1 INTERNET-DRAFT Brian Tung
2 draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-15.txt Clifford Neuman
3 Updates: RFC 1510bis USC/ISI
4 expires May 25, 2002 Matthew Hur
15 Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
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49 This document defines extensions (PKINIT) to the Kerberos protocol
50 specification (RFC 1510bis [1]) to provide a method for using public
51 key cryptography during initial authentication. The methods
52 defined specify the ways in which preauthentication data fields and
53 error data fields in Kerberos messages are to be used to transport
58 The popularity of public key cryptography has produced a desire for
59 its support in Kerberos [2]. The advantages provided by public key
60 cryptography include simplified key management (from the Kerberos
61 perspective) and the ability to leverage existing and developing
62 public key certification infrastructures.
64 Public key cryptography can be integrated into Kerberos in a number
65 of ways. One is to associate a key pair with each realm, which can
66 then be used to facilitate cross-realm authentication; this is the
67 topic of another draft proposal. Another way is to allow users with
68 public key certificates to use them in initial authentication. This
69 is the concern of the current document.
71 PKINIT utilizes ephemeral-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys in
72 combination with DSA keys as the primary, required mechanism. Note
73 that PKINIT supports the use of separate signature and encryption
76 PKINIT enables access to Kerberos-secured services based on initial
77 authentication utilizing public key cryptography. PKINIT utilizes
78 standard public key signature and encryption data formats within the
79 standard Kerberos messages. The basic mechanism is as follows: The
80 user sends an AS-REQ message to the KDC as before, except that if that
81 user is to use public key cryptography in the initial authentication
82 step, his certificate and a signature accompany the initial request
83 in the preauthentication fields. Upon receipt of this request, the
84 KDC verifies the certificate and issues a ticket granting ticket
85 (TGT) as before, except that the encPart from the AS-REP message
86 carrying the TGT is now encrypted utilizing either a Diffie-Hellman
87 derived key or the user's public key. This message is authenticated
88 utilizing the public key signature of the KDC.
90 Note that PKINIT does not require the use of certificates. A KDC
91 may store the public key of a principal as part of that principal's
92 record. In this scenario, the KDC is the trusted party that vouches
93 for the principal (as in a standard, non-cross realm, Kerberos
94 environment). Thus, for any principal, the KDC may maintain a
95 symmetric key, a public key, or both.
97 The PKINIT specification may also be used as a building block for
98 other specifications. PKINIT may be utilized to establish
99 inter-realm keys for the purposes of issuing cross-realm service
100 tickets. It may also be used to issue anonymous Kerberos tickets
101 using the Diffie-Hellman option. Efforts are under way to draft
102 specifications for these two application protocols.
104 Additionally, the PKINIT specification may be used for direct peer
105 to peer authentication without contacting a central KDC. This
106 application of PKINIT is based on concepts introduced in [6, 7].
107 For direct client-to-server authentication, the client uses PKINIT
108 to authenticate to the end server (instead of a central KDC), which
109 then issues a ticket for itself. This approach has an advantage
110 over TLS [5] in that the server does not need to save state (cache
111 session keys). Furthermore, an additional benefit is that Kerberos
112 tickets can facilitate delegation (see [6]).
114 3. Proposed Extensions
116 This section describes extensions to RFC 1510bis for supporting the
117 use of public key cryptography in the initial request for a ticket
118 granting ticket (TGT).
120 In summary, the following change to RFC 1510bis is proposed:
122 * Users may authenticate using either a public key pair or a
123 conventional (symmetric) key. If public key cryptography is
124 used, public key data is transported in preauthentication
125 data fields to help establish identity. The user presents
126 a public key certificate and obtains an ordinary TGT that may
127 be used for subsequent authentication, with such
128 authentication using only conventional cryptography.
