2 <Network Working Group> Larry Zhu
3 Internet Draft Karthik Jaganathan
4 Updates: 1964 Microsoft
5 Category: Standards Track Sam Hartman
6 draft-ietf-krb-wg-gssapi-cfx-07.txt MIT
8 Expires: September 9, 2004
10 The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism: Version 2
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43 This document defines protocols, procedures, and conventions to be
44 employed by peers implementing the Generic Security Service
45 Application Program Interface (GSS-API) when using the Kerberos
48 RFC-1964 is updated and incremental changes are proposed in response
49 to recent developments such as the introduction of Kerberos
50 cryptosystem framework. These changes support the inclusion of new
51 cryptosystems, by defining new per-message tokens along with their
52 encryption and checksum algorithms based on the cryptosystem
55 Conventions used in this document
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61 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
62 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
63 document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC-2119].
65 The term "little endian order" is used for brevity to refer to the
66 least-significant-octet-first encoding, while the term "big endian
67 order" is for the most-significant-octet-first encoding.
71 1. Introduction ............................................... 2
72 2. Key Derivation for Per-Message Tokens ...................... 3
73 3. Quality of Protection ...................................... 4
74 4. Definitions and Token Formats .............................. 4
75 4.1. Context Establishment Tokens ............................. 4
76 4.1.1. Authenticator Checksum ................................. 5
77 4.2. Per-Message Tokens ....................................... 8
78 4.2.1. Sequence Number ........................................ 8
79 4.2.2. Flags Field ............................................ 8
80 4.2.3. EC Field ............................................... 9
81 4.2.4. Encryption and Checksum Operations ..................... 9
82 4.2.5. RRC Field .............................................. 10
83 4.2.6. Message Layouts ........................................ 10
84 4.3. Context Deletion Tokens .................................. 11
85 4.4. Token Identifier Assignment Considerations ............... 11
86 5. Parameter Definitions ...................................... 12
87 5.1. Minor Status Codes ....................................... 12
88 5.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes ............................ 12
89 5.1.2. Kerberos-specific-codes ................................ 12
90 5.2. Buffer Sizes ............................................. 13
91 6. Backwards Compatibility Considerations ..................... 13
92 7. Security Considerations .................................... 13
93 8. Acknowledgments ............................................ 14
94 9. Intellectual Property Statement ............................ 15
95 10. References ................................................ 15
96 10.1. Normative References .................................... 15
97 10.2. Informative References .................................. 15
98 11. Author's Address .......................................... 15
99 Full Copyright Statement ...................................... 17
103 [KCRYPTO] defines a generic framework for describing encryption and
104 checksum types to be used with the Kerberos protocol and associated
107 [RFC-1964] describes the GSS-API mechanism for Kerberos Version 5.
108 It defines the format of context establishment, per-message and
109 context deletion tokens and uses algorithm identifiers for each
110 cryptosystem in per message and context deletion tokens.
112 The approach taken in this document obviates the need for algorithm
113 identifiers. This is accomplished by using the same encryption
114 algorithm, specified by the crypto profile [KCRYPTO] for the session
115 key or subkey that is created during context negotiation, and its
116 required checksum algorithm. Message layouts of the per-message
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120 tokens are therefore revised to remove algorithm indicators and also
121 to add extra information to support the generic crypto framework
124 Tokens transferred between GSS-API peers for security context
125 establishment are also described in this document. The data
126 elements exchanged between a GSS-API endpoint implementation and the
127 Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) [KRBCLAR] are not specific to
128 GSS-API usage and are therefore defined within [KRBCLAR] rather than
129 within this specification.
131 The new token formats specified in this document MUST be used with
132 all "newer" encryption types [KRBCLAR] and MAY be used with "older"
133 encryption types, provided that the initiator and acceptor know,
134 from the context establishment, that they can both process these new
137 "Newer" encryption types are those which have been specified along
138 with or since the new Kerberos cryptosystem specification [KCRYPTO],
139 as defined in section 3.1.3 of [KRBCLAR]. The list of not-newer
140 encryption types is as follows [KCRYPTO]:
142 Encryption Type Assigned Number
143 ----------------------------------------------
150 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
151 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
153 rsaEncryption-EnvOID 13
154 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID 14
155 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
159 2. Key Derivation for Per-Message Tokens
161 To limit the exposure of a given key, [KCRYPTO] adopted "one-way"
162 "entropy-preserving" derived keys, for different purposes or key
163 usages, from a base key or protocol key.
