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41 issues to be discussed. Some, but not all of these issues, are
42 highlighted in comments in the draft. We hope to resolve these issues
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44 during the Pittsburgh IETF on a section by section basis, since this
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51 This document provides an overview and specification of Version 5 of the
52 Kerberos protocol, and updates RFC1510 to clarify aspects of the protocol
53 and its intended use that require more detailed or clearer explanation than
54 was provided in RFC1510. This document is intended to provide a detailed
55 description of the protocol, suitable for implementation, together with
56 descriptions of the appropriate use of protocol messages and fields within
59 This document is not intended to describe Kerberos to the end user, system
60 administrator, or application developer. Higher level papers describing
61 Version 5 of the Kerberos system [NT94] and documenting version 4 [SNS88],
62 are available elsewhere.
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75 This INTERNET-DRAFT describes the concepts and model upon which the
76 Kerberos network authentication system is based. It also specifies Version
77 5 of the Kerberos protocol.
79 The motivations, goals, assumptions, and rationale behind most design
80 decisions are treated cursorily; they are more fully described in a paper
81 available in IEEE communications [NT94] and earlier in the Kerberos portion
82 of the Athena Technical Plan [MNSS87]. The protocols have been a proposed
83 standard and are being considered for advancement for draft standard
84 through the IETF standard process. Comments are encouraged on the
85 presentation, but only minor refinements to the protocol as implemented or
86 extensions that fit within current protocol framework will be considered at
89 Requests for addition to an electronic mailing list for discussion of
90 Kerberos, kerberos@MIT.EDU, may be addressed to kerberos-request@MIT.EDU.
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92 comp.protocols.kerberos. Requests for further information, including
93 documents and code availability, may be sent to info-kerberos@MIT.EDU.
97 The Kerberos model is based in part on Needham and Schroeder's trusted
98 third-party authentication protocol [NS78] and on modifications suggested
99 by Denning and Sacco [DS81]. The original design and implementation of
100 Kerberos Versions 1 through 4 was the work of two former Project Athena
101 staff members, Steve Miller of Digital Equipment Corporation and Clifford
102 Neuman (now at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of
103 Southern California), along with Jerome Saltzer, Technical Director of
104 Project Athena, and Jeffrey Schiller, MIT Campus Network Manager. Many
105 other members of Project Athena have also contributed to the work on
108 Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol (described in this document) has evolved
109 from Version 4 based on new requirements and desires for features not
110 available in Version 4. The design of Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol
111 was led by Clifford Neuman and John Kohl with much input from the
112 community. The development of the MIT reference implementation was led at
113 MIT by John Kohl and Theodore T'so, with help and contributed code from
114 many others. Since RFC1510 was issued, extensions and revisions to the
115 protocol have been proposed by many individuals. Some of these proposals
116 are reflected in this document. Where such changes involved significant
117 effort, the document cites the contribution of the proposer.
119 Reference implementations of both version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos are
120 publicly available and commercial implementations have been developed and
121 are widely used. Details on the differences between Kerberos Versions 4 and
122 5 can be found in [KNT92].
126 Kerberos provides a means of verifying the identities of principals, (e.g.
127 a workstation user or a network server) on an open (unprotected) network.
128 This is accomplished without relying on assertions by the host operating
129 system, without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical
130 security of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that
131 packets traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at
132 will[1]. Kerberos performs authentication under these conditions as a
133 trusted third-party authentication service by using conventional (shared
134 secret key [2] cryptography. Kerberos extensions have been proposed and
135 implemented that provide for the use of public key cryptography during
136 certain phases of the authentication protocol. These extensions provide for
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146 authentication of users registered with public key certification
147 authorities, and allow the system to provide certain benefits of public key
148 cryptography in situations where they are needed.
150 The basic Kerberos authentication process proceeds as follows: A client
151 sends a request to the authentication server (AS) requesting 'credentials'
152 for a given server. The AS responds with these credentials, encrypted in
153 the client's key. The credentials consist of 1) a 'ticket' for the server
154 and 2) a temporary encryption key (often called a "session key"). The
155 client transmits the ticket (which contains the client's identity and a
156 copy of the session key, all encrypted in the server's key) to the server.
157 The session key (now shared by the client and server) is used to
158 authenticate the client, and may optionally be used to authenticate the
159 server. It may also be used to encrypt further communication between the
160 two parties or to exchange a separate sub-session key to be used to encrypt
161 further communication.
163 Implementation of the basic protocol consists of one or more authentication
164 servers running on physically secure hosts. The authentication servers
165 maintain a database of principals (i.e., users and servers) and their
166 secret keys. Code libraries provide encryption and implement the Kerberos
167 protocol. In order to add authentication to its transactions, a typical
168 network application adds one or two calls to the Kerberos library directly
169 or through the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface,
170 GSSAPI, described in separate document. These calls result in the
171 transmission of the necessary messages to achieve authentication.
173 The Kerberos protocol consists of several sub-protocols (or exchanges).
174 There are two basic methods by which a client can ask a Kerberos server for
175 credentials. In the first approach, the client sends a cleartext request
176 for a ticket for the desired server to the AS. The reply is sent encrypted
177 in the client's secret key. Usually this request is for a ticket-granting
178 ticket (TGT) which can later be used with the ticket-granting server (TGS).
