional risk
- of compromise.
-
-8.2 A Very High Security Cryptographic Key
-
- Assume that a very high security key is needed for symmetric
- encryption / decryption between two parties. Assume an adversary can
- observe communications and knows the algorithm being used. Within
- the field of random possibilities, the adversary can try key values
- in hopes of finding the one in use. Assume further that brute force
- trial of keys is the best the adversary can do.
-
-8.2.1 Effort per Key Trial
-
- How much effort will it take to try each key? For very high security
- applications it is best to assume a low value of effort. Even if it
- would clearly take tens of thousands of computer cycles or more to
- try a single key, there may be some pattern that enables huge blocks
- of key values to be tested with much less effort per key. Thus it is
- probably best to assume no more than a couple hundred cycles per key.
- (There is no clear lower bound on this as computers operate in
- parallel on a number of bits and a poor encryption algorithm could
- allow many keys or even groups of keys to be tested in parallel.
- However, we need to assume some value and can hope that a reasonably
- strong algorithm has been chosen for our hypothetical high security
- task.)
-
- If the adversary can command a highly parallel processor or a large
- network of work stations, 2*10^10 cycles per second is probably a
- minimum assumption for availability today. Looking forward just a
- couple years, there should be at least an order of magnitude
- improvement. Thus assuming 10^9 keys could be checked per second or
- 3.6*10^11 per hour or 6*10^13 per week or 2.4*10^14 per month is
- reasonable. This implies a need for a minimum of 51 bits of
- randomness in keys to be sure they cannot be found in a month. Even
- then it is possible that, a few years from now, a highly determined
- and resourceful adversary could break the key in 2 weeks (on average
- they need try only half the keys).
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-8.2.2 Meet in the Middle Attacks
-
- If chosen or known plain text and the resulting encrypted text are
- available, a "meet in the middle" attack is possible if the structure
- of the encryption algorithm allows it. (In a known plain text
- attack, the adversary knows all or part of the messages being
- encrypted, possibly some standard header or trailer fields. In a
- chosen plain text attack, the adversary can force some chosen plain
- text to be encrypted, possibly by "leaking" an exciting text that
- would then be sent by the adversary over an encrypted channel.)
-
- An oversimplified explanation of the meet in the middle attack is as
- follows: the adversary can half-encrypt the known or chosen plain
- text with all possible first half-keys, sort the output, then half-
- decrypt the encoded text with all the second half-keys. If a match
- is found, the full key can be assembled from the halves and used to
- decrypt other parts of the message or other messages. At its best,
- this type of attack can halve the exponent of the work required by
- the adversary while adding a large but roughly constant factor of
- effort. To be assured of safety against this, a doubling of the
- amount of randomness in the key to a minimum of 102 bits is required.
-
- The meet in the middle attack assumes that the cryptographic
- algorithm can be decomposed in this way but we can not rule that out
- without a deep knowledge of the algorithm. Even if a basic algorithm
- is not subject to a meet in the middle attack, an attempt to produce
- a stronger algorithm by applying the basic algorithm twice (or two
- different algorithms sequentially) with different keys may gain less
- added security than would be expected. Such a composite algorithm
- would be subject to a meet in the middle attack.
-
- Enormous resources may be required to mount a meet in the middle
- attack but they are probably within the range of the national
- security services of a major nation. Essentially all nations spy on
- other nations government traffic and several nations are believed to
- spy on commercial traffic for economic advantage.
-
-8.2.3 Other Considerations
-
- Since we have not even considered the possibilities of special
- purpose code breaking hardware or just how much of a safety margin we
- want beyond our assumptions above, probably a good minimum for a very
- high security cryptographic key is 128 bits of randomness which
- implies a minimum key length of 128 bits. If the two parties agree
- on a key by Diffie-Hellman exchange [D-H], then in principle only
- half of this randomness would have to be supplied by each party.
- However, there is probably some correlation between their random
- inputs so it is probably best to assume that each party needs to
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- provide at least 96 bits worth of randomness for very high security
- if Diffie-Hellman is used.
-
- This amount of randomness is beyond the limit of that in the inputs
- recommended by the US DoD for password generation and could require
- user typing timing, hardware random number generation, or other
- sources.
-
- It should be noted that key length calculations such at those above
- are controversial and depend on various assumptions about the
- cryptographic algorithms in use. In some cases, a professional with
- a deep knowledge of code breaking techniques and of the strength of
- the algorithm in use could be satisfied with less than half of the
- key size derived above.
-
-9. Conclusion
-
- Generation of unguessable "random" secret quantities for security use
- is an essential but difficult task.
-
- We have shown that hardware techniques to produce such randomness
- would be relatively simple. In particular, the volume and quality
- would not need to be high and existing computer hardware, such as
- disk drives, can be used. Computational techniques are available to
- process low quality random quantities from multiple sources or a
- larger quantity of such low quality input from one source and produce
- a smaller quantity of higher quality, less predictable key material.
- In the absence of hardware sources of randomness, a variety of user
- and software sources can frequently be used instead with care;
- however, most modern systems already have hardware, such as disk
- drives or audio input, that could be used to produce high quality
- randomness.
-
- Once a sufficient quantity of high quality seed key material (a few
- hundred bits) is available, strong computational techniques are
- available to produce cryptographically strong sequences of
- unpredicatable quantities from this seed material.
-
-10. Security Considerations
-
- The entirety of this document concerns techniques and recommendations
- for generating unguessable "random" quantities for use as passwords,
- cryptographic keys, and similar security uses.
-
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-References
-
- [ASYMMETRIC] - Secure Communications and Asymmetric Cryptosystems,
- edited by Gustavus J. Simmons, AAAS Selected Symposium 69, Westview
- Press, Inc.
-
- [BBS] - A Simple Unpredictable Pseudo-Random Number Generator, SIAM
- Journal on Computing, v. 15, n. 2, 1986, L. Blum, M. Blum, & M. Shub.
-
- [BRILLINGER] - Time Series: Data Analysis and Theory, Holden-Day,
- 1981, David Brillinger.
-
- [CRC] - C.R.C. Standard Mathematical Tables, Chemical Rubber
- Publishing Company.
-
- [CRYPTO1] - Cryptography: A Primer, A Wiley-Interscience Publication,
- John Wiley & Sons, 1981, Alan G. Konheim.
-
- [CRYPTO2] - Cryptography: A New Dimension in Computer Data Security,
- A Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, 1982, Carl H.
- Meyer & Stephen M. Matyas.
-
- [CRYPTO3] - Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source
- Code in C, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, Bruce Schneier.
-
- [DAVIS] - Cryptographic Randomness from Air Turbulence in Disk
- Drives, Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '94, Springer-Verlag Lecture
- Notes in Computer Science #839, 1984, Don Davis, Ross Ihaka, and
- Philip Fenstermacher.
-
- [DES] - Data Encryption Standard, United States of America,
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and
- Technology, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 46-1.
- - Data Encryption Algorithm, American National Standards Institute,
- ANSI X3.92-1981.
- (See also FIPS 112, Password Usage, which includes FORTRAN code for
- performing DES.)
-
- [DES MODES] - DES Modes of Operation, United States of America,
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and
- Technology, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 81.
- - Data Encryption Algorithm - Modes of Operation, American National
- Standards Institute, ANSI X3.106-1983.
-
- [D-H] - New Directions in Cryptography, IEEE Transactions on
- Information Technology, November, 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin
- E. Hellman.
-
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- [DoD] - Password Management Guideline, United States of America,
- Department of Defense, Computer Security Center, CSC-STD-002-85.
- (See also FIPS 112, Password Usage, which incorporates CSC-STD-002-85
- as one of its appendices.)
-
- [GIFFORD] - Natural Random Number, MIT/LCS/TM-371, September 1988,
- David K. Gifford
-
- [KNUTH] - The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical
- Algorithms, Chapter 3: Random Numbers. Addison Wesley Publishing
- Company, Second Edition 1982, Donald E. Knuth.
-
- [KRAWCZYK] - How to Predict Congruential Generators, Journal of
- Algorithms, V. 13, N. 4, December 1992, H. Krawczyk
-
- [MD2] - The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC1319, April 1992, B.
- Kaliski
- [MD4] - The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC1320, April 1992, R.
- Rivest
- [MD5] - The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC1321, April 1992, R.
- Rivest
-
- [PEM] - RFCs 1421 through 1424:
- - RFC 1424, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- IV: Key Certification and Related Services, 02/10/1993, B. Kaliski
- - RFC 1423, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers, 02/10/1993, D. Balenson
- - RFC 1422, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- II: Certificate-Based Key Management, 02/10/1993, S. Kent
- - RFC 1421, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I:
- Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures, 02/10/1993, J. Linn
-
- [SHANNON] - The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of
- Illinois Press, 1963, Claude E. Shannon. (originally from: Bell
- System Technical Journal, July and October 1948)
-
- [SHIFT1] - Shift Register Sequences, Aegean Park Press, Revised
- Edition 1982, Solomon W. Golomb.
-
- [SHIFT2] - Cryptanalysis of Shift-Register Generated Stream Cypher
- Systems, Aegean Park Press, 1984, Wayne G. Barker.
-
- [SHS] - Secure Hash Standard, United States of American, National
- Institute of Science and Technology, Federal Information Processing
- Standard (FIPS) 180, April 1993.
-
- [STERN] - Secret Linear Congruential Generators are not
- Cryptograhically Secure, Proceedings of IEEE STOC, 1987, J. Stern.
-
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- [VON NEUMANN] - Various techniques used in connection with random
- digits, von Neumann's Collected Works, Vol. 5, Pergamon Press, 1963,
- J. von Neumann.
-
-Authors' Addresses
-
- Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 550 King Street, LKG2-1/BB3
- Littleton, MA 01460
-
- Phone: +1 508 486 6577(w) +1 508 287 4877(h)
- EMail: dee@lkg.dec.com
-
-
- Stephen D. Crocker
- CyberCash Inc.
- 2086 Hunters Crest Way
- Vienna, VA 22181
-
- Phone: +1 703-620-1222(w) +1 703-391-2651 (fax)
- EMail: crocker@cybercash.com
-
-
- Jeffrey I. Schiller
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 77 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
-
- Phone: +1 617 253 0161(w)
- EMail: jis@mit.edu
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-Network Working Group R. Srinivasan
-Request for Comments: 1831 Sun Microsystems
-Category: Standards Track August 1995
-
-
- RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-ABSTRACT
-
- This document describes the ONC Remote Procedure Call (ONC RPC
- Version 2) protocol as it is currently deployed and accepted. "ONC"
- stands for "Open Network Computing".
-
-TABLE OF CONTENTS
-
- 1. INTRODUCTION 2
- 2. TERMINOLOGY 2
- 3. THE RPC MODEL 2
- 4. TRANSPORTS AND SEMANTICS 4
- 5. BINDING AND RENDEZVOUS INDEPENDENCE 5
- 6. AUTHENTICATION 5
- 7. RPC PROTOCOL REQUIREMENTS 5
- 7.1 RPC Programs and Procedures 6
- 7.2 Authentication 7
- 7.3 Program Number Assignment 8
- 7.4 Other Uses of the RPC Protocol 8
- 7.4.1 Batching 8
- 7.4.2 Broadcast Remote Procedure Calls 8
- 8. THE RPC MESSAGE PROTOCOL 9
- 9. AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS 12
- 9.1 Null Authentication 13
- 10. RECORD MARKING STANDARD 13
- 11. THE RPC LANGUAGE 13
- 11.1 An Example Service Described in the RPC Language 13
- 11.2 The RPC Language Specification 14
- 11.3 Syntax Notes 15
- APPENDIX A: SYSTEM AUTHENTICATION 16
- REFERENCES 17
- Security Considerations 18
- Author's Address 18
-
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-
-1. INTRODUCTION
-
- This document specifies version two of the message protocol used in
- ONC Remote Procedure Call (RPC). The message protocol is specified
- with the eXternal Data Representation (XDR) language [9]. This
- document assumes that the reader is familiar with XDR. It does not
- attempt to justify remote procedure calls systems or describe their
- use. The paper by Birrell and Nelson [1] is recommended as an
- excellent background for the remote procedure call concept.
-
-2. TERMINOLOGY
-
- This document discusses clients, calls, servers, replies, services,
- programs, procedures, and versions. Each remote procedure call has
- two sides: an active client side that makes the call to a server,
- which sends back a reply. A network service is a collection of one
- or more remote programs. A remote program implements one or more
- remote procedures; the procedures, their parameters, and results are
- documented in the specific program's protocol specification. A
- server may support more than one version of a remote program in order
- to be compatible with changing protocols.
-
- For example, a network file service may be composed of two programs.
- One program may deal with high-level applications such as file system
- access control and locking. The other may deal with low-level file
- input and output and have procedures like "read" and "write". A
- client of the network file service would call the procedures
- associated with the two programs of the service on behalf of the
- client.
-
- The terms client and server only apply to a particular transaction; a
- particular hardware entity (host) or software entity (process or
- program) could operate in both roles at different times. For
- example, a program that supplies remote execution service could also
- be a client of a network file service.
-
-3. THE RPC MODEL
-
- The ONC RPC protocol is based on the remote procedure call model,
- which is similar to the local procedure call model. In the local
- case, the caller places arguments to a procedure in some well-
- specified location (such as a register window). It then transfers
- control to the procedure, and eventually regains control. At that
- point, the results of the procedure are extracted from the well-
- specified location, and the caller continues execution.
-
-
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- The remote procedure call model is similar. One thread of control
- logically winds through two processes: the caller's process, and a
- server's process. The caller process first sends a call message to
- the server process and waits (blocks) for a reply message. The call
- message includes the procedure's parameters, and the reply message
- includes the procedure's results. Once the reply message is
- received, the results of the procedure are extracted, and caller's
- execution is resumed.
-
- On the server side, a process is dormant awaiting the arrival of a
- call message. When one arrives, the server process extracts the
- procedure's parameters, computes the results, sends a reply message,
- and then awaits the next call message.
-
- In this model, only one of the two processes is active at any given
- time. However, this model is only given as an example. The ONC RPC
- protocol makes no restrictions on the concurrency model implemented,
- and others are possible. For example, an implementation may choose
- to have RPC calls be asynchronous, so that the client may do useful
- work while waiting for the reply from the server. Another
- possibility is to have the server create a separate task to process
- an incoming call, so that the original server can be free to receive
- other requests.
-
- There are a few important ways in which remote procedure calls differ
- from local procedure calls:
-
- 1. Error handling: failures of the remote server or network must
- be handled when using remote procedure calls.
-
- 2. Global variables and side-effects: since the server does not
- have access to the client's address space, hidden arguments cannot
- be passed as global variables or returned as side effects.
-
- 3. Performance: remote procedures usually operate one or more
- orders of magnitude slower than local procedure calls.
-
- 4. Authentication: since remote procedure calls can be transported
- over unsecured networks, authentication may be necessary.
- Authentication prevents one entity from masquerading as some other
- entity.
-
- The conclusion is that even though there are tools to automatically
- generate client and server libraries for a given service, protocols
- must still be designed carefully.
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-4. TRANSPORTS AND SEMANTICS
-
- The RPC protocol can be implemented on several different transport
- protocols. The RPC protocol does not care how a message is passed
- from one process to another, but only with specification and
- interpretation of messages. However, the application may wish to
- obtain information about (and perhaps control over) the transport
- layer through an interface not specified in this document. For
- example, the transport protocol may impose a restriction on the
- maximum size of RPC messages, or it may be stream-oriented like TCP
- with no size limit. The client and server must agree on their
- transport protocol choices.
-
- It is important to point out that RPC does not try to implement any
- kind of reliability and that the application may need to be aware of
- the type of transport protocol underneath RPC. If it knows it is
- running on top of a reliable transport such as TCP [6], then most of
- the work is already done for it. On the other hand, if it is running
- on top of an unreliable transport such as UDP [7], it must implement
- its own time-out, retransmission, and duplicate detection policies as
- the RPC protocol does not provide these services.
-
- Because of transport independence, the RPC protocol does not attach
- specific semantics to the remote procedures or their execution
- requirements. Semantics can be inferred from (but should be
- explicitly specified by) the underlying transport protocol. For
- example, consider RPC running on top of an unreliable transport such
- as UDP. If an application retransmits RPC call messages after time-
- outs, and does not receive a reply, it cannot infer anything about
- the number of times the procedure was executed. If it does receive a
- reply, then it can infer that the procedure was executed at least
- once.
-
- A server may wish to remember previously granted requests from a
- client and not regrant them in order to insure some degree of
- execute-at-most-once semantics. A server can do this by taking
- advantage of the transaction ID that is packaged with every RPC
- message. The main use of this transaction ID is by the client RPC
- entity in matching replies to calls. However, a client application
- may choose to reuse its previous transaction ID when retransmitting a
- call. The server may choose to remember this ID after executing a
- call and not execute calls with the same ID in order to achieve some
- degree of execute-at-most-once semantics. The server is not allowed
- to examine this ID in any other way except as a test for equality.
-
- On the other hand, if using a "reliable" transport such as TCP, the
- application can infer from a reply message that the procedure was
- executed exactly once, but if it receives no reply message, it cannot
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- assume that the remote procedure was not executed. Note that even if
- a connection-oriented protocol like TCP is used, an application still
- needs time-outs and reconnection to handle server crashes.
-
- There are other possibilities for transports besides datagram- or
- connection-oriented protocols. For example, a request-reply protocol
- such as VMTP [2] is perhaps a natural transport for RPC. ONC RPC
- uses both TCP and UDP transport protocols. Section 10 (RECORD
- MARKING STANDARD) describes the mechanism employed by ONC RPC to
- utilize a connection-oriented, stream-oriented transport such as TCP.
-
-5. BINDING AND RENDEZVOUS INDEPENDENCE
-
- The act of binding a particular client to a particular service and
- transport parameters is NOT part of this RPC protocol specification.
- This important and necessary function is left up to some higher-level
- software.
-
- Implementors could think of the RPC protocol as the jump-subroutine
- instruction ("JSR") of a network; the loader (binder) makes JSR
- useful, and the loader itself uses JSR to accomplish its task.
- Likewise, the binding software makes RPC useful, possibly using RPC
- to accomplish this task.
-
-6. AUTHENTICATION
-
- The RPC protocol provides the fields necessary for a client to
- identify itself to a service, and vice-versa, in each call and reply
- message. Security and access control mechanisms can be built on top
- of this message authentication. Several different authentication
- protocols can be supported. A field in the RPC header indicates
- which protocol is being used. More information on specific
- authentication protocols is in section 9: "Authentication Protocols".
-
-7. RPC PROTOCOL REQUIREMENTS
-
- The RPC protocol must provide for the following:
-
- (1) Unique specification of a procedure to be called.
- (2) Provisions for matching response messages to request messages.
- (3) Provisions for authenticating the caller to service and
- vice-versa.
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- Besides these requirements, features that detect the following are
- worth supporting because of protocol roll-over errors, implementation
- bugs, user error, and network administration:
-
- (1) RPC protocol mismatches.
- (2) Remote program protocol version mismatches.
- (3) Protocol errors (such as misspecification of a procedure's
- parameters).
- (4) Reasons why remote authentication failed.
- (5) Any other reasons why the desired procedure was not called.
-
-7.1 RPC Programs and Procedures
-
- The RPC call message has three unsigned integer fields -- remote
- program number, remote program version number, and remote procedure
- number -- which uniquely identify the procedure to be called.
- Program numbers are administered by a central authority
- (rpc@sun.com). Once implementors have a program number, they can
- implement their remote program; the first implementation would most
- likely have the version number 1. Because most new protocols evolve,
- a version field of the call message identifies which version of the
- protocol the caller is using. Version numbers enable support of both
- old and new protocols through the same server process.
-
- The procedure number identifies the procedure to be called. These
- numbers are documented in the specific program's protocol
- specification. For example, a file service's protocol specification
- may state that its procedure number 5 is "read" and procedure number
- 12 is "write".
-
- Just as remote program protocols may change over several versions,
- the actual RPC message protocol could also change. Therefore, the
- call message also has in it the RPC version number, which is always
- equal to two for the version of RPC described here.
-
- The reply message to a request message has enough information to
- distinguish the following error conditions:
-
- (1) The remote implementation of RPC does not support protocol
- version 2. The lowest and highest supported RPC version numbers
- are returned.
-
- (2) The remote program is not available on the remote system.
-
- (3) The remote program does not support the requested version
- number. The lowest and highest supported remote program version
- numbers are returned.
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- (4) The requested procedure number does not exist. (This is
- usually a client side protocol or programming error.)
-
- (5) The parameters to the remote procedure appear to be garbage
- from the server's point of view. (Again, this is usually caused
- by a disagreement about the protocol between client and service.)
-
-7.2 Authentication
-
- Provisions for authentication of caller to service and vice-versa are
- provided as a part of the RPC protocol. The call message has two
- authentication fields, the credential and verifier. The reply
- message has one authentication field, the response verifier. The RPC
- protocol specification defines all three fields to be the following
- opaque type (in the eXternal Data Representation (XDR) language [9]):
-
- enum auth_flavor {
- AUTH_NONE = 0,
- AUTH_SYS = 1,
- AUTH_SHORT = 2
- /* and more to be defined */
- };
-
- struct opaque_auth {
- auth_flavor flavor;
- opaque body<400>;
- };
-
- In other words, any "opaque_auth" structure is an "auth_flavor"
- enumeration followed by up to 400 bytes which are opaque to
- (uninterpreted by) the RPC protocol implementation.
-
- The interpretation and semantics of the data contained within the
- authentication fields is specified by individual, independent
- authentication protocol specifications. (Section 9 defines the
- various authentication protocols.)
-
- If authentication parameters were rejected, the reply message
- contains information stating why they were rejected.
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-7.3 Program Number Assignment
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- Program numbers are given out in groups of hexadecimal 20000000
- (decimal 536870912) according to the following chart:
-
- 0 - 1fffffff defined by rpc@sun.com
- 20000000 - 3fffffff defined by user
- 40000000 - 5fffffff transient
- 60000000 - 7fffffff reserved
- 80000000 - 9fffffff reserved
- a0000000 - bfffffff reserved
- c0000000 - dfffffff reserved
- e0000000 - ffffffff reserved
-
- The first group is a range of numbers administered by rpc@sun.com and
- should be identical for all sites. The second range is for
- applications peculiar to a particular site. This range is intended
- primarily for debugging new programs. When a site develops an
- application that might be of general interest, that application
- should be given an assigned number in the first range. Application
- developers may apply for blocks of RPC program numbers in the first
- range by sending electronic mail to "rpc@sun.com". The third group
- is for applications that generate program numbers dynamically. The
- final groups are reserved for future use, and should not be used.
-
-7.4 Other Uses of the RPC Protocol
-
- The intended use of this protocol is for calling remote procedures.
- Normally, each call message is matched with a reply message.
- However, the protocol itself is a message-passing protocol with which
- other (non-procedure call) protocols can be implemented.
-
-7.4.1 Batching
-
- Batching is useful when a client wishes to send an arbitrarily large
- sequence of call messages to a server. Batching typically uses
- reliable byte stream protocols (like TCP) for its transport. In the
- case of batching, the client never waits for a reply from the server,
- and the server does not send replies to batch calls. A sequence of
- batch calls is usually terminated by a legitimate remote procedure
- call operation in order to flush the pipeline and get positive
- acknowledgement.
-
-7.4.2 Broadcast Remote Procedure Calls
-
- In broadcast protocols, the client sends a broadcast call to the
- network and waits for numerous replies. This requires the use of
- packet-based protocols (like UDP) as its transport protocol. Servers
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- that support broadcast protocols usually respond only when the call
- is successfully processed and are silent in the face of errors, but
- this varies with the application.
-
- The principles of broadcast RPC also apply to multicasting - an RPC
- request can be sent to a multicast address.
-
-8. THE RPC MESSAGE PROTOCOL
-
- This section defines the RPC message protocol in the XDR data
- description language [9].
-
- enum msg_type {
- CALL = 0,
- REPLY = 1
- };
-
- A reply to a call message can take on two forms: The message was
- either accepted or rejected.
-
- enum reply_stat {
- MSG_ACCEPTED = 0,
- MSG_DENIED = 1
- };
-
- Given that a call message was accepted, the following is the status
- of an attempt to call a remote procedure.
-
- enum accept_stat {
- SUCCESS = 0, /* RPC executed successfully */
- PROG_UNAVAIL = 1, /* remote hasn't exported program */
- PROG_MISMATCH = 2, /* remote can't support version # */
- PROC_UNAVAIL = 3, /* program can't support procedure */
- GARBAGE_ARGS = 4, /* procedure can't decode params */
- SYSTEM_ERR = 5 /* errors like memory allocation failure */
- };
-
- Reasons why a call message was rejected:
-
- enum reject_stat {
- RPC_MISMATCH = 0, /* RPC version number != 2 */
- AUTH_ERROR = 1 /* remote can't authenticate caller */
- };
-
- Why authentication failed:
-
- enum auth_stat {
- AUTH_OK = 0, /* success */
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- /*
- * failed at remote end
- */
- AUTH_BADCRED = 1, /* bad credential (seal broken) */
- AUTH_REJECTEDCRED = 2, /* client must begin new session */
- AUTH_BADVERF = 3, /* bad verifier (seal broken) */
- AUTH_REJECTEDVERF = 4, /* verifier expired or replayed */
- AUTH_TOOWEAK = 5, /* rejected for security reasons */
- /*
- * failed locally
- */
- AUTH_INVALIDRESP = 6, /* bogus response verifier */
- AUTH_FAILED = 7 /* reason unknown */
- };
-
- The RPC message:
-
- All messages start with a transaction identifier, xid, followed by a
- two-armed discriminated union. The union's discriminant is a
- msg_type which switches to one of the two types of the message. The
- xid of a REPLY message always matches that of the initiating CALL
- message. NB: The xid field is only used for clients matching reply
- messages with call messages or for servers detecting retransmissions;
- the service side cannot treat this id as any type of sequence number.
-
- struct rpc_msg {
- unsigned int xid;
- union switch (msg_type mtype) {
- case CALL:
- call_body cbody;
- case REPLY:
- reply_body rbody;
- } body;
- };
-
- Body of an RPC call:
-
- In version 2 of the RPC protocol specification, rpcvers must be equal
- to 2. The fields prog, vers, and proc specify the remote program,
- its version number, and the procedure within the remote program to be
- called. After these fields are two authentication parameters: cred
- (authentication credential) and verf (authentication verifier). The
- two authentication parameters are followed by the parameters to the
- remote procedure, which are specified by the specific program
- protocol.
-
- The purpose of the authentication verifier is to validate the
- authentication credential. Note that these two items are
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- entity.
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- struct call_body {
- unsigned int rpcvers; /* must be equal to two (2) */
- unsigned int prog;
- unsigned int vers;
- unsigned int proc;
- opaque_auth cred;
- opaque_auth verf;
- /* procedure specific parameters start here */
- };
-
- Body of a reply to an RPC call:
-
- union reply_body switch (reply_stat stat) {
- case MSG_ACCEPTED:
- accepted_reply areply;
- case MSG_DENIED:
- rejected_reply rreply;
- } reply;
-
- Reply to an RPC call that was accepted by the server:
-
- There could be an error even though the call was accepted. The first
- field is an authentication verifier that the server generates in
- order to validate itself to the client. It is followed by a union
- whose discriminant is an enum accept_stat. The SUCCESS arm of the
- union is protocol specific. The PROG_UNAVAIL, PROC_UNAVAIL,
- GARBAGE_ARGS, and SYSTEM_ERR arms of the union are void. The
- PROG_MISMATCH arm specifies the lowest and highest version numbers of
- the remote program supported by the server.
-
- struct accepted_reply {
- opaque_auth verf;
- union switch (accept_stat stat) {
- case SUCCESS:
- opaque results[0];
- /*
- * procedure-specific results start here
- */
- case PROG_MISMATCH:
- struct {
- unsigned int low;
- unsigned int high;
- } mismatch_info;
- default:
- /*
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- * GARBAGE_ARGS, and SYSTEM_ERR.
- */
- void;
- } reply_data;
- };
-
- Reply to an RPC call that was rejected by the server:
-
- The call can be rejected for two reasons: either the server is not
- running a compatible version of the RPC protocol (RPC_MISMATCH), or
- the server rejects the identity of the caller (AUTH_ERROR). In case
- of an RPC version mismatch, the server returns the lowest and highest
- supported RPC version numbers. In case of invalid authentication,
- failure status is returned.
-
- union rejected_reply switch (reject_stat stat) {
- case RPC_MISMATCH:
- struct {
- unsigned int low;
- unsigned int high;
- } mismatch_info;
- case AUTH_ERROR:
- auth_stat stat;
- };
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-9. AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS
-
- As previously stated, authentication parameters are opaque, but
- open-ended to the rest of the RPC protocol. This section defines two
- standard "flavors" of authentication. Implementors are free to
- invent new authentication types, with the same rules of flavor number
- assignment as there is for program number assignment. The "flavor"
- of a credential or verifier refers to the value of the "flavor" field
- in the opaque_auth structure. Flavor numbers, like RPC program
- numbers, are also administered centrally, and developers may assign
- new flavor numbers by applying through electronic mail to
- "rpc@sun.com". Credentials and verifiers are represented as variable
- length opaque data (the "body" field in the opaque_auth structure).
-
- In this document, two flavors of authentication are described. Of
- these, Null authentication (described in the next subsection) is
- mandatory - it must be available in all implementations. System
- authentication is described in Appendix A. It is strongly
- recommended that implementors include System authentication in their
- implementations. Many applications use this style of authentication,
- and availability of this flavor in an implementation will enhance
- interoperability.
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-9.1 Null Authentication
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- Often calls must be made where the client does not care about its
- identity or the server does not care who the client is. In this
- case, the flavor of the RPC message's credential, verifier, and reply
- verifier is "AUTH_NONE". Opaque data associated with "AUTH_NONE" is
- undefined. It is recommended that the length of the opaque data be
- zero.
-
-10. RECORD MARKING STANDARD
-
- When RPC messages are passed on top of a byte stream transport
- protocol (like TCP), it is necessary to delimit one message from
- another in order to detect and possibly recover from protocol errors.
- This is called record marking (RM). One RPC message fits into one RM
- record.
-
- A record is composed of one or more record fragments. A record
- fragment is a four-byte header followed by 0 to (2**31) - 1 bytes of
- fragment data. The bytes encode an unsigned binary number; as with
- XDR integers, the byte order is from highest to lowest. The number
- encodes two values -- a boolean which indicates whether the fragment
- is the last fragment of the record (bit value 1 implies the fragment
- is the last fragment) and a 31-bit unsigned binary value which is the
- length in bytes of the fragment's data. The boolean value is the
- highest-order bit of the header; the length is the 31 low-order bits.
- (Note that this record specification is NOT in XDR standard form!)
-
-11. THE RPC LANGUAGE
-
- Just as there was a need to describe the XDR data-types in a formal
- language, there is also need to describe the procedures that operate
- on these XDR data-types in a formal language as well. The RPC
- Language is an extension to the XDR language, with the addition of
- "program", "procedure", and "version" declarations. The following
- example is used to describe the essence of the language.
-
-11.1 An Example Service Described in the RPC Language
-
- Here is an example of the specification of a simple ping program.
-
- program PING_PROG {
- /*
- * Latest and greatest version
- */
- version PING_VERS_PINGBACK {
- void
- PINGPROC_NULL(void) = 0;
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- /*
- * Ping the client, return the round-trip time
- * (in microseconds). Returns -1 if the operation
- * timed out.
- */
- int
- PINGPROC_PINGBACK(void) = 1;
- } = 2;
-
- /*
- * Original version
- */
- version PING_VERS_ORIG {
- void
- PINGPROC_NULL(void) = 0;
- } = 1;
- } = 1;
-
- const PING_VERS = 2; /* latest version */
-
- The first version described is PING_VERS_PINGBACK with two
- procedures, PINGPROC_NULL and PINGPROC_PINGBACK. PINGPROC_NULL takes
- no arguments and returns no results, but it is useful for computing
- round-trip times from the client to the server and back again. By
- convention, procedure 0 of any RPC protocol should have the same
- semantics, and never require any kind of authentication. The second
- procedure is used for the client to have the server do a reverse ping
- operation back to the client, and it returns the amount of time (in
- microseconds) that the operation used. The next version,
- PING_VERS_ORIG, is the original version of the protocol and it does
- not contain PINGPROC_PINGBACK procedure. It is useful for
- compatibility with old client programs, and as this program matures
- it may be dropped from the protocol entirely.
-
-11.2 The RPC Language Specification
-
- The RPC language is identical to the XDR language defined in RFC
- 1014, except for the added definition of a "program-def" described
- below.
-
- program-def:
- "program" identifier "{"
- version-def
- version-def *
- "}" "=" constant ";"
-
- version-def:
- "version" identifier "{"
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- procedure-def *
- "}" "=" constant ";"
-
- procedure-def:
- type-specifier identifier "(" type-specifier
- ("," type-specifier )* ")" "=" constant ";"
-
-11.3 Syntax Notes
-
- (1) The following keywords are added and cannot be used as
- identifiers: "program" and "version";
-
- (2) A version name cannot occur more than once within the scope of a
- program definition. Nor can a version number occur more than once
- within the scope of a program definition.
-
- (3) A procedure name cannot occur more than once within the scope of
- a version definition. Nor can a procedure number occur more than once
- within the scope of version definition.
-
- (4) Program identifiers are in the same name space as constant and
- type identifiers.
-
- (5) Only unsigned constants can be assigned to programs, versions and
- procedures.
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-APPENDIX A: SYSTEM AUTHENTICATION
-
- The client may wish to identify itself, for example, as it is
- identified on a UNIX(tm) system. The flavor of the client credential
- is "AUTH_SYS". The opaque data constituting the credential encodes
- the following structure:
-
- struct authsys_parms {
- unsigned int stamp;
- string machinename<255>;
- unsigned int uid;
- unsigned int gid;
- unsigned int gids<16>;
- };
-
- The "stamp" is an arbitrary ID which the caller machine may generate.
- The "machinename" is the name of the caller's machine (like
- "krypton"). The "uid" is the caller's effective user ID. The "gid"
- is the caller's effective group ID. The "gids" is a counted array of
- groups which contain the caller as a member. The verifier
- accompanying the credential should have "AUTH_NONE" flavor value
- (defined above). Note this credential is only unique within a
- particular domain of machine names, uids, and gids.
-
- The flavor value of the verifier received in the reply message from
- the server may be "AUTH_NONE" or "AUTH_SHORT". In the case of
- "AUTH_SHORT", the bytes of the reply verifier's string encode an
- opaque structure. This new opaque structure may now be passed to the
- server instead of the original "AUTH_SYS" flavor credential. The
- server may keep a cache which maps shorthand opaque structures
- (passed back by way of an "AUTH_SHORT" style reply verifier) to the
- original credentials of the caller. The caller can save network
- bandwidth and server cpu cycles by using the shorthand credential.
-
- The server may flush the shorthand opaque structure at any time. If
- this happens, the remote procedure call message will be rejected due
- to an authentication error. The reason for the failure will be
- "AUTH_REJECTEDCRED". At this point, the client may wish to try the
- original "AUTH_SYS" style of credential.
-
- It should be noted that use of this flavor of authentication does not
- guarantee any security for the users or providers of a service, in
- itself. The authentication provided by this scheme can be considered
- legitimate only when applications using this scheme and the network
- can be secured externally, and privileged transport addresses are
- used for the communicating end-points (an example of this is the use
- of privileged TCP/UDP ports in Unix systems - note that not all
- systems enforce privileged transport address mechanisms).
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- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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-Network Working Group J. Linn
-Request for Comments: 1964 OpenVision Technologies
-Category: Standards Track June 1996
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- The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-ABSTRACT
-
- This specification defines protocols, procedures, and conventions to
- be employed by peers implementing the Generic Security Service
- Application Program Interface (as specified in RFCs 1508 and 1509)
- when using Kerberos Version 5 technology (as specified in RFC 1510).
-
-ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-
- Much of the material in this memo is based on working documents
- drafted by John Wray of Digital Equipment Corporation and on
- discussions, implementation activities, and interoperability testing
- involving Marc Horowitz, Ted Ts'o, and John Wray. Particular thanks
- are due to each of these individuals for their contributions towards
- development and availability of GSS-API support within the Kerberos
- Version 5 code base.
-
-1. Token Formats
-
- This section discusses protocol-visible characteristics of the GSS-
- API mechanism to be implemented atop Kerberos V5 security technology
- per RFC-1508 and RFC-1510; it defines elements of protocol for
- interoperability and is independent of language bindings per RFC-
- 1509.
-
- Tokens transferred between GSS-API peers (for security context
- management and per-message protection purposes) are defined. The
- data elements exchanged between a GSS-API endpoint implementation and
- the Kerberos KDC are not specific to GSS-API usage and are therefore
- defined within RFC-1510 rather than within this specification.
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- To support ongoing experimentation, testing, and evolution of the
- specification, the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism as defined in this
- and any successor memos will be identified with the following Object
- Identifier, as defined in RFC-1510, until the specification is
- advanced to the level of Proposed Standard RFC:
-
- {iso(1), org(3), dod(5), internet(1), security(5), kerberosv5(2)}
-
- Upon advancement to the level of Proposed Standard RFC, the Kerberos
- V5 GSS-API mechanism will be identified by an Object Identifier
- having the value:
-
- {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1)
- gssapi(2) krb5(2)}
-
-1.1. Context Establishment Tokens
-
- Per RFC-1508, Appendix B, the initial context establishment token
- will be enclosed within framing as follows:
-
- InitialContextToken ::=
- [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
- thisMech MechType
- -- MechType is OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- -- representing "Kerberos V5"
- innerContextToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
- -- contents mechanism-specific;
- -- ASN.1 usage within innerContextToken
- -- is not required
- }
-
- The innerContextToken of the initial context token will consist of a
- Kerberos V5 KRB_AP_REQ message, preceded by a two-byte token-id
- (TOK_ID) field, which shall contain the value 01 00.
-
- The above GSS-API framing shall be applied to all tokens emitted by
- the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism, including KRB_AP_REP, KRB_ERROR,
- context-deletion, and per-message tokens, not just to the initial
- token in a context establishment sequence. While not required by
- RFC-1508, this enables implementations to perform enhanced error-
- checking. The innerContextToken field of context establishment tokens
- for the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism will contain a Kerberos message
- (KRB_AP_REQ, KRB_AP_REP or KRB_ERROR), preceded by a 2-byte TOK_ID
- field containing 01 00 for KRB_AP_REQ messages, 02 00 for KRB_AP_REP
- messages and 03 00 for KRB_ERROR messages.
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- Relevant KRB_AP_REQ syntax (from RFC-1510) is as follows:
-
- AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
- pvno [0] INTEGER, -- indicates Version 5
- msg-type [1] INTEGER, -- indicates KRB_AP_REQ
- ap-options[2] APOptions,
- ticket[3] Ticket,
- authenticator[4] EncryptedData
- }
-
- APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
- reserved (0),
- use-session-key (1),
- mutual-required (2)
- }
-
- Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
- tkt-vno [0] INTEGER, -- indicates Version 5
- realm [1] Realm,
- sname [2] PrincipalName,
- enc-part [3] EncryptedData
- }
-
- -- Encrypted part of ticket
- EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
- flags[0] TicketFlags,
- key[1] EncryptionKey,
- crealm[2] Realm,
- cname[3] PrincipalName,
- transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
- authtime[5] KerberosTime,
- starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- endtime[7] KerberosTime,
- renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
- }
-
- -- Unencrypted authenticator
- Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
- authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
- crealm[1] Realm,
- cname[2] PrincipalName,
- cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
- cusec[4] INTEGER,
- ctime[5] KerberosTime,
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- subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
- }
-
- For purposes of this specification, the authenticator shall include
- the optional sequence number, and the checksum field shall be used to
- convey channel binding, service flags, and optional delegation
- information. The checksum will have a type of 0x8003 (a value being
- registered within the Kerberos protocol specification), and a value
- field of at least 24 bytes in length. The length of the value field
- is extended beyond 24 bytes if and only if an optional facility to
- carry a Kerberos-defined KRB_CRED message for delegation purposes is
- supported by an implementation and active on a context. When
- delegation is active, a TGT with its FORWARDABLE flag set will be
- transferred within the KRB_CRED message.
-
- The checksum value field's format is as follows:
-
- Byte Name Description
- 0..3 Lgth Number of bytes in Bnd field;
- Currently contains hex 10 00 00 00
- (16, represented in little-endian form)
- 4..19 Bnd MD5 hash of channel bindings, taken over all non-null
- components of bindings, in order of declaration.
- Integer fields within channel bindings are represented
- in little-endian order for the purposes of the MD5
- calculation.
- 20..23 Flags Bit vector of context-establishment flags,
- with values consistent with RFC-1509, p. 41:
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG: 1
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG: 2
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG: 4
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG: 8
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG: 16
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG: 32
- The resulting bit vector is encoded into bytes 20..23
- in little-endian form.
- 24..25 DlgOpt The Delegation Option identifier (=1) [optional]
- 26..27 Dlgth The length of the Deleg field. [optional]
- 28..n Deleg A KRB_CRED message (n = Dlgth + 29) [optional]
-
- In computing the contents of the "Bnd" field, the following detailed
- points apply:
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- (1) Each integer field shall be formatted into four bytes, using
- little-endian byte ordering, for purposes of MD5 hash
- computation.
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- (2) All input length fields within gss_buffer_desc elements of a
- gss_channel_bindings_struct, even those which are zero-valued,
- shall be included in the hash calculation; the value elements of
- gss_buffer_desc elements shall be dereferenced, and the
- resulting data shall be included within the hash computation,
- only for the case of gss_buffer_desc elements having non-zero
- length specifiers.
-
- (3) If the caller passes the value GSS_C_NO_BINDINGS instead of
- a valid channel bindings structure, the Bnd field shall be set
- to 16 zero-valued bytes.
-
- In the initial Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism token (KRB_AP_REQ token)
- from initiator to target, the GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG, GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG,
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG, and GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG values shall each be set
- as the logical AND of the initiator's corresponding request flag to
- GSS_Init_sec_context() and a Boolean indicator of whether that
- optional service is available to GSS_Init_sec_context()'s caller.
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG, for which no corresponding
- context-level input indicator flags to GSS_Init_sec_context() exist,
- shall each be set to indicate whether their respective per-message
- protection services are available for use on the context being
- established.
-
- When input source address channel binding values are provided by a
- caller (i.e., unless the input argument is GSS_C_NO_BINDINGS or the
- source address specifier value within the input structure is
- GSS_C_NULL_ADDRTYPE), and the corresponding token received from the
- context's peer bears address restrictions, it is recommended that an
- implementation of the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism should check that
- the source address as provided by the caller matches that in the
- received token, and should return the GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS major_status
- value if a mismatch is detected. Note: discussion is ongoing about
- the strength of recommendation to be made in this area, and on the
- circumstances under which such a recommendation should be applicable;
- implementors are therefore advised that changes on this matter may be
- included in subsequent versions of this specification.
-
-1.1.2. Response Tokens
-
- A context establishment sequence based on the Kerberos V5 mechanism
- will perform one-way authentication (without confirmation or any
- return token from target to initiator in response to the initiator's
- KRB_AP_REQ) if the mutual_req bit is not set in the application's
- call to GSS_Init_sec_context(). Applications requiring confirmation
- that their authentication was successful should request mutual
- authentication, resulting in a "mutual-required" indication within
- KRB_AP_REQ APoptions and the setting of the mutual_req bit in the
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- flags field of the authenticator checksum. In response to such a
- request, the context target will reply to the initiator with a token
- containing either a KRB_AP_REP or KRB_ERROR, completing the mutual
- context establishment exchange.
-
- Relevant KRB_AP_REP syntax is as follows:
-
- AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
- pvno [0] INTEGER, -- represents Kerberos V5
- msg-type [1] INTEGER, -- represents KRB_AP_REP
- enc-part [2] EncryptedData
- }
-
- EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27] SEQUENCE {
- ctime [0] KerberosTime,
- cusec [1] INTEGER,
- subkey [2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
- seq-number [3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
- }
-
- The optional seq-number element within the AP-REP's EncAPRepPart
- shall be included.
-
- The syntax of KRB_ERROR is as follows:
-
- KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
- pvno[0] INTEGER,
- msg-type[1] INTEGER,
- ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
- cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
- stime[4] KerberosTime,
- susec[5] INTEGER,
- error-code[6] INTEGER,
- crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
- cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
- realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
- sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
- e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
- e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
- }
-
- Values to be transferred in the error-code field of a KRB-ERROR
- message are defined in [RFC-1510], not in this specification.
-
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-1.2. Per-Message and Context Deletion Tokens
-
- Three classes of tokens are defined in this section: "MIC" tokens,
- emitted by calls to GSS_GetMIC() (formerly GSS_Sign()) and consumed
- by calls to GSS_VerifyMIC() (formerly GSS_Verify()), "Wrap" tokens,
- emitted by calls to GSS_Wrap() (formerly GSS_Seal()) and consumed by
- calls to GSS_Unwrap() (formerly GSS_Unseal()), and context deletion
- tokens, emitted by calls to GSS_Delete_sec_context() and consumed by
- calls to GSS_Process_context_token(). Note: References to GSS-API
- per-message routines in the remainder of this specification will be
- based on those routines' newer recommended names rather than those
- names' predecessors.
-
- Several variants of cryptographic keys are used in generation and
- processing of per-message tokens:
-
- (1) context key: uses Kerberos session key (or subkey, if
- present in authenticator emitted by context initiator) directly
-
- (2) confidentiality key: forms variant of context key by
- exclusive-OR with the hexadecimal constant f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0.
-
- (3) MD2.5 seed key: forms variant of context key by reversing
- the bytes of the context key (i.e. if the original key is the
- 8-byte sequence {aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, gg, hh}, the seed key
- will be {hh, gg, ff, ee, dd, cc, bb, aa}).
-
-1.2.1. Per-message Tokens - MIC
-
-Use of the GSS_GetMIC() call yields a token, separate from the user
-data being protected, which can be used to verify the integrity of
-that data as received. The token has the following format:
-
- Byte no Name Description
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field.
- Tokens emitted by GSS_GetMIC() contain
- the hex value 01 01 in this field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Integrity algorithm indicator.
- 00 00 - DES MAC MD5
- 01 00 - MD2.5
- 02 00 - DES MAC
- 4..7 Filler Contains ff ff ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field.
- 16..23 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of "to-be-signed data",
- calculated according to algorithm
- specified in SGN_ALG field.
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- GSS-API tokens must be encapsulated within the higher-level protocol
- by the application; no embedded length field is necessary.
-
-1.2.1.1. Checksum
-
- Checksum calculation procedure (common to all algorithms): Checksums
- are calculated over the data field, logically prepended by the first
- 8 bytes of the plaintext packet header. The resulting value binds
- the data to the packet type and signature algorithm identifier
- fields.
-
- DES MAC MD5 algorithm: The checksum is formed by computing an MD5
- [RFC-1321] hash over the plaintext data, and then computing a DES-CBC
- MAC on the 16-byte MD5 result. A standard 64-bit DES-CBC MAC is
- computed per [FIPS-PUB-113], employing the context key and a zero IV.
- The 8-byte result is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field.
-
- MD2.5 algorithm: The checksum is formed by first DES-CBC encrypting a
- 16-byte zero-block, using a zero IV and a key formed by reversing the
- bytes of the context key (i.e. if the original key is the 8-byte
- sequence {aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, gg, hh}, the checksum key will be
- {hh, gg, ff, ee, dd, cc, bb, aa}). The resulting 16-byte value is
- logically prepended to the to-be-signed data. A standard MD5
- checksum is calculated over the combined data, and the first 8 bytes
- of the result are stored in the SGN_CKSUM field. Note 1: we refer to
- this algorithm informally as "MD2.5" to connote the fact that it uses
- half of the 128 bits generated by MD5; use of only a subset of the
- MD5 bits is intended to protect against the prospect that data could
- be postfixed to an existing message with corresponding modifications
- being made to the checksum. Note 2: This algorithm is fairly novel
- and has received more limited evaluation than that to which other
- integrity algorithms have been subjected. An initial, limited
- evaluation indicates that it may be significantly weaker than DES MAC
- MD5.
-
- DES-MAC algorithm: A standard 64-bit DES-CBC MAC is computed on the
- plaintext data per [FIPS-PUB-113], employing the context key and a
- zero IV. Padding procedures to accomodate plaintext data lengths
- which may not be integral multiples of 8 bytes are defined in [FIPS-
- PUB-113]. The result is an 8-byte value, which is stored in the
- SGN_CKSUM field. Support for this algorithm may not be present in
- all implementations.
-
-1.2.1.2. Sequence Number
-
- Sequence number field: The 8 byte plaintext sequence number field is
- formed from the sender's four-byte sequence number as follows. If
- the four bytes of the sender's sequence number are named s0, s1, s2
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- and s3 (from least to most significant), the plaintext sequence
- number field is the 8 byte sequence: (s0, s1, s2, s3, di, di, di,
- di), where 'di' is the direction-indicator (Hex 0 - sender is the
- context initiator, Hex FF - sender is the context acceptor). The
- field is then DES-CBC encrypted using the context key and an IV
- formed from the first 8 bytes of the previously calculated SGN_CKSUM
- field. After sending a GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() token, the sender's
- sequence number is incremented by one.
-
- The receiver of the token will first verify the SGN_CKSUM field. If
- valid, the sequence number field may be decrypted and compared to the
- expected sequence number. The repetition of the (effectively 1-bit)
- direction indicator within the sequence number field provides
- redundancy so that the receiver may verify that the decryption
- succeeded.
-
- Since the checksum computation is used as an IV to the sequence
- number decryption, attempts to splice a checksum and sequence number
- from different messages will be detected. The direction indicator
- will detect packets that have been maliciously reflected.
-
- The sequence number provides a basis for detection of replayed
- tokens. Replay detection can be performed using state information
- retained on received sequence numbers, interpreted in conjunction
- with the security context on which they arrive.
-
- Provision of per-message replay and out-of-sequence detection
- services is optional for implementations of the Kerberos V5 GSS-API
- mechanism. Further, it is recommended that implementations of the
- Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism which offer these services should honor
- a caller's request that the services be disabled on a context.
- Specifically, if replay_det_req_flag is input FALSE, replay_det_state
- should be returned FALSE and the GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN and
- GSS_OLD_TOKEN stati should not be indicated as a result of duplicate
- detection when tokens are processed; if sequence_req_flag is input
- FALSE, sequence_state should be returned FALSE and
- GSS_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_OLD_TOKEN, and GSS_UNSEQ_TOKEN stati should
- not be indicated as a result of out-of-sequence detection when tokens
- are processed.
-
-1.2.2. Per-message Tokens - Wrap
-
- Use of the GSS_Wrap() call yields a token which encapsulates the
- input user data (optionally encrypted) along with associated
- integrity check quantities. The token emitted by GSS_Wrap() consists
- of an integrity header whose format is identical to that emitted by
- GSS_GetMIC() (except that the TOK_ID field contains the value 02 01),
- followed by a body portion that contains either the plaintext data
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- (if SEAL_ALG = ff ff) or encrypted data for any other supported value
- of SEAL_ALG. Currently, only SEAL_ALG = 00 00 is supported, and
- means that DES-CBC encryption is being used to protect the data.
-
- The GSS_Wrap() token has the following format:
-
- Byte no Name Description
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field.
- Tokens emitted by GSS_Wrap() contain
- the hex value 02 01 in this field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Checksum algorithm indicator.
- 00 00 - DES MAC MD5
- 01 00 - MD2.5
- 02 00 - DES MAC
- 4..5 SEAL_ALG ff ff - none
- 00 00 - DES
- 6..7 Filler Contains ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Encrypted sequence number field.
- 16..23 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of plaintext padded data,
- calculated according to algorithm
- specified in SGN_ALG field.
- 24..last Data encrypted or plaintext padded data
-
- GSS-API tokens must be encapsulated within the higher-level protocol
- by the application; no embedded length field is necessary.
-
-1.2.2.1. Checksum
-
- Checksum calculation procedure (common to all algorithms): Checksums
- are calculated over the plaintext padded data field, logically
- prepended by the first 8 bytes of the plaintext packet header. The
- resulting signature binds the data to the packet type, protocol
- version, and signature algorithm identifier fields.
-
- DES MAC MD5 algorithm: The checksum is formed by computing an MD5
- hash over the plaintext padded data, and then computing a DES-CBC MAC
- on the 16-byte MD5 result. A standard 64-bit DES-CBC MAC is computed
- per [FIPS-PUB-113], employing the context key and a zero IV. The 8-
- byte result is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field.
-
- MD2.5 algorithm: The checksum is formed by first DES-CBC encrypting a
- 16-byte zero-block, using a zero IV and a key formed by reversing the
- bytes of the context key (i.e., if the original key is the 8-byte
- sequence {aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, gg, hh}, the checksum key will be
- {hh, gg, ff, ee, dd, cc, bb, aa}). The resulting 16-byte value is
- logically pre-pended to the "to-be-signed data". A standard MD5
- checksum is calculated over the combined data, and the first 8 bytes
- of the result are stored in the SGN_CKSUM field.
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- DES-MAC algorithm: A standard 64-bit DES-CBC MAC is computed on the
- plaintext padded data per [FIPS-PUB-113], employing the context key
- and a zero IV. The plaintext padded data is already assured to be an
- integral multiple of 8 bytes; no additional padding is required or
- applied in order to accomplish MAC calculation. The result is an 8-
- byte value, which is stored in the SGN_CKSUM field. Support for this
- lgorithm may not be present in all implementations.
-
-1.2.2.2. Sequence Number
-
- Sequence number field: The 8 byte plaintext sequence number field is
- formed from the sender's four-byte sequence number as follows. If
- the four bytes of the sender's sequence number are named s0, s1, s2
- and s3 (from least to most significant), the plaintext sequence
- number field is the 8 byte sequence: (s0, s1, s2, s3, di, di, di,
- di), where 'di' is the direction-indicator (Hex 0 - sender is the
- context initiator, Hex FF - sender is the context acceptor).
-
- The field is then DES-CBC encrypted using the context key and an IV
- formed from the first 8 bytes of the SEAL_CKSUM field.
-
- After sending a GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() token, the sender's
- sequence numbers are incremented by one.
-
-1.2.2.3. Padding
-
- Data padding: Before encryption and/or signature calculation,
- plaintext data is padded to the next highest multiple of 8 bytes, by
- appending between 1 and 8 bytes, the value of each such byte being
- the total number of pad bytes. For example, given data of length 20
- bytes, four pad bytes will be appended, and each byte will contain
- the hex value 04. An 8-byte random confounder is prepended to the
- data, and signatures are calculated over the resulting padded
- plaintext.
-
- After padding, the data is encrypted according to the algorithm
- specified in the SEAL_ALG field. For SEAL_ALG=DES (the only non-null
- algorithm currently supported), the data is encrypted using DES-CBC,
- with an IV of zero. The key used is derived from the established
- context key by XOR-ing the context key with the hexadecimal constant
- f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0.
-
-1.2.3. Context deletion token
-
- The token emitted by GSS_Delete_sec_context() is based on the packet
- format for tokens emitted by GSS_GetMIC(). The context-deletion
- token has the following format:
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- Byte no Name Description
- 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field.
- Tokens emitted by
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() contain
- the hex value 01 02 in this field.
- 2..3 SGN_ALG Integrity algorithm indicator.
- 00 00 - DES MAC MD5
- 01 00 - MD2.5
- 02 00 - DES MAC
- 4..7 Filler Contains ff ff ff ff
- 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field.
- 16..23 SGN_CKSUM Checksum of "to-be-signed data",
- calculated according to algorithm
- specified in SGN_ALG field.
-
- SGN_ALG and SND_SEQ will be calculated as for tokens emitted by
- GSS_GetMIC(). The SGN_CKSUM will be calculated as for tokens emitted
- by GSS_GetMIC(), except that the user-data component of the "to-be-
- signed" data will be a zero-length string.
-
-2. Name Types and Object Identifiers
-
- This section discusses the name types which may be passed as input to
- the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism's GSS_Import_name() call, and their
- associated identifier values. It defines interface elements in
- support of portability, and assumes use of C language bindings per
- RFC-1509. In addition to specifying OID values for name type
- identifiers, symbolic names are included and recommended to GSS-API
- implementors in the interests of convenience to callers. It is
- understood that not all implementations of the Kerberos V5 GSS-API
- mechanism need support all name types in this list, and that
- additional name forms will likely be added to this list over time.
- Further, the definitions of some or all name types may later migrate
- to other, mechanism-independent, specifications. The occurrence of a
- name type in this specification is specifically not intended to
- suggest that the type may be supported only by an implementation of
- the Kerberos V5 mechanism. In particular, the occurrence of the
- string "_KRB5_" in the symbolic name strings constitutes a means to
- unambiguously register the name strings, avoiding collision with
- other documents; it is not meant to limit the name types' usage or
- applicability.
-
- For purposes of clarification to GSS-API implementors, this section's
- discussion of some name forms describes means through which those
- forms can be supported with existing Kerberos technology. These
- discussions are not intended to preclude alternative implementation
- strategies for support of the name forms within Kerberos mechanisms
- or mechanisms based on other technologies. To enhance application
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- portability, implementors of mechanisms are encouraged to support
- name forms as defined in this section, even if their mechanisms are
- independent of Kerberos V5.
-
-2.1. Mandatory Name Forms
-
- This section discusses name forms which are to be supported by all
- conformant implementations of the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism.
-
-2.1.1. Kerberos Principal Name Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- krb5(2) krb5_name(1)}. The recommended symbolic name for this type
- is "GSS_KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL_NAME".
-
- This name type corresponds to the single-string representation of a
- Kerberos name. (Within the MIT Kerberos V5 implementation, such
- names are parseable with the krb5_parse_name() function.) The
- elements included within this name representation are as follows,
- proceeding from the beginning of the string:
-
- (1) One or more principal name components; if more than one
- principal name component is included, the components are
- separated by `/`. Arbitrary octets may be included within
- principal name components, with the following constraints and
- special considerations:
-
- (1a) Any occurrence of the characters `@` or `/` within a
- name component must be immediately preceded by the `\`
- quoting character, to prevent interpretation as a component
- or realm separator.
-
- (1b) The ASCII newline, tab, backspace, and null characters
- may occur directly within the component or may be
- represented, respectively, by `\n`, `\t`, `\b`, or `\0`.
-
- (1c) If the `\` quoting character occurs outside the contexts
- described in (1a) and (1b) above, the following character is
- interpreted literally. As a special case, this allows the
- doubled representation `\\` to represent a single occurrence
- of the quoting character.
-
- (1d) An occurrence of the `\` quoting character as the last
- character of a component is illegal.
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- (2) Optionally, a `@` character, signifying that a realm name
- immediately follows. If no realm name element is included, the
- local realm name is assumed. The `/` , `:`, and null characters
- may not occur within a realm name; the `@`, newline, tab, and
- backspace characters may be included using the quoting
- conventions described in (1a), (1b), and (1c) above.
-
-2.1.2. Host-Based Service Name Form
-
- This name form has been incorporated at the mechanism-independent
- GSS-API level as of GSS-API, Version 2. This subsection retains the
- Object Identifier and symbolic name assignments previously made at
- the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism level, and adopts the definition as
- promoted to the mechanism-independent level.
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) service_name(4)}. The previously recommended symbolic
- name for this type is "GSS_KRB5_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE_NAME". The
- currently preferred symbolic name for this type is
- "GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE".
-
- This name type is used to represent services associated with host
- computers. This name form is constructed using two elements,
- "service" and "hostname", as follows:
-
- service@hostname
-
- When a reference to a name of this type is resolved, the "hostname"
- is canonicalized by attempting a DNS lookup and using the fully-
- qualified domain name which is returned, or by using the "hostname"
- as provided if the DNS lookup fails. The canonicalization operation
- also maps the host's name into lower-case characters.
-
- The "hostname" element may be omitted. If no "@" separator is
- included, the entire name is interpreted as the service specifier,
- with the "hostname" defaulted to the canonicalized name of the local
- host.
-
- Values for the "service" element will be registered with the IANA.
-
-2.1.3. Exported Name Object Form for Kerberos V5 Mechanism
-
- Support for this name form is not required for GSS-V1
- implementations, but will be required for use in conjunction with the
- GSS_Export_name() call planned for GSS-API Version 2. Use of this
- name form will be signified by a "GSS-API Exported Name Object" OID
- value which will be defined at the mechanism-independent level for
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- GSS-API Version 2.
-
- This name type represents a self-describing object, whose framing
- structure will be defined at the mechanism-independent level for
- GSS-API Version 2. When generated by the Kerberos V5 mechanism, the
- Mechanism OID within the exportable name shall be that of the
- Kerberos V5 mechanism. The name component within the exportable name
- shall be a contiguous string with structure as defined for the
- Kerberos Principal Name Form.
-
- In order to achieve a distinguished encoding for comparison purposes,
- the following additional constraints are imposed on the export
- operation:
-
- (1) all occurrences of the characters `@`, `/`, and `\` within
- principal components or realm names shall be quoted with an
- immediately-preceding `\`.
-
- (2) all occurrences of the null, backspace, tab, or newline
- characters within principal components or realm names will be
- represented, respectively, with `\0`, `\b`, `\t`, or `\n`.
-
- (3) the `\` quoting character shall not be emitted within an
- exported name except to accomodate cases (1) and (2).
-
-2.2. Optional Name Forms
-
- This section discusses additional name forms which may optionally be
- supported by implementations of the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism.
- It is recognized that some of the name forms cited here are derived
- from UNIX(tm) operating system platforms; some listed forms may be
- irrelevant to non-UNIX platforms, and definition of additional forms
- corresponding to such platforms may also be appropriate. It is also
- recognized that OS-specific functions outside GSS-API are likely to
- exist in order to perform translations among these forms, and that
- GSS-API implementations supporting these forms may themselves be
- layered atop such OS-specific functions. Inclusion of this support
- within GSS-API implementations is intended as a convenience to
- applications.
-
-2.2.1. User Name Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) user_name(1)}. The recommended symbolic name for this
- type is "GSS_KRB5_NT_USER_NAME".
-
- This name type is used to indicate a named user on a local system.
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- Its interpretation is OS-specific. This name form is constructed as:
-
- username
-
- Assuming that users' principal names are the same as their local
- operating system names, an implementation of GSS_Import_name() based
- on Kerberos V5 technology can process names of this form by
- postfixing an "@" sign and the name of the local realm.
-
-2.2.2. Machine UID Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) machine_uid_name(2)}. The recommended symbolic name for
- this type is "GSS_KRB5_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME".
-
- This name type is used to indicate a numeric user identifier
- corresponding to a user on a local system. Its interpretation is
- OS-specific. The gss_buffer_desc representing a name of this type
- should contain a locally-significant uid_t, represented in host byte
- order. The GSS_Import_name() operation resolves this uid into a
- username, which is then treated as the User Name Form.
-
-2.2.3. String UID Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) string_uid_name(3)}. The recommended symbolic name for
- this type is "GSS_KRB5_NT_STRING_UID_NAME".
-
- This name type is used to indicate a string of digits representing
- the numeric user identifier of a user on a local system. Its
- interpretation is OS-specific. This name type is similar to the
- Machine UID Form, except that the buffer contains a string
- representing the uid_t.
-
-3. Credentials Management
-
- The Kerberos V5 protocol uses different credentials (in the GSSAPI
- sense) for initiating and accepting security contexts. Normal
- clients receive a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) and an associated
- session key at "login" time; the pair of a TGT and its corresponding
- session key forms a credential which is suitable for initiating
- security contexts. A ticket-granting ticket, its session key, and
- any other (ticket, key) pairs obtained through use of the ticket-
- granting-ticket, are typically stored in a Kerberos V5 credentials
- cache, sometimes known as a ticket file.
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- The encryption key used by the Kerberos server to seal tickets for a
- particular application service forms the credentials suitable for
- accepting security contexts. These service keys are typically stored
- in a Kerberos V5 key table, or srvtab file. In addition to their use
- as accepting credentials, these service keys may also be used to
- obtain initiating credentials for their service principal.
-
- The Kerberos V5 mechanism's credential handle may contain references
- to either or both types of credentials. It is a local matter how the
- Kerberos V5 mechanism implementation finds the appropriate Kerberos
- V5 credentials cache or key table.
-
- However, when the Kerberos V5 mechanism attempts to obtain initiating
- credentials for a service principal which are not available in a
- credentials cache, and the key for that service principal is
- available in a Kerberos V5 key table, the mechanism should use the
- service key to obtain initiating credentials for that service. This
- should be accomplished by requesting a ticket-granting-ticket from
- the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), and decrypting the KDC's
- reply using the service key.
