1 INTERNET-DRAFT Brian Tung
2 draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-16.txt Clifford Neuman
3 Updates: RFC 1510bis USC/ISI
4 expires March 12, 2002 Matthew Hur
14 Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
16 0. Status Of This Memo
18 This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
19 all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are
20 working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
21 its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also
22 distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
24 Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
25 months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
26 documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts
27 as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in
30 The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
31 http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
33 The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
34 http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
36 To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check
37 the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
38 Shadow Directories on ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast),
39 nic.nordu.net (Europe), ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast), or
40 munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim).
42 The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
43 draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-16.txt, and expires March 12,
44 2002. Please send comments to the authors.
48 This document defines extensions (PKINIT) to the Kerberos protocol
49 specification (RFC 1510bis [1]) to provide a method for using public
50 key cryptography during initial authentication. The methods
51 defined specify the ways in which preauthentication data fields and
52 error data fields in Kerberos messages are to be used to transport
57 The popularity of public key cryptography has produced a desire for
58 its support in Kerberos [2]. The advantages provided by public key
59 cryptography include simplified key management (from the Kerberos
60 perspective) and the ability to leverage existing and developing
61 public key certification infrastructures.
63 Public key cryptography can be integrated into Kerberos in a number
64 of ways. One is to associate a key pair with each realm, which can
65 then be used to facilitate cross-realm authentication; this is the
66 topic of another draft proposal. Another way is to allow users with
67 public key certificates to use them in initial authentication. This
68 is the concern of the current document.
70 PKINIT utilizes ephemeral-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys in
71 combination with RSA keys as the primary, required mechanism. Note
72 that PKINIT supports the use of separate signature and encryption
75 PKINIT enables access to Kerberos-secured services based on initial
76 authentication utilizing public key cryptography. PKINIT utilizes
77 standard public key signature and encryption data formats within the
78 standard Kerberos messages. The basic mechanism is as follows: The
79 user sends an AS-REQ message to the KDC as before, except that if that
80 user is to use public key cryptography in the initial authentication
81 step, his certificate and a signature accompany the initial request
82 in the preauthentication fields. Upon receipt of this request, the
83 KDC verifies the certificate and issues a ticket granting ticket
84 (TGT) as before, except that the encPart from the AS-REP message
85 carrying the TGT is now encrypted utilizing either a Diffie-Hellman
86 derived key or the user's public key. This message is authenticated
87 utilizing the public key signature of the KDC.
89 Note that PKINIT does not require the use of certificates. A KDC
90 may store the public key of a principal as part of that principal's
91 record. In this scenario, the KDC is the trusted party that vouches
92 for the principal (as in a standard, non-cross realm, Kerberos
93 environment). Thus, for any principal, the KDC may maintain a
94 symmetric key, a public key, or both.
96 The PKINIT specification may also be used as a building block for
97 other specifications. PKINIT may be utilized to establish
98 inter-realm keys for the purposes of issuing cross-realm service
99 tickets. It may also be used to issue anonymous Kerberos tickets
100 using the Diffie-Hellman option. Efforts are under way to draft
101 specifications for these two application protocols.
103 Additionally, the PKINIT specification may be used for direct peer
104 to peer authentication without contacting a central KDC. This
105 application of PKINIT is based on concepts introduced in [6, 7].
106 For direct client-to-server authentication, the client uses PKINIT
107 to authenticate to the end server (instead of a central KDC), which
108 then issues a ticket for itself. This approach has an advantage
109 over TLS [5] in that the server does not need to save state (cache
110 session keys). Furthermore, an additional benefit is that Kerberos
111 tickets can facilitate delegation (see [6]).
113 3. Proposed Extensions
115 This section describes extensions to RFC 1510bis for supporting the
116 use of public key cryptography in the initial request for a ticket
117 granting ticket (TGT).
119 In summary, the following change to RFC 1510bis is proposed:
121 * Users may authenticate using either a public key pair or a
122 conventional (symmetric) key. If public key cryptography is
123 used, public key data is transported in preauthentication
124 data fields to help establish identity. The user presents
125 a public key certificate and obtains an ordinary TGT that may
126 be used for subsequent authentication, with such
127 authentication using only conventional cryptography.