165 This document defines four key usage values below that are used to
166 derive a specific key for signing and sealing messages, from the
167 session key or subkey [KRBCLAR] created during the context
171 -------------------------------------
172 KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SEAL 22
173 KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SIGN 23
174 KG-USAGE-INITIATOR-SEAL 24
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179 KG-USAGE-INITIATOR-SIGN 25
181 When the sender is the context acceptor, KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SIGN is
182 used as the usage number in the key derivation function for deriving
183 keys to be used in MIC tokens (as defined in section 4.2.6.1), and
184 KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SEAL is used for Wrap tokens(as defined in section
185 4.2.6.2); similarly when the sender is the context initiator, KG-
186 USAGE-INITIATOR-SIGN is used as the usage number in the key
187 derivation function for MIC tokens, KG-USAGE-INITIATOR-SEAL is used
188 for Wrap Tokens. Even if the Wrap token does not provide for
189 confidentiality the same usage values specified above are used.
191 During the context initiation and acceptance sequence, the acceptor
192 MAY assert a subkey, and if so, subsequent messages MUST use this
193 subkey as the protocol key and these messages MUST be flagged as
194 "AcceptorSubkey" as described in section 4.2.2.
196 3. Quality of Protection
198 The GSS-API specification [RFC-2743] provides for Quality of
199 Protection (QOP) values that can be used by applications to request
200 a certain type of encryption or signing. A zero QOP value is used
201 to indicate the "default" protection; applications which do not use
202 the default QOP are not guaranteed to be portable across
203 implementations or even inter-operate with different deployment
204 configurations of the same implementation. Using an algorithm that
205 is different from the one for which the key is defined may not be
206 appropriate. Therefore, when the new method in this document is
207 used, the QOP value is ignored.
209 The encryption and checksum algorithms in per-message tokens are now
210 implicitly defined by the algorithms associated with the session key
211 or subkey. Algorithms identifiers as described in [RFC-1964] are
212 therefore no longer needed and removed from the new token headers.
214 4. Definitions and Token Formats
216 This section provides terms and definitions, as well as descriptions
217 for tokens specific to the Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API mechanism.
219 4.1. Context Establishment Tokens
221 All context establishment tokens emitted by the Kerberos Version 5
222 GSS-API mechanism SHALL have the framing described in section 3.1 of
223 [RFC-2743], as illustrated by the following pseudo-ASN.1 structures:
225 GSS-API DEFINITIONS ::=
229 MechType ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER
230 -- representing Kerberos V5 mechanism
233 -- option indication (delegation, etc.) indicated within
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237 -- mechanism-specific token
238 [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
240 innerToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
241 -- contents mechanism-specific
242 -- ASN.1 structure not required
247 Where the innerToken field starts with a two-octet token-identifier
248 (TOK_ID) expressed in big endian order, followed by a Kerberos
251 Here are the TOK_ID values used in the context establishment tokens:
253 Token TOK_ID Value in Hex
254 -----------------------------------------
259 Where Kerberos message KRB_AP_REQUEST, KRB_AP_REPLY, and KRB_ERROR
260 are defined in [KRBCLAR].
262 If an unknown token identifier (TOK_ID) is received in the initial
263 context establishment token, the receiver MUST return
264 GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major status, and the returned output token
265 MUST contain a KRB_ERROR message with the error code
266 KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE [KRBCLAR].
268 4.1.1. Authenticator Checksum
270 The authenticator in the KRB_AP_REQ message MUST include the
271 optional sequence number and the checksum field. The checksum field
272 is used to convey service flags, channel bindings, and optional
273 delegation information.
275 The checksum type MUST be 0x8003. When delegation is used, a ticket-
276 granting ticket will be transferred in a KRB_CRED message. This
277 ticket SHOULD have its forwardable flag set. The EncryptedData
278 field of the KRB_CRED message [KRBCLAR] MUST be encrypted in the
279 session key of the ticket used to authenticate the context.