-
-4. Parameter Definitions
-
- This section defines parameter values used by the Kerberos V5 GSS-API
- mechanism. It defines interface elements in support of portability,
- and assumes use of C language bindings per RFC-1509.
-
-4.1. Minor Status Codes
-
- This section recommends common symbolic names for minor_status values
- to be returned by the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism. Use of these
- definitions will enable independent implementors to enhance
- application portability across different implementations of the
- mechanism defined in this specification. (In all cases,
- implementations of GSS_Display_status() will enable callers to
- convert minor_status indicators to text representations.) Each
- implementation should make available, through include files or other
- means, a facility to translate these symbolic names into the concrete
- values which a particular GSS-API implementation uses to represent
- the minor_status values specified in this section.
-
- It is recognized that this list may grow over time, and that the need
- for additional minor_status codes specific to particular
- implementations may arise. It is recommended, however, that
- implementations should return a minor_status value as defined on a
- mechanism-wide basis within this section when that code is accurately
- representative of reportable status rather than using a separate,
- implementation-defined code.
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-4.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes
-
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_SERVICE_NAME
- /* "No @ in SERVICE-NAME name string" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_STRING_UID
- /* "STRING-UID-NAME contains nondigits" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_NOUSER
- /* "UID does not resolve to username" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_VALIDATE_FAILED
- /* "Validation error" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_BUFFER_ALLOC
- /* "Couldn't allocate gss_buffer_t data" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_MSG_CTX
- /* "Message context invalid" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_WRONG_SIZE
- /* "Buffer is the wrong size" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_USAGE
- /* "Credential usage type is unknown" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_G_UNKNOWN_QOP
- /* "Unknown quality of protection specified" */
-
-4.1.2. Kerberos-specific-codes
-
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CCACHE_NOMATCH
- /* "Principal in credential cache does not match desired name" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_KEYTAB_NOMATCH
- /* "No principal in keytab matches desired name" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_TGT_MISSING
- /* "Credential cache has no TGT" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_NO_SUBKEY
- /* "Authenticator has no subkey" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CONTEXT_ESTABLISHED
- /* "Context is already fully established" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_SIGN_TYPE
- /* "Unknown signature type in token" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_LENGTH
- /* "Invalid field length in token" */
- GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CTX_INCOMPLETE
- /* "Attempt to use incomplete security context" */
-
-4.2. Quality of Protection Values
-
- This section defines Quality of Protection (QOP) values to be used
- with the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism as input to GSS_Wrap() and
- GSS_GetMIC() routines in order to select among alternate integrity
- and confidentiality algorithms. Additional QOP values may be added in
- future versions of this specification. Non-overlapping bit positions
- are and will be employed in order that both integrity and
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- confidentiality QOP may be selected within a single parameter, via
- inclusive-OR of the specified integrity and confidentiality values.
-
-4.2.1. Integrity Algorithms
-
- The following Quality of Protection (QOP) values are currently
- defined for the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism, and are used to select
- among alternate integrity checking algorithms.
-
- GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_MD5 (numeric value: 1)
- /* Integrity using partial MD5 ("MD2.5") of plaintext */
-
- GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_DES_MD5 (numeric value: 2)
- /* Integrity using DES MAC of MD5 of plaintext */
-
- GSS_KRB5_INTEG_C_QOP_DES_MAC (numeric value: 3)
- /* Integrity using DES MAC of plaintext */
-
-4.2.2. Confidentiality Algorithms
-
- Only one confidentiality QOP value is currently defined for the
- Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism:
-
- GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES (numeric value: 0)
- /* Confidentiality with DES */
-
- Note: confidentiality QOP should be indicated only by GSS-API calls
- capable of providing confidentiality services. If non-zero
- confidentiality QOP values are defined in future to represent
- different algorithms, therefore, the bit positions containing those
- values should be cleared before being returned by implementations of
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC().
-
-4.3. Buffer Sizes
-
- All implementations of this specification shall be capable of
- accepting buffers of at least 16 Kbytes as input to GSS_GetMIC(),
- GSS_VerifyMIC(), and GSS_Wrap(), and shall be capable of accepting
- the output_token generated by GSS_Wrap() for a 16 Kbyte input buffer
- as input to GSS_Unwrap(). Support for larger buffer sizes is optional
- but recommended.
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-5. Security Considerations
-
- Security issues are discussed throughout this memo.
-
-6. References
-
-
- [RFC-1321]: Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC
- 1321, April 1992.
-
- [RFC-1508]: Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface", RFC 1508, September 1993.
-
- [RFC-1509]: Wray, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface: C-bindings", RFC 1509, September 1993.
-
- [RFC-1510]: Kohl, J., and C. Neuman, "The Kerberos Network
- Authentication Service (V5)", RFC 1510, September 1993.
-
- [FIPS-PUB-113]: National Bureau of Standards, Federal Information
- Processing Standard 113, "Computer Data Authentication", May 1985.
-
-AUTHOR'S ADDRESS
-
- John Linn
- OpenVision Technologies
- One Main St.
- Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
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- EMail: John.Linn@ov.com
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-Network Working Group J. Linn
-Request for Comments: 2078 OpenVision Technologies
-Category: Standards Track January 1997
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- Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2
-
-Status of this Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Abstract
-
- The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API),
- as defined in RFC-1508, provides security services to callers in a
- generic fashion, supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms
- and technologies and hence allowing source-level portability of
- applications to different environments. This specification defines
- GSS-API services and primitives at a level independent of underlying
- mechanism and programming language environment, and is to be
- complemented by other, related specifications:
-
- documents defining specific parameter bindings for particular
- language environments
-
- documents defining token formats, protocols, and procedures to be
- implemented in order to realize GSS-API services atop particular
- security mechanisms
-
- This memo revises RFC-1508, making specific, incremental changes in
- response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is
- intended, therefore, that this memo or a successor version thereto
- will become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API
- specification on the standards track.
-
-Table of Contents
-
- 1: GSS-API Characteristics and Concepts.......................... 3
- 1.1: GSS-API Constructs.......................................... 6
- 1.1.1: Credentials.............................................. 6
- 1.1.1.1: Credential Constructs and Concepts...................... 6
- 1.1.1.2: Credential Management................................... 7
- 1.1.1.3: Default Credential Resolution........................... 8
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- 1.1.2: Tokens.................................................... 9
- 1.1.3: Security Contexts........................................ 10
- 1.1.4: Mechanism Types.......................................... 11
- 1.1.5: Naming................................................... 12
- 1.1.6: Channel Bindings......................................... 14
- 1.2: GSS-API Features and Issues................................ 15
- 1.2.1: Status Reporting......................................... 15
- 1.2.2: Per-Message Security Service Availability................. 17
- 1.2.3: Per-Message Replay Detection and Sequencing............... 18
- 1.2.4: Quality of Protection.................................... 20
- 1.2.5: Anonymity Support......................................... 21
- 1.2.6: Initialization............................................ 22
- 1.2.7: Per-Message Protection During Context Establishment....... 22
- 1.2.8: Implementation Robustness................................. 23
- 2: Interface Descriptions....................................... 23
- 2.1: Credential management calls................................ 25
- 2.1.1: GSS_Acquire_cred call.................................... 26
- 2.1.2: GSS_Release_cred call.................................... 28
- 2.1.3: GSS_Inquire_cred call.................................... 29
- 2.1.4: GSS_Add_cred call........................................ 31
- 2.1.5: GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech call............................ 33
- 2.2: Context-level calls........................................ 34
- 2.2.1: GSS_Init_sec_context call................................ 34
- 2.2.2: GSS_Accept_sec_context call.............................. 40
- 2.2.3: GSS_Delete_sec_context call.............................. 44
- 2.2.4: GSS_Process_context_token call........................... 46
- 2.2.5: GSS_Context_time call.................................... 47
- 2.2.6: GSS_Inquire_context call................................. 47
- 2.2.7: GSS_Wrap_size_limit call................................. 49
- 2.2.8: GSS_Export_sec_context call.............................. 50
- 2.2.9: GSS_Import_sec_context call.............................. 52
- 2.3: Per-message calls.......................................... 53
- 2.3.1: GSS_GetMIC call.......................................... 54
- 2.3.2: GSS_VerifyMIC call....................................... 55
- 2.3.3: GSS_Wrap call............................................ 56
- 2.3.4: GSS_Unwrap call.......................................... 58
- 2.4: Support calls.............................................. 59
- 2.4.1: GSS_Display_status call.................................. 60
- 2.4.2: GSS_Indicate_mechs call.................................. 60
- 2.4.3: GSS_Compare_name call.................................... 61
- 2.4.4: GSS_Display_name call.................................... 62
- 2.4.5: GSS_Import_name call..................................... 63
- 2.4.6: GSS_Release_name call.................................... 64
- 2.4.7: GSS_Release_buffer call.................................. 65
- 2.4.8: GSS_Release_OID_set call................................. 65
- 2.4.9: GSS_Create_empty_OID_set call............................ 66
- 2.4.10: GSS_Add_OID_set_member call.............................. 67
- 2.4.11: GSS_Test_OID_set_member call............................. 67
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- 2.4.12: GSS_Release_OID call..................................... 68
- 2.4.13: GSS_OID_to_str call...................................... 68
- 2.4.14: GSS_Str_to_OID call...................................... 69
- 2.4.15: GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech call.......................... 69
- 2.4.16: GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name call.......................... 70
- 2.4.17: GSS_Canonicalize_name call............................... 71
- 2.4.18: GSS_Export_name call..................................... 72
- 2.4.19: GSS_Duplicate_name call.................................. 73
- 3: Data Structure Definitions for GSS-V2 Usage................... 73
- 3.1: Mechanism-Independent Token Format.......................... 74
- 3.2: Mechanism-Independent Exported Name Object Format........... 77
- 4: Name Type Definitions......................................... 77
- 4.1: Host-Based Service Name Form................................ 77
- 4.2: User Name Form.............................................. 78
- 4.3: Machine UID Form............................................ 78
- 4.4: String UID Form............................................. 79
- 5: Mechanism-Specific Example Scenarios......................... 79
- 5.1: Kerberos V5, single-TGT..................................... 79
- 5.2: Kerberos V5, double-TGT..................................... 80
- 5.3: X.509 Authentication Framework............................. 81
- 6: Security Considerations...................................... 82
- 7: Related Activities........................................... 82
- Appendix A: Mechanism Design Constraints......................... 83
- Appendix B: Compatibility with GSS-V1............................ 83
-
-1: GSS-API Characteristics and Concepts
-
- GSS-API operates in the following paradigm. A typical GSS-API caller
- is itself a communications protocol, calling on GSS-API in order to
- protect its communications with authentication, integrity, and/or
- confidentiality security services. A GSS-API caller accepts tokens
- provided to it by its local GSS-API implementation and transfers the
- tokens to a peer on a remote system; that peer passes the received
- tokens to its local GSS-API implementation for processing. The
- security services available through GSS-API in this fashion are
- implementable (and have been implemented) over a range of underlying
- mechanisms based on secret-key and public-key cryptographic
- technologies.
-
- The GSS-API separates the operations of initializing a security
- context between peers, achieving peer entity authentication (This
- security service definition, and other definitions used in this
- document, corresponds to that provided in International Standard ISO
- 7498-2-1988(E), Security Architecture.) (GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls), from the operations of providing
- per-message data origin authentication and data integrity protection
- (GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC() calls) for messages subsequently
- transferred in conjunction with that context. When establishing a
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- security context, the GSS-API enables a context initiator to
- optionally permit its credentials to be delegated, meaning that the
- context acceptor may initiate further security contexts on behalf of
- the initiating caller. Per-message GSS_Wrap() and GSS_Unwrap() calls
- provide the data origin authentication and data integrity services
- which GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC() offer, and also support
- selection of confidentiality services as a caller option. Additional
- calls provide supportive functions to the GSS-API's users.
-
- The following paragraphs provide an example illustrating the
- dataflows involved in use of the GSS-API by a client and server in a
- mechanism-independent fashion, establishing a security context and
- transferring a protected message. The example assumes that credential
- acquisition has already been completed. The example assumes that the
- underlying authentication technology is capable of authenticating a
- client to a server using elements carried within a single token, and
- of authenticating the server to the client (mutual authentication)
- with a single returned token; this assumption holds for presently-
- documented CAT mechanisms but is not necessarily true for other
- cryptographic technologies and associated protocols.
-
- The client calls GSS_Init_sec_context() to establish a security
- context to the server identified by targ_name, and elects to set the
- mutual_req_flag so that mutual authentication is performed in the
- course of context establishment. GSS_Init_sec_context() returns an
- output_token to be passed to the server, and indicates
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status pending completion of the mutual
- authentication sequence. Had mutual_req_flag not been set, the
- initial call to GSS_Init_sec_context() would have returned
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status. The client sends the output_token to the
- server.
-
- The server passes the received token as the input_token parameter to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). GSS_Accept_sec_context indicates
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status, provides the client's authenticated identity
- in the src_name result, and provides an output_token to be passed to
- the client. The server sends the output_token to the client.
-
- The client passes the received token as the input_token parameter to
- a successor call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), which processes data
- included in the token in order to achieve mutual authentication from
- the client's viewpoint. This call to GSS_Init_sec_context() returns
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status, indicating successful mutual authentication
- and the completion of context establishment for this example.
-
- The client generates a data message and passes it to GSS_Wrap().
- GSS_Wrap() performs data origin authentication, data integrity, and
- (optionally) confidentiality processing on the message and
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- encapsulates the result into output_message, indicating
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status. The client sends the output_message to the
- server.
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- The server passes the received message to GSS_Unwrap(). GSS_Unwrap()
- inverts the encapsulation performed by GSS_Wrap(), deciphers the
- message if the optional confidentiality feature was applied, and
- validates the data origin authentication and data integrity checking
- quantities. GSS_Unwrap() indicates successful validation by
- returning GSS_S_COMPLETE status along with the resultant
- output_message.
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- For purposes of this example, we assume that the server knows by
- out-of-band means that this context will have no further use after
- one protected message is transferred from client to server. Given
- this premise, the server now calls GSS_Delete_sec_context() to flush
- context-level information. Optionally, the server-side application
- may provide a token buffer to GSS_Delete_sec_context(), to receive a
- context_token to be transferred to the client in order to request
- that client-side context-level information be deleted.
-
- If a context_token is transferred, the client passes the
- context_token to GSS_Process_context_token(), which returns
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status after deleting context-level information at the
- client system.
-
- The GSS-API design assumes and addresses several basic goals,
- including:
-
- Mechanism independence: The GSS-API defines an interface to
- cryptographically implemented strong authentication and other
- security services at a generic level which is independent of
- particular underlying mechanisms. For example, GSS-API-provided
- services can be implemented by secret-key technologies (e.g.,
- Kerberos) or public-key approaches (e.g., X.509).
-
- Protocol environment independence: The GSS-API is independent of
- the communications protocol suites with which it is employed,
- permitting use in a broad range of protocol environments. In
- appropriate environments, an intermediate implementation "veneer"
- which is oriented to a particular communication protocol (e.g.,
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)) may be interposed between
- applications which call that protocol and the GSS-API, thereby
- invoking GSS-API facilities in conjunction with that protocol's
- communications invocations.
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- Protocol association independence: The GSS-API's security context
- construct is independent of communications protocol association
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- constructs. This characteristic allows a single GSS-API
- implementation to be utilized by a variety of invoking protocol
- modules on behalf of those modules' calling applications. GSS-API
- services can also be invoked directly by applications, wholly
- independent of protocol associations.
-
- Suitability to a range of implementation placements: GSS-API
- clients are not constrained to reside within any Trusted Computing
- Base (TCB) perimeter defined on a system where the GSS-API is
- implemented; security services are specified in a manner suitable
- to both intra-TCB and extra-TCB callers.
-
-1.1: GSS-API Constructs
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- This section describes the basic elements comprising the GSS-API.
-
-1.1.1: Credentials
-
-1.1.1.1: Credential Constructs and Concepts
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- Credentials provide the prerequisites which permit GSS-API peers to
- establish security contexts with each other. A caller may designate
- that the credential elements which are to be applied for context
- initiation or acceptance be selected by default. Alternately, those
- GSS-API callers which need to make explicit selection of particular
- credentials structures may make references to those credentials
- through GSS-API-provided credential handles ("cred_handles"). In all
- cases, callers' credential references are indirect, mediated by GSS-
- API implementations and not requiring callers to access the selected
- credential elements.
-
- A single credential structure may be used to initiate outbound
- contexts and to accept inbound contexts. Callers needing to operate
- in only one of these modes may designate this fact when credentials
- are acquired for use, allowing underlying mechanisms to optimize
- their processing and storage requirements. The credential elements
- defined by a particular mechanism may contain multiple cryptographic
- keys, e.g., to enable authentication and message encryption to be
- performed with different algorithms.
-
- A GSS-API credential structure may contain multiple credential
- elements, each containing mechanism-specific information for a
- particular underlying mechanism (mech_type), but the set of elements
- within a given credential structure represent a common entity. A
- credential structure's contents will vary depending on the set of
- mech_types supported by a particular GSS-API implementation. Each
- credential element identifies the data needed by its mechanism in
- order to establish contexts on behalf of a particular principal, and
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- may contain separate credential references for use in context
- initiation and context acceptance. Multiple credential elements
- within a given credential having overlapping combinations of
- mechanism, usage mode, and validity period are not permitted.
-
- Commonly, a single mech_type will be used for all security contexts
- established by a particular initiator to a particular target. A major
- motivation for supporting credential sets representing multiple
- mech_types is to allow initiators on systems which are equipped to
- handle multiple types to initiate contexts to targets on other
- systems which can accommodate only a subset of the set supported at
- the initiator's system.
-
-1.1.1.2: Credential Management
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- It is the responsibility of underlying system-specific mechanisms and
- OS functions below the GSS-API to ensure that the ability to acquire
- and use credentials associated with a given identity is constrained
- to appropriate processes within a system. This responsibility should
- be taken seriously by implementors, as the ability for an entity to
- utilize a principal's credentials is equivalent to the entity's
- ability to successfully assert that principal's identity.
-
- Once a set of GSS-API credentials is established, the transferability
- of that credentials set to other processes or analogous constructs
- within a system is a local matter, not defined by the GSS-API. An
- example local policy would be one in which any credentials received
- as a result of login to a given user account, or of delegation of
- rights to that account, are accessible by, or transferable to,
- processes running under that account.
-
- The credential establishment process (particularly when performed on
- behalf of users rather than server processes) is likely to require
- access to passwords or other quantities which should be protected
- locally and exposed for the shortest time possible. As a result, it
- will often be appropriate for preliminary credential establishment to
- be performed through local means at user login time, with the
- result(s) cached for subsequent reference. These preliminary
- credentials would be set aside (in a system-specific fashion) for
- subsequent use, either:
-
- to be accessed by an invocation of the GSS-API GSS_Acquire_cred()
- call, returning an explicit handle to reference that credential
-
- to comprise default credential elements to be installed, and to be
- used when default credential behavior is requested on behalf of a
- process
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-1.1.1.3: Default Credential Resolution
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- The gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context routines allow
- the value GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to be specified as their credential
- handle parameter. This special credential-handle indicates a desire
- by the application to act as a default principal. While individual
- GSS-API implementations are free to determine such default behavior
- as appropriate to the mechanism, the following default behavior by
- these routines is recommended for portability:
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- GSS_Init_sec_context:
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- (i) If there is only a single principal capable of initiating
- security contexts that the application is authorized to act on
- behalf of, then that principal shall be used, otherwise
-
- (ii) If the platform maintains a concept of a default network-
- identity, and if the application is authorized to act on behalf of
- that identity for the purpose of initiating security contexts,
- then the principal corresponding to that identity shall be used,
- otherwise
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- (iii) If the platform maintains a concept of a default local
- identity, and provides a means to map local identities into
- network-identities, and if the application is authorized to act on
- behalf of the network-identity image of the default local identity
- for the purpose of initiating security contexts, then the
- principal corresponding to that identity shall be used, otherwise
-
- (iv) A user-configurable default identity should be used.
-
- GSS_Accept_sec_context:
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- (i) If there is only a single authorized principal identity
- capable of accepting security contexts, then that principal shall
- be used, otherwise
-
- (ii) If the mechanism can determine the identity of the target
- principal by examining the context-establishment token, and if the
- accepting application is authorized to act as that principal for
- the purpose of accepting security contexts, then that principal
- identity shall be used, otherwise
-
- (iii) If the mechanism supports context acceptance by any
- principal, and mutual authentication was not requested, any
- principal that the application is authorized to accept security
- contexts under may be used, otherwise
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- The purpose of the above rules is to allow security contexts to be
- established by both initiator and acceptor using the default behavior
- wherever possible. Applications requesting default behavior are
- likely to be more portable across mechanisms and platforms than ones
- that use GSS_Acquire_cred to request a specific identity.
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-1.1.2: Tokens
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- Tokens are data elements transferred between GSS-API callers, and are
- divided into two classes. Context-level tokens are exchanged in order
- to establish and manage a security context between peers. Per-message
- tokens relate to an established context and are exchanged to provide
- protective security services (i.e., data origin authentication,
- integrity, and optional confidentiality) for corresponding data
- messages.
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- The first context-level token obtained from GSS_Init_sec_context() is
- required to indicate at its very beginning a globally-interpretable
- mechanism identifier, i.e., an Object Identifier (OID) of the
- security mechanism. The remaining part of this token as well as the
- whole content of all other tokens are specific to the particular
- underlying mechanism used to support the GSS-API. Section 3 of this
- document provides, for designers of GSS-API support mechanisms, the
- description of the header of the first context-level token which is
- then followed by mechanism-specific information.
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- Tokens' contents are opaque from the viewpoint of GSS-API callers.
- They are generated within the GSS-API implementation at an end
- system, provided to a GSS-API caller to be transferred to the peer
- GSS-API caller at a remote end system, and processed by the GSS-API
- implementation at that remote end system. Tokens may be output by
- GSS-API calls (and should be transferred to GSS-API peers) whether or
- not the calls' status indicators indicate successful completion.
- Token transfer may take place in an in-band manner, integrated into
- the same protocol stream used by the GSS-API callers for other data
- transfers, or in an out-of-band manner across a logically separate
- channel.
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- Different GSS-API tokens are used for different purposes (e.g.,
- context initiation, context acceptance, protected message data on an
- established context), and it is the responsibility of a GSS-API
- caller receiving tokens to distinguish their types, associate them
- with corresponding security contexts, and pass them to appropriate
- GSS-API processing routines. Depending on the caller protocol
- environment, this distinction may be accomplished in several ways.
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- The following examples illustrate means through which tokens' types
- may be distinguished:
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- - implicit tagging based on state information (e.g., all tokens on
- a new association are considered to be context establishment
- tokens until context establishment is completed, at which point
- all tokens are considered to be wrapped data objects for that
- context),
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- - explicit tagging at the caller protocol level,
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- - a hybrid of these approaches.
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- Commonly, the encapsulated data within a token includes internal
- mechanism-specific tagging information, enabling mechanism-level
- processing modules to distinguish tokens used within the mechanism
- for different purposes. Such internal mechanism-level tagging is
- recommended to mechanism designers, and enables mechanisms to
- determine whether a caller has passed a particular token for
- processing by an inappropriate GSS-API routine.
-
- Development of GSS-API support primitives based on a particular
- underlying cryptographic technique and protocol (i.e., conformant to
- a specific GSS-API mechanism definition) does not necessarily imply
- that GSS-API callers using that GSS-API mechanism will be able to
- interoperate with peers invoking the same technique and protocol
- outside the GSS-API paradigm, or with peers implementing a different
- GSS-API mechanism based on the same underlying technology. The
- format of GSS-API tokens defined in conjunction with a particular
- mechanism, and the techniques used to integrate those tokens into
- callers' protocols, may not be interoperable with the tokens used by
- non-GSS-API callers of the same underlying technique.
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-1.1.3: Security Contexts
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- Security contexts are established between peers, using credentials
- established locally in conjunction with each peer or received by
- peers via delegation. Multiple contexts may exist simultaneously
- between a pair of peers, using the same or different sets of
- credentials. Coexistence of multiple contexts using different
- credentials allows graceful rollover when credentials expire.
- Distinction among multiple contexts based on the same credentials
- serves applications by distinguishing different message streams in a
- security sense.
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- The GSS-API is independent of underlying protocols and addressing
- structure, and depends on its callers to transport GSS-API-provided
- data elements. As a result of these factors, it is a caller
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- responsibility to parse communicated messages, separating GSS-API-
- related data elements from caller-provided data. The GSS-API is
- independent of connection vs. connectionless orientation of the
- underlying communications service.
-
- No correlation between security context and communications protocol
- association is dictated. (The optional channel binding facility,
- discussed in Section 1.1.6 of this document, represents an
- intentional exception to this rule, supporting additional protection
- features within GSS-API supporting mechanisms.) This separation
- allows the GSS-API to be used in a wide range of communications
- environments, and also simplifies the calling sequences of the
- individual calls. In many cases (depending on underlying security
- protocol, associated mechanism, and availability of cached
- information), the state information required for context setup can be
- sent concurrently with initial signed user data, without interposing
- additional message exchanges.
-
-1.1.4: Mechanism Types
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- In order to successfully establish a security context with a target
- peer, it is necessary to identify an appropriate underlying mechanism
- type (mech_type) which both initiator and target peers support. The
- definition of a mechanism embodies not only the use of a particular
- cryptographic technology (or a hybrid or choice among alternative
- cryptographic technologies), but also definition of the syntax and
- semantics of data element exchanges which that mechanism will employ
- in order to support security services.
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- It is recommended that callers initiating contexts specify the
- "default" mech_type value, allowing system-specific functions within
- or invoked by the GSS-API implementation to select the appropriate
- mech_type, but callers may direct that a particular mech_type be
- employed when necessary.
-
- The means for identifying a shared mech_type to establish a security
- context with a peer will vary in different environments and
- circumstances; examples include (but are not limited to):
-
- use of a fixed mech_type, defined by configuration, within an
- environment
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- syntactic convention on a target-specific basis, through
- examination of a target's name
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- lookup of a target's name in a naming service or other database in
- order to identify mech_types supported by that target
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- explicit negotiation between GSS-API callers in advance of
- security context setup
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- When transferred between GSS-API peers, mech_type specifiers (per
- Section 3, represented as Object Identifiers (OIDs)) serve to qualify
- the interpretation of associated tokens. (The structure and encoding
- of Object Identifiers is defined in ISO/IEC 8824, "Specification of
- Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)" and in ISO/IEC 8825,
- "Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation
- One (ASN.1)".) Use of hierarchically structured OIDs serves to
- preclude ambiguous interpretation of mech_type specifiers. The OID
- representing the DASS MechType, for example, is 1.3.12.2.1011.7.5,
- and that of the Kerberos V5 mechanism, once advanced to the level of
- Proposed Standard, will be 1.2.840.113554.1.2.2.
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-1.1.5: Naming
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- The GSS-API avoids prescribing naming structures, treating the names
- which are transferred across the interface in order to initiate and
- accept security contexts as opaque objects. This approach supports
- the GSS-API's goal of implementability atop a range of underlying
- security mechanisms, recognizing the fact that different mechanisms
- process and authenticate names which are presented in different
- forms. Generalized services offering translation functions among
- arbitrary sets of naming environments are outside the scope of the
- GSS-API; availability and use of local conversion functions to
- translate among the naming formats supported within a given end
- system is anticipated.
-
- Different classes of name representations are used in conjunction
- with different GSS-API parameters:
-
- - Internal form (denoted in this document by INTERNAL NAME),
- opaque to callers and defined by individual GSS-API
- implementations. GSS-API implementations supporting multiple
- namespace types must maintain internal tags to disambiguate the
- interpretation of particular names. A Mechanism Name (MN) is a
- special case of INTERNAL NAME, guaranteed to contain elements
- corresponding to one and only one mechanism; calls which are
- guaranteed to emit MNs or which require MNs as input are so
- identified within this specification.
-
- - Contiguous string ("flat") form (denoted in this document by
- OCTET STRING); accompanied by OID tags identifying the namespace
- to which they correspond. Depending on tag value, flat names may
- or may not be printable strings for direct acceptance from and
- presentation to users. Tagging of flat names allows GSS-API
- callers and underlying GSS-API mechanisms to disambiguate name
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- which they are capable of processing, avoiding aliasing problems
- which could result from misinterpreting a name of one type as a
- name of another type.
-
- - The GSS-API Exported Name Object, a special case of flat name
- designated by a reserved OID value, carries a canonicalized form
- of a name suitable for binary comparisons.
-
- In addition to providing means for names to be tagged with types,
- this specification defines primitives to support a level of naming
- environment independence for certain calling applications. To provide
- basic services oriented towards the requirements of callers which
- need not themselves interpret the internal syntax and semantics of
- names, GSS-API calls for name comparison (GSS_Compare_name()),
- human-readable display (GSS_Display_name()), input conversion
- (GSS_Import_name()), internal name deallocation (GSS_Release_name()),
- and internal name duplication (GSS_Duplicate_name()) functions are
- defined. (It is anticipated that these proposed GSS-API calls will be
- implemented in many end systems based on system-specific name
- manipulation primitives already extant within those end systems;
- inclusion within the GSS-API is intended to offer GSS-API callers a
- portable means to perform specific operations, supportive of
- authorization and audit requirements, on authenticated names.)
-
- GSS_Import_name() implementations can, where appropriate, support
- more than one printable syntax corresponding to a given namespace
- (e.g., alternative printable representations for X.500 Distinguished
- Names), allowing flexibility for their callers to select among
- alternative representations. GSS_Display_name() implementations
- output a printable syntax selected as appropriate to their
- operational environments; this selection is a local matter. Callers
- desiring portability across alternative printable syntaxes should
- refrain from implementing comparisons based on printable name forms
- and should instead use the GSS_Compare_name() call to determine
- whether or not one internal-format name matches another.
-
- The GSS_Canonicalize_name() and GSS_Export_name() calls enable
- callers to acquire and process Exported Name Objects, canonicalized
- and translated in accordance with the procedures of a particular
- GSS-API mechanism. Exported Name Objects can, in turn, be input to
- GSS_Import_name(), yielding equivalent MNs. These facilities are
- designed specifically to enable efficient storage and comparison of
- names (e.g., for use in access control lists).
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- related GSS-API processing routines.
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- GSS-API library defaults
- |
- |
- V text, for
- text --------------> internal_name (IN) -----------> display only
- import_name() / display_name()
- /
- /
- /
- accept_sec_context() /
- | /
- | /
- | / canonicalize_name()
- | /
- | /
- | /
- | /
- | /
- | |
- V V <---------------------
- single mechanism import_name() exported name: flat
- internal_name (MN) binary "blob" usable
- ----------------------> for access control
- export_name()
-
-1.1.6: Channel Bindings
-
- The GSS-API accommodates the concept of caller-provided channel
- binding ("chan_binding") information. Channel bindings are used to
- strengthen the quality with which peer entity authentication is
- provided during context establishment, by limiting the scope within
- which an intercepted context establishment token can be reused by an
- attacker. Specifically, they enable GSS-API callers to bind the
- establishment of a security context to relevant characteristics
- (e.g., addresses, transformed representations of encryption keys) of
- the underlying communications channel, of protection mechanisms
- applied to that communications channel, and to application-specific
- data.
-
- The caller initiating a security context must determine the
- appropriate channel binding values to provide as input to the
- GSS_Init_sec_context() call, and consistent values must be provided
- to GSS_Accept_sec_context() by the context's target, in order for
- both peers' GSS-API mechanisms to validate that received tokens
- possess correct channel-related characteristics. Use or non-use of
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- the GSS-API channel binding facility is a caller option. GSS-API
- mechanisms can operate in an environment where NULL channel bindings
- are presented; mechanism implementors are encouraged, but not
- required, to make use of caller-provided channel binding data within
- their mechanisms. Callers should not assume that underlying
- mechanisms provide confidentiality protection for channel binding
- information.
-
- When non-NULL channel bindings are provided by callers, certain
- mechanisms can offer enhanced security value by interpreting the
- bindings' content (rather than simply representing those bindings, or
- integrity check values computed on them, within tokens) and will
- therefore depend on presentation of specific data in a defined
- format. To this end, agreements among mechanism implementors are
- defining conventional interpretations for the contents of channel
- binding arguments, including address specifiers (with content
- dependent on communications protocol environment) for context
- initiators and acceptors. (These conventions are being incorporated
- in GSS-API mechanism specifications and into the GSS-API C language
- bindings specification.) In order for GSS-API callers to be portable
- across multiple mechanisms and achieve the full security
- functionality which each mechanism can provide, it is strongly
- recommended that GSS-API callers provide channel bindings consistent
- with these conventions and those of the networking environment in
- which they operate.
-
-1.2: GSS-API Features and Issues
-
- This section describes aspects of GSS-API operations, of the security
- services which the GSS-API provides, and provides commentary on
- design issues.
-
-1.2.1: Status Reporting
-
- Each GSS-API call provides two status return values. Major_status
- values provide a mechanism-independent indication of call status
- (e.g., GSS_S_COMPLETE, GSS_S_FAILURE, GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED),
- sufficient to drive normal control flow within the caller in a
- generic fashion. Table 1 summarizes the defined major_status return
- codes in tabular fashion.
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- FATAL ERROR CODES
-
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS channel binding mismatch
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH unsupported mechanism requested
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME invalid name provided
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE name of unsupported type provided
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS invalid input status selector
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG token had invalid integrity check
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED specified security context expired
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED expired credentials detected
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL defective credential detected
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN defective token detected
- GSS_S_FAILURE failure, unspecified at GSS-API
- level
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT no valid security context specified
- GSS_S_NO_CRED no valid credentials provided
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP unsupported QOP value
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED operation unauthorized
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE operation unavailable
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT duplicate credential element requested
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN name contains multi-mechanism elements
-
- INFORMATORY STATUS CODES
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE normal completion
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED continuation call to routine
- required
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN duplicate per-message token
- detected
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN timed-out per-message token
- detected
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN reordered (early) per-message token
- detected
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN skipped predecessor token(s)
- detected
-
- Minor_status provides more detailed status information which may
- include status codes specific to the underlying security mechanism.
- Minor_status values are not specified in this document.
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status returns, and optional message
- outputs, are provided in GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls so that different mechanisms'
- employment of different numbers of messages within their
- authentication sequences need not be reflected in separate code paths
- within calling applications. Instead, such cases are accommodated
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- with sequences of continuation calls to GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). The same mechanism is used to encapsulate
- mutual authentication within the GSS-API's context initiation calls.
-
- For mech_types which require interactions with third-party servers in
- order to establish a security context, GSS-API context establishment
- calls may block pending completion of such third-party interactions.
-
- On the other hand, no GSS-API calls pend on serialized interactions
- with GSS-API peer entities. As a result, local GSS-API status
- returns cannot reflect unpredictable or asynchronous exceptions
- occurring at remote peers, and reflection of such status information
- is a caller responsibility outside the GSS-API.
-
-1.2.2: Per-Message Security Service Availability
-
- When a context is established, two flags are returned to indicate the
- set of per-message protection security services which will be
- available on the context:
-
- the integ_avail flag indicates whether per-message integrity and
- data origin authentication services are available
-
- the conf_avail flag indicates whether per-message confidentiality
- services are available, and will never be returned TRUE unless the
- integ_avail flag is also returned TRUE
-
- GSS-API callers desiring per-message security services should
- check the values of these flags at context establishment time, and
- must be aware that a returned FALSE value for integ_avail means
- that invocation of GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() primitives on the
- associated context will apply no cryptographic protection to user
- data messages.
-
- The GSS-API per-message integrity and data origin authentication
- services provide assurance to a receiving caller that protection was
- applied to a message by the caller's peer on the security context,
- corresponding to the entity named at context initiation. The GSS-API
- per-message confidentiality service provides assurance to a sending
- caller that the message's content is protected from access by
- entities other than the context's named peer.
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- The GSS-API per-message protection service primitives, as the
- category name implies, are oriented to operation at the granularity
- of protocol data units. They perform cryptographic operations on the
- data units, transfer cryptographic control information in tokens,
- and, in the case of GSS_Wrap(), encapsulate the protected data unit.
- As such, these primitives are not oriented to efficient data
- protection for stream-paradigm protocols (e.g., Telnet) if
- cryptography must be applied on an octet-by-octet basis.
-
-1.2.3: Per-Message Replay Detection and Sequencing
-
- Certain underlying mech_types offer support for replay detection
- and/or sequencing of messages transferred on the contexts they
- support. These optionally-selectable protection features are distinct
- from replay detection and sequencing features applied to the context
- establishment operation itself; the presence or absence of context-
- level replay or sequencing features is wholly a function of the
- underlying mech_type's capabilities, and is not selected or omitted
- as a caller option.
-
- The caller initiating a context provides flags (replay_det_req_flag
- and sequence_req_flag) to specify whether the use of per-message
- replay detection and sequencing features is desired on the context
- being established. The GSS-API implementation at the initiator system
- can determine whether these features are supported (and whether they
- are optionally selectable) as a function of mech_type, without need
- for bilateral negotiation with the target. When enabled, these
- features provide recipients with indicators as a result of GSS-API
- processing of incoming messages, identifying whether those messages
- were detected as duplicates or out-of-sequence. Detection of such
- events does not prevent a suspect message from being provided to a
- recipient; the appropriate course of action on a suspect message is a
- matter of caller policy.
-
- The semantics of the replay detection and sequencing services applied
- to received messages, as visible across the interface which the GSS-
- API provides to its clients, are as follows:
-
- When replay_det_state is TRUE, the possible major_status returns for
- well-formed and correctly signed messages are as follows:
-
- 1. GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the message was within the window
- (of time or sequence space) allowing replay events to be detected,
- and that the message was not a replay of a previously-processed
- message within that window.
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- 2. GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic
- checkvalue on the received message was correct, but that the
- message was recognized as a duplicate of a previously-processed
- message.
-
- 3. GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic checkvalue on
- the received message was correct, but that the message is too old
- to be checked for duplication.
-
- When sequence_state is TRUE, the possible major_status returns for
- well-formed and correctly signed messages are as follows:
-
- 1. GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the message was within the window
- (of time or sequence space) allowing replay events to be detected,
- that the message was not a replay of a previously-processed
- message within that window, and that no predecessor sequenced
- messages are missing relative to the last received message (if
- any) processed on the context with a correct cryptographic
- checkvalue.
-
- 2. GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check value
- on the received message was correct, but that the message was
- recognized as a duplicate of a previously-processed message.
-
- 3. GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check value on the
- received message was correct, but that the token is too old to be
- checked for duplication.
-
- 4. GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic checkvalue
- on the received message was correct, but that it is earlier in a
- sequenced stream than a message already processed on the context.
- [Note: Mechanisms can be architected to provide a stricter form of
- sequencing service, delivering particular messages to recipients
- only after all predecessor messages in an ordered stream have been
- delivered. This type of support is incompatible with the GSS-API
- paradigm in which recipients receive all messages, whether in
- order or not, and provide them (one at a time, without intra-GSS-
- API message buffering) to GSS-API routines for validation. GSS-
- API facilities provide supportive functions, aiding clients to
- achieve strict message stream integrity in an efficient manner in
- conjunction with sequencing provisions in communications
- protocols, but the GSS-API does not offer this level of message
- stream integrity service by itself.]
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- 5. GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic checkvalue on
- the received message was correct, but that one or more predecessor
- sequenced messages have not been successfully processed relative
- to the last received message (if any) processed on the context
- with a correct cryptographic checkvalue.
-
- As the message stream integrity features (especially sequencing) may
- interfere with certain applications' intended communications
- paradigms, and since support for such features is likely to be
- resource intensive, it is highly recommended that mech_types
- supporting these features allow them to be activated selectively on
- initiator request when a context is established. A context initiator
- and target are provided with corresponding indicators
- (replay_det_state and sequence_state), signifying whether these
- features are active on a given context.
-
- An example mech_type supporting per-message replay detection could
- (when replay_det_state is TRUE) implement the feature as follows: The
- underlying mechanism would insert timestamps in data elements output
- by GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap(), and would maintain (within a time-
- limited window) a cache (qualified by originator-recipient pair)
- identifying received data elements processed by GSS_VerifyMIC() and
- GSS_Unwrap(). When this feature is active, exception status returns
- (GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN) will be provided when
- GSS_VerifyMIC() or GSS_Unwrap() is presented with a message which is
- either a detected duplicate of a prior message or which is too old to
- validate against a cache of recently received messages.
-
-1.2.4: Quality of Protection
-
- Some mech_types provide their users with fine granularity control
- over the means used to provide per-message protection, allowing
- callers to trade off security processing overhead dynamically against
- the protection requirements of particular messages. A per-message
- quality-of-protection parameter (analogous to quality-of-service, or
- QOS) selects among different QOP options supported by that mechanism.
- On context establishment for a multi-QOP mech_type, context-level
- data provides the prerequisite data for a range of protection
- qualities.
-
- It is expected that the majority of callers will not wish to exert
- explicit mechanism-specific QOP control and will therefore request
- selection of a default QOP. Definitions of, and choices among, non-
- default QOP values are mechanism-specific, and no ordered sequences
- of QOP values can be assumed equivalent across different mechanisms.
- Meaningful use of non-default QOP values demands that callers be
- familiar with the QOP definitions of an underlying mechanism or
- mechanisms, and is therefore a non-portable construct. The
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- GSS_S_BAD_QOP major_status value is defined in order to indicate that
- a provided QOP value is unsupported for a security context, most
- likely because that value is unrecognized by the underlying
- mechanism.
-
-1.2.5: Anonymity Support
-
- In certain situations or environments, an application may wish to
- authenticate a peer and/or protect communications using GSS-API per-
- message services without revealing its own identity. For example,
- consider an application which provides read access to a research
- database, and which permits queries by arbitrary requestors. A
- client of such a service might wish to authenticate the service, to
- establish trust in the information received from it, but might not
- wish to disclose its identity to the service for privacy reasons.
-
- In ordinary GSS-API usage, a context initiator's identity is made
- available to the context acceptor as part of the context
- establishment process. To provide for anonymity support, a facility
- (input anon_req_flag to GSS_Init_sec_context()) is provided through
- which context initiators may request that their identity not be
- provided to the context acceptor. Mechanisms are not required to
- honor this request, but a caller will be informed (via returned
- anon_state indicator from GSS_Init_sec_context()) whether or not the
- request is honored. Note that authentication as the anonymous
- principal does not necessarily imply that credentials are not
- required in order to establish a context.
-
- The following Object Identifier value is provided as a means to
- identify anonymous names, and can be compared against in order to
- determine, in a mechanism-independent fashion, whether a name refers
- to an anonymous principal:
-
- {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
- 3(gss-anonymous-name)}
-
- The recommended symbolic name corresponding to this definition is
- GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS.
-
- Four possible combinations of anon_state and mutual_state are
- possible, with the following results:
-
- anon_state == FALSE, mutual_state == FALSE: initiator
- authenticated to target.
-
- anon_state == FALSE, mutual_state == TRUE: initiator authenticated
- to target, target authenticated to initiator.
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- anon_state == TRUE, mutual_state == FALSE: initiator authenticated
- as anonymous principal to target.
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- anon_state == TRUE, mutual_state == TRUE: initiator authenticated
- as anonymous principal to target, target authenticated to
- initiator.
-
-1.2.6: Initialization
-
- No initialization calls (i.e., calls which must be invoked prior to
- invocation of other facilities in the interface) are defined in GSS-
- API. As an implication of this fact, GSS-API implementations must
- themselves be self-initializing.
-
-1.2.7: Per-Message Protection During Context Establishment
-
- A facility is defined in GSS-V2 to enable protection and buffering of
- data messages for later transfer while a security context's
- establishment is in GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status, to be used in cases
- where the caller side already possesses the necessary session key to
- enable this processing. Specifically, a new state Boolean, called
- prot_ready_state, is added to the set of information returned by
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), GSS_Accept_sec_context(), and
- GSS_Inquire_context().
-
- For context establishment calls, this state Boolean is valid and
- interpretable when the associated major_status is either
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, or GSS_S_COMPLETE. Callers of GSS-API (both
- initiators and acceptors) can assume that per-message protection (via
- GSS_Wrap(), GSS_Unwrap(), GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC()) is
- available and ready for use if either: prot_ready_state == TRUE, or
- major_status == GSS_S_COMPLETE, though mutual authentication (if
- requested) cannot be guaranteed until GSS_S_COMPLETE is returned.
-
- This achieves full, transparent backward compatibility for GSS-API V1
- callers, who need not even know of the existence of prot_ready_state,
- and who will get the expected behavior from GSS_S_COMPLETE, but who
- will not be able to use per-message protection before GSS_S_COMPLETE
- is returned.
-
- It is not a requirement that GSS-V2 mechanisms ever return TRUE
- prot_ready_state before completion of context establishment (indeed,
- some mechanisms will not evolve usable message protection keys,
- especially at the context acceptor, before context establishment is
- complete). It is expected but not required that GSS-V2 mechanisms
- will return TRUE prot_ready_state upon completion of context
- establishment if they support per-message protection at all (however
- GSS-V2 applications should not assume that TRUE prot_ready_state will
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- since GSS-V2 implementations may continue to support GSS-V1 mechanism
- code, which will never return TRUE prot_ready_state).
-
- When prot_ready_state is returned TRUE, mechanisms shall also set
- those context service indicator flags (deleg_state, mutual_state,
- replay_det_state, sequence_state, anon_state, trans_state,
- conf_avail, integ_avail) which represent facilities confirmed, at
- that time, to be available on the context being established. In
- situations where prot_ready_state is returned before GSS_S_COMPLETE,
- it is possible that additional facilities may be confirmed and
- subsequently indicated when GSS_S_COMPLETE is returned.
-
-1.2.8: Implementation Robustness
-
- This section recommends aspects of GSS-API implementation behavior in
- the interests of overall robustness.
-
- If a token is presented for processing on a GSS-API security context
- and that token is determined to be invalid for that context, the
- context's state should not be disrupted for purposes of processing
- subsequent valid tokens.
-
- Certain local conditions at a GSS-API implementation (e.g.,
- unavailability of memory) may preclude, temporarily or permanently,
- the successful processing of tokens on a GSS-API security context,
- typically generating GSS_S_FAILURE major_status returns along with
- locally-significant minor_status. For robust operation under such
- conditions, the following recommendations are made:
-
- Failing calls should free any memory they allocate, so that
- callers may retry without causing further loss of resources.
-
- Failure of an individual call on an established context should not
- preclude subsequent calls from succeeding on the same context.
-
- Whenever possible, it should be possible for
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() calls to be successfully processed even
- if other calls cannot succeed, thereby enabling context-related
- resources to be released.
-
-2: Interface Descriptions
-
- This section describes the GSS-API's service interface, dividing the
- set of calls offered into four groups. Credential management calls
- are related to the acquisition and release of credentials by
- principals. Context-level calls are related to the management of
- security contexts between principals. Per-message calls are related
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- contexts. Support calls provide ancillary functions useful to GSS-API
- callers. Table 2 groups and summarizes the calls in tabular fashion.
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-Table 2: GSS-API Calls
-
- CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT
-
- GSS_Acquire_cred acquire credentials for use
- GSS_Release_cred release credentials after use
- GSS_Inquire_cred display information about
- credentials
- GSS_Add_cred construct credentials incrementally
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech display per-mechanism credential
- information
-
- CONTEXT-LEVEL CALLS
-
- GSS_Init_sec_context initiate outbound security context
- GSS_Accept_sec_context accept inbound security context
- GSS_Delete_sec_context flush context when no longer needed
- GSS_Process_context_token process received control token on
- context
- GSS_Context_time indicate validity time remaining on
- context
- GSS_Inquire_context display information about context
- GSS_Wrap_size_limit determine GSS_Wrap token size limit
- GSS_Export_sec_context transfer context to other process
- GSS_Import_sec_context import transferred context
-
- PER-MESSAGE CALLS
-
- GSS_GetMIC apply integrity check, receive as
- token separate from message
- GSS_VerifyMIC validate integrity check token
- along with message
- GSS_Wrap sign, optionally encrypt,
- encapsulate
- GSS_Unwrap decapsulate, decrypt if needed,
- validate integrity check
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- GSS_Display_status translate status codes to printable
- form
- GSS_Indicate_mechs indicate mech_types supported on
- local system
- GSS_Compare_name compare two names for equality
- GSS_Display_name translate name to printable form
- GSS_Import_name convert printable name to
- normalized form
- GSS_Release_name free storage of normalized-form
- name
- GSS_Release_buffer free storage of printable name
- GSS_Release_OID free storage of OID object
- GSS_Release_OID_set free storage of OID set object
- GSS_Create_empty_OID_set create empty OID set
- GSS_Add_OID_set_member add member to OID set
- GSS_Test_OID_set_member test if OID is member of OID set
- GSS_OID_to_str display OID as string
- GSS_Str_to_OID construct OID from string
- GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech indicate name types supported by
- mechanism
- GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name indicates mechanisms supporting name
- type
- GSS_Canonicalize_name translate name to per-mechanism form
- GSS_Export_name externalize per-mechanism name
- GSS_Duplicate_name duplicate name object
-
-2.1: Credential management calls
-
- These GSS-API calls provide functions related to the management of
- credentials. Their characterization with regard to whether or not
- they may block pending exchanges with other network entities (e.g.,
- directories or authentication servers) depends in part on OS-specific
- (extra-GSS-API) issues, so is not specified in this document.
-
- The GSS_Acquire_cred() call is defined within the GSS-API in support
- of application portability, with a particular orientation towards
- support of portable server applications. It is recognized that (for
- certain systems and mechanisms) credentials for interactive users may
- be managed differently from credentials for server processes; in such
- environments, it is the GSS-API implementation's responsibility to
- distinguish these cases and the procedures for making this
- distinction are a local matter. The GSS_Release_cred() call provides
- a means for callers to indicate to the GSS-API that use of a
- credentials structure is no longer required. The GSS_Inquire_cred()
- call allows callers to determine information about a credentials
- structure. The GSS_Add_cred() call enables callers to append
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- elements to an existing credential structure, allowing iterative
- construction of a multi-mechanism credential. The
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech() call enables callers to extract per-
- mechanism information describing a credentials structure.
-
-2.1.1: GSS_Acquire_cred call
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- Inputs:
-
- o desired_name INTERNAL NAME, -NULL requests locally-determined
- default
-
- o lifetime_req INTEGER,-in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o desired_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER,-empty set requests
- system-selected default
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER -0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE,
-
- o actual_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that requested credentials were
- successfully established, for the duration indicated in
- lifetime_rec, suitable for the usage requested in cred_usage,
- for the set of mech_types indicated in actual_mechs, and that
- those credentials can be referenced for subsequent use with
- the handle returned in output_cred_handle.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that a mech_type unsupported by the
- GSS-API implementation type was requested, causing the
- credential establishment operation to fail.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided desired_name is
- uninterpretable or of a type unsupported by the applicable
- underlying GSS-API mechanism(s), so no credentials could be
- established for the accompanying desired_name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided desired_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so no credentials could be established for the
- accompanying desired_name.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that credential establishment failed
- for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, including lack
- of authorization to establish and use credentials associated
- with the identity named in the input desired_name argument.
-
- GSS_Acquire_cred() is used to acquire credentials so that a
- principal can (as a function of the input cred_usage parameter)
- initiate and/or accept security contexts under the identity
- represented by the desired_name input argument. On successful
- completion, the returned output_cred_handle result provides a handle
- for subsequent references to the acquired credentials. Typically,
- single-user client processes requesting that default credential
- behavior be applied for context establishment purposes will have no
- need to invoke this call.
-
- A caller may provide the value NULL for desired_name, signifying a
- request for credentials corresponding to a principal identity
- selected by default for the caller. The procedures used by GSS-API
- implementations to select the appropriate principal identity in
- response to such a request are local matters. It is possible that
- multiple pre-established credentials may exist for the same principal
- identity (for example, as a result of multiple user login sessions)
- when GSS_Acquire_cred() is called; the means used in such cases to
- select a specific credential are local matters. The input
- lifetime_req argument to GSS_Acquire_cred() may provide useful
- information for local GSS-API implementations to employ in making
- this disambiguation in a manner which will best satisfy a caller's
- intent.
-
- The lifetime_rec result indicates the length of time for which the
- acquired credentials will be valid, as an offset from the present. A
- mechanism may return a reserved value indicating INDEFINITE if no
- constraints on credential lifetime are imposed. A caller of
- GSS_Acquire_cred() can request a length of time for which acquired
- credentials are to be valid (lifetime_req argument), beginning at the
- present, or can request credentials with a default validity interval.
- (Requests for postdated credentials are not supported within the
- GSS-API.) Certain mechanisms and implementations may bind in
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- credential validity period specifiers at a point preliminary to
- invocation of the GSS_Acquire_cred() call (e.g., in conjunction with
- user login procedures). As a result, callers requesting non-default
- values for lifetime_req must recognize that such requests cannot
- always be honored and must be prepared to accommodate the use of
- returned credentials with different lifetimes as indicated in
- lifetime_rec.
-
- The caller of GSS_Acquire_cred() can explicitly specify a set of
- mech_types which are to be accommodated in the returned credentials
- (desired_mechs argument), or can request credentials for a system-
- defined default set of mech_types. Selection of the system-specified
- default set is recommended in the interests of application
- portability. The actual_mechs return value may be interrogated by the
- caller to determine the set of mechanisms with which the returned
- credentials may be used.
-
-2.1.2: GSS_Release_cred call
-
- Input:
-
- o cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE - NULL specifies that
- the credential elements used when default credential behavior
- is requested be released.
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle were released for purposes of subsequent
- access by the caller. The effect on other processes which may
- be authorized shared access to such credentials is a local
- matter.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no release operation was
- performed, either because the input cred_handle was invalid or
- because the caller lacks authorization to access the
- referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the release operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
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- Provides a means for a caller to explicitly request that credentials
- be released when their use is no longer required. Note that system-
- specific credential management functions are also likely to exist,
- for example to assure that credentials shared among processes are
- properly deleted when all affected processes terminate, even if no
- explicit release requests are issued by those processes. Given the
- fact that multiple callers are not precluded from gaining authorized
- access to the same credentials, invocation of GSS_Release_cred()
- cannot be assumed to delete a particular set of credentials on a
- system-wide basis.
-
-2.1.3: GSS_Inquire_cred call
-
- Input:
-
- o cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE -NULL specifies that the
- credential elements used when default credential behavior is
- requested are to be queried
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o cred_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER, -0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle argument were valid, and that the output
- cred_name, lifetime_rec, and cred_usage values represent,
- respectively, the credentials' associated principal name,
- remaining lifetime, suitable usage modes, and supported
- mechanism types.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no information could be returned
- about the referenced credentials, either because the input
- cred_handle was invalid or because the caller lacks
- authorization to access the referenced credentials.
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- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that the referenced
- credentials are invalid.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the referenced
- credentials have expired.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- The GSS_Inquire_cred() call is defined primarily for the use of those
- callers which request use of default credential behavior rather than
- acquiring credentials explicitly with GSS_Acquire_cred(). It enables
- callers to determine a credential structure's associated principal
- name, remaining validity period, usability for security context
- initiation and/or acceptance, and supported mechanisms.
-
- For a multi-mechanism credential, the returned "lifetime" specifier
- indicates the shortest lifetime of any of the mechanisms' elements in
- the credential (for either context initiation or acceptance
- purposes).
-
- GSS_Inquire_cred() should indicate INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT for
- "cred_usage" if both of the following conditions hold:
-
- (1) there exists in the credential an element which allows context
- initiation using some mechanism
-
- (2) there exists in the credential an element which allows context
- acceptance using some mechanism (allowably, but not necessarily,
- one of the same mechanism(s) qualifying for (1)).
-
- If condition (1) holds but not condition (2), GSS_Inquire_cred()
- should indicate INITIATE-ONLY for "cred_usage". If condition (2)
- holds but not condition (1), GSS_Inquire_cred() should indicate
- ACCEPT-ONLY for "cred_usage".
-
- Callers requiring finer disambiguation among available combinations
- of lifetimes, usage modes, and mechanisms should call the
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech() routine, passing that routine one of the
- mech OIDs returned by GSS_Inquire_cred().
-
-
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-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE - handle to credential
- structure created with prior GSS_Acquire_cred() or
- GSS_Add_cred() call, or NULL to append elements to the set
- which are applied for the caller when default credential
- behavior is specified.
-
- o desired_name INTERNAL NAME - NULL requests locally-determined
- default
-
- o initiator_time_req INTEGER - in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o acceptor_time_req INTEGER - in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o desired_mech OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER - 0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, - NULL to request that
- credential elements be added "in place" to the credential
- structure identified by input_cred_handle, non-NULL pointer
- to request that a new credential structure and handle be created.
-
- o actual_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o initiator_time_rec INTEGER - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o acceptor_time_rec INTEGER - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER, -0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- full set of mechanisms
- supported by resulting credential.
-
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- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by
- the input_cred_handle argument were valid, and that the
- resulting credential from GSS_Add_cred() is valid for the
- durations indicated in initiator_time_rec and acceptor_time_rec,
- suitable for the usage requested in cred_usage, and for the
- mechanisms indicated in actual_mechs.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT indicates that the input desired_mech
- specified a mechanism for which the referenced credential
- already contained a credential element with overlapping
- cred_usage and validity time specifiers.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the input desired_mech specified
- a mechanism unsupported by the GSS-API implementation, causing
- the GSS_Add_cred() operation to fail.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided desired_name
- is uninterpretable or of a type unsupported by the applicable
- underlying GSS-API mechanism(s), so the GSS_Add_cred() operation
- could not be performed for that name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided desired_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so the GSS_Add_cred() operation could not be
- performed for that name.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that the input_cred_handle referenced
- invalid or inaccessible credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, including lack of
- authorization to establish or use credentials representing
- the requested identity.
-
- GSS_Add_cred() enables callers to construct credentials iteratively
- by adding credential elements in successive operations, corresponding
- to different mechanisms. This offers particular value in multi-
- mechanism environments, as the major_status and minor_status values
- returned on each iteration are individually visible and can therefore
- be interpreted unambiguously on a per-mechanism basis.
-
- The same input desired_name, or default reference, should be used on
- all GSS_Acquire_cred() and GSS_Add_cred() calls corresponding to a
- particular credential.
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-
- Inputs:
-
- o cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE -- NULL specifies that the
- credential elements used when default credential behavior is
- requested are to be queried
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- specific mechanism for
- which credentials are being queried
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o cred_name INTERNAL NAME, -- guaranteed to be MN
-
- o lifetime_rec_initiate INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o lifetime_rec_accept INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER, -0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle argument were valid, that the mechanism
- indicated by the input mech_type was represented with elements
- within those credentials, and that the output cred_name,
- lifetime_rec_initiate, lifetime_rec_accept, and cred_usage values
- represent, respectively, the credentials' associated principal
- name, remaining lifetimes, and suitable usage modes.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no information could be returned
- about the referenced credentials, either because the input
- cred_handle was invalid or because the caller lacks
- authorization to access the referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that the referenced
- credentials are invalid.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the referenced
- credentials have expired.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the referenced credentials do not
- contain elements for the requested mechanism.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- The GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech() call enables callers in multi-
- mechanism environments to acquire specific data about available
- combinations of lifetimes, usage modes, and mechanisms within a
- credential structure. The lifetime_rec_initiate result indicates the
- available lifetime for context initiation purposes; the
- lifetime_rec_accept result indicates the available lifetime for
- context acceptance purposes.
-
-2.2: Context-level calls
-
- This group of calls is devoted to the establishment and management of
- security contexts between peers. A context's initiator calls
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), resulting in generation of a token which the
- caller passes to the target. At the target, that token is passed to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). Depending on the underlying mech_type and
- specified options, additional token exchanges may be performed in the
- course of context establishment; such exchanges are accommodated by
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns from GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context().
-
- Either party to an established context may invoke
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() to flush context information when a context
- is no longer required. GSS_Process_context_token() is used to
- process received tokens carrying context-level control information.
- GSS_Context_time() allows a caller to determine the length of time
- for which an established context will remain valid.
- GSS_Inquire_context() returns status information describing context
- characteristics. GSS_Wrap_size_limit() allows a caller to determine
- the size of a token which will be generated by a GSS_Wrap()
- operation. GSS_Export_sec_context() and GSS_Import_sec_context()
- enable transfer of active contexts between processes on an end
- system.
-
-2.2.1: GSS_Init_sec_context call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o claimant_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -NULL specifies "use
- default"
-
- o input_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE, -0 specifies "none assigned
- yet"
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- o targ_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -NULL parameter specifies "use
- default"
-
- o deleg_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_req INTEGER,-0 specifies default lifetime
-
- o chan_bindings OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_token OCTET STRING-NULL or token received from target
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -actual mechanism always
- indicated, never NULL
-
- o output_token OCTET STRING, -NULL or token to pass to context
- target
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o trans_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o prot_ready_state BOOLEAN, -- see Section 1.2.7
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- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for those mech_types
- in which an authentication server or other network entity must be
- consulted on behalf of a context initiator in order to generate an
- output_token suitable for presentation to a specified target.
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that context-level information was
- successfully initialized, and that the returned output_token
- will provide sufficient information for the target to perform
- per-message processing on the newly-established context.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED indicates that control information in the
- returned output_token must be sent to the target, and that a
- reply must be received and passed as the input_token argument
- to a continuation call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), before
- per-message processing can be performed in conjunction with
- this context.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the input_token failed, preventing further
- processing from being performed based on that token.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential structure referenced by
- claimant_cred_handle failed, preventing further processing from
- being performed using that credential structure.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG indicates that the received input_token
- contains an incorrect integrity check, so context setup cannot
- be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no context was established,
- either because the input cred_handle was invalid, because the
- referenced credentials are valid for context acceptor use
- only, or because the caller lacks authorization to access the
- referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the credentials
- provided through the input claimant_cred_handle argument are no
- longer valid, so context establishment cannot be completed.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS indicates that a mismatch between the
- caller-provided chan_bindings and those extracted from the
- input_token was detected, signifying a security-relevant
- event and preventing context establishment. (This result will
- be returned by GSS_Init_sec_context only for contexts where
- mutual_state is TRUE.)
-
- o GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the input_token is too old to
- be checked for integrity. This is a fatal error during context
- establishment.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the input token has a
- correct integrity check, but is a duplicate of a token already
- processed. This is a fatal error during context establishment.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided; this major status will
- be returned only for successor calls following GSS_S_CONTINUE_
- NEEDED status returns.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided targ_name is
- of a type uninterpretable or unsupported by the applicable
- underlying GSS-API mechanism(s), so context establishment
- cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided targ_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so context establishment cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates receipt of a context establishment token
- or of a caller request specifying a mechanism unsupported by
- the local system or with the caller's active credentials
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that context setup could not be
- accomplished for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, and
- that no interface-defined recovery action is available.
-
- This routine is used by a context initiator, and ordinarily emits one
- (or, for the case of a multi-step exchange, more than one)
- output_token suitable for use by the target within the selected
- mech_type's protocol. Using information in the credentials structure
- referenced by claimant_cred_handle, GSS_Init_sec_context()
- initializes the data structures required to establish a security
- context with target targ_name. The targ_name may be any valid
- INTERNAL NAME; it need not be an MN. The claimant_cred_handle must
- correspond to the same valid credentials structure on the initial
- call to GSS_Init_sec_context() and on any successor calls resulting
- from GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns; different protocol
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- sequences modeled by the GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED facility will require
- access to credentials at different points in the context
- establishment sequence.
-
- The input_context_handle argument is 0, specifying "not yet
- assigned", on the first GSS_Init_sec_context() call relating to a
- given context. If successful (i.e., if accompanied by major_status
- GSS_S_COMPLETE or GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED), and only if successful, the
- initial GSS_Init_sec_context() call returns a non-zero
- output_context_handle for use in future references to this context.
- Once a non-zero output_context_handle has been returned, GSS-API
- callers should call GSS_Delete_sec_context() to release context-
- related resources if errors occur in later phases of context
- establishment, or when an established context is no longer required.
-
- When continuation attempts to GSS_Init_sec_context() are needed to
- perform context establishment, the previously-returned non-zero
- handle value is entered into the input_context_handle argument and
- will be echoed in the returned output_context_handle argument. On
- such continuation attempts (and only on continuation attempts) the
- input_token value is used, to provide the token returned from the
- context's target.
