1 INTERNET-DRAFT Brian Tung
2 draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-13.txt Clifford Neuman
3 Updates: RFC 1510 USC/ISI
4 expires August 31, 2001 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 1510 [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 described in PKTAPP [5] and is based on
107 concepts introduced in [6, 7]. For direct client-to-server
108 authentication, the client uses PKINIT to authenticate to the end
109 server (instead of a central KDC), which then issues a ticket for
110 itself. This approach has an advantage over TLS [8] in that the
111 server does not need to save state (cache session keys).
112 Furthermore, an additional benefit is that Kerberos tickets can
113 facilitate delegation (see [9]).
115 3. Proposed Extensions
117 This section describes extensions to RFC 1510 for supporting the
118 use of public key cryptography in the initial request for a ticket
119 granting ticket (TGT).
121 In summary, the following change to RFC 1510 is proposed:
123 * Users may authenticate using either a public key pair or a
124 conventional (symmetric) key. If public key cryptography is
125 used, public key data is transported in preauthentication
126 data fields to help establish identity. The user presents
127 a public key certificate and obtains an ordinary TGT that may
128 be used for subsequent authentication, with such
129 authentication using only conventional cryptography.
131 Section 3.1 provides definitions to help specify message formats.
132 Section 3.2 describes the extensions for the initial authentication
137 The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we introduce
138 the following preauthentication types:
143 The extensions also involve new error types; we introduce the
146 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62
147 KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63
148 KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG 64
149 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65
150 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66
151 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70
152 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71
153 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72
154 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73
155 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74
156 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75
157 KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76
159 We utilize the following typed data for errors:
161 TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101
164 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
165 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
167 We utilize the following encryption types (which map directly to
171 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
172 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
174 rsaEncryption-EnvOID (PKCS#1 v1.5) 13
175 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID (PKCS#1 v2.0) 14
176 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
178 These mappings are provided so that a client may send the
179 appropriate enctypes in the AS-REQ message in order to indicate
180 support for the corresponding OIDs (for performing PKINIT).
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 RFC1510.
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 [14] (part of LDAPv3 [18]).
200 To ensure that this encoding is unique, we add the following rule
201 to those specified by RFC 2253:
203 The order in which the attributes appear in the RFC 2253
204 encoding MUST be the reverse of the order in the ASN.1
205 encoding of the X.500 name that appears in the public key
206 certificate. The order of the relative distinguished names
207 (RDNs), as well as the order of the AttributeTypeAndValues
208 within each RDN, will be reversed. (This is despite the fact
209 that an RDN is defined as a SET of AttributeTypeAndValues, where
210 an order is normally not important.)
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 1510 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 RFC 1510 specifies the ASN.1 structure for PrincipalName as follows:
233 PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
234 name-type[0] INTEGER,
235 name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
238 The following rules relate to the the matching of PrincipalNames
239 with regard to the PKI name constraints for CAs as laid out in RFC
240 2459 [15]. In order to be regarded as a match (for permitted and
241 excluded name trees), the following MUST be satisfied.
243 1. If the constraint is given as a user plus realm name, or
244 as a client principal name plus realm name (as specified in
245 RFC 1510), the realm name MUST be valid (see 2.a-d below)
246 and the match MUST be exact, byte for byte.
248 2. If the constraint is given only as a realm name, matching
249 depends on the type of the realm:
251 a. If the realm contains a colon (':') before any equal
252 sign ('='), it is treated as a realm of type Other,
253 and MUST match exactly, byte for byte.
255 b. Otherwise, if the realm name conforms to rules regarding
256 the format of DNS names, it is considered a realm name of
257 type Domain. The constraint may be given as a realm
258 name 'FOO.BAR', which matches any PrincipalName within
259 the realm 'FOO.BAR' but not those in subrealms such as
260 'CAR.FOO.BAR'. A constraint of the form '.FOO.BAR'
261 matches PrincipalNames in subrealms of the form
262 'CAR.FOO.BAR' but not the realm 'FOO.BAR' itself.
264 c. Otherwise, the realm name is invalid and does not match
265 under any conditions.
267 3.1.1. Encryption and Key Formats
269 In the exposition below, we use the terms public key and private
270 key generically. It should be understood that the term "public
271 key" may be used to refer to either a public encryption key or a
272 signature verification key, and that the term "private key" may be
273 used to refer to either a private decryption key or a signature
274 generation key. The fact that these are logically distinct does
275 not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys for RSA
278 In the case of Diffie-Hellman, the key is produced from the agreed
279 bit string as follows:
281 * Truncate the bit string to the appropriate length.