129 Section 3.1 provides definitions to help specify message formats.
130 Section 3.2 describes the extensions for the initial authentication
135 The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we introduce
136 the following preauthentication types:
141 The extensions also involve new error types; we introduce the
144 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62
145 KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63
146 KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG 64
147 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65
148 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66
149 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70
150 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71
151 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72
152 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73
153 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74
154 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75
155 KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76
157 We utilize the following typed data for errors:
159 TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101
161 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
162 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
164 We utilize the following encryption types (which map directly to
168 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
169 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
171 rsaEncryption-EnvOID (PKCS#1 v1.5) 13
172 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID (PKCS#1 v2.0) 14
173 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
175 These mappings are provided so that a client may send the
176 appropriate enctypes in the AS-REQ message in order to indicate
177 support for the corresponding OIDs (for performing PKINIT). The
178 above encryption types are utilized only within CMS structures
179 within the PKINIT preauthentication fields. Their use within
180 the Kerberos EncryptedData structure is unspecified.
182 In many cases, PKINIT requires the encoding of the X.500 name of a
183 certificate authority as a Realm. When such a name appears as
184 a realm it will be represented using the "Other" form of the realm
185 name as specified in the naming constraints section of RFC 1510bis.
186 For a realm derived from an X.500 name, NAMETYPE will have the value
187 X500-RFC2253. The full realm name will appear as follows:
189 <nametype> + ":" + <string>
191 where nametype is "X500-RFC2253" and string is the result of doing
192 an RFC2253 encoding of the distinguished name, i.e.
194 "X500-RFC2253:" + RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
196 where DistinguishedName is an X.500 name, and RFC2253Encode is a
197 function returing a readable UTF encoding of an X.500 name, as
198 defined by RFC 2253 [11] (part of LDAPv3 [15]).
200 Each component of a DistinguishedName is called a
201 RelativeDistinguishedName, where a RelativeDistinguishedName is a
202 SET OF AttributeTypeAndValue. RFC 2253 does not specify the order
203 in which to encode the elements of the RelativeDistinguishedName and
204 so to ensure that this encoding is unique, we add the following rule
205 to those specified by RFC 2253:
207 When converting a multi-valued RelativeDistinguishedName
208 to a string, the output consists of the string encodings
209 of each AttributeTypeAndValue, in the same order as
210 specified by the DER encoding.
212 Similarly, in cases where the KDC does not provide a specific
213 policy-based mapping from the X.500 name or X.509 Version 3
214 SubjectAltName extension in the user's certificate to a Kerberos
215 principal name, PKINIT requires the direct encoding of the X.500
216 name as a PrincipalName. In this case, the name-type of the
217 principal name MUST be set to KRB_NT-X500-PRINCIPAL. This new
218 name type is defined in RFC 1510bis as:
220 KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6
222 For this type, the name-string MUST be set as follows:
224 RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
226 as described above. When this name type is used, the principal's
227 realm MUST be set to the certificate authority's distinguished
228 name using the X500-RFC2253 realm name format described earlier in
231 Note that the same string may be represented using several different
232 ASN.1 data types. As the result, the reverse conversion from an
233 RFC2253-encoded principal name back to an X.500 name may not be
234 unique and may result in an X.500 name that is not the same as the
235 original X.500 name found in the client certificate.
237 RFC 1510bis describes an alternate encoding of an X.500 name into a
238 realm name. However, as described in RFC 1510bis, the alternate
239 encoding does not guarantee a unique mapping from a
240 DistinguishedName inside a certificate into a realm name and
241 similarly cannot be used to produce a unique principal name. PKINIT
242 therefore uses an RFC 2253-based name mapping approach, as specified
245 RFC 1510bis specifies the ASN.1 structure for PrincipalName as follows:
247 PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
248 name-type[0] INTEGER,
249 name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
252 The following rules relate to the the matching of PrincipalNames
253 with regard to the PKI name constraints for CAs as laid out in RFC
254 2459 [12]. In order to be regarded as a match (for permitted and
255 excluded name trees), the following MUST be satisfied.
257 1. If the constraint is given as a user plus realm name, or
258 as a client principal name plus realm name (as specified in
259 RFC 1510bis), the realm name MUST be valid (see 2.a-d below)
260 and the match MUST be exact, byte for byte.
262 2. If the constraint is given only as a realm name, matching
263 depends on the type of the realm:
265 a. If the realm contains a colon (':') before any equal
266 sign ('='), it is treated as a realm of type Other,
267 and MUST match exactly, byte for byte.
269 b. Otherwise, if the realm name conforms to rules regarding
270 the format of DNS names, it is considered a realm name of
271 type Domain. The constraint may be given as a realm
272 name 'FOO.BAR', which matches any PrincipalName within
273 the realm 'FOO.BAR' but not those in subrealms such as
274 'CAR.FOO.BAR'. A constraint of the form '.FOO.BAR'
275 matches PrincipalNames in subrealms of the form
276 'CAR.FOO.BAR' but not the realm 'FOO.BAR' itself.
278 c. Otherwise, the realm name is invalid and does not match
279 under any conditions.