-
- The chan_bindings argument is used by the caller to provide
- information binding the security context to security-related
- characteristics (e.g., addresses, cryptographic keys) of the
- underlying communications channel. See Section 1.1.6 of this document
- for more discussion of this argument's usage.
-
- The input_token argument contains a message received from the target,
- and is significant only on a call to GSS_Init_sec_context() which
- follows a previous return indicating GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- major_status.
-
- It is the caller's responsibility to establish a communications path
- to the target, and to transmit any returned output_token (independent
- of the accompanying returned major_status value) to the target over
- that path. The output_token can, however, be transmitted along with
- the first application-provided input message to be processed by
- GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() in conjunction with a successfully-
- established context.
-
- The initiator may request various context-level functions through
- input flags: the deleg_req_flag requests delegation of access rights,
- the mutual_req_flag requests mutual authentication, the
- replay_det_req_flag requests that replay detection features be
- applied to messages transferred on the established context, and the
- sequence_req_flag requests that sequencing be enforced. (See Section
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- 1.2.3 for more information on replay detection and sequencing
- features.) The anon_req_flag requests that the initiator's identity
- not be transferred within tokens to be sent to the acceptor.
-
- Not all of the optionally-requestable features will be available in
- all underlying mech_types. The corresponding return state values
- deleg_state, mutual_state, replay_det_state, and sequence_state
- indicate, as a function of mech_type processing capabilities and
- initiator-provided input flags, the set of features which will be
- active on the context. The returned trans_state value indicates
- whether the context is transferable to other processes through use of
- GSS_Export_sec_context(). These state indicators' values are
- undefined unless either the routine's major_status indicates
- GSS_S_COMPLETE, or TRUE prot_ready_state is returned along with
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status; for the latter case, it is
- possible that additional features, not confirmed or indicated along
- with TRUE prot_ready_state, will be confirmed and indicated when
- GSS_S_COMPLETE is subsequently returned.
-
- The returned anon_state and prot_ready_state values are significant
- for both GSS_S_COMPLETE and GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status
- returns from GSS_Init_sec_context(). When anon_state is returned
- TRUE, this indicates that neither the current token nor its
- predecessors delivers or has delivered the initiator's identity.
- Callers wishing to perform context establishment only if anonymity
- support is provided should transfer a returned token from
- GSS_Init_sec_context() to the peer only if it is accompanied by a
- TRUE anon_state indicator. When prot_ready_state is returned TRUE in
- conjunction with GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status, this indicates
- that per-message protection operations may be applied on the context:
- see Section 1.2.7 for further discussion of this facility.
-
- Failure to provide the precise set of features requested by the
- caller does not cause context establishment to fail; it is the
- caller's prerogative to delete the context if the feature set
- provided is unsuitable for the caller's use.
-
- The returned mech_type value indicates the specific mechanism
- employed on the context, is valid only along with major_status
- GSS_S_COMPLETE, and will never indicate the value for "default".
- Note that, for the case of certain mechanisms which themselves
- perform negotiation, the returned mech_type result may indicate
- selection of a mechanism identified by an OID different than that
- passed in the input mech_type argument.
-
- The conf_avail return value indicates whether the context supports
- per-message confidentiality services, and so informs the caller
- whether or not a request for encryption through the conf_req_flag
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- input to GSS_Wrap() can be honored. In similar fashion, the
- integ_avail return value indicates whether per-message integrity
- services are available (through either GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap()) on
- the established context. These state indicators' values are undefined
- unless either the routine's major_status indicates GSS_S_COMPLETE, or
- TRUE prot_ready_state is returned along with GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- major_status.
-
- The lifetime_req input specifies a desired upper bound for the
- lifetime of the context to be established, with a value of 0 used to
- request a default lifetime. The lifetime_rec return value indicates
- the length of time for which the context will be valid, expressed as
- an offset from the present; depending on mechanism capabilities,
- credential lifetimes, and local policy, it may not correspond to the
- value requested in lifetime_req. If no constraints on context
- lifetime are imposed, this may be indicated by returning a reserved
- value representing INDEFINITE lifetime_req. The value of lifetime_rec
- is undefined unless the routine's major_status indicates
- GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- If the mutual_state is TRUE, this fact will be reflected within the
- output_token. A call to GSS_Accept_sec_context() at the target in
- conjunction with such a context will return a token, to be processed
- by a continuation call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), in order to
- achieve mutual authentication.
-
-2.2.2: GSS_Accept_sec_context call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o acceptor_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -- NULL specifies
- "use default"
-
- o input_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE, -- 0 specifies
- "not yet assigned"
-
- o chan_bindings OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o src_name INTERNAL NAME, -- guaranteed to be MN
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- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o output_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o trans_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o prot_ready_state BOOLEAN, -- see Section 1.2.7 for discussion
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER, - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- o delegated_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE,
-
- o output_token OCTET STRING -NULL or token to pass to context
- initiator
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for those mech_types
- in which a directory service or other network entity must be
- consulted on behalf of a context acceptor in order to validate a
- received input_token.
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that context-level data structures
- were successfully initialized, and that per-message processing
- can now be performed in conjunction with this context.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED indicates that control information in the
- returned output_token must be sent to the initiator, and that
- a response must be received and passed as the input_token
- argument to a continuation call to GSS_Accept_sec_context(),
- before per-message processing can be performed in conjunction
- with this context.
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- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the input_token failed, preventing further processing from
- being performed based on that token.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential structure referenced by
- acceptor_cred_handle failed, preventing further processing from
- being performed using that credential structure.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG indicates that the received input_token contains
- an incorrect integrity check, so context setup cannot be
- accomplished.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check on the
- received input_token was correct, but that the input_token
- was recognized as a duplicate of an input_token already
- processed. No new context is established.
-
- o GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check on the received
- input_token was correct, but that the input_token is too old
- to be checked for duplication against previously-processed
- input_tokens. No new context is established.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no context was established, either
- because the input cred_handle was invalid, because the
- referenced credentials are valid for context initiator use
- only, or because the caller lacks authorization to access the
- referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the credentials provided
- through the input acceptor_cred_handle argument are no
- longer valid, so context establishment cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS indicates that a mismatch between the
- caller-provided chan_bindings and those extracted from the
- input_token was detected, signifying a security-relevant
- event and preventing context establishment.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided; this major status will
- be returned only for successor calls following GSS_S_CONTINUE_
- NEEDED status returns.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates receipt of a context establishment token
- specifying a mechanism unsupported by the local system or with
- the caller's active credentials.
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- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that context setup could not be
- accomplished for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, and
- that no interface-defined recovery action is available.
-
- The GSS_Accept_sec_context() routine is used by a context target.
- Using information in the credentials structure referenced by the
- input acceptor_cred_handle, it verifies the incoming input_token and
- (following the successful completion of a context establishment
- sequence) returns the authenticated src_name and the mech_type used.
- The returned src_name is guaranteed to be an MN, processed by the
- mechanism under which the context was established. The
- acceptor_cred_handle must correspond to the same valid credentials
- structure on the initial call to GSS_Accept_sec_context() and on any
- successor calls resulting from GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns;
- different protocol sequences modeled by the GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- mechanism will require access to credentials at different points in
- the context establishment sequence.
-
- The input_context_handle argument is 0, specifying "not yet
- assigned", on the first GSS_Accept_sec_context() call relating to a
- given context. If successful (i.e., if accompanied by major_status
- GSS_S_COMPLETE or GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED), and only if successful, the
- initial GSS_Accept_sec_context() call returns a non-zero
- output_context_handle for use in future references to this context.
- Once a non-zero output_context_handle has been returned, GSS-API
- callers should call GSS_Delete_sec_context() to release context-
- related resources if errors occur in later phases of context
- establishment, or when an established context is no longer required.
-
- The chan_bindings argument is used by the caller to provide
- information binding the security context to security-related
- characteristics (e.g., addresses, cryptographic keys) of the
- underlying communications channel. See Section 1.1.6 of this document
- for more discussion of this argument's usage.
-
- The returned state results (deleg_state, mutual_state,
- replay_det_state, sequence_state, anon_state, trans_state, and
- prot_ready_state) reflect the same information as described for
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), and their values are significant under the
- same return state conditions.
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- The conf_avail return value indicates whether the context supports
- per-message confidentiality services, and so informs the caller
- whether or not a request for encryption through the conf_req_flag
- input to GSS_Wrap() can be honored. In similar fashion, the
- integ_avail return value indicates whether per-message integrity
- services are available (through either GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap())
- on the established context. These values are significant under the
- same return state conditions as described under
- GSS_Init_sec_context().
-
- The lifetime_rec return value is significant only in conjunction with
- GSS_S_COMPLETE major_status, and indicates the length of time for
- which the context will be valid, expressed as an offset from the
- present.
-
- The mech_type return value indicates the specific mechanism employed
- on the context, is valid only along with major_status GSS_S_COMPLETE,
- and will never indicate the value for "default".
-
- The delegated_cred_handle result is significant only when deleg_state
- is TRUE, and provides a means for the target to reference the
- delegated credentials. The output_token result, when non-NULL,
- provides a context-level token to be returned to the context
- initiator to continue a multi-step context establishment sequence. As
- noted with GSS_Init_sec_context(), any returned token should be
- transferred to the context's peer (in this case, the context
- initiator), independent of the value of the accompanying returned
- major_status.
-
- Note: A target must be able to distinguish a context-level
- input_token, which is passed to GSS_Accept_sec_context(), from the
- per-message data elements passed to GSS_VerifyMIC() or GSS_Unwrap().
- These data elements may arrive in a single application message, and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() must be performed before per-message
- processing can be performed successfully.
-
-2.2.3: GSS_Delete_sec_context call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
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- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the context was recognized, and that
- relevant context-specific information was flushed. If the caller
- provides a non-null buffer to receive an output_context_token, and
- the mechanism returns a non-NULL token into that buffer, the
- returned output_context_token is ready for transfer to the
- context's peer.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided, so no deletion was
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but
- that the GSS_Delete_sec_context() operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for mech_types in
- which active notification must be made to a central server when a
- security context is to be deleted.
-
- This call can be made by either peer in a security context, to flush
- context-specific information. If a non-null output_context_token
- parameter is provided by the caller, an output_context_token may be
- returned to the caller. If an output_context_token is provided to
- the caller, it can be passed to the context's peer to inform the
- peer's GSS-API implementation that the peer's corresponding context
- information can also be flushed. (Once a context is established, the
- peers involved are expected to retain cached credential and context-
- related information until the information's expiration time is
- reached or until a GSS_Delete_sec_context() call is made.)
-
- The facility for context_token usage to signal context deletion is
- retained for compatibility with GSS-API Version 1. For current
- usage, it is recommended that both peers to a context invoke
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() independently, passing a null
- output_context_token buffer to indicate that no context_token is
- required. Implementations of GSS_Delete_sec_context() should delete
- relevant locally-stored context information.
-
- Attempts to perform per-message processing on a deleted context will
- result in error returns.
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- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o input_context_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the input_context_token was
- successfully processed in conjunction with the context
- referenced by context_handle.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the received context_token failed, preventing
- further processing from being performed with that token.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but
- that the GSS_Process_context_token() operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call is used to process context_tokens received from a peer once
- a context has been established, with corresponding impact on
- context-level state information. One use for this facility is
- processing of the context_tokens generated by
- GSS_Delete_sec_context(); GSS_Process_context_token() will not block
- pending network interactions for that purpose. Another use is to
- process tokens indicating remote-peer context establishment failures
- after the point where the local GSS-API implementation has already
- indicated GSS_S_COMPLETE status.
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- Input:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER - in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context is valid,
- and will remain valid for the amount of time indicated in
- lifetime_rec.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that data items related to the
- referenced context have expired.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is
- recognized, but that its associated credentials have expired.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call is used to determine the amount of time for which a
- currently established context will remain valid.
-
-2.2.6: GSS_Inquire_context call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
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- o src_name INTERNAL NAME, -- name of context initiator,
- -- guaranteed to be MN
-
- o targ_name INTERNAL NAME, -- name of context target,
- -- guaranteed to be MN
-
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- INDEFINITE,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- the mechanism supporting this
- security context
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o trans_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o prot_ready_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o locally_initiated BOOLEAN, -- TRUE if initiator, FALSE if acceptor
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context is valid
- and that src_name, targ_name, lifetime_rec, mech_type, deleg_state,
- mutual_state, replay_det_state, sequence_state, anon_state,
- trans_state, prot_ready_state, conf_avail, integ_avail, and
- locally_initiated return values describe the corresponding
- characteristics of the context.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that the provided input
- context_handle is recognized, but that the referenced context
- has expired. Return values other than major_status and
- minor_status are undefined.
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- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call is used to extract information describing characteristics
- of a security context.
-
-2.2.7: GSS_Wrap_size_limit call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o qop INTEGER,
-
- o output_size INTEGER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o max_input_size INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates a successful token size determination:
- an input message with a length in octets equal to the
- returned max_input_size value will, when passed to GSS_Wrap()
- for processing on the context identified by the context_handle
- parameter and with the quality of protection specifier provided
- in the qop parameter, yield an output token no larger than the
- value of the provided output_size parameter.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that the provided input
- context_handle is recognized, but that the referenced context
- has expired. Return values other than major_status and
- minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_QOP indicates that the provided QOP value is not
- recognized or supported for the context.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call is used to determine the largest input datum which may be
- passed to GSS_Wrap() without yielding an output token larger than a
- caller-specified value.
-
-2.2.8: GSS_Export_sec_context call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o interprocess_token OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context has been
- successfully exported to a representation in the interprocess_token,
- and is no longer available for use by the caller.
-
- o GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE indicates that the context export facility
- is not available for use on the referenced context. (This status
- should occur only for contexts for which the trans_state value is
- FALSE.) Return values other than major_status and minor_status are
- undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that the provided input
- context_handle is recognized, but that the referenced context has
- expired. Return values other than major_status and minor_status are
- undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
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- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call generates an interprocess token for transfer to another
- process within an end system, in order to transfer control of a
- security context to that process. The recipient of the interprocess
- token will call GSS_Import_sec_context() to accept the transfer. The
- GSS_Export_sec_context() operation is defined for use only with
- security contexts which are fully and successfully established (i.e.,
- those for which GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context()
- have returned GSS_S_COMPLETE major_status).
-
- To ensure portability, a caller of GSS_Export_sec_context() must not
- assume that a context may continue to be used once it has been
- exported; following export, the context referenced by the
- context_handle cannot be assumed to remain valid. Further, portable
- callers must not assume that a given interprocess token can be
- imported by GSS_Import_sec_context() more than once, thereby creating
- multiple instantiations of a single context. GSS-API implementations
- may detect and reject attempted multiple imports, but are not
- required to do so.
-
- The internal representation contained within the interprocess token
- is an implementation-defined local matter. Interprocess tokens
- cannot be assumed to be transferable across different GSS-API
- implementations.
-
- It is recommended that GSS-API implementations adopt policies suited
- to their operational environments in order to define the set of
- processes eligible to import a context, but specific constraints in
- this area are local matters. Candidate examples include transfers
- between processes operating on behalf of the same user identity, or
- processes comprising a common job. However, it may be impossible to
- enforce such policies in some implementations.
-
- In support of the above goals, implementations may protect the
- transferred context data by using cryptography to protect data within
- the interprocess token, or by using interprocess tokens as a means to
- reference local interprocess communication facilities (protected by
- other means) rather than storing the context data directly within the
- tokens.
-
- Transfer of an open context may, for certain mechanisms and
- implementations, reveal data about the credential which was used to
- establish the context. Callers should, therefore, be cautious about
- the trustworthiness of processes to which they transfer contexts.
- Although the GSS-API implementation may provide its own set of
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- protecting the interprocess token from disclosure, and for taking
- care that the context is transferred to an appropriate destination
- process.
-
-2.2.9: GSS_Import_sec_context call
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- Inputs:
-
- o interprocess_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the context represented by the
- input interprocess_token has been successfully transferred to
- the caller, and is available for future use via the output
- context_handle.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that the context represented by
- the input interprocess_token has expired. Return values other
- than major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that the context represented by the
- input interprocess_token was invalid. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that the input interprocess_token
- was defective. Return values other than major_status and
- minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE indicates that the context import facility
- is not available for use on the referenced context. Return values
- other than major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED indicates that the context represented by
- the input interprocess_token is unauthorized for transfer to the
- caller. Return values other than major_status and minor_status
- are undefined.
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- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call processes an interprocess token generated by
- GSS_Export_sec_context(), making the transferred context available
- for use by the caller. After a successful GSS_Import_sec_context()
- operation, the imported context is available for use by the importing
- process.
-
- For further discussion of the security and authorization issues
- regarding this call, please see the discussion in Section 2.2.8.
-
-2.3: Per-message calls
-
- This group of calls is used to perform per-message protection
- processing on an established security context. None of these calls
- block pending network interactions. These calls may be invoked by a
- context's initiator or by the context's target. The four members of
- this group should be considered as two pairs; the output from
- GSS_GetMIC() is properly input to GSS_VerifyMIC(), and the output
- from GSS_Wrap() is properly input to GSS_Unwrap().
-
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC() support data origin authentication
- and data integrity services. When GSS_GetMIC() is invoked on an
- input message, it yields a per-message token containing data items
- which allow underlying mechanisms to provide the specified security
- services. The original message, along with the generated per-message
- token, is passed to the remote peer; these two data elements are
- processed by GSS_VerifyMIC(), which validates the message in
- conjunction with the separate token.
-
- GSS_Wrap() and GSS_Unwrap() support caller-requested confidentiality
- in addition to the data origin authentication and data integrity
- services offered by GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC(). GSS_Wrap()
- outputs a single data element, encapsulating optionally enciphered
- user data as well as associated token data items. The data element
- output from GSS_Wrap() is passed to the remote peer and processed by
- GSS_Unwrap() at that system. GSS_Unwrap() combines decipherment (as
- required) with validation of data items related to authentication and
- integrity.
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- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Sign call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Sign are deprecated.
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o qop_req INTEGER,-0 specifies default QOP
-
- o message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o per_msg_token OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that an integrity check, suitable for an
- established security context, was successfully applied and
- that the message and corresponding per_msg_token are ready
- for transmission.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data
- items have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so
- that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_QOP indicates that the provided QOP value is not
- recognized or supported for the context.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but
- that the requested operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
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- Using the security context referenced by context_handle, apply an
- integrity check to the input message (along with timestamps and/or
- other data included in support of mech_type-specific mechanisms) and
- return the result in per_msg_token. The qop_req parameter,
- interpretation of which is discussed in Section 1.2.4, allows
- quality-of-protection control. The caller passes the message and the
- per_msg_token to the target.
-
- The GSS_GetMIC() function completes before the message and
- per_msg_token is sent to the peer; successful application of
- GSS_GetMIC() does not guarantee that a corresponding GSS_VerifyMIC()
- has been (or can necessarily be) performed successfully when the
- message arrives at the destination.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.3.2: GSS_VerifyMIC call
-
- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Verify call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Verify are deprecated.
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o message OCTET STRING,
-
- o per_msg_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o qop_state INTEGER,
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the message was successfully
- verified.
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- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the received per_msg_token failed, preventing
- further processing from being performed with that token.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG indicates that the received per_msg_token contains
- an incorrect integrity check for the message.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN,
- and GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN values appear in conjunction with the
- optional per-message replay detection features described
- in Section 1.2.3; their semantics are described in that section.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data
- items have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is
- recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so
- that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but
- that the GSS_VerifyMIC() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Using the security context referenced by context_handle, verify that
- the input per_msg_token contains an appropriate integrity check for
- the input message, and apply any active replay detection or
- sequencing features. Return an indication of the quality-of-
- protection applied to the processed message in the qop_state result.
- Since the GSS_VerifyMIC() routine never provides a confidentiality
- service, its implementations should not return non-zero values in the
- confidentiality fields of the output qop_state.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.3.3: GSS_Wrap call
-
- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Seal call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Seal are deprecated.
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- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o conf_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o qop_req INTEGER,-0 specifies default QOP
-
- o input_message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o conf_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o output_message OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the input_message was successfully
- processed and that the output_message is ready for
- transmission.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data
- items have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is
- recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so
- that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_QOP indicates that the provided QOP value is not
- recognized or supported for the context.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but
- that the GSS_Wrap() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Performs the data origin authentication and data integrity functions
- of GSS_GetMIC(). If the input conf_req_flag is TRUE, requests that
- confidentiality be applied to the input_message. Confidentiality may
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- returned conf_state flag indicates whether confidentiality was
- provided for the input_message. The qop_req parameter, interpretation
- of which is discussed in Section 1.2.4, allows quality-of-protection
- control.
-
- In all cases, the GSS_Wrap() call yields a single output_message
- data element containing (optionally enciphered) user data as well as
- control information.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.3.4: GSS_Unwrap call
-
- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Unseal call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Unseal are deprecated.
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o input_message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o conf_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o qop_state INTEGER,
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_message OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the input_message was
- successfully processed and that the resulting output_message is
- available.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the per_msg_token extracted from the input_message
- failed, preventing further processing from being performed.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG indicates that an incorrect integrity check was
- detected
- for the message.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN,
- and GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN values appear in conjunction with the
- optional per-message replay detection features described
- in Section 1.2.3; their semantics are described in that section.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data
- items have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the context is
- recognized,
- but that its associated credentials have expired, so
- that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but
- that the GSS_Unwrap() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Processes a data element generated (and optionally enciphered) by
- GSS_Wrap(), provided as input_message. The returned conf_state value
- indicates whether confidentiality was applied to the input_message.
- If conf_state is TRUE, GSS_Unwrap() deciphers the input_message.
- Returns an indication of the quality-of-protection applied to the
- processed message in the qop_state result. GSS_Wrap() performs the
- data integrity and data origin authentication checking functions of
- GSS_VerifyMIC() on the plaintext data. Plaintext data is returned in
- output_message.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.4: Support calls
-
- This group of calls provides support functions useful to GSS-API
- callers, independent of the state of established contexts. Their
- characterization with regard to blocking or non-blocking status in
- terms of network interactions is unspecified.
-
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-2.4.1: GSS_Display_status call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o status_value INTEGER,-GSS-API major_status or minor_status
- return value
-
- o status_type INTEGER,-1 if major_status, 2 if minor_status
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER-mech_type to be used for minor_
- status translation
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o status_string_set SET OF OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a valid printable status
- representation (possibly representing more than one status event
- encoded within the status_value) is available in the returned
- status_string_set.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that translation in accordance with an
- unsupported mech_type was requested, so translation could not
- be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_STATUS indicates that the input status_value was
- invalid, or that the input status_type carried a value other
- than 1 or 2, so translation could not be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Provides a means for callers to translate GSS-API-returned major and
- minor status codes into printable string representations.
-
-2.4.2: GSS_Indicate_mechs call
-
- Input:
-
- o (none)
-
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- Outputs:
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- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a set of available mechanisms has
- been returned in mech_set.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to determine the set of mechanism types available on
- the local system. This call is intended for support of specialized
- callers who need to request non-default mech_type sets from
- GSS_Acquire_cred(), and should not be needed by other callers.
-
-2.4.3: GSS_Compare_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name1 INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o name2 INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_equal BOOLEAN
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that name1 and name2 were comparable,
- and that the name_equal result indicates whether name1 and
- name2 represent the same entity.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that one or both of name1 and
- name2 contained internal type specifiers uninterpretable
- by the applicable underlying GSS-API mechanism(s), or that
- the two names' types are different and incomparable, so that
- the comparison operation could not be completed.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that one or both of the input names
- was ill-formed in terms of its internal type specifier, so
- the comparison operation could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the call's operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to compare two internal name representations to
- determine whether they refer to the same entity. If either name
- presented to GSS_Compare_name() denotes an anonymous principal,
- GSS_Compare_name() shall indicate FALSE. It is not required that
- either or both inputs name1 and name2 be MNs; for some
- implementations and cases, GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE may be returned,
- indicating name incomparability, for the case where neither input
- name is an MN.
-
-2.4.4: GSS_Display_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_string OCTET STRING,
-
- o name_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a valid printable name
- representation is available in the returned name_string.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided name was of a
- type uninterpretable by the applicable underlying GSS-API
- mechanism(s), so no printable representation could be generated.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the contents of the provided name
- were inconsistent with the internally-indicated name type, so
- no printable representation could be generated.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
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- Allows callers to translate an internal name representation into a
- printable form with associated namespace type descriptor. The syntax
- of the printable form is a local matter.
-
- If the input name represents an anonymous identity, a reserved value
- (GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS) shall be returned for name_type.
-
-2.4.5: GSS_Import_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name_string OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_name_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a valid name representation is
- output in output_name and described by the type value in
- output_name_type.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input_name_type is unsupported
- by the applicable underlying GSS-API mechanism(s), so the import
- operation could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided input_name_string
- is ill-formed in terms of the input_name_type, so the import
- operation could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to provide a name representation as a contiguous octet
- string, designate the type of namespace in conjunction with which it
- should be parsed, and convert that representation to an internal form
- suitable for input to other GSS-API routines. The syntax of the
- input_name_string is defined in conjunction with its associated name
- type; depending on the input_name_type, the associated
- input_name_string may or may not be a printable string. Note: The
- input_name_type argument serves to describe and qualify the
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- interpretation of the associated input_name_string; it does not
- specify the data type of the returned output_name.
-
- If a mechanism claims support for a particular name type, its
- GSS_Import_name() operation shall be able to accept all possible
- values conformant to the external name syntax as defined for that
- name type. These imported values may correspond to:
-
- (1) locally registered entities (for which credentials may be
- acquired),
-
- (2) non-local entities (for which local credentials cannot be
- acquired, but which may be referenced as targets of initiated
- security contexts or initiators of accepted security contexts), or
- to
-
- (3) neither of the above.
-
- Determination of whether a particular name belongs to class (1), (2),
- or (3) as described above is not guaranteed to be performed by the
- GSS_Import_name() function.
-
- The internal name generated by a GSS_Import_name() operation may be a
- single-mechanism MN, and is likely to be an MN within a single-
- mechanism implementation, but portable callers must not depend on
- this property (and must not, therefore, assume that the output from
- GSS_Import_name() can be passed directly to GSS_Export_name() without
- first being processed through GSS_Canonicalize_name()).
-
-2.4.6: GSS_Release_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the
- input name was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name argument did not
- contain a valid name.
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- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an internal
- name representation. This call's specific behavior depends on the
- language and programming environment within which a GSS-API
- implementation operates, and is therefore detailed within applicable
- bindings specifications; in particular, this call may be superfluous
- within bindings where memory management is automatic.
-
-2.4.7: GSS_Release_buffer call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o buffer OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the
- input buffer was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an OCTET STRING
- buffer allocated by another GSS-API call. This call's specific
- behavior depends on the language and programming environment within
- which a GSS-API implementation operates, and is therefore detailed
- within applicable bindings specifications; in particular, this call
- may be superfluous within bindings where memory management is
- automatic.
-
-2.4.8: GSS_Release_OID_set call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o buffer SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
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- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the
- input object identifier set was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an object
- identifier set object allocated by another GSS-API call. This call's
- specific behavior depends on the language and programming environment
- within which a GSS-API implementation operates, and is therefore
- detailed within applicable bindings specifications; in particular,
- this call may be superfluous within bindings where memory management
- is automatic.
-
-2.4.9: GSS_Create_empty_OID_set call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o (none)
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o oid_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- Creates an object identifier set containing no object identifiers, to
- which members may be subsequently added using the
- GSS_Add_OID_set_member() routine. These routines are intended to be
- used to construct sets of mechanism object identifiers, for input to
- GSS_Acquire_cred().
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-
- Inputs:
-
- o member_oid OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o oid_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- Adds an Object Identifier to an Object Identifier set. This routine
- is intended for use in conjunction with GSS_Create_empty_OID_set()
- when constructing a set of mechanism OIDs for input to
- GSS_Acquire_cred().
-
-2.4.11: GSS_Test_OID_set_member call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o member OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o present BOOLEAN
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
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- Interrogates an Object Identifier set to determine whether a
- specified Object Identifier is a member. This routine is intended to
- be used with OID sets returned by GSS_Indicate_mechs(),
- GSS_Acquire_cred(), and GSS_Inquire_cred().
-
-2.4.12: GSS_Release_OID call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o oid OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- Allows the caller to release the storage associated with an OBJECT
- IDENTIFIER buffer allocated by another GSS-API call. This call's
- specific behavior depends on the language and programming environment
- within which a GSS-API implementation operates, and is therefore
- detailed within applicable bindings specifications; in particular,
- this call may be superfluous within bindings where memory management
- is automatic.
-
-2.4.13: GSS_OID_to_str call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o oid OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o oid_str OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
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- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- The function GSS_OID_to_str() returns a string representing the input
- OID in numeric ASN.1 syntax format (curly-brace enclosed, space-
- delimited, e.g., "{2 16 840 1 113687 1 2 1}"). The string is
- releasable using GSS_Release_buffer(). If the input "oid" does not
- represent a syntactically valid object identifier, GSS_S_FAILURE
- status is returned and the returned oid_str result is NULL.
-
-2.4.14: GSS_Str_to_OID call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o oid_str OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o oid OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- The function GSS_Str_to_OID() constructs and returns an OID from its
- printable form; implementations should be able to accept the numeric
- ASN.1 syntax form as described for GSS_OID_to_str(), and this form
- should be used for portability, but implementations of this routine
- may also accept other formats (e.g., "1.2.3.3"). The OID is suitable
- for release using the function GSS_Release_OID(). If the input
- oid_str cannot be translated into an OID, GSS_S_FAILURE status is
- returned and the "oid" result is NULL.
-
-2.4.15: GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech call
-
- Input:
-
- o input_mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- mechanism type
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
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- o name_type_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the output name_type_set contains
- a list of name types which are supported by the locally available
- mechanism identified by input_mech_type.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the mechanism identified by
- input_mech_type was unsupported within the local implementation,
- causing the query to fail.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to determine the set of name types which are
- supportable by a specific locally-available mechanism.
-
-2.4.16: GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o mech_types SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a set of object identifiers,
- corresponding to the set of mechanisms suitable for processing
- the input_name, is available in mech_types.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input_name could not be
- processed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the type of the input_name
- is unsupported by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
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- be processed. After use, the mech_types object should be freed by
- the caller via the GSS_Release_OID_set() call. Note: it is
- anticipated that implementations of GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name() will
- commonly operate based on type information describing the
- capabilities of available mechanisms; it is not guaranteed that all
- identified mechanisms will necessarily be able to canonicalize (via
- GSS_Canonicalize_name()) a particular name.
-
-2.4.17: GSS_Canonicalize_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- must be explicit mechanism,
- not "default" specifier
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a mechanism-specific reduction of
- the input_name, as processed by the mechanism identified by
- mech_type, is available in output_name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the identified mechanism is
- unsupported.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input name does not
- contain an element with suitable type for processing by the
- identified mechanism.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name contains an
- element with suitable type for processing by the identified
- mechanism, but that this element could not be processed
- successfully.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
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- contain elements corresponding to multiple mechanisms, to a
- mechanism-specific Mechanism Name (MN) by applying the translations
- corresponding to the mechanism identified by mech_type.
-
-2.4.18: GSS_Export_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name INTERNAL NAME, -- required to be MN
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_name OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a flat representation of the
- input name is available in output_name.
-
- o GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN indicates that the input name contained
- elements corresponding to multiple mechanisms, so cannot
- be exported into a single-mechanism flat form.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name was an MN,
- but could not be processed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input name was an MN,
- but that its type is unsupported by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This routine creates a flat name representation, suitable for
- bytewise comparison or for input to GSS_Import_name() in conjunction
- with the reserved GSS-API Exported Name Object OID, from a internal-
- form Mechanism Name (MN) as emitted, e.g., by GSS_Canonicalize_name()
- or GSS_Accept_sec_context().
-
- The emitted GSS-API Exported Name Object is self-describing; no
- associated parameter-level OID need be emitted by this call. This
- flat representation consists of a mechanism-independent wrapper
- layer, defined in Section 3.2 of this document, enclosing a
- mechanism-defined name representation.
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- In all cases, the flat name output by GSS_Export_name() to correspond
- to a particular input MN must be invariant over time within a
- particular installation.
-
- The GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN status code is provided to enable
- implementations to reject input names which are not MNs. It is not,
- however, required for purposes of conformance to this specification
- that all non-MN input names must necessarily be rejected.
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-2.4.19: GSS_Duplicate_name call
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- Inputs:
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- o src_name INTERNAL NAME
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- Outputs:
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- o major_status INTEGER,
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- o minor_status INTEGER,
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- o dest_name INTERNAL NAME
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- Return major_status codes:
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- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that dest_name references an internal
- name object containing the same name as passed to src_name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name was invalid.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input name's type
- is unsupported by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not
- be performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This routine takes input internal name src_name, and returns another
- reference (dest_name) to that name which can be used even if src_name
- is later freed. (Note: This may be implemented by copying or through
- use of reference counts.)
-
-3: Data Structure Definitions for GSS-V2 Usage
-
- Subsections of this section define, for interoperability and
- portability purposes, certain data structures for use with GSS-V2.
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- This section specifies a mechanism-independent level of encapsulating
- representation for the initial token of a GSS-API context
- establishment sequence, incorporating an identifier of the mechanism
- type to be used on that context and enabling tokens to be interpreted
- unambiguously at GSS-API peers. Use of this format is required for
- initial context establishment tokens of Internet standards-track
- GSS-API mechanisms; use in non-initial tokens is optional.
-
- The encoding format for the token tag is derived from ASN.1 and DER
- (per illustrative ASN.1 syntax included later within this
- subsection), but its concrete representation is defined directly in
- terms of octets rather than at the ASN.1 level in order to facilitate
- interoperable implementation without use of general ASN.1 processing
- code. The token tag consists of the following elements, in order:
-
- 1. 0x60 -- Tag for [APPLICATION 0] SEQUENCE; indicates that
- constructed form, definite length encoding follows.
-
- 2. Token length octets, specifying length of subsequent data
- (i.e., the summed lengths of elements 3-5 in this list, and of the
- mechanism-defined token object following the tag). This element
- comprises a variable number of octets:
-
- 2a. If the indicated value is less than 128, it shall be
- represented in a single octet with bit 8 (high order) set to "0"
- and the remaining bits representing the value.
-
- 2b. If the indicated value is 128 or more, it shall be represented
- in two or more octets, with bit 8 of the first octet set to "1"
- and the remaining bits of the first octet specifying the number of
- additional octets. The subsequent octets carry the value, 8 bits
- per octet, most significant digit first. The minimum number of
- octets shall be used to encode the length (i.e., no octets
- representing leading zeros shall be included within the length
- encoding).
-
- 3. 0x06 -- Tag for OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- 4. Object identifier length -- length (number of octets) of the
- encoded object identifier contained in element 5, encoded per
- rules as described in 2a. and 2b. above.
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- 5. Object identifier octets -- variable number of octets, encoded
- per ASN.1 BER rules:
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- 5a. The first octet contains the sum of two values: (1) the top-
- level object identifier component, multiplied by 40 (decimal), and
- (2) the second-level object identifier component. This special
- case is the only point within an object identifier encoding where
- a single octet represents contents of more than one component.
-
- 5b. Subsequent octets, if required, encode successively-lower
- components in the represented object identifier. A component's
- encoding may span multiple octets, encoding 7 bits per octet (most
- significant bits first) and with bit 8 set to "1" on all but the
- final octet in the component's encoding. The minimum number of
- octets shall be used to encode each component (i.e., no octets
- representing leading zeros shall be included within a component's
- encoding).
-
- (Note: In many implementations, elements 3-5 may be stored and
- referenced as a contiguous string constant.)
-
- The token tag is immediately followed by a mechanism-defined token
- object. Note that no independent size specifier intervenes following
- the object identifier value to indicate the size of the mechanism-
- defined token object. While ASN.1 usage within mechanism-defined
- tokens is permitted, there is no requirement that the mechanism-
- specific innerContextToken, innerMsgToken, and sealedUserData data
- elements must employ ASN.1 BER/DER encoding conventions.
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- The following ASN.1 syntax is included for descriptive purposes only,
- to illustrate structural relationships among token and tag objects.
- For interoperability purposes, token and tag encoding shall be
- performed using the concrete encoding procedures described earlier in
- this subsection.
-
- GSS-API DEFINITIONS ::=
-
- BEGIN
-
- MechType ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- -- data structure definitions
-
- -- callers must be able to distinguish among
- -- InitialContextToken, SubsequentContextToken,
- -- PerMsgToken, and SealedMessage data elements
- -- based on the usage in which they occur
-
- InitialContextToken ::=
- -- option indication (delegation, etc.) indicated within
- -- mechanism-specific token
- [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
- thisMech MechType,
- innerContextToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
- -- contents mechanism-specific
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
- }
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- SubsequentContextToken ::= innerContextToken ANY
- -- interpretation based on predecessor InitialContextToken
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
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- PerMsgToken ::=
- -- as emitted by GSS_GetMIC and processed by GSS_VerifyMIC
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
- innerMsgToken ANY
-
- SealedMessage ::=
- -- as emitted by GSS_Wrap and processed by GSS_Unwrap
- -- includes internal, mechanism-defined indicator
- -- of whether or not encrypted
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
- sealedUserData ANY
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-
- This section specifies a mechanism-independent level of encapsulating
- representation for names exported via the GSS_Export_name() call,
- including an object identifier representing the exporting mechanism.
- The format of names encapsulated via this representation shall be
- defined within individual mechanism drafts. Name objects of this
- type will be identified with the following Object Identifier:
-
- {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
- 4(gss-api-exported-name)}
-
- No name type OID is included in this mechanism-independent level of
- format definition, since (depending on individual mechanism
- specifications) the enclosed name may be implicitly typed or may be
- explicitly typed using a means other than OID encoding.
-
- Length Name Description
-
- 2 TOK_ID Token Identifier
- For exported name objects, this
- must be hex 04 01.
- 2 MECH_OID_LEN Length of the Mechanism OID
- MECH_OID_LEN MECH_OID Mechanism OID, in DER
- 4 NAME_LEN Length of name
- NAME_LEN NAME Exported name; format defined in
- applicable mechanism draft.
-
-4: Name Type Definitions
-
- This section includes definitions for name types and associated
- syntaxes which are defined in a mechanism-independent fashion at the
- GSS-API level rather than being defined in individual mechanism
- specifications.
-
-4.1: Host-Based Service Name Form
-
- The following Object Identifier value is provided as a means to
- identify this name form:
-
- {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
- 2(gss-host-based-services)}
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- The recommended symbolic name for this type is
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- This name type is used to represent services associated with host
- computers. This name form is constructed using two elements,
- "service" and "hostname", as follows:
-
- service@hostname
-
- When a reference to a name of this type is resolved, the "hostname"
- is canonicalized by attempting a DNS lookup and using the fully-
- qualified domain name which is returned, or by using the "hostname"
- as provided if the DNS lookup fails. The canonicalization operation
- also maps the host's name into lower-case characters.
-
- The "hostname" element may be omitted. If no "@" separator is
- included, the entire name is interpreted as the service specifier,
- with the "hostname" defaulted to the canonicalized name of the local
- host.
-
- Values for the "service" element are registered with the IANA.
-
-4.2: User Name Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) user_name(1)}. The recommended mechanism-independent
- symbolic name for this type is "GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME". (Note: the same
- name form and OID is defined within the Kerberos V5 GSS-API
- mechanism, but the symbolic name recommended there begins with a
- "GSS_KRB5_NT_" prefix.)
-
- This name type is used to indicate a named user on a local system.
- Its interpretation is OS-specific. This name form is constructed as:
-
- username
-
-4.3: Machine UID Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) machine_uid_name(2)}. The recommended mechanism-
- independent symbolic name for this type is
- "GSS_C_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME". (Note: the same name form and OID is
- defined within the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism, but the symbolic
- name recommended there begins with a "GSS_KRB5_NT_" prefix.)
-
- This name type is used to indicate a numeric user identifier
- corresponding to a user on a local system. Its interpretation is
- OS-specific. The gss_buffer_desc representing a name of this type
- should contain a locally-significant uid_t, represented in host byte
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- username, which is then treated as the User Name Form.
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- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) string_uid_name(3)}. The recommended symbolic name for
- this type is "GSS_C_NT_STRING_UID_NAME". (Note: the same name form
- and OID is defined within the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism, but the
- symbolic name recommended there begins with a "GSS_KRB5_NT_" prefix.)
-
- This name type is used to indicate a string of digits representing
- the numeric user identifier of a user on a local system. Its
- interpretation is OS-specific. This name type is similar to the
- Machine UID Form, except that the buffer contains a string
- representing the uid_t.
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-5: Mechanism-Specific Example Scenarios
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- This section provides illustrative overviews of the use of various
- candidate mechanism types to support the GSS-API. These discussions
- are intended primarily for readers familiar with specific security
- technologies, demonstrating how GSS-API functions can be used and
- implemented by candidate underlying mechanisms. They should not be
- regarded as constrictive to implementations or as defining the only
- means through which GSS-API functions can be realized with a
- particular underlying technology, and do not demonstrate all GSS-API
- features with each technology.
-
-5.1: Kerberos V5, single-TGT
-
- OS-specific login functions yield a TGT to the local realm Kerberos
- server; TGT is placed in a credentials structure for the client.
- Client calls GSS_Acquire_cred() to acquire a cred_handle in order to
- reference the credentials for use in establishing security contexts.
-
- Client calls GSS_Init_sec_context(). If the requested service is
- located in a different realm, GSS_Init_sec_context() gets the
- necessary TGT/key pairs needed to traverse the path from local to
- target realm; these data are placed in the owner's TGT cache. After
- any needed remote realm resolution, GSS_Init_sec_context() yields a
- service ticket to the requested service with a corresponding session
- key; these data are stored in conjunction with the context. GSS-API
- code sends KRB_TGS_REQ request(s) and receives KRB_TGS_REP
- response(s) (in the successful case) or KRB_ERROR.
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- Assuming success, GSS_Init_sec_context() builds a Kerberos-formatted
- KRB_AP_REQ message, and returns it in output_token. The client sends
- the output_token to the service.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), which verifies the authenticator, provides
- the service with the client's authenticated name, and returns an
- output_context_handle.
-
- Both parties now hold the session key associated with the service
- ticket, and can use this key in subsequent GSS_GetMIC(),
- GSS_VerifyMIC(), GSS_Wrap(), and GSS_Unwrap() operations.
-
-5.2: Kerberos V5, double-TGT
-
- TGT acquisition as above.
-
- Note: To avoid unnecessary frequent invocations of error paths when
- implementing the GSS-API atop Kerberos V5, it seems appropriate to
- represent "single-TGT K-V5" and "double-TGT K-V5" with separate
- mech_types, and this discussion makes that assumption.
-
- Based on the (specified or defaulted) mech_type,
- GSS_Init_sec_context() determines that the double-TGT protocol
- should be employed for the specified target. GSS_Init_sec_context()
- returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status, and its returned
- output_token contains a request to the service for the service's TGT.
- (If a service TGT with suitably long remaining lifetime already
- exists in a cache, it may be usable, obviating the need for this
- step.) The client passes the output_token to the service. Note: this
- scenario illustrates a different use for the GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- status return facility than for support of mutual authentication;
- note that both uses can coexist as successive operations within a
- single context establishment operation.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), which recognizes it as a request for TGT.
- (Note that current Kerberos V5 defines no intra-protocol mechanism to
- represent such a request.) GSS_Accept_sec_context() returns
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status and provides the service's TGT in
- its output_token. The service sends the output_token to the client.
-
- The client passes the received token as the input_token argument to a
- continuation of GSS_Init_sec_context(). GSS_Init_sec_context() caches
- the received service TGT and uses it as part of a service ticket
- request to the Kerberos authentication server, storing the returned
- service ticket and session key in conjunction with the context.
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- major_status. The client sends the output_token to the service.
-
- Service passes the received token as the input_token argument to a
- continuation call to GSS_Accept_sec_context().
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() verifies the authenticator, provides the
- service with the client's authenticated name, and returns
- major_status GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- GSS_GetMIC(), GSS_VerifyMIC(), GSS_Wrap(), and GSS_Unwrap() as
- above.
-
-5.3: X.509 Authentication Framework
-
- This example illustrates use of the GSS-API in conjunction with
- public-key mechanisms, consistent with the X.509 Directory
- Authentication Framework.
-
- The GSS_Acquire_cred() call establishes a credentials structure,
- making the client's private key accessible for use on behalf of the
- client.
-
- The client calls GSS_Init_sec_context(), which interrogates the
- Directory to acquire (and validate) a chain of public-key
- certificates, thereby collecting the public key of the service. The
- certificate validation operation determines that suitable integrity
- checks were applied by trusted authorities and that those
- certificates have not expired. GSS_Init_sec_context() generates a
- secret key for use in per-message protection operations on the
- context, and enciphers that secret key under the service's public
- key.
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- The enciphered secret key, along with an authenticator quantity
- signed with the client's private key, is included in the output_token
- from GSS_Init_sec_context(). The output_token also carries a
- certification path, consisting of a certificate chain leading from
- the service to the client; a variant approach would defer this path
- resolution to be performed by the service instead of being asserted
- by the client. The client application sends the output_token to the
- service.
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- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). GSS_Accept_sec_context() validates the
- certification path, and as a result determines a certified binding
- between the client's distinguished name and the client's public key.
- Given that public key, GSS_Accept_sec_context() can process the
- input_token's authenticator quantity and verify that the client's
- private key was used to sign the input_token. At this point, the
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- client is authenticated to the service. The service uses its private
- key to decipher the enciphered secret key provided to it for per-
- message protection operations on the context.
-
- The client calls GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() on a data message, which
- causes per-message authentication, integrity, and (optional)
- confidentiality facilities to be applied to that message. The service
- uses the context's shared secret key to perform corresponding
- GSS_VerifyMIC() and GSS_Unwrap() calls.
-
-6: Security Considerations
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- Security issues are discussed throughout this memo.
-
-7: Related Activities
-
- In order to implement the GSS-API atop existing, emerging, and future
- security mechanisms:
-
- object identifiers must be assigned to candidate GSS-API
- mechanisms and the name types which they support
-
- concrete data element formats and processing procedures must be
- defined for candidate mechanisms
-
- Calling applications must implement formatting conventions which will
- enable them to distinguish GSS-API tokens from other data carried in
- their application protocols.
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- Concrete language bindings are required for the programming
- environments in which the GSS-API is to be employed, as RFC-1509
- defines for the C programming language and GSS-V1.
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-MECHANISM DESIGN CONSTRAINTS
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- The following constraints on GSS-API mechanism designs are adopted in
- response to observed caller protocol requirements, and adherence
- thereto is anticipated in subsequent descriptions of GSS-API
- mechanisms to be documented in standards-track Internet
- specifications.
-
- It is strongly recommended that mechanisms offering per-message
- protection services also offer at least one of the replay detection
- and sequencing services, as mechanisms offering neither of the latter
- will fail to satisfy recognized requirements of certain candidate
- caller protocols.
-
-APPENDIX B
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- COMPATIBILITY WITH GSS-V1
-
- It is the intent of this document to define an interface and
- procedures which preserve compatibility between GSS-V1 (RFC-1508)
- callers and GSS- V2 providers. All calls defined in GSS-V1 are
- preserved, and it has been a goal that GSS-V1 callers should be able
- to operate atop GSS-V2 provider implementations. Certain detailed
- changes, summarized in this section, have been made in order to
- resolve omissions identified in GSS-V1.
-
- The following GSS-V1 constructs, while supported within GSS-V2, are
- deprecated:
-
- Names for per-message processing routines: GSS_Seal() deprecated
- in favor of GSS_Wrap(); GSS_Sign() deprecated in favor of
- GSS_GetMIC(); GSS_Unseal() deprecated in favor of GSS_Unwrap();
- GSS_Verify() deprecated in favor of GSS_VerifyMIC().
-
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() facility for context_token usage,
- allowing mechanisms to signal context deletion, is retained for
- compatibility with GSS-V1. For current usage, it is recommended
- that both peers to a context invoke GSS_Delete_sec_context()
- independently, passing a null output_context_token buffer to
- indicate that no context_token is required. Implementations of
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() should delete relevant locally-stored
- context information.
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- This GSS-V2 specification adds the following calls which are not
- present in GSS-V1:
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- Credential management calls: GSS_Add_cred(),
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech().
-
- Context-level calls: GSS_Inquire_context(), GSS_Wrap_size_limit(),
- GSS_Export_sec_context(), GSS_Import_sec_context().
-
- Per-message calls: No new calls. Existing calls have been renamed.
-
- Support calls: GSS_Create_empty_OID_set(),
- GSS_Add_OID_set_member(), GSS_Test_OID_set_member(),
- GSS_Release_OID(), GSS_OID_to_str(), GSS_Str_to_OID(),
- GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech(), GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name(),
- GSS_Canonicalize_name(), GSS_Export_name(), GSS_Duplicate_name().
-
- This GSS-V2 specification introduces three new facilities applicable
- to security contexts, indicated using the following context state
- values which are not present in GSS-V1:
-
- anon_state, set TRUE to indicate that a context's initiator is
- anonymous from the viewpoint of the target; Section 1.2.5 of this
- specification provides a summary description of the GSS-V2
- anonymity support facility, support and use of which is optional.
-
- prot_ready_state, set TRUE to indicate that a context may be used
- for per-message protection before final completion of context
- establishment; Section 1.2.7 of this specification provides a
- summary description of the GSS-V2 facility enabling mechanisms to
- selectively permit per-message protection during context
- establishment, support and use of which is optional.
-
- trans_state, set TRUE to indicate that a context is transferable to
- another process using the GSS-V2 GSS_Export_sec_context() facility.
-
- These state values are represented (at the C bindings level) in
- positions within a bit vector which are unused in GSS-V1, and may be
- safely ignored by GSS-V1 callers.
-
- Relative to GSS-V1, GSS-V2 provides additional guidance to GSS-API
- implementors in the following areas: implementation robustness,
- credential management, behavior in multi-mechanism configurations,
- naming support, and inclusion of optional sequencing services. The
- token tagging facility as defined in GSS-V2, Section 3.1, is now
- described directly in terms of octets to facilitate interoperable
- implementation without general ASN.1 processing code; the
- corresponding ASN.1 syntax, included for descriptive purposes, is
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- unchanged from that in GSS-V1. For use in conjunction with added
- naming support facilities, a new Exported Name Object construct is
- added. Additional name types are introduced in Section 4.
-
- This GSS-V2 specification adds the following major_status values
- which are not defined in GSS-V1:
-
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP unsupported QOP value
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED operation unauthorized
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE operation unavailable
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT duplicate credential element requested
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN name contains multi-mechanism elements
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN skipped predecessor token(s)
- detected
-
- Of these added status codes, only two values are defined to be
- returnable by calls existing in GSS-V1: GSS_S_BAD_QOP (returnable by
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap()), and GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN (returnable by
- GSS_VerifyMIC() and GSS_Unwrap()).
-
- Additionally, GSS-V2 descriptions of certain calls present in GSS-V1
- have been updated to allow return of additional major_status values
- from the set as defined in GSS-V1: GSS_Inquire_cred() has
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL and GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED defined as
- returnable, GSS_Init_sec_context() has GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN,
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, and GSS_S_BAD_MECH defined as returnable, and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() has GSS_S_BAD_MECH defined as returnable.
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-Author's Address
-
- John Linn
- OpenVision Technologies
- One Main St.
- Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
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- Phone: +1 617.374.2245
- EMail: John.Linn@ov.com
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-Request for Comments: 2203 A. Chiu
-Category: Standards Track L. Ling
- September 1997
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- RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Abstract
-
- This memo describes an ONC/RPC security flavor that allows RPC
- protocols to access the Generic Security Services Application
- Programming Interface (referred to henceforth as GSS-API).
-
-Table of Contents
-
- 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 2. The ONC RPC Message Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 3. Flavor Number Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 4. New auth_stat Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 5. Elements of the RPCSEC_GSS Security Protocol . . . . . . . . . 3
- 5.1. Version Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- 5.2. Context Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- 5.2.1. Mechanism and QOP Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- 5.2.2. Context Creation Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 5.2.3. Context Creation Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- 5.2.3.1. Context Creation Response - Successful Acceptance . . . 8
- 5.2.3.1.1. Client Processing of Successful Context Creation
- Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- 5.2.3.2. Context Creation Response - Unsuccessful Cases . . . . . 9
- 5.3. RPC Data Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- 5.3.1. RPC Request Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- 5.3.2. RPC Request Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- 5.3.2.1. RPC Request Data - No Data Integrity . . . . . . . . . 11
- 5.3.2.2. RPC Request Data - With Data Integrity . . . . . . . . 11
- 5.3.2.3. RPC Request Data - With Data Privacy . . . . . . . . . 12
- 5.3.3. Server Processing of RPC Data Requests . . . . . . . . . 12
- 5.3.3.1. Context Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- 5.3.3.2. Server Reply - Request Accepted . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- 5.3.3.3. Server Reply - Request Denied . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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- 5.3.3.4. Mapping of GSS-API Errors to Server Responses . . . . 16
- 5.3.3.4.1. GSS_GetMIC() Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 5.3.3.4.2. GSS_VerifyMIC() Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 5.3.3.4.3. GSS_Unwrap() Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 5.3.3.4.4. GSS_Wrap() Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 5.4. Context Destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- 6. Set of GSS-API Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 7.1. Privacy of Call Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 7.2. Sequence Number Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 7.2.1. Sequence Numbers Above the Window . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 7.2.2. Sequence Numbers Within or Below the Window . . . . . . 18
- 7.3. Message Stealing Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- Appendix A. GSS-API Major Status Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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-1. Introduction
-
- This document describes the protocol used by the RPCSEC_GSS security
- flavor. Security flavors have been called authentication flavors for
- historical reasons. This memo recognizes that there are two other
- security services besides authentication, integrity, and privacy, and
- so defines a new RPCSEC_GSS security flavor.
-
- The protocol is described using the XDR language [Srinivasan-xdr].
- The reader is assumed to be familiar with ONC RPC and the security
- flavor mechanism [Srinivasan-rpc]. The reader is also assumed to be
- familiar with the GSS-API framework [Linn]. The RPCSEC_GSS security
- flavor uses GSS-API interfaces to provide security services that are
- independent of the underlying security mechanism.
-
-2. The ONC RPC Message Protocol
-
- This memo refers to the following XDR types of the ONC RPC protocol,
- which are described in the document entitled Remote Procedure Call
- Protocol Specification Version 2 [Srinivasan-rpc]:
-
- msg_type
- reply_stat
- auth_flavor
- accept_stat
- reject_stat
- auth_stat
- opaque_auth
- rpc_msg
- call_body
- reply_body
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- rejected_reply
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-3. Flavor Number Assignment
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- The RPCSEC_GSS security flavor has been assigned the value of 6:
-
- enum auth_flavor {
- ...
- RPCSEC_GSS = 6 /* RPCSEC_GSS security flavor */
- };
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-4. New auth_stat Values
-
- RPCSEC_GSS requires the addition of two new values to the auth_stat
- enumerated type definition:
-
- enum auth_stat {
- ...
- /*
- * RPCSEC_GSS errors
- */
- RPCSEC_GSS_CREDPROBLEM = 13,
- RPCSEC_GSS_CTXPROBLEM = 14
- };
-
- The descriptions of these two new values are defined later in this
- memo.
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-5. Elements of the RPCSEC_GSS Security Protocol
-
- An RPC session based on the RPCSEC_GSS security flavor consists of
- three phases: context creation, RPC data exchange, and context
- destruction. In the following discussion, protocol elements for
- these three phases are described.
-
- The following description of the RPCSEC_GSS protocol uses some of the
- definitions within XDR language description of the RPC protocol.
-
- Context creation and destruction use control messages that are not
- dispatched to service procedures registered by an RPC server. The
- program and version numbers used in these control messages are the
- same as the RPC service's program and version numbers. The procedure
- number used is NULLPROC (zero). A field in the credential
- information (the gss_proc field which is defined in the
- rpc_gss_cred_t structure below) specifies whether a message is to be
- interpreted as a control message or a regular RPC message. If this
- field is set to RPCSEC_GSS_DATA, no control action is implied; in
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- this case, it is a regular data message. If this field is set to any
- other value, a control action is implied. This is described in the
- following sections.
-
- Just as with normal RPC data exchange messages, the transaction
- identifier (the xid field in struct rpc_msg), should be set to unique
- values on each call for context creation and context destruction.
-
- The following definitions are used for describing the protocol.
-
- /* RPCSEC_GSS control procedures */
-
-
- enum rpc_gss_proc_t {
- RPCSEC_GSS_DATA = 0,
- RPCSEC_GSS_INIT = 1,
- RPCSEC_GSS_CONTINUE_INIT = 2,
- RPCSEC_GSS_DESTROY = 3
- };
-
- /* RPCSEC_GSS services */
-
- enum rpc_gss_service_t {
- /* Note: the enumerated value for 0 is reserved. */
- rpc_gss_svc_none = 1,
- rpc_gss_svc_integrity = 2,
- rpc_gss_svc_privacy = 3
- };
-
- /* Credential */
-
- /*
- * Note: version 0 is reserved for possible future
- * definition of a version negotiation protocol
- *
- */
- #define RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1 1
-
- struct rpc_gss_cred_t {
- union switch (unsigned int version) { /* version of
- RPCSEC_GSS */
- case RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1:
- struct {
- rpc_gss_proc_t gss_proc; /* control procedure */
- unsigned int seq_num; /* sequence number */
- rpc_gss_service_t service; /* service used */
- opaque handle<>; /* context handle */
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- /* Maximum sequence number value */
-
- #define MAXSEQ 0x80000000
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-5.1. Version Selection
-
- This document defines just one protocol version (RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1).
- The client should assume that the server supports RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1
- and issue a Context Creation message (as described in the section
- RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1, the RPC response will have a reply_stat of
- MSG_DENIED, a rejection status of AUTH_ERROR, and an auth_stat of
- AUTH_REJECTED_CRED.
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-5.2. Context Creation
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- Before RPC data is exchanged on a session using the RPCSEC_GSS
- flavor, a context must be set up between the client and the server.
- Context creation may involve zero or more RPC exchanges. The number
- of exchanges depends on the security mechanism.
-
-5.2.1. Mechanism and QOP Selection
-
- There is no facility in the RPCSEC_GSS protocol to negotiate GSS-API
- mechanism identifiers or QOP values. At minimum, it is expected that
- implementations of the RPCSEC_GSS protocol provide a means to:
-
- * specify mechanism identifiers, QOP values, and RPCSEC_GSS
- service values on the client side, and to
-
- * enforce mechanism identifiers, QOP values, and RPCSEC_GSS
- service values on a per-request basis on the server side.
-
- It is necessary that above capabilities exist so that applications
- have the means to conform the required set of required set of
- <mechanism, QOP, service> tuples (See the section entitled Set of
- GSS-API Mechanisms). An application may negotiate <mechanism, QOP,
- service> selection within its protocol or via an out of band
- protocol. Hence it may be necessary for RPCSEC_GSS implementations to
- provide programming interfaces for the specification and enforcement
- of <mechanism, QOP, service>.
-
- Additionally, implementations may depend on negotiation schemes
- constructed as pseudo-mechanisms under the GSS-API. Because such
- schemes are below the GSS-API layer, the RPCSEC_GSS protocol, as
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-5.2.2. Context Creation Requests
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- The first RPC request from the client to the server initiates context
- creation. Within the RPC message protocol's call_body structure,
- rpcvers is set to 2. prog and vers are always those for the service
- being accessed. The proc is always set to NULLPROC (zero).
-
- Within the RPC message protocol's cred structure, flavor is set to
- RPCSEC_GSS (6). The opaque data of the cred structure (the body
- field) constituting the credential encodes the rpc_gss_cred_t
- structure defined previously.
-
- The values of the fields contained in the rpc_gss_cred_t structure
- are set as follows. The version field is set to the version of the
- RPCSEC_GSS protocol the client wants to use. The remainder of this
- memo documents version RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1 of RPCSEC_GSS, and so the
- version field would be set to RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1. The gss_proc field
- must be set to RPCSEC_GSS_INIT for the first creation request. In
- subsequent creation requests, the gss_proc field must be set to
- RPCSEC_GSS_CONTINUE_INIT. In a creation request, the seq_num and
- service fields are undefined and both must be ignored by the server.
- In the first creation request, the handle field is NULL (opaque data
- of zero length). In subsequent creation requests, handle must be
- equal to the value returned by the server. The handle field serves
- as the identifier for the context, and will not change for the
- duration of the context, including responses to
- RPCSEC_GSS_CONTINUE_INIT.
-
- The verifier field in the RPC message header is also described by the
- opaque_auth structure. All creation requests have the NULL verifier
- (AUTH_NONE flavor with zero length opaque data).
-
- Following the verifier are the call data (procedure specific
- parameters). Note that the proc field of the call_body structure is
- set to NULLPROC, and thus normally there would be zero octets
- following the verifier. However, since there is no RPC data exchange
- during a context creation, it is safe to transfer information
- following the verifier. It is necessary to "overload" the call data
- in this way, rather than pack the GSS-API token into the RPC header,
- because RPC Version 2 restricts the amount of data that can be sent
- in the header. The opaque body of the credential and verifier fields
- can be each at most 400 octets long, and GSS tokens can be longer
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- following structure for all creation requests:
-
- struct rpc_gss_init_arg {
- opaque gss_token<>;
- };
-
- Here, gss_token is the token returned by the call to GSS-API's
- GSS_Init_sec_context() routine, opaquely encoded. The value of this
- field will likely be different in each creation request, if there is
- more than one creation request. If no token is returned by the call
- to GSS_Init_sec_context(), the context must have been created
- (assuming no errors), and there will not be any more creation
- requests.
-
- When GSS_Init_sec_context() is called, the parameters
- replay_det_req_flag and sequence_req_flag must be turned off. The
- reasons for this are:
-
- * ONC RPC can be used over unreliable transports and provides no
- layer to reliably re-assemble messages. Thus it is possible for
- gaps in message sequencing to occur, as well as out of order
- messages.
-
- * RPC servers can be multi-threaded, and thus the order in which
- GSS-API messages are signed or wrapped can be different from the
- order in which the messages are verified or unwrapped, even if
- the requests are sent on reliable transports.
-
- * To maximize convenience of implementation, the order in which an
- ONC RPC entity will verify the header and verify/unwrap the body
- of an RPC call or reply is left unspecified.
-
- The RPCSEC_GSS protocol provides for protection from replay attack,
- yet tolerates out-of-order delivery or processing of messages and
- tolerates dropped requests.
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-5.2.3.1. Context Creation Response - Successful Acceptance
-
- The response to a successful creation request has an MSG_ACCEPTED
- response with a status of SUCCESS. The results field encodes a
- response with the following structure:
-
- struct rpc_gss_init_res {
- opaque handle<>;
- unsigned int gss_major;
- unsigned int gss_minor;
- unsigned int seq_window;
- opaque gss_token<>;
- };
-
- Here, handle is non-NULL opaque data that serves as the context
- identifier. The client must use this value in all subsequent requests
- whether control messages or otherwise). The gss_major and gss_minor
- fields contain the results of the call to GSS_Accept_sec_context()
- executed by the server. The values for the gss_major field are
- defined in Appendix A of this document. The values for the gss_minor
- field are GSS-API mechanism specific and are defined in the
- mechanism's specification. If gss_major is not one of GSS_S_COMPLETE
- or GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the context setup has failed; in this case
- handle and gss_token must be set to NULL by the server. The value of
- gss_minor is dependent on the value of gss_major and the security
- mechanism used. The gss_token field contains any token returned by
- the GSS_Accept_sec_context() call executed by the server. A token
- may be returned for both successful values of gss_major. If the
- value is GSS_S_COMPLETE, it indicates that the server is not
- expecting any more tokens, and the RPC Data Exchange phase must begin
- on the subsequent request from the client. If the value is
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the server is expecting another token. Hence
- the client must send at least one more creation request (with
- gss_proc set to RPCSEC_GSS_CONTINUE_INIT in the request's credential)
- carrying the required token.
-
- In a successful response, the seq_window field is set to the sequence
- window length supported by the server for this context. This window
- specifies the maximum number of client requests that may be
- outstanding for this context. The server will accept "seq_window"
- requests at a time, and these may be out of order. The client may
- use this number to determine the number of threads that can
- simultaneously send requests on this context.
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- If gss_major is GSS_S_COMPLETE, the verifier's (the verf element in
- the response) flavor field is set to RPCSEC_GSS, and the body field
- set to the checksum of the seq_window (in network order). The QOP
- used for this checksum is 0 (zero), which is the default QOP. For
- all other values of gss_major, a NULL verifier (AUTH_NONE flavor with
- zero-length opaque data) is used.