179 In the second method, the client sends a request to the TGS. The client
180 uses the TGT to authenticate itself to the TGS in the same manner as if it
181 were contacting any other application server that requires Kerberos
182 authentication. The reply is encrypted in the session key from the TGT.
183 Though the protocol specification describes the AS and the TGS as separate
184 servers, they are implemented in practice as different protocol entry
185 points within a single Kerberos server.
187 Once obtained, credentials may be used to verify the identity of the
188 principals in a transaction, to ensure the integrity of messages exchanged
189 between them, or to preserve privacy of the messages. The application is
190 free to choose whatever protection may be necessary.
192 To verify the identities of the principals in a transaction, the client
193 transmits the ticket to the application server. Since the ticket is sent
194 "in the clear" (parts of it are encrypted, but this encryption doesn't
195 thwart replay) and might be intercepted and reused by an attacker,
196 additional information is sent to prove that the message originated with
197 the principal to whom the ticket was issued. This information (called the
198 authenticator) is encrypted in the session key, and includes a timestamp.
199 The timestamp proves that the message was recently generated and is not a
200 replay. Encrypting the authenticator in the session key proves that it was
201 generated by a party possessing the session key. Since no one except the
202 requesting principal and the server know the session key (it is never sent
203 over the network in the clear) this guarantees the identity of the client.
205 The integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can also be
206 guaranteed using the session key (passed in the ticket and contained in the
207 credentials). This approach provides detection of both replay attacks and
208 message stream modification attacks. It is accomplished by generating and
209 transmitting a collision-proof checksum (elsewhere called a hash or digest
210 function) of the client's message, keyed with the session key. Privacy and
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220 integrity of the messages exchanged between principals can be secured by
221 encrypting the data to be passed using the session key contained in the
222 ticket or the subsession key found in the authenticator.
224 The authentication exchanges mentioned above require read-only access to
225 the Kerberos database. Sometimes, however, the entries in the database must
226 be modified, such as when adding new principals or changing a principal's
227 key. This is done using a protocol between a client and a third Kerberos
228 server, the Kerberos Administration Server (KADM). There is also a protocol
229 for maintaining multiple copies of the Kerberos database. Neither of these
230 protocols are described in this document.
232 1.1. Cross-Realm Operation
234 The Kerberos protocol is designed to operate across organizational
235 boundaries. A client in one organization can be authenticated to a server
236 in another. Each organization wishing to run a Kerberos server establishes
237 its own 'realm'. The name of the realm in which a client is registered is
238 part of the client's name, and can be used by the end-service to decide
239 whether to honor a request.
241 By establishing 'inter-realm' keys, the administrators of two realms can
242 allow a client authenticated in the local realm to prove its identity to
243 servers in other realms[3]. The exchange of inter-realm keys (a separate
244 key may be used for each direction) registers the ticket-granting service
245 of each realm as a principal in the other realm. A client is then able to
246 obtain a ticket-granting ticket for the remote realm's ticket-granting
247 service from its local realm. When that ticket-granting ticket is used, the
248 remote ticket-granting service uses the inter-realm key (which usually
249 differs from its own normal TGS key) to decrypt the ticket-granting ticket,
250 and is thus certain that it was issued by the client's own TGS. Tickets
251 issued by the remote ticket-granting service will indicate to the
252 end-service that the client was authenticated from another realm.
254 A realm is said to communicate with another realm if the two realms share
255 an inter-realm key, or if the local realm shares an inter-realm key with an
256 intermediate realm that communicates with the remote realm. An
257 authentication path is the sequence of intermediate realms that are
258 transited in communicating from one realm to another.
260 Realms are typically organized hierarchically. Each realm shares a key with
261 its parent and a different key with each child. If an inter-realm key is
262 not directly shared by two realms, the hierarchical organization allows an
263 authentication path to be easily constructed. If a hierarchical
264 organization is not used, it may be necessary to consult a database in
265 order to construct an authentication path between realms.
267 Although realms are typically hierarchical, intermediate realms may be
268 bypassed to achieve cross-realm authentication through alternate
269 authentication paths (these might be established to make communication
270 between two realms more efficient). It is important for the end-service to
271 know which realms were transited when deciding how much faith to place in
272 the authentication process. To facilitate this decision, a field in each
273 ticket contains the names of the realms that were involved in
274 authenticating the client.
276 The application server is ultimately responsible for accepting or rejecting
277 authentication and should check the transited field. The application server
278 may choose to rely on the KDC for the application server's realm to check
279 the transited field. The application server's KDC will set the
280 TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag in this case. The KDC's for intermediate
281 realms may also check the transited field as they issue
282 ticket-granting-tickets for other realms, but they are encouraged not to do
283 so. A client may request that the KDC's not check the transited field by
284 setting the DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK flag. KDC's are encouraged but not
285 required to honor this flag.