281 3.1.1. Encryption and Key Formats
283 In the exposition below, we use the terms public key and private
284 key generically. It should be understood that the term "public
285 key" may be used to refer to either a public encryption key or a
286 signature verification key, and that the term "private key" may be
287 used to refer to either a private decryption key or a signature
288 generation key. The fact that these are logically distinct does
289 not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys for RSA
292 In the case of Diffie-Hellman, the key is produced from the agreed
293 bit string as follows:
295 * Truncate the bit string to the required length.
296 * Apply the specific cryptosystem's random-to-key function.
298 Appropriate key constraints for each valid cryptosystem are given
301 3.1.2. Algorithm Identifiers
303 PKINIT does not define, but does permit, the algorithm identifiers
306 3.1.2.1. Signature Algorithm Identifiers
308 The following signature algorithm identifiers specified in [8] and
309 in [12] are used with PKINIT:
311 sha-1WithRSAEncryption (RSA with SHA1)
312 md5WithRSAEncryption (RSA with MD5)
313 id-dsa-with-sha1 (DSA with SHA1)
315 3.1.2.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Algorithm Identifier
317 The following algorithm identifier shall be used within the
318 SubjectPublicKeyInfo data structure: dhpublicnumber
320 This identifier and the associated algorithm parameters are
321 specified in RFC 2459 [12].
323 3.1.2.3. Algorithm Identifiers for RSA Encryption
325 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
326 structure, for encrypting the temporary key with a public key:
328 rsaEncryption (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v1.5)
329 id-RSAES-OAEP (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v2.0)
331 Both of the above RSA encryption schemes are specified in [13].
332 Currently, only PKCS#1 v1.5 is specified by CMS [8], although the
333 CMS specification says that it will likely include PKCS#1 v2.0 in
334 the future. (PKCS#1 v2.0 addresses adaptive chosen ciphertext
335 vulnerability discovered in PKCS#1 v1.5.)
337 3.1.2.4. Algorithm Identifiers for Encryption with Secret Keys
339 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
340 structure in the PKINIT Reply, for encrypting the reply key with the
342 des-ede3-cbc (3-key 3-DES, CBC mode)
343 rc2-cbc (RC2, CBC mode)
345 The full definition of the above algorithm identifiers and their
346 corresponding parameters (an IV for block chaining) is provided in
347 the CMS specification [8].
349 3.2. Public Key Authentication
351 Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
352 compliance with PKINIT.
354 3.2.1. Client Request
356 Public keys may be signed by some certification authority (CA), or
357 they may be maintained by the KDC in which case the KDC is the
358 trusted authority. Note that the latter mode does not require the
361 The initial authentication request is sent as per RFC 1510bis, except
362 that a preauthentication field containing data signed by the user's
363 private key accompanies the request:
365 PA-PK-AS-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
367 signedAuthPack [0] ContentInfo,
368 -- Defined in CMS [8];
369 -- SignedData OID is {pkcs7 2}
370 -- AuthPack (below) defines the
371 -- data that is signed.
372 trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF TrustedCas OPTIONAL,
373 -- This is a list of CAs that the
374 -- client trusts and that certify
376 kdcCert [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
377 -- As defined in CMS [8];
378 -- specifies a particular KDC
379 -- certificate if the client
381 encryptionCert [3] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
382 -- For example, this may be the
383 -- client's Diffie-Hellman
384 -- certificate, or it may be the
385 -- client's RSA encryption
389 TrustedCas ::= CHOICE {
390 principalName [0] KerberosName,
393 -- fully qualified X.500 name
394 -- as defined by X.509
395 issuerAndSerial [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber
396 -- Since a CA may have a number of
397 -- certificates, only one of which
401 The type of the ContentInfo in the signedAuthPack is SignedData.
402 Its usage is as follows:
404 The SignedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
405 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
406 IETF. The following describes how to fill in the fields of
409 1. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the PKAuthenticator
410 and, optionally, the client's Diffie Hellman public value.
412 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
413 pkauthdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
414 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkauthdata (1)
416 b. The eContent field is data of the type AuthPack (below).
418 2. The signerInfos field contains the signature of AuthPack.
420 3. The Certificates field, when non-empty, contains the client's
421 certificate chain. If present, the KDC uses the public key
422 from the client's certificate to verify the signature in the
423 request. Note that the client may pass different certificate
424 chains that are used for signing or for encrypting. Thus,
425 the KDC may utilize a different client certificate for
426 signature verification than the one it uses to encrypt the
427 reply to the client. For example, the client may place a
428 Diffie-Hellman certificate in this field in order to convey
429 its static Diffie Hellman certificate to the KDC to enable
430 static-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman mode for the reply; in this
431 case, the client does NOT place its public value in the
432 AuthPack (defined below). As another example, the client may
433 place an RSA encryption certificate in this field. However,
434 there MUST always be (at least) a signature certificate.