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-5.2.3.1.1. Client Processing of Successful Context Creation Responses
-
- If the value of gss_major in the response is GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED,
- then the client, per the GSS-API specification, must invoke
- GSS_Init_sec_context() using the token returned in gss_token in the
- context creation response. The client must then generate a context
- creation request, with gss_proc set to RPCSEC_GSS_CONTINUE_INIT.
-
- If the value of gss_major in the response is GSS_S_COMPLETE, and if
- the client's previous invocation of GSS_Init_sec_context() returned a
- gss_major value of GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, then the client, per the
- GSS-API specification, must invoke GSS_Init_sec_context() using the
- token returned in gss_token in the context creation response. If
- GSS_Init_sec_context() returns GSS_S_COMPLETE, the context is
- successfully set up, and the RPC data exchange phase must begin on
- the subsequent request from the client.
-
-5.2.3.2. Context Creation Response - Unsuccessful Cases
-
- An MSG_ACCEPTED reply (to a creation request) with an acceptance
- status of other than SUCCESS has a NULL verifier (flavor set to
- AUTH_NONE, and zero length opaque data in the body field), and is
- formulated as usual for different status values.
-
- An MSG_DENIED reply (to a creation request) is also formulated as
- usual. Note that MSG_DENIED could be returned because the server's
- RPC implementation does not recognize the RPCSEC_GSS security flavor.
- RFC 1831 does not specify the appropriate reply status in this
- instance, but common implementation practice appears to be to return
- a rejection status of AUTH_ERROR with an auth_stat of
- AUTH_REJECTEDCRED. Even though two new values (RPCSEC_GSS_CREDPROBLEM
- and RPCSEC_GSS_CTXPROBLEM) have been defined for the auth_stat type,
- neither of these two can be returned in responses to context creation
- requests. The auth_stat new values can be used for responses to
- normal (data) requests. This is described later.
-
- MSG_DENIED might also be returned if the RPCSEC_GSS version number in
- the credential is not supported on the server. In that case, the
- server returns a rejection status of AUTH_ERROR, with an auth_stat of
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-5.3. RPC Data Exchange
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- The data exchange phase is entered after a context has been
- successfully set up. The format of the data exchanged depends on the
- security service used for the request. Although clients can change
- the security service and QOP used on a per-request basis, this may
- not be acceptable to all RPC services; some RPC services may "lock"
- the data exchange phase into using the QOP and service used on the
- first data exchange message. For all three modes of service (no data
- integrity, data integrity, data privacy), the RPC request header has
- the same format.
-
-5.3.1. RPC Request Header
-
- The credential has the opaque_auth structure described earlier. The
- flavor field is set to RPCSEC_GSS. The credential body is created by
- XDR encoding the rpc_gss_cred_t structure listed earlier into an
- octet stream, and then opaquely encoding this octet stream as the
- body field.
-
- Values of the fields contained in the rpc_gss_cred_t structure are
- set as follows. The version field is set to same version value that
- was used to create the context, which within the scope of this memo
- will always be RPCSEC_GSS_VERS_1. The gss_proc field is set to
- RPCSEC_GSS_DATA. The service field is set to indicate the desired
- service (one of rpc_gss_svc_none, rpc_gss_svc_integrity, or
- rpc_gss_svc_privacy). The handle field is set to the context handle
- value received from the RPC server during context creation. The
- seq_num field can start at any value below MAXSEQ, and must be
- incremented (by one or more) for successive requests. Use of
- sequence numbers is described in detail when server processing of the
- request is discussed.
-
- The verifier has the opaque_auth structure described earlier. The
- flavor field is set to RPCSEC_GSS. The body field is set as follows.
- The checksum of the RPC header (up to and including the credential)
- is computed using the GSS_GetMIC() call with the desired QOP. This
- returns the checksum as an opaque octet stream and its length. This
- is encoded into the body field. Note that the QOP is not explicitly
- specified anywhere in the request. It is implicit in the checksum or
- encrypted data. The same QOP value as is used for the header
- checksum must also be used for the data (for checksumming or
- encrypting), unless the service used for the request is
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-5.3.2.1. RPC Request Data - No Data Integrity
-
- If the service specified is rpc_gss_svc_none, the data (procedure
- arguments) are not integrity or privacy protected. They are sent in
- exactly the same way as they would be if the AUTH_NONE flavor were
- used (following the verifier). Note, however, that since the RPC
- header is integrity protected, the sender will still be authenticated
- in this case.
-
-5.3.2.2. RPC Request Data - With Data Integrity
-
- When data integrity is used, the request data is represented as
- follows:
-
- struct rpc_gss_integ_data {
- opaque databody_integ<>;
- opaque checksum<>;
- };
-
- The databody_integ field is created as follows. A structure
- consisting of a sequence number followed by the procedure arguments
- is constructed. This is shown below as the type rpc_gss_data_t:
-
- struct rpc_gss_data_t {
- unsigned int seq_num;
- proc_req_arg_t arg;
- };
-
- Here, seq_num must have the same value as in the credential. The
- type proc_req_arg_t is the procedure specific XDR type describing the
- procedure arguments (and so is not specified here). The octet stream
- corresponding to the XDR encoded rpc_gss_data_t structure and its
- length are placed in the databody_integ field. Note that because the
- XDR type of databody_integ is opaque, the XDR encoding of
- databody_integ will include an initial four octet length field,
- followed by the XDR encoded octet stream of rpc_gss_data_t.
-
- The checksum field represents the checksum of the XDR encoded octet
- stream corresponding to the XDR encoded rpc_gss_data_t structure
- (note, this is not the checksum of the databody_integ field). This
- is obtained using the GSS_GetMIC() call, with the same QOP as was
- used to compute the header checksum (in the verifier). The
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- its length. The checksum field of struct rpc_gss_integ_data has an
- XDR type of opaque. Thus the checksum length from GSS_GetMIC() is
- encoded as a four octet length field, followed by the checksum,
- padded to a multiple of four octets.
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- When data privacy is used, the request data is represented as
- follows:
-
- struct rpc_gss_priv_data {
- opaque databody_priv<>
- };
-
- The databody_priv field is created as follows. The rpc_gss_data_t
- structure described earlier is constructed again in the same way as
- for the case of data integrity. Next, the GSS_Wrap() call is invoked
- to encrypt the octet stream corresponding to the rpc_gss_data_t
- structure, using the same value for QOP (argument qop_req to
- GSS_Wrap()) as was used for the header checksum (in the verifier) and
- conf_req_flag (an argument to GSS_Wrap()) of TRUE. The GSS_Wrap()
- call returns an opaque octet stream (representing the encrypted
- rpc_gss_data_t structure) and its length, and this is encoded as the
- databody_priv field. Since databody_priv has an XDR type of opaque,
- the length returned by GSS_Wrap() is encoded as the four octet
- length, followed by the encrypted octet stream (padded to a multiple
- of four octets).
-
-5.3.3. Server Processing of RPC Data Requests
-
-5.3.3.1. Context Management
-
- When a request is received by the server, the following are verified
- to be acceptable:
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- * the version number in the credential
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- * the service specified in the credential
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- * the context handle specified in the credential
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- * the header checksum in the verifier (via GSS_VerifyMIC())
-
- * the sequence number (seq_num) specified in the credential (more
- on this follows)
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- The gss_proc field in the credential must be set to RPCSEC_GSS_DATA
- for data requests (otherwise, the message will be interpreted as a
- control message).
-
- The server maintains a window of "seq_window" sequence numbers,
- starting with the last sequence number seen and extending backwards.
- If a sequence number higher than the last number seen is received
- (AND if GSS_VerifyMIC() on the header checksum from the verifier
- returns GSS_S_COMPLETE), the window is moved forward to the new
- sequence number. If the last sequence number seen is N, the server
- is prepared to receive requests with sequence numbers in the range N
- through (N - seq_window + 1), both inclusive. If the sequence number
- received falls below this range, it is silently discarded. If the
- sequence number is within this range, and the server has not seen it,
- the request is accepted, and the server turns on a bit to "remember"
- that this sequence number has been seen. If the server determines
- that it has already seen a sequence number within the window, the
- request is silently discarded. The server should select a seq_window
- value based on the number requests it expects to process
- simultaneously. For example, in a threaded implementation seq_window
- might be equal to the number of server threads. There are no known
- security issues with selecting a large window. The primary issue is
- how much space the server is willing to allocate to keep track of
- requests received within the window.
-
- The reason for discarding requests silently is that the server is
- unable to determine if the duplicate or out of range request was due
- to a sequencing problem in the client, network, or the operating
- system, or due to some quirk in routing, or a replay attack by an
- intruder. Discarding the request allows the client to recover after
- timing out, if indeed the duplication was unintentional or well
- intended. Note that a consequence of the silent discard is that
- clients may increment the seq_num by more than one. The effect of
- this is that the window will move forward more quickly. It is not
- believed that there is any benefit to doing this.
-
- Note that the sequence number algorithm requires that the client
- increment the sequence number even if it is retrying a request with
- the same RPC transaction identifier. It is not infrequent for
- clients to get into a situation where they send two or more attempts
- and a slow server sends the reply for the first attempt. With
- RPCSEC_GSS, each request and reply will have a unique sequence
- number. If the client wishes to improve turn around time on the RPC
- call, it can cache the RPCSEC_GSS sequence number of each request it
- sends. Then when it receives a response with a matching RPC
- transaction identifier, it can compute the checksum of each sequence
- number in the cache to try to match the checksum in the reply's
- verifier.
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- The data is decoded according to the service specified in the
- credential. In the case of integrity or privacy, the server ensures
- that the QOP value is acceptable, and that it is the same as that
- used for the header checksum in the verifier. Also, in the case of
- integrity or privacy, the server will reject the message (with a
- reply status of MSG_ACCEPTED, and an acceptance status of
- GARBAGE_ARGS) if the sequence number embedded in the request body is
- different from the sequence number in the credential.
-
-5.3.3.2. Server Reply - Request Accepted
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- An MSG_ACCEPTED reply to a request in the data exchange phase will
- have the verifier's (the verf element in the response) flavor field
- set to RPCSEC_GSS, and the body field set to the checksum (the output
- of GSS_GetMIC()) of the sequence number (in network order) of the
- corresponding request. The QOP used is the same as the QOP used for
- the corresponding request.
-
- If the status of the reply is not SUCCESS, the rest of the message is
- formatted as usual.
-
- If the status of the message is SUCCESS, the format of the rest of
- the message depends on the service specified in the corresponding
- request message. Basically, what follows the verifier in this case
- are the procedure results, formatted in different ways depending on
- the requested service.
-
- If no data integrity was requested, the procedure results are
- formatted as for the AUTH_NONE security flavor.
-
- If data integrity was requested, the results are encoded in exactly
- the same way as the procedure arguments were in the corresponding
- request. See the section 'RPC Request Data - With Data Integrity.'
- The only difference is that the structure representing the
- procedure's result - proc_res_arg_t - must be substituted in place of
- the request argument structure proc_req_arg_t. The QOP used for the
- checksum must be the same as that used for constructing the reply
- verifier.
-
- If data privacy was requested, the results are encoded in exactly the
- same way as the procedure arguments were in the corresponding
- request. See the section 'RPC Request Data - With Data Privacy.' The
- QOP used for encryption must be the same as that used for
- constructing the reply verifier.
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- An MSG_DENIED reply (to a data request) is formulated as usual. Two
- new values (RPCSEC_GSS_CREDPROBLEM and RPCSEC_GSS_CTXPROBLEM) have
- been defined for the auth_stat type. When the reason for denial of
- the request is a reject_stat of AUTH_ERROR, one of the two new
- auth_stat values could be returned in addition to the existing
- values. These two new values have special significance from the
- existing reasons for denial of a request.
-
- The server maintains a list of contexts for the clients that are
- currently in session with it. Normally, a context is destroyed when
- the client ends the session corresponding to it. However, due to
- resource constraints, the server may destroy a context prematurely
- (on an LRU basis, or if the server machine is rebooted, for example).
- In this case, when a client request comes in, there may not be a
- context corresponding to its handle. The server rejects the request,
- with the reason RPCSEC_GSS_CREDPROBLEM in this case. Upon receiving
- this error, the client must refresh the context - that is,
- reestablish it after destroying the old one - and try the request
- again. This error is also returned if the context handle matches
- that of a different context that was allocated after the client's
- context was destroyed (this will be detected by a failure in
- verifying the header checksum).
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- If the GSS_VerifyMIC() call on the header checksum (contained in the
- verifier) fails to return GSS_S_COMPLETE, the server rejects the
- request and returns an auth_stat of RPCSEC_GSS_CREDPROBLEM.
-
- When the client's sequence number exceeds the maximum the server will
- allow, the server will reject the request with the reason
- RPCSEC_GSS_CTXPROBLEM. Also, if security credentials become stale
- while in use (due to ticket expiry in the case of the Kerberos V5
- mechanism, for example), the failures which result cause the
- RPCSEC_GSS_CTXPROBLEM reason to be returned. In these cases also,
- the client must refresh the context, and retry the request.
-
- For other errors, retrying will not rectify the problem and the
- client must not refresh the context until the problem causing the
- client request to be denied is rectified.
-
- If the version field in the credential does not match the version of
- RPCSEC_GSS that was used when the context was created, the
- AUTH_BADCRED value is returned.
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- If there is a problem with the credential, such a bad length, illegal
- control procedure, or an illegal service, the appropriate auth_stat
- status is AUTH_BADCRED.
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-5.3.3.4. Mapping of GSS-API Errors to Server Responses
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- During the data exchange phase, the server may invoke GSS_GetMIC(),
- GSS_VerifyMIC(), GSS_Unwrap(), and GSS_Wrap(). If any of these
- routines fail to return GSS_S_COMPLETE, then various unsuccessful
- responses can be returned. The are described as follows for each of
- the aforementioned four interfaces.
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-5.3.3.4.1. GSS_GetMIC() Failure
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- When GSS_GetMIC() is called to generate the verifier in the response,
- a failure results in an RPC response with a reply status of
- MSG_DENIED, reject status of AUTH_ERROR and an auth status of
- RPCSEC_GSS_CTXPROBLEM.
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- When GSS_GetMIC() is called to sign the call results (service is
- rpc_gss_svc_integrity), a failure results in no RPC response being
- sent. Since ONC RPC server applications will typically control when a
- response is sent, the failure indication will be returned to the
- server application and it can take appropriate action (such as
- logging the error).
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-5.3.3.4.2. GSS_VerifyMIC() Failure
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- When GSS_VerifyMIC() is called to verify the verifier in request, a
- failure results in an RPC response with a reply status of MSG_DENIED,
- reject status of AUTH_ERROR and an auth status of
- RPCSEC_GSS_CREDPROBLEM.
-
- When GSS_VerifyMIC() is called to verify the call arguments (service
- is rpc_gss_svc_integrity), a failure results in an RPC response with
- a reply status of MSG_ACCEPTED, and an acceptance status of
- GARBAGE_ARGS.
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-5.3.3.4.3. GSS_Unwrap() Failure
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- When GSS_Unwrap() is called to decrypt the call arguments (service is
- rpc_gss_svc_privacy), a failure results in an RPC response with a
- reply status of MSG_ACCEPTED, and an acceptance status of
- GARBAGE_ARGS.
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-5.3.3.4.4. GSS_Wrap() Failure
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- When GSS_Wrap() is called to encrypt the call results (service is
- rpc_gss_svc_privacy), a failure results in no RPC response being
- sent. Since ONC RPC server applications will typically control when a
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- response is sent, the failure indication will be returned to the
- application and it can take appropriate action (such as logging the
- error).
-
-5.4. Context Destruction
-
- When the client is done using the session, it must send a control
- message informing the server that it no longer requires the context.
- This message is formulated just like a data request packet, with the
- following differences: the credential has gss_proc set to
- RPCSEC_GSS_DESTROY, the procedure specified in the header is
- NULLPROC, and there are no procedure arguments. The sequence number
- in the request must be valid, and the header checksum in the verifier
- must be valid, for the server to accept the message. The server
- sends a response as it would to a data request. The client and
- server must then destroy the context for the session.
-
- If the request to destroy the context fails for some reason, the
- client need not take any special action. The server must be prepared
- to deal with situations where clients never inform the server that
- they no longer are in session and so don't need the server to
- maintain a context. An LRU mechanism or an aging mechanism should be
- employed by the server to clean up in such cases.
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-6. Set of GSS-API Mechanisms
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- RPCSEC_GSS is effectively a "pass-through" to the GSS-API layer, and
- as such it is inappropriate for the RPCSEC_GSS specification to
- enumerate a minimum set of required security mechanisms and/or
- quality of protections.
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- If an application protocol specification references RPCSEC_GSS, the
- protocol specification must list a mandatory set of { mechanism, QOP,
- service } triples, such that an implementation cannot claim
- conformance to the protocol specification unless it implements the
- set of triples. Within each triple, mechanism is a GSS-API security
- mechanism, QOP is a valid quality-of-protection within the mechanism,
- and service is either rpc_gss_svc_integrity or rpc_gss_svc_privacy.
-
- For example, a network filing protocol built on RPC that depends on
- RPCSEC_GSS for security, might require that Kerberos V5 with the
- default QOP using the rpc_gss_svc_integrity service be supported by
- implementations conforming to the network filing protocol
- specification.
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-7. Security Considerations
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-7.1. Privacy of Call Header
-
- The reader will note that for the privacy option, only the call
- arguments and results are encrypted. Information about the
- application in the form of RPC program number, program version
- number, and program procedure number is transmitted in the clear.
- Encrypting these fields in the RPC call header would have changed the
- size and format of the call header. This would have required revising
- the RPC protocol which was beyond the scope of this proposal. Storing
- the encrypted numbers in the credential would have obviated a
- protocol change, but would have introduced more overloading of fields
- and would have made implementations of RPC more complex. Even if the
- fields were encrypted somehow, in most cases an attacker can
- determine the program number and version number by examining the
- destination address of the request and querying the rpcbind service
- on the destination host [Srinivasan-bind]. In any case, even by not
- encrypting the three numbers, RPCSEC_GSS still improves the state of
- security over what existing RPC services have had available
- previously. Implementors of new RPC services that are concerned about
- this risk may opt to design in a "sub-procedure" field that is
- included in the service specific call arguments.
-
-7.2. Sequence Number Attacks
-
-7.2.1. Sequence Numbers Above the Window
-
- An attacker cannot coax the server into raising the sequence number
- beyond the range the legitimate client is aware of (and thus engineer
- a denial of server attack) without constructing an RPC request that
- will pass the header checksum. If the cost of verifying the header
- checksum is sufficiently large (depending on the speed of the
- processor doing the checksum and the cost of checksum algorithm), it
- is possible to envision a denial of service attack (vandalism, in the
- form of wasting processing resources) whereby the attacker sends
- requests that are above the window. The simplest method might be for
- the attacker to monitor the network traffic and then choose a
- sequence number that is far above the current sequence number. Then
- the attacker can send bogus requests using the above window sequence
- number.
-
-7.2.2. Sequence Numbers Within or Below the Window
-
- If the attacker sends requests that are within or below the window,
- then even if the header checksum is successfully verified, the server
- will silently discard the requests because the server assumes it has
- already processed the request. In this case, a server can optimize by
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- below the window, or if it is within the window, not attempt the
- checksum verification if the sequence number has already been seen.
-
-7.3. Message Stealing Attacks
-
- This proposal does not address attacks where an attacker can block or
- steal messages without being detected by the server. To implement
- such protection would be tantamount to assuming a state in the RPC
- service. RPCSEC_GSS does not worsen this situation.
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-Appendix A. GSS-API Major Status Codes
-
- The GSS-API definition [Linn] does not include numerical values for
- the various GSS-API major status codes. It is expected that this will
- be addressed in future RFC. Until then, this appendix defines the
- values for each GSS-API major status code listed in the GSS-API
- definition. If in the future, the GSS-API definition defines values
- for the codes that are different than what follows, then implementors
- of RPCSEC_GSS will be obliged to map them into the values defined
- below. If in the future, the GSS-API definition defines additional
- status codes not defined below, then the RPCSEC_GSS definition will
- subsume those additional values.
-
- Here are the definitions of each GSS_S_* major status that the
- implementor of RPCSEC_GSS can expect in the gss_major major field of
- rpc_gss_init_res. These definitions are not in RPC description
- language form. The numbers are in base 16 (hexadecimal):
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE 0x00000000
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED 0x00000001
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN 0x00000002
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN 0x00000004
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN 0x00000008
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN 0x00000010
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH 0x00010000
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME 0x00020000
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE 0x00030000
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS 0x00040000
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS 0x00050000
- GSS_S_BAD_MIC 0x00060000
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG 0x00060000
- GSS_S_NO_CRED 0x00070000
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT 0x00080000
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN 0x00090000
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL 0x000a0000
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED 0x000b0000
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED 0x000c0000
- GSS_S_FAILURE 0x000d0000
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP 0x000e0000
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED 0x000f0000
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE 0x00100000
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT 0x00110000
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN 0x00120000
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ 0x01000000
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE 0x02000000
- GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE 0x03000000
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- follows:
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- | Calling Error | Routine Error | Supplementary Info |
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- Bit 31 24 23 16 15 0
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- Up to one status in the Calling Error field can be logically ORed
- with up to one status in the Routine Error field which in turn can be
- logically ORed with zero or more statuses in the Supplementary Info
- field. If the resulting major status has a non-zero Calling Error
- and/or a non-zero Routine Error, then the applicable GSS-API
- operation has failed. For purposes of RPCSEC_GSS, this means that
- the GSS_Accept_sec_context() call executed by the server has failed.
-
- If the major status is equal GSS_S_COMPLETE, then this indicates the
- absence of any Errors or Supplementary Info.
-
- The meanings of most of the GSS_S_* status are defined in the GSS-API
- definition, which the exceptions of:
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- GSS_S_BAD_MIC This code has the same meaning as GSS_S_BAD_SIG.
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- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ
- A required input parameter could not be read.
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-Acknowledgements
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- Much of the protocol was based on the AUTH_GSSAPI security flavor
- developed by Open Vision Technologies [Jaspan]. In particular, we
- acknowledge Barry Jaspan, Marc Horowitz, John Linn, and Ellen
- McDermott.
-
- Raj Srinivasan designed RPCSEC_GSS [Eisler] with input from Mike
- Eisler. Raj, Roland Schemers, Lin Ling, and Alex Chiu contributed to
- Sun Microsystems' implementation of RPCSEC_GSS.
-
- Brent Callaghan, Marc Horowitz, Barry Jaspan, John Linn, Hilarie
- Orman, Martin Rex, Ted Ts'o, and John Wroclawski analyzed the
- specification and gave valuable feedback.
-
- Steve Nahm and Kathy Slattery reviewed various drafts of this
- specification.
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- Much of content of Appendix A was excerpted from John Wray's Work in
- Progress on GSS-API Version 2 C-bindings.
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-References
-
- [Eisler] Eisler, M., Schemers, R., and Srinivasan, R.
- (1996). "Security Mechanism Independence in ONC
- RPC," Proceedings of the Sixth Annual USENIX
- Security Symposium, pp. 51-65.
-
- [Jaspan] Jaspan, B. (1995). "GSS-API Security for ONC
- RPC," `95 Proceedings of The Internet Society
- Symposium on Network and Distributed System
- Security, pp. 144- 151.
-
- [Linn] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application
- Program Interface, Version 2", RFC 2078, January
- 1997.
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- [Srinivasan-bind] Srinivasan, R., "Binding Protocols for
- ONC RPC Version 2", RFC 1833, August 1995.
-
- [Srinivasan-rpc] Srinivasan, R., "RPC: Remote Procedure Call
- Protocol Specification Version 2", RFC 1831,
- August 1995.
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- [Srinivasan-xdr] Srinivasan, R., "XDR: External Data
- Representation Standard", RFC 1832, August 1995.
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-Authors' Addresses
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- Michael Eisler
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- M/S UCOS03
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, CA 94043
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- Phone: +1 (719) 599-9026
- EMail: mre@eng.sun.com
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- Alex Chiu
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- M/S UMPK17-203
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, CA 94043
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- Phone: +1 (415) 786-6465
- EMail: hacker@eng.sun.com
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- Lin Ling
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- M/S UMPK17-201
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, CA 94043
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- Phone: +1 (415) 786-5084
- EMail: lling@eng.sun.com
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-Network Working Group M. Horowitz
-Request for Comments: 2228 Cygnus Solutions
-Updates: 959 S. Lunt
-Category: Standards Track Bellcore
- October 1997
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- FTP Security Extensions
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-Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved.
-
-Abstract
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- This document defines extensions to the FTP specification STD 9, RFC
- 959, "FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP)" (October 1985). These extensions
- provide strong authentication, integrity, and confidentiality on both
- the control and data channels with the introduction of new optional
- commands, replies, and file transfer encodings.
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- The following new optional commands are introduced in this
- specification:
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- AUTH (Authentication/Security Mechanism),
- ADAT (Authentication/Security Data),
- PROT (Data Channel Protection Level),
- PBSZ (Protection Buffer Size),
- CCC (Clear Command Channel),
- MIC (Integrity Protected Command),
- CONF (Confidentiality Protected Command), and
- ENC (Privacy Protected Command).
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- A new class of reply types (6yz) is also introduced for protected
- replies.
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- None of the above commands are required to be implemented, but
- interdependencies exist. These dependencies are documented with the
- commands.
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- Note that this specification is compatible with STD 9, RFC 959.
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-1. Introduction
-
- The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) currently defined in STD 9, RFC 959
- and in place on the Internet uses usernames and passwords passed in
- cleartext to authenticate clients to servers (via the USER and PASS
- commands). Except for services such as "anonymous" FTP archives,
- this represents a security risk whereby passwords can be stolen
- through monitoring of local and wide-area networks. This either aids
- potential attackers through password exposure and/or limits
- accessibility of files by FTP servers who cannot or will not accept
- the inherent security risks.
-
- Aside from the problem of authenticating users in a secure manner,
- there is also the problem of authenticating servers, protecting
- sensitive data and/or verifying its integrity. An attacker may be
- able to access valuable or sensitive data merely by monitoring a
- network, or through active means may be able to delete or modify the
- data being transferred so as to corrupt its integrity. An active
- attacker may also initiate spurious file transfers to and from a site
- of the attacker's choice, and may invoke other commands on the
- server. FTP does not currently have any provision for the encryption
- or verification of the authenticity of commands, replies, or
- transferred data. Note that these security services have value even
- to anonymous file access.
-
- Current practice for sending files securely is generally either:
-
- 1. via FTP of files pre-encrypted under keys which are manually
- distributed,
-
- 2. via electronic mail containing an encoding of a file encrypted
- under keys which are manually distributed,
-
- 3. via a PEM message, or
-
- 4. via the rcp command enhanced to use Kerberos.
-
- None of these means could be considered even a de facto standard, and
- none are truly interactive. A need exists to securely transfer files
- using FTP in a secure manner which is supported within the FTP
- protocol in a consistent manner and which takes advantage of existing
- security infrastructure and technology. Extensions are necessary to
- the FTP specification if these security services are to be introduced
- into the protocol in an interoperable way.
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- Although the FTP control connection follows the Telnet protocol, and
- Telnet has defined an authentication and encryption option [TELNET-
- SEC], [RFC-1123] explicitly forbids the use of Telnet option
- negotiation over the control connection (other than Synch and IP).
-
- Also, the Telnet authentication and encryption option does not
- provide for integrity protection only (without confidentiality), and
- does not address the protection of the data channel.
-
-2. FTP Security Overview
-
- At the highest level, the FTP security extensions seek to provide an
- abstract mechanism for authenticating and/or authorizing connections,
- and integrity and/or confidentiality protecting commands, replies,
- and data transfers.
-
- In the context of FTP security, authentication is the establishment
- of a client's identity and/or a server's identity in a secure way,
- usually using cryptographic techniques. The basic FTP protocol does
- not have a concept of authentication.
-
- Authorization is the process of validating a user for login. The
- basic authorization process involves the USER, PASS, and ACCT
- commands. With the FTP security extensions, authentication
- established using a security mechanism may also be used to make the
- authorization decision.
-
- Without the security extensions, authentication of the client, as
- this term is usually understood, never happens. FTP authorization is
- accomplished with a password, passed on the network in the clear as
- the argument to the PASS command. The possessor of this password is
- assumed to be authorized to transfer files as the user named in the
- USER command, but the identity of the client is never securely
- established.
-
- An FTP security interaction begins with a client telling the server
- what security mechanism it wants to use with the AUTH command. The
- server will either accept this mechanism, reject this mechanism, or,
- in the case of a server which does not implement the security
- extensions, reject the command completely. The client may try
- multiple security mechanisms until it requests one which the server
- accepts. This allows a rudimentary form of negotiation to take
- place. (If more complex negotiation is desired, this may be
- implemented as a security mechanism.) The server's reply will
- indicate if the client must respond with additional data for the
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- security mechanism to interpret. If none is needed, this will
- usually mean that the mechanism is one where the password (specified
- by the PASS command) is to be interpreted differently, such as with a
- token or one-time password system.
-
- If the server requires additional security information, then the
- client and server will enter into a security data exchange. The
- client will send an ADAT command containing the first block of
- security data. The server's reply will indicate if the data exchange
- is complete, if there was an error, or if more data is needed. The
- server's reply can optionally contain security data for the client to
- interpret. If more data is needed, the client will send another ADAT
- command containing the next block of data, and await the server's
- reply. This exchange can continue as many times as necessary. Once
- this exchange completes, the client and server have established a
- security association. This security association may include
- authentication (client, server, or mutual) and keying information for
- integrity and/or confidentiality, depending on the mechanism in use.
-
- The term "security data" here is carefully chosen. The purpose of
- the security data exchange is to establish a security association,
- which might not actually include any authentication at all, between
- the client and the server as described above. For instance, a
- Diffie-Hellman exchange establishes a secret key, but no
- authentication takes place. If an FTP server has an RSA key pair but
- the client does not, then the client can authenticate the server, but
- the server cannot authenticate the client.
-
- Once a security association is established, authentication which is a
- part of this association may be used instead of or in addition to the
- standard username/password exchange for authorizing a user to connect
- to the server. A username specified by the USER command is always
- required to specify the identity to be used on the server.
-
- In order to prevent an attacker from inserting or deleting commands
- on the control stream, if the security association supports
- integrity, then the server and client must use integrity protection
- on the control stream, unless it first transmits a CCC command to
- turn off this requirement. Integrity protection is performed with
- the MIC and ENC commands, and the 63z reply codes. The CCC command
- and its reply must be transmitted with integrity protection.
- Commands and replies may be transmitted without integrity (that is,
- in the clear or with confidentiality only) only if no security
- association is established, the negotiated security association does
- not support integrity, or the CCC command has succeeded.
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- Once the client and server have negotiated with the PBSZ command an
- acceptable buffer size for encapsulating protected data over the data
- channel, the security mechanism may also be used to protect data
- channel transfers.
-
- Policy is not specified by this document. In particular, client and
- server implementations may choose to implement restrictions on what
- operations can be performed depending on the security association
- which exists. For example, a server may require that a client
- authorize via a security mechanism rather than using a password,
- require that the client provide a one-time password from a token,
- require at least integrity protection on the command channel, or
- require that certain files only be transmitted encrypted. An
- anonymous ftp client might refuse to do file transfers without
- integrity protection in order to insure the validity of files
- downloaded.
-
- No particular set of functionality is required, except as
- dependencies described in the next section. This means that none of
- authentication, integrity, or confidentiality are required of an
- implementation, although a mechanism which does none of these is not
- of much use. For example, it is acceptable for a mechanism to
- implement only integrity protection, one-way authentication and/or
- encryption, encryption without any authentication or integrity
- protection, or any other subset of functionality if policy or
- technical considerations make this desirable. Of course, one peer
- might require as a matter of policy stronger protection than the
- other is able to provide, preventing perfect interoperability.
-
-3. New FTP Commands
-
- The following commands are optional, but dependent on each other.
- They are extensions to the FTP Access Control Commands.
-
- The reply codes documented here are generally described as
- recommended, rather than required. The intent is that reply codes
- describing the full range of success and failure modes exist, but
- that servers be allowed to limit information presented to the client.
- For example, a server might implement a particular security
- mechanism, but have a policy restriction against using it. The
- server should respond with a 534 reply code in this case, but may
- respond with a 504 reply code if it does not wish to divulge that the
- disallowed mechanism is supported. If the server does choose to use
- a different reply code than the recommended one, it should try to use
- a reply code which only differs in the last digit. In all cases, the
- server must use a reply code which is documented as returnable from
- the command received, and this reply code must begin with the same
- digit as the recommended reply code for the situation.
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- AUTHENTICATION/SECURITY MECHANISM (AUTH)
-
- The argument field is a Telnet string identifying a supported
- mechanism. This string is case-insensitive. Values must be
- registered with the IANA, except that values beginning with "X-"
- are reserved for local use.
-
- If the server does not recognize the AUTH command, it must respond
- with reply code 500. This is intended to encompass the large
- deployed base of non-security-aware ftp servers, which will
- respond with reply code 500 to any unrecognized command. If the
- server does recognize the AUTH command but does not implement the
- security extensions, it should respond with reply code 502.
-
- If the server does not understand the named security mechanism, it
- should respond with reply code 504.
-
- If the server is not willing to accept the named security
- mechanism, it should respond with reply code 534.
-
- If the server is not able to accept the named security mechanism,
- such as if a required resource is unavailable, it should respond
- with reply code 431.
-
- If the server is willing to accept the named security mechanism,
- but requires security data, it must respond with reply code 334.
-
- If the server is willing to accept the named security mechanism,
- and does not require any security data, it must respond with reply
- code 234.
-
- If the server is responding with a 334 reply code, it may include
- security data as described in the next section.
-
- Some servers will allow the AUTH command to be reissued in order
- to establish new authentication. The AUTH command, if accepted,
- removes any state associated with prior FTP Security commands.
- The server must also require that the user reauthorize (that is,
- reissue some or all of the USER, PASS, and ACCT commands) in this
- case (see section 4 for an explanation of "authorize" in this
- context).
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- AUTHENTICATION/SECURITY DATA (ADAT)
-
- The argument field is a Telnet string representing base 64 encoded
- security data (see Section 9, "Base 64 Encoding"). If a reply
- code indicating success is returned, the server may also use a
- string of the form "ADAT=base64data" as the text part of the reply
- if it wishes to convey security data back to the client.
-
- The data in both cases is specific to the security mechanism
- specified by the previous AUTH command. The ADAT command, and the
- associated replies, allow the client and server to conduct an
- arbitrary security protocol. The security data exchange must
- include enough information for both peers to be aware of which
- optional features are available. For example, if the client does
- not support data encryption, the server must be made aware of
- this, so it will know not to send encrypted command channel
- replies. It is strongly recommended that the security mechanism
- provide sequencing on the command channel, to insure that commands
- are not deleted, reordered, or replayed.
-
- The ADAT command must be preceded by a successful AUTH command,
- and cannot be issued once a security data exchange completes
- (successfully or unsuccessfully), unless it is preceded by an AUTH
- command to reset the security state.
-
- If the server has not yet received an AUTH command, or if a prior
- security data exchange completed, but the security state has not
- been reset with an AUTH command, it should respond with reply code
- 503.
-
- If the server cannot base 64 decode the argument, it should
- respond with reply code 501.
-
- If the server rejects the security data (if a checksum fails, for
- instance), it should respond with reply code 535.
-
- If the server accepts the security data, and requires additional
- data, it should respond with reply code 335.
-
- If the server accepts the security data, but does not require any
- additional data (i.e., the security data exchange has completed
- successfully), it must respond with reply code 235.
-
- If the server is responding with a 235 or 335 reply code, then it
- may include security data in the text part of the reply as
- specified above.
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- If the ADAT command returns an error, the security data exchange
- will fail, and the client must reset its internal security state.
- If the client becomes unsynchronized with the server (for example,
- the server sends a 234 reply code to an AUTH command, but the
- client has more data to transmit), then the client must reset the
- server's security state.
-
- PROTECTION BUFFER SIZE (PBSZ)
-
- The argument is a decimal integer representing the maximum size,
- in bytes, of the encoded data blocks to be sent or received during
- file transfer. This number shall be no greater than can be
- represented in a 32-bit unsigned integer.
-
- This command allows the FTP client and server to negotiate a
- maximum protected buffer size for the connection. There is no
- default size; the client must issue a PBSZ command before it can
- issue the first PROT command.
-
- The PBSZ command must be preceded by a successful security data
- exchange.
-
- If the server cannot parse the argument, or if it will not fit in
- 32 bits, it should respond with a 501 reply code.
-
- If the server has not completed a security data exchange with the
- client, it should respond with a 503 reply code.
-
- Otherwise, the server must reply with a 200 reply code. If the
- size provided by the client is too large for the server, it must
- use a string of the form "PBSZ=number" in the text part of the
- reply to indicate a smaller buffer size. The client and the
- server must use the smaller of the two buffer sizes if both buffer
- sizes are specified.
-
- DATA CHANNEL PROTECTION LEVEL (PROT)
-
- The argument is a single Telnet character code specifying the data
- channel protection level.
-
- This command indicates to the server what type of data channel
- protection the client and server will be using. The following
- codes are assigned:
-
- C - Clear
- S - Safe
- E - Confidential
- P - Private
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- The default protection level if no other level is specified is
- Clear. The Clear protection level indicates that the data channel
- will carry the raw data of the file transfer, with no security
- applied. The Safe protection level indicates that the data will
- be integrity protected. The Confidential protection level
- indicates that the data will be confidentiality protected. The
- Private protection level indicates that the data will be integrity
- and confidentiality protected.
-
- It is reasonable for a security mechanism not to provide all data
- channel protection levels. It is also reasonable for a mechanism
- to provide more protection at a level than is required (for
- instance, a mechanism might provide Confidential protection, but
- include integrity-protection in that encoding, due to API or other
- considerations).
-
- The PROT command must be preceded by a successful protection
- buffer size negotiation.
-
- If the server does not understand the specified protection level,
- it should respond with reply code 504.
-
- If the current security mechanism does not support the specified
- protection level, the server should respond with reply code 536.
-
- If the server has not completed a protection buffer size
- negotiation with the client, it should respond with a 503 reply
- code.
-
- The PROT command will be rejected and the server should reply 503
- if no previous PBSZ command was issued.
-
- If the server is not willing to accept the specified protection
- level, it should respond with reply code 534.
-
- If the server is not able to accept the specified protection
- level, such as if a required resource is unavailable, it should
- respond with reply code 431.
-
- Otherwise, the server must reply with a 200 reply code to indicate
- that the specified protection level is accepted.
-
- CLEAR COMMAND CHANNEL (CCC)
-
- This command does not take an argument.
-
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- It is desirable in some environments to use a security mechanism
- to authenticate and/or authorize the client and server, but not to
- perform any integrity checking on the subsequent commands. This
- might be used in an environment where IP security is in place,
- insuring that the hosts are authenticated and that TCP streams
- cannot be tampered, but where user authentication is desired.
-
- If unprotected commands are allowed on any connection, then an
- attacker could insert a command on the control stream, and the
- server would have no way to know that it was invalid. In order to
- prevent such attacks, once a security data exchange completes
- successfully, if the security mechanism supports integrity, then
- integrity (via the MIC or ENC command, and 631 or 632 reply) must
- be used, until the CCC command is issued to enable non-integrity
- protected control channel messages. The CCC command itself must
- be integrity protected.
-
- Once the CCC command completes successfully, if a command is not
- protected, then the reply to that command must also not be
- protected. This is to support interoperability with clients which
- do not support protection once the CCC command has been issued.
-
- This command must be preceded by a successful security data
- exchange.
-
- If the command is not integrity-protected, the server must respond
- with a 533 reply code.
-
- If the server is not willing to turn off the integrity
- requirement, it should respond with a 534 reply code.
-
- Otherwise, the server must reply with a 200 reply code to indicate
- that unprotected commands and replies may now be used on the
- command channel.
-
- INTEGRITY PROTECTED COMMAND (MIC) and
- CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTED COMMAND (CONF) and
- PRIVACY PROTECTED COMMAND (ENC)
-
- The argument field of MIC is a Telnet string consisting of a base
- 64 encoded "safe" message produced by a security mechanism
- specific message integrity procedure. The argument field of CONF
- is a Telnet string consisting of a base 64 encoded "confidential"
- message produced by a security mechanism specific confidentiality
- procedure. The argument field of ENC is a Telnet string
- consisting of a base 64 encoded "private" message produced by a
- security mechanism specific message integrity and confidentiality
- procedure.
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- The server will decode and/or verify the encoded message.
-
- This command must be preceded by a successful security data
- exchange.
-
- A server may require that the first command after a successful
- security data exchange be CCC, and not implement the protection
- commands at all. In this case, the server should respond with a
- 502 reply code.
-
- If the server cannot base 64 decode the argument, it should
- respond with a 501 reply code.
-
- If the server has not completed a security data exchange with the
- client, it should respond with a 503 reply code.
-
- If the server has completed a security data exchange with the
- client using a mechanism which supports integrity, and requires a
- CCC command due to policy or implementation limitations, it should
- respond with a 503 reply code.
-
- If the server rejects the command because it is not supported by
- the current security mechanism, the server should respond with
- reply code 537.
-
- If the server rejects the command (if a checksum fails, for
- instance), it should respond with reply code 535.
-
- If the server is not willing to accept the command (if privacy is
- required by policy, for instance, or if a CONF command is received
- before a CCC command), it should respond with reply code 533.
-
- Otherwise, the command will be interpreted as an FTP command. An
- end-of-line code need not be included, but if one is included, it
- must be a Telnet end-of-line code, not a local end-of-line code.
-
- The server may require that, under some or all circumstances, all
- commands be protected. In this case, it should make a 533 reply
- to commands other than MIC, CONF, and ENC.
-
-4. Login Authorization
-
- The security data exchange may, among other things, establish the
- identity of the client in a secure way to the server. This identity
- may be used as one input to the login authorization process.
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- In response to the FTP login commands (AUTH, PASS, ACCT), the server
- may choose to change the sequence of commands and replies specified
- by RFC 959 as follows. There are also some new replies available.
-
- If the server is willing to allow the user named by the USER command
- to log in based on the identity established by the security data
- exchange, it should respond with reply code 232.
-
- If the security mechanism requires a challenge/response password, it
- should respond to the USER command with reply code 336. The text
- part of the reply should contain the challenge. The client must
- display the challenge to the user before prompting for the password
- in this case. This is particularly relevant to more sophisticated
- clients or graphical user interfaces which provide dialog boxes or
- other modal input. These clients should be careful not to prompt for
- the password before the username has been sent to the server, in case
- the user needs the challenge in the 336 reply to construct a valid
- password.
-
-5. New FTP Replies
-
- The new reply codes are divided into two classes. The first class is
- new replies made necessary by the new FTP Security commands. The
- second class is a new reply type to indicate protected replies.
-
- 5.1. New individual reply codes
-
- 232 User logged in, authorized by security data exchange.
- 234 Security data exchange complete.
- 235 [ADAT=base64data]
- ; This reply indicates that the security data exchange
- ; completed successfully. The square brackets are not
- ; to be included in the reply, but indicate that
- ; security data in the reply is optional.
-
- 334 [ADAT=base64data]
- ; This reply indicates that the requested security mechanism
- ; is ok, and includes security data to be used by the client
- ; to construct the next command. The square brackets are not
- ; to be included in the reply, but indicate that
- ; security data in the reply is optional.
- 335 [ADAT=base64data]
- ; This reply indicates that the security data is
- ; acceptable, and more is required to complete the
- ; security data exchange. The square brackets
- ; are not to be included in the reply, but indicate
- ; that security data in the reply is optional.
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- 336 Username okay, need password. Challenge is "...."
- ; The exact representation of the challenge should be chosen
- ; by the mechanism to be sensible to the human user of the
- ; system.
-
- 431 Need some unavailable resource to process security.
-
- 533 Command protection level denied for policy reasons.
- 534 Request denied for policy reasons.
- 535 Failed security check (hash, sequence, etc).
- 536 Requested PROT level not supported by mechanism.
- 537 Command protection level not supported by security mechanism.
-
- 5.2. Protected replies.
-
- One new reply type is introduced:
-
- 6yz Protected reply
-
- There are three reply codes of this type. The first, reply
- code 631 indicates an integrity protected reply. The
- second, reply code 632, indicates a confidentiality and
- integrity protected reply. the third, reply code 633,
- indicates a confidentiality protected reply.
-
- The text part of a 631 reply is a Telnet string consisting
- of a base 64 encoded "safe" message produced by a security
- mechanism specific message integrity procedure. The text
- part of a 632 reply is a Telnet string consisting of a base
- 64 encoded "private" message produced by a security
- mechanism specific message confidentiality and integrity
- procedure. The text part of a 633 reply is a Telnet string
- consisting of a base 64 encoded "confidential" message
- produced by a security mechanism specific message
- confidentiality procedure.
-
- The client will decode and verify the encoded reply. How
- failures decoding or verifying replies are handled is
- implementation-specific. An end-of-line code need not be
- included, but if one is included, it must be a Telnet end-
- of-line code, not a local end-of-line code.
-
- A protected reply may only be sent if a security data
- exchange has succeeded.
-
- The 63z reply may be a multiline reply. In this case, the
- plaintext reply must be broken up into a number of
- fragments. Each fragment must be protected, then base 64
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- encoded in order into a separate line of the multiline
- reply. There need not be any correspondence between the
- line breaks in the plaintext reply and the encoded reply.
- Telnet end-of-line codes must appear in the plaintext of the
- encoded reply, except for the final end-of-line code, which
- is optional.
-
- The multiline reply must be formatted more strictly than the
- continuation specification in RFC 959. In particular, each
- line before the last must be formed by the reply code,
- followed immediately by a hyphen, followed by a base 64
- encoded fragment of the reply.
-
- For example, if the plaintext reply is
-
- 123-First line
- Second line
- 234 A line beginning with numbers
- 123 The last line
-
- then the resulting protected reply could be any of the
- following (the first example has a line break only to fit
- within the margins):
-
- 631 base64(protect("123-First line\r\nSecond line\r\n 234 A line
- 631-base64(protect("123-First line\r\n"))
- 631-base64(protect("Second line\r\n"))
- 631-base64(protect(" 234 A line beginning with numbers\r\n"))
- 631 base64(protect("123 The last line"))
-
- 631-base64(protect("123-First line\r\nSecond line\r\n 234 A line b"))
- 631 base64(protect("eginning with numbers\r\n123 The last line\r\n"))
-
-6. Data Channel Encapsulation
-
- When data transfers are protected between the client and server (in
- either direction), certain transformations and encapsulations must be
- performed so that the recipient can properly decode the transmitted
- file.
-
- The sender must apply all protection services after transformations
- associated with the representation type, file structure, and transfer
- mode have been performed. The data sent over the data channel is,
- for the purposes of protection, to be treated as a byte stream.
-
- When performing a data transfer in an authenticated manner, the
- authentication checks are performed on individual blocks of the file,
- rather than on the file as a whole. Consequently, it is possible for
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- insertion attacks to insert blocks into the data stream (i.e.,
- replays) that authenticate correctly, but result in a corrupted file
- being undetected by the receiver. To guard against such attacks, the
- specific security mechanism employed should include mechanisms to
- protect against such attacks. Many GSS-API mechanisms usable with
- the specification in Appendix I, and the Kerberos mechanism in
- Appendix II do so.
-
- The sender must take the input byte stream, and break it up into
- blocks such that each block, when encoded using a security mechanism
- specific procedure, will be no larger than the buffer size negotiated
- by the client with the PBSZ command. Each block must be encoded,
- then transmitted with the length of the encoded block prepended as a
- four byte unsigned integer, most significant byte first.
-
- When the end of the file is reached, the sender must encode a block
- of zero bytes, and send this final block to the recipient before
- closing the data connection.
-
- The recipient will read the four byte length, read a block of data
- that many bytes long, then decode and verify this block with a
- security mechanism specific procedure. This must be repeated until a
- block encoding a buffer of zero bytes is received. This indicates
- the end of the encoded byte stream.
-
- Any transformations associated with the representation type, file
- structure, and transfer mode are to be performed by the recipient on
- the byte stream resulting from the above process.
-
- When using block transfer mode, the sender's (cleartext) buffer size
- is independent of the block size.
-
- The server will reply 534 to a STOR, STOU, RETR, LIST, NLST, or APPE
- command if the current protection level is not at the level dictated
- by the server's security requirements for the particular file
- transfer.
-
- If any data protection services fail at any time during data transfer
- at the server end (including an attempt to send a buffer size greater
- than the negotiated maximum), the server will send a 535 reply to the
- data transfer command (either STOR, STOU, RETR, LIST, NLST, or APPE).
-
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-7. Potential policy considerations
-
- While there are no restrictions on client and server policy, there
- are a few recommendations which an implementation should implement.
-
- - Once a security data exchange takes place, a server should require
- all commands be protected (with integrity and/or confidentiality),
- and it should protect all replies. Replies should use the same
- level of protection as the command which produced them. This
- includes replies which indicate failure of the MIC, CONF, and ENC
- commands. In particular, it is not meaningful to require that
- AUTH and ADAT be protected; it is meaningful and useful to require
- that PROT and PBSZ be protected. In particular, the use of CCC is
- not recommended, but is defined in the interest of
- interoperability between implementations which might desire such
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- reasonable for the server to refuse to accept a non-encrypted PASS
- command if the server knows encryption is available.
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- is recommended that an implementation provide all commands which
- can be implemented, given the mechanisms supported and the policy
- considerations of the site (export controls, for instance).
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- These sections are modelled after sections 5.3 and 5.4 of RFC 959,
- which describe the same information, except for the standard FTP
- commands and replies.
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- 8.1. FTP Security commands and arguments
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- AUTH <SP> <mechanism-name> <CRLF>
- ADAT <SP> <base64data> <CRLF>
- PROT <SP> <prot-code> <CRLF>
- PBSZ <SP> <decimal-integer> <CRLF>
- MIC <SP> <base64data> <CRLF>
- CONF <SP> <base64data> <CRLF>
- ENC <SP> <base64data> <CRLF>
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- <base64data> ::= <string>
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- <prot-code> ::= C | S | E | P
- <decimal-integer> ::= any decimal integer from 1 to (2^32)-1
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- Security Association Setup
- AUTH
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- 504, 536, 503, 534, 431
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- 500, 501, 421
- CONF
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- 500, 501, 421
- ENC
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- 500, 501, 421
- Security-Enhanced login commands (only new replies listed)
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- NLST
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- APPE
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- authentication and authorization in a security enhanced FTP
- implementation. The rectangular blocks show states where the client
- must issue a command, and the diamond blocks show states where the
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-10. Base 64 Encoding
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- Base 64 encoding is the same as the Printable Encoding described in
- Section 4.3.2.4 of [RFC-1421], except that line breaks must not be
- included. This encoding is defined as follows.
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- Proceeding from left to right, the bit string resulting from the
- mechanism specific protection routine is encoded into characters
- which are universally representable at all sites, though not
- necessarily with the same bit patterns (e.g., although the character
- "E" is represented in an ASCII-based system as hexadecimal 45 and as
- hexadecimal C5 in an EBCDIC-based system, the local significance of
- the two representations is equivalent).
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- A 64-character subset of International Alphabet IA5 is used, enabling
- 6 bits to be represented per printable character. (The proposed
- subset of characters is represented identically in IA5 and ASCII.)
- The character "=" signifies a special processing function used for
- padding within the printable encoding procedure.
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- The encoding process represents 24-bit groups of input bits as output
- strings of 4 encoded characters. Proceeding from left to right
- across a 24-bit input group output from the security mechanism
- specific message protection procedure, each 6-bit group is used as an
- index into an array of 64 printable characters, namely "[A-Z][a-
- z][0-9]+/". The character referenced by the index is placed in the
- output string. These characters are selected so as to be universally
- representable, and the set excludes characters with particular
- significance to Telnet (e.g., "<CR>", "<LF>", IAC).
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- in an input group at the end of a message. A full encoding quantum
- is always completed at the end of a message. When fewer than 24
- input bits are available in an input group, zero bits are added (on
- the right) to form an integral number of 6-bit groups. Output
- character positions which are not required to represent actual input
- data are set to the character "=". Since all canonically encoded
- output is an integral number of octets, only the following cases can
- arise: (1) the final quantum of encoding input is an integral
- multiple of 24 bits; here, the final unit of encoded output will be
- an integral multiple of 4 characters with no "=" padding, (2) the
- final quantum of encoding input is exactly 8 bits; here, the final
- unit of encoded output will be two characters followed by two "="
- padding characters, or (3) the final quantum of encoding input is
- exactly 16 bits; here, the final unit of encoded output will be three
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- Implementors must keep in mind that the base 64 encodings in ADAT,
- MIC, CONF, and ENC commands, and in 63z replies may be arbitrarily
- long. Thus, the entire line must be read before it can be processed.
- Several successive reads on the control channel may be necessary. It
- is not appropriate to for a server to reject a command containing a
- base 64 encoding simply because it is too long (assuming that the
- decoding is otherwise well formed in the context in which it was
- sent).
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- Case must not be ignored when reading commands and replies containing
- base 64 encodings.
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-11. Security Considerations
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- This entire document deals with security considerations related to
- the File Transfer Protocol.
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- Third party file transfers cannot be secured using these extensions,
- since a security context cannot be established between two servers
- using these facilities (no control connection exists between servers
- over which to pass ADAT tokens). Further work in this area is
- deferred.
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-12. Acknowledgements
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- I would like to thank the members of the CAT WG, as well as all
- participants in discussions on the "cat-ietf@mit.edu" mailing list,
- for their contributions to this document. I would especially like to
- thank Sam Sjogren, John Linn, Ted Ts'o, Jordan Brown, Michael Kogut,
- Derrick Brashear, John Gardiner Myers, Denis Pinkas, and Karri Balk
- for their contributions to this work. Of course, without Steve Lunt,
- the author of the first six revisions of this document, it would not
- exist at all.
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-13. References
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- [TELNET-SEC] Borman, D., "Telnet Authentication and Encryption
- Option", Work in Progress.
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- [RFC-1123] Braden, R., "Requirements for Internet Hosts --
- Application and Support", STD 3, RFC 1123, October 1989.
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- [RFC-1421] Linn, J., "Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic
- Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures",
- RFC 1421, February 1993.
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-14. Author's Address
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- Marc Horowitz
- Cygnus Solutions
- 955 Massachusetts Avenue
- Cambridge, MA 02139
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-Appendix I: Specification under the GSSAPI
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- In order to maximise the utility of new security mechanisms, it is
- desirable that new mechanisms be implemented as GSSAPI mechanisms
- rather than as FTP security mechanisms. This will enable existing
- ftp implementations to support the new mechanisms more easily, since
- little or no code will need to be changed. In addition, the
- mechanism will be usable by other protocols, such as IMAP, which are
- built on top of the GSSAPI, with no additional specification or
- implementation work needed by the mechanism designers.
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- The security mechanism name (for the AUTH command) associated with
- all mechanisms employing the GSSAPI is GSSAPI. If the server
- supports a security mechanism employing the GSSAPI, it must respond
- with a 334 reply code indicating that an ADAT command is expected
- next.
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- The client must begin the authentication exchange by calling
- GSS_Init_Sec_Context, passing in 0 for input_context_handle
- (initially), and a targ_name equal to output_name from
- GSS_Import_Name called with input_name_type of Host-Based Service and
- input_name_string of "ftp@hostname" where "hostname" is the fully
- qualified host name of the server with all letters in lower case.
- (Failing this, the client may try again using input_name_string of
- "host@hostname".) The output_token must then be base 64 encoded and
- sent to the server as the argument to an ADAT command. If
- GSS_Init_Sec_Context returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, then the client
- must expect a token to be returned in the reply to the ADAT command.
- This token must subsequently be passed to another call to
- GSS_Init_Sec_Context. In this case, if GSS_Init_Sec_Context returns
- no output_token, then the reply code from the server for the previous
- ADAT command must have been 235. If GSS_Init_Sec_Context returns
- GSS_S_COMPLETE, then no further tokens are expected from the server,
- and the client must consider the server authenticated.
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- The server must base 64 decode the argument to the ADAT command and
- pass the resultant token to GSS_Accept_Sec_Context as input_token,
- setting acceptor_cred_handle to NULL (for "use default credentials"),
- and 0 for input_context_handle (initially). If an output_token is
- returned, it must be base 64 encoded and returned to the client by
- including "ADAT=base64string" in the text of the reply. If
- GSS_Accept_Sec_Context returns GSS_S_COMPLETE, the reply code must be
- 235, and the server must consider the client authenticated. If
- GSS_Accept_Sec_Context returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the reply code
- must be 335. Otherwise, the reply code should be 535, and the text
- of the reply should contain a descriptive error message.
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- The chan_bindings input to GSS_Init_Sec_Context and
- GSS_Accept_Sec_Context should use the client internet address and
- server internet address as the initiator and acceptor addresses,
- respectively. The address type for both should be GSS_C_AF_INET. No
- application data should be specified.
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- Since GSSAPI supports anonymous peers to security contexts, it is
- possible that the client's authentication of the server does not
- actually establish an identity.
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- The procedure associated with MIC commands, 631 replies, and Safe
- file transfers is:
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- GSS_Wrap for the sender, with conf_flag == FALSE
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- The procedure associated with ENC commands, 632 replies, and Private
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- GSS_Unwrap for the receiver
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- Both the client and server should inspect the value of conf_avail to
- determine whether the peer supports confidentiality services.
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- When the security state is reset (when AUTH is received a second
- time, or when REIN is received), this should be done by calling the
- GSS_Delete_sec_context function.
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- The security mechanism name (for the AUTH command) associated with
- Kerberos Version 4 is KERBEROS_V4. If the server supports
- KERBEROS_V4, it must respond with a 334 reply code indicating that an
- ADAT command is expected next.
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- The client must retrieve a ticket for the Kerberos principal
- "ftp.hostname@realm" by calling krb_mk_req(3) with a principal name
- of "ftp", an instance equal to the first part of the canonical host
- name of the server with all letters in lower case (as returned by
- krb_get_phost(3)), the server's realm name (as returned by
- krb_realmofhost(3)), and an arbitrary checksum. The ticket must then
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- If the "ftp" principal name is not a registered principal in the
- Kerberos database, then the client may fall back on the "rcmd"
- principal name (same instance and realm). However, servers must
- accept only one or the other of these principal names, and must not
- be willing to accept either. Generally, if the server has a key for
- the "ftp" principal in its srvtab, then that principal only must be
- used, otherwise the "rcmd" principal only must be used.
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- The server must base 64 decode the argument to the ADAT command and
- pass the result to krb_rd_req(3). The server must add one to the
- checksum from the authenticator, convert the result to network byte
- order (most significant byte first), and sign it using
- krb_mk_safe(3), and base 64 encode the result. Upon success, the
- server must reply to the client with a 235 code and include
- "ADAT=base64string" in the text of the reply. Upon failure, the
- server should reply 535.
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- Upon receipt of the 235 reply from the server, the client must parse
- the text of the reply for the base 64 encoded data, decode it,
- convert it from network byte order, and pass the result to
- krb_rd_safe(3). The client must consider the server authenticated if
- the resultant checksum is equal to one plus the value previously
- sent.
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- krb_rd_safe(3) for the receiver
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- krb_rd_priv(3) for the receiver
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- Note that this specification for KERBEROS_V4 contains no provision
- for negotiating alternate means for integrity and confidentiality
- routines. Note also that the ADAT exchange does not convey whether
- the peer supports confidentiality services.
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- In order to stay within the allowed PBSZ, implementors must take note
- that a cleartext buffer will grow by 31 bytes when processed by
- krb_mk_safe(3) and will grow by 26 bytes when processed by
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-Request for Comments: 2743 RSA Laboratories
-Obsoletes: 2078 January 2000
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- Generic Security Service Application Program Interface
- Version 2, Update 1
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-Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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-Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
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-Abstract
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- The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API),
- Version 2, as defined in [RFC-2078], provides security services to
- callers in a generic fashion, supportable with a range of underlying
- mechanisms and technologies and hence allowing source-level
- portability of applications to different environments. This
- specification defines GSS-API services and primitives at a level
- independent of underlying mechanism and programming language
- environment, and is to be complemented by other, related
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- documents defining specific parameter bindings for particular
- language environments
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- documents defining token formats, protocols, and procedures to be
- implemented in order to realize GSS-API services atop particular
- security mechanisms
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- This memo obsoletes [RFC-2078], making specific, incremental changes
- in response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is
- intended, therefore, that this memo or a successor version thereto
- will become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API
- specification on the standards track.
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-TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- 1: GSS-API Characteristics and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- 1.1: GSS-API Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 1.1.1: Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 1.1.1.1: Credential Constructs and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 1.1.1.2: Credential Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- 1.1.1.3: Default Credential Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- 1.1.2: Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- 1.1.3: Security Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- 1.1.4: Mechanism Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- 1.1.5: Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- 1.1.6: Channel Bindings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- 1.2: GSS-API Features and Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- 1.2.1: Status Reporting and Optional Service Support . . . . 17
- 1.2.1.1: Status Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- 1.2.1.2: Optional Service Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- 1.2.2: Per-Message Security Service Availability . . . . . . . 20
- 1.2.3: Per-Message Replay Detection and Sequencing . . . . . . 21
- 1.2.4: Quality of Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- 1.2.5: Anonymity Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- 1.2.6: Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- 1.2.7: Per-Message Protection During Context Establishment . . 26
- 1.2.8: Implementation Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- 1.2.9: Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- 1.2.10: Interprocess Context Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- 2: Interface Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
- 2.1: Credential management calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- 2.1.1: GSS_Acquire_cred call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- 2.1.2: GSS_Release_cred call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- 2.1.3: GSS_Inquire_cred call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- 2.1.4: GSS_Add_cred call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- 2.1.5: GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech call . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- 2.2: Context-level calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- 2.2.1: GSS_Init_sec_context call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
- 2.2.2: GSS_Accept_sec_context call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
- 2.2.3: GSS_Delete_sec_context call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
- 2.2.4: GSS_Process_context_token call . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
- 2.2.5: GSS_Context_time call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
- 2.2.6: GSS_Inquire_context call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
- 2.2.7: GSS_Wrap_size_limit call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
- 2.2.8: GSS_Export_sec_context call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
- 2.2.9: GSS_Import_sec_context call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
- 2.3: Per-message calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
- 2.3.1: GSS_GetMIC call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- 2.3.2: GSS_VerifyMIC call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
- 2.3.3: GSS_Wrap call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
- 2.3.4: GSS_Unwrap call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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- 2.4.1: GSS_Display_status call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
- 2.4.2: GSS_Indicate_mechs call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
- 2.4.3: GSS_Compare_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
- 2.4.4: GSS_Display_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
- 2.4.5: GSS_Import_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
- 2.4.6: GSS_Release_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
- 2.4.7: GSS_Release_buffer call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
- 2.4.8: GSS_Release_OID_set call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
- 2.4.9: GSS_Create_empty_OID_set call . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
- 2.4.10: GSS_Add_OID_set_member call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
- 2.4.11: GSS_Test_OID_set_member call . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
- 2.4.12: GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech call . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
- 2.4.13: GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
- 2.4.14: GSS_Canonicalize_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
- 2.4.15: GSS_Export_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
- 2.4.16: GSS_Duplicate_name call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
- 3: Data Structure Definitions for GSS-V2 Usage . . . . . . . . 81
- 3.1: Mechanism-Independent Token Format . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
- 3.2: Mechanism-Independent Exported Name Object Format . . . . 84
- 4: Name Type Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
- 4.1: Host-Based Service Name Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
- 4.2: User Name Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
- 4.3: Machine UID Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- 4.4: String UID Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- 4.5: Anonymous Nametype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- 4.6: GSS_C_NO_OID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- 4.7: Exported Name Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- 4.8: GSS_C_NO_NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- 5: Mechanism-Specific Example Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- 5.1: Kerberos V5, single-TGT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
- 5.2: Kerberos V5, double-TGT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
- 5.3: X.509 Authentication Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
- 6: Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
- 7: Related Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
- 8: Referenced Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
- Appendix A: Mechanism Design Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 94
- Appendix B: Compatibility with GSS-V1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
- Appendix C: Changes Relative to RFC-2078 . . . . . . . . . . . 96
- Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
- Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
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-1: GSS-API Characteristics and Concepts
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- GSS-API operates in the following paradigm. A typical GSS-API caller
- is itself a communications protocol, calling on GSS-API in order to
- protect its communications with authentication, integrity, and/or
- confidentiality security services. A GSS-API caller accepts tokens
- provided to it by its local GSS-API implementation and transfers the
- tokens to a peer on a remote system; that peer passes the received
- tokens to its local GSS-API implementation for processing. The
- security services available through GSS-API in this fashion are
- implementable (and have been implemented) over a range of underlying
- mechanisms based on secret-key and public-key cryptographic
- technologies.