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297 realm a service is in? Something like:
299 The client may not immediately know what realm a particular service
300 principal is in. There are 2 basic mechanisms that can be used to
301 determine the realm of a service. The first requires that the client
302 fully specify the service principal including the realm in the
303 Kerberos protocol request. If the Kerberos server for the specified
304 realm does not have a principal that exactly matches the service in
305 the request, the Kerberos server will return an error indicating that
306 the service principal was not found. Alternatively the client can make
307 a request providing just the service principal name and requesting
308 name canonicalization from the Kerberos server. The Kerberos server
309 will attempt to locate a service principal in its database that best
310 matches the request principal or provide a referral to another
311 Kerberos realm that may be contain the requested service principal.
315 As an authentication service, Kerberos provides a means of verifying the
316 identity of principals on a network. Authentication is usually useful
317 primarily as a first step in the process of authorization, determining
318 whether a client may use a service, which objects the client is allowed to
319 access, and the type of access allowed for each. Kerberos does not, by
320 itself, provide authorization. Possession of a client ticket for a service
321 provides only for authentication of the client to that service, and in the
322 absence of a separate authorization procedure, it should not be considered
323 by an application as authorizing the use of that service.
325 Such separate authorization methods may be implemented as application
326 specific access control functions and may be based on files such as the
327 application server, or on separately issued authorization credentials such
328 as those based on proxies [Neu93], or on other authorization services.
329 Separately authenticated authorization credentials may be embedded in a
330 tickets authorization data when encapsulated by the kdc-issued
331 authorization data element.
333 Applications should not be modified to accept the mere issuance of a
334 service ticket by the Kerberos server (even by a modified Kerberos server)
335 as granting authority to use the service, since such applications may
336 become vulnerable to the bypass of this authorization check in an
337 environment if they interoperate with other KDCs or where other options for
338 application authentication (e.g. the PKTAPP proposal) are provided.
340 1.3. Environmental assumptions
342 Kerberos imposes a few assumptions on the environment in which it can
345 * 'Denial of service' attacks are not solved with Kerberos. There are
346 places in these protocols where an intruder can prevent an application
347 from participating in the proper authentication steps. Detection and
348 solution of such attacks (some of which can appear to be nnot-uncommon
349 'normal' failure modes for the system) is usually best left to the
350 human administrators and users.
351 * Principals must keep their secret keys secret. If an intruder somehow
352 steals a principal's key, it will be able to masquerade as that
353 principal or impersonate any server to the legitimate principal.
354 * 'Password guessing' attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user
355 chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to
356 successfully mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly
357 attempting to decrypt, with successive entries from a dictionary,
358 messages obtained which are encrypted under a key derived from the
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369 * Each host on the network must have a clock which is 'loosely
370 synchronized' to the time of the other hosts; this synchronization is
371 used to reduce the bookkeeping needs of application servers when they
372 do replay detection. The degree of "looseness" can be configured on a
373 per-server basis, but is typically on the order of 5 minutes. If the
374 clocks are synchronized over the network, the clock synchronization
375 protocol must itself be secured from network attackers.
376 * Principal identifiers are not recycled on a short-term basis. A
377 typical mode of access control will use access control lists (ACLs) to
378 grant permissions to particular principals. If a stale ACL entry
379 remains for a deleted principal and the principal identifier is
380 reused, the new principal will inherit rights specified in the stale
381 ACL entry. By not re-using principal identifiers, the danger of
382 inadvertent access is removed.
384 1.4. Glossary of terms
386 Below is a list of terms used throughout this document.
389 Verifying the claimed identity of a principal.
390 Authentication header
391 A record containing a Ticket and an Authenticator to be presented to a
392 server as part of the authentication process.
394 A sequence of intermediate realms transited in the authentication
395 process when communicating from one realm to another.
397 A record containing information that can be shown to have been
398 recently generated using the session key known only by the client and
401 The process of determining whether a client may use a service, which
402 objects the client is allowed to access, and the type of access
405 A token that grants the bearer permission to access an object or
406 service. In Kerberos, this might be a ticket whose use is restricted
407 by the contents of the authorization data field, but which lists no
408 network addresses, together with the session key necessary to use the
411 The output of an encryption function. Encryption transforms plaintext
414 A process that makes use of a network service on behalf of a user.
415 Note that in some cases a Server may itself be a client of some other
416 server (e.g. a print server may be a client of a file server).
418 A ticket plus the secret session key necessary to successfully use
419 that ticket in an authentication exchange.
421 Key Distribution Center, a network service that supplies tickets and
422 temporary session keys; or an instance of that service or the host on
423 which it runs. The KDC services both initial ticket and
424 ticket-granting ticket requests. The initial ticket portion is
425 sometimes referred to as the Authentication Server (or service). The
426 ticket-granting ticket portion is sometimes referred to as the
427 ticket-granting server (or service).
429 Aside from the 3-headed dog guarding Hades, the name given to Project
430 Athena's authentication service, the protocol used by that service, or
431 the code used to implement the authentication service.
433 The input to an encryption function or the output of a decryption
434 function. Decryption transforms ciphertext into plaintext.
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445 A uniquely named client or server instance that participates in a
446 network communication.