436 4. When a DH key is being used, the public exponent is provided
437 in the subjectPublicKey field of the SubjectPublicKeyInfo and
438 the DH parameters are supplied as a DomainParameters in the
439 AlgorithmIdentitfier parameters. The DH paramters SHOULD be
440 chosen from the First and Second defined Oakley Groups [The
441 Internet Key Exchange (IKE) RFC-2409], if a server will not
442 accept either of these groups, it will respond with a krb-
443 error of KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. The accompanying e-data is
444 a SEQUENCE of TypedData that includes type
445 TD-DH-PARAMETERS (102) whose data-value is DomainParameters
446 with appropriate Diffie-Hellman parameters for the client to
449 5. The KDC may wish to use cached Diffie-Hellman parameters
450 (see Section 3.2.2, KDC Response). To indicate acceptance
451 of cached parameters, the client sends zero in the nonce
452 field of the PKAuthenticator. Zero is not a valid value
453 for this field under any other circumstances. If cached
454 parameters are used, the client and the KDC MUST perform
455 key derivation (for the appropriate cryptosystem) on the
456 resulting encryption key, as specified in RFC 1510bis. (With
457 a zero nonce, message binding is performed using the nonce
458 in the main request, which must be encrypted using the
459 encapsulated reply key.)
461 AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
462 pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
463 clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
464 -- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
465 -- (ephemeral-ephemeral only)
468 PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
470 -- for replay prevention as in RFC 1510bis
471 ctime [1] KerberosTime,
472 -- for replay prevention as in RFC 1510bis
474 -- zero only if client will accept
475 -- cached DH parameters from KDC;
476 -- must be non-zero otherwise
477 pachecksum [3] Checksum
478 -- Checksum over KDC-REQ-BODY
479 -- Defined by Kerberos spec;
480 -- must be unkeyed, e.g. sha1 or rsa-md5
483 SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
484 algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
486 subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
488 -- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
489 -- as payload of BIT STRING)
490 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [7]
492 AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
493 algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
494 -- for dhPublicNumber, this is
495 -- { iso (1) member-body (2) US (840)
496 -- ansi-x942(10046) number-type(2) 1 }
497 -- from RFC 2459 [12]
498 parameters ANY DEFINED by algorithm OPTIONAL
499 -- for dhPublicNumber, this is
501 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [7]
503 DomainParameters ::= SEQUENCE {
504 p INTEGER, -- odd prime, p=jq +1
505 g INTEGER, -- generator, g
506 q INTEGER, -- factor of p-1
507 j INTEGER OPTIONAL, -- subgroup factor
508 validationParms ValidationParms OPTIONAL
509 } -- as defined in RFC 2459 [12]
511 ValidationParms ::= SEQUENCE {
513 -- seed for the system parameter
514 -- generation process
516 -- integer value output as part
517 -- of the of the system parameter
518 -- prime generation process
519 } -- as defined in RFC 2459 [12]
521 If the client passes an issuer and serial number in the request,
522 the KDC is requested to use the referred-to certificate. If none
523 exists, then the KDC returns an error of type
524 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH. It also returns this error if, on the
525 other hand, the client does not pass any trustedCertifiers,
526 believing that it has the KDC's certificate, but the KDC has more
527 than one certificate. The KDC should include information in the
528 KRB-ERROR message that indicates the KDC certificate(s) that a
529 client may utilize. This data is specified in the e-data, which
530 is defined in RFC 1510bis revisions as a SEQUENCE of TypedData:
532 TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
533 data-type [0] INTEGER,
534 data-value [1] OCTET STRING,
535 } -- per Kerberos RFC 1510bis
537 where one of the TypedData elements is:
538 data-type = TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES = 101
539 data-value = CertificateSet // as specified by CMS [8]
541 The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks, to
542 bind the pre-authentication data to the KDC-REQ-BODY, and to bind the
543 request and response. The PKAuthenticator is signed with the client's
548 Upon receipt of the AS_REQ with PA-PK-AS-REQ pre-authentication
549 type, the KDC attempts to verify the client's certificate chain, if
550 one is provided in the request. This is done by verifying the
551 certification path against the KDC's policy of legitimate
554 If the KDC cannot find a trusted client certificate chain within
555 the PA-PK-AS-REQ, then the KDC sends back an error message of type
556 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE. Certificate chain validation is
557 defined in RFC 2459 [12]. The accompanying e-data for this error
558 code is a SEQUENCE of TypedData that includes type
559 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS (104) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
560 which is the DER encoding of
562 TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
563 -- X.500 name encoded as a principal name
566 If while verifying a certificate chain the KDC determines that the
567 signature on one of the certificates in the CertificateSet from
568 the signedAuthPack fails verification, then the KDC returns an
569 error of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying
570 e-data is a SEQUENCE of TypedData that includes type
571 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX (105) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
572 which is the DER encoding of the index into the CertificateSet
573 ordered as sent by the client.