281 The authenticator checksum field SHALL have the following format:
283 Octet Name Description
284 -----------------------------------------------------------------
285 0..3 Lgth Number of octets in Bnd field; Represented
286 in little-endian order; Currently contains
287 hex value 10 00 00 00 (16).
288 4..19 Bnd Channel binding information, as described in
290 20..23 Flags Four-octet context-establishment flags in
291 little-endian order as described in section
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296 24..25 DlgOpt The delegation option identifier (=1) in
297 little-endian order [optional]. This field
298 and the next two fields are present if and
299 only if GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set as described
301 26..27 Dlgth The length of the Deleg field in little-
302 endian order [optional].
303 28..(n-1) Deleg A KRB_CRED message (n = Dlgth + 28)
305 n..last Exts Extensions [optional].
307 The length of the checksum field MUST be at least 24 octets when
308 GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is not set (as described in section 4.1.1.1), and
309 at least 28 octets plus Dlgth octets when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set.
310 When GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set, the DlgOpt, Dlgth and Deleg fields
311 of the checksum data MUST immediately follow the Flags field. The
312 optional trailing octets (namely the "Exts" field) facilitate
313 future extensions to this mechanism. When delegation is not used
314 but the Exts field is present, the Exts field starts at octet 24
315 (DlgOpt, Dlgth and Deleg are absent).
317 Initiators that do not support the extensions MUST NOT include more
318 than 24 octets in the checksum field, when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is not
319 set, or more than 28 octets plus the KRB_CRED in the Deleg field,
320 when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set. Acceptors that do not understand the
321 extensions MUST ignore any octets past the Deleg field of the
322 checksum data, when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set, or past the Flags field
323 of the checksum data, when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is not set.
325 4.1.1.1. Checksum Flags Field
327 The checksum "Flags" field is used to convey service options or
328 extension negotiation information.
330 The following context establishment flags are defined in [RFC-2744].
333 ---------------------------------
337 GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG 8
341 Context establishment flags are exposed to the calling application.
342 If the calling application desires a particular service option then
343 it requests that option via GSS_Init_sec_context() [RFC-2743]. If
344 the corresponding return state values [RFC-2743] indicate that any
345 of above optional context level services will be active on the
346 context, the corresponding flag values in the table above MUST be
347 set in the checksum Flags field.
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353 Flag values 4096..524288 (2^12, 2^13, ..., 2^19) are reserved for
354 use with legacy vendor-specific extensions to this mechanism.
356 All other flag values not specified herein are reserved for future
357 use. Future revisions of this mechanism may use these reserved
358 flags and may rely on implementations of this version to not use
359 such flags in order to properly negotiate mechanism versions.
360 Undefined flag values MUST be cleared by the sender, and unknown
361 flags MUST be ignored by the receiver.
363 4.1.1.2. Channel Binding Information
365 These tags are intended to be used to identify the particular
366 communications channel for which the GSS-API security context
367 establishment tokens are intended, thus limiting the scope within
368 which an intercepted context establishment token can be reused by an
369 attacker (see [RFC-2743], section 1.1.6).
371 When using C language bindings, channel bindings are communicated
372 to the GSS-API using the following structure [RFC-2744]:
374 typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
375 OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
376 gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
377 OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
378 gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
379 gss_buffer_desc application_data;
380 } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
382 The member fields and constants used for different address types
383 are defined in [RFC-2744].
385 The "Bnd" field contains the MD5 hash of channel bindings, taken
386 over all non-null components of bindings, in order of declaration.
387 Integer fields within channel bindings are represented in little-
388 endian order for the purposes of the MD5 calculation.
390 In computing the contents of the Bnd field, the following detailed
393 (1) For purposes of MD5 hash computation, each integer field and
394 input length field SHALL be formatted into four octets, using
395 little endian octet ordering.
397 (2) All input length fields within gss_buffer_desc elements of a
398 gss_channel_bindings_struct even those which are zero-valued, SHALL
399 be included in the hash calculation; the value elements of
400 gss_buffer_desc elements SHALL be dereferenced, and the resulting
401 data SHALL be included within the hash computation, only for the
402 case of gss_buffer_desc elements having non-zero length specifiers.