-
- The GSS-API separates the operations of initializing a security
- context between peers, achieving peer entity authentication
- (GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls), from the
- operations of providing per-message data origin authentication and
- data integrity protection (GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC() calls)
- for messages subsequently transferred in conjunction with that
- context. (The definition for the peer entity authentication service,
- and other definitions used in this document, corresponds to that
- provided in [ISO-7498-2].) When establishing a security context, the
- GSS-API enables a context initiator to optionally permit its
- credentials to be delegated, meaning that the context acceptor may
- initiate further security contexts on behalf of the initiating
- caller. Per-message GSS_Wrap() and GSS_Unwrap() calls provide the
- data origin authentication and data integrity services which
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC() offer, and also support selection of
- confidentiality services as a caller option. Additional calls provide
- supportive functions to the GSS-API's users.
-
- The following paragraphs provide an example illustrating the
- dataflows involved in use of the GSS-API by a client and server in a
- mechanism-independent fashion, establishing a security context and
- transferring a protected message. The example assumes that credential
- acquisition has already been completed. The example also assumes
- that the underlying authentication technology is capable of
- authenticating a client to a server using elements carried within a
- single token, and of authenticating the server to the client (mutual
- authentication) with a single returned token; this assumption holds
- for some presently-documented CAT mechanisms but is not necessarily
- true for other cryptographic technologies and associated protocols.
-
- The client calls GSS_Init_sec_context() to establish a security
- context to the server identified by targ_name, and elects to set the
- mutual_req_flag so that mutual authentication is performed in the
- course of context establishment. GSS_Init_sec_context() returns an
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- output_token to be passed to the server, and indicates
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status pending completion of the mutual
- authentication sequence. Had mutual_req_flag not been set, the
- initial call to GSS_Init_sec_context() would have returned
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status. The client sends the output_token to the
- server.
-
- The server passes the received token as the input_token parameter to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). GSS_Accept_sec_context indicates
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status, provides the client's authenticated identity
- in the src_name result, and provides an output_token to be passed to
- the client. The server sends the output_token to the client.
-
- The client passes the received token as the input_token parameter to
- a successor call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), which processes data
- included in the token in order to achieve mutual authentication from
- the client's viewpoint. This call to GSS_Init_sec_context() returns
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status, indicating successful mutual authentication
- and the completion of context establishment for this example.
-
- The client generates a data message and passes it to GSS_Wrap().
- GSS_Wrap() performs data origin authentication, data integrity, and
- (optionally) confidentiality processing on the message and
- encapsulates the result into output_message, indicating
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status. The client sends the output_message to the
- server.
-
- The server passes the received message to GSS_Unwrap(). GSS_Unwrap()
- inverts the encapsulation performed by GSS_Wrap(), deciphers the
- message if the optional confidentiality feature was applied, and
- validates the data origin authentication and data integrity checking
- quantities. GSS_Unwrap() indicates successful validation by returning
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status along with the resultant output_message.
-
- For purposes of this example, we assume that the server knows by
- out-of-band means that this context will have no further use after
- one protected message is transferred from client to server. Given
- this premise, the server now calls GSS_Delete_sec_context() to flush
- context-level information. Optionally, the server-side application
- may provide a token buffer to GSS_Delete_sec_context(), to receive a
- context_token to be transferred to the client in order to request
- that client-side context-level information be deleted.
-
- If a context_token is transferred, the client passes the
- context_token to GSS_Process_context_token(), which returns
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status after deleting context-level information at the
- client system.
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- The GSS-API design assumes and addresses several basic goals,
- including:
-
- Mechanism independence: The GSS-API defines an interface to
- cryptographically implemented strong authentication and other
- security services at a generic level which is independent of
- particular underlying mechanisms. For example, GSS-API-provided
- services have been implemented using secret-key technologies
- (e.g., Kerberos, per [RFC-1964]) and with public-key approaches
- (e.g., SPKM, per [RFC-2025]).
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- Protocol environment independence: The GSS-API is independent of
- the communications protocol suites with which it is employed,
- permitting use in a broad range of protocol environments. In
- appropriate environments, an intermediate implementation "veneer"
- which is oriented to a particular communication protocol may be
- interposed between applications which call that protocol and the
- GSS-API (e.g., as defined in [RFC-2203] for Open Network Computing
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)), thereby invoking GSS-API facilities
- in conjunction with that protocol's communications invocations.
-
- Protocol association independence: The GSS-API's security context
- construct is independent of communications protocol association
- constructs. This characteristic allows a single GSS-API
- implementation to be utilized by a variety of invoking protocol
- modules on behalf of those modules' calling applications. GSS-API
- services can also be invoked directly by applications, wholly
- independent of protocol associations.
-
- Suitability to a range of implementation placements: GSS-API
- clients are not constrained to reside within any Trusted Computing
- Base (TCB) perimeter defined on a system where the GSS-API is
- implemented; security services are specified in a manner suitable
- to both intra-TCB and extra-TCB callers.
-
-1.1: GSS-API Constructs
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- This section describes the basic elements comprising the GSS-API.
-
-1.1.1: Credentials
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-1.1.1.1: Credential Constructs and Concepts
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- Credentials provide the prerequisites which permit GSS-API peers to
- establish security contexts with each other. A caller may designate
- that the credential elements which are to be applied for context
- initiation or acceptance be selected by default. Alternately, those
- GSS-API callers which need to make explicit selection of particular
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- credentials structures may make references to those credentials
- through GSS-API-provided credential handles ("cred_handles"). In all
- cases, callers' credential references are indirect, mediated by GSS-
- API implementations and not requiring callers to access the selected
- credential elements.
-
- A single credential structure may be used to initiate outbound
- contexts and to accept inbound contexts. Callers needing to operate
- in only one of these modes may designate this fact when credentials
- are acquired for use, allowing underlying mechanisms to optimize
- their processing and storage requirements. The credential elements
- defined by a particular mechanism may contain multiple cryptographic
- keys, e.g., to enable authentication and message encryption to be
- performed with different algorithms.
-
- A GSS-API credential structure may contain multiple credential
- elements, each containing mechanism-specific information for a
- particular underlying mechanism (mech_type), but the set of elements
- within a given credential structure represent a common entity. A
- credential structure's contents will vary depending on the set of
- mech_types supported by a particular GSS-API implementation. Each
- credential element identifies the data needed by its mechanism in
- order to establish contexts on behalf of a particular principal, and
- may contain separate credential references for use in context
- initiation and context acceptance. Multiple credential elements
- within a given credential having overlapping combinations of
- mechanism, usage mode, and validity period are not permitted.
-
- Commonly, a single mech_type will be used for all security contexts
- established by a particular initiator to a particular target. A major
- motivation for supporting credential sets representing multiple
- mech_types is to allow initiators on systems which are equipped to
- handle multiple types to initiate contexts to targets on other
- systems which can accommodate only a subset of the set supported at
- the initiator's system.
-
-1.1.1.2: Credential Management
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- It is the responsibility of underlying system-specific mechanisms and
- OS functions below the GSS-API to ensure that the ability to acquire
- and use credentials associated with a given identity is constrained
- to appropriate processes within a system. This responsibility should
- be taken seriously by implementors, as the ability for an entity to
- utilize a principal's credentials is equivalent to the entity's
- ability to successfully assert that principal's identity.
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- Once a set of GSS-API credentials is established, the transferability
- of that credentials set to other processes or analogous constructs
- within a system is a local matter, not defined by the GSS-API. An
- example local policy would be one in which any credentials received
- as a result of login to a given user account, or of delegation of
- rights to that account, are accessible by, or transferable to,
- processes running under that account.
-
- The credential establishment process (particularly when performed on
- behalf of users rather than server processes) is likely to require
- access to passwords or other quantities which should be protected
- locally and exposed for the shortest time possible. As a result, it
- will often be appropriate for preliminary credential establishment to
- be performed through local means at user login time, with the
- result(s) cached for subsequent reference. These preliminary
- credentials would be set aside (in a system-specific fashion) for
- subsequent use, either:
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- to be accessed by an invocation of the GSS-API GSS_Acquire_cred()
- call, returning an explicit handle to reference that credential
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- to comprise default credential elements to be installed, and to be
- used when default credential behavior is requested on behalf of a
- process
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-1.1.1.3: Default Credential Resolution
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- The GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context() routines
- allow the value GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to be specified as their
- credential handle parameter. This special credential handle
- indicates a desire by the application to act as a default principal.
- In support of application portability, support for the default
- resolution behavior described below for initiator credentials
- (GSS_Init_sec_context() usage) is mandated; support for the default
- resolution behavior described below for acceptor credentials
- (GSS_Accept_sec_context() usage) is recommended. If default
- credential resolution fails, GSS_S_NO_CRED status is to be returned.
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- GSS_Init_sec_context:
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- (i) If there is only a single principal capable of initiating
- security contexts that the application is authorized to act on
- behalf of, then that principal shall be used, otherwise
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- (ii) If the platform maintains a concept of a default network-
- identity, and if the application is authorized to act on behalf
- of that identity for the purpose of initiating security
- contexts, then the principal corresponding to that identity
- shall be used, otherwise
-
- (iii) If the platform maintains a concept of a default local
- identity, and provides a means to map local identities into
- network-identities, and if the application is authorized to act
- on behalf of the network-identity image of the default local
- identity for the purpose of initiating security contexts, then
- the principal corresponding to that identity shall be used,
- otherwise
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- (iv) A user-configurable default identity should be used.
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- GSS_Accept_sec_context:
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- (i) If there is only a single authorized principal identity
- capable of accepting security contexts, then that principal
- shall be used, otherwise
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- (ii) If the mechanism can determine the identity of the target
- principal by examining the context-establishment token, and if
- the accepting application is authorized to act as that
- principal for the purpose of accepting security contexts, then
- that principal identity shall be used, otherwise
-
- (iii) If the mechanism supports context acceptance by any
- principal, and mutual authentication was not requested, any
- principal that the application is authorized to accept security
- contexts under may be used, otherwise
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- (iv) A user-configurable default identity shall be used.
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- The purpose of the above rules is to allow security contexts to be
- established by both initiator and acceptor using the default behavior
- wherever possible. Applications requesting default behavior are
- likely to be more portable across mechanisms and platforms than those
- that use GSS_Acquire_cred() to request a specific identity.
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-1.1.2: Tokens
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- Tokens are data elements transferred between GSS-API callers, and are
- divided into two classes. Context-level tokens are exchanged in order
- to establish and manage a security context between peers. Per-message
- tokens relate to an established context and are exchanged to provide
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- protective security services (i.e., data origin authentication,
- integrity, and optional confidentiality) for corresponding data
- messages.
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- The first context-level token obtained from GSS_Init_sec_context() is
- required to indicate at its very beginning a globally-interpretable
- mechanism identifier, i.e., an Object Identifier (OID) of the
- security mechanism. The remaining part of this token as well as the
- whole content of all other tokens are specific to the particular
- underlying mechanism used to support the GSS-API. Section 3.1 of this
- document provides, for designers of GSS-API mechanisms, the
- description of the header of the first context-level token which is
- then followed by mechanism-specific information.
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- Tokens' contents are opaque from the viewpoint of GSS-API callers.
- They are generated within the GSS-API implementation at an end
- system, provided to a GSS-API caller to be transferred to the peer
- GSS-API caller at a remote end system, and processed by the GSS-API
- implementation at that remote end system.
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- Context-level tokens may be output by GSS-API calls (and should be
- transferred to GSS-API peers) whether or not the calls' status
- indicators indicate successful completion. Per-message tokens, in
- contrast, are to be returned only upon successful completion of per-
- message calls. Zero-length tokens are never returned by GSS routines
- for transfer to a peer. Token transfer may take place in an in-band
- manner, integrated into the same protocol stream used by the GSS-API
- callers for other data transfers, or in an out-of-band manner across
- a logically separate channel.
-
- Different GSS-API tokens are used for different purposes (e.g.,
- context initiation, context acceptance, protected message data on an
- established context), and it is the responsibility of a GSS-API
- caller receiving tokens to distinguish their types, associate them
- with corresponding security contexts, and pass them to appropriate
- GSS-API processing routines. Depending on the caller protocol
- environment, this distinction may be accomplished in several ways.
-
- The following examples illustrate means through which tokens' types
- may be distinguished:
-
- - implicit tagging based on state information (e.g., all tokens on
- a new association are considered to be context establishment
- tokens until context establishment is completed, at which point
- all tokens are considered to be wrapped data objects for that
- context),
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- - explicit tagging at the caller protocol level,
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- - a hybrid of these approaches.
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- Commonly, the encapsulated data within a token includes internal
- mechanism-specific tagging information, enabling mechanism-level
- processing modules to distinguish tokens used within the mechanism
- for different purposes. Such internal mechanism-level tagging is
- recommended to mechanism designers, and enables mechanisms to
- determine whether a caller has passed a particular token for
- processing by an inappropriate GSS-API routine.
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- Development of GSS-API mechanisms based on a particular underlying
- cryptographic technique and protocol (i.e., conformant to a specific
- GSS-API mechanism definition) does not necessarily imply that GSS-API
- callers using that GSS-API mechanism will be able to interoperate
- with peers invoking the same technique and protocol outside the GSS-
- API paradigm, or with peers implementing a different GSS-API
- mechanism based on the same underlying technology. The format of
- GSS-API tokens defined in conjunction with a particular mechanism,
- and the techniques used to integrate those tokens into callers'
- protocols, may not be interoperable with the tokens used by non-GSS-
- API callers of the same underlying technique.
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-1.1.3: Security Contexts
-
- Security contexts are established between peers, using credentials
- established locally in conjunction with each peer or received by
- peers via delegation. Multiple contexts may exist simultaneously
- between a pair of peers, using the same or different sets of
- credentials. Coexistence of multiple contexts using different
- credentials allows graceful rollover when credentials expire.
- Distinction among multiple contexts based on the same credentials
- serves applications by distinguishing different message streams in a
- security sense.
-
- The GSS-API is independent of underlying protocols and addressing
- structure, and depends on its callers to transport GSS-API-provided
- data elements. As a result of these factors, it is a caller
- responsibility to parse communicated messages, separating GSS-API-
- related data elements from caller-provided data. The GSS-API is
- independent of connection vs. connectionless orientation of the
- underlying communications service.
-
- No correlation between security context and communications protocol
- association is dictated. (The optional channel binding facility,
- discussed in Section 1.1.6 of this document, represents an
- intentional exception to this rule, supporting additional protection
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- features within GSS-API supporting mechanisms.) This separation
- allows the GSS-API to be used in a wide range of communications
- environments, and also simplifies the calling sequences of the
- individual calls. In many cases (depending on underlying security
- protocol, associated mechanism, and availability of cached
- information), the state information required for context setup can be
- sent concurrently with initial signed user data, without interposing
- additional message exchanges. Messages may be protected and
- transferred in both directions on an established GSS-API security
- context concurrently; protection of messages in one direction does
- not interfere with protection of messages in the reverse direction.
-
- GSS-API implementations are expected to retain inquirable context
- data on a context until the context is released by a caller, even
- after the context has expired, although underlying cryptographic data
- elements may be deleted after expiration in order to limit their
- exposure.
-
-1.1.4: Mechanism Types
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- In order to successfully establish a security context with a target
- peer, it is necessary to identify an appropriate underlying mechanism
- type (mech_type) which both initiator and target peers support. The
- definition of a mechanism embodies not only the use of a particular
- cryptographic technology (or a hybrid or choice among alternative
- cryptographic technologies), but also definition of the syntax and
- semantics of data element exchanges which that mechanism will employ
- in order to support security services.
-
- It is recommended that callers initiating contexts specify the
- "default" mech_type value, allowing system-specific functions within
- or invoked by the GSS-API implementation to select the appropriate
- mech_type, but callers may direct that a particular mech_type be
- employed when necessary.
-
- For GSS-API purposes, the phrase "negotiating mechanism" refers to a
- mechanism which itself performs negotiation in order to select a
- concrete mechanism which is shared between peers and is then used for
- context establishment. Only those mechanisms which are defined in
- their specifications as negotiating mechanisms are to yield selected
- mechanisms with different identifier values than the value which is
- input by a GSS-API caller, except for the case of a caller requesting
- the "default" mech_type.
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- The means for identifying a shared mech_type to establish a security
- context with a peer will vary in different environments and
- circumstances; examples include (but are not limited to):
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- use of a fixed mech_type, defined by configuration, within an
- environment
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- syntactic convention on a target-specific basis, through
- examination of a target's name lookup of a target's name in a
- naming service or other database in order to identify mech_types
- supported by that target
-
- explicit negotiation between GSS-API callers in advance of
- security context setup
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- use of a negotiating mechanism
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- When transferred between GSS-API peers, mech_type specifiers (per
- Section 3 of this document, represented as Object Identifiers (OIDs))
- serve to qualify the interpretation of associated tokens. (The
- structure and encoding of Object Identifiers is defined in [ISOIEC-
- 8824] and [ISOIEC-8825].) Use of hierarchically structured OIDs
- serves to preclude ambiguous interpretation of mech_type specifiers.
- The OID representing the DASS ([RFC-1507]) MechType, for example, is
- 1.3.12.2.1011.7.5, and that of the Kerberos V5 mechanism ([RFC-
- 1964]), having been advanced to the level of Proposed Standard, is
- 1.2.840.113554.1.2.2.
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-1.1.5: Naming
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- The GSS-API avoids prescribing naming structures, treating the names
- which are transferred across the interface in order to initiate and
- accept security contexts as opaque objects. This approach supports
- the GSS-API's goal of implementability atop a range of underlying
- security mechanisms, recognizing the fact that different mechanisms
- process and authenticate names which are presented in different
- forms. Generalized services offering translation functions among
- arbitrary sets of naming environments are outside the scope of the
- GSS-API; availability and use of local conversion functions to
- translate among the naming formats supported within a given end
- system is anticipated.
-
- Different classes of name representations are used in conjunction
- with different GSS-API parameters:
-
- - Internal form (denoted in this document by INTERNAL NAME),
- opaque to callers and defined by individual GSS-API
- implementations. GSS-API implementations supporting multiple
- namespace types must maintain internal tags to disambiguate the
- interpretation of particular names. A Mechanism Name (MN) is a
- special case of INTERNAL NAME, guaranteed to contain elements
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- corresponding to one and only one mechanism; calls which are
- guaranteed to emit MNs or which require MNs as input are so
- identified within this specification.
-
- - Contiguous string ("flat") form (denoted in this document by
- OCTET STRING); accompanied by OID tags identifying the namespace
- to which they correspond. Depending on tag value, flat names may
- or may not be printable strings for direct acceptance from and
- presentation to users. Tagging of flat names allows GSS-API
- callers and underlying GSS-API mechanisms to disambiguate name
- types and to determine whether an associated name's type is one
- which they are capable of processing, avoiding aliasing problems
- which could result from misinterpreting a name of one type as a
- name of another type.
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- - The GSS-API Exported Name Object, a special case of flat name
- designated by a reserved OID value, carries a canonicalized form
- of a name suitable for binary comparisons.
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- In addition to providing means for names to be tagged with types,
- this specification defines primitives to support a level of naming
- environment independence for certain calling applications. To provide
- basic services oriented towards the requirements of callers which
- need not themselves interpret the internal syntax and semantics of
- names, GSS-API calls for name comparison (GSS_Compare_name()),
- human-readable display (GSS_Display_name()), input conversion
- (GSS_Import_name()), internal name deallocation (GSS_Release_name()),
- and internal name duplication (GSS_Duplicate_name()) functions are
- defined. (It is anticipated that these proposed GSS-API calls will be
- implemented in many end systems based on system-specific name
- manipulation primitives already extant within those end systems;
- inclusion within the GSS-API is intended to offer GSS-API callers a
- portable means to perform specific operations, supportive of
- authorization and audit requirements, on authenticated names.)
-
- GSS_Import_name() implementations can, where appropriate, support
- more than one printable syntax corresponding to a given namespace
- (e.g., alternative printable representations for X.500 Distinguished
- Names), allowing flexibility for their callers to select among
- alternative representations. GSS_Display_name() implementations
- output a printable syntax selected as appropriate to their
- operational environments; this selection is a local matter. Callers
- desiring portability across alternative printable syntaxes should
- refrain from implementing comparisons based on printable name forms
- and should instead use the GSS_Compare_name() call to determine
- whether or not one internal-format name matches another.
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- GSS_Import_name() and GSS_Compare_name() on each name from the ACL
- may be prohibitive. As an alternative way of supporting this case,
- GSS-API defines a special form of the contiguous string name which
- may be compared directly (e.g., with memcmp()). Contiguous names
- suitable for comparison are generated by the GSS_Export_name()
- routine, which requires an MN as input. Exported names may be re-
- imported by the GSS_Import_name() routine, and the resulting internal
- name will also be an MN. The symbolic constant GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME
- identifies the "export name" type. Structurally, an exported name
- object consists of a header containing an OID identifying the
- mechanism that authenticated the name, and a trailer containing the
- name itself, where the syntax of the trailer is defined by the
- individual mechanism specification. The precise format of an
- exported name is defined in Section 3.2 of this specification.
-
- Note that the results obtained by using GSS_Compare_name() will in
- general be different from those obtained by invoking
- GSS_Canonicalize_name() and GSS_Export_name(), and then comparing the
- exported names. The first series of operations determines whether
- two (unauthenticated) names identify the same principal; the second
- whether a particular mechanism would authenticate them as the same
- principal. These two operations will in general give the same
- results only for MNs.
-
- The following diagram illustrates the intended dataflow among name-
- related GSS-API processing routines.
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-1.1.6: Channel Bindings
-
- The GSS-API accommodates the concept of caller-provided channel
- binding ("chan_binding") information. Channel bindings are used to
- strengthen the quality with which peer entity authentication is
- provided during context establishment, by limiting the scope within
- which an intercepted context establishment token can be reused by an
- attacker. Specifically, they enable GSS-API callers to bind the
- establishment of a security context to relevant characteristics
- (e.g., addresses, transformed representations of encryption keys) of
- the underlying communications channel, of protection mechanisms
- applied to that communications channel, and to application-specific
- data.
-
- The caller initiating a security context must determine the
- appropriate channel binding values to provide as input to the
- GSS_Init_sec_context() call, and consistent values must be provided
- to GSS_Accept_sec_context() by the context's target, in order for
- both peers' GSS-API mechanisms to validate that received tokens
- possess correct channel-related characteristics. Use or non-use of
- the GSS-API channel binding facility is a caller option. GSS-API
- mechanisms can operate in an environment where NULL channel bindings
- are presented; mechanism implementors are encouraged, but not
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- required, to make use of caller-provided channel binding data within
- their mechanisms. Callers should not assume that underlying
- mechanisms provide confidentiality protection for channel binding
- information.
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- When non-NULL channel bindings are provided by callers, certain
- mechanisms can offer enhanced security value by interpreting the
- bindings' content (rather than simply representing those bindings, or
- integrity check values computed on them, within tokens) and will
- therefore depend on presentation of specific data in a defined
- format. To this end, agreements among mechanism implementors are
- defining conventional interpretations for the contents of channel
- binding arguments, including address specifiers (with content
- dependent on communications protocol environment) for context
- initiators and acceptors. (These conventions are being incorporated
- in GSS-API mechanism specifications and into the GSS-API C language
- bindings specification.) In order for GSS-API callers to be portable
- across multiple mechanisms and achieve the full security
- functionality which each mechanism can provide, it is strongly
- recommended that GSS-API callers provide channel bindings consistent
- with these conventions and those of the networking environment in
- which they operate.
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-1.2: GSS-API Features and Issues
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- This section describes aspects of GSS-API operations, of the security
- services which the GSS-API provides, and provides commentary on
- design issues.
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-1.2.1: Status Reporting and Optional Service Support
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-1.2.1.1: Status Reporting
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- Each GSS-API call provides two status return values. Major_status
- values provide a mechanism-independent indication of call status
- (e.g., GSS_S_COMPLETE, GSS_S_FAILURE, GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED),
- sufficient to drive normal control flow within the caller in a
- generic fashion. Table 1 summarizes the defined major_status return
- codes in tabular fashion.
-
- Sequencing-related informatory major_status codes
- (GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN, and
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN) can be indicated in conjunction with either
- GSS_S_COMPLETE or GSS_S_FAILURE status for GSS-API per-message calls.
- For context establishment calls, these sequencing-related codes will
- be indicated only in conjunction with GSS_S_FAILURE status (never in
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- therefore, always correspond to fatal failures if encountered during
- the context establishment phase.
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- Table 1: GSS-API Major Status Codes
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- FATAL ERROR CODES
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- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS channel binding mismatch
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH unsupported mechanism requested
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME invalid name provided
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE name of unsupported type provided
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS invalid input status selector
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG token had invalid integrity check
- GSS_S_BAD_MIC preferred alias for GSS_S_BAD_SIG
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED specified security context expired
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED expired credentials detected
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL defective credential detected
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN defective token detected
- GSS_S_FAILURE failure, unspecified at GSS-API
- level
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT no valid security context specified
- GSS_S_NO_CRED no valid credentials provided
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP unsupported QOP value
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED operation unauthorized
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE operation unavailable
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT duplicate credential element requested
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN name contains multi-mechanism elements
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- INFORMATORY STATUS CODES
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- GSS_S_COMPLETE normal completion
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED continuation call to routine
- required
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN duplicate per-message token
- detected
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN timed-out per-message token
- detected
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN reordered (early) per-message token
- detected
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN skipped predecessor token(s)
- detected
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- Minor_status provides more detailed status information which may
- include status codes specific to the underlying security mechanism.
- Minor_status values are not specified in this document.
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- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status returns, and optional message
- outputs, are provided in GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() calls so that different mechanisms'
- employment of different numbers of messages within their
- authentication sequences need not be reflected in separate code paths
- within calling applications. Instead, such cases are accommodated
- with sequences of continuation calls to GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). The same facility is used to encapsulate
- mutual authentication within the GSS-API's context initiation calls.
-
- For mech_types which require interactions with third-party servers in
- order to establish a security context, GSS-API context establishment
- calls may block pending completion of such third-party interactions.
- On the other hand, no GSS-API calls pend on serialized interactions
- with GSS-API peer entities. As a result, local GSS-API status
- returns cannot reflect unpredictable or asynchronous exceptions
- occurring at remote peers, and reflection of such status information
- is a caller responsibility outside the GSS-API.
-
-1.2.1.2: Optional Service Support
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- A context initiator may request various optional services at context
- establishment time. Each of these services is requested by setting a
- flag in the req_flags input parameter to GSS_Init_sec_context().
-
- The optional services currently defined are:
-
- - Delegation - The (usually temporary) transfer of rights from
- initiator to acceptor, enabling the acceptor to authenticate
- itself as an agent of the initiator.
-
- - Mutual Authentication - In addition to the initiator
- authenticating its identity to the context acceptor, the context
- acceptor should also authenticate itself to the initiator.
-
- - Replay detection - In addition to providing message integrity
- services, GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap() should include message
- numbering information to enable GSS_VerifyMIC() and GSS_Unwrap()
- to detect if a message has been duplicated.
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- - Out-of-sequence detection - In addition to providing message
- integrity services, GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap() should include
- message sequencing information to enable GSS_VerifyMIC() and
- GSS_Unwrap() to detect if a message has been received out of
- sequence.
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- - Anonymous authentication - The establishment of the security
- context should not reveal the initiator's identity to the context
- acceptor.
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- - Available per-message confidentiality - requests that per-
- message confidentiality services be available on the context.
-
- - Available per-message integrity - requests that per-message
- integrity services be available on the context.
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- Any currently undefined bits within such flag arguments should be
- ignored by GSS-API implementations when presented by an application,
- and should be set to zero when returned to the application by the
- GSS-API implementation.
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- Some mechanisms may not support all optional services, and some
- mechanisms may only support some services in conjunction with others.
- Both GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context() inform the
- applications which services will be available from the context when
- the establishment phase is complete, via the ret_flags output
- parameter. In general, if the security mechanism is capable of
- providing a requested service, it should do so, even if additional
- services must be enabled in order to provide the requested service.
- If the mechanism is incapable of providing a requested service, it
- should proceed without the service, leaving the application to abort
- the context establishment process if it considers the requested
- service to be mandatory.
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- Some mechanisms may specify that support for some services is
- optional, and that implementors of the mechanism need not provide it.
- This is most commonly true of the confidentiality service, often
- because of legal restrictions on the use of data-encryption, but may
- apply to any of the services. Such mechanisms are required to send
- at least one token from acceptor to initiator during context
- establishment when the initiator indicates a desire to use such a
- service, so that the initiating GSS-API can correctly indicate
- whether the service is supported by the acceptor's GSS-API.
-
-1.2.2: Per-Message Security Service Availability
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- When a context is established, two flags are returned to indicate the
- set of per-message protection security services which will be
- available on the context:
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- the integ_avail flag indicates whether per-message integrity and
- data origin authentication services are available
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- the conf_avail flag indicates whether per-message confidentiality
- services are available, and will never be returned TRUE unless the
- integ_avail flag is also returned TRUE
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- GSS-API callers desiring per-message security services should check
- the values of these flags at context establishment time, and must be
- aware that a returned FALSE value for integ_avail means that
- invocation of GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() primitives on the associated
- context will apply no cryptographic protection to user data messages.
-
- The GSS-API per-message integrity and data origin authentication
- services provide assurance to a receiving caller that protection was
- applied to a message by the caller's peer on the security context,
- corresponding to the entity named at context initiation. The GSS-API
- per-message confidentiality service provides assurance to a sending
- caller that the message's content is protected from access by
- entities other than the context's named peer.
-
- The GSS-API per-message protection service primitives, as the
- category name implies, are oriented to operation at the granularity
- of protocol data units. They perform cryptographic operations on the
- data units, transfer cryptographic control information in tokens,
- and, in the case of GSS_Wrap(), encapsulate the protected data unit.
- As such, these primitives are not oriented to efficient data
- protection for stream-paradigm protocols (e.g., Telnet) if
- cryptography must be applied on an octet-by-octet basis.
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-1.2.3: Per-Message Replay Detection and Sequencing
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- Certain underlying mech_types offer support for replay detection
- and/or sequencing of messages transferred on the contexts they
- support. These optionally-selectable protection features are distinct
- from replay detection and sequencing features applied to the context
- establishment operation itself; the presence or absence of context-
- level replay or sequencing features is wholly a function of the
- underlying mech_type's capabilities, and is not selected or omitted
- as a caller option.
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- The caller initiating a context provides flags (replay_det_req_flag
- and sequence_req_flag) to specify whether the use of per-message
- replay detection and sequencing features is desired on the context
- being established. The GSS-API implementation at the initiator system
- can determine whether these features are supported (and whether they
- are optionally selectable) as a function of the selected mechanism,
- without need for bilateral negotiation with the target. When enabled,
- these features provide recipients with indicators as a result of
- GSS-API processing of incoming messages, identifying whether those
- messages were detected as duplicates or out-of-sequence. Detection of
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- such events does not prevent a suspect message from being provided to
- a recipient; the appropriate course of action on a suspect message is
- a matter of caller policy.
-
- The semantics of the replay detection and sequencing services applied
- to received messages, as visible across the interface which the GSS-
- API provides to its clients, are as follows:
-
- When replay_det_state is TRUE, the possible major_status returns for
- well-formed and correctly signed messages are as follows:
-
- 1. GSS_S_COMPLETE, without concurrent indication of
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN or GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, indicates that the
- message was within the window (of time or sequence space) allowing
- replay events to be detected, and that the message was not a
- replay of a previously-processed message within that window.
-
- 2. GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic
- checkvalue on the received message was correct, but that the
- message was recognized as a duplicate of a previously-processed
- message. In addition to identifying duplicated tokens originated
- by a context's peer, this status may also be used to identify
- reflected copies of locally-generated tokens; it is recommended
- that mechanism designers include within their protocols facilities
- to detect and report such tokens.
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- 3. GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic checkvalue on
- the received message was correct, but that the message is too old
- to be checked for duplication.
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- When sequence_state is TRUE, the possible major_status returns for
- well-formed and correctly signed messages are as follows:
-
- 1. GSS_S_COMPLETE, without concurrent indication of
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN, or
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN, indicates that the message was within the window
- (of time or sequence space) allowing replay events to be detected,
- that the message was not a replay of a previously-processed
- message within that window, and that no predecessor sequenced
- messages are missing relative to the last received message (if
- any) processed on the context with a correct cryptographic
- checkvalue.
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- 2. GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check value
- on the received message was correct, but that the message was
- recognized as a duplicate of a previously-processed message. In
- addition to identifying duplicated tokens originated by a
- context's peer, this status may also be used to identify reflected
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- copies of locally-generated tokens; it is recommended that
- mechanism designers include within their protocols facilities to
- detect and report such tokens.
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- 3. GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check value on the
- received message was correct, but that the token is too old to be
- checked for duplication.
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- 4. GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic checkvalue
- on the received message was correct, but that it is earlier in a
- sequenced stream than a message already processed on the context.
- [Note: Mechanisms can be architected to provide a stricter form of
- sequencing service, delivering particular messages to recipients
- only after all predecessor messages in an ordered stream have been
- delivered. This type of support is incompatible with the GSS-API
- paradigm in which recipients receive all messages, whether in
- order or not, and provide them (one at a time, without intra-GSS-
- API message buffering) to GSS-API routines for validation. GSS-
- API facilities provide supportive functions, aiding clients to
- achieve strict message stream integrity in an efficient manner in
- conjunction with sequencing provisions in communications
- protocols, but the GSS-API does not offer this level of message
- stream integrity service by itself.]
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- 5. GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN indicates that the cryptographic checkvalue on
- the received message was correct, but that one or more predecessor
- sequenced messages have not been successfully processed relative
- to the last received message (if any) processed on the context
- with a correct cryptographic checkvalue.
-
- As the message stream integrity features (especially sequencing) may
- interfere with certain applications' intended communications
- paradigms, and since support for such features is likely to be
- resource intensive, it is highly recommended that mech_types
- supporting these features allow them to be activated selectively on
- initiator request when a context is established. A context initiator
- and target are provided with corresponding indicators
- (replay_det_state and sequence_state), signifying whether these
- features are active on a given context.
-
- An example mech_type supporting per-message replay detection could
- (when replay_det_state is TRUE) implement the feature as follows: The
- underlying mechanism would insert timestamps in data elements output
- by GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap(), and would maintain (within a time-
- limited window) a cache (qualified by originator-recipient pair)
- identifying received data elements processed by GSS_VerifyMIC() and
- GSS_Unwrap(). When this feature is active, exception status returns
- (GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN) will be provided when
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- GSS_VerifyMIC() or GSS_Unwrap() is presented with a message which is
- either a detected duplicate of a prior message or which is too old to
- validate against a cache of recently received messages.
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-1.2.4: Quality of Protection
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- Some mech_types provide their users with fine granularity control
- over the means used to provide per-message protection, allowing
- callers to trade off security processing overhead dynamically against
- the protection requirements of particular messages. A per-message
- quality-of-protection parameter (analogous to quality-of-service, or
- QOS) selects among different QOP options supported by that mechanism.
- On context establishment for a multi-QOP mech_type, context-level
- data provides the prerequisite data for a range of protection
- qualities.
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- It is expected that the majority of callers will not wish to exert
- explicit mechanism-specific QOP control and will therefore request
- selection of a default QOP. Definitions of, and choices among, non-
- default QOP values are mechanism-specific, and no ordered sequences
- of QOP values can be assumed equivalent across different mechanisms.
- Meaningful use of non-default QOP values demands that callers be
- familiar with the QOP definitions of an underlying mechanism or
- mechanisms, and is therefore a non-portable construct. The
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP major_status value is defined in order to indicate that
- a provided QOP value is unsupported for a security context, most
- likely because that value is unrecognized by the underlying
- mechanism.
-
- In the interests of interoperability, mechanisms which allow optional
- support of particular QOP values shall satisfy one of the following
- conditions. Either:
-
- (i) All implementations of the mechanism are required to be
- capable of processing messages protected using any QOP value,
- regardless of whether they can apply protection corresponding to
- that QOP, or
-
- (ii) The set of mutually-supported receiver QOP values must be
- determined during context establishment, and messages may be
- protected by either peer using only QOP values from this
- mutually-supported set.
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- NOTE: (i) is just a special-case of (ii), where implementations are
- required to support all QOP values on receipt.
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-1.2.5: Anonymity Support
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- In certain situations or environments, an application may wish to
- authenticate a peer and/or protect communications using GSS-API per-
- message services without revealing its own identity. For example,
- consider an application which provides read access to a research
- database, and which permits queries by arbitrary requestors. A
- client of such a service might wish to authenticate the service, to
- establish trust in the information received from it, but might not
- wish to disclose its identity to the service for privacy reasons.
-
- In ordinary GSS-API usage, a context initiator's identity is made
- available to the context acceptor as part of the context
- establishment process. To provide for anonymity support, a facility
- (input anon_req_flag to GSS_Init_sec_context()) is provided through
- which context initiators may request that their identity not be
- provided to the context acceptor. Mechanisms are not required to
- honor this request, but a caller will be informed (via returned
- anon_state indicator from GSS_Init_sec_context()) whether or not the
- request is honored. Note that authentication as the anonymous
- principal does not necessarily imply that credentials are not
- required in order to establish a context.
-
- Section 4.5 of this document defines the Object Identifier value used
- to identify an anonymous principal.
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- Four possible combinations of anon_state and mutual_state are
- possible, with the following results:
-
- anon_state == FALSE, mutual_state == FALSE: initiator
- authenticated to target.
-
- anon_state == FALSE, mutual_state == TRUE: initiator authenticated
- to target, target authenticated to initiator.
-
- anon_state == TRUE, mutual_state == FALSE: initiator authenticated
- as anonymous principal to target.
-
- anon_state == TRUE, mutual_state == TRUE: initiator authenticated
- as anonymous principal to target, target authenticated to
- initiator.
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-1.2.6: Initialization
-
- No initialization calls (i.e., calls which must be invoked prior to
- invocation of other facilities in the interface) are defined in GSS-
- API. As an implication of this fact, GSS-API implementations must
- themselves be self-initializing.
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-1.2.7: Per-Message Protection During Context Establishment
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- A facility is defined in GSS-V2 to enable protection and buffering of
- data messages for later transfer while a security context's
- establishment is in GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status, to be used in cases
- where the caller side already possesses the necessary session key to
- enable this processing. Specifically, a new state Boolean, called
- prot_ready_state, is added to the set of information returned by
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), GSS_Accept_sec_context(), and
- GSS_Inquire_context().
-
- For context establishment calls, this state Boolean is valid and
- interpretable when the associated major_status is either
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, or GSS_S_COMPLETE. Callers of GSS-API (both
- initiators and acceptors) can assume that per-message protection (via
- GSS_Wrap(), GSS_Unwrap(), GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC()) is
- available and ready for use if either: prot_ready_state == TRUE, or
- major_status == GSS_S_COMPLETE, though mutual authentication (if
- requested) cannot be guaranteed until GSS_S_COMPLETE is returned.
- Callers making use of per-message protection services in advance of
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status should be aware of the possibility that a
- subsequent context establishment step may fail, and that certain
- context data (e.g., mech_type) as returned for subsequent calls may
- change.
-
- This approach achieves full, transparent backward compatibility for
- GSS-API V1 callers, who need not even know of the existence of
- prot_ready_state, and who will get the expected behavior from
- GSS_S_COMPLETE, but who will not be able to use per-message
- protection before GSS_S_COMPLETE is returned.
-
- It is not a requirement that GSS-V2 mechanisms ever return TRUE
- prot_ready_state before completion of context establishment (indeed,
- some mechanisms will not evolve usable message protection keys,
- especially at the context acceptor, before context establishment is
- complete). It is expected but not required that GSS-V2 mechanisms
- will return TRUE prot_ready_state upon completion of context
- establishment if they support per-message protection at all (however
- GSS-V2 applications should not assume that TRUE prot_ready_state will
- always be returned together with the GSS_S_COMPLETE major_status,
- since GSS-V2 implementations may continue to support GSS-V1 mechanism
- code, which will never return TRUE prot_ready_state).
-
- When prot_ready_state is returned TRUE, mechanisms shall also set
- those context service indicator flags (deleg_state, mutual_state,
- replay_det_state, sequence_state, anon_state, trans_state,
- conf_avail, integ_avail) which represent facilities confirmed, at
- that time, to be available on the context being established. In
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- situations where prot_ready_state is returned before GSS_S_COMPLETE,
- it is possible that additional facilities may be confirmed and
- subsequently indicated when GSS_S_COMPLETE is returned.
-
-1.2.8: Implementation Robustness
-
- This section recommends aspects of GSS-API implementation behavior in
- the interests of overall robustness.
-
- Invocation of GSS-API calls is to incur no undocumented side effects
- visible at the GSS-API level.
-
- If a token is presented for processing on a GSS-API security context
- and that token generates a fatal error in processing or is otherwise
- determined to be invalid for that context, the context's state should
- not be disrupted for purposes of processing subsequent valid tokens.
-
- Certain local conditions at a GSS-API implementation (e.g.,
- unavailability of memory) may preclude, temporarily or permanently,
- the successful processing of tokens on a GSS-API security context,
- typically generating GSS_S_FAILURE major_status returns along with
- locally-significant minor_status. For robust operation under such
- conditions, the following recommendations are made:
-
- Failing calls should free any memory they allocate, so that
- callers may retry without causing further loss of resources.
-
- Failure of an individual call on an established context should not
- preclude subsequent calls from succeeding on the same context.
-
- Whenever possible, it should be possible for
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() calls to be successfully processed even
- if other calls cannot succeed, thereby enabling context-related
- resources to be released.
-
- A failure of GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() due to an attempt to use an
- unsupported QOP will not interfere with context validity, nor shall
- such a failure impact the ability of the application to subsequently
- invoke GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() using a supported QOP. Any state
- information concerning sequencing of outgoing messages shall be
- unchanged by an unsuccessful call of GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap().
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-1.2.9: Delegation
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- The GSS-API allows delegation to be controlled by the initiating
- application via a Boolean parameter to GSS_Init_sec_context(), the
- routine that establishes a security context. Some mechanisms do not
- support delegation, and for such mechanisms attempts by an
- application to enable delegation are ignored.
-
- The acceptor of a security context for which the initiator enabled
- delegation will receive (via the delegated_cred_handle parameter of
- GSS_Accept_sec_context()) a credential handle that contains the
- delegated identity, and this credential handle may be used to
- initiate subsequent GSS-API security contexts as an agent or delegate
- of the initiator. If the original initiator's identity is "A" and
- the delegate's identity is "B", then, depending on the underlying
- mechanism, the identity embodied by the delegated credential may be
- either "A" or "B acting for A".
-
- For many mechanisms that support delegation, a simple Boolean does
- not provide enough control. Examples of additional aspects of
- delegation control that a mechanism might provide to an application
- are duration of delegation, network addresses from which delegation
- is valid, and constraints on the tasks that may be performed by a
- delegate. Such controls are presently outside the scope of the GSS-
- API. GSS-API implementations supporting mechanisms offering
- additional controls should provide extension routines that allow
- these controls to be exercised (perhaps by modifying the initiator's
- GSS-API credential prior to its use in establishing a context).
- However, the simple delegation control provided by GSS-API should
- always be able to over-ride other mechanism-specific delegation
- controls; if the application instructs GSS_Init_sec_context() that
- delegation is not desired, then the implementation must not permit
- delegation to occur. This is an exception to the general rule that a
- mechanism may enable services even if they are not requested;
- delegation may only be provided at the explicit request of the
- application.
-
-1.2.10: Interprocess Context Transfer
-
- GSS-API V2 provides routines (GSS_Export_sec_context() and
- GSS_Import_sec_context()) which allow a security context to be
- transferred between processes on a single machine. The most common
- use for such a feature is a client-server design where the server is
- implemented as a single process that accepts incoming security
- contexts, which then launches child processes to deal with the data
- on these contexts. In such a design, the child processes must have
- access to the security context data structure created within the
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- parent by its call to GSS_Accept_sec_context() so that they can use
- per-message protection services and delete the security context when
- the communication session ends.
-
- Since the security context data structure is expected to contain
- sequencing information, it is impractical in general to share a
- context between processes. Thus GSS-API provides a call
- (GSS_Export_sec_context()) that the process which currently owns the
- context can call to declare that it has no intention to use the
- context subsequently, and to create an inter-process token containing
- information needed by the adopting process to successfully import the
- context. After successful completion of this call, the original
- security context is made inaccessible to the calling process by GSS-
- API, and any context handles referring to this context are no longer
- valid. The originating process transfers the inter-process token to
- the adopting process, which passes it to GSS_Import_sec_context(),
- and a fresh context handle is created such that it is functionally
- identical to the original context.
-
- The inter-process token may contain sensitive data from the original
- security context (including cryptographic keys). Applications using
- inter-process tokens to transfer security contexts must take
- appropriate steps to protect these tokens in transit.
- Implementations are not required to support the inter-process
- transfer of security contexts. The ability to transfer a security
- context is indicated when the context is created, by
- GSS_Init_sec_context() or GSS_Accept_sec_context() indicating a TRUE
- trans_state return value.
-
-2: Interface Descriptions
-
- This section describes the GSS-API's service interface, dividing the
- set of calls offered into four groups. Credential management calls
- are related to the acquisition and release of credentials by
- principals. Context-level calls are related to the management of
- security contexts between principals. Per-message calls are related
- to the protection of individual messages on established security
- contexts. Support calls provide ancillary functions useful to GSS-API
- callers. Table 2 groups and summarizes the calls in tabular fashion.
-
- Table 2: GSS-API Calls
-
- CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT
-
- GSS_Acquire_cred acquire credentials for use
- GSS_Release_cred release credentials after use
- GSS_Inquire_cred display information about
- credentials
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- GSS_Add_cred construct credentials incrementally
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech display per-mechanism credential
- information
-
- CONTEXT-LEVEL CALLS
-
- GSS_Init_sec_context initiate outbound security context
- GSS_Accept_sec_context accept inbound security context
- GSS_Delete_sec_context flush context when no longer needed
- GSS_Process_context_token process received control token on
- context
- GSS_Context_time indicate validity time remaining on
- context
- GSS_Inquire_context display information about context
- GSS_Wrap_size_limit determine GSS_Wrap token size limit
- GSS_Export_sec_context transfer context to other process
- GSS_Import_sec_context import transferred context
-
- PER-MESSAGE CALLS
-
- GSS_GetMIC apply integrity check, receive as
- token separate from message
- GSS_VerifyMIC validate integrity check token
- along with message
- GSS_Wrap sign, optionally encrypt,
- encapsulate
- GSS_Unwrap decapsulate, decrypt if needed,
- validate integrity check
-
- SUPPORT CALLS
-
- GSS_Display_status translate status codes to printable
- form
- GSS_Indicate_mechs indicate mech_types supported on
- local system
- GSS_Compare_name compare two names for equality
- GSS_Display_name translate name to printable form
- GSS_Import_name convert printable name to
- normalized form
- GSS_Release_name free storage of normalized-form
- name
- GSS_Release_buffer free storage of general GSS-allocated
- object
- GSS_Release_OID_set free storage of OID set object
- GSS_Create_empty_OID_set create empty OID set
- GSS_Add_OID_set_member add member to OID set
- GSS_Test_OID_set_member test if OID is member of OID set
- GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech indicate name types supported by
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- GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name indicates mechanisms supporting name
- type
- GSS_Canonicalize_name translate name to per-mechanism form
- GSS_Export_name externalize per-mechanism name
- GSS_Duplicate_name duplicate name object
-
-2.1: Credential management calls
-
- These GSS-API calls provide functions related to the management of
- credentials. Their characterization with regard to whether or not
- they may block pending exchanges with other network entities (e.g.,
- directories or authentication servers) depends in part on OS-specific
- (extra-GSS-API) issues, so is not specified in this document.
-
- The GSS_Acquire_cred() call is defined within the GSS-API in support
- of application portability, with a particular orientation towards
- support of portable server applications. It is recognized that (for
- certain systems and mechanisms) credentials for interactive users may
- be managed differently from credentials for server processes; in such
- environments, it is the GSS-API implementation's responsibility to
- distinguish these cases and the procedures for making this
- distinction are a local matter. The GSS_Release_cred() call provides
- a means for callers to indicate to the GSS-API that use of a
- credentials structure is no longer required. The GSS_Inquire_cred()
- call allows callers to determine information about a credentials
- structure. The GSS_Add_cred() call enables callers to append
- elements to an existing credential structure, allowing iterative
- construction of a multi-mechanism credential. The
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech() call enables callers to extract per-
- mechanism information describing a credentials structure.
-
-2.1.1: GSS_Acquire_cred call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o desired_name INTERNAL NAME, -- NULL requests locally-determined
- -- default
-
- o lifetime_req INTEGER, -- in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o desired_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- NULL requests
- -- system-selected default
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER -- 0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- -- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
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- Outputs:
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- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -- if returned non-NULL,
- -- caller must release with GSS_Release_cred()
-
- o actual_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- if returned non-NULL,
- -- caller must release with GSS_Release_oid_set()
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that requested credentials were
- successfully established, for the duration indicated in lifetime_rec,
- suitable for the usage requested in cred_usage, for the set of
- mech_types indicated in actual_mechs, and that those credentials can
- be referenced for subsequent use with the handle returned in
- output_cred_handle.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that a mech_type unsupported by the GSS-
- API implementation type was requested, causing the credential
- establishment operation to fail.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided desired_name is
- uninterpretable or of a type unsupported by the applicable underlying
- GSS-API mechanism(s), so no credentials could be established for the
- accompanying desired_name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided desired_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so no credentials could be established for the
- accompanying desired_name.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that underlying credential
- elements corresponding to the requested desired_name have expired, so
- requested credentials could not be established.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no credential elements corresponding
- to the requested desired_name and usage could be accessed, so
- requested credentials could not be established. In particular, this
- status should be returned upon temporary user-fixable conditions
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- preventing successful credential establishment and upon lack of
- authorization to establish and use credentials associated with the
- identity named in the input desired_name argument.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that credential establishment failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- GSS_Acquire_cred() is used to acquire credentials so that a principal
- can (as a function of the input cred_usage parameter) initiate and/or
- accept security contexts under the identity represented by the
- desired_name input argument. On successful completion, the returned
- output_cred_handle result provides a handle for subsequent references
- to the acquired credentials. Typically, single-user client processes
- requesting that default credential behavior be applied for context
- establishment purposes will have no need to invoke this call.
-
- A caller may provide the value NULL (GSS_C_NO_NAME) for desired_name,
- which will be interpreted as a request for a credential handle that
- will invoke default behavior when passed to GSS_Init_sec_context(),
- if cred_usage is GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH, or
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), if cred_usage is GSS_C_ACCEPT or
- GSS_C_BOTH. It is possible that multiple pre-established credentials
- may exist for the same principal identity (for example, as a result
- of multiple user login sessions) when GSS_Acquire_cred() is called;
- the means used in such cases to select a specific credential are
- local matters. The input lifetime_req argument to GSS_Acquire_cred()
- may provide useful information for local GSS-API implementations to
- employ in making this disambiguation in a manner which will best
- satisfy a caller's intent.
-
- This routine is expected to be used primarily by context acceptors,
- since implementations are likely to provide mechanism-specific ways
- of obtaining GSS-API initiator credentials from the system login
- process. Some implementations may therefore not support the
- acquisition of GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH credentials via
- GSS_Acquire_cred() for any name other than GSS_C_NO_NAME, or a name
- resulting from applying GSS_Inquire_context() to an active context,
- or a name resulting from applying GSS_Inquire_cred() against a
- credential handle corresponding to default behavior. It is important
- to recognize that the explicit name which is yielded by resolving a
- default reference may change over time, e.g., as a result of local
- credential element management operations outside GSS-API; once
- resolved, however, the value of such an explicit name will remain
- constant.
-
- The lifetime_rec result indicates the length of time for which the
- acquired credentials will be valid, as an offset from the present. A
- mechanism may return a reserved value indicating INDEFINITE if no
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- constraints on credential lifetime are imposed. A caller of
- GSS_Acquire_cred() can request a length of time for which acquired
- credentials are to be valid (lifetime_req argument), beginning at the
- present, or can request credentials with a default validity interval.
- (Requests for postdated credentials are not supported within the
- GSS-API.) Certain mechanisms and implementations may bind in
- credential validity period specifiers at a point preliminary to
- invocation of the GSS_Acquire_cred() call (e.g., in conjunction with
- user login procedures). As a result, callers requesting non-default
- values for lifetime_req must recognize that such requests cannot
- always be honored and must be prepared to accommodate the use of
- returned credentials with different lifetimes as indicated in
- lifetime_rec.
-
- The caller of GSS_Acquire_cred() can explicitly specify a set of
- mech_types which are to be accommodated in the returned credentials
- (desired_mechs argument), or can request credentials for a system-
- defined default set of mech_types. Selection of the system-specified
- default set is recommended in the interests of application
- portability. The actual_mechs return value may be interrogated by the
- caller to determine the set of mechanisms with which the returned
- credentials may be used.
-
-2.1.2: GSS_Release_cred call
-
- Input:
-
- o cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE -- if GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
- -- is specified, the call will complete successfully, but
- -- will have no effect; no credential elements will be
- -- released.
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle were released for purposes of subsequent access by
- the caller. The effect on other processes which may be authorized
- shared access to such credentials is a local matter.
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- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no release operation was performed,
- either because the input cred_handle was invalid or because the
- caller lacks authorization to access the referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the release operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Provides a means for a caller to explicitly request that credentials
- be released when their use is no longer required. Note that system-
- specific credential management functions are also likely to exist,
- for example to assure that credentials shared among processes are
- properly deleted when all affected processes terminate, even if no
- explicit release requests are issued by those processes. Given the
- fact that multiple callers are not precluded from gaining authorized
- access to the same credentials, invocation of GSS_Release_cred()
- cannot be assumed to delete a particular set of credentials on a
- system-wide basis.
-
-2.1.3: GSS_Inquire_cred call
-
- Input:
-
- o cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE -- if GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
- -- is specified, default initiator credentials are queried
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o cred_name INTERNAL NAME, -- caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_name()
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER, -- 0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- -- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_oid_set()
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- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle argument were valid, and that the output cred_name,
- lifetime_rec, and cred_usage values represent, respectively, the
- credentials' associated principal name, remaining lifetime, suitable
- usage modes, and supported mechanism types.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no information could be returned
- about the referenced credentials, either because the input
- cred_handle was invalid or because the caller lacks authorization to
- access the referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that the referenced
- credentials are invalid.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the referenced
- credentials have expired.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- The GSS_Inquire_cred() call is defined primarily for the use of those
- callers which request use of default credential behavior rather than
- acquiring credentials explicitly with GSS_Acquire_cred(). It enables
- callers to determine a credential structure's associated principal
- name, remaining validity period, usability for security context
- initiation and/or acceptance, and supported mechanisms.
-
- For a multi-mechanism credential, the returned "lifetime" specifier
- indicates the shortest lifetime of any of the mechanisms' elements in
- the credential (for either context initiation or acceptance
- purposes).
-
- GSS_Inquire_cred() should indicate INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT for
- "cred_usage" if both of the following conditions hold:
-
- (1) there exists in the credential an element which allows context
- initiation using some mechanism
-
- (2) there exists in the credential an element which allows context
- acceptance using some mechanism (allowably, but not necessarily,
- one of the same mechanism(s) qualifying for (1)).
-
- If condition (1) holds but not condition (2), GSS_Inquire_cred()
- should indicate INITIATE-ONLY for "cred_usage". If condition (2)
- holds but not condition (1), GSS_Inquire_cred() should indicate
- ACCEPT-ONLY for "cred_usage".
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- Callers requiring finer disambiguation among available combinations
- of lifetimes, usage modes, and mechanisms should call the
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech() routine, passing that routine one of the
- mech OIDs returned by GSS_Inquire_cred().
-
-2.1.4: GSS_Add_cred call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE -- handle to credential
- -- structure created with prior GSS_Acquire_cred() or
- -- GSS_Add_cred() call; see text for definition of behavior
- -- when GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL provided.
-
- o desired_name INTERNAL NAME
-
- o initiator_time_req INTEGER -- in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o acceptor_time_req INTEGER -- in seconds; 0 requests default
-
- o desired_mech OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER -- 0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- -- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -- NULL to request that
- -- credential elements be added "in place" to the credential
- -- structure identified by input_cred_handle,
- -- non-NULL pointer to request that
- -- a new credential structure and handle be created.
- -- if credential handle returned, caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_cred()
-
- o actual_mechs SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- if returned, caller must
- -- release with GSS_Release_oid_set()
-
- o initiator_time_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- o acceptor_time_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
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- -- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
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- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- full set of mechanisms
- -- supported by resulting credential.
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input_cred_handle argument were valid, and that the resulting
- credential from GSS_Add_cred() is valid for the durations indicated
- in initiator_time_rec and acceptor_time_rec, suitable for the usage
- requested in cred_usage, and for the mechanisms indicated in
- actual_mechs.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT indicates that the input desired_mech
- specified a mechanism for which the referenced credential already
- contained a credential element with overlapping cred_usage and
- validity time specifiers.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the input desired_mech specified a
- mechanism unsupported by the GSS-API implementation, causing the
- GSS_Add_cred() operation to fail.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided desired_name is
- uninterpretable or of a type unsupported by the applicable underlying
- GSS-API mechanism(s), so the GSS_Add_cred() operation could not be
- performed for that name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided desired_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so the GSS_Add_cred() operation could not be performed
- for that name.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that the input_cred_handle referenced
- invalid or inaccessible credentials. In particular, this status
- should be returned upon temporary user-fixable conditions preventing
- successful credential establishment or upon lack of authorization to
- establish or use credentials representing the requested identity.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that referenced credential
- elements have expired, so the GSS_Add_cred() operation could not be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
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- GSS_Add_cred() enables callers to construct credentials iteratively
- by adding credential elements in successive operations, corresponding
- to different mechanisms. This offers particular value in multi-
- mechanism environments, as the major_status and minor_status values
- returned on each iteration are individually visible and can therefore
- be interpreted unambiguously on a per-mechanism basis. A credential
- element is identified by the name of the principal to which it
- refers. GSS-API implementations must impose a local access control
- policy on callers of this routine to prevent unauthorized callers
- from acquiring credential elements to which they are not entitled.
- This routine is not intended to provide a "login to the network"
- function, as such a function would involve the creation of new
- mechanism-specific authentication data, rather than merely acquiring
- a GSS-API handle to existing data. Such functions, if required,
- should be defined in implementation-specific extension routines.
-
- If credential acquisition is time-consuming for a mechanism, the
- mechanism may choose to delay the actual acquisition until the
- credential is required (e.g. by GSS_Init_sec_context() or
- GSS_Accept_sec_context()). Such mechanism-specific implementation
- decisions should be invisible to the calling application; thus a call
- of GSS_Inquire_cred() immediately following the call of
- GSS_Acquire_cred() must return valid credential data, and may
- therefore incur the overhead of a deferred credential acquisition.
-
- If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified as input_cred_handle, a non-NULL
- output_cred_handle must be supplied. For the case of
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL as input_cred_handle, GSS_Add_cred() will create
- the credential referenced by its output_cred_handle based on default
- behavior. That is, the call will have the same effect as if the
- caller had previously called GSS_Acquire_cred(), specifying the same
- usage and passing GSS_C_NO_NAME as the desired_name parameter
- (thereby obtaining an explicit credential handle corresponding to
- default behavior), had passed that credential handle to
- GSS_Add_cred(), and had finally called GSS_Release_cred() on the
- credential handle received from GSS_Acquire_cred().
-
- This routine is expected to be used primarily by context acceptors,
- since implementations are likely to provide mechanism-specific ways
- of obtaining GSS-API initiator credentials from the system login
- process. Some implementations may therefore not support the
- acquisition of GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH credentials via
- GSS_Acquire_cred() for any name other than GSS_C_NO_NAME, or a name
- resulting from applying GSS_Inquire_context() to an active context,
- or a name resulting from applying GSS_Inquire_cred() against a
- credential handle corresponding to default behavior. It is important
- to recognize that the explicit name which is yielded by resolving a
- default reference may change over time, e.g., as a result of local
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- credential element management operations outside GSS-API; once
- resolved, however, the value of such an explicit name will remain
- constant.
-
- A caller may provide the value NULL (GSS_C_NO_NAME) for desired_name,
- which will be interpreted as a request for a credential handle that
- will invoke default behavior when passed to GSS_Init_sec_context(),
- if cred_usage is GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH, or
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), if cred_usage is GSS_C_ACCEPT or
- GSS_C_BOTH.
-
- The same input desired_name, or default reference, should be used on
- all GSS_Acquire_cred() and GSS_Add_cred() calls corresponding to a
- particular credential.
-
-2.1.5: GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE -- if GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
- -- specified, default initiator credentials are queried
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- specific mechanism for
- -- which credentials are being queried
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o cred_name INTERNAL NAME, -- guaranteed to be MN; caller must
- -- release with GSS_Release_name()
-
- o lifetime_rec_initiate INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- o lifetime_rec_accept INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- o cred_usage INTEGER, -- 0=INITIATE-AND-ACCEPT, 1=INITIATE-ONLY,
- -- 2=ACCEPT-ONLY
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the credentials referenced by the
- input cred_handle argument were valid, that the mechanism indicated
- by the input mech_type was represented with elements within those
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- credentials, and that the output cred_name, lifetime_rec_initiate,
- lifetime_rec_accept, and cred_usage values represent, respectively,
- the credentials' associated principal name, remaining lifetimes, and
- suitable usage modes.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no information could be returned
- about the referenced credentials, either because the input
- cred_handle was invalid or because the caller lacks authorization to
- access the referenced credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that the referenced
- credentials are invalid.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the referenced
- credentials have expired.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the referenced credentials do not
- contain elements for the requested mechanism.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- The GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech() call enables callers in multi-
- mechanism environments to acquire specific data about available
- combinations of lifetimes, usage modes, and mechanisms within a
- credential structure. The lifetime_rec_initiate result indicates the
- available lifetime for context initiation purposes; the
- lifetime_rec_accept result indicates the available lifetime for
- context acceptance purposes.
-
-2.2: Context-level calls
-
- This group of calls is devoted to the establishment and management of
- security contexts between peers. A context's initiator calls
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), resulting in generation of a token which the
- caller passes to the target. At the target, that token is passed to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). Depending on the underlying mech_type and
- specified options, additional token exchanges may be performed in the
- course of context establishment; such exchanges are accommodated by
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns from GSS_Init_sec_context() and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context().
-
- Either party to an established context may invoke
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() to flush context information when a context
- is no longer required. GSS_Process_context_token() is used to process
- received tokens carrying context-level control information.
- GSS_Context_time() allows a caller to determine the length of time
- for which an established context will remain valid.
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- GSS_Inquire_context() returns status information describing context
- characteristics. GSS_Wrap_size_limit() allows a caller to determine
- the size of a token which will be generated by a GSS_Wrap()
- operation. GSS_Export_sec_context() and GSS_Import_sec_context()
- enable transfer of active contexts between processes on an end
- system.
-
-2.2.1: GSS_Init_sec_context call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o claimant_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -- NULL specifies "use
- -- default"
-
- o input_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE, -- 0
- -- (GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT) specifies "none assigned yet"
-
- o targ_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- NULL parameter specifies "use
- -- default"
-
- o deleg_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o conf_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_req INTEGER, -- 0 specifies default lifetime
-
- o chan_bindings OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_token OCTET STRING -- NULL or token received from target
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
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- o output_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE, -- once returned non-NULL,
- -- caller must release with GSS_Delete_sec_context()
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- actual mechanism always
- -- indicated, never NULL; caller should treat as read-only
- -- and should not attempt to release
-
- o output_token OCTET STRING, -- NULL or token to pass to context
- -- target; caller must release with GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o trans_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o prot_ready_state BOOLEAN, -- see Section 1.2.7
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for those mech_types
- in which an authentication server or other network entity must be
- consulted on behalf of a context initiator in order to generate an
- output_token suitable for presentation to a specified target.