448 The name used to uniquely identify each different principal.
450 To encipher a record containing several fields in such a way that the
451 fields cannot be individually replaced without either knowledge of the
452 encryption key or leaving evidence of tampering.
454 An encryption key shared by a principal and the KDC, distributed
455 outside the bounds of the system, with a long lifetime. In the case of
456 a human user's principal, the secret key is derived from a password.
458 A particular Principal which provides a resource to network clients.
459 The server is sometimes refered to as the Application Server.
461 A resource provided to network clients; often provided by more than
462 one server (for example, remote file service).
464 A temporary encryption key used between two principals, with a
465 lifetime limited to the duration of a single login "session".
467 A temporary encryption key used between two principals, selected and
468 exchanged by the principals using the session key, and with a lifetime
469 limited to the duration of a single association.
471 A record that helps a client authenticate itself to a server; it
472 contains the client's identity, a session key, a timestamp, and other
473 information, all sealed using the server's secret key. It only serves
474 to authenticate a client when presented along with a fresh
477 2. Ticket flag uses and requests
479 Each Kerberos ticket contains a set of flags which are used to indicate
480 various attributes of that ticket. Most flags may be requested by a client
481 when the ticket is obtained; some are automatically turned on and off by a
482 Kerberos server as required. The following sections explain what the
483 various flags mean, and gives examples of reasons to use such a flag.
485 2.1. Initial and pre-authenticated tickets
487 The INITIAL flag indicates that a ticket was issued using the AS protocol
488 and not issued based on a ticket-granting ticket. Application servers that
489 want to require the demonstrated knowledge of a client's secret key (e.g. a
490 password-changing program) can insist that this flag be set in any tickets
491 they accept, and thus be assured that the client's key was recently
492 presented to the application client.
494 The PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags provide addition information about the
495 initial authentication, regardless of whether the current ticket was issued
496 directly (in which case INITIAL will also be set) or issued on the basis of
497 a ticket-granting ticket (in which case the INITIAL flag is clear, but the
498 PRE-AUTHENT and HW-AUTHENT flags are carried forward from the
499 ticket-granting ticket).
503 The INVALID flag indicates that a ticket is invalid. Application servers
504 must reject tickets which have this flag set. A postdated ticket will
505 usually be issued in this form. Invalid tickets must be validated by the
506 KDC before use, by presenting them to the KDC in a TGS request with the
507 VALIDATE option specified. The KDC will only validate tickets after their
508 starttime has passed. The validation is required so that postdated tickets
509 which have been stolen before their starttime can be rendered permanently
510 invalid (through a hot-list mechanism) (see section 3.3.3.1).
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521 2.3. Renewable tickets
523 Applications may desire to hold tickets which can be valid for long periods
524 of time. However, this can expose their credentials to potential theft for
525 equally long periods, and those stolen credentials would be valid until the
526 expiration time of the ticket(s). Simply using short-lived tickets and
527 obtaining new ones periodically would require the client to have long-term
528 access to its secret key, an even greater risk. Renewable tickets can be
529 used to mitigate the consequences of theft. Renewable tickets have two
530 "expiration times": the first is when the current instance of the ticket
531 expires, and the second is the latest permissible value for an individual
532 expiration time. An application client must periodically (i.e. before it
533 expires) present a renewable ticket to the KDC, with the RENEW option set
534 in the KDC request. The KDC will issue a new ticket with a new session key
535 and a later expiration time. All other fields of the ticket are left
536 unmodified by the renewal process. When the latest permissible expiration
537 time arrives, the ticket expires permanently. At each renewal, the KDC may
538 consult a hot-list to determine if the ticket had been reported stolen
539 since its last renewal; it will refuse to renew such stolen tickets, and
540 thus the usable lifetime of stolen tickets is reduced.
542 The RENEWABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
543 ticket-granting service (discussed below in section 3.3). It can usually be
544 ignored by application servers. However, some particularly careful
545 application servers may wish to disallow renewable tickets.
547 If a renewable ticket is not renewed by its expiration time, the KDC will
548 not renew the ticket. The RENEWABLE flag is reset by default, but a client
549 may request it be set by setting the RENEWABLE option in the KRB_AS_REQ
550 message. If it is set, then the renew-till field in the ticket contains the
551 time after which the ticket may not be renewed.
553 2.4. Postdated tickets
555 Applications may occasionally need to obtain tickets for use much later,
556 e.g. a batch submission system would need tickets to be valid at the time
557 the batch job is serviced. However, it is dangerous to hold valid tickets
558 in a batch queue, since they will be on-line longer and more prone to
559 theft. Postdated tickets provide a way to obtain these tickets from the KDC
560 at job submission time, but to leave them "dormant" until they are
561 activated and validated by a further request of the KDC. If a ticket theft
562 were reported in the interim, the KDC would refuse to validate the ticket,
563 and the thief would be foiled.