404 (3) If the caller passes the value GSS_C_NO_BINDINGS instead of a
405 valid channel binding structure, the Bnd field SHALL be set to 16
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411 If the caller to GSS_Accept_sec_context [RFC-2743] passes in
412 GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS [RFC-2744] as the channel bindings then
413 the acceptor MAY ignore any channel bindings supplied by the
414 initiator, returning success even if the initiator did pass in
417 If the application supply, in the channel bindings, a buffer with a
418 length field larger than 4294967295 (2^32 - 1), the implementation
419 of this mechanism MAY chose to reject the channel bindings
420 altogether, using major status GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS [RFC-2743]. In
421 any case, the size of channel binding data buffers that can be used
422 (interoperable, without extensions) with this specification is
423 limited to 4294967295 octets.
425 4.2. Per-Message Tokens
427 Two classes of tokens are defined in this section: "MIC" tokens,
428 emitted by calls to GSS_GetMIC() and consumed by calls to
429 GSS_VerifyMIC(), "Wrap" tokens, emitted by calls to GSS_Wrap() and
430 consumed by calls to GSS_Unwrap().
432 The new per-message tokens introduced here do not include the
433 generic GSS-API token framing used by the context establishment
434 tokens. These new tokens are designed to be used with newer crypto
435 systems that can, for example, have variable-size checksums.
437 4.2.1. Sequence Number
439 To distinguish intentionally-repeated messages from maliciously-
440 replayed ones, per-message tokens contain a sequence number field,
441 which is a 64 bit integer expressed in big endian order. After
442 sending a GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() token, the sender's sequence
443 numbers SHALL be incremented by one.
447 The "Flags" field is a one-octet integer used to indicate a set of
448 attributes for the protected message. For example, one flag is
449 allocated as the direction-indicator, thus preventing an adversary
450 from sending back the same message in the reverse direction and
453 The meanings of bits in this field (the least significant bit is
454 bit 0) are as follows:
457 ---------------------------------------------------------------
458 0 SentByAcceptor When set, this flag indicates the sender
459 is the context acceptor. When not set,
460 it indicates the sender is the context
462 1 Sealed When set in Wrap tokens, this flag
463 indicates confidentiality is provided
464 for. It SHALL NOT be set in MIC tokens.
465 2 AcceptorSubkey A subkey asserted by the context acceptor
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469 is used to protect the message.
471 The rest of available bits are reserved for future use and MUST be
472 cleared. The receiver MUST ignore unknown flags.
476 The "EC" (Extra Count) field is a two-octet integer field expressed
479 In Wrap tokens with confidentiality, the EC field SHALL be used to
480 encode the number of octets in the filler, as described in section
483 In Wrap tokens without confidentiality, the EC field SHALL be used
484 to encode the number of octets in the trailing checksum, as
485 described in section 4.2.4.
487 4.2.4. Encryption and Checksum Operations
489 The encryption algorithms defined by the crypto profiles provide for
490 integrity protection [KCRYPTO]. Therefore no separate checksum is
493 The result of decryption can be longer than the original plaintext
494 [KCRYPTO] and the extra trailing octets are called "crypto-system
495 residue" in this document. However, given the size of any plaintext
496 data, one can always find a (possibly larger) size so that, when
497 padding the to-be-encrypted text to that size, there will be no
498 crypto-system residue added [KCRYPTO].
500 In Wrap tokens that provide for confidentiality, the first 16 octets
501 of the Wrap token (the "header", as defined in section 4.2.6), SHALL
502 be appended to the plaintext data before encryption. Filler octets
503 MAY be inserted between the plaintext data and the "header", and the
504 values and size of the filler octets are chosen by implementations,
505 such that there SHALL be no crypto-system residue present after the
506 decryption. The resulting Wrap token is {"header" |
507 encrypt(plaintext-data | filler | "header")}, where encrypt() is the
508 encryption operation (which provides for integrity protection)
509 defined in the crypto profile [KCRYPTO], and the RRC field (as
510 defined in section 4.2.5) in the to-be-encrypted header contain the
513 In Wrap tokens that do not provide for confidentiality, the checksum
514 SHALL be calculated first over the to-be-signed plaintext data, and
515 then the first 16 octets of the Wrap token (the "header", as defined
516 in section 4.2.6). Both the EC field and the RRC field in the token
517 header SHALL be filled with zeroes for the purpose of calculating
518 the checksum. The resulting Wrap token is {"header" | plaintext-
519 data | get_mic(plaintext-data | "header")}, where get_mic() is the
520 checksum operation for the required checksum mechanism of the chosen
521 encryption mechanism defined in the crypto profile [KCRYPTO].