575 CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
576 -- 0 = 1st certificate,
577 -- (in order of encoding)
578 -- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
580 The KDC may also check whether any of the certificates in the
581 client's chain has been revoked. If one of the certificates has
582 been revoked, then the KDC returns an error of type
583 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE; if such a query reveals that
584 the certificate's revocation status is unknown or not
585 available, then if required by policy, the KDC returns the
586 appropriate error of type KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN or
587 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE. In any of these three
588 cases, the affected certificate is identified by the accompanying
589 e-data, which contains a CertificateIndex as described for
590 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE.
592 If the certificate chain can be verified, but the name of the
593 client in the certificate does not match the client's name in the
594 request, then the KDC returns an error of type
595 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH. There is no accompanying e-data
598 Even if all succeeds, the KDC may--for policy reasons--decide not
599 to trust the client. In this case, the KDC returns an error message
600 of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. One specific case of this is
601 the presence or absence of an Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) OID within
602 the certificate extensions. The rules regarding acceptability of
603 an EKU sequence (or the absence of any sequence) are a matter of
604 local policy. For the benefit of implementers, we define a PKINIT
605 EKU OID as the following: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
606 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkekuoid (2).
608 If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
609 signature on AuthPack. If that fails, the KDC returns an error
610 message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses the
611 timestamp (ctime and cusec) in the PKAuthenticator to assure that
612 the request is not a replay. The KDC also verifies that its name
613 is specified in the PKAuthenticator.
615 If the clientPublicValue field is filled in, indicating that the
616 client wishes to use Diffie-Hellman key agreement, then the KDC
617 checks to see that the parameters satisfy its policy. If they do
618 not (e.g., the prime size is insufficient for the expected
619 encryption type), then the KDC sends back an error message of type
620 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. The accompanying e-data is a SEQUENCE of
621 TypedData that includes type TD-DH-PARAMETERS (102) whose data-value
622 is DomainParameters with appropriate Diffie-Hellman parameters for
623 the client to retry the request. Otherwise, it generates its own
624 public and private values for the response.
626 The KDC also checks that the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator is
627 within the allowable window and that the principal name and realm
628 are correct. If the local (server) time and the client time in the
629 authenticator differ by more than the allowable clock skew, then the
630 KDC returns an error message of type KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW as defined in
633 Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510bis, except as
634 follows. The user's name in the ticket is determined by the
635 following decision algorithm:
637 1. If the KDC has a mapping from the name in the certificate
638 to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
640 2. If the certificate contains the SubjectAltName extention
641 and the local KDC policy defines a mapping from the
642 SubjectAltName to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
644 3. Use the name as represented in the certificate, mapping
645 as necessary (e.g., as per RFC 2253 for X.500 names). In
646 this case the realm in the ticket MUST be the name of the
647 certifier that issued the user's certificate.
649 Note that a principal name may be carried in the subjectAltName
650 field of a certificate. This name may be mapped to a principal
651 record in a security database based on local policy, for example
652 the subjectAltName may be kerberos/principal@realm format. In
653 this case the realm name is not that of the CA but that of the
654 local realm doing the mapping (or some realm name chosen by that
657 If a non-KDC X.509 certificate contains the principal name within
658 the subjectAltName version 3 extension, that name may utilize
659 KerberosName as defined below, or, in the case of an S/MIME
660 certificate [14], may utilize the email address. If the KDC
661 is presented with an S/MIME certificate, then the email address
662 within subjectAltName will be interpreted as a principal and realm
663 separated by the "@" sign, or as a name that needs to be mapped
664 according to local policy. If the resulting name does not correspond
665 to a registered principal name, then the principal name is formed as
666 defined in section 3.1.
668 The trustedCertifiers field contains a list of certification
669 authorities trusted by the client, in the case that the client does
670 not possess the KDC's public key certificate. If the KDC has no
671 certificate signed by any of the trustedCertifiers, then it returns
672 an error of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED.
674 KDCs should try to (in order of preference):
675 1. Use the KDC certificate identified by the serialNumber included
676 in the client's request.
677 2. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by one of the client's
679 If the KDC is unable to comply with any of these options, then the
680 KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to the
683 The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
684 with the Diffie Hellman derived key or a random key generated
685 for this particular response which is carried in the padata field of
688 PA-PK-AS-REP ::= CHOICE {
690 dhSignedData [0] ContentInfo,
691 -- Defined in CMS [8] and used only with
692 -- Diffie-Hellman key exchange (if the
693 -- client public value was present in the
695 -- SignedData OID is {pkcs7 2}
696 -- This choice MUST be supported
697 -- by compliant implementations.