130 Section 3.1 provides definitions to help specify message formats.
131 Section 3.2 describes the extensions for the initial authentication
136 The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we introduce
137 the following preauthentication types:
142 The extensions also involve new error types; we introduce the
145 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62
146 KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63
147 KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG 64
148 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65
149 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66
150 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70
151 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71
152 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72
153 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73
154 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74
155 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75
156 KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76
158 We utilize the following typed data for errors:
160 TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101
163 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
164 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
166 We utilize the following encryption types (which map directly to
170 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
171 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
173 rsaEncryption-EnvOID (PKCS#1 v1.5) 13
174 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID (PKCS#1 v2.0) 14
175 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
177 These mappings are provided so that a client may send the
178 appropriate enctypes in the AS-REQ message in order to indicate
179 support for the corresponding OIDs (for performing PKINIT). The
180 above encryption types are utilized only within CMS structures
181 within the PKINIT preauthentication fields. Their use within
182 the Kerberos EncryptedData structure is unspecified.
184 In many cases, PKINIT requires the encoding of the X.500 name of a
185 certificate authority as a Realm. When such a name appears as
186 a realm it will be represented using the "Other" form of the realm
187 name as specified in the naming constraints section of RFC 1510bis.
188 For a realm derived from an X.500 name, NAMETYPE will have the value
189 X500-RFC2253. The full realm name will appear as follows:
191 <nametype> + ":" + <string>
193 where nametype is "X500-RFC2253" and string is the result of doing
194 an RFC2253 encoding of the distinguished name, i.e.
196 "X500-RFC2253:" + RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
198 where DistinguishedName is an X.500 name, and RFC2253Encode is a
199 function returing a readable UTF encoding of an X.500 name, as
200 defined by RFC 2253 [11] (part of LDAPv3 [15]).
202 Each component of a DistinguishedName is called a
203 RelativeDistinguishedName, where a RelativeDistinguishedName is a
204 SET OF AttributeTypeAndValue. RFC 2253 does not specify the order
205 in which to encode the elements of the RelativeDistinguishedName and
206 so to ensure that this encoding is unique, we add the following rule
207 to those specified by RFC 2253:
209 When converting a multi-valued RelativeDistinguishedName
210 to a string, the output consists of the string encodings
211 of each AttributeTypeAndValue, in the same order as
212 specified by the DER encoding.
214 Similarly, in cases where the KDC does not provide a specific
215 policy-based mapping from the X.500 name or X.509 Version 3
216 SubjectAltName extension in the user's certificate to a Kerberos
217 principal name, PKINIT requires the direct encoding of the X.500
218 name as a PrincipalName. In this case, the name-type of the
219 principal name MUST be set to KRB_NT-X500-PRINCIPAL. This new
220 name type is defined in RFC 1510bis as:
222 KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6
224 For this type, the name-string MUST be set as follows:
226 RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
228 as described above. When this name type is used, the principal's
229 realm MUST be set to the certificate authority's distinguished
230 name using the X500-RFC2253 realm name format described earlier in
233 Note that the same string may be represented using several different
234 ASN.1 data types. As the result, the reverse conversion from an
235 RFC2253-encoded principal name back to an X.500 name may not be
236 unique and may result in an X.500 name that is not the same as the
237 original X.500 name found in the client certificate.
239 RFC 1510bis describes an alternate encoding of an X.500 name into a
240 realm name. However, as described in RFC 1510bis, the alternate
241 encoding does not guarantee a unique mapping from a
242 DistinguishedName inside a certificate into a realm name and
243 similarly cannot be used to produce a unique principal name. PKINIT
244 therefore uses an RFC 2253-based name mapping approach, as specified
247 RFC 1510bis specifies the ASN.1 structure for PrincipalName as follows:
249 PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
250 name-type[0] INTEGER,
251 name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
254 The following rules relate to the the matching of PrincipalNames
255 with regard to the PKI name constraints for CAs as laid out in RFC
256 2459 [12]. In order to be regarded as a match (for permitted and
257 excluded name trees), the following MUST be satisfied.
259 1. If the constraint is given as a user plus realm name, or
260 as a client principal name plus realm name (as specified in
261 RFC 1510bis), the realm name MUST be valid (see 2.a-d below)
262 and the match MUST be exact, byte for byte.
264 2. If the constraint is given only as a realm name, matching
265 depends on the type of the realm:
267 a. If the realm contains a colon (':') before any equal
268 sign ('='), it is treated as a realm of type Other,
269 and MUST match exactly, byte for byte.