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527 The parameters for the key and the cipher-state in the encrypt() and
528 get_mic() operations have been omitted for brevity.
530 For MIC tokens, the checksum SHALL be calculated as follows: the
531 checksum operation is calculated first over the to-be-signed
532 plaintext data, and then the first 16 octets of the MIC token, where
533 the checksum mechanism is the required checksum mechanism of the
534 chosen encryption mechanism defined in the crypto profile [KCRYPTO].
536 The resulting Wrap and MIC tokens bind the data to the token header,
537 including the sequence number and the direction indicator.
541 The "RRC" (Right Rotation Count) field in Wrap tokens is added to
542 allow the data to be encrypted in-place by existing SSPI (Security
543 Service Provider Interface) [SSPI] applications that do not provide
544 an additional buffer for the trailer (the cipher text after the in-
545 place-encrypted data) in addition to the buffer for the header (the
546 cipher text before the in-place-encrypted data). The resulting Wrap
547 token in the previous section, excluding the first 16 octets of the
548 token header, is rotated to the right by "RRC" octets. The net
549 result is that "RRC" octets of trailing octets are moved toward the
550 header. Consider the following as an example of this rotation
551 operation: Assume that the RRC value is 3 and the token before the
552 rotation is {"header" | aa | bb | cc | dd | ee | ff | gg | hh}, the
553 token after rotation would be {"header" | ff | gg | hh | aa | bb |
554 cc | dd | ee }, where {aa | bb | cc |...| hh} is used to indicate
557 The RRC field is expressed as a two-octet integer in big endian
560 The rotation count value is chosen by the sender based on
561 implementation details, and the receiver MUST be able to interpret
562 all possible rotation count values, including rotation counts
563 greater than the length of the token.
565 4.2.6. Message Layouts
567 Per-message tokens start with a two-octet token identifier (TOK_ID)
568 field, expressed in big endian order. These tokens are defined
569 separately in subsequent sub-sections.
573 Use of the GSS_GetMIC() call yields a token (referred as the MIC
574 token in this document), separate from the user
575 data being protected, which can be used to verify the integrity of
576 that data as received. The token has the following format:
578 Octet no Name Description
579 -----------------------------------------------------------------
580 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field. Tokens emitted by
581 GSS_GetMIC() contain the hex value 04 04
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585 expressed in big endian order in this field.
586 2 Flags Attributes field, as described in section
588 3..7 Filler Contains five octets of hex value FF.
589 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field in clear text,
590 expressed in big endian order.
591 16..last SGN_CKSUM Checksum of the "to-be-signed" data and
592 octet 0..15, as described in section 4.2.4.
594 The Filler field is included in the checksum calculation for
599 Use of the GSS_Wrap() call yields a token (referred as the Wrap
600 token in this document), which consists of a descriptive header,
601 followed by a body portion that contains either the input user data
602 in plaintext concatenated with the checksum, or the input user data
603 encrypted. The GSS_Wrap() token SHALL have the following format:
605 Octet no Name Description
606 ---------------------------------------------------------------
607 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field. Tokens emitted by
608 GSS_Wrap() contain the the hex value 05 04
609 expressed in big endian order in this field.
610 2 Flags Attributes field, as described in section
612 3 Filler Contains the hex value FF.
613 4..5 EC Contains the "extra count" field, in big
614 endian order as described in section 4.2.3.
615 6..7 RRC Contains the "right rotation count" in big
616 endian order, as described in section 4.2.5.
617 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field in clear text,
618 expressed in big endian order.
619 16..last Data Encrypted data for Wrap tokens with
620 confidentiality, or plaintext data followed
621 by the checksum for Wrap tokens without
622 confidentiality, as described in section
625 4.3. Context Deletion Tokens
627 Context deletion tokens are empty in this mechanism. Both peers to
628 a security context invoke GSS_Delete_sec_context() [RFC-2743]
629 independently, passing a null output_context_token buffer to
630 indicate that no context_token is required. Implementations of
631 GSS_Delete_sec_context() should delete relevant locally-stored
634 4.4. Token Identifier Assignment Considerations
636 Token identifiers (TOK_ID) from 0x60 0x00 through 0x60 0xFF
637 inclusive are reserved and SHALL NOT be assigned. Thus by examining
638 the first two octets of a token, one can tell unambiguously if it is
639 wrapped with the generic GSS-API token framing.