698 encKeyPack [1] ContentInfo
699 -- Defined in CMS [8].
700 -- The temporary key is encrypted
701 -- using the client public key
703 -- EnvelopedData OID is {pkcs7 3}
704 -- SignedReplyKeyPack, encrypted
705 -- with the temporary key, is also
709 The type of the ContentInfo in the dhSignedData is SignedData.
710 Its usage is as follows:
712 When the Diffie-Hellman option is used, dhSignedData in
713 PA-PK-AS-REP provides authenticated Diffie-Hellman parameters
714 of the KDC. The reply key used to encrypt part of the KDC reply
715 message is derived from the Diffie-Hellman exchange:
717 1. Both the KDC and the client calculate a secret value
718 (g^ab mod p), where a is the client's private exponent and
719 b is the KDC's private exponent.
721 2. Both the KDC and the client take the first N bits of this
722 secret value and convert it into a reply key. N depends on
725 a. For example, if the reply key is DES, N=64 bits, where
726 some of the bits are replaced with parity bits, according
729 b. As another example, if the reply key is (3-key) 3-DES,
730 N=192 bits, where some of the bits are replaced with
731 parity bits, according to FIPS PUB 74.
733 3. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the KdcDHKeyInfo as
736 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
737 pkdhkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
738 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdhkeydata (2)
740 b. The eContent field is data of the type KdcDHKeyInfo
743 4. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
744 necessary for the client to establish trust in the KDC's
745 certificate based on the list of trusted certifiers sent by
746 the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. This field may be empty if
747 the client did not send to the KDC a list of trusted
748 certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning
749 that the client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
751 5. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at least
752 one member, since it contains the actual signature.
754 6. If the client indicated acceptance of cached Diffie-Hellman
755 parameters from the KDC, and the KDC supports such an option
756 (for performance reasons), the KDC should return a zero in
757 the nonce field and include the expiration time of the
758 parameters in the dhKeyExpiration field. If this time is
759 exceeded, the client SHOULD NOT use the reply. If the time
760 is absent, the client SHOULD NOT use the reply and MAY
761 resubmit a request with a non-zero nonce (thus indicating
762 non-acceptance of cached Diffie-Hellman parameters). As
763 indicated above in Section 3.2.1, Client Request, when the
764 KDC uses cached parameters, the client and the KDC MUST
765 perform key derivation (for the appropriate cryptosystem)
766 on the resulting encryption key, as specified in RFC 1510bis.
768 KdcDHKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
769 -- used only when utilizing Diffie-Hellman
770 subjectPublicKey [0] BIT STRING,
771 -- Equals public exponent (g^a mod p)
772 -- INTEGER encoded as payload of
775 -- Binds response to the request
776 -- Exception: Set to zero when KDC
777 -- is using a cached DH value
778 dhKeyExpiration [2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
779 -- Expiration time for KDC's cached
783 The type of the ContentInfo in the encKeyPack is EnvelopedData. Its
786 The EnvelopedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
787 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
788 IETF. It contains a temporary key encrypted with the PKINIT
789 client's public key. It also contains a signed and encrypted
792 1. The originatorInfo field is not required, since that
793 information may be presented in the signedData structure
794 that is encrypted within the encryptedContentInfo field.
796 2. The optional unprotectedAttrs field is not required for
799 3. The recipientInfos field is a SET which MUST contain exactly
800 one member of the KeyTransRecipientInfo type for encryption
803 a. The encryptedKey field (in KeyTransRecipientInfo)
804 contains the temporary key which is encrypted with the
805 PKINIT client's public key.
807 4. The encryptedContentInfo field contains the signed and
810 a. The contentType field MUST contain the OID value for
811 id-signedData: iso (1) member-body (2) us (840)
812 rsadsi (113549) pkcs (1) pkcs7 (7) signedData (2)
814 b. The encryptedContent field is encrypted data of the CMS
815 type signedData as specified below.
817 i. The encapContentInfo field MUST contains the
820 * The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value
821 for pkrkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
822 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkrkeydata (3)
824 * The eContent field is data of the type ReplyKeyPack
827 ii. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
828 necessary for the client to establish trust in the
829 KDC's certificate based on the list of trusted
830 certifiers sent by the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ.