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that context-level information was
- successfully initialized, and that the returned output_token will
- provide sufficient information for the target to perform per-message
- processing on the newly-established context.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED indicates that control information in the
- returned output_token must be sent to the target, and that a reply
- must be received and passed as the input_token argument
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- to a continuation call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), before per-message
- processing can be performed in conjunction with this context (unless
- the prot_ready_state value is concurrently returned TRUE).
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the input_token failed, preventing further processing from being
- performed based on that token.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential structure referenced by
- claimant_cred_handle failed, preventing further processing from being
- performed using that credential structure.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG (GSS_S_BAD_MIC) indicates that the received
- input_token contains an incorrect integrity check, so context setup
- cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no context was established, either
- because the input cred_handle was invalid, because the referenced
- credentials are valid for context acceptor use only, because the
- caller lacks authorization to access the referenced credentials, or
- because the resolution of default credentials failed.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the credentials provided
- through the input claimant_cred_handle argument are no longer valid,
- so context establishment cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS indicates that a mismatch between the caller-
- provided chan_bindings and those extracted from the input_token was
- detected, signifying a security-relevant event and preventing context
- establishment. (This result will be returned by
- GSS_Init_sec_context() only for contexts where mutual_state is TRUE.)
-
- o GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the input_token is too old to be
- checked for integrity. This is a fatal error during context
- establishment.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the input token has a correct
- integrity check, but is a duplicate of a token already processed.
- This is a fatal error during context establishment.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided; this major status will be
- returned only for successor calls following GSS_S_CONTINUE_ NEEDED
- status returns.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the provided targ_name is of a
- type uninterpretable or unsupported by the applicable underlying
- GSS-API mechanism(s), so context establishment cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided targ_name is
- inconsistent in terms of internally-incorporated type specifier
- information, so context establishment cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates receipt of a context establishment token
- or of a caller request specifying a mechanism unsupported by the
- local system or with the caller's active credentials
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that context setup could not be
- accomplished for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, and that
- no interface-defined recovery action is available.
-
- This routine is used by a context initiator, and ordinarily emits an
- output_token suitable for use by the target within the selected
- mech_type's protocol. For the case of a multi-step exchange, this
- output_token will be one in a series, each generated by a successive
- call. Using information in the credentials structure referenced by
- claimant_cred_handle, GSS_Init_sec_context() initializes the data
- structures required to establish a security context with target
- targ_name.
-
- The targ_name may be any valid INTERNAL NAME; it need not be an MN.
- In addition to support for other name types, it is recommended (newly
- as of GSS-V2, Update 1) that mechanisms be able to accept
- GSS_C_NO_NAME as an input type for targ_name. While recommended,
- such support is not required, and it is recognized that not all
- mechanisms can construct tokens without explicitly naming the context
- target, even when mutual authentication of the target is not
- obtained. Callers wishing to make use of this facility and concerned
- with portability should be aware that support for GSS_C_NO_NAME as
- input targ_name type is unlikely to be provided within mechanism
- definitions specified prior to GSS-V2, Update 1.
-
- The claimant_cred_handle must correspond to the same valid
- credentials structure on the initial call to GSS_Init_sec_context()
- and on any successor calls resulting from GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- status returns; different protocol sequences modeled by the
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED facility will require access to credentials at
- different points in the context establishment sequence.
-
- The caller-provided input_context_handle argument is to be 0
- (GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT), specifying "not yet assigned", on the first
- GSS_Init_sec_context() call relating to a given context. If
- successful (i.e., if accompanied by major_status GSS_S_COMPLETE or
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- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED), and only if successful, the initial
- GSS_Init_sec_context() call returns a non-zero output_context_handle
- for use in future references to this context. Once a non-zero
- output_context_handle has been returned, GSS-API callers should call
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() to release context-related resources if
- errors occur in later phases of context establishment, or when an
- established context is no longer required. If GSS_Init_sec_context()
- is passed the handle of a context which is already fully established,
- GSS_S_FAILURE status is returned.
-
- When continuation attempts to GSS_Init_sec_context() are needed to
- perform context establishment, the previously-returned non-zero
- handle value is entered into the input_context_handle argument and
- will be echoed in the returned output_context_handle argument. On
- such continuation attempts (and only on continuation attempts) the
- input_token value is used, to provide the token returned from the
- context's target.
-
- The chan_bindings argument is used by the caller to provide
- information binding the security context to security-related
- characteristics (e.g., addresses, cryptographic keys) of the
- underlying communications channel. See Section 1.1.6 of this document
- for more discussion of this argument's usage.
-
- The input_token argument contains a message received from the target,
- and is significant only on a call to GSS_Init_sec_context() which
- follows a previous return indicating GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- major_status.
-
- It is the caller's responsibility to establish a communications path
- to the target, and to transmit any returned output_token (independent
- of the accompanying returned major_status value) to the target over
- that path. The output_token can, however, be transmitted along with
- the first application-provided input message to be processed by
- GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() in conjunction with a successfully-
- established context. (Note: when the GSS-V2 prot_ready_state
- indicator is returned TRUE, it can be possible to transfer a
- protected message before context establishment is complete: see also
- Section 1.2.7)
-
- The initiator may request various context-level functions through
- input flags: the deleg_req_flag requests delegation of access rights,
- the mutual_req_flag requests mutual authentication, the
- replay_det_req_flag requests that replay detection features be
- applied to messages transferred on the established context, and the
- sequence_req_flag requests that sequencing be enforced. (See Section
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- 1.2.3 for more information on replay detection and sequencing
- features.) The anon_req_flag requests that the initiator's identity
- not be transferred within tokens to be sent to the acceptor.
-
- The conf_req_flag and integ_req_flag provide informatory inputs to
- the GSS-API implementation as to whether, respectively, per-message
- confidentiality and per-message integrity services will be required
- on the context. This information is important as an input to
- negotiating mechanisms. It is important to recognize, however, that
- the inclusion of these flags (which are newly defined for GSS-V2)
- introduces a backward incompatibility with callers implemented to
- GSS-V1, where the flags were not defined. Since no GSS-V1 callers
- would set these flags, even if per-message services are desired,
- GSS-V2 mechanism implementations which enable such services
- selectively based on the flags' values may fail to provide them to
- contexts established for GSS-V1 callers. It may be appropriate under
- certain circumstances, therefore, for such mechanism implementations
- to infer these service request flags to be set if a caller is known
- to be implemented to GSS-V1.
-
- Not all of the optionally-requestable features will be available in
- all underlying mech_types. The corresponding return state values
- deleg_state, mutual_state, replay_det_state, and sequence_state
- indicate, as a function of mech_type processing capabilities and
- initiator-provided input flags, the set of features which will be
- active on the context. The returned trans_state value indicates
- whether the context is transferable to other processes through use of
- GSS_Export_sec_context(). These state indicators' values are
- undefined unless either the routine's major_status indicates
- GSS_S_COMPLETE, or TRUE prot_ready_state is returned along with
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status; for the latter case, it is
- possible that additional features, not confirmed or indicated along
- with TRUE prot_ready_state, will be confirmed and indicated when
- GSS_S_COMPLETE is subsequently returned.
-
- The returned anon_state and prot_ready_state values are significant
- for both GSS_S_COMPLETE and GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status
- returns from GSS_Init_sec_context(). When anon_state is returned
- TRUE, this indicates that neither the current token nor its
- predecessors delivers or has delivered the initiator's identity.
- Callers wishing to perform context establishment only if anonymity
- support is provided should transfer a returned token from
- GSS_Init_sec_context() to the peer only if it is accompanied by a
- TRUE anon_state indicator. When prot_ready_state is returned TRUE in
- conjunction with GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status, this indicates
- that per-message protection operations may be applied on the context:
- see Section 1.2.7 for further discussion of this facility.
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- Failure to provide the precise set of features requested by the
- caller does not cause context establishment to fail; it is the
- caller's prerogative to delete the context if the feature set
- provided is unsuitable for the caller's use.
-
- The returned mech_type value indicates the specific mechanism
- employed on the context; it will never indicate the value for
- "default". A valid mech_type result must be returned along with a
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status return; GSS-API implementations may (but are
- not required to) also return mech_type along with predecessor calls
- indicating GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status or (if a mechanism is
- determinable) in conjunction with fatal error cases. For the case of
- mechanisms which themselves perform negotiation, the returned
- mech_type result may indicate selection of a mechanism identified by
- an OID different than that passed in the input mech_type argument,
- and the returned value may change between successive calls returning
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED and the final call returning GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- The conf_avail return value indicates whether the context supports
- per-message confidentiality services, and so informs the caller
- whether or not a request for encryption through the conf_req_flag
- input to GSS_Wrap() can be honored. In similar fashion, the
- integ_avail return value indicates whether per-message integrity
- services are available (through either GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap()) on
- the established context. These state indicators' values are undefined
- unless either the routine's major_status indicates GSS_S_COMPLETE, or
- TRUE prot_ready_state is returned along with GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- major_status.
-
- The lifetime_req input specifies a desired upper bound for the
- lifetime of the context to be established, with a value of 0 used to
- request a default lifetime. The lifetime_rec return value indicates
- the length of time for which the context will be valid, expressed as
- an offset from the present; depending on mechanism capabilities,
- credential lifetimes, and local policy, it may not correspond to the
- value requested in lifetime_req. If no constraints on context
- lifetime are imposed, this may be indicated by returning a reserved
- value representing INDEFINITE lifetime_req. The value of lifetime_rec
- is undefined unless the routine's major_status indicates
- GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- If the mutual_state is TRUE, this fact will be reflected within the
- output_token. A call to GSS_Accept_sec_context() at the target in
- conjunction with such a context will return a token, to be processed
- by a continuation call to GSS_Init_sec_context(), in order to achieve
- mutual authentication.
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- Inputs:
-
- o acceptor_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -- NULL specifies
- -- "use default"
-
- o input_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE, -- 0
- -- (GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT) specifies "not yet assigned"
-
- o chan_bindings OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o src_name INTERNAL NAME, -- guaranteed to be MN
- -- once returned, caller must release with GSS_Release_name()
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- caller should treat as
- -- read-only; does not need to be released
-
- o output_context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE, -- once returned
- -- non-NULL in context establishment sequence, caller
- -- must release with GSS_Delete_sec_context()
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o trans_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o prot_ready_state BOOLEAN, -- see Section 1.2.7 for discussion
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
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- -- INDEFINITE
-
- o delegated_cred_handle CREDENTIAL HANDLE, -- if returned non-NULL,
- -- caller must release with GSS_Release_cred()
-
- o output_token OCTET STRING -- NULL or token to pass to context
- -- initiator; if returned non-NULL, caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- This call may block pending network interactions for those mech_types
- in which a directory service or other network entity must be
- consulted on behalf of a context acceptor in order to validate a
- received input_token.
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that context-level data structures were
- successfully initialized, and that per-message processing can now be
- performed in conjunction with this context.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED indicates that control information in the
- returned output_token must be sent to the initiator, and that a
- response must be received and passed as the input_token argument to a
- continuation call to GSS_Accept_sec_context(), before per-message
- processing can be performed in conjunction with this context.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the input_token failed, preventing further processing from being
- performed based on that token.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential structure referenced by
- acceptor_cred_handle failed, preventing further processing from being
- performed using that credential structure.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG (GSS_S_BAD_MIC) indicates that the received
- input_token contains an incorrect integrity check, so context setup
- cannot be accomplished.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check on the
- received input_token was correct, but that the input_token was
- recognized as a duplicate of an input_token already processed. No new
- context is established.
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- o GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN indicates that the integrity check on the received
- input_token was correct, but that the input_token is too old to be
- checked for duplication against previously-processed input_tokens. No
- new context is established.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CRED indicates that no context was established, either
- because the input cred_handle was invalid, because the referenced
- credentials are valid for context initiator use only, because the
- caller lacks authorization to access the referenced credentials, or
- because the procedure for default credential resolution failed.
-
- o GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED indicates that the credentials provided
- through the input acceptor_cred_handle argument are no longer valid,
- so context establishment cannot be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS indicates that a mismatch between the caller-
- provided chan_bindings and those extracted from the input_token was
- detected, signifying a security-relevant event and preventing context
- establishment.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided; this major status will be
- returned only for successor calls following GSS_S_CONTINUE_ NEEDED
- status returns.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates receipt of a context establishment token
- specifying a mechanism unsupported by the local system or with the
- caller's active credentials.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that context setup could not be
- accomplished for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level, and that
- no interface-defined recovery action is available.
-
- The GSS_Accept_sec_context() routine is used by a context target.
- Using information in the credentials structure referenced by the
- input acceptor_cred_handle, it verifies the incoming input_token and
- (following the successful completion of a context establishment
- sequence) returns the authenticated src_name and the mech_type used.
- The returned src_name is guaranteed to be an MN, processed by the
- mechanism under which the context was established. The
- acceptor_cred_handle must correspond to the same valid credentials
- structure on the initial call to GSS_Accept_sec_context() and on any
- successor calls resulting from GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status returns;
- different protocol sequences modeled by the GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- mechanism will require access to credentials at different points in
- the context establishment sequence.
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- The caller-provided input_context_handle argument is to be 0
- (GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT), specifying "not yet assigned", on the first
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() call relating to a given context. If
- successful (i.e., if accompanied by major_status GSS_S_COMPLETE or
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED), and only if successful, the initial
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() call returns a non-zero
- output_context_handle for use in future references to this context.
- Once a non-zero output_context_handle has been returned, GSS-API
- callers should call GSS_Delete_sec_context() to release context-
- related resources if errors occur in later phases of context
- establishment, or when an established context is no longer required.
- If GSS_Accept_sec_context() is passed the handle of a context which
- is already fully established, GSS_S_FAILURE status is returned.
-
- The chan_bindings argument is used by the caller to provide
- information binding the security context to security-related
- characteristics (e.g., addresses, cryptographic keys) of the
- underlying communications channel. See Section 1.1.6 of this document
- for more discussion of this argument's usage.
-
- The returned state results (deleg_state, mutual_state,
- replay_det_state, sequence_state, anon_state, trans_state, and
- prot_ready_state) reflect the same information as described for
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), and their values are significant under the
- same return state conditions.
-
- The conf_avail return value indicates whether the context supports
- per-message confidentiality services, and so informs the caller
- whether or not a request for encryption through the conf_req_flag
- input to GSS_Wrap() can be honored. In similar fashion, the
- integ_avail return value indicates whether per-message integrity
- services are available (through either GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap())
- on the established context. These values are significant under the
- same return state conditions as described under
- GSS_Init_sec_context().
-
- The lifetime_rec return value is significant only in conjunction with
- GSS_S_COMPLETE major_status, and indicates the length of time for
- which the context will be valid, expressed as an offset from the
- present.
-
- The returned mech_type value indicates the specific mechanism
- employed on the context; it will never indicate the value for
- "default". A valid mech_type result must be returned whenever
- GSS_S_COMPLETE status is indicated; GSS-API implementations may (but
- are not required to) also return mech_type along with predecessor
- calls indicating GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status or (if a mechanism is
- determinable) in conjunction with fatal error cases. For the case of
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- mechanisms which themselves perform negotiation, the returned
- mech_type result may indicate selection of a mechanism identified by
- an OID different than that passed in the input mech_type argument,
- and the returned value may change between successive calls returning
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED and the final call returning GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- The delegated_cred_handle result is significant only when deleg_state
- is TRUE, and provides a means for the target to reference the
- delegated credentials. The output_token result, when non-NULL,
- provides a context-level token to be returned to the context
- initiator to continue a multi-step context establishment sequence. As
- noted with GSS_Init_sec_context(), any returned token should be
- transferred to the context's peer (in this case, the context
- initiator), independent of the value of the accompanying returned
- major_status.
-
- Note: A target must be able to distinguish a context-level
- input_token, which is passed to GSS_Accept_sec_context(), from the
- per-message data elements passed to GSS_VerifyMIC() or GSS_Unwrap().
- These data elements may arrive in a single application message, and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() must be performed before per-message
- processing can be performed successfully.
-
-2.2.3: GSS_Delete_sec_context call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_context_token OCTET STRING
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the context was recognized, and that
- relevant context-specific information was flushed. If the caller
- provides a non-null buffer to receive an output_context_token, and
- the mechanism returns a non-NULL token into that buffer, the returned
- output_context_token is ready for transfer to the context's peer.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided, so no deletion was performed.
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- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that
- the GSS_Delete_sec_context() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call can be made by either peer in a security context, to flush
- context-specific information. Once a non-zero output_context_handle
- has been returned by context establishment calls, GSS-API callers
- should call GSS_Delete_sec_context() to release context-related
- resources if errors occur in later phases of context establishment,
- or when an established context is no longer required. This call may
- block pending network interactions for mech_types in which active
- notification must be made to a central server when a security context
- is to be deleted.
-
- If a non-null output_context_token parameter is provided by the
- caller, an output_context_token may be returned to the caller. If an
- output_context_token is provided to the caller, it can be passed to
- the context's peer to inform the peer's GSS-API implementation that
- the peer's corresponding context information can also be flushed.
- (Once a context is established, the peers involved are expected to
- retain cached credential and context-related information until the
- information's expiration time is reached or until a
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() call is made.)
-
- The facility for context_token usage to signal context deletion is
- retained for compatibility with GSS-API Version 1. For current
- usage, it is recommended that both peers to a context invoke
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() independently, passing a null
- output_context_token buffer to indicate that no context_token is
- required. Implementations of GSS_Delete_sec_context() should delete
- relevant locally-stored context information.
-
- Attempts to perform per-message processing on a deleted context will
- result in error returns.
-
-2.2.4: GSS_Process_context_token call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o input_context_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
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-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the input_context_token was
- successfully processed in conjunction with the context referenced by
- context_handle.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the received context_token failed, preventing further processing
- from being performed with that token.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that
- the GSS_Process_context_token() operation could not be performed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call is used to process context_tokens received from a peer once
- a context has been established, with corresponding impact on
- context-level state information. One use for this facility is
- processing of the context_tokens generated by
- GSS_Delete_sec_context(); GSS_Process_context_token() will not block
- pending network interactions for that purpose. Another use is to
- process tokens indicating remote-peer context establishment failures
- after the point where the local GSS-API implementation has already
- indicated GSS_S_COMPLETE status.
-
-2.2.5: GSS_Context_time call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context is valid, and
- will remain valid for the amount of time indicated in lifetime_rec.
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- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that data items related to the
- referenced context have expired.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This call is used to determine the amount of time for which a
- currently established context will remain valid.
-
-2.2.6: GSS_Inquire_context call
-
- Input:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o src_name INTERNAL NAME, -- name of context initiator,
- -- guaranteed to be MN;
- -- caller must release with GSS_Release_name() if returned
-
- o targ_name INTERNAL NAME, -- name of context target,
- -- guaranteed to be MN;
- -- caller must release with GSS_Release_name() if returned
-
- o lifetime_rec INTEGER -- in seconds, or reserved value for
- -- INDEFINITE or EXPIRED
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- the mechanism supporting this
- -- security context; caller should treat as read-only and not
- -- attempt to release
-
- o deleg_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o mutual_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o replay_det_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o sequence_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o anon_state BOOLEAN,
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- o trans_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o prot_ready_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o conf_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o integ_avail BOOLEAN,
-
- o locally_initiated BOOLEAN, -- TRUE if initiator, FALSE if acceptor
-
- o open BOOLEAN, -- TRUE if context fully established, FALSE
- -- if partly established (in CONTINUE_NEEDED state)
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context is valid and
- that deleg_state, mutual_state, replay_det_state, sequence_state,
- anon_state, trans_state, prot_ready_state, conf_avail, integ_avail,
- locally_initiated, and open return values describe the corresponding
- characteristics of the context. If open is TRUE, lifetime_rec is
- also returned: if open is TRUE and the context peer's name is known,
- src_name and targ_name are valid in addition to the values listed
- above. The mech_type value must be returned for contexts where open
- is TRUE and may be returned for contexts where open is FALSE.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call is used to extract information describing characteristics
- of a security context. Note that GSS-API implementations are
- expected to retain inquirable context data on a context until the
- context is released by a caller, even after the context has expired,
- although underlying cryptographic data elements may be deleted after
- expiration in order to limit their exposure.
-
-2.2.7: GSS_Wrap_size_limit call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o conf_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
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-
- o output_size INTEGER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o max_input_size INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates a successful token size determination:
- an input message with a length in octets equal to the returned
- max_input_size value will, when passed to GSS_Wrap() for processing
- on the context identified by the context_handle parameter with the
- confidentiality request state as provided in conf_req_flag and with
- the quality of protection specifier provided in the qop parameter,
- yield an output token no larger than the value of the provided
- output_size parameter.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that the provided input
- context_handle is recognized, but that the referenced context has
- expired. Return values other than major_status and minor_status are
- undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_QOP indicates that the provided QOP value is not
- recognized or supported for the context.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call is used to determine the largest input datum which may be
- passed to GSS_Wrap() without yielding an output token larger than a
- caller-specified value.
-
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-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o interprocess_token OCTET STRING -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the referenced context has been
- successfully exported to a representation in the interprocess_token,
- and is no longer available for use by the caller.
-
- o GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE indicates that the context export facility is
- not available for use on the referenced context. (This status should
- occur only for contexts for which the trans_state value is FALSE.)
- Return values other than major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that the provided input
- context_handle is recognized, but that the referenced context has
- expired. Return values other than major_status and minor_status are
- undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no valid context was recognized
- for the input context_handle provided. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call generates an interprocess token for transfer to another
- process within an end system, in order to transfer control of a
- security context to that process. The recipient of the interprocess
- token will call GSS_Import_sec_context() to accept the transfer. The
- GSS_Export_sec_context() operation is defined for use only with
- security contexts which are fully and successfully established (i.e.,
- those for which GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context()
- have returned GSS_S_COMPLETE major_status).
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- A successful GSS_Export_sec_context() operation deactivates the
- security context for the calling process; for this case, the GSS-API
- implementation shall deallocate all process-wide resources associated
- with the security context and shall set the context_handle to
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT. In the event of an error that makes it impossible
- to complete export of the security context, the GSS-API
- implementation must not return an interprocess token and should
- strive to leave the security context referenced by the context_handle
- untouched. If this is impossible, it is permissible for the
- implementation to delete the security context, provided that it also
- sets the context_handle parameter to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT.
-
- Portable callers must not assume that a given interprocess token can
- be imported by GSS_Import_sec_context() more than once, thereby
- creating multiple instantiations of a single context. GSS-API
- implementations may detect and reject attempted multiple imports, but
- are not required to do so.
-
- The internal representation contained within the interprocess token
- is an implementation-defined local matter. Interprocess tokens
- cannot be assumed to be transferable across different GSS-API
- implementations.
-
- It is recommended that GSS-API implementations adopt policies suited
- to their operational environments in order to define the set of
- processes eligible to import a context, but specific constraints in
- this area are local matters. Candidate examples include transfers
- between processes operating on behalf of the same user identity, or
- processes comprising a common job. However, it may be impossible to
- enforce such policies in some implementations.
-
- In support of the above goals, implementations may protect the
- transferred context data by using cryptography to protect data within
- the interprocess token, or by using interprocess tokens as a means to
- reference local interprocess communication facilities (protected by
- other means) rather than storing the context data directly within the
- tokens.
-
- Transfer of an open context may, for certain mechanisms and
- implementations, reveal data about the credential which was used to
- establish the context. Callers should, therefore, be cautious about
- the trustworthiness of processes to which they transfer contexts.
- Although the GSS-API implementation may provide its own set of
- protections over the exported context, the caller is responsible for
- protecting the interprocess token from disclosure, and for taking
- care that the context is transferred to an appropriate destination
- process.
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-
- Inputs:
-
- o interprocess_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE -- if successfully returned,
- -- caller must release with GSS_Delete_sec_context()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the context represented by the input
- interprocess_token has been successfully transferred to the caller,
- and is available for future use via the output context_handle.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that the context represented by the
- input interprocess_token was invalid. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that the input interprocess_token
- was defective. Return values other than major_status and
- minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE indicates that the context import facility is
- not available for use on the referenced context. Return values other
- than major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED indicates that the context represented by the
- input interprocess_token is unauthorized for transfer to the caller.
- Return values other than major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation failed for
- reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level. Return values other than
- major_status and minor_status are undefined.
-
- This call processes an interprocess token generated by
- GSS_Export_sec_context(), making the transferred context available
- for use by the caller. After a successful GSS_Import_sec_context()
- operation, the imported context is available for use by the importing
- process. In particular, the imported context is usable for all per-
- message operations and may be deleted or exported by its importer.
- The inability to receive delegated credentials through
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- gss_import_sec_context() precludes establishment of new contexts
- based on information delegated to the importer's end system within
- the context which is being imported, unless those delegated
- credentials are obtained through separate routines (e.g., XGSS-API
- calls) outside the GSS-V2 definition.
-
- For further discussion of the security and authorization issues
- regarding this call, please see the discussion in Section 2.2.8.
-
-2.3: Per-message calls
-
- This group of calls is used to perform per-message protection
- processing on an established security context. None of these calls
- block pending network interactions. These calls may be invoked by a
- context's initiator or by the context's target. The four members of
- this group should be considered as two pairs; the output from
- GSS_GetMIC() is properly input to GSS_VerifyMIC(), and the output
- from GSS_Wrap() is properly input to GSS_Unwrap().
-
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC() support data origin authentication
- and data integrity services. When GSS_GetMIC() is invoked on an input
- message, it yields a per-message token containing data items which
- allow underlying mechanisms to provide the specified security
- services. The original message, along with the generated per-message
- token, is passed to the remote peer; these two data elements are
- processed by GSS_VerifyMIC(), which validates the message in
- conjunction with the separate token.
-
- GSS_Wrap() and GSS_Unwrap() support caller-requested confidentiality
- in addition to the data origin authentication and data integrity
- services offered by GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_VerifyMIC(). GSS_Wrap()
- outputs a single data element, encapsulating optionally enciphered
- user data as well as associated token data items. The data element
- output from GSS_Wrap() is passed to the remote peer and processed by
- GSS_Unwrap() at that system. GSS_Unwrap() combines decipherment (as
- required) with validation of data items related to authentication and
- integrity.
-
- Although zero-length tokens are never returned by GSS calls for
- transfer to a context's peer, a zero-length object may be passed by a
- caller into GSS_Wrap(), in which case the corresponding peer calling
- GSS_Unwrap() on the transferred token will receive a zero-length
- object as output from GSS_Unwrap(). Similarly, GSS_GetMIC() can be
- called on an empty object, yielding a MIC which GSS_VerifyMIC() will
- successfully verify against the active security context in
- conjunction with a zero-length object.
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- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Sign call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Sign are deprecated.
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o qop_req INTEGER, -- 0 specifies default QOP
-
- o message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o per_msg_token OCTET STRING -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that an integrity check, suitable for an
- established security context, was successfully applied and that the
- message and corresponding per_msg_token are ready for transmission.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items
- have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no context was recognized for the
- input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_QOP indicates that the provided QOP value is not
- recognized or supported for the context.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that
- the requested operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Using the security context referenced by context_handle, apply an
- integrity check to the input message (along with timestamps and/or
- other data included in support of mech_type-specific mechanisms) and
- (if GSS_S_COMPLETE status is indicated) return the result in
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- per_msg_token. The qop_req parameter, interpretation of which is
- discussed in Section 1.2.4, allows quality-of-protection control. The
- caller passes the message and the per_msg_token to the target.
-
- The GSS_GetMIC() function completes before the message and
- per_msg_token is sent to the peer; successful application of
- GSS_GetMIC() does not guarantee that a corresponding GSS_VerifyMIC()
- has been (or can necessarily be) performed successfully when the
- message arrives at the destination.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.3.2: GSS_VerifyMIC call
-
- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Verify call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Verify are deprecated.
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o message OCTET STRING,
-
- o per_msg_token OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o qop_state INTEGER,
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the message was successfully
- verified.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the received per_msg_token failed, preventing further processing
- from being performed with that token.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG (GSS_S_BAD_MIC) indicates that the received
- per_msg_token contains an incorrect integrity check for the message.
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- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN, and
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN values appear in conjunction with the optional per-
- message replay detection features described in Section 1.2.3; their
- semantics are described in that section.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items
- have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no context was recognized for the
- input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that
- the GSS_VerifyMIC() operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Using the security context referenced by context_handle, verify that
- the input per_msg_token contains an appropriate integrity check for
- the input message, and apply any active replay detection or
- sequencing features. Returns an indication of the quality-of-
- protection applied to the processed message in the qop_state result.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.3.3: GSS_Wrap call
-
- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Seal call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Seal are deprecated.
-
- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o conf_req_flag BOOLEAN,
-
- o qop_req INTEGER, -- 0 specifies default QOP
-
- o input_message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
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- o conf_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o output_message OCTET STRING -- caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the input_message was successfully
- processed and that the output_message is ready for transmission.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items
- have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no context was recognized for the
- input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_QOP indicates that the provided QOP value is not
- recognized or supported for the context.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that
- the GSS_Wrap() operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Performs the data origin authentication and data integrity functions
- of GSS_GetMIC(). If the input conf_req_flag is TRUE, requests that
- confidentiality be applied to the input_message. Confidentiality may
- not be supported in all mech_types or by all implementations; the
- returned conf_state flag indicates whether confidentiality was
- provided for the input_message. The qop_req parameter, interpretation
- of which is discussed in Section 1.2.4, allows quality-of-protection
- control.
-
- When GSS_S_COMPLETE status is returned, the GSS_Wrap() call yields a
- single output_message data element containing (optionally enciphered)
- user data as well as control information.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.3.4: GSS_Unwrap call
-
- Note: This call is functionally equivalent to the GSS_Unseal call as
- defined in previous versions of this specification. In the interests
- of backward compatibility, it is recommended that implementations
- support this function under both names for the present; future
- references to this function as GSS_Unseal are deprecated.
-
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- Inputs:
-
- o context_handle CONTEXT HANDLE,
-
- o input_message OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o conf_state BOOLEAN,
-
- o qop_state INTEGER,
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_message OCTET STRING -- caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the input_message was successfully
- processed and that the resulting output_message is available.
-
- o GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the per_msg_token extracted from the input_message failed,
- preventing further processing from being performed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_SIG (GSS_S_BAD_MIC) indicates that an incorrect
- integrity check was detected for the message.
-
- o GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN, GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN, and
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN values appear in conjunction with the optional per-
- message replay detection features described in Section 1.2.3; their
- semantics are described in that section.
-
- o GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED indicates that context-related data items
- have expired, so that the requested operation cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT indicates that no context was recognized for the
- input context_handle provided.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the context is recognized, but that
- the GSS_Unwrap() operation could not be performed for reasons
- unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
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- Processes a data element generated (and optionally enciphered) by
- GSS_Wrap(), provided as input_message. The returned conf_state value
- indicates whether confidentiality was applied to the input_message.
- If conf_state is TRUE, GSS_Unwrap() has deciphered the input_message.
- Returns an indication of the quality-of-protection applied to the
- processed message in the qop_state result. GSS_Unwrap() performs the
- data integrity and data origin authentication checking functions of
- GSS_VerifyMIC() on the plaintext data. Plaintext data is returned in
- output_message.
-
- Mechanisms which do not support per-message protection services
- should return GSS_S_FAILURE if this routine is called.
-
-2.4: Support calls
-
- This group of calls provides support functions useful to GSS-API
- callers, independent of the state of established contexts. Their
- characterization with regard to blocking or non-blocking status in
- terms of network interactions is unspecified.
-
-2.4.1: GSS_Display_status call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o status_value INTEGER, -- GSS-API major_status or minor_status
- -- return value
-
- o status_type INTEGER, -- 1 if major_status, 2 if minor_status
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- mech_type to be used for
- -- minor_status translation
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o status_string_set SET OF OCTET STRING -- required calls for
- -- release by caller are specific to language bindings
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a valid printable status
- representation (possibly representing more than one status event
- encoded within the status_value) is available in the returned
- status_string_set.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that translation in accordance with an
- unsupported mech_type was requested, so translation could not be
- performed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_STATUS indicates that the input status_value was
- invalid, or that the input status_type carried a value other than 1
- or 2, so translation could not be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Provides a means for callers to translate GSS-API-returned major and
- minor status codes into printable string representations. Note: some
- language bindings may employ an iterative approach in order to emit
- successive status components; this approach is acceptable but not
- required for conformance with the current specification.
-
- Although not contemplated in [RFC-2078], it has been observed that
- some existing GSS-API implementations return GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
- status when iterating through successive messages returned from
- GSS_Display_status(). This behavior is deprecated;
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED should be returned only by
- GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context(). For maximal
- portability, however, it is recommended that defensive callers be
- able to accept and ignore GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED status if indicated
- by GSS_Display_status() or any other call other than
- GSS_Init_sec_context() or GSS_Accept_sec_context().
-
-2.4.2: GSS_Indicate_mechs call
-
- Input:
-
- o (none)
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o mech_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_oid_set()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a set of available mechanisms has
- been returned in mech_set.
-
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- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to determine the set of mechanism types available on
- the local system. This call is intended for support of specialized
- callers who need to request non-default mech_type sets from GSS-API
- calls which accept input mechanism type specifiers.
-
-2.4.3: GSS_Compare_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name1 INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o name2 INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_equal BOOLEAN
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that name1 and name2 were comparable, and
- that the name_equal result indicates whether name1 and name2
- represent the same entity.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the two input names' types are
- different and incomparable, so that the comparison operation could
- not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that one or both of the input names was
- ill-formed in terms of its internal type specifier, so the comparison
- operation could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the call's operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to compare two internal name representations to
- determine whether they refer to the same entity. If either name
- presented to GSS_Compare_name() denotes an anonymous principal,
- GSS_Compare_name() shall indicate FALSE. It is not required that
- either or both inputs name1 and name2 be MNs; for some
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- implementations and cases, GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE may be returned,
- indicating name incomparability, for the case where neither input
- name is an MN.
-
-2.4.4: GSS_Display_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_string OCTET STRING, -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- o name_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- caller should treat
- -- as read-only; does not need to be released
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a valid printable name
- representation is available in the returned name_string.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the contents of the provided name
- were inconsistent with the internally-indicated name type, so no
- printable representation could be generated.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to translate an internal name representation into a
- printable form with associated namespace type descriptor. The syntax
- of the printable form is a local matter.
-
- If the input name represents an anonymous identity, a reserved value
- (GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS) shall be returned for name_type.
-
- The GSS_C_NO_OID name type is to be returned only when the
- corresponding internal name was created through import with
- GSS_C_NO_OID. It is acceptable for mechanisms to normalize names
- imported with GSS_C_NO_OID into other supported types and, therefore,
- to display them with types other than GSS_C_NO_OID.
-
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-2.4.5: GSS_Import_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name_string OCTET STRING,
-
- o input_name_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o output_name INTERNAL NAME -- caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_name()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a valid name representation is
- output in output_name and described by the type value in
- output_name_type.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input_name_type is
- unsupported by the applicable underlying GSS-API mechanism(s), so the
- import operation could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the provided input_name_string is
- ill-formed in terms of the input_name_type, so the import operation
- could not be completed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the input presented for import was
- an exported name object and that its enclosed mechanism type was not
- recognized or was unsupported by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to provide a name representation as a contiguous octet
- string, designate the type of namespace in conjunction with which it
- should be parsed, and convert that representation to an internal form
- suitable for input to other GSS-API routines. The syntax of the
- input_name_string is defined in conjunction with its associated name
- type; depending on the input_name_type, the associated
- input_name_string may or may not be a printable string. If the
- input_name_type's value is GSS_C_NO_OID, a mechanism-specific default
- printable syntax (which shall be specified in the corresponding GSS-
- V2 mechanism specification) is assumed for the input_name_string;
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- other input_name_type values as registered by GSS-API implementations
- can be used to indicate specific non-default name syntaxes. Note: The
- input_name_type argument serves to describe and qualify the
- interpretation of the associated input_name_string; it does not
- specify the data type of the returned output_name.
-
- If a mechanism claims support for a particular name type, its
- GSS_Import_name() operation shall be able to accept all possible
- values conformant to the external name syntax as defined for that
- name type. These imported values may correspond to:
-
- (1) locally registered entities (for which credentials may be
- acquired),
-
- (2) non-local entities (for which local credentials cannot be
- acquired, but which may be referenced as targets of initiated
- security contexts or initiators of accepted security contexts), or
- to
-
- (3) neither of the above.
-
- Determination of whether a particular name belongs to class (1), (2),
- or (3) as described above is not guaranteed to be performed by the
- GSS_Import_name() function.
-
- The internal name generated by a GSS_Import_name() operation may be a
- single-mechanism MN, and is likely to be an MN within a single-
- mechanism implementation, but portable callers must not depend on
- this property (and must not, therefore, assume that the output from
- GSS_Import_name() can be passed directly to GSS_Export_name() without
- first being processed through GSS_Canonicalize_name()).
-
-2.4.6: GSS_Release_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o name INTERNAL NAME
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the
- input name was successfully released.
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- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name argument did not
- contain a valid name.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an internal
- name representation. This call's specific behavior depends on the
- language and programming environment within which a GSS-API
- implementation operates, and is therefore detailed within applicable
- bindings specifications; in particular, implementation and invocation
- of this call may be superfluous (and may be omitted) within bindings
- where memory management is automatic.
-
-2.4.7: GSS_Release_buffer call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o buffer OCTET STRING
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the
- input buffer was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an OCTET STRING
- buffer allocated by another GSS-API call. This call's specific
- behavior depends on the language and programming environment within
- which a GSS-API implementation operates, and is therefore detailed
- within applicable bindings specifications; in particular,
- implementation and invocation of this call may be superfluous (and
- may be omitted) within bindings where memory management is automatic.
-
-2.4.8: GSS_Release_OID_set call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o buffer SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
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- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the storage associated with the
- input object identifier set was successfully released.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to release the storage associated with an object
- identifier set object allocated by another GSS-API call. This call's
- specific behavior depends on the language and programming environment
- within which a GSS-API implementation operates, and is therefore
- detailed within applicable bindings specifications; in particular,
- implementation and invocation of this call may be superfluous (and
- may be omitted) within bindings where memory management is automatic.
-
-2.4.9: GSS_Create_empty_OID_set call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o (none)
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o oid_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_oid_set()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- Creates an object identifier set containing no object identifiers, to
- which members may be subsequently added using the
- GSS_Add_OID_set_member() routine. These routines are intended to be
- used to construct sets of mechanism object identifiers, for input to
- GSS_Acquire_cred().
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-2.4.10: GSS_Add_OID_set_member call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o member_oid OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o oid_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
- Adds an Object Identifier to an Object Identifier set. This routine
- is intended for use in conjunction with GSS_Create_empty_OID_set()
- when constructing a set of mechanism OIDs for input to
- GSS_Acquire_cred().
-
-2.4.11: GSS_Test_OID_set_member call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o member OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
-
- o set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o present BOOLEAN
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates successful completion
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the operation failed
-
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- Interrogates an Object Identifier set to determine whether a
- specified Object Identifier is a member. This routine is intended to
- be used with OID sets returned by GSS_Indicate_mechs(),
- GSS_Acquire_cred(), and GSS_Inquire_cred().
-
-2.4.12: GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech call
-
- Input:
-
- o input_mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER, -- mechanism type
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o name_type_set SET OF OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_oid_set()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that the output name_type_set contains a
- list of name types which are supported by the locally available
- mechanism identified by input_mech_type.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the mechanism identified by
- input_mech_type was unsupported within the local implementation,
- causing the query to fail.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- Allows callers to determine the set of name types which are
- supportable by a specific locally-available mechanism.
-
-2.4.13: GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
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- -- with GSS_Release_oid_set()
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- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a set of object identifiers,
- corresponding to the set of mechanisms suitable for processing the
- input_name, is available in mech_types.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input_name was ill-formed and
- could not be processed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input_name parameter
- contained an invalid name type or a name type unsupported by the
- GSS-API implementation.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This routine returns the mechanism set with which the input_name may
- be processed.
-
- Each mechanism returned will recognize at least one element within
- the name. It is permissible for this routine to be implemented within
- a mechanism-independent GSS-API layer, using the type information
- contained within the presented name, and based on registration
- information provided by individual mechanism implementations. This
- means that the returned mech_types result may indicate that a
- particular mechanism will understand a particular name when in fact
- it would refuse to accept that name as input to
- GSS_Canonicalize_name(), GSS_Init_sec_context(), GSS_Acquire_cred(),
- or GSS_Add_cred(), due to some property of the particular name rather
- than a property of the name type. Thus, this routine should be used
- only as a pre-filter for a call to a subsequent mechanism-specific
- routine.
-
-2.4.14: GSS_Canonicalize_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name INTERNAL NAME,
-
- o mech_type OBJECT IDENTIFIER -- must be explicit mechanism,
- -- not "default" specifier or identifier of negotiating mechanism
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
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-
- o output_name INTERNAL NAME -- caller must release with
- -- GSS_Release_name()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a mechanism-specific reduction of
- the input_name, as processed by the mechanism identified by
- mech_type, is available in output_name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_MECH indicates that the identified mechanism is
- unsupported for this operation; this may correspond either to a
- mechanism wholly unsupported by the local GSS-API implementation or
- to a negotiating mechanism with which the canonicalization operation
- cannot be performed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input name does not contain
- an element with suitable type for processing by the identified
- mechanism.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name contains an element
- with suitable type for processing by the identified mechanism, but
- that this element could not be processed successfully.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This routine reduces a GSS-API internal name input_name, which may in
- general contain elements corresponding to multiple mechanisms, to a
- mechanism-specific Mechanism Name (MN) output_name by applying the
- translations corresponding to the mechanism identified by mech_type.
- The contents of input_name are unaffected by the
- GSS_Canonicalize_name() operation. References to output_name will
- remain valid until output_name is released, independent of whether or
- not input_name is subsequently released.
-
-2.4.15: GSS_Export_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o input_name INTERNAL NAME, -- required to be MN
-
- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
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- -- with GSS_Release_buffer()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that a flat representation of the input
- name is available in output_name.
-
- o GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN indicates that the input name contained elements
- corresponding to multiple mechanisms, so cannot be exported into a
- single-mechanism flat form.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name was an MN, but could
- not be processed.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE indicates that the input name was an MN, but
- that its type is unsupported by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This routine creates a flat name representation, suitable for
- bytewise comparison or for input to GSS_Import_name() in conjunction
- with the reserved GSS-API Exported Name Object OID, from a internal-
- form Mechanism Name (MN) as emitted, e.g., by GSS_Canonicalize_name()
- or GSS_Accept_sec_context().
-
- The emitted GSS-API Exported Name Object is self-describing; no
- associated parameter-level OID need be emitted by this call. This
- flat representation consists of a mechanism-independent wrapper
- layer, defined in Section 3.2 of this document, enclosing a
- mechanism-defined name representation.
-
- In all cases, the flat name output by GSS_Export_name() to correspond
- to a particular input MN must be invariant over time within a
- particular installation.
-
- The GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN status code is provided to enable
- implementations to reject input names which are not MNs. It is not,
- however, required for purposes of conformance to this specification
- that all non-MN input names must necessarily be rejected.
-
-2.4.16: GSS_Duplicate_name call
-
- Inputs:
-
- o src_name INTERNAL NAME
-
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- Outputs:
-
- o major_status INTEGER,
-
- o minor_status INTEGER,
-
- o dest_name INTERNAL NAME -- caller must release
- -- with GSS_Release_name()
-
- Return major_status codes:
-
- o GSS_S_COMPLETE indicates that dest_name references an internal
- name object containing the same name as passed to src_name.
-
- o GSS_S_BAD_NAME indicates that the input name was invalid.
-
- o GSS_S_FAILURE indicates that the requested operation could not be
- performed for reasons unspecified at the GSS-API level.
-
- This routine takes input internal name src_name, and returns another
- reference (dest_name) to that name which can be used even if src_name
- is later freed. (Note: This may be implemented by copying or through
- use of reference counts.)
-
-3: Data Structure Definitions for GSS-V2 Usage
-
- Subsections of this section define, for interoperability and
- portability purposes, certain data structures for use with GSS-V2.
-
-3.1: Mechanism-Independent Token Format
-
- This section specifies a mechanism-independent level of encapsulating
- representation for the initial token of a GSS-API context
- establishment sequence, incorporating an identifier of the mechanism
- type to be used on that context and enabling tokens to be interpreted
- unambiguously at GSS-API peers. Use of this format is required for
- initial context establishment tokens of Internet standards-track
- GSS-API mechanisms; use in non-initial tokens is optional.
-
- The encoding format for the token tag is derived from ASN.1 and DER
- (per illustrative ASN.1 syntax included later within this
- subsection), but its concrete representation is defined directly in
- terms of octets rather than at the ASN.1 level in order to facilitate
- interoperable implementation without use of general ASN.1 processing
- code. The token tag consists of the following elements, in order:
-
- 1. 0x60 -- Tag for [APPLICATION 0] SEQUENCE; indicates that
- -- constructed form, definite length encoding follows.
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- 2. Token length octets, specifying length of subsequent data
- (i.e., the summed lengths of elements 3-5 in this list, and of the
- mechanism-defined token object following the tag). This element
- comprises a variable number of octets:
-
- 2a. If the indicated value is less than 128, it shall be
- represented in a single octet with bit 8 (high order) set to
- "0" and the remaining bits representing the value.
-
- 2b. If the indicated value is 128 or more, it shall be
- represented in two or more octets, with bit 8 of the first
- octet set to "1" and the remaining bits of the first octet
- specifying the number of additional octets. The subsequent
- octets carry the value, 8 bits per octet, most significant
- digit first. The minimum number of octets shall be used to
- encode the length (i.e., no octets representing leading zeros
- shall be included within the length encoding).
-
- 3. 0x06 -- Tag for OBJECT IDENTIFIER
-
- 4. Object identifier length -- length (number of octets) of
- -- the encoded object identifier contained in element 5,
- -- encoded per rules as described in 2a. and 2b. above.
-
- 5. Object identifier octets -- variable number of octets,
- -- encoded per ASN.1 BER rules:
-
- 5a. The first octet contains the sum of two values: (1) the
- top-level object identifier component, multiplied by 40
- (decimal), and (2) the second-level object identifier
- component. This special case is the only point within an
- object identifier encoding where a single octet represents
- contents of more than one component.
-
- 5b. Subsequent octets, if required, encode successively-lower
- components in the represented object identifier. A component's
- encoding may span multiple octets, encoding 7 bits per octet
- (most significant bits first) and with bit 8 set to "1" on all
- but the final octet in the component's encoding. The minimum
- number of octets shall be used to encode each component (i.e.,
- no octets representing leading zeros shall be included within a
- component's encoding).
-
- (Note: In many implementations, elements 3-5 may be stored and
- referenced as a contiguous string constant.)
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- The token tag is immediately followed by a mechanism-defined token
- object. Note that no independent size specifier intervenes following
- the object identifier value to indicate the size of the mechanism-
- defined token object. While ASN.1 usage within mechanism-defined
- tokens is permitted, there is no requirement that the mechanism-
- specific innerContextToken, innerMsgToken, and sealedUserData data
- elements must employ ASN.1 BER/DER encoding conventions.
-
- The following ASN.1 syntax is included for descriptive purposes only,
- to illustrate structural relationships among token and tag objects.
- For interoperability purposes, token and tag encoding shall be
- performed using the concrete encoding procedures described earlier in
- this subsection.
-
- GSS-API DEFINITIONS ::=
-
- BEGIN
-
- MechType ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- -- data structure definitions
- -- callers must be able to distinguish among
- -- InitialContextToken, SubsequentContextToken,
- -- PerMsgToken, and SealedMessage data elements
- -- based on the usage in which they occur
-
- InitialContextToken ::=
- -- option indication (delegation, etc.) indicated within
- -- mechanism-specific token
- [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
- thisMech MechType,
- innerContextToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
- -- contents mechanism-specific
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
- }
-
- SubsequentContextToken ::= innerContextToken ANY
- -- interpretation based on predecessor InitialContextToken
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
-
- PerMsgToken ::=
- -- as emitted by GSS_GetMIC and processed by GSS_VerifyMIC
- -- ASN.1 structure not required
- innerMsgToken ANY
-
- SealedMessage ::=
- -- as emitted by GSS_Wrap and processed by GSS_Unwrap
- -- includes internal, mechanism-defined indicator
- -- of whether or not encrypted
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- -- ASN.1 structure not required
- sealedUserData ANY
-
- END
-
-3.2: Mechanism-Independent Exported Name Object Format
-
- This section specifies a mechanism-independent level of encapsulating
- representation for names exported via the GSS_Export_name() call,
- including an object identifier representing the exporting mechanism.
- The format of names encapsulated via this representation shall be
- defined within individual mechanism drafts. The Object Identifier
- value to indicate names of this type is defined in Section 4.7 of
- this document.
-
- No name type OID is included in this mechanism-independent level of
- format definition, since (depending on individual mechanism
- specifications) the enclosed name may be implicitly typed or may be
- explicitly typed using a means other than OID encoding.
-
- The bytes within MECH_OID_LEN and NAME_LEN elements are represented
- most significant byte first (equivalently, in IP network byte order).
-
- Length Name Description
-
- 2 TOK_ID Token Identifier
- For exported name objects, this
- must be hex 04 01.
- 2 MECH_OID_LEN Length of the Mechanism OID
- MECH_OID_LEN MECH_OID Mechanism OID, in DER
- 4 NAME_LEN Length of name
- NAME_LEN NAME Exported name; format defined in
- applicable mechanism draft.
-
- A concrete example of the contents of an exported name object,
- derived from the Kerberos Version 5 mechanism, is as follows:
-
- 04 01 00 0B 06 09 2A 86 48 86 F7 12 01 02 02 hx xx xx xl pp qq ... zz
-
- 04 01 mandatory token identifier
-
- 00 0B 2-byte length of the immediately following DER-encoded
- ASN.1 value of type OID, most significant octet first
-
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- 06 09 2A 86 48 86 F7 12 01 02 02 DER-encoded ASN.1 value
- of type OID; Kerberos V5
- mechanism OID indicates
- Kerberos V5 exported name
-
- in Detail: 06 Identifier octet (6=OID)
- 09 Length octet(s)
- 2A 86 48 86 F7 12 01 02 02 Content octet(s)
-
- hx xx xx xl 4-byte length of the immediately following exported
- name blob, most significant octet first
-
- pp qq ... zz exported name blob of specified length,
- bits and bytes specified in the
- (Kerberos 5) GSS-API v2 mechanism spec
-
-4: Name Type Definitions
-
- This section includes definitions for name types and associated
- syntaxes which are defined in a mechanism-independent fashion at the
- GSS-API level rather than being defined in individual mechanism
- specifications.
-
-4.1: Host-Based Service Name Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier:
-
- {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1)
- "gssapi(2) generic(1) service_name(4)}.
-
- The recommended symbolic name for this type is
- "GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE".
-
- For reasons of compatibility with existing implementations, it is
- recommended that this OID be used rather than the alternate value as
- included in [RFC-2078]:
-
- {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
- 2(gss-host-based-services)}
-
- While it is not recommended that this alternate value be emitted on
- output by GSS implementations, it is recommended that it be accepted
- on input as equivalent to the recommended value.
-
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- This name type is used to represent services associated with host
- computers. Support for this name form is recommended to mechanism
- designers in the interests of portability, but is not mandated by
- this specification. This name form is constructed using two elements,
- "service" and "hostname", as follows:
-
- service@hostname
-
- When a reference to a name of this type is resolved, the "hostname"
- may (as an example implementation strategy) be canonicalized by
- attempting a DNS lookup and using the fully-qualified domain name
- which is returned, or by using the "hostname" as provided if the DNS
- lookup fails. The canonicalization operation also maps the host's
- name into lower-case characters.
-
- The "hostname" element may be omitted. If no "@" separator is
- included, the entire name is interpreted as the service specifier,
- with the "hostname" defaulted to the canonicalized name of the local
- host.
-
- Documents specifying means for GSS integration into a particular
- protocol should state either:
-
- (a) that a specific IANA-registered name associated with that
- protocol shall be used for the "service" element (this admits, if
- needed, the possibility that a single name can be registered and
- shared among a related set of protocols), or
-
- (b) that the generic name "host" shall be used for the "service"
- element, or
-
- (c) that, for that protocol, fallback in specified order (a, then
- b) or (b, then a) shall be applied.
-
- IANA registration of specific names per (a) should be handled in
- accordance with the "Specification Required" assignment policy,
- defined by BCP 26, RFC 2434 as follows: "Values and their meaning
- must be documented in an RFC or other available reference, in
- sufficient detail so that interoperability between independent
- implementations is possible."
-
-4.2: User Name Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) user_name(1)}. The recommended mechanism-independent
- symbolic name for this type is "GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME". (Note: the same
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- name form and OID is defined within the Kerberos V5 GSS-API
- mechanism, but the symbolic name recommended there begins with a
- "GSS_KRB5_NT_" prefix.)
-
- This name type is used to indicate a named user on a local system.
- Its syntax and interpretation may be OS-specific. This name form is
- constructed as:
-
- username
-
-4.3: Machine UID Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) machine_uid_name(2)}. The recommended mechanism-
- independent symbolic name for this type is
- "GSS_C_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME". (Note: the same name form and OID is
- defined within the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism, but the symbolic
- name recommended there begins with a "GSS_KRB5_NT_" prefix.)
-
- This name type is used to indicate a numeric user identifier
- corresponding to a user on a local system. Its interpretation is
- OS-specific. The gss_buffer_desc representing a name of this type
- should contain a locally-significant user ID, represented in host
- byte order. The GSS_Import_name() operation resolves this uid into a
- username, which is then treated as the User Name Form.
-
-4.4: String UID Form
-
- This name form shall be represented by the Object Identifier {iso(1)
- member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- generic(1) string_uid_name(3)}. The recommended symbolic name for
- this type is "GSS_C_NT_STRING_UID_NAME". (Note: the same name form
- and OID is defined within the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism, but the
- symbolic name recommended there begins with a "GSS_KRB5_NT_" prefix.)
-
- This name type is used to indicate a string of digits representing
- the numeric user identifier of a user on a local system. Its
- interpretation is OS-specific. This name type is similar to the
- Machine UID Form, except that the buffer contains a string
- representing the user ID.
-
-4.5: Anonymous Nametype
-
- The following Object Identifier value is provided as a means to
- identify anonymous names, and can be compared against in order to
- determine, in a mechanism-independent fashion, whether a name refers
- to an anonymous principal:
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- {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
- 3(gss-anonymous-name)}
-
- The recommended symbolic name corresponding to this definition is
- GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS.
-
-4.6: GSS_C_NO_OID
-
- The recommended symbolic name GSS_C_NO_OID corresponds to a null
- input value instead of an actual object identifier. Where specified,
- it indicates interpretation of an associated name based on a
- mechanism-specific default printable syntax.
-
-4.7: Exported Name Object
-
- Name objects of the Mechanism-Independent Exported Name Object type,
- as defined in Section 3.2 of this document, will be identified with
- the following Object Identifier:
-
- {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
- 4(gss-api-exported-name)}
-
- The recommended symbolic name corresponding to this definition is
- GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME.
-
-4.8: GSS_C_NO_NAME
-
- The recommended symbolic name GSS_C_NO_NAME indicates that no name is
- being passed within a particular value of a parameter used for the
- purpose of transferring names. Note: GSS_C_NO_NAME is not an actual
- name type, and is not represented by an OID; its acceptability in
- lieu of an actual name is confined to specific calls
- (GSS_Acquire_cred(), GSS_Add_cred(), and GSS_Init_sec_context()) with
- usages as identified within this specification.
-
-5: Mechanism-Specific Example Scenarios
-
- This section provides illustrative overviews of the use of various
- candidate mechanism types to support the GSS-API. These discussions
- are intended primarily for readers familiar with specific security
- technologies, demonstrating how GSS-API functions can be used and
- implemented by candidate underlying mechanisms. They should not be
- regarded as constrictive to implementations or as defining the only
- means through which GSS-API functions can be realized with a
- particular underlying technology, and do not demonstrate all GSS-API
- features with each technology.
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-5.1: Kerberos V5, single-TGT
-
- OS-specific login functions yield a TGT to the local realm Kerberos
- server; TGT is placed in a credentials structure for the client.
- Client calls GSS_Acquire_cred() to acquire a cred_handle in order to
- reference the credentials for use in establishing security contexts.
-
- Client calls GSS_Init_sec_context(). If the requested service is
- located in a different realm, GSS_Init_sec_context() gets the
- necessary TGT/key pairs needed to traverse the path from local to
- target realm; these data are placed in the owner's TGT cache. After
- any needed remote realm resolution, GSS_Init_sec_context() yields a
- service ticket to the requested service with a corresponding session
- key; these data are stored in conjunction with the context. GSS-API
- code sends KRB_TGS_REQ request(s) and receives KRB_TGS_REP
- response(s) (in the successful case) or KRB_ERROR.
-
- Assuming success, GSS_Init_sec_context() builds a Kerberos-formatted
- KRB_AP_REQ message, and returns it in output_token. The client sends
- the output_token to the service.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), which verifies the authenticator, provides
- the service with the client's authenticated name, and returns an
- output_context_handle.
-
- Both parties now hold the session key associated with the service
- ticket, and can use this key in subsequent GSS_GetMIC(),
- GSS_VerifyMIC(), GSS_Wrap(), and GSS_Unwrap() operations.
-
-5.2: Kerberos V5, double-TGT
-
- TGT acquisition as above.
-
- Note: To avoid unnecessary frequent invocations of error paths when
- implementing the GSS-API atop Kerberos V5, it seems appropriate to
- represent "single-TGT K-V5" and "double-TGT K-V5" with separate
- mech_types, and this discussion makes that assumption.
-
- Based on the (specified or defaulted) mech_type,
- GSS_Init_sec_context() determines that the double-TGT protocol
- should be employed for the specified target. GSS_Init_sec_context()
- returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status, and its returned
- output_token contains a request to the service for the service's TGT.
- (If a service TGT with suitably long remaining lifetime already
- exists in a cache, it may be usable, obviating the need for this
- step.) The client passes the output_token to the service. Note: this
- scenario illustrates a different use for the GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
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- status return facility than for support of mutual authentication;
- note that both uses can coexist as successive operations within a
- single context establishment operation.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(), which recognizes it as a request for TGT.
- (Note that current Kerberos V5 defines no intra-protocol mechanism to
- represent such a request.) GSS_Accept_sec_context() returns
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major_status and provides the service's TGT in
- its output_token. The service sends the output_token to the client.
-
- The client passes the received token as the input_token argument to a
- continuation of GSS_Init_sec_context(). GSS_Init_sec_context() caches
- the received service TGT and uses it as part of a service ticket
- request to the Kerberos authentication server, storing the returned
- service ticket and session key in conjunction with the context.
- GSS_Init_sec_context() builds a Kerberos-formatted authenticator, and
- returns it in output_token along with GSS_S_COMPLETE return
- major_status. The client sends the output_token to the service.
-
- Service passes the received token as the input_token argument to a
- continuation call to GSS_Accept_sec_context().
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() verifies the authenticator, provides the
- service with the client's authenticated name, and returns
- major_status GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- GSS_GetMIC(), GSS_VerifyMIC(), GSS_Wrap(), and GSS_Unwrap() as
- above.
-
-5.3: X.509 Authentication Framework
-
- This example illustrates use of the GSS-API in conjunction with
- public-key mechanisms, consistent with the X.509 Directory
- Authentication Framework.
-
- The GSS_Acquire_cred() call establishes a credentials structure,
- making the client's private key accessible for use on behalf of the
- client.
-
- The client calls GSS_Init_sec_context(), which interrogates the
- Directory to acquire (and validate) a chain of public-key
- certificates, thereby collecting the public key of the service. The
- certificate validation operation determines that suitable integrity
- checks were applied by trusted authorities and that those
- certificates have not expired. GSS_Init_sec_context() generates a
- secret key for use in per-message protection operations on the
- context, and enciphers that secret key under the service's public
- key.
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- The enciphered secret key, along with an authenticator quantity
- signed with the client's private key, is included in the output_token
- from GSS_Init_sec_context(). The output_token also carries a
- certification path, consisting of a certificate chain leading from
- the service to the client; a variant approach would defer this path
- resolution to be performed by the service instead of being asserted
- by the client. The client application sends the output_token to the
- service.
-
- The service passes the received token as the input_token argument to
- GSS_Accept_sec_context(). GSS_Accept_sec_context() validates the
- certification path, and as a result determines a certified binding
- between the client's distinguished name and the client's public key.
- Given that public key, GSS_Accept_sec_context() can process the
- input_token's authenticator quantity and verify that the client's
- private key was used to sign the input_token. At this point, the
- client is authenticated to the service. The service uses its private
- key to decipher the enciphered secret key provided to it for per-
- message protection operations on the context.
-
- The client calls GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() on a data message, which
- causes per-message authentication, integrity, and (optional)
- confidentiality facilities to be applied to that message. The service
- uses the context's shared secret key to perform corresponding
- GSS_VerifyMIC() and GSS_Unwrap() calls.
-
-6: Security Considerations
-
- This document specifies a service interface for security facilities
- and services; as such, security considerations are considered
- throughout the specification. Nonetheless, it is appropriate to
- summarize certain specific points relevant to GSS-API implementors
- and calling applications. Usage of the GSS-API interface does not in
- itself provide security services or assurance; instead, these
- attributes are dependent on the underlying mechanism(s) which support
- a GSS-API implementation. Callers must be attentive to the requests
- made to GSS-API calls and to the status indicators returned by GSS-
- API, as these specify the security service characteristics which
- GSS-API will provide. When the interprocess context transfer
- facility is used, appropriate local controls should be applied to
- constrain access to interprocess tokens and to the sensitive data
- which they contain.
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-7: Related Activities
-
- In order to implement the GSS-API atop existing, emerging, and future
- security mechanisms:
-
- object identifiers must be assigned to candidate GSS-API
- mechanisms and the name types which they support
-
- concrete data element formats and processing procedures must be
- defined for candidate mechanisms
-
- Calling applications must implement formatting conventions which will
- enable them to distinguish GSS-API tokens from other data carried in
- their application protocols.
-
- Concrete language bindings are required for the programming
- environments in which the GSS-API is to be employed, as [RFC-1509]
- defines for the C programming language and GSS-V1. C Language
- bindings for GSS-V2 are defined in [RFC-2744].
-
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-8: Referenced Documents
-
- [ISO-7498-2] International Standard ISO 7498-2-1988(E), Security
- Architecture.
-
- [ISOIEC-8824] ISO/IEC 8824, "Specification of Abstract Syntax
- Notation One (ASN.1)".
-
- [ISOIEC-8825] ISO/IEC 8825, "Specification of Basic Encoding Rules
- for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)".)
-
- [RFC-1507]: Kaufman, C., "DASS: Distributed Authentication Security
- Service", RFC 1507, September 1993.
-
- [RFC-1508]: Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface", RFC 1508, September 1993.
-
- [RFC-1509]: Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API: C-bindings",
- RFC 1509, September 1993.
-
- [RFC-1964]: Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism",
- RFC 1964, June 1996.
-
- [RFC-2025]: Adams, C., "The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism
- (SPKM)", RFC 2025, October 1996.
-
- [RFC-2078]: Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface, Version 2", RFC 2078, January 1997.
-
- [RFC-2203]: Eisler, M., Chiu, A. and L. Ling, "RPCSEC_GSS Protocol
- Specification", RFC 2203, September 1997.
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- [RFC-2744]: Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API Version 2 :
- C-bindings", RFC 2744, January 2000.
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-MECHANISM DESIGN CONSTRAINTS
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- The following constraints on GSS-API mechanism designs are adopted in
- response to observed caller protocol requirements, and adherence
- thereto is anticipated in subsequent descriptions of GSS-API
- mechanisms to be documented in standards-track Internet
- specifications.
-
- It is strongly recommended that mechanisms offering per-message
- protection services also offer at least one of the replay detection
- and sequencing services, as mechanisms offering neither of the latter
- will fail to satisfy recognized requirements of certain candidate
- caller protocols.
-
-APPENDIX B
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-COMPATIBILITY WITH GSS-V1
-
- It is the intent of this document to define an interface and
- procedures which preserve compatibility between GSS-V1 [RFC-1508]
- callers and GSS-V2 providers. All calls defined in GSS-V1 are
- preserved, and it has been a goal that GSS-V1 callers should be able
- to operate atop GSS-V2 provider implementations. Certain detailed
- changes, summarized in this section, have been made in order to
- resolve omissions identified in GSS-V1.