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644 5. Parameter Definitions
646 This section defines parameter values used by the Kerberos V5 GSS-
647 API mechanism. It defines interface elements in support of
648 portability, and assumes use of C language bindings per [RFC-2744].
650 5.1. Minor Status Codes
652 This section recommends common symbolic names for minor_status
653 values to be returned by the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism. Use of
654 these definitions will enable independent implementers to enhance
655 application portability across different implementations of the
656 mechanism defined in this specification. (In all cases,
657 implementations of GSS_Display_status() will enable callers to
658 convert minor_status indicators to text representations.) Each
659 implementation should make available, through include files or other
660 means, a facility to translate these symbolic names into the
661 concrete values which a particular GSS-API implementation uses to
662 represent the minor_status values specified in this section.
664 It is recognized that this list may grow over time, and that the
665 need for additional minor_status codes specific to particular
666 implementations may arise. It is recommended, however, that
667 implementations should return a minor_status value as defined on a
668 mechanism-wide basis within this section when that code is
669 accurately representative of reportable status rather than using a
670 separate, implementation-defined code.
672 5.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes
674 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_SERVICE_NAME
675 /* "No @ in SERVICE-NAME name string" */
676 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_STRING_UID
677 /* "STRING-UID-NAME contains nondigits" */
679 /* "UID does not resolve to username" */
680 GSS_KRB5_S_G_VALIDATE_FAILED
681 /* "Validation error" */
682 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BUFFER_ALLOC
683 /* "Couldn't allocate gss_buffer_t data" */
684 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_MSG_CTX
685 /* "Message context invalid" */
686 GSS_KRB5_S_G_WRONG_SIZE
687 /* "Buffer is the wrong size" */
688 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_USAGE
689 /* "Credential usage type is unknown" */
690 GSS_KRB5_S_G_UNKNOWN_QOP
691 /* "Unknown quality of protection specified" */
693 5.1.2. Kerberos-specific-codes
695 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CCACHE_NOMATCH
696 /* "Client principal in credentials does not match
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701 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_KEYTAB_NOMATCH
702 /* "No key available for specified service principal" */
703 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_TGT_MISSING
704 /* "No Kerberos ticket-granting ticket available" */
705 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_NO_SUBKEY
706 /* "Authenticator has no subkey" */
707 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CONTEXT_ESTABLISHED
708 /* "Context is already fully established" */
709 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_SIGN_TYPE
710 /* "Unknown signature type in token" */
711 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_LENGTH
712 /* "Invalid field length in token" */
713 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CTX_INCOMPLETE
714 /* "Attempt to use incomplete security context" */
718 All implementations of this specification MUST be capable of
719 accepting buffers of at least 16K octets as input to GSS_GetMIC(),
720 GSS_VerifyMIC(), and GSS_Wrap(), and MUST be capable of accepting
721 the output_token generated by GSS_Wrap() for a 16K octet input
722 buffer as input to GSS_Unwrap(). Implementations SHOULD support 64K
723 octet input buffers, and MAY support even larger input buffer sizes.
725 6. Backwards Compatibility Considerations
727 The new token formats defined in this document will only be
728 recognized by new implementations. To address this, implementations
729 can always use the explicit sign or seal algorithm in [RFC-1964]
730 when the key type corresponds to "older" enctypes. An alternative
731 approach might be to retry sending the message with the sign or seal
732 algorithm explicitly defined as in [RFC-1964]. However this would
733 require either the use of a mechanism such as [RFC-2478] to securely
734 negotiate the method or the use out of band mechanism to choose
735 appropriate mechanism. For this reason, it is RECOMMENDED that the
736 new token formats defined in this document SHOULD be used only if
737 both peers are known to support the new mechanism during context
738 negotiation because of, for example, the use of "new" enctypes.