831 This field may be empty if the client did not send
832 to the KDC a list of trusted certifiers (the
833 trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning that the
834 client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
836 iii. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at
837 least one member, since it contains the actual
840 ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
841 -- not used for Diffie-Hellman
842 replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
844 -- used to encrypt main reply
845 -- ENCTYPE is at least as strong as
846 -- ENCTYPE of session key
848 -- binds response to the request
849 -- must be same as the nonce
850 -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
854 3.2.2.1. Use of transited Field
856 Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
857 certificate is equivalent to a separate Kerberos realm, the name
858 of each certifier in the certificate chain MUST be added to the
859 transited field of the ticket. The format of these realm names is
860 defined in Section 3.1 of this document. If applicable, the
861 transit-policy-checked flag should be set in the issued ticket.
864 3.2.2.2. Kerberos Names in Certificates
866 The KDC's certificate(s) MUST bind the public key(s) of the KDC to
867 a name derivable from the name of the realm for that KDC. X.509
868 certificates MUST contain the principal name of the KDC (defined in
869 RFC 1510bis) as the SubjectAltName version 3 extension. Below is
870 the definition of this version 3 extension, as specified by the
873 subjectAltName EXTENSION ::= {
875 IDENTIFIED BY id-ce-subjectAltName
878 GeneralNames ::= SEQUENCE SIZE(1..MAX) OF GeneralName
880 GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
881 otherName [0] OtherName,
885 OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
886 type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
887 value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id
890 For the purpose of specifying a Kerberos principal name, the value
891 in OtherName MUST be a KerberosName, defined as follows:
893 KerberosName ::= SEQUENCE {
895 principalName [1] PrincipalName
898 This specific syntax is identified within subjectAltName by setting
899 the type-id in OtherName to krb5PrincipalName, where (from the
900 Kerberos specification) we have
902 krb5 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso (1)
909 krb5PrincipalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { krb5 2 }
911 (This specification may also be used to specify a Kerberos name
912 within the user's certificate.) The KDC's certificate may be signed
913 directly by a CA, or there may be intermediaries if the server resides
914 within a large organization, or it may be unsigned if the client
915 indicates possession (and trust) of the KDC's certificate.
917 Note that the KDC's principal name has the instance equal to the
918 realm, and those fields should be appropriately set in the realm
919 and principalName fields of the KerberosName. This is the case
920 even when obtaining a cross-realm ticket using PKINIT.
923 3.2.3. Client Extraction of Reply
925 The client then extracts the random key used to encrypt the main
926 reply. This random key (in encPaReply) is encrypted with either the
927 client's public key or with a key derived from the DH values
928 exchanged between the client and the KDC. The client uses this
929 random key to decrypt the main reply, and subsequently proceeds as
930 described in RFC 1510bis.
932 3.2.4. Required Algorithms
934 Not all of the algorithms in the PKINIT protocol specification have
935 to be implemented in order to comply with the proposed standard.
936 Below is a list of the required algorithms:
938 * Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs
939 * utilizing Diffie-Hellman ephemeral-ephemeral mode
940 * SHA1 digest and RSA for signatures
941 * SHA1 digest for the Checksum in the PKAuthenticator
942 * using Kerberos checksum type 'sha1'
943 * 3-key triple DES keys derived from the Diffie-Hellman Exchange
944 * 3-key triple DES Temporary and Reply keys
946 4. Logistics and Policy
948 This section describes a way to define the policy on the use of
949 PKINIT for each principal and request.
951 The KDC is not required to contain a database record for users
952 who use public key authentication. However, if these users are
953 registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database record
954 for these users be modified to an additional flag in the attributes
955 field to indicate that the user should authenticate using PKINIT.
956 If this flag is set and a request message does not contain the
957 PKINIT preauthentication field, then the KDC sends back as error of
958 type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a preauthentication
959 field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the request.
961 5. Security Considerations
963 PKINIT raises a few security considerations, which we will address
966 First of all, PKINIT extends the cross-realm model to the public
967 key infrastructure. Anyone using PKINIT must be aware of how the
968 certification infrastructure they are linking to works.
970 Also, as in standard Kerberos, PKINIT presents the possibility of
971 interactions between different cryptosystems of varying strengths,
972 and this now includes public-key cryptosystems. Many systems, for
973 instance, allow the use of 512-bit public keys. Using such keys
974 to wrap data encrypted under strong conventional cryptosystems,
975 such as triple-DES, may be inappropriate.
977 Care should be taken in how certificates are choosen for the purposes
978 of authentication using PKINIT. Some local policies require that key
979 escrow be applied for certain certificate types. People deploying
980 PKINIT should be aware of the implications of using certificates that
981 have escrowed keys for the purposes of authentication.