271 b. Otherwise, if the realm name conforms to rules regarding
272 the format of DNS names, it is considered a realm name of
273 type Domain. The constraint may be given as a realm
274 name 'FOO.BAR', which matches any PrincipalName within
275 the realm 'FOO.BAR' but not those in subrealms such as
276 'CAR.FOO.BAR'. A constraint of the form '.FOO.BAR'
277 matches PrincipalNames in subrealms of the form
278 'CAR.FOO.BAR' but not the realm 'FOO.BAR' itself.
280 c. Otherwise, the realm name is invalid and does not match
281 under any conditions.
283 3.1.1. Encryption and Key Formats
285 In the exposition below, we use the terms public key and private
286 key generically. It should be understood that the term "public
287 key" may be used to refer to either a public encryption key or a
288 signature verification key, and that the term "private key" may be
289 used to refer to either a private decryption key or a signature
290 generation key. The fact that these are logically distinct does
291 not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys for RSA
294 In the case of Diffie-Hellman, the key is produced from the agreed
295 bit string as follows:
297 * Truncate the bit string to the required length.
298 * Apply the specific cryptosystem's random-to-key function.
300 Appropriate key constraints for each valid cryptosystem are given
303 3.1.2. Algorithm Identifiers
305 PKINIT does not define, but does permit, the algorithm identifiers
308 3.1.2.1. Signature Algorithm Identifiers
310 The following signature algorithm identifiers specified in [8] and
311 in [12] are used with PKINIT:
313 id-dsa-with-sha1 (DSA with SHA1)
314 md5WithRSAEncryption (RSA with MD5)
315 sha-1WithRSAEncryption (RSA with SHA1)
317 3.1.2.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Algorithm Identifier
319 The following algorithm identifier shall be used within the
320 SubjectPublicKeyInfo data structure: dhpublicnumber
322 This identifier and the associated algorithm parameters are
323 specified in RFC 2459 [12].
325 3.1.2.3. Algorithm Identifiers for RSA Encryption
327 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
328 structure, for encrypting the temporary key with a public key:
330 rsaEncryption (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v1.5)
331 id-RSAES-OAEP (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v2.0)
333 Both of the above RSA encryption schemes are specified in [13].
334 Currently, only PKCS#1 v1.5 is specified by CMS [8], although the
335 CMS specification says that it will likely include PKCS#1 v2.0 in
336 the future. (PKCS#1 v2.0 addresses adaptive chosen ciphertext
337 vulnerability discovered in PKCS#1 v1.5.)
339 3.1.2.4. Algorithm Identifiers for Encryption with Secret Keys
341 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
342 structure in the PKINIT Reply, for encrypting the reply key with the
344 des-ede3-cbc (3-key 3-DES, CBC mode)
345 rc2-cbc (RC2, CBC mode)
347 The full definition of the above algorithm identifiers and their
348 corresponding parameters (an IV for block chaining) is provided in
349 the CMS specification [8].
351 3.2. Public Key Authentication
353 Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
354 compliance with PKINIT.
356 3.2.1. Client Request
358 Public keys may be signed by some certification authority (CA), or
359 they may be maintained by the KDC in which case the KDC is the
360 trusted authority. Note that the latter mode does not require the
363 The initial authentication request is sent as per RFC 1510bis, except
364 that a preauthentication field containing data signed by the user's
365 private key accompanies the request:
367 PA-PK-AS-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
369 signedAuthPack [0] ContentInfo,
370 -- Defined in CMS [8];
371 -- SignedData OID is {pkcs7 2}
372 -- AuthPack (below) defines the
373 -- data that is signed.