740 GSS_Unwrap() or GSS_VerifyMIC() can process a message token as
741 follows: it can look at the first octet of the token header, if it
742 is 0x60 then the token must carry the generic GSS-API pseudo ASN.1
743 framing, otherwise the first two octets of the token contain the
744 TOK_ID that uniquely identify the token message format.
746 7. Security Considerations
748 Channel bindings are validated by the acceptor. The acceptor can
749 ignore the channel bindings restriction supplied by the initiator
750 and carried in the authenticator checksum, if channel bindings are
751 not used by GSS_Accept_sec_context [RFC-2743], and the acceptor does
752 not prove to the initiator that it has the same channel bindings as
753 the initiator, even if the client requested mutual authentication.
754 This limitation should be taken into consideration by designers of
755 applications that would use channel bindings, whether to limit the
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759 use of GSS-API contexts to nodes with specific network addresses, to
760 authenticate other established, secure channels using Kerberos
761 Version 5, or for any other purpose.
763 Session key types are selected by the KDC. Under the current
764 mechanism, no negotiation of algorithm types occurs, so server-side
765 (acceptor) implementations cannot request that clients not use
766 algorithm types not understood by the server. However,
767 administrators can control what enctypes can be used for session
768 keys for this mechanism by controlling the set of the ticket session
769 key enctypes which the KDC is willing to use in tickets for a given
770 acceptor principal. The KDC could therefore be given the task of
771 limiting session keys for a given service to types actually
772 supported by the Kerberos and GSSAPI software on the server. This
773 does have a drawback for cases where a service principal name is
774 used both for GSSAPI-based and non-GSSAPI-based communication (most
775 notably the "host" service key), if the GSSAPI implementation does
776 not understand (for example) AES [AES-KRB5] but the Kerberos
777 implementation does. It means that AES session keys cannot be
778 issued for that service principal, which keeps the protection of
779 non-GSSAPI services weaker than necessary. KDC administrators
780 desiring to limit the session key types to support interoperability
781 with such GSSAPI implementations should carefully weigh the
782 reduction in protection offered by such mechanisms against the
783 benefits of interoperability.
787 Ken Raeburn and Nicolas Williams corrected many of our errors in the
788 use of generic profiles and were instrumental in the creation of
791 The text for security considerations was contributed by Nicolas
792 Williams and Ken Raeburn.
794 Sam Hartman and Ken Raeburn suggested the "floating trailer" idea,
795 namely the encoding of the RRC field.
797 Sam Hartman and Nicolas Williams recommended the replacing our
798 earlier key derivation function for directional keys with different
799 key usage numbers for each direction as well as retaining the
800 directional bit for maximum compatibility.
802 Paul Leach provided numerous suggestions and comments.
804 Scott Field, Richard Ward, Dan Simon, Kevin Damour, and Simon
805 Josefsson also provided valuable inputs on this document.
807 Jeffrey Hutzelman provided comments and clarifications for the text
808 related to the channel bindings.
810 Jeffrey Hutzelman and Russ Housley suggested many editorial changes.
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817 Luke Howard provided implementations of this document for the
818 Heimdal code base, and helped inter-operability testing with the
819 Microsoft code base, together with Love Hornquist Astrand. These
820 experiments formed the basis of this document.
822 Martin Rex provided suggestions of TOK_ID assignment recommendations
823 thus the token tagging in this document is unambiguous if the token
824 is wrapped with the pseudo ASN.1 header.
826 John Linn wrote the original Kerberos Version 5 mechanism
827 specification [RFC-1964], of which some of the text has been retained
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854 10.1. Normative References
856 [RFC-2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
857 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
859 [RFC-2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
860 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
862 [RFC-2743] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
863 Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January 2000.
865 [RFC-2744] Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API Version 2: C-
866 bindings", RFC 2744, January 2000.
868 [RFC-1964] Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism",
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874 [KCRYPTO] RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-ietf-
875 krb-wg-crypto. Work in Progress.
877 [KRBCLAR] RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-ietf-
878 krb-wg-kerberos-clarifications. Work in Progress.
880 10.2. Informative References
882 [SSPI] Leach, P., "Security Service Provider Interface", Microsoft
883 Developer Network (MSDN), April 2003.
885 [AES-KRB5] RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-
886 raeburn-krb-rijndael-krb. Work in Progress.
888 [RFC-2478] Baize, E., Pinkas D., "The Simple and Protected GSS-API
889 Negotiation Mechanism", RFC 2478, December 1998.
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