983 As described in Section 3.2, PKINIT allows for the caching of the
984 Diffie-Hellman parameters on the KDC side, for performance reasons.
985 For similar reasons, the signed data in this case does not vary from
986 message to message, until the cached parameters expire. Because of
987 the persistence of these parameters, the client and the KDC are to
988 use the appropriate key derivation measures (as described in RFC
989 1510bis) when using cached DH parameters.
991 PKINIT does not provide for a "return routability test" to prevent
992 attackers from mounting a denial of service attack on the KDC by
993 causing it to perform needless expensive cryptographic operations.
994 Strictly speaking, this is also true of base Kerberos, although the
995 potential cost is not as great in base Kerberos, because it does
996 not make use of public key cryptography.
998 Lastly, PKINIT calls for randomly generated keys for conventional
999 cryptosystems. Many such systems contain systematically "weak"
1000 keys. For recommendations regarding these weak keys, see RFC
1005 Certificate chains can potentially grow quite large and span several
1006 UDP packets; this in turn increases the probability that a Kerberos
1007 message involving PKINIT extensions will be broken in transit. In
1008 light of the possibility that the Kerberos specification will
1009 require KDCs to accept requests using TCP as a transport mechanism,
1010 we make the same recommendation with respect to the PKINIT
1015 [1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
1016 (V5). Request for Comments 1510.
1018 [2] B.C. Neuman, Theodore Ts'o. Kerberos: An Authentication Service
1019 for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38. September
1022 [3] M. Sirbu, J. Chuang. Distributed Authentication in Kerberos
1023 Using Public Key Cryptography. Symposium On Network and Distributed
1024 System Security, 1997.
1026 [4] B. Cox, J.D. Tygar, M. Sirbu. NetBill Security and Transaction
1027 Protocol. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Electronic
1028 Commerce, July 1995.
1030 [5] T. Dierks, C. Allen. The TLS Protocol, Version 1.0
1031 Request for Comments 2246, January 1999.
1033 [6] B.C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
1034 Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
1035 Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993.
1037 [7] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information technology - Open Systems
1038 Interconnection - The Directory: Authentication Framework
1039 Recommendation X.509 ISO/IEC 9594-8
1041 [8] R. Housley. Cryptographic Message Syntax.
1042 draft-ietf-smime-cms-13.txt, April 1999, approved for publication
1045 [9] PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard,
1046 An RSA Laboratories Technical Note Version 1.5
1047 Revised November 1, 1993
1049 [10] R. Rivest, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and RSA Data
1050 Security, Inc. A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm
1052 Request for Comments 2268.
1054 [11] M. Wahl, S. Kille, T. Howes. Lightweight Directory Access
1055 Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names.
1056 Request for Comments 2253.
1058 [12] R. Housley, W. Ford, W. Polk, D. Solo. Internet X.509 Public
1059 Key Infrastructure, Certificate and CRL Profile, January 1999.
1060 Request for Comments 2459.
1062 [13] B. Kaliski, J. Staddon. PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography
1063 Specifications, October 1998. Request for Comments 2437.
1065 [14] S. Dusse, P. Hoffman, B. Ramsdell, J. Weinstein. S/MIME
1066 Version 2 Certificate Handling, March 1998. Request for
1069 [15] M. Wahl, T. Howes, S. Kille. Lightweight Directory Access
1070 Protocol (v3), December 1997. Request for Comments 2251.
1072 [16] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information Processing Systems - Open
1073 Systems Interconnection - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation
1074 One (ASN.1) Rec. X.680 ISO/IEC 8824-1
1076 [17] PKCS #3: Diffie-Hellman Key-Agreement Standard, An RSA
1077 Laboratories Technical Note, Version 1.4, Revised November 1, 1993.
1081 Some of the ideas on which this proposal is based arose during
1082 discussions over several years between members of the SAAG, the IETF
1083 CAT working group, and the PSRG, regarding integration of Kerberos
1084 and SPX. Some ideas have also been drawn from the DASS system.
1085 These changes are by no means endorsed by these groups. This is an
1086 attempt to revive some of the goals of those groups, and this
1087 proposal approaches those goals primarily from the Kerberos
1088 perspective. Lastly, comments from groups working on similar ideas
1089 in DCE have been invaluable.
1093 This draft expires March 12, 2002.
1099 USC Information Sciences Institute
1100 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
1101 Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
1102 Phone: +1 310 822 1511
1103 E-mail: {brian, bcn}@isi.edu
1106 Microsoft Corporation
1109 Phone: +1 425 707 3336
1110 E-mail: matthur@microsoft.com
1113 Liberate Technologies
1116 E-mail: ari@liberate.com
1123 E-mail: smedvinsky@gi.com
1126 Iris Associates, Inc.
1127 5 Technology Park Dr.
1129 E-mail: John_Wray@iris.com
1132 E-mail: jtrostle@world.std.com