374 trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF TrustedCas OPTIONAL,
375 -- This is a list of CAs that the
376 -- client trusts and that certify
378 kdcCert [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
379 -- As defined in CMS [8];
380 -- specifies a particular KDC
381 -- certificate if the client
383 encryptionCert [3] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
384 -- For example, this may be the
385 -- client's Diffie-Hellman
386 -- certificate, or it may be the
387 -- client's RSA encryption
391 TrustedCas ::= CHOICE {
392 principalName [0] KerberosName,
395 -- fully qualified X.500 name
396 -- as defined by X.509
397 issuerAndSerial [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber
398 -- Since a CA may have a number of
399 -- certificates, only one of which
403 The type of the ContentInfo in the signedAuthPack is SignedData.
404 Its usage is as follows:
406 The SignedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
407 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
408 IETF. The following describes how to fill in the fields of
411 1. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the PKAuthenticator
412 and, optionally, the client's Diffie Hellman public value.
414 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
415 pkauthdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
416 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkauthdata (1)
418 b. The eContent field is data of the type AuthPack (below).
420 2. The signerInfos field contains the signature of AuthPack.
422 3. The Certificates field, when non-empty, contains the client's
423 certificate chain. If present, the KDC uses the public key
424 from the client's certificate to verify the signature in the
425 request. Note that the client may pass different certificate
426 chains that are used for signing or for encrypting. Thus,
427 the KDC may utilize a different client certificate for
428 signature verification than the one it uses to encrypt the
429 reply to the client. For example, the client may place a
430 Diffie-Hellman certificate in this field in order to convey
431 its static Diffie Hellman certificate to the KDC to enable
432 static-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman mode for the reply; in this
433 case, the client does NOT place its public value in the
434 AuthPack (defined below). As another example, the client may
435 place an RSA encryption certificate in this field. However,
436 there MUST always be (at least) a signature certificate.
438 4. When a DH key is being used, the public exponent is provided
439 in the subjectPublicKey field of the SubjectPublicKeyInfo and
440 the DH parameters are supplied as a DHParameter in the
441 AlgorithmIdentitfier parameters. The DH paramters SHOULD be
442 chosen from the First and Second defined Oakley Groups [The
443 Internet Key Exchange (IKE) RFC-2409], if a server will not
444 accept either of these groups, it will respond with a krb-error
445 of KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK and the e_data will contain a
446 DHParameter with appropriate parameters for the client to use.
448 5. The KDC may wish to use cached Diffie-Hellman parameters
449 (see Section 3.2.2, KDC Response). To indicate acceptance
450 of cached parameters, the client sends zero in the nonce
451 field of the PKAuthenticator. Zero is not a valid value
452 for this field under any other circumstances. If cached
453 parameters are used, the client and the KDC MUST perform
454 key derivation (for the appropriate cryptosystem) on the
455 resulting encryption key, as specified in RFC 1510bis. (With
456 a zero nonce, message binding is performed using the nonce
457 in the main request, which must be encrypted using the
458 encapsulated reply key.)
460 AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
461 pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
462 clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
463 -- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
464 -- (ephemeral-ephemeral only)
467 PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
469 -- for replay prevention as in RFC 1510bis
470 ctime [1] KerberosTime,
471 -- for replay prevention as in RFC 1510bis
473 -- zero only if client will accept
474 -- cached DH parameters from KDC;
475 -- must be non-zero otherwise
476 pachecksum [3] Checksum
477 -- Checksum over KDC-REQ-BODY
478 -- Defined by Kerberos spec;
479 -- must be unkeyed, e.g. sha1 or rsa-md5
482 SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
483 algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
485 subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
487 -- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
488 -- as payload of BIT STRING)
489 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [7]
491 AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
492 algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
493 -- for dhKeyAgreement, this is
494 -- { iso (1) member-body (2) US (840)
495 -- rsadsi (113459) pkcs (1) 3 1 }
497 parameters ANY DEFINED by algorithm OPTIONAL
498 -- for dhKeyAgreement, this is
500 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [7]
502 DHParameter ::= SEQUENCE {
507 privateValueLength INTEGER OPTIONAL
509 } -- as defined in PKCS #3 [17]
511 If the client passes an issuer and serial number in the request,
512 the KDC is requested to use the referred-to certificate. If none
513 exists, then the KDC returns an error of type
514 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH. It also returns this error if, on the
515 other hand, the client does not pass any trustedCertifiers,
516 believing that it has the KDC's certificate, but the KDC has more
517 than one certificate. The KDC should include information in the
518 KRB-ERROR message that indicates the KDC certificate(s) that a
519 client may utilize. This data is specified in the e-data, which
520 is defined in RFC 1510bis revisions as a SEQUENCE of TypedData:
522 TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
523 data-type [0] INTEGER,
524 data-value [1] OCTET STRING,
525 } -- per Kerberos RFC 1510bis
528 data-type = TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES = 101
529 data-value = CertificateSet // as specified by CMS [8]
531 The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks, to
532 bind the pre-authentication data to the KDC-REQ-BODY, and to bind the
533 request and response. The PKAuthenticator is signed with the client's
538 Upon receipt of the AS_REQ with PA-PK-AS-REQ pre-authentication
539 type, the KDC attempts to verify the user's certificate chain
540 (userCert), if one is provided in the request. This is done by
541 verifying the certification path against the KDC's policy of
542 legitimate certifiers.