-
- The following GSS-V1 constructs, while supported within GSS-V2, are
- deprecated:
-
- Names for per-message processing routines: GSS_Seal() deprecated
- in favor of GSS_Wrap(); GSS_Sign() deprecated in favor of
- GSS_GetMIC(); GSS_Unseal() deprecated in favor of GSS_Unwrap();
- GSS_Verify() deprecated in favor of GSS_VerifyMIC().
-
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() facility for context_token usage,
- allowing mechanisms to signal context deletion, is retained for
- compatibility with GSS-V1. For current usage, it is recommended
- that both peers to a context invoke GSS_Delete_sec_context()
- independently, passing a null output_context_token buffer to
- indicate that no context_token is required. Implementations of
- GSS_Delete_sec_context() should delete relevant locally-stored
- context information.
-
- This GSS-V2 specification adds the following calls which are not
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- Credential management calls: GSS_Add_cred(),
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech().
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- Context-level calls: GSS_Inquire_context(), GSS_Wrap_size_limit(),
- GSS_Export_sec_context(), GSS_Import_sec_context().
-
- Per-message calls: No new calls. Existing calls have been
- renamed.
-
- Support calls: GSS_Create_empty_OID_set(),
- GSS_Add_OID_set_member(), GSS_Test_OID_set_member(),
- GSS_Inquire_names_for_mech(), GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name(),
- GSS_Canonicalize_name(), GSS_Export_name(), GSS_Duplicate_name().
-
- This GSS-V2 specification introduces three new facilities applicable
- to security contexts, indicated using the following context state
- values which are not present in GSS-V1:
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- anon_state, set TRUE to indicate that a context's initiator is
- anonymous from the viewpoint of the target; Section 1.2.5 of this
- specification provides a summary description of the GSS-V2
- anonymity support facility, support and use of which is optional.
-
- prot_ready_state, set TRUE to indicate that a context may be used
- for per-message protection before final completion of context
- establishment; Section 1.2.7 of this specification provides a
- summary description of the GSS-V2 facility enabling mechanisms to
- selectively permit per-message protection during context
- establishment, support and use of which is optional.
-
- trans_state, set TRUE to indicate that a context is transferable
- to another process using the GSS-V2 GSS_Export_sec_context()
- facility.
-
- These state values are represented (at the C bindings level) in
- positions within a bit vector which are unused in GSS-V1, and may be
- safely ignored by GSS-V1 callers.
-
- New conf_req_flag and integ_req_flag inputs are defined for
- GSS_Init_sec_context(), primarily to provide information to
- negotiating mechanisms. This introduces a compatibility issue with
- GSS-V1 callers, discussed in section 2.2.1 of this specification.
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- implementors in the following areas: implementation robustness,
- credential management, behavior in multi-mechanism configurations,
- naming support, and inclusion of optional sequencing services. The
- token tagging facility as defined in GSS-V2, Section 3.1, is now
- described directly in terms of octets to facilitate interoperable
- implementation without general ASN.1 processing code; the
- corresponding ASN.1 syntax, included for descriptive purposes, is
- unchanged from that in GSS-V1. For use in conjunction with added
- naming support facilities, a new Exported Name Object construct is
- added. Additional name types are introduced in Section 4.
-
- This GSS-V2 specification adds the following major_status values
- which are not defined in GSS-V1:
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- GSS_S_BAD_QOP unsupported QOP value
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED operation unauthorized
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE operation unavailable
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT duplicate credential element
- requested
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN name contains multi-mechanism
- elements
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN skipped predecessor token(s)
- detected
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- Of these added status codes, only two values are defined to be
- returnable by calls existing in GSS-V1: GSS_S_BAD_QOP (returnable by
- GSS_GetMIC() and GSS_Wrap()), and GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN (returnable by
- GSS_VerifyMIC() and GSS_Unwrap()).
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- Additionally, GSS-V2 descriptions of certain calls present in GSS-V1
- have been updated to allow return of additional major_status values
- from the set as defined in GSS-V1: GSS_Inquire_cred() has
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL and GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED defined as
- returnable, GSS_Init_sec_context() has GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN,
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN, and GSS_S_BAD_MECH defined as returnable, and
- GSS_Accept_sec_context() has GSS_S_BAD_MECH defined as returnable.
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-CHANGES RELATIVE TO RFC-2078
-
- This document incorporates a number of changes relative to RFC-2078,
- made primarily in response to implementation experience, for purposes
- of alignment with the GSS-V2 C language bindings document, and to add
- informative clarification. This section summarizes technical changes
- incorporated.
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- General:
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- Clarified usage of object release routines, and incorporated
- statement that some may be omitted within certain operating
- environments.
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- Removed GSS_Release_OID, GSS_OID_to_str(), and GSS_Str_to_OID()
- routines.
-
- Clarified circumstances under which zero-length tokens may validly
- exist as inputs and outputs to/from GSS-API calls.
-
- Added GSS_S_BAD_MIC status code as alias for GSS_S_BAD_SIG.
-
- For GSS_Display_status(), deferred to language bindings the choice
- of whether to return multiple status values in parallel or via
- iteration, and added commentary deprecating return of
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED.
-
- Adapted and incorporated clarifying material on optional service
- support, delegation, and interprocess context transfer from C
- bindings document.
-
- Added and updated references to related documents, and to current
- status of cited Kerberos mechanism OID.
-
- Added general statement about GSS-API calls having no side effects
- visible at the GSS-API level.
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- Context-related (including per-message protection issues):
-
- Clarified GSS_Delete_sec_context() usage for partially-established
- contexts.
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- Added clarification on GSS_Export_sec_context() and
- GSS_Import_sec_context() behavior and context usage following an
- export-import sequence.
-
- Added informatory conf_req_flag, integ_req_flag inputs to
- GSS_Init_sec_context(). (Note: this facility introduces a
- backward incompatibility with GSS-V1 callers, discussed in Section
- 2.2.1; this implication was recognized and accepted in working
- group discussion.)
-
- Stated that GSS_S_FAILURE is to be returned if
- GSS_Init_sec_context() or GSS_Accept_sec_context() is passed the
- handle of a context which is already fully established.
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- Re GSS_Inquire_sec_context(), stated that src_name and targ_name
- are not returned until GSS_S_COMPLETE status is reached; removed
- use of GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED status code (replacing with EXPIRED
- lifetime return value); stated requirement to retain inquirable
- data until context released by caller; added result value
- indicating whether or not context is fully open.
-
- Added discussion of interoperability conditions for mechanisms
- permitting optional support of QOPs. Removed reference to
- structured QOP elements in GSS_Verify_MIC().
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- Added discussion of use of GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN status to
- indicate reflected per-message tokens.
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- Clarified use of informational sequencing codes from per-message
- protection calls in conjunction with GSS_S_COMPLETE and
- GSS_S_FAILURE major_status returns, adjusting status code
- descriptions accordingly.
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- Added specific statements about impact of GSS_GetMIC() and
- GSS_Wrap() failures on context state information, and generalized
- existing statements about impact of processing failures on
- received per-message tokens.
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- For GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context(), permitted
- returned mech_type to be valid before GSS_S_COMPLETE, recognizing
- that the value may change on successive continuation calls in the
- negotiated mechanism case.
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- Deleted GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED status from
- GSS_Import_sec_context().
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- Added conf_req_flag input to GSS_Wrap_size_limit().
-
- Stated requirement for mechanisms' support of per-message
- protection services to be usable concurrently in both directions
- on a context.
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- Credential-related:
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- For GSS_Acquire_cred() and GSS_Add_cred(), aligned with C bindings
- statement of likely non-support for INITIATE or BOTH credentials
- if input name is neither empty nor a name resulting from applying
- GSS_Inquire_cred() against the default credential. Further,
- stated that an explicit name returned by GSS_Inquire_context()
- should also be accepted. Added commentary about potentially
- time-variant results of default resolution and attendant
- implications. Aligned with C bindings re behavior when
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- GSS_C_NO_NAME provided for desired_name. In GSS_Acquire_cred(),
- stated that NULL, rather than empty OID set, should be used for
- desired_mechs in order to request default mechanism set.
-
- Added GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED as returnable major_status for
- GSS_Acquire_cred(), GSS_Add_cred(), also specifying GSS_S_NO_CRED
- as appropriate return for temporary, user-fixable credential
- unavailability. GSS_Acquire_cred() and GSS_Add_cred() are also to
- return GSS_S_NO_CRED if an authorization failure is encountered
- upon credential acquisition.
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- Removed GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED status return from per-message
- protection, GSS_Context_time(), and GSS_Inquire_context() calls.
-
- For GSS_Add_cred(), aligned with C bindings' description of
- behavior when addition of elements to the default credential is
- requested.
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- Upgraded recommended default credential resolution algorithm to
- status of requirement for initiator credentials.
-
- For GSS_Release_cred(), GSS_Inquire_cred(), and
- GSS_Inquire_cred_by_mech(), clarified behavior for input
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL.
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- Name-related:
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- Aligned GSS_Inquire_mechs_for_name() description with C bindings.
-
- Removed GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE status return from
- GSS_Duplicate_name(), GSS_Display_name(); constrained its
- applicability for GSS_Compare_name().
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- Aligned with C bindings statement re GSS_Import_name() behavior
- with GSS_C_NO_OID input name type, and stated that GSS-V2
- mechanism specifications are to define processing procedures
- applicable to their mechanisms. Also clarified GSS_C_NO_OID usage
- with GSS_Display_name().
-
- Downgraded reference to name canonicalization via DNS lookup to an
- example.
-
- For GSS_Canonicalize_name(), stated that neither negotiated
- mechanisms nor the default mechanism are supported input
- mech_types for this operation, and specified GSS_S_BAD_MECH status
- to be returned in this case. Clarified that the
- GSS_Canonicalize_name() operation is non-destructive to its input
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- Clarified semantics of GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME name type.
-
- Added descriptions of additional name types. Also added
- discussion of GSS_C_NO_NAME and its constrained usage with
- specific GSS calls.
-
- Adapted and incorporated C bindings discussion about name
- comparisons with exported name objects.
-
- Added recommendation to mechanism designers for support of host-
- based service name type, deferring any requirement statement to
- individual mechanism specifications. Added discussion of host-
- based service's service name element and proposed approach for
- IANA registration policy therefor.
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- Clarified byte ordering within exported name object. Stated that
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH is to be returned if, in the course of attempted
- import of an exported name object, the name object's enclosed
- mechanism type is unrecognized or unsupported.
-
- Stated that mechanisms may optionally accept GSS_C_NO_NAME as an
- input target name to GSS_Init_sec_context(), with comment that
- such support is unlikely within mechanisms predating GSS-V2,
- Update 1.
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-AUTHOR'S ADDRESS
-
- John Linn
- RSA Laboratories
- 20 Crosby Drive
- Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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- Phone: +1 781.687.7817
- EMail: jlinn@rsasecurity.com
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-Request for Comments: 2744 Iris Associates
-Obsoletes: 1509 January 2000
-Category: Standards Track
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- Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
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-Status of this Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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-Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
-
-Abstract
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- This document specifies C language bindings for Version 2, Update 1
- of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-
- API), which is described at a language-independent conceptual level
- in RFC-2743 [GSSAPI]. It obsoletes RFC-1509, making specific
- incremental changes in response to implementation experience and
- liaison requests. It is intended, therefore, that this memo or a
- successor version thereof will become the basis for subsequent
- progression of the GSS-API specification on the standards track.
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- The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
- provides security services to its callers, and is intended for
- implementation atop a variety of underlying cryptographic mechanisms.
- Typically, GSS-API callers will be application protocols into which
- security enhancements are integrated through invocation of services
- provided by the GSS-API. The GSS-API allows a caller application to
- authenticate a principal identity associated with a peer application,
- to delegate rights to a peer, and to apply security services such as
- confidentiality and integrity on a per-message basis.
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-1. Introduction
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- The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface
- [GSSAPI] provides security services to calling applications. It
- allows a communicating application to authenticate the user
- associated with another application, to delegate rights to another
- application, and to apply security services such as confidentiality
- and integrity on a per-message basis.
-
- There are four stages to using the GSS-API:
-
- a) The application acquires a set of credentials with which it may
- prove its identity to other processes. The application's
- credentials vouch for its global identity, which may or may not be
- related to any local username under which it may be running.
-
- b) A pair of communicating applications establish a joint security
- context using their credentials. The security context is a pair
- of GSS-API data structures that contain shared state information,
- which is required in order that per-message security services may
- be provided. Examples of state that might be shared between
- applications as part of a security context are cryptographic keys,
- and message sequence numbers. As part of the establishment of a
- security context, the context initiator is authenticated to the
- responder, and may require that the responder is authenticated in
- turn. The initiator may optionally give the responder the right
- to initiate further security contexts, acting as an agent or
- delegate of the initiator. This transfer of rights is termed
- delegation, and is achieved by creating a set of credentials,
- similar to those used by the initiating application, but which may
- be used by the responder.
-
- To establish and maintain the shared information that makes up the
- security context, certain GSS-API calls will return a token data
- structure, which is an opaque data type that may contain
- cryptographically protected data. The caller of such a GSS-API
- routine is responsible for transferring the token to the peer
- application, encapsulated if necessary in an application-
- application protocol. On receipt of such a token, the peer
- application should pass it to a corresponding GSS-API routine
- which will decode the token and extract the information, updating
- the security context state information accordingly.
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- integrity and data origin authentication, or confidentiality,
- integrity and data origin authentication to application data,
- which are treated by GSS-API as arbitrary octet-strings. An
- application transmitting a message that it wishes to protect will
- call the appropriate GSS-API routine (gss_get_mic or gss_wrap) to
- apply protection, specifying the appropriate security context, and
- send the resulting token to the receiving application. The
- receiver will pass the received token (and, in the case of data
- protected by gss_get_mic, the accompanying message-data) to the
- corresponding decoding routine (gss_verify_mic or gss_unwrap) to
- remove the protection and validate the data.
-
- d) At the completion of a communications session (which may extend
- across several transport connections), each application calls a
- GSS-API routine to delete the security context. Multiple contexts
- may also be used (either successively or simultaneously) within a
- single communications association, at the option of the
- applications.
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-2. GSS-API Routines
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- This section lists the routines that make up the GSS-API, and
- offers a brief description of the purpose of each routine.
- Detailed descriptions of each routine are listed in alphabetical
- order in section 5.
-
- Table 2-1 GSS-API Credential-management Routines
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- Routine Section Function
- ------- ------- --------
- gss_acquire_cred 5.2 Assume a global identity; Obtain
- a GSS-API credential handle for
- pre-existing credentials.
- gss_add_cred 5.3 Construct credentials
- incrementally
- gss_inquire_cred 5.21 Obtain information about a
- credential
- gss_inquire_cred_by_mech 5.22 Obtain per-mechanism information
- about a credential.
- gss_release_cred 5.27 Discard a credential handle.
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- Routine Section Function
- ------- ------- --------
- gss_init_sec_context 5.19 Initiate a security context with
- a peer application
- gss_accept_sec_context 5.1 Accept a security context
- initiated by a
- peer application
- gss_delete_sec_context 5.9 Discard a security context
- gss_process_context_token 5.25 Process a token on a security
- context from a peer application
- gss_context_time 5.7 Determine for how long a context
- will remain valid
- gss_inquire_context 5.20 Obtain information about a
- security context
- gss_wrap_size_limit 5.34 Determine token-size limit for
- gss_wrap on a context
- gss_export_sec_context 5.14 Transfer a security context to
- another process
- gss_import_sec_context 5.17 Import a transferred context
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- Table 2-3 GSS-API Per-message Routines
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- Routine Section Function
- ------- ------- --------
- gss_get_mic 5.15 Calculate a cryptographic message
- integrity code (MIC) for a
- message; integrity service
- gss_verify_mic 5.32 Check a MIC against a message;
- verify integrity of a received
- message
- gss_wrap 5.33 Attach a MIC to a message, and
- optionally encrypt the message
- content;
- confidentiality service
- gss_unwrap 5.31 Verify a message with attached
- MIC, and decrypt message content
- if necessary.
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- Table 2-4 GSS-API Name manipulation Routines
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- Routine Section Function
- ------- ------- --------
- gss_import_name 5.16 Convert a contiguous string name
- to internal-form
- gss_display_name 5.10 Convert internal-form name to
- text
- gss_compare_name 5.6 Compare two internal-form names
-
- gss_release_name 5.28 Discard an internal-form name
- gss_inquire_names_for_mech 5.24 List the name-types supported by
- the specified mechanism
- gss_inquire_mechs_for_name 5.23 List mechanisms that support the
- specified name-type
- gss_canonicalize_name 5.5 Convert an internal name to an MN
- gss_export_name 5.13 Convert an MN to export form
- gss_duplicate_name 5.12 Create a copy of an internal name
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- Table 2-5 GSS-API Miscellaneous Routines
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- Routine Section Function
- ------- ------- --------
- gss_add_oid_set_member 5.4 Add an object identifier to
- a set
- gss_display_status 5.11 Convert a GSS-API status code
- to text
- gss_indicate_mechs 5.18 Determine available underlying
- authentication mechanisms
- gss_release_buffer 5.26 Discard a buffer
- gss_release_oid_set 5.29 Discard a set of object
- identifiers
- gss_create_empty_oid_set 5.8 Create a set containing no
- object identifiers
- gss_test_oid_set_member 5.30 Determines whether an object
- identifier is a member of a set.
-
- Individual GSS-API implementations may augment these routines by
- providing additional mechanism-specific routines if required
- functionality is not available from the generic forms. Applications
- are encouraged to use the generic routines wherever possible on
- portability grounds.
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- The following conventions are used by the GSS-API C-language
- bindings:
-
-3.1. Integer types
-
- GSS-API uses the following integer data type:
-
- OM_uint32 32-bit unsigned integer
-
- Where guaranteed minimum bit-count is important, this portable data
- type is used by the GSS-API routine definitions. Individual GSS-API
- implementations will include appropriate typedef definitions to map
- this type onto a built-in data type. If the platform supports the
- X/Open xom.h header file, the OM_uint32 definition contained therein
- should be used; the GSS-API header file in Appendix A contains logic
- that will detect the prior inclusion of xom.h, and will not attempt
- to re-declare OM_uint32. If the X/Open header file is not available
- on the platform, the GSS-API implementation should use the smallest
- natural unsigned integer type that provides at least 32 bits of
- precision.
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-3.2. String and similar data
-
- Many of the GSS-API routines take arguments and return values that
- describe contiguous octet-strings. All such data is passed between
- the GSS-API and the caller using the gss_buffer_t data type. This
- data type is a pointer to a buffer descriptor, which consists of a
- length field that contains the total number of bytes in the datum,
- and a value field which contains a pointer to the actual datum:
-
- typedef struct gss_buffer_desc_struct {
- size_t length;
- void *value;
- } gss_buffer_desc, *gss_buffer_t;
-
- Storage for data returned to the application by a GSS-API routine
- using the gss_buffer_t conventions is allocated by the GSS-API
- routine. The application may free this storage by invoking the
- gss_release_buffer routine. Allocation of the gss_buffer_desc object
- is always the responsibility of the application; unused
- gss_buffer_desc objects may be initialized to the value
- GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER.
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- Certain multiple-word data items are considered opaque data types at
- the GSS-API, because their internal structure has no significance
- either to the GSS-API or to the caller. Examples of such opaque data
- types are the input_token parameter to gss_init_sec_context (which is
- opaque to the caller), and the input_message parameter to gss_wrap
- (which is opaque to the GSS-API). Opaque data is passed between the
- GSS-API and the application using the gss_buffer_t datatype.
-
-3.2.2. Character strings
-
- Certain multiple-word data items may be regarded as simple ISO
- Latin-1 character strings. Examples are the printable strings passed
- to gss_import_name via the input_name_buffer parameter. Some GSS-API
- routines also return character strings. All such character strings
- are passed between the application and the GSS-API implementation
- using the gss_buffer_t datatype, which is a pointer to a
- gss_buffer_desc object.
-
- When a gss_buffer_desc object describes a printable string, the
- length field of the gss_buffer_desc should only count printable
- characters within the string. In particular, a trailing NUL
- character should NOT be included in the length count, nor should
- either the GSS-API implementation or the application assume the
- presence of an uncounted trailing NUL.
-
-3.3. Object Identifiers
-
- Certain GSS-API procedures take parameters of the type gss_OID, or
- Object identifier. This is a type containing ISO-defined tree-
- structured values, and is used by the GSS-API caller to select an
- underlying security mechanism and to specify namespaces. A value of
- type gss_OID has the following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_desc_struct {
- OM_uint32 length;
- void *elements;
- } gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
-
- The elements field of this structure points to the first byte of an
- octet string containing the ASN.1 BER encoding of the value portion
- of the normal BER TLV encoding of the gss_OID. The length field
- contains the number of bytes in this value. For example, the gss_OID
- value corresponding to {iso(1) identified-organization(3) icd-
- ecma(12) member-company(2) dec(1011) cryptoAlgorithms(7) DASS(5)},
- meaning the DASS X.509 authentication mechanism, has a length field
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- following octal values: 53,14,2,207,163,7,5. GSS-API implementations
- should provide constant gss_OID values to allow applications to
- request any supported mechanism, although applications are encouraged
- on portability grounds to accept the default mechanism. gss_OID
- values should also be provided to allow applications to specify
- particular name types (see section 3.10). Applications should treat
- gss_OID_desc values returned by GSS-API routines as read-only. In
- particular, the application should not attempt to deallocate them
- with free(). The gss_OID_desc datatype is equivalent to the X/Open
- OM_object_identifier datatype[XOM].
-
-3.4. Object Identifier Sets
-
- Certain GSS-API procedures take parameters of the type gss_OID_set.
- This type represents one or more object identifiers (section 2.3). A
- gss_OID_set object has the following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct {
- size_t count;
- gss_OID elements;
- } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
-
- The count field contains the number of OIDs within the set. The
- elements field is a pointer to an array of gss_OID_desc objects, each
- of which describes a single OID. gss_OID_set values are used to name
- the available mechanisms supported by the GSS-API, to request the use
- of specific mechanisms, and to indicate which mechanisms a given
- credential supports.
-
- All OID sets returned to the application by GSS-API are dynamic
- objects (the gss_OID_set_desc, the "elements" array of the set, and
- the "elements" array of each member OID are all dynamically
- allocated), and this storage must be deallocated by the application
- using the gss_release_oid_set() routine.
-
-3.5. Credentials
-
- A credential handle is a caller-opaque atomic datum that identifies a
- GSS-API credential data structure. It is represented by the caller-
- opaque type gss_cred_id_t, which should be implemented as a pointer
- or arithmetic type. If a pointer implementation is chosen, care must
- be taken to ensure that two gss_cred_id_t values may be compared with
- the == operator.
-
- GSS-API credentials can contain mechanism-specific principal
- authentication data for multiple mechanisms. A GSS-API credential is
- composed of a set of credential-elements, each of which is applicable
- to a single mechanism. A credential may contain at most one
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- credential-element for each supported mechanism. A credential-element
- identifies the data needed by a single mechanism to authenticate a
- single principal, and conceptually contains two credential-references
- that describe the actual mechanism-specific authentication data, one
- to be used by GSS-API for initiating contexts, and one to be used
- for accepting contexts. For mechanisms that do not distinguish
- between acceptor and initiator credentials, both references would
- point to the same underlying mechanism-specific authentication data.
-
- Credentials describe a set of mechanism-specific principals, and give
- their holder the ability to act as any of those principals. All
- principal identities asserted by a single GSS-API credential should
- belong to the same entity, although enforcement of this property is
- an implementation-specific matter. The GSS-API does not make the
- actual credentials available to applications; instead a credential
- handle is used to identify a particular credential, held internally
- by GSS-API. The combination of GSS-API credential handle and
- mechanism identifies the principal whose identity will be asserted by
- the credential when used with that mechanism.
-
- The gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context routines allow
- the value GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to be specified as their credential
- handle parameter. This special credential-handle indicates a desire
- by the application to act as a default principal. While individual
- GSS-API implementations are free to determine such default behavior
- as appropriate to the mechanism, the following default behavior by
- these routines is recommended for portability:
-
- gss_init_sec_context
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- 1) If there is only a single principal capable of initiating
- security contexts for the chosen mechanism that the application
- is authorized to act on behalf of, then that principal shall be
- used, otherwise
-
- 2) If the platform maintains a concept of a default network-
- identity for the chosen mechanism, and if the application is
- authorized to act on behalf of that identity for the purpose of
- initiating security contexts, then the principal corresponding
- to that identity shall be used, otherwise
-
- 3) If the platform maintains a concept of a default local
- identity, and provides a means to map local identities into
- network-identities for the chosen mechanism, and if the
- application is authorized to act on behalf of the network-
- identity image of the default local identity for the purpose of
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- the principal corresponding to that identity shall be used,
- otherwise
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- 4) A user-configurable default identity should be used.
-
- gss_accept_sec_context
-
- 1) If there is only a single authorized principal identity capable
- of accepting security contexts for the chosen mechanism, then
- that principal shall be used, otherwise
-
- 2) If the mechanism can determine the identity of the target
- principal by examining the context-establishment token, and if
- the accepting application is authorized to act as that
- principal for the purpose of accepting security contexts using
- the chosen mechanism, then that principal identity shall be
- used, otherwise
-
- 3) If the mechanism supports context acceptance by any principal,
- and if mutual authentication was not requested, any principal
- that the application is authorized to accept security contexts
- under using the chosen mechanism may be used, otherwise
-
- 4)A user-configurable default identity shall be used.
-
- The purpose of the above rules is to allow security contexts to be
- established by both initiator and acceptor using the default behavior
- wherever possible. Applications requesting default behavior are
- likely to be more portable across mechanisms and platforms than ones
- that use gss_acquire_cred to request a specific identity.
-
-3.6. Contexts
-
- The gss_ctx_id_t data type contains a caller-opaque atomic value that
- identifies one end of a GSS-API security context. It should be
- implemented as a pointer or arithmetic type. If a pointer type is
- chosen, care should be taken to ensure that two gss_ctx_id_t values
- may be compared with the == operator.
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- The security context holds state information about each end of a peer
- communication, including cryptographic state information.
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- A token is a caller-opaque type that GSS-API uses to maintain
- synchronization between the context data structures at each end of a
- GSS-API security context. The token is a cryptographically protected
- octet-string, generated by the underlying mechanism at one end of a
- GSS-API security context for use by the peer mechanism at the other
- end. Encapsulation (if required) and transfer of the token are the
- responsibility of the peer applications. A token is passed between
- the GSS-API and the application using the gss_buffer_t conventions.
-
-3.8. Interprocess tokens
-
- Certain GSS-API routines are intended to transfer data between
- processes in multi-process programs. These routines use a caller-
- opaque octet-string, generated by the GSS-API in one process for use
- by the GSS-API in another process. The calling application is
- responsible for transferring such tokens between processes in an OS-
- specific manner. Note that, while GSS-API implementors are
- encouraged to avoid placing sensitive information within interprocess
- tokens, or to cryptographically protect them, many implementations
- will be unable to avoid placing key material or other sensitive data
- within them. It is the application's responsibility to ensure that
- interprocess tokens are protected in transit, and transferred only to
- processes that are trustworthy. An interprocess token is passed
- between the GSS-API and the application using the gss_buffer_t
- conventions.
-
-3.9. Status values
-
- Every GSS-API routine returns two distinct values to report status
- information to the caller: GSS status codes and Mechanism status
- codes.
-
-3.9.1. GSS status codes
-
- GSS-API routines return GSS status codes as their OM_uint32 function
- value. These codes indicate errors that are independent of the
- underlying mechanism(s) used to provide the security service. The
- errors that can be indicated via a GSS status code are either generic
- API routine errors (errors that are defined in the GSS-API
- specification) or calling errors (errors that are specific to these
- language bindings).
-
- A GSS status code can indicate a single fatal generic API error from
- the routine and a single calling error. In addition, supplementary
- status information may be indicated via the setting of bits in the
- supplementary info field of a GSS status code.
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- MSB LSB
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Calling Error | Routine Error | Supplementary Info |
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- Bit 31 24 23 16 15 0
-
- Hence if a GSS-API routine returns a GSS status code whose upper 16
- bits contain a non-zero value, the call failed. If the calling error
- field is non-zero, the invoking application's call of the routine was
- erroneous. Calling errors are defined in table 5-1. If the routine
- error field is non-zero, the routine failed for one of the routine-
- specific reasons listed below in table 5-2. Whether or not the upper
- 16 bits indicate a failure or a success, the routine may indicate
- additional information by setting bits in the supplementary info
- field of the status code. The meaning of individual bits is listed
- below in table 5-3.
-
- Table 3-1 Calling Errors
-
- Name Value in field Meaning
- ---- -------------- -------
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ 1 A required input parameter
- could not be read
- GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE 2 A required output parameter
- could not be written.
- GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE 3 A parameter was malformed
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- Name Value in field Meaning
- ---- -------------- -------
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH 1 An unsupported mechanism
- was requested
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME 2 An invalid name was
- supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE 3 A supplied name was of an
- unsupported type
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS 4 Incorrect channel bindings
- were supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS 5 An invalid status code was
- supplied
- GSS_S_BAD_MIC GSS_S_BAD_SIG 6 A token had an invalid MIC
- GSS_S_NO_CRED 7 No credentials were
- supplied, or the
- credentials were
- unavailable or
- inaccessible.
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT 8 No context has been
- established
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN 9 A token was invalid
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL 10 A credential was invalid
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED 11 The referenced credentials
- have expired
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED 12 The context has expired
- GSS_S_FAILURE 13 Miscellaneous failure (see
- text)
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP 14 The quality-of-protection
- requested could not be
- provided
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED 15 The operation is forbidden
- by local security policy
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE 16 The operation or option is
- unavailable
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT 17 The requested credential
- element already exists
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN 18 The provided name was not a
- mechanism name
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- Name Bit Number Meaning
- ---- ---------- -------
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED 0 (LSB) Returned only by
- gss_init_sec_context or
- gss_accept_sec_context. The
- routine must be called again
- to complete its function.
- See routine documentation for
- detailed description
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN 1 The token was a duplicate of
- an earlier token
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN 2 The token's validity period
- has expired
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN 3 A later token has already been
- processed
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN 4 An expected per-message token
- was not received
-
- The routine documentation also uses the name GSS_S_COMPLETE, which is
- a zero value, to indicate an absence of any API errors or
- supplementary information bits.
-
- All GSS_S_xxx symbols equate to complete OM_uint32 status codes,
- rather than to bitfield values. For example, the actual value of the
- symbol GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE (value 3 in the routine error field) is
- 3<<16. The macros GSS_CALLING_ERROR(), GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR() and
- GSS_SUPPLEMENTARY_INFO() are provided, each of which takes a GSS
- status code and removes all but the relevant field. For example, the
- value obtained by applying GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR to a status code removes
- the calling errors and supplementary info fields, leaving only the
- routine errors field. The values delivered by these macros may be
- directly compared with a GSS_S_xxx symbol of the appropriate type.
- The macro GSS_ERROR() is also provided, which when applied to a GSS
- status code returns a non-zero value if the status code indicated a
- calling or routine error, and a zero value otherwise. All macros
- defined by GSS-API evaluate their argument(s) exactly once.
-
- A GSS-API implementation may choose to signal calling errors in a
- platform-specific manner instead of, or in addition to the routine
- value; routine errors and supplementary info should be returned via
- major status values only.
-
- The GSS major status code GSS_S_FAILURE is used to indicate that the
- underlying mechanism detected an error for which no specific GSS
- status code is defined. The mechanism-specific status code will
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- GSS-API routines return a minor_status parameter, which is used to
- indicate specialized errors from the underlying security mechanism.
- This parameter may contain a single mechanism-specific error,
- indicated by a OM_uint32 value.
-
- The minor_status parameter will always be set by a GSS-API routine,
- even if it returns a calling error or one of the generic API errors
- indicated above as fatal, although most other output parameters may
- remain unset in such cases. However, output parameters that are
- expected to return pointers to storage allocated by a routine must
- always be set by the routine, even in the event of an error, although
- in such cases the GSS-API routine may elect to set the returned
- parameter value to NULL to indicate that no storage was actually
- allocated. Any length field associated with such pointers (as in a
- gss_buffer_desc structure) should also be set to zero in such cases.
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-3.10. Names
-
- A name is used to identify a person or entity. GSS-API authenticates
- the relationship between a name and the entity claiming the name.
-
- Since different authentication mechanisms may employ different
- namespaces for identifying their principals, GSSAPI's naming support
- is necessarily complex in multi-mechanism environments (or even in
- some single-mechanism environments where the underlying mechanism
- supports multiple namespaces).
-
- Two distinct representations are defined for names:
-
- An internal form. This is the GSS-API "native" format for names,
- represented by the implementation-specific gss_name_t type. It is
- opaque to GSS-API callers. A single gss_name_t object may contain
- multiple names from different namespaces, but all names should
- refer to the same entity. An example of such an internal name
- would be the name returned from a call to the gss_inquire_cred
- routine, when applied to a credential containing credential
- elements for multiple authentication mechanisms employing
- different namespaces. This gss_name_t object will contain a
- distinct name for the entity for each authentication mechanism.
-
- For GSS-API implementations supporting multiple namespaces,
- objects of type gss_name_t must contain sufficient information to
- determine the namespace to which each primitive name belongs.
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- capable of containing a single name (from a single namespace).
- Contiguous string names are always accompanied by an object
- identifier specifying the namespace to which the name belongs, and
- their format is dependent on the authentication mechanism that
- employs the name. Many, but not all, contiguous string names will
- be printable, and may therefore be used by GSS-API applications
- for communication with their users.
-
- Routines (gss_import_name and gss_display_name) are provided to
- convert names between contiguous string representations and the
- internal gss_name_t type. gss_import_name may support multiple
- syntaxes for each supported namespace, allowing users the freedom to
- choose a preferred name representation. gss_display_name should use
- an implementation-chosen printable syntax for each supported name-
- type.
-
- If an application calls gss_display_name(), passing the internal name
- resulting from a call to gss_import_name(), there is no guarantee the
- the resulting contiguous string name will be the same as the original
- imported string name. Nor do name-space identifiers necessarily
- survive unchanged after a journey through the internal name-form. An
- example of this might be a mechanism that authenticates X.500 names,
- but provides an algorithmic mapping of Internet DNS names into X.500.
- That mechanism's implementation of gss_import_name() might, when
- presented with a DNS name, generate an internal name that contained
- both the original DNS name and the equivalent X.500 name.
- Alternatively, it might only store the X.500 name. In the latter
- case, gss_display_name() would most likely generate a printable X.500
- name, rather than the original DNS name.
-
- The process of authentication delivers to the context acceptor an
- internal name. Since this name has been authenticated by a single
- mechanism, it contains only a single name (even if the internal name
- presented by the context initiator to gss_init_sec_context had
- multiple components). Such names are termed internal mechanism
- names, or "MN"s and the names emitted by gss_accept_sec_context() are
- always of this type. Since some applications may require MNs without
- wanting to incur the overhead of an authentication operation, a
- second function, gss_canonicalize_name(), is provided to convert a
- general internal name into an MN.
-
- Comparison of internal-form names may be accomplished via the
- gss_compare_name() routine, which returns true if the two names being
- compared refer to the same entity. This removes the need for the
- application program to understand the syntaxes of the various
- printable names that a given GSS-API implementation may support.
- Since GSS-API assumes that all primitive names contained within a
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- return true if the two names have at least one primitive name in
- common. If the implementation embodies knowledge of equivalence
- relationships between names taken from different namespaces, this
- knowledge may also allow successful comparison of internal names
- containing no overlapping primitive elements.
-
- When used in large access control lists, the overhead of invoking
- gss_import_name() and gss_compare_name() on each name from the ACL
- may be prohibitive. As an alternative way of supporting this case,
- GSS-API defines a special form of the contiguous string name which
- may be compared directly (e.g. with memcmp()). Contiguous names
- suitable for comparison are generated by the gss_export_name()
- routine, which requires an MN as input. Exported names may be re-
- imported by the gss_import_name() routine, and the resulting internal
- name will also be an MN. The gss_OID constant GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME
- indentifies the "export name" type, and the value of this constant is
- given in Appendix A. Structurally, an exported name object consists
- of a header containing an OID identifying the mechanism that
- authenticated the name, and a trailer containing the name itself,
- where the syntax of the trailer is defined by the individual
- mechanism specification. The precise format of an export name is
- defined in the language-independent GSS-API specification [GSSAPI].
-
- Note that the results obtained by using gss_compare_name() will in
- general be different from those obtained by invoking
- gss_canonicalize_name() and gss_export_name(), and then comparing the
- exported names. The first series of operation determines whether two
- (unauthenticated) names identify the same principal; the second
- whether a particular mechanism would authenticate them as the same
- principal. These two operations will in general give the same
- results only for MNs.
-
- The gss_name_t datatype should be implemented as a pointer type. To
- allow the compiler to aid the application programmer by performing
- type-checking, the use of (void *) is discouraged. A pointer to an
- implementation-defined type is the preferred choice.
-
- Storage is allocated by routines that return gss_name_t values. A
- procedure, gss_release_name, is provided to free storage associated
- with an internal-form name.
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- GSS-API supports the use of user-specified tags to identify a given
- context to the peer application. These tags are intended to be used
- to identify the particular communications channel that carries the
- context. Channel bindings are communicated to the GSS-API using the
- following structure:
-
- typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
- OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
- OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
- gss_buffer_desc application_data;
- } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
-
- The initiator_addrtype and acceptor_addrtype fields denote the type
- of addresses contained in the initiator_address and acceptor_address
- buffers. The address type should be one of the following:
-
- GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC Unspecified address type
- GSS_C_AF_LOCAL Host-local address type
- GSS_C_AF_INET Internet address type (e.g. IP)
- GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK ARPAnet IMP address type
- GSS_C_AF_PUP pup protocols (eg BSP) address type
- GSS_C_AF_CHAOS MIT CHAOS protocol address type
- GSS_C_AF_NS XEROX NS address type
- GSS_C_AF_NBS nbs address type
- GSS_C_AF_ECMA ECMA address type
- GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT datakit protocols address type
- GSS_C_AF_CCITT CCITT protocols
- GSS_C_AF_SNA IBM SNA address type
- GSS_C_AF_DECnet DECnet address type
- GSS_C_AF_DLI Direct data link interface address type
- GSS_C_AF_LAT LAT address type
- GSS_C_AF_HYLINK NSC Hyperchannel address type
- GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK AppleTalk address type
- GSS_C_AF_BSC BISYNC 2780/3780 address type
- GSS_C_AF_DSS Distributed system services address type
- GSS_C_AF_OSI OSI TP4 address type
- GSS_C_AF_X25 X.25
- GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR No address specified
-
- Note that these symbols name address families rather than specific
- addressing formats. For address families that contain several
- alternative address forms, the initiator_address and acceptor_address
- fields must contain sufficient information to determine which address
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- form is used. When not otherwise specified, addresses should be
- specified in network byte-order (that is, native byte-ordering for
- the address family).
-
- Conceptually, the GSS-API concatenates the initiator_addrtype,
- initiator_address, acceptor_addrtype, acceptor_address and
- application_data to form an octet string. The mechanism calculates a
- MIC over this octet string, and binds the MIC to the context
- establishment token emitted by gss_init_sec_context. The same
- bindings are presented by the context acceptor to
- gss_accept_sec_context, and a MIC is calculated in the same way. The
- calculated MIC is compared with that found in the token, and if the
- MICs differ, gss_accept_sec_context will return a GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS
- error, and the context will not be established. Some mechanisms may
- include the actual channel binding data in the token (rather than
- just a MIC); applications should therefore not use confidential data
- as channel-binding components.
-
- Individual mechanisms may impose additional constraints on addresses
- and address types that may appear in channel bindings. For example,
- a mechanism may verify that the initiator_address field of the
- channel bindings presented to gss_init_sec_context contains the
- correct network address of the host system. Portable applications
- should therefore ensure that they either provide correct information
- for the address fields, or omit addressing information, specifying
- GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR as the address-types.
-
-3.12. Optional parameters
-
- Various parameters are described as optional. This means that they
- follow a convention whereby a default value may be requested. The
- following conventions are used for omitted parameters. These
- conventions apply only to those parameters that are explicitly
- documented as optional.
-
-3.12.1. gss_buffer_t types
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_BUFFER as a value. For an input parameter this
- signifies that default behavior is requested, while for an output
- parameter it indicates that the information that would be returned
- via the parameter is not required by the application.
-
-3.12.2. Integer types (input)
-
- Individual parameter documentation lists values to be used to
- indicate default actions.
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-
- Specify NULL as the value for the pointer.
-
-3.12.4. Pointer types
-
- Specify NULL as the value.
-
-3.12.5. Object IDs
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_OID as the value.
-
-3.12.6. Object ID Sets
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_OID_SET as the value.
-
-3.12.7. Channel Bindings
-
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS to indicate that channel bindings
- are not to be used.
-
-4. Additional Controls
-
- This section discusses the optional services that a context initiator
- may request of the GSS-API at context establishment. Each of these
- services is requested by setting a flag in the req_flags input
- parameter to gss_init_sec_context.
-
- The optional services currently defined are:
-
- Delegation - The (usually temporary) transfer of rights from
- initiator to acceptor, enabling the acceptor to authenticate
- itself as an agent of the initiator.
-
- Mutual Authentication - In addition to the initiator authenticating
- its identity to the context acceptor, the context acceptor should
- also authenticate itself to the initiator.
-
- Replay detection - In addition to providing message integrity
- services, gss_get_mic and gss_wrap should include message
- numbering information to enable gss_verify_mic and gss_unwrap to
- detect if a message has been duplicated.
-
- Out-of-sequence detection - In addition to providing message
- integrity services, gss_get_mic and gss_wrap should include
- message sequencing information to enable gss_verify_mic and
- gss_unwrap to detect if a message has been received out of
- sequence.
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- Anonymous authentication - The establishment of the security context
- should not reveal the initiator's identity to the context
- acceptor.
-
- Any currently undefined bits within such flag arguments should be
- ignored by GSS-API implementations when presented by an application,
- and should be set to zero when returned to the application by the
- GSS-API implementation.
-
- Some mechanisms may not support all optional services, and some
- mechanisms may only support some services in conjunction with others.
- Both gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context inform the
- applications which services will be available from the context when
- the establishment phase is complete, via the ret_flags output
- parameter. In general, if the security mechanism is capable of
- providing a requested service, it should do so, even if additional
- services must be enabled in order to provide the requested service.
- If the mechanism is incapable of providing a requested service, it
- should proceed without the service, leaving the application to abort
- the context establishment process if it considers the requested
- service to be mandatory.
-
- Some mechanisms may specify that support for some services is
- optional, and that implementors of the mechanism need not provide it.
- This is most commonly true of the confidentiality service, often
- because of legal restrictions on the use of data-encryption, but may
- apply to any of the services. Such mechanisms are required to send
- at least one token from acceptor to initiator during context
- establishment when the initiator indicates a desire to use such a
- service, so that the initiating GSS-API can correctly indicate
- whether the service is supported by the acceptor's GSS-API.
-
-4.1. Delegation
-
- The GSS-API allows delegation to be controlled by the initiating
- application via a boolean parameter to gss_init_sec_context(), the
- routine that establishes a security context. Some mechanisms do not
- support delegation, and for such mechanisms attempts by an
- application to enable delegation are ignored.
-
- The acceptor of a security context for which the initiator enabled
- delegation will receive (via the delegated_cred_handle parameter of
- gss_accept_sec_context) a credential handle that contains the
- delegated identity, and this credential handle may be used to
- initiate subsequent GSS-API security contexts as an agent or delegate
- of the initiator. If the original initiator's identity is "A" and
- the delegate's identity is "B", then, depending on the underlying
- mechanism, the identity embodied by the delegated credential may be
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-
- For many mechanisms that support delegation, a simple boolean does
- not provide enough control. Examples of additional aspects of
- delegation control that a mechanism might provide to an application
- are duration of delegation, network addresses from which delegation
- is valid, and constraints on the tasks that may be performed by a
- delegate. Such controls are presently outside the scope of the GSS-
- API. GSS-API implementations supporting mechanisms offering
- additional controls should provide extension routines that allow
- these controls to be exercised (perhaps by modifying the initiator's
- GSS-API credential prior to its use in establishing a context).
- However, the simple delegation control provided by GSS-API should
- always be able to over-ride other mechanism-specific delegation
- controls - If the application instructs gss_init_sec_context() that
- delegation is not desired, then the implementation must not permit
- delegation to occur. This is an exception to the general rule that a
- mechanism may enable services even if they are not requested -
- delegation may only be provided at the explicit request of the
- application.
-
-4.2. Mutual authentication
-
- Usually, a context acceptor will require that a context initiator
- authenticate itself so that the acceptor may make an access-control
- decision prior to performing a service for the initiator. In some
- cases, the initiator may also request that the acceptor authenticate
- itself. GSS-API allows the initiating application to request this
- mutual authentication service by setting a flag when calling
- gss_init_sec_context.
-
- The initiating application is informed as to whether or not the
- context acceptor has authenticated itself. Note that some mechanisms
- may not support mutual authentication, and other mechanisms may
- always perform mutual authentication, whether or not the initiating
- application requests it. In particular, mutual authentication my be
- required by some mechanisms in order to support replay or out-of-
- sequence message detection, and for such mechanisms a request for
- either of these services will automatically enable mutual
- authentication.
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-
- The GSS-API may provide detection of mis-ordered message once a
- security context has been established. Protection may be applied to
- messages by either application, by calling either gss_get_mic or
- gss_wrap, and verified by the peer application by calling
- gss_verify_mic or gss_unwrap.
-
- gss_get_mic calculates a cryptographic MIC over an application
- message, and returns that MIC in a token. The application should
- pass both the token and the message to the peer application, which
- presents them to gss_verify_mic.
-
- gss_wrap calculates a cryptographic MIC of an application message,
- and places both the MIC and the message inside a single token. The
- Application should pass the token to the peer application, which
- presents it to gss_unwrap to extract the message and verify the MIC.
-
- Either pair of routines may be capable of detecting out-of-sequence
- message delivery, or duplication of messages. Details of such mis-
- ordered messages are indicated through supplementary status bits in
- the major status code returned by gss_verify_mic or gss_unwrap. The
- relevant supplementary bits are:
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN - The token is a duplicate of one that has
- already been received and processed. Only
- contexts that claim to provide replay detection
- may set this bit.
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN - The token is too old to determine whether or
- not it is a duplicate. Contexts supporting
- out-of-sequence detection but not replay
- detection should always set this bit if
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN is set; contexts that support
- replay detection should only set this bit if the
- token is so old that it cannot be checked for
- duplication.
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN - A later token has already been processed.
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN - An earlier token has not yet been received.
-
- A mechanism need not maintain a list of all tokens that have been
- processed in order to support these status codes. A typical
- mechanism might retain information about only the most recent "N"
- tokens processed, allowing it to distinguish duplicates and missing
- tokens within the most recent "N" messages; the receipt of a token
- older than the most recent "N" would result in a GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN
- status.
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-4.4. Anonymous Authentication
-
- In certain situations, an application may wish to initiate the
- authentication process to authenticate a peer, without revealing its
- own identity. As an example, consider an application providing
- access to a database containing medical information, and offering
- unrestricted access to the service. A client of such a service might
- wish to authenticate the service (in order to establish trust in any
- information retrieved from it), but might not wish the service to be
- able to obtain the client's identity (perhaps due to privacy concerns
- about the specific inquiries, or perhaps simply to avoid being placed
- on mailing-lists).
-
- In normal use of the GSS-API, the initiator's identity is made
- available to the acceptor as a result of the context establishment
- process. However, context initiators may request that their identity
- not be revealed to the context acceptor. Many mechanisms do not
- support anonymous authentication, and for such mechanisms the request
- will not be honored. An authentication token will be still be
- generated, but the application is always informed if a requested
- service is unavailable, and has the option to abort context
- establishment if anonymity is valued above the other security
- services that would require a context to be established.
-
- In addition to informing the application that a context is
- established anonymously (via the ret_flags outputs from
- gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context), the optional
- src_name output from gss_accept_sec_context and gss_inquire_context
- will, for such contexts, return a reserved internal-form name,
- defined by the implementation.
-
- When presented to gss_display_name, this reserved internal-form name
- will result in a printable name that is syntactically distinguishable
- from any valid principal name supported by the implementation,
- associated with a name-type object identifier with the value
- GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS, whose value us given in Appendix A. The
- printable form of an anonymous name should be chosen such that it
- implies anonymity, since this name may appear in, for example, audit
- logs. For example, the string "<anonymous>" might be a good choice,
- if no valid printable names supported by the implementation can begin
- with "<" and end with ">".
-
-4.5. Confidentiality
-
- If a context supports the confidentiality service, gss_wrap may be
- used to encrypt application messages. Messages are selectively
- encrypted, under the control of the conf_req_flag input parameter to
- gss_wrap.
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-4.6. Inter-process context transfer
-
- GSS-API V2 provides routines (gss_export_sec_context and
- gss_import_sec_context) which allow a security context to be
- transferred between processes on a single machine. The most common
- use for such a feature is a client-server design where the server is
- implemented as a single process that accepts incoming security
- contexts, which then launches child processes to deal with the data
- on these contexts. In such a design, the child processes must have
- access to the security context data structure created within the
- parent by its call to gss_accept_sec_context so that they can use
- per-message protection services and delete the security context when
- the communication session ends.
-
- Since the security context data structure is expected to contain
- sequencing information, it is impractical in general to share a
- context between processes. Thus GSS-API provides a call
- (gss_export_sec_context) that the process which currently owns the
- context can call to declare that it has no intention to use the
- context subsequently, and to create an inter-process token containing
- information needed by the adopting process to successfully import the
- context. After successful completion of gss_export_sec_context, the
- original security context is made inaccessible to the calling process
- by GSS-API, and any context handles referring to this context are no
- longer valid. The originating process transfers the inter-process
- token to the adopting process, which passes it to
- gss_import_sec_context, and a fresh gss_ctx_id_t is created such that
- it is functionally identical to the original context.
-
- The inter-process token may contain sensitive data from the original
- security context (including cryptographic keys). Applications using
- inter-process tokens to transfer security contexts must take
- appropriate steps to protect these tokens in transit.
-
- Implementations are not required to support the inter-process
- transfer of security contexts. The ability to transfer a security
- context is indicated when the context is created, by
- gss_init_sec_context or gss_accept_sec_context setting the
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bit in their ret_flags parameter.
-
-4.7. The use of incomplete contexts
-
- Some mechanisms may allow the per-message services to be used before
- the context establishment process is complete. For example, a
- mechanism may include sufficient information in its initial context-
- level token for the context acceptor to immediately decode messages
- protected with gss_wrap or gss_get_mic. For such a mechanism, the
- initiating application need not wait until subsequent context-level
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- tokens have been sent and received before invoking the per-message
- protection services.
-
- The ability of a context to provide per-message services in advance
- of complete context establishment is indicated by the setting of the
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG bit in the ret_flags parameter from
- gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context. Applications wishing
- to use per-message protection services on partially-established
- contexts should check this flag before attempting to invoke gss_wrap
- or gss_get_mic.
-
-5. GSS-API Routine Descriptions
-
- In addition to the explicit major status codes documented here, the
- code GSS_S_FAILURE may be returned by any routine, indicating an
- implementation-specific or mechanism-specific error condition,
- further details of which are reported via the minor_status parameter.
-
-5.1. gss_accept_sec_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_accept_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle,
- const gss_cred_id_t acceptor_cred_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t input_token_buffer,
- const gss_channel_bindings_t input_chan_bindings,
- const gss_name_t *src_name,
- gss_OID *mech_type,
- gss_buffer_t output_token,
- OM_uint32 *ret_flags,
- OM_uint32 *time_rec,
- gss_cred_id_t *delegated_cred_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows a remotely initiated security context between the application
- and a remote peer to be established. The routine may return a
- output_token which should be transferred to the peer application,
- where the peer application will present it to gss_init_sec_context.
- If no token need be sent, gss_accept_sec_context will indicate this
- by setting the length field of the output_token argument to zero. To
- complete the context establishment, one or more reply tokens may be
- required from the peer application; if so, gss_accept_sec_context
- will return a status flag of GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, in which case it
- should be called again when the reply token is received from the peer
- application, passing the token to gss_accept_sec_context via the
- input_token parameters.
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- Portable applications should be constructed to use the token length
- and return status to determine whether a token needs to be sent or
- waited for. Thus a typical portable caller should always invoke
- gss_accept_sec_context within a loop:
-
- gss_ctx_id_t context_hdl = GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT;
-
- do {
- receive_token_from_peer(input_token);
- maj_stat = gss_accept_sec_context(&min_stat,
- &context_hdl,
- cred_hdl,
- input_token,
- input_bindings,
- &client_name,
- &mech_type,
- output_token,
- &ret_flags,
- &time_rec,
- &deleg_cred);
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
- report_error(maj_stat, min_stat);
- };
- if (output_token->length != 0) {
- send_token_to_peer(output_token);
-
- gss_release_buffer(&min_stat, output_token);
- };
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
- if (context_hdl != GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT)
- gss_delete_sec_context(&min_stat,
- &context_hdl,
- GSS_C_NO_BUFFER);
- break;
- };
- } while (maj_stat & GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED);
-
- Whenever the routine returns a major status that includes the value
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the context is not fully established and the
- following restrictions apply to the output parameters:
-
- The value returned via the time_rec parameter is undefined Unless the
- accompanying ret_flags parameter contains the bit
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG, indicating that per-message services may be
- applied in advance of a successful completion status, the value
- returned via the mech_type parameter may be undefined until the
- routine returns a major status value of GSS_S_COMPLETE.
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- The values of the GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG,
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG,GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG, GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG,
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG,GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_ANON_FLAG bits returned
- via the ret_flags parameter should contain the values that the
- implementation expects would be valid if context establishment were
- to succeed.
-
- The values of the GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG and GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bits
- within ret_flags should indicate the actual state at the time
- gss_accept_sec_context returns, whether or not the context is fully
- established.
-
- Although this requires that GSS-API implementations set the
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG in the final ret_flags returned to a caller
- (i.e. when accompanied by a GSS_S_COMPLETE status code), applications
- should not rely on this behavior as the flag was not defined in
- Version 1 of the GSS-API. Instead, applications should be prepared to
- use per-message services after a successful context establishment,
- according to the GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_CONF_FLAG values.
-
- All other bits within the ret_flags argument should be set to zero.
- While the routine returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the values returned
- via the ret_flags argument indicate the services that the
- implementation expects to be available from the established context.
-
- If the initial call of gss_accept_sec_context() fails, the
- implementation should not create a context object, and should leave
- the value of the context_handle parameter set to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT to
- indicate this. In the event of a failure on a subsequent call, the
- implementation is permitted to delete the "half-built" security
- context (in which case it should set the context_handle parameter to
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT), but the preferred behavior is to leave the
- security context (and the context_handle parameter) untouched for the
- application to delete (using gss_delete_sec_context).
-
- During context establishment, the informational status bits
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN and GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicate fatal errors, and
- GSS-API mechanisms should always return them in association with a
- routine error of GSS_S_FAILURE. This requirement for pairing did not
- exist in version 1 of the GSS-API specification, so applications that
- wish to run over version 1 implementations must special-case these
- codes.
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- Parameters:
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read/modify context handle for new
- context. Supply GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT for first
- call; use value returned in subsequent calls.
- Once gss_accept_sec_context() has returned a
- value via this parameter, resources have been
- assigned to the corresponding context, and must
- be freed by the application after use with a
- call to gss_delete_sec_context().
-
-
- acceptor_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read Credential handle claimed
- by context acceptor. Specify
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to accept the context as a
- default principal. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is
- specified, but no default acceptor principal is
- defined, GSS_S_NO_CRED will be returned.
-
- input_token_buffer buffer, opaque, read token obtained from remote
- application.
-
- input_chan_bindings channel bindings, read, optional Application-
- specified bindings. Allows application to
- securely bind channel identification information
- to the security context. If channel bindings
- are not used, specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS.
-
- src_name gss_name_t, modify, optional Authenticated name
- of context initiator. After use, this name
- should be deallocated by passing it to
- gss_release_name(). If not required, specify
- NULL.
-
- mech_type Object ID, modify, optional Security mechanism
- used. The returned OID value will be a pointer
- into static storage, and should be treated as
- read-only by the caller (in particular, it does
- not need to be freed). If not required, specify
- NULL.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify Token to be passed to
- peer application. If the length field of the
- returned token buffer is 0, then no token need
- be passed to the peer application. If a non-
- zero length field is returned, the associated
- storage must be freed after use by the
- application with a call to gss_release_buffer().
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- ret_flags bit-mask, modify, optional Contains various
- independent flags, each of which indicates that
- the context supports a specific service option.
- If not needed, specify NULL. Symbolic names are
- provided for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags should be
- logically-ANDed with the ret_flags value to test
- whether a given option is supported by the
- context. The flags are:
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Delegated credentials are available
- via the delegated_cred_handle
- parameter
- False - No credentials were delegated
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Remote peer asked for mutual
- authentication
- False - Remote peer did not ask for mutual
- authentication
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of protected messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence protected
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will not
- be detected
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be
- invoked by calling the gss_wrap
- routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- gss_wrap) available. gss_wrap will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_get_mic or
- gss_wrap routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - The initiator does not wish to
- be authenticated; the src_name
- parameter (if requested) contains
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- False - The initiator has been
- authenticated normally.
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
- True - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- if the accompanying major status
- return value is either GSS_S_COMPLETE
- or GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED.
- False - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- only if the accompanying major status
- return value is GSS_S_COMPLETE.
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
- True - The resultant security context may
- be transferred to other processes via
- a call to gss_export_sec_context().
- False - The security context is not
- transferable.
- All other bits should be set to zero.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- number of seconds for which the context will
- remain valid. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- delegated_cred_handle
- gss_cred_id_t, modify, optional credential
- handle for credentials received from context
- initiator. Only valid if deleg_flag in
- ret_flags is true, in which case an explicit
- credential handle (i.e. not GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL)
- will be returned; if deleg_flag is false,
- gss_accept_context() will set this parameter to
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL. If a credential handle is
- returned, the associated resources must be
- released by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_cred(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED Indicates that a token from the peer
- application is required to complete the
- context, and that gss_accept_sec_context must
- be called again with that token.
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- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed on
- the input_token failed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL Indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential failed.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The supplied credentials were not valid for context
- acceptance, or the credential handle did not
- reference any credentials.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS The input_token contains different channel
- bindings to those specified via the
- input_chan_bindings parameter.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT Indicates that the supplied context handle did not
- refer to a valid context.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The input_token contains an invalid MIC.
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The input_token was too old. This is a fatal error
- during context establishment.
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The input_token is valid, but is a duplicate of
- a token already processed. This is a fatal
- error during context establishment.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH The received token specified a mechanism that is
- not supported by the implementation or the
- provided credential.
-
-5.2. gss_acquire_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_acquire_cred (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t desired_name,
- OM_uint32 time_req,
- const gss_OID_set desired_mechs,
- gss_cred_usage_t cred_usage,
- gss_cred_id_t *output_cred_handle,
- gss_OID_set *actual_mechs,
- OM_uint32 *time_rec)
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- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to acquire a handle for a pre-existing
- credential by name. GSS-API implementations must impose a local
- access-control policy on callers of this routine to prevent
- unauthorized callers from acquiring credentials to which they are not
- entitled. This routine is not intended to provide a "login to the
- network" function, as such a function would involve the creation of
- new credentials rather than merely acquiring a handle to existing
- credentials. Such functions, if required, should be defined in
- implementation-specific extensions to the API.
-
- If desired_name is GSS_C_NO_NAME, the call is interpreted as a
- request for a credential handle that will invoke default behavior
- when passed to gss_init_sec_context() (if cred_usage is
- GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH) or gss_accept_sec_context() (if
- cred_usage is GSS_C_ACCEPT or GSS_C_BOTH).
-
- Mechanisms should honor the desired_mechs parameter, and return a
- credential that is suitable to use only with the requested
- mechanisms. An exception to this is the case where one underlying
- credential element can be shared by multiple mechanisms; in this case
- it is permissible for an implementation to indicate all mechanisms
- with which the credential element may be used. If desired_mechs is
- an empty set, behavior is undefined.
-
- This routine is expected to be used primarily by context acceptors,
- since implementations are likely to provide mechanism-specific ways
- of obtaining GSS-API initiator credentials from the system login
- process. Some implementations may therefore not support the
- acquisition of GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH credentials via
- gss_acquire_cred for any name other than GSS_C_NO_NAME, or a name
- produced by applying either gss_inquire_cred to a valid credential,
- or gss_inquire_context to an active context.
-
- If credential acquisition is time-consuming for a mechanism, the
- mechanism may choose to delay the actual acquisition until the
- credential is required (e.g. by gss_init_sec_context or
- gss_accept_sec_context). Such mechanism-specific implementation
- decisions should be invisible to the calling application; thus a call
- of gss_inquire_cred immediately following the call of
- gss_acquire_cred must return valid credential data, and may therefore
- incur the overhead of a deferred credential acquisition.
-
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- Parameters:
-
- desired_name gss_name_t, read
- Name of principal whose credential
- should be acquired
-
- time_req Integer, read, optional
- number of seconds that credentials
- should remain valid. Specify GSS_C_INDEFINITE
- to request that the credentials have the maximum
- permitted lifetime.
-
- desired_mechs Set of Object IDs, read, optional
- set of underlying security mechanisms that
- may be used. GSS_C_NO_OID_SET may be used
- to obtain an implementation-specific default.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, read
- GSS_C_BOTH - Credentials may be used
- either to initiate or accept
- security contexts.
- GSS_C_INITIATE - Credentials will only be
- used to initiate security contexts.
- GSS_C_ACCEPT - Credentials will only be used to
- accept security contexts.
-
- output_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify
- The returned credential handle. Resources
- associated with this credential handle must
- be released by the application after use
- with a call to gss_release_cred().
-
- actual_mechs Set of Object IDs, modify, optional
- The set of mechanisms for which the
- credential is valid. Storage associated
- with the returned OID-set must be released by
- the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_oid_set(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid. If the
- implementation does not support expiration of
- credentials, the value GSS_C_INDEFINITE will
- be returned. Specify NULL if not required
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- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Unavailable mechanism requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE Type contained within desired_name parameter
- is not supported
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME Value supplied for desired_name parameter is ill
- formed.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The credentials could not be acquired
- Because they have expired.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED No credentials were found for the specified name.
-
-5.3. gss_add_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_add_cred (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t input_cred_handle,
- const gss_name_t desired_name,
- const gss_OID desired_mech,
- gss_cred_usage_t cred_usage,
- OM_uint32 initiator_time_req,
- OM_uint32 acceptor_time_req,
- gss_cred_id_t *output_cred_handle,
- gss_OID_set *actual_mechs,
- OM_uint32 *initiator_time_rec,
- OM_uint32 *acceptor_time_rec)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Adds a credential-element to a credential. The credential-element is
- identified by the name of the principal to which it refers. GSS-API
- implementations must impose a local access-control policy on callers
- of this routine to prevent unauthorized callers from acquiring
- credential-elements to which they are not entitled. This routine is
- not intended to provide a "login to the network" function, as such a
- function would involve the creation of new mechanism-specific
- authentication data, rather than merely acquiring a GSS-API handle to
- existing data. Such functions, if required, should be defined in
- implementation-specific extensions to the API.
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- If desired_name is GSS_C_NO_NAME, the call is interpreted as a
- request to add a credential element that will invoke default behavior
- when passed to gss_init_sec_context() (if cred_usage is
- GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH) or gss_accept_sec_context() (if
- cred_usage is GSS_C_ACCEPT or GSS_C_BOTH).
-
- This routine is expected to be used primarily by context acceptors,
- since implementations are likely to provide mechanism-specific ways
- of obtaining GSS-API initiator credentials from the system login
- process. Some implementations may therefore not support the
- acquisition of GSS_C_INITIATE or GSS_C_BOTH credentials via
- gss_acquire_cred for any name other than GSS_C_NO_NAME, or a name
- produced by applying either gss_inquire_cred to a valid credential,
- or gss_inquire_context to an active context.
-
- If credential acquisition is time-consuming for a mechanism, the
- mechanism may choose to delay the actual acquisition until the
- credential is required (e.g. by gss_init_sec_context or
- gss_accept_sec_context). Such mechanism-specific implementation
- decisions should be invisible to the calling application; thus a call
- of gss_inquire_cred immediately following the call of gss_add_cred
- must return valid credential data, and may therefore incur the
- overhead of a deferred credential acquisition.