565 The MAY-POSTDATE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
566 ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. This
567 flag must be set in a ticket-granting ticket in order to issue a postdated
568 ticket based on the presented ticket. It is reset by default; it may be
569 requested by a client by setting the ALLOW-POSTDATE option in the
570 KRB_AS_REQ message. This flag does not allow a client to obtain a postdated
571 ticket-granting ticket; postdated ticket-granting tickets can only by
572 obtained by requesting the postdating in the KRB_AS_REQ message. The life
573 (endtime-starttime) of a postdated ticket will be the remaining life of the
574 ticket-granting ticket at the time of the request, unless the RENEWABLE
575 option is also set, in which case it can be the full life
576 (endtime-starttime) of the ticket-granting ticket. The KDC may limit how
577 far in the future a ticket may be postdated.
579 The POSTDATED flag indicates that a ticket has been postdated. The
580 application server can check the authtime field in the ticket to see when
581 the original authentication occurred. Some services may choose to reject
582 postdated tickets, or they may only accept them within a certain period
583 after the original authentication. When the KDC issues a POSTDATED ticket,
584 it will also be marked as INVALID, so that the application client must
585 present the ticket to the KDC to be validated before use.
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596 2.5. Proxiable and proxy tickets
598 At times it may be necessary for a principal to allow a service to perform
599 an operation on its behalf. The service must be able to take on the
600 identity of the client, but only for a particular purpose. A principal can
601 allow a service to take on the principal's identity for a particular
602 purpose by granting it a proxy.
604 The process of granting a proxy using the proxy and proxiable flags is used
605 to provide credentials for use with specific services. Though conceptually
606 also a proxy, user's wishing to delegate their identity for ANY purpose
607 must use the ticket forwarding mechanism described in the next section to
608 forward a ticket granting ticket.
610 The PROXIABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
611 ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. When
612 set, this flag tells the ticket-granting server that it is OK to issue a
613 new ticket (but not a ticket-granting ticket) with a different network
614 address based on this ticket. This flag is set if requested by the client
615 on initial authentication. By default, the client will request that it be
616 set when requesting a ticket granting ticket, and reset when requesting any
619 This flag allows a client to pass a proxy to a server to perform a remote
620 request on its behalf, e.g. a print service client can give the print
621 server a proxy to access the client's files on a particular file server in
622 order to satisfy a print request.
624 In order to complicate the use of stolen credentials, Kerberos tickets are
625 usually valid from only those network addresses specifically included in
626 the ticket[4]. When granting a proxy, the client must specify the new
627 network address from which the proxy is to be used, or indicate that the
628 proxy is to be issued for use from any address.
630 The PROXY flag is set in a ticket by the TGS when it issues a proxy ticket.
631 Application servers may check this flag and at their option they may
632 require additional authentication from the agent presenting the proxy in
633 order to provide an audit trail.
635 2.6. Forwardable tickets
637 Authentication forwarding is an instance of a proxy where the service is
638 granted complete use of the client's identity. An example where it might be
639 used is when a user logs in to a remote system and wants authentication to
640 work from that system as if the login were local.
642 The FORWARDABLE flag in a ticket is normally only interpreted by the
643 ticket-granting service. It can be ignored by application servers. The
644 FORWARDABLE flag has an interpretation similar to that of the PROXIABLE
645 flag, except ticket-granting tickets may also be issued with different
646 network addresses. This flag is reset by default, but users may request
647 that it be set by setting the FORWARDABLE option in the AS request when
648 they request their initial ticket- granting ticket.
650 This flag allows for authentication forwarding without requiring the user
651 to enter a password again. If the flag is not set, then authentication
652 forwarding is not permitted, but the same result can still be achieved if
653 the user engages in the AS exchange specifying the requested network
654 addresses and supplies a password.
656 The FORWARDED flag is set by the TGS when a client presents a ticket with
657 the FORWARDABLE flag set and requests a forwarded ticket by specifying the
658 FORWARDED KDC option and supplying a set of addresses for the new ticket.
659 It is also set in all tickets issued based on tickets with the FORWARDED
660 flag set. Application servers may choose to process FORWARDED tickets
661 differently than non-FORWARDED tickets.
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672 2.7 Name canonicalization [JBrezak]
674 If a client does not have the full name information for a principal, it can
675 request that the Kerberos server attempt to lookup the name in its database
676 and return a canonical form of the requested principal or a referral to a
677 realm that has the requested principal in its namespace. Name
678 canonicalization allows a principal to have alternate names. Name
679 canonicalization must not be used to locate principal names supplied from
680 wildcards and is not a mechanism to be used to search a Kerberos database.
682 The CANONICALIZE flag in a ticket request is used to indicate to the
683 Kerberos server that the client will accept an alternative name to the
684 principal in the request or a referral to another realm. Both the AS and
685 TGS must be able to interpret requests with this flag.
687 By using this flag, the client can avoid extensive configuration needed to
688 map specific host names to a particular realm.
690 2.8. Other KDC options
692 There are two additional options which may be set in a client's request of
693 the KDC. The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that the client will accept a
694 renewable ticket if a ticket with the requested life cannot otherwise be
695 provided. If a ticket with the requested life cannot be provided, then the
696 KDC may issue a renewable ticket with a renew-till equal to the the
697 requested endtime. The value of the renew-till field may still be adjusted
698 by site-determined limits or limits imposed by the individual principal or
701 The ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is honored only by the ticket-granting service.
702 It indicates that the ticket to be issued for the end server is to be
703 encrypted in the session key from the a additional second ticket-granting
704 ticket provided with the request. See section 3.3.3 for specific details.