544 If the client's certificate chain contains no certificate signed by
545 a CA trusted by the KDC, then the KDC sends back an error message
546 of type KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying e-data
547 is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS=104)
548 whose data-value is an OCTET STRING which is the DER encoding of
550 TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
551 -- X.500 name encoded as a principal name
554 If while verifying a certificate chain the KDC determines that the
555 signature on one of the certificates in the CertificateSet from
556 the signedAuthPack fails verification, then the KDC returns an
557 error of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying
558 e-data is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type
559 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX=105) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
560 which is the DER encoding of the index into the CertificateSet
561 ordered as sent by the client.
563 CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
564 -- 0 = 1st certificate,
565 -- (in order of encoding)
566 -- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
568 The KDC may also check whether any of the certificates in the
569 client's chain has been revoked. If one of the certificates has
570 been revoked, then the KDC returns an error of type
571 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE; if such a query reveals that
572 the certificate's revocation status is unknown or not
573 available, then if required by policy, the KDC returns the
574 appropriate error of type KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN or
575 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE. In any of these three
576 cases, the affected certificate is identified by the accompanying
577 e-data, which contains a CertificateIndex as described for
578 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE.
580 If the certificate chain can be verified, but the name of the
581 client in the certificate does not match the client's name in the
582 request, then the KDC returns an error of type
583 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH. There is no accompanying e-data
586 Even if all succeeds, the KDC may--for policy reasons--decide not
587 to trust the client. In this case, the KDC returns an error message
588 of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. One specific case of this is
589 the presence or absence of an Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) OID within
590 the certificate extensions. The rules regarding acceptability of
591 an EKU sequence (or the absence of any sequence) are a matter of
592 local policy. For the benefit of implementers, we define a PKINIT
593 EKU OID as the following: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
594 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkekuoid (2).
596 If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
597 signature on AuthPack. If that fails, the KDC returns an error
598 message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses the
599 timestamp (ctime and cusec) in the PKAuthenticator to assure that
600 the request is not a replay. The KDC also verifies that its name
601 is specified in the PKAuthenticator.
603 If the clientPublicValue field is filled in, indicating that the
604 client wishes to use Diffie-Hellman key agreement, then the KDC
605 checks to see that the parameters satisfy its policy. If they do
606 not (e.g., the prime size is insufficient for the expected
607 encryption type), then the KDC sends back an error message of type
608 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK, with an e-data containing a structure of
609 type DHParameter with appropriate DH parameters for the client to
610 retry the request. Otherwise, it generates its own public and
611 private values for the response.
613 The KDC also checks that the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator is
614 within the allowable window and that the principal name and realm
615 are correct. If the local (server) time and the client time in the
616 authenticator differ by more than the allowable clock skew, then the
617 KDC returns an error message of type KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW as defined in
620 Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510bis, except as
621 follows. The user's name in the ticket is determined by the
622 following decision algorithm:
624 1. If the KDC has a mapping from the name in the certificate
625 to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
627 2. If the certificate contains the SubjectAltName extention
628 and the local KDC policy defines a mapping from the
629 SubjectAltName to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
631 3. Use the name as represented in the certificate, mapping
632 as necessary (e.g., as per RFC 2253 for X.500 names). In
633 this case the realm in the ticket MUST be the name of the
634 certifier that issued the user's certificate.