-
- This routine can be used to either compose a new credential
- containing all credential-elements of the original in addition to the
- newly-acquire credential-element, or to add the new credential-
- element to an existing credential. If NULL is specified for the
- output_cred_handle parameter argument, the new credential-element
- will be added to the credential identified by input_cred_handle; if a
- valid pointer is specified for the output_cred_handle parameter, a
- new credential handle will be created.
-
- If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified as the input_cred_handle,
- gss_add_cred will compose a credential (and set the
- output_cred_handle parameter accordingly) based on default behavior.
- That is, the call will have the same effect as if the application had
- first made a call to gss_acquire_cred(), specifying the same usage
- and passing GSS_C_NO_NAME as the desired_name parameter to obtain an
- explicit credential handle embodying default behavior, passed this
- credential handle to gss_add_cred(), and finally called
- gss_release_cred() on the first credential handle.
-
- If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified as the input_cred_handle
- parameter, a non-NULL output_cred_handle must be supplied.
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- input_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read, optional
- The credential to which a credential-element
- will be added. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is
- specified, the routine will compose the new
- credential based on default behavior (see
- description above). Note that, while the
- credential-handle is not modified by
- gss_add_cred(), the underlying credential
- will be modified if output_credential_handle
- is NULL.
-
- desired_name gss_name_t, read.
- Name of principal whose credential
- should be acquired.
-
- desired_mech Object ID, read
- Underlying security mechanism with which the
- credential may be used.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, read
- GSS_C_BOTH - Credential may be used
- either to initiate or accept
- security contexts.
- GSS_C_INITIATE - Credential will only be
- used to initiate security
- contexts.
- GSS_C_ACCEPT - Credential will only be used to
- accept security contexts.
-
- initiator_time_req Integer, read, optional
- number of seconds that the credential
- should remain valid for initiating security
- contexts. This argument is ignored if the
- composed credentials are of type GSS_C_ACCEPT.
- Specify GSS_C_INDEFINITE to request that the
- credentials have the maximum permitted
- initiator lifetime.
-
- acceptor_time_req Integer, read, optional
- number of seconds that the credential
- should remain valid for accepting security
- contexts. This argument is ignored if the
- composed credentials are of type GSS_C_INITIATE.
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- Specify GSS_C_INDEFINITE to request that the
- credentials have the maximum permitted initiator
- lifetime.
-
- output_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify, optional
- The returned credential handle, containing
- the new credential-element and all the
- credential-elements from input_cred_handle.
- If a valid pointer to a gss_cred_id_t is
- supplied for this parameter, gss_add_cred
- creates a new credential handle containing all
- credential-elements from the input_cred_handle
- and the newly acquired credential-element; if
- NULL is specified for this parameter, the newly
- acquired credential-element will be added
- to the credential identified by input_cred_handle.
-
- The resources associated with any credential
- handle returned via this parameter must be
- released by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_cred().
-
- actual_mechs Set of Object IDs, modify, optional
- The complete set of mechanisms for which
- the new credential is valid. Storage for
- the returned OID-set must be freed by the
- application after use with a call to
- gss_release_oid_set(). Specify NULL if
- not required.
-
- initiator_time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid for
- initiating contexts using the specified
- mechanism. If the implementation or mechanism
- does not support expiration of credentials, the
- value GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required
-
- acceptor_time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- Actual number of seconds for which the
- returned credentials will remain valid for
- accepting security contexts using the specified
- mechanism. If the implementation or mechanism
- does not support expiration of credentials, the
- value GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required
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- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Unavailable mechanism requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE Type contained within desired_name parameter
- is not supported
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME Value supplied for desired_name parameter is
- ill-formed.
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT The credential already contains an element
- for the requested mechanism with overlapping
- usage and validity period.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The required credentials could not be
- added because they have expired.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED No credentials were found for the specified name.
-
-5.4. gss_add_oid_set_member
-
- OM_uint32 gss_add_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_OID member_oid,
- gss_OID_set *oid_set)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Add an Object Identifier to an Object Identifier set. This routine
- is intended for use in conjunction with gss_create_empty_oid_set when
- constructing a set of mechanism OIDs for input to gss_acquire_cred.
- The oid_set parameter must refer to an OID-set that was created by
- GSS-API (e.g. a set returned by gss_create_empty_oid_set()). GSS-API
- creates a copy of the member_oid and inserts this copy into the set,
- expanding the storage allocated to the OID-set's elements array if
- necessary. The routine may add the new member OID anywhere within
- the elements array, and implementations should verify that the new
- member_oid is not already contained within the elements array; if the
- member_oid is already present, the oid_set should remain unchanged.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
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- member_oid Object ID, read
- The object identifier to copied into
- the set.
-
- oid_set Set of Object ID, modify
- The set in which the object identifier
- should be inserted.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-5.5. gss_canonicalize_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_canonicalize_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- gss_name_t *output_name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Generate a canonical mechanism name (MN) from an arbitrary internal
- name. The mechanism name is the name that would be returned to a
- context acceptor on successful authentication of a context where the
- initiator used the input_name in a successful call to
- gss_acquire_cred, specifying an OID set containing <mech_type> as its
- only member, followed by a call to gss_init_sec_context, specifying
- <mech_type> as the authentication mechanism.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- The name for which a canonical form is
- desired
-
- mech_type Object ID, read
- The authentication mechanism for which the
- canonical form of the name is desired. The
- desired mechanism must be specified explicitly;
- no default is provided.
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- output_name gss_name_t, modify
- The resultant canonical name. Storage
- associated with this name must be freed by
- the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_name().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH The identified mechanism is not supported.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The provided internal name contains no elements
- that could be processed by the specified
- mechanism.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provided internal name was ill-formed.
-
-5.6. gss_compare_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_compare_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t name1,
- const gss_name_t name2,
- int *name_equal)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to compare two internal-form names to determine
- whether they refer to the same entity.
-
- If either name presented to gss_compare_name denotes an anonymous
- principal, the routines should indicate that the two names do not
- refer to the same identity.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- name1 gss_name_t, read
- internal-form name
-
- name2 gss_name_t, read
- internal-form name
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- name_equal boolean, modify
- non-zero - names refer to same entity
- zero - names refer to different entities
- (strictly, the names are not known
- to refer to the same identity).
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The two names were of incomparable types.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME One or both of name1 or name2 was ill-formed.
-
-5.7. gss_context_time
-
- OM_uint32 gss_context_time (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- OM_uint32 *time_rec)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Determines the number of seconds for which the specified context will
- remain valid.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context to be interrogated.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify
- Number of seconds that the context will remain
- valid. If the context has already expired,
- zero will be returned.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify
- a valid context
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-5.8. gss_create_empty_oid_set
-
- OM_uint32 gss_create_empty_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_OID_set *oid_set)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Create an object-identifier set containing no object identifiers, to
- which members may be subsequently added using the
- gss_add_oid_set_member() routine. These routines are intended to be
- used to construct sets of mechanism object identifiers, for input to
- gss_acquire_cred.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- oid_set Set of Object IDs, modify
- The empty object identifier set.
- The routine will allocate the
- gss_OID_set_desc object, which the
- application must free after use with
- a call to gss_release_oid_set().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-5.9. gss_delete_sec_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t output_token)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Delete a security context. gss_delete_sec_context will delete the
- local data structures associated with the specified security context,
- and may generate an output_token, which when passed to the peer
- gss_process_context_token will instruct it to do likewise. If no
- token is required by the mechanism, the GSS-API should set the length
- field of the output_token (if provided) to zero. No further security
- services may be obtained using the context specified by
- context_handle.
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- gss_delete_sec_context must also be able to delete "half-built"
- security contexts resulting from an incomplete sequence of
- gss_init_sec_context()/gss_accept_sec_context() calls.
-
- The output_token parameter is retained for compatibility with version
- 1 of the GSS-API. It is recommended that both peer applications
- invoke gss_delete_sec_context passing the value GSS_C_NO_BUFFER for
- the output_token parameter, indicating that no token is required, and
- that gss_delete_sec_context should simply delete local context data
- structures. If the application does pass a valid buffer to
- gss_delete_sec_context, mechanisms are encouraged to return a zero-
- length token, indicating that no peer action is necessary, and that
- no token should be transferred by the application.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, modify
- context handle identifying context to delete.
- After deleting the context, the GSS-API will set
- this context handle to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify, optional
- token to be sent to remote application to
- instruct it to also delete the context. It
- is recommended that applications specify
- GSS_C_NO_BUFFER for this parameter, requesting
- local deletion only. If a buffer parameter is
- provided by the application, the mechanism may
- return a token in it; mechanisms that implement
- only local deletion should set the length field of
- this token to zero to indicate to the application
- that no token is to be sent to the peer.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT No valid context was supplied
-
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-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_buffer_t output_name_buffer,
- gss_OID *output_name_type)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of an opaque
- internal-form name for display purposes. The syntax of a printable
- name is defined by the GSS-API implementation.
-
- If input_name denotes an anonymous principal, the implementation
- should return the gss_OID value GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS as the
- output_name_type, and a textual name that is syntactically distinct
- from all valid supported printable names in output_name_buffer.
-
- If input_name was created by a call to gss_import_name, specifying
- GSS_C_NO_OID as the name-type, implementations that employ lazy
- conversion between name types may return GSS_C_NO_OID via the
- output_name_type parameter.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- name to be displayed
-
- output_name_buffer buffer, character-string, modify
- buffer to receive textual name string.
- The application must free storage associated
- with this name after use with a call to
- gss_release_buffer().
-
- output_name_type Object ID, modify, optional
- The type of the returned name. The returned
- gss_OID will be a pointer into static storage,
- and should be treated as read-only by the caller
- (in particular, the application should not attempt
- to free it). Specify NULL if not required.
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- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME input_name was ill-formed
-
-5.11.gss_display_status
-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_status (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- OM_uint32 status_value,
- int status_type,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- OM_uint32 *message_context,
- gss_buffer_t status_string)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of a GSS-API
- status code, for display to the user or for logging purposes. Since
- some status values may indicate multiple conditions, applications may
- need to call gss_display_status multiple times, each call generating
- a single text string. The message_context parameter is used by
- gss_display_status to store state information about which error
- messages have already been extracted from a given status_value;
- message_context must be initialized to 0 by the application prior to
- the first call, and gss_display_status will return a non-zero value
- in this parameter if there are further messages to extract.
-
- The message_context parameter contains all state information required
- by gss_display_status in order to extract further messages from the
- status_value; even when a non-zero value is returned in this
- parameter, the application is not required to call gss_display_status
- again unless subsequent messages are desired. The following code
- extracts all messages from a given status code and prints them to
- stderr:
-
- OM_uint32 message_context;
- OM_uint32 status_code;
- OM_uint32 maj_status;
- OM_uint32 min_status;
- gss_buffer_desc status_string;
-
- ...
-
- message_context = 0;
-
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- maj_status = gss_display_status (
- &min_status,
- status_code,
- GSS_C_GSS_CODE,
- GSS_C_NO_OID,
- &message_context,
- &status_string)
-
- fprintf(stderr,
- "%.*s\n",
- (int)status_string.length,
-
- (char *)status_string.value);
-
- gss_release_buffer(&min_status, &status_string);
-
- } while (message_context != 0);
-
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- status_value Integer, read
- Status value to be converted
-
- status_type Integer, read
- GSS_C_GSS_CODE - status_value is a GSS status
- code
-
- GSS_C_MECH_CODE - status_value is a mechanism
- status code
-
- mech_type Object ID, read, optional
- Underlying mechanism (used to interpret a
- minor status value) Supply GSS_C_NO_OID to
- obtain the system default.
-
- message_context Integer, read/modify
- Should be initialized to zero by the
- application prior to the first call.
- On return from gss_display_status(),
- a non-zero status_value parameter indicates
- that additional messages may be extracted
- from the status code via subsequent calls
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- to gss_display_status(), passing the same
- status_value, status_type, mech_type, and
- message_context parameters.
-
- status_string buffer, character string, modify
- textual interpretation of the status_value.
- Storage associated with this parameter must
- be freed by the application after use with
- a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH Indicates that translation in accordance with
- an unsupported mechanism type was requested
-
- GSS_S_BAD_STATUS The status value was not recognized, or the
- status type was neither GSS_C_GSS_CODE nor
- GSS_C_MECH_CODE.
-
-5.12. gss_duplicate_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_duplicate_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t src_name,
- gss_name_t *dest_name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Create an exact duplicate of the existing internal name src_name.
- The new dest_name will be independent of src_name (i.e. src_name and
- dest_name must both be released, and the release of one shall not
- affect the validity of the other).
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- src_name gss_name_t, read
- internal name to be duplicated.
-
- dest_name gss_name_t, modify
- The resultant copy of <src_name>.
- Storage associated with this name must
- be freed by the application after use
- with a call to gss_release_name().
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- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The src_name parameter was ill-formed.
-
-5.13. gss_export_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_export_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_buffer_t exported_name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- To produce a canonical contiguous string representation of a
- mechanism name (MN), suitable for direct comparison (e.g. with
- memcmp) for use in authorization functions (e.g. matching entries in
- an access-control list). The <input_name> parameter must specify a
- valid MN (i.e. an internal name generated by gss_accept_sec_context
- or by gss_canonicalize_name).
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- The MN to be exported
-
- exported_name gss_buffer_t, octet-string, modify
- The canonical contiguous string form of
- <input_name>. Storage associated with
- this string must freed by the application
- after use with gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN The provided internal name was not a mechanism
- name.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provided internal name was ill-formed.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The internal name was of a type not supported
- by the GSS-API implementation.
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-5.14. gss_export_sec_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_export_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle,
- gss_buffer_t interprocess_token)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Provided to support the sharing of work between multiple processes.
- This routine will typically be used by the context-acceptor, in an
- application where a single process receives incoming connection
- requests and accepts security contexts over them, then passes the
- established context to one or more other processes for message
- exchange. gss_export_sec_context() deactivates the security context
- for the calling process and creates an interprocess token which, when
- passed to gss_import_sec_context in another process, will re-activate
- the context in the second process. Only a single instantiation of a
- given context may be active at any one time; a subsequent attempt by
- a context exporter to access the exported security context will fail.
-
- The implementation may constrain the set of processes by which the
- interprocess token may be imported, either as a function of local
- security policy, or as a result of implementation decisions. For
- example, some implementations may constrain contexts to be passed
- only between processes that run under the same account, or which are
- part of the same process group.
-
- The interprocess token may contain security-sensitive information
- (for example cryptographic keys). While mechanisms are encouraged to
- either avoid placing such sensitive information within interprocess
- tokens, or to encrypt the token before returning it to the
- application, in a typical object-library GSS-API implementation this
- may not be possible. Thus the application must take care to protect
- the interprocess token, and ensure that any process to which the
- token is transferred is trustworthy.
-
- If creation of the interprocess token is successful, the
- implementation shall deallocate all process-wide resources associated
- with the security context, and set the context_handle to
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT. In the event of an error that makes it impossible
- to complete the export of the security context, the implementation
- must not return an interprocess token, and should strive to leave the
- security context referenced by the context_handle parameter
- untouched. If this is impossible, it is permissible for the
- implementation to delete the security context, providing it also sets
- the context_handle parameter to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT.
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, modify
- context handle identifying the context to
- transfer.
-
- interprocess_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token to be transferred to target process.
- Storage associated with this token must be
- freed by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context was invalid
-
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE The operation is not supported.
-
-5.15. gss_get_mic
-
- OM_uint32 gss_get_mic (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_qop_t qop_req,
- const gss_buffer_t message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t msg_token)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Generates a cryptographic MIC for the supplied message, and places
- the MIC in a token for transfer to the peer application. The qop_req
- parameter allows a choice between several cryptographic algorithms,
- if supported by the chosen mechanism.
-
- Since some application-level protocols may wish to use tokens emitted
- by gss_wrap() to provide "secure framing", implementations must
- support derivation of MICs from zero-length messages.
-
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- identifies the context on which the message
- will be sent
-
- qop_req gss_qop_t, read, optional
- Specifies requested quality of protection.
- Callers are encouraged, on portability grounds,
- to accept the default quality of protection
- offered by the chosen mechanism, which may be
- requested by specifying GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT for
- this parameter. If an unsupported protection
- strength is requested, gss_get_mic will return a
- major_status of GSS_S_BAD_QOP.
-
- message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- message to be protected
-
- msg_token buffer, opaque, modify
- buffer to receive token. The application must
- free storage associated with this buffer after
- use with a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify
- a valid context
-
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP The specified QOP is not supported by the
- mechanism.
-
-5.16. gss_import_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_import_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_buffer_t input_name_buffer,
- const gss_OID input_name_type,
- gss_name_t *output_name)
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- Purpose:
-
- Convert a contiguous string name to internal form. In general, the
- internal name returned (via the <output_name> parameter) will not be
- an MN; the exception to this is if the <input_name_type> indicates
- that the contiguous string provided via the <input_name_buffer>
- parameter is of type GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME, in which case the returned
- internal name will be an MN for the mechanism that exported the name.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- input_name_buffer buffer, octet-string, read
- buffer containing contiguous string name to convert
-
- input_name_type Object ID, read, optional
- Object ID specifying type of printable
- name. Applications may specify either
- GSS_C_NO_OID to use a mechanism-specific
- default printable syntax, or an OID recognized
- by the GSS-API implementation to name a
- specific namespace.
-
- output_name gss_name_t, modify
- returned name in internal form. Storage
- associated with this name must be freed
- by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_name().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The input_name_type was unrecognized
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The input_name parameter could not be interpreted
- as a name of the specified type
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH The input name-type was GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME,
- but the mechanism contained within the
- input-name is not supported
-
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-
- OM_uint32 gss_import_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_buffer_t interprocess_token,
- gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows a process to import a security context established by another
- process. A given interprocess token may be imported only once. See
- gss_export_sec_context.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- interprocess_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token received from exporting process
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, modify
- context handle of newly reactivated context.
- Resources associated with this context handle
- must be released by the application after use
- with a call to gss_delete_sec_context().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The token did not contain a valid context
- reference.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token was invalid.
-
- GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE The operation is unavailable.
-
- GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED Local policy prevents the import of this context
- by the current process.
-
-5.18. gss_indicate_mechs
-
- OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_OID_set *mech_set)
-
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- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to determine which underlying security
- mechanisms are available.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- mech_set set of Object IDs, modify
- set of implementation-supported mechanisms.
- The returned gss_OID_set value will be a
- dynamically-allocated OID set, that should
- be released by the caller after use with a
- call to gss_release_oid_set().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-5.19. gss_init_sec_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_init_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t initiator_cred_handle,
- gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle,\
- const gss_name_t target_name,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- OM_uint32 req_flags,
- OM_uint32 time_req,
- const gss_channel_bindings_t input_chan_bindings,
- const gss_buffer_t input_token
- gss_OID *actual_mech_type,
- gss_buffer_t output_token,
- OM_uint32 *ret_flags,
- OM_uint32 *time_rec )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Initiates the establishment of a security context between the
- application and a remote peer. Initially, the input_token parameter
- should be specified either as GSS_C_NO_BUFFER, or as a pointer to a
- gss_buffer_desc object whose length field contains the value zero.
- The routine may return a output_token which should be transferred to
- the peer application, where the peer application will present it to
- gss_accept_sec_context. If no token need be sent,
- gss_init_sec_context will indicate this by setting the length field
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- of the output_token argument to zero. To complete the context
- establishment, one or more reply tokens may be required from the peer
- application; if so, gss_init_sec_context will return a status
- containing the supplementary information bit GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED.
- In this case, gss_init_sec_context should be called again when the
- reply token is received from the peer application, passing the reply
- token to gss_init_sec_context via the input_token parameters.
-
- Portable applications should be constructed to use the token length
- and return status to determine whether a token needs to be sent or
- waited for. Thus a typical portable caller should always invoke
- gss_init_sec_context within a loop:
-
- int context_established = 0;
- gss_ctx_id_t context_hdl = GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT;
- ...
- input_token->length = 0;
-
- while (!context_established) {
- maj_stat = gss_init_sec_context(&min_stat,
- cred_hdl,
- &context_hdl,
- target_name,
- desired_mech,
- desired_services,
- desired_time,
- input_bindings,
- input_token,
- &actual_mech,
- output_token,
- &actual_services,
- &actual_time);
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
- report_error(maj_stat, min_stat);
- };
-
- if (output_token->length != 0) {
- send_token_to_peer(output_token);
- gss_release_buffer(&min_stat, output_token)
- };
- if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
-
- if (context_hdl != GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT)
- gss_delete_sec_context(&min_stat,
- &context_hdl,
- GSS_C_NO_BUFFER);
- break;
- };
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- if (maj_stat & GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED) {
- receive_token_from_peer(input_token);
- } else {
- context_established = 1;
- };
- };
-
- Whenever the routine returns a major status that includes the value
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the context is not fully established and the
- following restrictions apply to the output parameters:
-
- The value returned via the time_rec parameter is undefined Unless
- the accompanying ret_flags parameter contains the bit
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG, indicating that per-message services may be
- applied in advance of a successful completion status, the value
- returned via the actual_mech_type parameter is undefined until the
- routine returns a major status value of GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- The values of the GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG, GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG,
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG, GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG, GSS_C_CONF_FLAG,
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_ANON_FLAG bits returned via the
- ret_flags parameter should contain the values that the
- implementation expects would be valid if context establishment
- were to succeed. In particular, if the application has requested
- a service such as delegation or anonymous authentication via the
- req_flags argument, and such a service is unavailable from the
- underlying mechanism, gss_init_sec_context should generate a token
- that will not provide the service, and indicate via the ret_flags
- argument that the service will not be supported. The application
- may choose to abort the context establishment by calling
- gss_delete_sec_context (if it cannot continue in the absence of
- the service), or it may choose to transmit the token and continue
- context establishment (if the service was merely desired but not
- mandatory).
-
- The values of the GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG and GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bits
- within ret_flags should indicate the actual state at the time
- gss_init_sec_context returns, whether or not the context is fully
- established.
-
- GSS-API implementations that support per-message protection are
- encouraged to set the GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG in the final ret_flags
- returned to a caller (i.e. when accompanied by a GSS_S_COMPLETE
- status code). However, applications should not rely on this
- behavior as the flag was not defined in Version 1 of the GSS-API.
- Instead, applications should determine what per-message services
- are available after a successful context establishment according
- to the GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_CONF_FLAG values.
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- All other bits within the ret_flags argument should be set to
- zero.
-
- If the initial call of gss_init_sec_context() fails, the
- implementation should not create a context object, and should leave
- the value of the context_handle parameter set to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT to
- indicate this. In the event of a failure on a subsequent call, the
- implementation is permitted to delete the "half-built" security
- context (in which case it should set the context_handle parameter to
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT), but the preferred behavior is to leave the
- security context untouched for the application to delete (using
- gss_delete_sec_context).
-
- During context establishment, the informational status bits
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN and GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicate fatal errors, and
- GSS-API mechanisms should always return them in association with a
- routine error of GSS_S_FAILURE. This requirement for pairing did not
- exist in version 1 of the GSS-API specification, so applications that
- wish to run over version 1 implementations must special-case these
- codes.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- initiator_cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read, optional
- handle for credentials claimed. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to act as a default
- initiator principal. If no default
- initiator is defined, the function will
- return GSS_S_NO_CRED.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read/modify
- context handle for new context. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT for first call; use value
- returned by first call in continuation calls.
- Resources associated with this context-handle
- must be released by the application after use
- with a call to gss_delete_sec_context().
-
- target_name gss_name_t, read
- Name of target
-
- mech_type OID, read, optional
- Object ID of desired mechanism. Supply
- GSS_C_NO_OID to obtain an implementation
- specific default
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- req_flags bit-mask, read
- Contains various independent flags, each of
- which requests that the context support a
- specific service option. Symbolic
- names are provided for each flag, and the
- symbolic names corresponding to the required
- flags should be logically-ORed
- together to form the bit-mask value. The
- flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Delegate credentials to remote peer
- False - Don't delegate
-
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - Request that remote peer
- authenticate itself
- False - Authenticate self to remote peer
- only
-
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - Enable replay detection for
- messages protected with gss_wrap
- or gss_get_mic
- False - Don't attempt to detect
- replayed messages
-
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - Enable detection of out-of-sequence
- protected messages
- False - Don't attempt to detect
- out-of-sequence messages
-
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Request that confidentiality service
- be made available (via gss_wrap)
- False - No per-message confidentiality service
- is required.
-
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Request that integrity service be
- made available (via gss_wrap or
- gss_get_mic)
- False - No per-message integrity service
- is required.
-
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- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - Do not reveal the initiator's
- identity to the acceptor.
- False - Authenticate normally.
-
- time_req Integer, read, optional
- Desired number of seconds for which context
- should remain valid. Supply 0 to request a
- default validity period.
-
- input_chan_bindings channel bindings, read, optional
- Application-specified bindings. Allows
- application to securely bind channel
- identification information to the security
- context. Specify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS
- if channel bindings are not used.
-
- input_token buffer, opaque, read, optional (see text)
- Token received from peer application.
- Supply GSS_C_NO_BUFFER, or a pointer to
- a buffer containing the value GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER
- on initial call.
-
- actual_mech_type OID, modify, optional
- Actual mechanism used. The OID returned via
- this parameter will be a pointer to static
- storage that should be treated as read-only;
- In particular the application should not attempt
- to free it. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- output_token buffer, opaque, modify
- token to be sent to peer application. If
- the length field of the returned buffer is
- zero, no token need be sent to the peer
- application. Storage associated with this
- buffer must be freed by the application
- after use with a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- ret_flags bit-mask, modify, optional
- Contains various independent flags, each of which
- indicates that the context supports a specific
- service option. Specify NULL if not
- required. Symbolic names are provided
- for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags should be
- logically-ANDed with the ret_flags value to test
- whether a given option is supported by the
- context. The flags are:
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- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Credentials were delegated to
- the remote peer
- False - No credentials were delegated
-
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - The remote peer has authenticated
- itself.
- False - Remote peer has not authenticated
- itself.
-
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of protected messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
-
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence protected
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will
- not be detected
-
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be
- invoked by calling gss_wrap routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- gss_wrap) available. gss_wrap will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
-
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_get_mic or gss_wrap
- routines.
- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
-
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - The initiator's identity has not been
- revealed, and will not be revealed if
- any emitted token is passed to the
- acceptor.
- False - The initiator's identity has been or
- will be authenticated normally.
-
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
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- True - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available for
- use if the accompanying major status
- return value is either GSS_S_COMPLETE or
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED.
- False - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- only if the accompanying major status
- return value is GSS_S_COMPLETE.
-
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
- True - The resultant security context may
- be transferred to other processes via
- a call to gss_export_sec_context().
- False - The security context is not
- transferable.
-
- All other bits should be set to zero.
-
- time_rec Integer, modify, optional
- number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. If the implementation does
- not support context expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED Indicates that a token from the peer
- application is required to complete the
- context, and that gss_init_sec_context
- must be called again with that token.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the input_token failed
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL Indicates that consistency checks
- performed on the credential failed.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The supplied credentials were not valid for
- context initiation, or the credential handle
- did not reference any credentials.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired
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- GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS The input_token contains different channel
- bindings to those specified via the
- input_chan_bindings parameter
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The input_token contains an invalid MIC, or a MIC
- that could not be verified
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The input_token was too old. This is a fatal
- error during context establishment
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The input_token is valid, but is a duplicate
- of a token already processed. This is a
- fatal error during context establishment.
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT Indicates that the supplied context handle did
- not refer to a valid context
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The provided target_name parameter contained an
- invalid or unsupported type of name
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The provided target_name parameter was ill-formed.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_MECH The specified mechanism is not supported by the
- provided credential, or is unrecognized by the
- implementation.
-
-5.20. gss_inquire_context
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_context (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- gss_name_t *src_name,
- gss_name_t *targ_name,
- OM_uint32 *lifetime_rec,
- gss_OID *mech_type,
- OM_uint32 *ctx_flags,
- int *locally_initiated,
- int *open )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Obtains information about a security context. The caller must
- already have obtained a handle that refers to the context, although
- the context need not be fully established.
-
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the security context.
-
- src_name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- The name of the context initiator.
- If the context was established using anonymous
- authentication, and if the application invoking
- gss_inquire_context is the context acceptor,
- an anonymous name will be returned. Storage
- associated with this name must be freed by the
- application after use with a call to
- gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- targ_name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- The name of the context acceptor.
- Storage associated with this name must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_name(). If the context acceptor
- did not authenticate itself, and if the initiator
- did not specify a target name in its call to
- gss_init_sec_context(), the value GSS_C_NO_NAME
- will be returned. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- lifetime_rec Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the context
- will remain valid. If the context has
- expired, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support
- context expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- mech_type gss_OID, modify, optional
- The security mechanism providing the
- context. The returned OID will be a
- pointer to static storage that should
- be treated as read-only by the application;
- in particular the application should not
- attempt to free it. Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
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- ctx_flags bit-mask, modify, optional
- Contains various independent flags, each of
- which indicates that the context supports
- (or is expected to support, if ctx_open is
- false) a specific service option. If not
- needed, specify NULL. Symbolic names are
- provided for each flag, and the symbolic names
- corresponding to the required flags
- should be logically-ANDed with the ret_flags
- value to test whether a given option is
- supported by the context. The flags are:
-
- GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
- True - Credentials were delegated from
- the initiator to the acceptor.
- False - No credentials were delegated
-
- GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
- True - The acceptor was authenticated
- to the initiator
- False - The acceptor did not authenticate
- itself.
-
- GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
- True - replay of protected messages
- will be detected
- False - replayed messages will not be
- detected
-
- GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
- True - out-of-sequence protected
- messages will be detected
- False - out-of-sequence messages will not
- be detected
-
- GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- True - Confidentiality service may be invoked
- by calling gss_wrap routine
- False - No confidentiality service (via
- gss_wrap) available. gss_wrap will
- provide message encapsulation,
- data-origin authentication and
- integrity services only.
-
- GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
- True - Integrity service may be invoked by
- calling either gss_get_mic or gss_wrap
- routines.
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- False - Per-message integrity service
- unavailable.
-
- GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
- True - The initiator's identity will not
- be revealed to the acceptor.
- The src_name parameter (if
- requested) contains an anonymous
- internal name.
- False - The initiator has been
- authenticated normally.
-
- GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
- True - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- for use.
- False - Protection services (as specified
- by the states of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
- and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are available
- only if the context is fully
- established (i.e. if the open parameter
- is non-zero).
-
- GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
- True - The resultant security context may
- be transferred to other processes via
- a call to gss_export_sec_context().
- False - The security context is not
- transferable.
-
- locally_initiated Boolean, modify
- Non-zero if the invoking application is the
- context initiator.
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- open Boolean, modify
- Non-zero if the context is fully established;
- Zero if a context-establishment token
- is expected from the peer application.
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The referenced context could not be accessed.
-
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-5.21. gss_inquire_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t cred_handle,
- gss_name_t *name,
- OM_uint32 *lifetime,
- gss_cred_usage_t *cred_usage,
- gss_OID_set *mechanisms )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Obtains information about a credential.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the target credential.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to inquire about
- the default initiator principal.
-
- name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- The name whose identity the credential asserts.
- Storage associated with this name should be freed
- by the application after use with a call to
- gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not required.
-
- lifetime Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the credential
- will remain valid. If the credential has
- expired, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support
- credential expiration, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify
- NULL if not required.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, modify, optional
- How the credential may be used. One of the
- following:
- GSS_C_INITIATE
- GSS_C_ACCEPT
- GSS_C_BOTH
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
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- mechanisms gss_OID_set, modify, optional
- Set of mechanisms supported by the credential.
- Storage associated with this OID set must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_oid_set(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The referenced credentials could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL The referenced credentials were invalid.
-
- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired.
- If the lifetime parameter was not passed as NULL,
- it will be set to 0.
-
-5.22. gss_inquire_cred_by_mech
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred_by_mech (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_cred_id_t cred_handle,
- const gss_OID mech_type,
- gss_name_t *name,
- OM_uint32 *initiator_lifetime,
- OM_uint32 *acceptor_lifetime,
- gss_cred_usage_t *cred_usage )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Obtains per-mechanism information about a credential.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the target credential.
- Specify GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to inquire about
- the default initiator principal.
-
- mech_type gss_OID, read
- The mechanism for which information should be
- returned.
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- name gss_name_t, modify, optional
- The name whose identity the credential asserts.
- Storage associated with this name must be
- freed by the application after use with a call
- to gss_release_name(). Specify NULL if not
- required.
-
- initiator_lifetime Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the credential
- will remain capable of initiating security contexts
- under the specified mechanism. If the credential
- can no longer be used to initiate contexts, or if
- the credential usage for this mechanism is
- GSS_C_ACCEPT, this parameter will be set to zero.
- If the implementation does not support expiration
- of initiator credentials, the value
- GSS_C_INDEFINITE will be returned. Specify NULL
- if not required.
-
- acceptor_lifetime Integer, modify, optional
- The number of seconds for which the credential
- will remain capable of accepting security contexts
- under the specified mechanism. If the credential
- can no longer be used to accept contexts, or if
- the credential usage for this mechanism is
- GSS_C_INITIATE, this parameter will be set to zero.
-
- If the implementation does not support expiration
- of acceptor credentials, the value GSS_C_INDEFINITE
- will be returned. Specify NULL if not required.
-
- cred_usage gss_cred_usage_t, modify, optional
- How the credential may be used with the specified
- mechanism. One of the following:
- GSS_C_INITIATE
- GSS_C_ACCEPT
- GSS_C_BOTH
- Specify NULL if not required.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED The referenced credentials could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL The referenced credentials were invalid.
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- GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED The referenced credentials have expired.
- If the lifetime parameter was not passed as NULL,
- it will be set to 0.
-
-5.23. gss_inquire_mechs_for_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_mechs_for_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_name_t input_name,
- gss_OID_set *mech_types )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Returns the set of mechanisms supported by the GSS-API implementation
- that may be able to process the specified name.
-
- Each mechanism returned will recognize at least one element within
- the name. It is permissible for this routine to be implemented
- within a mechanism-independent GSS-API layer, using the type
- information contained within the presented name, and based on
- registration information provided by individual mechanism
- implementations. This means that the returned mech_types set may
- indicate that a particular mechanism will understand the name when in
- fact it would refuse to accept the name as input to
- gss_canonicalize_name, gss_init_sec_context, gss_acquire_cred or
- gss_add_cred (due to some property of the specific name, as opposed
- to the name type). Thus this routine should be used only as a pre-
- filter for a call to a subsequent mechanism-specific routine.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- input_name gss_name_t, read
- The name to which the inquiry relates.
-
- mech_types gss_OID_set, modify
- Set of mechanisms that may support the
- specified name. The returned OID set
- must be freed by the caller after use
- with a call to gss_release_oid_set().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The input_name parameter was ill-formed.
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- GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE The input_name parameter contained an invalid or
- unsupported type of name
-
-5.24. gss_inquire_names_for_mech
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_names_for_mech (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_OID mechanism,
- gss_OID_set *name_types)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Returns the set of nametypes supported by the specified mechanism.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- mechanism gss_OID, read
- The mechanism to be interrogated.
-
- name_types gss_OID_set, modify
- Set of name-types supported by the specified
- mechanism. The returned OID set must be
- freed by the application after use with a
- call to gss_release_oid_set().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-5.25. gss_process_context_token
-
- OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t token_buffer)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Provides a way to pass an asynchronous token to the security service.
- Most context-level tokens are emitted and processed synchronously by
- gss_init_sec_context and gss_accept_sec_context, and the application
- is informed as to whether further tokens are expected by the
- GSS_C_CONTINUE_NEEDED major status bit. Occasionally, a mechanism
- may need to emit a context-level token at a point when the peer
- entity is not expecting a token. For example, the initiator's final
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- call to gss_init_sec_context may emit a token and return a status of
- GSS_S_COMPLETE, but the acceptor's call to gss_accept_sec_context may
- fail. The acceptor's mechanism may wish to send a token containing
- an error indication to the initiator, but the initiator is not
- expecting a token at this point, believing that the context is fully
- established. Gss_process_context_token provides a way to pass such a
- token to the mechanism at any time.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Implementation specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- context handle of context on which token is to
- be processed
-
- token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- token to process
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed
- on the token failed
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle did not refer to a valid context
-
-5.26. gss_release_buffer
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_buffer (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_buffer_t buffer)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Free storage associated with a buffer. The storage must have been
- allocated by a GSS-API routine. In addition to freeing the
- associated storage, the routine will zero the length field in the
- descriptor to which the buffer parameter refers, and implementations
- are encouraged to additionally set the pointer field in the
- descriptor to NULL. Any buffer object returned by a GSS-API routine
- may be passed to gss_release_buffer (even if there is no storage
- associated with the buffer).
-
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- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- buffer buffer, modify
- The storage associated with the buffer will be
- deleted. The gss_buffer_desc object will not
- be freed, but its length field will be zeroed.
-
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-5.27. gss_release_cred
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_cred (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_cred_id_t *cred_handle)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Informs GSS-API that the specified credential handle is no longer
- required by the application, and frees associated resources.
- Implementations are encouraged to set the cred_handle to
- GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL on successful completion of this call.
-
- Parameters:
-
- cred_handle gss_cred_id_t, modify, optional
- Opaque handle identifying credential
- to be released. If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
- is supplied, the routine will complete
- successfully, but will do nothing.
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CRED Credentials could not be accessed.
-
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-5.28. gss_release_name
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_name (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_name_t *name)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Free GSSAPI-allocated storage associated with an internal-form name.
- Implementations are encouraged to set the name to GSS_C_NO_NAME on
- successful completion of this call.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- name gss_name_t, modify
- The name to be deleted
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_BAD_NAME The name parameter did not contain a valid name
-
-5.29. gss_release_oid_set
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- gss_OID_set *set)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Free storage associated with a GSSAPI-generated gss_OID_set object.
- The set parameter must refer to an OID-set that was returned from a
- GSS-API routine. gss_release_oid_set() will free the storage
- associated with each individual member OID, the OID set's elements
- array, and the gss_OID_set_desc.
-
- Implementations are encouraged to set the gss_OID_set parameter to
- GSS_C_NO_OID_SET on successful completion of this routine.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
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- set Set of Object IDs, modify
- The storage associated with the gss_OID_set
- will be deleted.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-5.30. gss_test_oid_set_member
-
- OM_uint32 gss_test_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_OID member,
- const gss_OID_set set,
- int *present)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Interrogate an Object Identifier set to determine whether a specified
- Object Identifier is a member. This routine is intended to be used
- with OID sets returned by gss_indicate_mechs(), gss_acquire_cred(),
- and gss_inquire_cred(), but will also work with user-generated sets.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- member Object ID, read
- The object identifier whose presence
- is to be tested.
-
- set Set of Object ID, read
- The Object Identifier set.
-
- present Boolean, modify
- non-zero if the specified OID is a member
- of the set, zero if not.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
-
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-5.31. gss_unwrap
-
- OM_uint32 gss_unwrap (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t input_message_buffer,
- gss_buffer_t output_message_buffer,
- int *conf_state,
- gss_qop_t *qop_state)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Converts a message previously protected by gss_wrap back to a usable
- form, verifying the embedded MIC. The conf_state parameter indicates
- whether the message was encrypted; the qop_state parameter indicates
- the strength of protection that was used to provide the
- confidentiality and integrity services.
-
- Since some application-level protocols may wish to use tokens emitted
- by gss_wrap() to provide "secure framing", implementations must
- support the wrapping and unwrapping of zero-length messages.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context on which the message
- arrived
-
- input_message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- protected message
-
- output_message_buffer buffer, opaque, modify
- Buffer to receive unwrapped message.
- Storage associated with this buffer must
- be freed by the application after use use
- with a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- conf_state boolean, modify, optional
- Non-zero - Confidentiality and integrity
- protection were used
- Zero - Integrity service only was used
- Specify NULL if not required
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- qop_state gss_qop_t, modify, optional
- Quality of protection provided.
- Specify NULL if not required
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token failed consistency checks
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The MIC was incorrect
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- MIC for the message, but it had already been
- processed
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but it is too old to check for
- duplication.
-
- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but has been verified out of
- sequence; a later token has already been
- received.
-
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but has been verified out of
- sequence; an earlier expected token has not yet
- been received.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify
- a valid context
-
-5.32. gss_verify_mic
-
- OM_uint32 gss_verify_mic (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- const gss_buffer_t message_buffer,
- const gss_buffer_t token_buffer,
- gss_qop_t *qop_state)
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- Purpose:
-
- Verifies that a cryptographic MIC, contained in the token parameter,
- fits the supplied message. The qop_state parameter allows a message
- recipient to determine the strength of protection that was applied to
- the message.
-
- Since some application-level protocols may wish to use tokens emitted
- by gss_wrap() to provide "secure framing", implementations must
- support the calculation and verification of MICs over zero-length
- messages.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context on which the message
- arrived
-
- message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- Message to be verified
-
- token_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- Token associated with message
-
- qop_state gss_qop_t, modify, optional
- quality of protection gained from MIC
- Specify NULL if not required
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN The token failed consistency checks
-
- GSS_S_BAD_SIG The MIC was incorrect
-
- GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct
- MIC for the message, but it had already been
- processed
-
- GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but it is too old to check for
- duplication.
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- GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but has been verified out of
- sequence; a later token has already been received.
-
- GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN The token was valid, and contained a correct MIC
- for the message, but has been verified out of
- sequence; an earlier expected token has not yet
- been received.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
-5.33. gss_wrap
-
- OM_uint32 gss_wrap (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- int conf_req_flag,
- gss_qop_t qop_req
- const gss_buffer_t input_message_buffer,
- int *conf_state,
- gss_buffer_t output_message_buffer )
-
- Purpose:
-
- Attaches a cryptographic MIC and optionally encrypts the specified
- input_message. The output_message contains both the MIC and the
- message. The qop_req parameter allows a choice between several
- cryptographic algorithms, if supported by the chosen mechanism.
-
- Since some application-level protocols may wish to use tokens emitted
- by gss_wrap() to provide "secure framing", implementations must
- support the wrapping of zero-length messages.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code.
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- Identifies the context on which the message
- will be sent
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- conf_req_flag boolean, read
- Non-zero - Both confidentiality and integrity
- services are requested
- Zero - Only integrity service is requested
-
- qop_req gss_qop_t, read, optional
- Specifies required quality of protection. A
- mechanism-specific default may be requested by
- setting qop_req to GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT. If an
- unsupported protection strength is requested,
- gss_wrap will return a major_status of
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP.
-
- input_message_buffer buffer, opaque, read
- Message to be protected
-
- conf_state boolean, modify, optional
- Non-zero - Confidentiality, data origin
- authentication and integrity
- services have been applied
- Zero - Integrity and data origin services only
- has been applied.
- Specify NULL if not required
-
- output_message_buffer buffer, opaque, modify
- Buffer to receive protected message.
- Storage associated with this message must
- be freed by the application after use with
- a call to gss_release_buffer().
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has already expired
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle parameter did not identify a
- valid context
-
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP The specified QOP is not supported by the
- mechanism.
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-5.34. gss_wrap_size_limit
-
- OM_uint32 gss_wrap_size_limit (
- OM_uint32 *minor_status,
- const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle,
- int conf_req_flag,
- gss_qop_t qop_req,
- OM_uint32 req_output_size,
- OM_uint32 *max_input_size)
-
- Purpose:
-
- Allows an application to determine the maximum message size that, if
- presented to gss_wrap with the same conf_req_flag and qop_req
- parameters, will result in an output token containing no more than
- req_output_size bytes.
-
- This call is intended for use by applications that communicate over
- protocols that impose a maximum message size. It enables the
- application to fragment messages prior to applying protection.
-
- GSS-API implementations are recommended but not required to detect
- invalid QOP values when gss_wrap_size_limit() is called. This routine
- guarantees only a maximum message size, not the availability of
- specific QOP values for message protection.
-
- Successful completion of this call does not guarantee that gss_wrap
- will be able to protect a message of length max_input_size bytes,
- since this ability may depend on the availability of system resources
- at the time that gss_wrap is called. However, if the implementation
- itself imposes an upper limit on the length of messages that may be
- processed by gss_wrap, the implementation should not return a value
- via max_input_bytes that is greater than this length.
-
- Parameters:
-
- minor_status Integer, modify
- Mechanism specific status code
-
- context_handle gss_ctx_id_t, read
- A handle that refers to the security over
- which the messages will be sent.
-
- conf_req_flag Boolean, read
- Indicates whether gss_wrap will be asked
- to apply confidentiality protection in
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- addition to integrity protection. See
- the routine description for gss_wrap
- for more details.
-
- qop_req gss_qop_t, read
- Indicates the level of protection that
- gss_wrap will be asked to provide. See
- the routine description for gss_wrap for
- more details.
-
- req_output_size Integer, read
- The desired maximum size for tokens emitted
- by gss_wrap.
-
- max_input_size Integer, modify
- The maximum input message size that may
- be presented to gss_wrap in order to
- guarantee that the emitted token shall
- be no larger than req_output_size bytes.
-
- Function value: GSS status code
-
- GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion
-
- GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The referenced context could not be accessed.
-
- GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED The context has expired.
-
- GSS_S_BAD_QOP The specified QOP is not supported by the
- mechanism.
-
-6. Security Considerations
-
- This document specifies a service interface for security facilities
- and services; as such, security considerations appear throughout the
- specification. Nonetheless, it is appropriate to summarize certain
- specific points relevant to GSS-API implementors and calling
- applications. Usage of the GSS-API interface does not in itself
- provide security services or assurance; instead, these attributes are
- dependent on the underlying mechanism(s) which support a GSS-API
- implementation. Callers must be attentive to the requests made to
- GSS-API calls and to the status indicators returned by GSS-API, as
- these specify the security service characteristics which GSS-API will
- provide. When the interprocess context transfer facility is used,
- appropriate local controls should be applied to constrain access to
- interprocess tokens and to the sensitive data which they contain.
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- Appendix A. GSS-API C header file gssapi.h
-
- C-language GSS-API implementations should include a copy of the
- following header-file.
-
- #ifndef GSSAPI_H_
- #define GSSAPI_H_
-
-
-
- /*
- * First, include stddef.h to get size_t defined.
- */
- #include <stddef.h>
-
- /*
- * If the platform supports the xom.h header file, it should be
- * included here.
- */
- #include <xom.h>
-
-
- /*
- * Now define the three implementation-dependent types.
- */
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_ctx_id_t;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_cred_id_t;
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_name_t;
-
- /*
- * The following type must be defined as the smallest natural
- * unsigned integer supported by the platform that has at least
- * 32 bits of precision.
- */
- typedef <platform-specific> gss_uint32;
-
-
- #ifdef OM_STRING
- /*
- * We have included the xom.h header file. Verify that OM_uint32
- * is defined correctly.
- */
-
- #if sizeof(gss_uint32) != sizeof(OM_uint32)
- #error Incompatible definition of OM_uint32 from xom.h
- #endif
-
- typedef OM_object_identifier gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
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- /*
- * We can't use X/Open definitions, so roll our own.
- */
-
- typedef gss_uint32 OM_uint32;
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_desc_struct {
- OM_uint32 length;
- void *elements;
- } gss_OID_desc, *gss_OID;
-
- #endif
-
- typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct {
- size_t count;
- gss_OID elements;
- } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
-
- typedef struct gss_buffer_desc_struct {
- size_t length;
- void *value;
- } gss_buffer_desc, *gss_buffer_t;
-
- typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
- OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
- OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
- gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
- gss_buffer_desc application_data;
- } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
-
- /*
- * For now, define a QOP-type as an OM_uint32
- */
- typedef OM_uint32 gss_qop_t;
-
- typedef int gss_cred_usage_t;
-
- /*
- * Flag bits for context-level services.
- */
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- #define GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG 1
- #define GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG 2
- #define GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG 4
- #define GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG 8
- #define GSS_C_CONF_FLAG 16
- #define GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG 32
- #define GSS_C_ANON_FLAG 64
- #define GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG 128
- #define GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG 256
-
- /*
- * Credential usage options
- */
- #define GSS_C_BOTH 0
- #define GSS_C_INITIATE 1
- #define GSS_C_ACCEPT 2
-
- /*
- * Status code types for gss_display_status
- */
- #define GSS_C_GSS_CODE 1
- #define GSS_C_MECH_CODE 2
-
- /*
- * The constant definitions for channel-bindings address families
- */
- #define GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC 0
- #define GSS_C_AF_LOCAL 1
- #define GSS_C_AF_INET 2
- #define GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK 3
- #define GSS_C_AF_PUP 4
- #define GSS_C_AF_CHAOS 5
- #define GSS_C_AF_NS 6
- #define GSS_C_AF_NBS 7
- #define GSS_C_AF_ECMA 8
- #define GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT 9
- #define GSS_C_AF_CCITT 10
- #define GSS_C_AF_SNA 11
- #define GSS_C_AF_DECnet 12
- #define GSS_C_AF_DLI 13
- #define GSS_C_AF_LAT 14
- #define GSS_C_AF_HYLINK 15
- #define GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK 16
- #define GSS_C_AF_BSC 17
- #define GSS_C_AF_DSS 18
- #define GSS_C_AF_OSI 19
- #define GSS_C_AF_X25 21
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- #define GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR 255
-
- /*
- * Various Null values
- */
- #define GSS_C_NO_NAME ((gss_name_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_BUFFER ((gss_buffer_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_OID ((gss_OID) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_OID_SET ((gss_OID_set) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT ((gss_ctx_id_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL ((gss_cred_id_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS ((gss_channel_bindings_t) 0)
- #define GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER {0, NULL}
-
- /*
- * Some alternate names for a couple of the above
- * values. These are defined for V1 compatibility.
- */
- #define GSS_C_NULL_OID GSS_C_NO_OID
- #define GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET GSS_C_NO_OID_SET
-
- /*
- * Define the default Quality of Protection for per-message
- * services. Note that an implementation that offers multiple
- * levels of QOP may define GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT to be either zero
- * (as done here) to mean "default protection", or to a specific
- * explicit QOP value. However, a value of 0 should always be
- * interpreted by a GSS-API implementation as a request for the
- * default protection level.
- */
- #define GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT 0
-
- /*
- * Expiration time of 2^32-1 seconds means infinite lifetime for a
- * credential or security context
- */
- #define GSS_C_INDEFINITE 0xfffffffful
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x01"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
- * infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) user_name(1)}. The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
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- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_USER_NAME;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x02"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
- * infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) machine_uid_name(2)}.
- * The constant GSS_C_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME should be
- * initialized to point to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_MACHINE_UID_NAME;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x03"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
- * infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) string_uid_name(3)}.
- * The constant GSS_C_NT_STRING_UID_NAME should be
- * initialized to point to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_STRING_UID_NAME;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {6, (void *)"\x2b\x06\x01\x05\x06\x02"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5)
- * nametypes(6) gss-host-based-services(2)). The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE_X should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc. This is a deprecated OID value, and
- * implementations wishing to support hostbased-service names
- * should instead use the GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE OID,
- * defined below, to identify such names;
- * GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE_X should be accepted a synonym
- * for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE when presented as an input
- * parameter, but should not be emitted by GSS-API
- * implementations
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE_X;
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- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {10, (void *)"\x2a\x86\x48\x86\xf7\x12"
- * "\x01\x02\x01\x04"}, corresponding to an
- * object-identifier value of {iso(1) member-body(2)
- * Unites States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2)
- * generic(1) service_name(4)}. The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE should be initialized
- * to point to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE;
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {6, (void *)"\x2b\x06\01\x05\x06\x03"},
- * corresponding to an object identifier value of
- * {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security),
- * 6(nametypes), 3(gss-anonymous-name)}. The constant
- * and GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_ANONYMOUS;
-
-
- /*
- * The implementation must reserve static storage for a
- * gss_OID_desc object containing the value
- * {6, (void *)"\x2b\x06\x01\x05\x06\x04"},
- * corresponding to an object-identifier value of
- * {1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security),
- * 6(nametypes), 4(gss-api-exported-name)}. The constant
- * GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME should be initialized to point
- * to that gss_OID_desc.
- */
- extern gss_OID GSS_C_NT_EXPORT_NAME;
-
-
- /* Major status codes */
-
- #define GSS_S_COMPLETE 0
-
- /*
- * Some "helper" definitions to make the status code macros obvious.
- */
- #define GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET 24
- #define GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET 16
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- #define GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET 0
- #define GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK 0377ul
- #define GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK 0377ul
- #define GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK 0177777ul
-
- /*
- * The macros that test status codes for error conditions.
- * Note that the GSS_ERROR() macro has changed slightly from
- * the V1 GSS-API so that it now evaluates its argument
- * only once.
- */
- #define GSS_CALLING_ERROR(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_ROUTINE_ERROR(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_SUPPLEMENTARY_INFO(x) \
- (x & (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK << GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET))
- #define GSS_ERROR(x) \
- (x & ((GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET) | \
- (GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK << GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)))
-
- /*
- * Now the actual status code definitions
- */
-
- /*
- * Calling errors:
-
- */
- #define GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ \
- (1ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE \
- (2ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE \
- (3ul << GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET)
-
- /*
- * Routine errors:
- */
- #define GSS_S_BAD_MECH (1ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_NAME (2ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE (3ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS (4ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_STATUS (5ul <<
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- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_SIG (6ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_MIC GSS_S_BAD_SIG
- #define GSS_S_NO_CRED (7ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT (8ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN (9ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL (10ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED (11ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED (12ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_FAILURE (13ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_BAD_QOP (14ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED (15ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE (16ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT (17ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
- #define GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN (18ul <<
- GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET)
-
- /*
- * Supplementary info bits:
- */
- #define GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED \
- (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 0))
- #define GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN \
- (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 1))
- #define GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN \
- (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 2))
- #define GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN \
- (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 3))
- #define GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN \
- (1ul << (GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET + 4))
-
- /*
- * Finally, function prototypes for the GSS-API routines.
- */
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- OM_uint32 gss_acquire_cred
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* desired_name */
- OM_uint32, /* time_req */
- const gss_OID_set, /* desired_mechs */
- gss_cred_usage_t, /* cred_usage */
- gss_cred_id_t , /* output_cred_handle */
- gss_OID_set , /* actual_mechs */
- OM_uint32 * /* time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_cred
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_cred_id_t * /* cred_handle */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_init_sec_context
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* initiator_cred_handle */
- gss_ctx_id_t , /* context_handle */
- const gss_name_t, /* target_name */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- OM_uint32, /* req_flags */
- OM_uint32, /* time_req */
- const gss_channel_bindings_t,
- /* input_chan_bindings */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_token */
- gss_OID , /* actual_mech_type */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_token */
- OM_uint32 , /* ret_flags */
- OM_uint32 * /* time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_accept_sec_context
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t , /* context_handle */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* acceptor_cred_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_token_buffer */
- const gss_channel_bindings_t,
- /* input_chan_bindings */
- gss_name_t , /* src_name */
- gss_OID , /* mech_type */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_token */
- OM_uint32 , /* ret_flags */
- OM_uint32 , /* time_rec */
- gss_cred_id_t * /* delegated_cred_handle */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t /* token_buffer */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t , /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_token */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_context_time
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- OM_uint32 * /* time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_get_mic
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_qop_t, /* qop_req */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t /* message_token */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_verify_mic
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* token_buffer */
- gss_qop_t * /* qop_state */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_wrap
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- gss_qop_t, /* qop_req */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- int , /* conf_state */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_message_buffer */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_unwrap
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_message_buffer */
- int , /* conf_state */
- gss_qop_t * /* qop_state */
- );
-
-
-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_status
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- OM_uint32, /* status_value */
- int, /* status_type */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- OM_uint32 , /* message_context */
- gss_buffer_t /* status_string */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set * /* mech_set */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_compare_name
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* name1 */
- const gss_name_t, /* name2 */
- int * /* name_equal */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_display_name
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_name_buffer */
- gss_OID * /* output_name_type */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_import_name
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* input_name_buffer */
- const gss_OID, /* input_name_type */
- gss_name_t * /* output_name */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_export_name
- (OM_uint32, /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_buffer_t /* exported_name */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_name
- (OM_uint32 *, /* minor_status */
- gss_name_t * /* input_name */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_buffer
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_buffer_t /* buffer */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_release_oid_set
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set * /* set */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* cred_handle */
- gss_name_t , /* name */
- OM_uint32 , /* lifetime */
- gss_cred_usage_t , /* cred_usage */
- gss_OID_set * /* mechanisms */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_context (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_name_t , /* src_name */
- gss_name_t , /* targ_name */
- OM_uint32 , /* lifetime_rec */
- gss_OID , /* mech_type */
- OM_uint32 , /* ctx_flags */
- int , /* locally_initiated */
- int * /* open */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_wrap_size_limit (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- gss_qop_t, /* qop_req */
- OM_uint32, /* req_output_size */
- OM_uint32 * /* max_input_size */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_add_cred (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* input_cred_handle */
- const gss_name_t, /* desired_name */
- const gss_OID, /* desired_mech */
- gss_cred_usage_t, /* cred_usage */
- OM_uint32, /* initiator_time_req */
- OM_uint32, /* acceptor_time_req */
- gss_cred_id_t , /* output_cred_handle */
- gss_OID_set , /* actual_mechs */
- OM_uint32 , /* initiator_time_rec */
- OM_uint32 * /* acceptor_time_rec */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_cred_by_mech (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_cred_id_t, /* cred_handle */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- gss_name_t , /* name */
- OM_uint32 , /* initiator_lifetime */
- OM_uint32 , /* acceptor_lifetime */
- gss_cred_usage_t * /* cred_usage */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_export_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t , /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t /* interprocess_token */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_import_sec_context (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_buffer_t, /* interprocess_token */
- gss_ctx_id_t * /* context_handle */
- );
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- OM_uint32 gss_create_empty_oid_set (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_OID_set * /* oid_set */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_add_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_OID, /* member_oid */
- gss_OID_set * /* oid_set */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_test_oid_set_member (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_OID, /* member */
- const gss_OID_set, /* set */
- int * /* present */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_names_for_mech (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_OID, /* mechanism */
- gss_OID_set * /* name_types */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_inquire_mechs_for_name (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- gss_OID_set * /* mech_types */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_canonicalize_name (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* input_name */
- const gss_OID, /* mech_type */
- gss_name_t * /* output_name */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_duplicate_name (
- OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- const gss_name_t, /* src_name */
- gss_name_t * /* dest_name */
- );
-
- /*
- * The following routines are obsolete variants of gss_get_mic,
- * gss_verify_mic, gss_wrap and gss_unwrap. They should be
- * provided by GSS-API V2 implementations for backwards
- * compatibility with V1 applications. Distinct entrypoints
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- * (as opposed to #defines) should be provided, both to allow
- * GSS-API V1 applications to link against GSS-API V2
- implementations,
- * and to retain the slight parameter type differences between the
- * obsolete versions of these routines and their current forms.
- */
-
- OM_uint32 gss_sign
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* qop_req */
- gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t /* message_token */
- );
-
-
- OM_uint32 gss_verify
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* token_buffer */
- int * /* qop_state */
- );
-
- OM_uint32 gss_seal
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- int, /* conf_req_flag */
- int, /* qop_req */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- int , /* conf_state */
- gss_buffer_t /* output_message_buffer */
- );
-
-
- OM_uint32 gss_unseal
- (OM_uint32 , /* minor_status */
- gss_ctx_id_t, /* context_handle */
- gss_buffer_t, /* input_message_buffer */
- gss_buffer_t, /* output_message_buffer */
- int , /* conf_state */
- int * /* qop_state */
- );
-
- #endif /* GSSAPI_H_ */
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-Appendix B. Additional constraints for application binary portability
-
- The purpose of this C-bindings document is to encourage source-level
- portability of applications across GSS-API implementations on
- different platforms and atop different mechanisms. Additional goals
- that have not been explicitly addressed by this document are link-
- time and run-time portability.
-
- Link-time portability provides the ability to compile an application
- against one implementation of GSS-API, and then link it against a
- different implementation on the same platform. It is a stricter
- requirement than source-level portability.
-
- Run-time portability differs from link-time portability only on those
- platforms that implement dynamically loadable GSS-API
- implementations, but do not offer load-time symbol resolution. On
- such platforms, run-time portability is a stricter requirement than
- link-time portability, and will typically include the precise
- placement of the various GSS-API routines within library entrypoint
- vectors.
-
- Individual platforms will impose their own rules that must be
- followed to achieve link-time (and run-time, if different)
- portability. In order to ensure either form of binary portability,
- an ABI specification must be written for GSS-API implementations on
- that platform. However, it is recognized that there are some issues
- that are likely to be common to all such ABI specifications. This
- appendix is intended to be a repository for such common issues, and
- contains some suggestions that individual ABI specifications may
- choose to reference. Since machine architectures vary greatly, it may
- not be possible or desirable to follow these suggestions on all
- platforms.
-
-B.1. Pointers
-
- While ANSI-C provides a single pointer type for each declared type,
- plus a single (void *) type, some platforms (notably those using
- segmented memory architectures) augment this with various modified
- pointer types (e.g. far pointers, near pointers). These language
- bindings assume ANSI-C, and thus do not address such non-standard
- implementations. GSS-API implementations for such platforms must
- choose an appropriate memory model, and should use it consistently
- throughout. For example, if a memory model is chosen that requires
- the use of far pointers when passing routine parameters, then far
- pointers should also be used within the structures defined by GSS-
- API.
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-
- GSS-API defines several data-structures containing differently-sized
- fields. An ABI specification should include a detailed description
- of how the fields of such structures are aligned, and if there is any
- internal padding in these data structures. The use of compiler
- defaults for the platform is recommended.
-
-B.3. Handle types
-
- The C bindings specify that the gss_cred_id_t and gss_ctx_id_t types
- should be implemented as either pointer or arithmetic types, and that
- if pointer types are used, care should be taken to ensure that two
- handles may be compared with the == operator. Note that ANSI-C does
- not guarantee that two pointer values may be compared with the ==
- operator unless either the two pointers point to members of a single
- array, or at least one of the pointers contains a NULL value.
-
- For binary portability, additional constraints are required. The
- following is an attempt at defining platform-independent constraints.
-
- The size of the handle type must be the same as sizeof(void *), using
- the appropriate memory model.
-
- The == operator for the chosen type must be a simple bit-wise
- comparison. That is, for two in-memory handle objects h1 and h2, the
- boolean value of the expression
-
- (h1 == h2)
-
- should always be the same as the boolean value of the expression
-
- (memcmp(&h1, &h2, sizeof(h1)) == 0)
-
- The actual use of the type (void *) for handle types is discouraged,
- not for binary portability reasons, but since it effectively disables
- much of the compile-time type-checking that the compiler can
- otherwise perform, and is therefore not "programmer-friendly". If a
- pointer implementation is desired, and if the platform's
- implementation of pointers permits, the handles should be implemented
- as pointers to distinct implementation-defined types.
-
-B.4. The gss_name_t type
-
- The gss_name_t type, representing the internal name object, should be
- implemented as a pointer type. The use of the (void *) type is
- discouraged as it does not allow the compiler to perform strong
- type-checking. However, the pointer type chosen should be of the
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- same size as the (void *) type. Provided this rule is obeyed, ABI
- specifications need not further constrain the implementation of
- gss_name_t objects.
-
-B.5. The int and size_t types
-
- Some platforms may support differently sized implementations of the
- "int" and "size_t" types, perhaps chosen through compiler switches,
- and perhaps dependent on memory model. An ABI specification for such
- a platform should include required implementations for these types.
- It is recommended that the default implementation (for the chosen
- memory model, if appropriate) is chosen.
-
-B.6. Procedure-calling conventions
-
- Some platforms support a variety of different binary conventions for
- calling procedures. Such conventions cover things like the format of
- the stack frame, the order in which the routine parameters are pushed
- onto the stack, whether or not a parameter count is pushed onto the
- stack, whether some argument(s) or return values are to be passed in
- registers, and whether the called routine or the caller is
- responsible for removing the stack frame on return. For such
- platforms, an ABI specification should specify which calling
- convention is to be used for GSS-API implementations.
-
-References
-
- [GSSAPI] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
- Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January 2000.
-
- [XOM] OSI Object Management API Specification, Version 2.0 t",
- X.400 API Association & X/Open Company Limited, August
- 24, 1990 Specification of datatypes and routines for
- manipulating information objects.
-
-Author's Address
-
- John Wray
- Iris Associates
- 5 Technology Park Drive,
- Westford, MA 01886
- USA
-
- Phone: +1-978-392-6689
- EMail: John_Wray@Iris.com
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