282 * Rectify parity in each byte (if necessary) to obtain the key.
284 For instance, in the case of a DES key, we take the first eight
285 bytes of the bit stream, and then adjust the least significant bit
286 of each byte to ensure that each byte has odd parity.
288 3.1.2. Algorithm Identifiers
290 PKINIT does not define, but does permit, the algorithm identifiers
293 3.1.2.1. Signature Algorithm Identifiers
295 The following signature algorithm identifiers specified in [11] and
296 in [15] are used with PKINIT:
298 id-dsa-with-sha1 (DSA with SHA1)
299 md5WithRSAEncryption (RSA with MD5)
300 sha-1WithRSAEncryption (RSA with SHA1)
302 3.1.2.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Algorithm Identifier
304 The following algorithm identifier shall be used within the
305 SubjectPublicKeyInfo data structure: dhpublicnumber
307 This identifier and the associated algorithm parameters are
308 specified in RFC 2459 [15].
310 3.1.2.3. Algorithm Identifiers for RSA Encryption
312 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
313 structure, for encrypting the temporary key with a public key:
315 rsaEncryption (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v1.5)
316 id-RSAES-OAEP (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v2.0)
318 Both of the above RSA encryption schemes are specified in [16].
319 Currently, only PKCS#1 v1.5 is specified by CMS [11], although the
320 CMS specification says that it will likely include PKCS#1 v2.0 in
321 the future. (PKCS#1 v2.0 addresses adaptive chosen ciphertext
322 vulnerability discovered in PKCS#1 v1.5.)
324 3.1.2.4. Algorithm Identifiers for Encryption with Secret Keys
326 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
327 structure in the PKINIT Reply, for encrypting the reply key with the
329 des-ede3-cbc (3-key 3-DES, CBC mode)
330 rc2-cbc (RC2, CBC mode)
332 The full definition of the above algorithm identifiers and their
333 corresponding parameters (an IV for block chaining) is provided in
334 the CMS specification [11].
336 3.2. Public Key Authentication
338 Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
339 compliance with PKINIT.
341 3.2.1. Client Request
343 Public keys may be signed by some certification authority (CA), or
344 they may be maintained by the KDC in which case the KDC is the
345 trusted authority. Note that the latter mode does not require the
348 The initial authentication request is sent as per RFC 1510, except
349 that a preauthentication field containing data signed by the user's
350 private key accompanies the request:
352 PA-PK-AS-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
354 signedAuthPack [0] SignedData
355 -- Defined in CMS [11];
356 -- AuthPack (below) defines the
357 -- data that is signed.
358 trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF TrustedCas OPTIONAL,
359 -- This is a list of CAs that the
360 -- client trusts and that certify
362 kdcCert [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
363 -- As defined in CMS [11];
364 -- specifies a particular KDC
365 -- certificate if the client
367 encryptionCert [3] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
368 -- For example, this may be the
369 -- client's Diffie-Hellman
370 -- certificate, or it may be the
371 -- client's RSA encryption
375 TrustedCas ::= CHOICE {
376 principalName [0] KerberosName,
379 -- fully qualified X.500 name
380 -- as defined by X.509
381 issuerAndSerial [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber
382 -- Since a CA may have a number of
383 -- certificates, only one of which
389 The SignedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
390 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
391 IETF. The following describes how to fill in the fields of
394 1. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the PKAuthenticator
395 and, optionally, the client's Diffie Hellman public value.
397 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
398 pkauthdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
399 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkauthdata (1)
401 b. The eContent field is data of the type AuthPack (below).
403 2. The signerInfos field contains the signature of AuthPack.
405 3. The Certificates field, when non-empty, contains the client's
406 certificate chain. If present, the KDC uses the public key
407 from the client's certificate to verify the signature in the
408 request. Note that the client may pass different certificate
409 chains that are used for signing or for encrypting. Thus,
410 the KDC may utilize a different client certificate for
411 signature verification than the one it uses to encrypt the
412 reply to the client. For example, the client may place a
413 Diffie-Hellman certificate in this field in order to convey
414 its static Diffie Hellman certificate to the KDC to enable
415 static-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman mode for the reply; in this
416 case, the client does NOT place its public value in the
417 AuthPack (defined below). As another example, the client may
418 place an RSA encryption certificate in this field. However,
419 there MUST always be (at least) a signature certificate.