636 Note that a principal name may be carried in the subjectAltName
637 field of a certificate. This name may be mapped to a principal
638 record in a security database based on local policy, for example
639 the subjectAltName may be kerberos/principal@realm format. In
640 this case the realm name is not that of the CA but that of the
641 local realm doing the mapping (or some realm name chosen by that
644 If a non-KDC X.509 certificate contains the principal name within
645 the subjectAltName version 3 extension, that name may utilize
646 KerberosName as defined below, or, in the case of an S/MIME
647 certificate [14], may utilize the email address. If the KDC
648 is presented with an S/MIME certificate, then the email address
649 within subjectAltName will be interpreted as a principal and realm
650 separated by the "@" sign, or as a name that needs to be mapped
651 according to local policy. If the resulting name does not correspond
652 to a registered principal name, then the principal name is formed as
653 defined in section 3.1.
655 The trustedCertifiers field contains a list of certification
656 authorities trusted by the client, in the case that the client does
657 not possess the KDC's public key certificate. If the KDC has no
658 certificate signed by any of the trustedCertifiers, then it returns
659 an error of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED.
661 KDCs should try to (in order of preference):
662 1. Use the KDC certificate identified by the serialNumber included
663 in the client's request.
664 2. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by one of the client's
666 If the KDC is unable to comply with any of these options, then the
667 KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to the
670 The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
671 with the Diffie Hellman derived key or a random key generated
672 for this particular response which is carried in the padata field of
675 PA-PK-AS-REP ::= CHOICE {
677 dhSignedData [0] ContentInfo,
678 -- Defined in CMS [8] and used only with
679 -- Diffie-Hellman key exchange (if the
680 -- client public value was present in the
682 -- SignedData OID is {pkcs7 2}
683 -- This choice MUST be supported
684 -- by compliant implementations.
685 encKeyPack [1] ContentInfo
686 -- Defined in CMS [8].
687 -- The temporary key is encrypted
688 -- using the client public key
690 -- EnvelopedData OID is {pkcs7 3}
691 -- SignedReplyKeyPack, encrypted
692 -- with the temporary key, is also
696 The type of the ContentInfo in the dhSignedData is SignedData.
697 Its usage is as follows:
699 When the Diffie-Hellman option is used, dhSignedData in
700 PA-PK-AS-REP provides authenticated Diffie-Hellman parameters
701 of the KDC. The reply key used to encrypt part of the KDC reply
702 message is derived from the Diffie-Hellman exchange:
704 1. Both the KDC and the client calculate a secret value
705 (g^ab mod p), where a is the client's private exponent and
706 b is the KDC's private exponent.
708 2. Both the KDC and the client take the first N bits of this
709 secret value and convert it into a reply key. N depends on
712 a. For example, if the reply key is DES, N=64 bits, where
713 some of the bits are replaced with parity bits, according
716 b. As another example, if the reply key is (3-key) 3-DES,
717 N=192 bits, where some of the bits are replaced with
718 parity bits, according to FIPS PUB 74.
720 3. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the KdcDHKeyInfo as
723 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
724 pkdhkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
725 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdhkeydata (2)
727 b. The eContent field is data of the type KdcDHKeyInfo
730 4. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
731 necessary for the client to establish trust in the KDC's
732 certificate based on the list of trusted certifiers sent by
733 the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. This field may be empty if
734 the client did not send to the KDC a list of trusted
735 certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning
736 that the client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
738 5. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at least
739 one member, since it contains the actual signature.
741 6. If the client indicated acceptance of cached Diffie-Hellman
742 parameters from the KDC, and the KDC supports such an option
743 (for performance reasons), the KDC should return a zero in
744 the nonce field and include the expiration time of the
745 parameters in the dhKeyExpiration field. If this time is
746 exceeded, the client SHOULD NOT use the reply. If the time
747 is absent, the client SHOULD NOT use the reply and MAY
748 resubmit a request with a non-zero nonce (thus indicating
749 non-acceptance of cached Diffie-Hellman parameters). As
750 indicated above in Section 3.2.1, Client Request, when the
751 KDC uses cached parameters, the client and the KDC MUST
752 perform key derivation (for the appropriate cryptosystem)
753 on the resulting encryption key, as specified in RFC 1510bis.