708 The following sections describe the interactions between network clients
709 and servers and the messages involved in those exchanges.
711 3.1. The Authentication Service Exchange
714 Message direction Message type Section
715 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_AS_REQ 5.4.1
716 2. Kerberos to client KRB_AS_REP or 5.4.2
719 The Authentication Service (AS) Exchange between the client and the
720 Kerberos Authentication Server is initiated by a client when it wishes to
721 obtain authentication credentials for a given server but currently holds no
722 credentials. In its basic form, the client's secret key is used for
723 encryption and decryption. This exchange is typically used at the
724 initiation of a login session to obtain credentials for a Ticket-Granting
725 Server which will subsequently be used to obtain credentials for other
726 servers (see section 3.3) without requiring further use of the client's
727 secret key. This exchange is also used to request credentials for services
728 which must not be mediated through the Ticket-Granting Service, but rather
729 require a principal's secret key, such as the password-changing service[5].
730 This exchange does not by itself provide any assurance of the the identity
733 The exchange consists of two messages: KRB_AS_REQ from the client to
734 Kerberos, and KRB_AS_REP or KRB_ERROR in reply. The formats for these
735 messages are described in sections 5.4.1, 5.4.2, and 5.9.1.
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746 In the request, the client sends (in cleartext) its own identity and the
747 identity of the server for which it is requesting credentials. The
748 response, KRB_AS_REP, contains a ticket for the client to present to the
749 server, and a session key that will be shared by the client and the server.
750 The session key and additional information are encrypted in the client's
751 secret key. The KRB_AS_REP message contains information which can be used
752 to detect replays, and to associate it with the message to which it
753 replies. Various errors can occur; these are indicated by an error response
754 (KRB_ERROR) instead of the KRB_AS_REP response. The error message is not
755 encrypted. The KRB_ERROR message contains information which can be used to
756 associate it with the message to which it replies. The lack of encryption
757 in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays,
758 fabrications, or modifications of such messages.
760 Without preautentication, the authentication server does not know whether
761 the client is actually the principal named in the request. It simply sends
762 a reply without knowing or caring whether they are the same. This is
763 acceptable because nobody but the principal whose identity was given in the
764 request will be able to use the reply. Its critical information is
765 encrypted in that principal's key. The initial request supports an optional
766 field that can be used to pass additional information that might be needed
767 for the initial exchange. This field may be used for preauthentication as
768 described in section [hl<>].
770 3.1.1. Generation of KRB_AS_REQ message
772 The client may specify a number of options in the initial request. Among
773 these options are whether pre-authentication is to be performed; whether
774 the requested ticket is to be renewable, proxiable, or forwardable; whether
775 it should be postdated or allow postdating of derivative tickets; whether
776 the client requests name-canonicalization; and whether a renewable ticket
777 will be accepted in lieu of a non-renewable ticket if the requested ticket
778 expiration date cannot be satisfied by a non-renewable ticket (due to
779 configuration constraints; see section 4). See section A.1 for pseudocode.
781 The client prepares the KRB_AS_REQ message and sends it to the KDC.
783 3.1.2. Receipt of KRB_AS_REQ message
785 If all goes well, processing the KRB_AS_REQ message will result in the
786 creation of a ticket for the client to present to the server. The format
787 for the ticket is described in section 5.3.1. The contents of the ticket
788 are determined as follows.
790 3.1.3. Generation of KRB_AS_REP message
792 The authentication server looks up the client and server principals named
793 in the KRB_AS_REQ in its database, extracting their respective keys. If
794 the requested client principal named in the request is not found in its
795 database, then an error message with a KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN is
796 returned. If the request had the CANONICALIZE option set, then the AS can
797 attempt to lookup the client principal name in an alternate database, if it
798 is found an error message with a KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM error code and the
799 cname and crealm in the error message must contain the true client
800 principal name and realm.
802 If required, the server pre-authenticates the request, and if the
803 pre-authentication check fails, an error message with the code
804 KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned. If the server cannot accommodate the
805 requested encryption type, an error message with code KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP
806 is returned. Otherwise it generates a 'random' session key[7].
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817 If there are multiple encryption keys registered for a client in the
818 Kerberos database (or if the key registered supports multiple encryption
819 types; e.g. DES3-CBC-SHA1 and DES3-CBC-SHA1-KD), then the etype field from
820 the AS request is used by the KDC to select the encryption method to be
821 used for encrypting the response to the client. If there is more than one
822 supported, strong encryption type in the etype list, the first valid etype
823 for which an encryption key is available is used. The encryption method
824 used to respond to a TGS request is taken from the keytype of the session
825 key found in the ticket granting ticket.