421 AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
422 pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
423 clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
424 -- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
425 -- (ephemeral-ephemeral only)
428 PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
430 -- for replay prevention as in RFC1510
431 ctime [1] KerberosTime,
432 -- for replay prevention as in RFC1510
434 pachecksum [3] Checksum
435 -- Checksum over KDC-REQ-BODY
436 -- Defined by Kerberos spec
439 SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
440 algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
442 subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
444 -- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
445 -- as payload of BIT STRING)
446 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [10]
448 AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
449 algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
450 -- for dhKeyAgreement, this is
451 -- { iso (1) member-body (2) US (840)
452 -- rsadsi (113459) pkcs (1) 3 1 }
454 parameters ANY DEFINED by algorithm OPTIONAL
455 -- for dhKeyAgreement, this is
457 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [10]
459 DHParameter ::= SEQUENCE {
464 privateValueLength INTEGER OPTIONAL
466 } -- as defined in PKCS #3 [20]
468 If the client passes an issuer and serial number in the request,
469 the KDC is requested to use the referred-to certificate. If none
470 exists, then the KDC returns an error of type
471 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH. It also returns this error if, on the
472 other hand, the client does not pass any trustedCertifiers,
473 believing that it has the KDC's certificate, but the KDC has more
474 than one certificate. The KDC should include information in the
475 KRB-ERROR message that indicates the KDC certificate(s) that a
476 client may utilize. This data is specified in the e-data, which
477 is defined in RFC 1510 revisions as a SEQUENCE of TypedData:
479 TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
480 data-type [0] INTEGER,
481 data-value [1] OCTET STRING,
482 } -- per Kerberos RFC 1510 revisions
485 data-type = TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES = 101
486 data-value = CertificateSet // as specified by CMS [11]
488 The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks, to
489 bind the pre-authentication data to the KDC-REQ-BODY, and to bind the
490 request and response. The PKAuthenticator is signed with the client's
495 Upon receipt of the AS_REQ with PA-PK-AS-REQ pre-authentication
496 type, the KDC attempts to verify the user's certificate chain
497 (userCert), if one is provided in the request. This is done by
498 verifying the certification path against the KDC's policy of
499 legitimate certifiers.
501 If the client's certificate chain contains no certificate signed by
502 a CA trusted by the KDC, then the KDC sends back an error message
503 of type KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying e-data
504 is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS=104)
505 whose data-value is an OCTET STRING which is the DER encoding of
507 TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
508 -- X.500 name encoded as a principal name
511 If while verifying a certificate chain the KDC determines that the
512 signature on one of the certificates in the CertificateSet from
513 the signedAuthPack fails verification, then the KDC returns an
514 error of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying
515 e-data is a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type
516 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX=105) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
517 which is the DER encoding of the index into the CertificateSet
518 ordered as sent by the client.
520 CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
521 -- 0 = 1st certificate,
522 -- (in order of encoding)
523 -- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
525 The KDC may also check whether any of the certificates in the
526 client's chain has been revoked. If one of the certificates has
527 been revoked, then the KDC returns an error of type
528 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE; if such a query reveals that
529 the certificate's revocation status is unknown or not
530 available, then if required by policy, the KDC returns the
531 appropriate error of type KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN or
532 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE. In any of these three
533 cases, the affected certificate is identified by the accompanying
534 e-data, which contains a CertificateIndex as described for
535 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE.
537 If the certificate chain can be verified, but the name of the
538 client in the certificate does not match the client's name in the
539 request, then the KDC returns an error of type
540 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH. There is no accompanying e-data
543 Finally, if the certificate chain is verified, but the KDC's name
544 or realm as given in the PKAuthenticator does not match the KDC's
545 actual principal name, then the KDC returns an error of type
546 KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH. The accompanying e-data field is again
547 a SEQUENCE of one TypedData (with type TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL=102 or
548 TD-KRB-REALM=103 as appropriate) whose data-value is an OCTET
549 STRING whose data-value is the DER encoding of a PrincipalName or
550 Realm as defined in RFC 1510 revisions.
552 Even if all succeeds, the KDC may--for policy reasons--decide not
553 to trust the client. In this case, the KDC returns an error message
554 of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. One specific case of this is
555 the presence or absence of an Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) OID within
556 the certificate extensions. The rules regarding acceptability of
557 an EKU sequence (or the absence of any sequence) are a matter of
558 local policy. For the benefit of implementers, we define a PKINIT
559 EKU OID as the following: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
560 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkekuoid (2).