755 KdcDHKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
756 -- used only when utilizing Diffie-Hellman
757 subjectPublicKey [0] BIT STRING,
758 -- Equals public exponent (g^a mod p)
759 -- INTEGER encoded as payload of
762 -- Binds response to the request
763 -- Exception: Set to zero when KDC
764 -- is using a cached DH value
765 dhKeyExpiration [2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
766 -- Expiration time for KDC's cached
770 The type of the ContentInfo in the encKeyPack is EnvelopedData. Its
773 The EnvelopedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
774 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
775 IETF. It contains a temporary key encrypted with the PKINIT
776 client's public key. It also contains a signed and encrypted
779 1. The originatorInfo field is not required, since that
780 information may be presented in the signedData structure
781 that is encrypted within the encryptedContentInfo field.
783 2. The optional unprotectedAttrs field is not required for
786 3. The recipientInfos field is a SET which MUST contain exactly
787 one member of the KeyTransRecipientInfo type for encryption
790 a. The encryptedKey field (in KeyTransRecipientInfo)
791 contains the temporary key which is encrypted with the
792 PKINIT client's public key.
794 4. The encryptedContentInfo field contains the signed and
797 a. The contentType field MUST contain the OID value for
798 id-signedData: iso (1) member-body (2) us (840)
799 rsadsi (113549) pkcs (1) pkcs7 (7) signedData (2)
801 b. The encryptedContent field is encrypted data of the CMS
802 type signedData as specified below.
804 i. The encapContentInfo field MUST contains the
807 * The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value
808 for pkrkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
809 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkrkeydata (3)
811 * The eContent field is data of the type ReplyKeyPack
814 ii. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
815 necessary for the client to establish trust in the
816 KDC's certificate based on the list of trusted
817 certifiers sent by the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ.
818 This field may be empty if the client did not send
819 to the KDC a list of trusted certifiers (the
820 trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning that the
821 client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
823 iii. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at
824 least one member, since it contains the actual
827 ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
828 -- not used for Diffie-Hellman
829 replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
831 -- used to encrypt main reply
832 -- ENCTYPE is at least as strong as
833 -- ENCTYPE of session key
835 -- binds response to the request
836 -- must be same as the nonce
837 -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
841 3.2.2.1. Use of transited Field
843 Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
844 certificate is equivalent to a separate Kerberos realm, the name
845 of each certifier in the certificate chain MUST be added to the
846 transited field of the ticket. The format of these realm names is
847 defined in Section 3.1 of this document. If applicable, the
848 transit-policy-checked flag should be set in the issued ticket.
851 3.2.2.2. Kerberos Names in Certificates
853 The KDC's certificate(s) MUST bind the public key(s) of the KDC to
854 a name derivable from the name of the realm for that KDC. X.509
855 certificates MUST contain the principal name of the KDC (defined in
856 RFC 1510bis) as the SubjectAltName version 3 extension. Below is
857 the definition of this version 3 extension, as specified by the
860 subjectAltName EXTENSION ::= {
862 IDENTIFIED BY id-ce-subjectAltName
865 GeneralNames ::= SEQUENCE SIZE(1..MAX) OF GeneralName
867 GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
868 otherName [0] OtherName,
872 OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
873 type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
874 value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id
877 For the purpose of specifying a Kerberos principal name, the value
878 in OtherName MUST be a KerberosName, defined as follows:
880 KerberosName ::= SEQUENCE {
882 principalName [1] PrincipalName
885 This specific syntax is identified within subjectAltName by setting
886 the type-id in OtherName to krb5PrincipalName, where (from the
887 Kerberos specification) we have
889 krb5 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso (1)
896 krb5PrincipalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { krb5 2 }
898 (This specification may also be used to specify a Kerberos name
899 within the user's certificate.) The KDC's certificate may be signed
900 directly by a CA, or there may be intermediaries if the server resides
901 within a large organization, or it may be unsigned if the client
902 indicates possession (and trust) of the KDC's certificate.