827 JBrezak - the behavior of PW-SALT, and ETYPE-INFO should be explained
828 here; also about using keys that have different string-to-key
829 functions like AFSsalt
831 When the etype field is present in a KDC request, whether an AS or TGS
832 request, the KDC will attempt to assign the type of the random session key
833 from the list of methods in the etype field. The KDC will select the
834 appropriate type using the list of methods provided together with
835 information from the Kerberos database indicating acceptable encryption
836 methods for the application server. The KDC will not issue tickets with a
837 weak session key encryption type.
839 If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
840 within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
841 option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
842 the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
843 future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
844 been specified then the error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned.
845 Otherwise the requested start time is checked against the policy of the
846 local realm (the administrator might decide to prohibit certain types or
847 ranges of postdated tickets), and if acceptable, the ticket's start time is
848 set as requested and the INVALID flag is set in the new ticket. The
849 postdated ticket must be validated before use by presenting it to the KDC
850 after the start time has been reached.
852 The expiration time of the ticket will be set to the minimum of the
855 * The expiration time (endtime) requested in the KRB_AS_REQ message.
856 * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
857 with the client principal (the authentication server's database
858 includes a maximum ticket lifetime field in each principal's record;
860 * The ticket's start time plus the maximum allowable lifetime associated
861 with the server principal.
862 * The ticket's start time plus the maximum lifetime set by the policy of
865 If the requested expiration time minus the start time (as determined above)
866 is less than a site-determined minimum lifetime, an error message with code
867 KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID is returned. If the requested expiration time for the
868 ticket exceeds what was determined as above, and if the 'RENEWABLE-OK'
869 option was requested, then the 'RENEWABLE' flag is set in the new ticket,
870 and the renew-till value is set as if the 'RENEWABLE' option were requested
871 (the field and option names are described fully in section 5.4.1).
873 If the RENEWABLE option has been requested or if the RENEWABLE-OK option
874 has been set and a renewable ticket is to be issued, then the renew-till
875 field is set to the minimum of:
877 * Its requested value.
878 * The start time of the ticket plus the minimum of the two maximum
879 renewable lifetimes associated with the principals' database entries.
880 * The start time of the ticket plus the maximum renewable lifetime set
881 by the policy of the local realm.
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892 The flags field of the new ticket will have the following options set if
893 they have been requested and if the policy of the local realm allows:
894 FORWARDABLE, MAY-POSTDATE, POSTDATED, PROXIABLE, RENEWABLE. If the new
895 ticket is post-dated (the start time is in the future), its INVALID flag
898 If all of the above succeed, the server formats a KRB_AS_REP message (see
899 section 5.4.2), copying the addresses in the request into the caddr of the
900 response, placing any required pre-authentication data into the padata of
901 the response, and encrypts the ciphertext part in the client's key using
902 the requested encryption method, and sends it to the client. See section
905 3.1.4. Generation of KRB_ERROR message
907 Several errors can occur, and the Authentication Server responds by
908 returning an error message, KRB_ERROR, to the client, with the error-code
909 and e-text fields set to appropriate values. The error message contents and
910 details are described in Section 5.9.1.
912 3.1.5. Receipt of KRB_AS_REP message
914 If the reply message type is KRB_AS_REP, then the client verifies that the
915 cname and crealm fields in the cleartext portion of the reply match what it
916 requested. If any padata fields are present, they may be used to derive the
917 proper secret key to decrypt the message. The client decrypts the encrypted
918 part of the response using its secret key, verifies that the nonce in the
919 encrypted part matches the nonce it supplied in its request (to detect
920 replays). It also verifies that the sname and srealm in the response match
921 those in the request (or are otherwise expected values), and that the host
922 address field is also correct. It then stores the ticket, session key,
923 start and expiration times, and other information for later use. The
924 key-expiration field from the encrypted part of the response may be checked
925 to notify the user of impending key expiration (the client program could
926 then suggest remedial action, such as a password change). See section A.3
929 Proper decryption of the KRB_AS_REP message is not sufficient to verify the
930 identity of the user; the user and an attacker could cooperate to generate
931 a KRB_AS_REP format message which decrypts properly but is not from the
932 proper KDC. If the host wishes to verify the identity of the user, it must
933 require the user to present application credentials which can be verified
934 using a securely-stored secret key for the host. If those credentials can
935 be verified, then the identity of the user can be assured.
937 3.1.6. Receipt of KRB_ERROR message
939 If the reply message type is KRB_ERROR, then the client interprets it as an
940 error and performs whatever application-specific tasks are necessary to
941 recover. If the client set the CANONICALIZE option and a
942 KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM error was returned, the AS request should be retried to
943 the realm and client principal name specified in the error message crealm
944 and cname field respectively.
946 3.2. The Client/Server Authentication Exchange
949 Message direction Message type Section
950 Client to Application server KRB_AP_REQ 5.5.1
951 [optional] Application server to client KRB_AP_REP or 5.5.2
954 The client/server authentication (CS) exchange is used by network
955 applications to authenticate the client to the server and vice versa. The
956 client must have already acquired credentials for the server using the AS
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968 3.2.1. The KRB_AP_REQ message
970 The KRB_AP_REQ contains authentication information which should be part of
971 the first message in an authenticated transaction. It contains a ticket, an
972 authenticator, and some additional bookkeeping information (see section
973 5.5.1 for the exact format). The ticket by itself is insufficient to
974 authenticate a client, since tickets are passed across the network in
975 cleartext[DS90], so the authenticator is used to prevent invalid replay of
976 tickets by proving to the server that the client knows the session key of
977 the ticket and thus is entitled to use the ticket. The KRB_AP_REQ message
978 is referred to elsewhere as the 'authentication header.'