562 If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
563 signature on AuthPack. If that fails, the KDC returns an error
564 message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses the
565 timestamp (ctime and cusec) in the PKAuthenticator to assure that
566 the request is not a replay. The KDC also verifies that its name
567 is specified in the PKAuthenticator.
569 If the clientPublicValue field is filled in, indicating that the
570 client wishes to use Diffie-Hellman key agreement, then the KDC
571 checks to see that the parameters satisfy its policy. If they do
572 not (e.g., the prime size is insufficient for the expected
573 encryption type), then the KDC sends back an error message of type
574 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. Otherwise, it generates its own public and
575 private values for the response.
577 The KDC also checks that the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator is
578 within the allowable window and that the principal name and realm
579 are correct. If the local (server) time and the client time in the
580 authenticator differ by more than the allowable clock skew, then the
581 KDC returns an error message of type KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW as defined in 1510.
583 Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510, except as
584 follows. The user's name in the ticket is determined by the
585 following decision algorithm:
587 1. If the KDC has a mapping from the name in the certificate
588 to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
590 2. If the certificate contains the SubjectAltName extention
591 and the local KDC policy defines a mapping from the
592 SubjectAltName to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
594 3. Use the name as represented in the certificate, mapping
595 as necessary (e.g., as per RFC 2253 for X.500 names). In
596 this case the realm in the ticket MUST be the name of the
597 certifier that issued the user's certificate.
599 Note that a principal name may be carried in the subjectAltName
600 field of a certificate. This name may be mapped to a principal
601 record in a security database based on local policy, for example
602 the subjectAltName may be kerberos/principal@realm format. In
603 this case the realm name is not that of the CA but that of the
604 local realm doing the mapping (or some realm name chosen by that
607 If a non-KDC X.509 certificate contains the principal name within
608 the subjectAltName version 3 extension, that name may utilize
609 KerberosName as defined below, or, in the case of an S/MIME
610 certificate [17], may utilize the email address. If the KDC
611 is presented with an S/MIME certificate, then the email address
612 within subjectAltName will be interpreted as a principal and realm
613 separated by the "@" sign, or as a name that needs to be mapped
614 according to local policy. If the resulting name does not correspond
615 to a registered principal name, then the principal name is formed as
616 defined in section 3.1.
618 The trustedCertifiers field contains a list of certification
619 authorities trusted by the client, in the case that the client does
620 not possess the KDC's public key certificate. If the KDC has no
621 certificate signed by any of the trustedCertifiers, then it returns
622 an error of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED.
624 KDCs should try to (in order of preference):
625 1. Use the KDC certificate identified by the serialNumber included
626 in the client's request.
627 2. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by one of the client's
629 If the KDC is unable to comply with any of these options, then the
630 KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to the
633 The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
634 with the Diffie Hellman derived key or a random key generated
635 for this particular response which is carried in the padata field of
638 PA-PK-AS-REP ::= CHOICE {
640 dhSignedData [0] SignedData,
641 -- Defined in CMS and used only with
642 -- Diffie-Hellman key exchange (if the
643 -- client public value was present in the
645 -- This choice MUST be supported
646 -- by compliant implementations.
647 encKeyPack [1] EnvelopedData,
649 -- The temporary key is encrypted
650 -- using the client public key
652 -- SignedReplyKeyPack, encrypted
653 -- with the temporary key, is also
659 When the Diffie-Hellman option is used, dhSignedData in
660 PA-PK-AS-REP provides authenticated Diffie-Hellman parameters
661 of the KDC. The reply key used to encrypt part of the KDC reply
662 message is derived from the Diffie-Hellman exchange:
664 1. Both the KDC and the client calculate a secret value
665 (g^ab mod p), where a is the client's private exponent and
666 b is the KDC's private exponent.
668 2. Both the KDC and the client take the first N bits of this
669 secret value and convert it into a reply key. N depends on
672 a. For example, if the reply key is DES, N=64 bits, where
673 some of the bits are replaced with parity bits, according
676 b. As another example, if the reply key is (3-key) 3-DES,
677 N=192 bits, where some of the bits are replaced with
678 parity bits, according to FIPS PUB 74.