904 Note that the KDC's principal name has the instance equal to the
905 realm, and those fields should be appropriately set in the realm
906 and principalName fields of the KerberosName. This is the case
907 even when obtaining a cross-realm ticket using PKINIT.
910 3.2.3. Client Extraction of Reply
912 The client then extracts the random key used to encrypt the main
913 reply. This random key (in encPaReply) is encrypted with either the
914 client's public key or with a key derived from the DH values
915 exchanged between the client and the KDC. The client uses this
916 random key to decrypt the main reply, and subsequently proceeds as
917 described in RFC 1510bis.
919 3.2.4. Required Algorithms
921 Not all of the algorithms in the PKINIT protocol specification have
922 to be implemented in order to comply with the proposed standard.
923 Below is a list of the required algorithms:
925 * Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs
926 * utilizing Diffie-Hellman ephemeral-ephemeral mode
927 * SHA1 digest and DSA for signatures
928 * SHA1 digest for the Checksum in the PKAuthenticator
929 * using Kerberos checksum type 'sha1'
930 * 3-key triple DES keys derived from the Diffie-Hellman Exchange
931 * 3-key triple DES Temporary and Reply keys
933 4. Logistics and Policy
935 This section describes a way to define the policy on the use of
936 PKINIT for each principal and request.
938 The KDC is not required to contain a database record for users
939 who use public key authentication. However, if these users are
940 registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database record
941 for these users be modified to an additional flag in the attributes
942 field to indicate that the user should authenticate using PKINIT.
943 If this flag is set and a request message does not contain the
944 PKINIT preauthentication field, then the KDC sends back as error of
945 type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a preauthentication
946 field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the request.
948 5. Security Considerations
950 PKINIT raises a few security considerations, which we will address
953 First of all, PKINIT extends the cross-realm model to the public
954 key infrastructure. Anyone using PKINIT must be aware of how the
955 certification infrastructure they are linking to works.
957 Also, as in standard Kerberos, PKINIT presents the possibility of
958 interactions between different cryptosystems of varying strengths,
959 and this now includes public-key cryptosystems. Many systems, for
960 instance, allow the use of 512-bit public keys. Using such keys
961 to wrap data encrypted under strong conventional cryptosystems,
962 such as triple-DES, may be inappropriate.
964 Care should be taken in how certificates are choosen for the purposes
965 of authentication using PKINIT. Some local policies require that key
966 escrow be applied for certain certificate types. People deploying
967 PKINIT should be aware of the implications of using certificates that
968 have escrowed keys for the purposes of authentication.
970 As described in Section 3.2, PKINIT allows for the caching of the
971 Diffie-Hellman parameters on the KDC side, for performance reasons.
972 For similar reasons, the signed data in this case does not vary from
973 message to message, until the cached parameters expire. Because of
974 the persistence of these parameters, the client and the KDC are to
975 use the appropriate key derivation measures (as described in RFC
976 1510bis) when using cached DH parameters.
978 Lastly, PKINIT calls for randomly generated keys for conventional
979 cryptosystems. Many such systems contain systematically "weak"
980 keys. For recommendations regarding these weak keys, see RFC
985 Certificate chains can potentially grow quite large and span several
986 UDP packets; this in turn increases the probability that a Kerberos
987 message involving PKINIT extensions will be broken in transit. In
988 light of the possibility that the Kerberos specification will
989 require KDCs to accept requests using TCP as a transport mechanism,
990 we make the same recommendation with respect to the PKINIT
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1061 Some of the ideas on which this proposal is based arose during
1062 discussions over several years between members of the SAAG, the IETF
1063 CAT working group, and the PSRG, regarding integration of Kerberos
1064 and SPX. Some ideas have also been drawn from the DASS system.
1065 These changes are by no means endorsed by these groups. This is an
1066 attempt to revive some of the goals of those groups, and this
1067 proposal approaches those goals primarily from the Kerberos
1068 perspective. Lastly, comments from groups working on similar ideas
1069 in DCE have been invaluable.
1073 This draft expires May 25, 2002.
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