680 3. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the KdcDHKeyInfo as
683 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
684 pkdhkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
685 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdhkeydata (2)
687 b. The eContent field is data of the type KdcDHKeyInfo
690 4. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
691 necessary for the client to establish trust in the KDC's
692 certificate based on the list of trusted certifiers sent by
693 the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. This field may be empty if
694 the client did not send to the KDC a list of trusted
695 certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning
696 that the client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
698 5. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at least
699 one member, since it contains the actual signature.
701 KdcDHKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
702 -- used only when utilizing Diffie-Hellman
704 -- binds responce to the request
705 subjectPublicKey [2] BIT STRING
706 -- Equals public exponent (g^a mod p)
707 -- INTEGER encoded as payload of
711 Usage of EnvelopedData:
713 The EnvelopedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
714 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
715 IETF. It contains a temporary key encrypted with the PKINIT
716 client's public key. It also contains a signed and encrypted
719 1. The originatorInfo field is not required, since that
720 information may be presented in the signedData structure
721 that is encrypted within the encryptedContentInfo field.
723 2. The optional unprotectedAttrs field is not required for
726 3. The recipientInfos field is a SET which MUST contain exactly
727 one member of the KeyTransRecipientInfo type for encryption
730 a. The encryptedKey field (in KeyTransRecipientInfo)
731 contains the temporary key which is encrypted with the
732 PKINIT client's public key.
734 4. The encryptedContentInfo field contains the signed and
737 a. The contentType field MUST contain the OID value for
738 id-signedData: iso (1) member-body (2) us (840)
739 rsadsi (113549) pkcs (1) pkcs7 (7) signedData (2)
741 b. The encryptedContent field is encrypted data of the CMS
742 type signedData as specified below.
744 i. The encapContentInfo field MUST contains the
747 * The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value
748 for pkrkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
749 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkrkeydata (3)
751 * The eContent field is data of the type ReplyKeyPack
754 ii. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
755 necessary for the client to establish trust in the
756 KDC's certificate based on the list of trusted
757 certifiers sent by the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ.
758 This field may be empty if the client did not send
759 to the KDC a list of trusted certifiers (the
760 trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning that the
761 client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
763 iii. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at
764 least one member, since it contains the actual
767 ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
768 -- not used for Diffie-Hellman
769 replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
771 -- used to encrypt main reply
772 -- ENCTYPE is at least as strong as
773 -- ENCTYPE of session key
775 -- binds response to the request
776 -- must be same as the nonce
777 -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
781 3.2.2.1. Use of transited Field
783 Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
784 certificate is equivalent to a separate Kerberos realm, the name
785 of each certifier in the certificate chain MUST be added to the
786 transited field of the ticket. The format of these realm names is
787 defined in Section 3.1 of this document. If applicable, the
788 transit-policy-checked flag should be set in the issued ticket.
791 3.2.2.2. Kerberos Names in Certificates
793 The KDC's certificate(s) MUST bind the public key(s) of the KDC to
794 a name derivable from the name of the realm for that KDC. X.509
795 certificates MUST contain the principal name of the KDC
796 (defined in section 8.2 of RFC 1510) as the SubjectAltName version
797 3 extension. Below is the definition of this version 3 extension,
798 as specified by the X.509 standard:
800 subjectAltName EXTENSION ::= {
802 IDENTIFIED BY id-ce-subjectAltName
805 GeneralNames ::= SEQUENCE SIZE(1..MAX) OF GeneralName
807 GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
808 otherName [0] OtherName,
812 OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
813 type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
814 value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id
817 For the purpose of specifying a Kerberos principal name, the value
818 in OtherName MUST be a KerberosName as defined in RFC 1510:
820 KerberosName ::= SEQUENCE {
822 principalName [1] PrincipalName
825 This specific syntax is identified within subjectAltName by setting
826 the type-id in OtherName to krb5PrincipalName, where (from the
827 Kerberos specification) we have
829 krb5 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso (1)
836 krb5PrincipalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { krb5 2 }
838 (This specification may also be used to specify a Kerberos name
839 within the user's certificate.) The KDC's certificate may be signed
840 directly by a CA, or there may be intermediaries if the server resides
841 within a large organization, or it may be unsigned if the client
842 indicates possession (and trust) of the KDC's certificate.
844 Note that the KDC's principal name has the instance equal to the
845 realm, and those fields should be appropriately set in the realm
846 and principalName fields of the KerberosName. This is the case
847 even when obtaining a cross-realm ticket using PKINIT.
850 3.2.3. Client Extraction of Reply
852 The client then extracts the random key used to encrypt the main
853 reply. This random key (in encPaReply) is encrypted with either the
854 client's public key or with a key derived from the DH values
855 exchanged between the client and the KDC. The client uses this
856 random key to decrypt the main reply, and subsequently proceeds as
857 described in RFC 1510.
859 3.2.4. Required Algorithms
861 Not all of the algorithms in the PKINIT protocol specification have
862 to be implemented in order to comply with the proposed standard.
863 Below is a list of the required algorithms:
865 * Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs
866 * utilizing Diffie-Hellman ephemeral-ephemeral mode
867 * SHA1 digest and DSA for signatures
868 * SHA1 digest also for the Checksum in the PKAuthenticator
869 * 3-key triple DES keys derived from the Diffie-Hellman Exchange
870 * 3-key triple DES Temporary and Reply keys
872 4. Logistics and Policy
874 This section describes a way to define the policy on the use of
875 PKINIT for each principal and request.
877 The KDC is not required to contain a database record for users
878 who use public key authentication. However, if these users are
879 registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database record
880 for these users be modified to an additional flag in the attributes
881 field to indicate that the user should authenticate using PKINIT.
882 If this flag is set and a request message does not contain the
883 PKINIT preauthentication field, then the KDC sends back as error of
884 type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a preauthentication
885 field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the request.
887 5. Security Considerations
889 PKINIT raises a few security considerations, which we will address
892 First of all, PKINIT introduces a new trust model, where KDCs do not
893 (necessarily) certify the identity of those for whom they issue
894 tickets. PKINIT does allow KDCs to act as their own CAs, in the
895 limited capacity of self-signing their certificates, but one of the
896 additional benefits is to align Kerberos authentication with a global
897 public key infrastructure. Anyone using PKINIT in this way must be
898 aware of how the certification infrastructure they are linking to
901 Secondly, PKINIT also introduces the possibility of interactions
902 between different cryptosystems, which may be of widely varying
903 strengths. Many systems, for instance, allow the use of 512-bit
904 public keys. Using such keys to wrap data encrypted under strong
905 conventional cryptosystems, such as triple-DES, is inappropriate;
906 it adds a weak link to a strong one at extra cost. Implementors
907 and administrators should take care to avoid such wasteful and
908 deceptive interactions.
910 Lastly, PKINIT calls for randomly generated keys for conventional
911 cryptosystems. Many such systems contain systematically "weak"
912 keys. PKINIT implementations MUST avoid use of these keys, either
913 by discarding those keys when they are generated, or by fixing them
914 in some way (e.g., by XORing them with a given mask). These
915 precautions vary from system to system; it is not our intention to
916 give an explicit recipe for them here.
920 Certificate chains can potentially grow quite large and span several
921 UDP packets; this in turn increases the probability that a Kerberos
922 message involving PKINIT extensions will be broken in transit. In
923 light of the possibility that the Kerberos specification will
924 require KDCs to accept requests using TCP as a transport mechanism,
925 we make the same recommendation with respect to the PKINIT
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967 [11] R. Housley. Cryptographic Message Syntax.
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972 An RSA Laboratories Technical Note Version 1.5
973 Revised November 1, 1993
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985 Key Infrastructure, Certificate and CRL Profile, January 1999.
986 Request for Comments 2459.
988 [16] B. Kaliski, J. Staddon. PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography
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998 [19] ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Information Processing Systems - Open
999 Systems Interconnection - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation
1000 One (ASN.1) Rec. X.680 ISO/IEC 8824-1
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1003 Laboratories Technical Note, Version 1.4, Revised November 1, 1993.
1007 Some of the ideas on which this proposal is based arose during
1008 discussions over several years between members of the SAAG, the IETF
1009 CAT working group, and the PSRG, regarding integration of Kerberos
1010 and SPX. Some ideas have also been drawn from the DASS system.
1011 These changes are by no means endorsed by these groups. This is an
1012 attempt to revive some of the goals of those groups, and this
1013 proposal approaches those goals primarily from the Kerberos
1014 perspective. Lastly, comments from groups working on similar ideas
1015 in DCE have been invaluable.
1019 This draft expires August 31, 2001.
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