980 3.2.2. Generation of a KRB_AP_REQ message
982 When a client wishes to initiate authentication to a server, it obtains
983 (either through a credentials cache, the AS exchange, or the TGS exchange)
984 a ticket and session key for the desired service. The client may re-use any
985 tickets it holds until they expire. To use a ticket the client constructs a
986 new Authenticator from the the system time, its name, and optionally an
987 application specific checksum, an initial sequence number to be used in
988 KRB_SAFE or KRB_PRIV messages, and/or a session subkey to be used in
989 negotiations for a session key unique to this particular session.
990 Authenticators may not be re-used and will be rejected if replayed to a
991 server[LGDSR87]. If a sequence number is to be included, it should be
992 randomly chosen so that even after many messages have been exchanged it is
993 not likely to collide with other sequence numbers in use.
995 The client may indicate a requirement of mutual authentication or the use
996 of a session-key based ticket by setting the appropriate flag(s) in the
997 ap-options field of the message.
999 The Authenticator is encrypted in the session key and combined with the
1000 ticket to form the KRB_AP_REQ message which is then sent to the end server
1001 along with any additional application-specific information. See section A.9
1004 3.2.3. Receipt of KRB_AP_REQ message
1006 Authentication is based on the server's current time of day (clocks must be
1007 loosely synchronized), the authenticator, and the ticket. Several errors
1008 are possible. If an error occurs, the server is expected to reply to the
1009 client with a KRB_ERROR message. This message may be encapsulated in the
1010 application protocol if its 'raw' form is not acceptable to the protocol.
1011 The format of error messages is described in section 5.9.1.
1013 The algorithm for verifying authentication information is as follows. If
1014 the message type is not KRB_AP_REQ, the server returns the
1015 KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. If the key version indicated by the Ticket in
1016 the KRB_AP_REQ is not one the server can use (e.g., it indicates an old
1017 key, and the server no longer possesses a copy of the old key), the
1018 KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER error is returned. If the USE-SESSION-KEY flag is set
1019 in the ap-options field, it indicates to the server that the ticket is
1020 encrypted in the session key from the server's ticket-granting ticket
1021 rather than its secret key[10]. Since it is possible for the server to be
1022 registered in multiple realms, with different keys in each, the srealm
1023 field in the unencrypted portion of the ticket in the KRB_AP_REQ is used to
1024 specify which secret key the server should use to decrypt that ticket. The
1025 KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY error code is returned if the server doesn't have the
1026 proper key to decipher the ticket.
1028 The ticket is decrypted using the version of the server's key specified by
1029 the ticket. If the decryption routines detect a modification of the ticket
1030 (each encryption system must provide safeguards to detect modified
1031 ciphertext; see section 6), the KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned
1032 (chances are good that different keys were used to encrypt and decrypt).
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1043 The authenticator is decrypted using the session key extracted from the
1044 decrypted ticket. If decryption shows it to have been modified, the
1045 KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. The name and realm of the
1046 client from the ticket are compared against the same fields in the
1047 authenticator. If they don't match, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH error is
1048 returned (they might not match, for example, if the wrong session key was
1049 used to encrypt the authenticator). The addresses in the ticket (if any)
1050 are then searched for an address matching the operating-system reported
1051 address of the client. If no match is found or the server insists on ticket
1052 addresses but none are present in the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error
1055 If the local (server) time and the client time in the authenticator differ
1056 by more than the allowable clock skew (e.g., 5 minutes), the
1057 KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is returned. If the server name, along with the
1058 client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
1059 recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is returned[11]. The
1060 server must remember any authenticator presented within the allowable clock
1061 skew, so that a replay attempt is guaranteed to fail. If a server loses
1062 track of any authenticator presented within the allowable clock skew, it
1063 must reject all requests until the clock skew interval has passed. This
1064 assures that any lost or re-played authenticators will fall outside the
1065 allowable clock skew and can no longer be successfully replayed (If this is
1066 not done, an attacker could conceivably record the ticket and authenticator
1067 sent over the network to a server, then disable the client's host, pose as
1068 the disabled host, and replay the ticket and authenticator to subvert the
1069 authentication.). If a sequence number is provided in the authenticator,
1070 the server saves it for later use in processing KRB_SAFE and/or KRB_PRIV
1071 messages. If a subkey is present, the server either saves it for later use
1072 or uses it to help generate its own choice for a subkey to be returned in a
1075 The server computes the age of the ticket: local (server) time minus the
1076 start time inside the Ticket. If the start time is later than the current
1077 time by more than the allowable clock skew or if the INVALID flag is set in
1078 the ticket, the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV error is returned. Otherwise, if the
1079 current time is later than end time by more than the allowable clock skew,
1080 the KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error is returned.
1082 If all these checks succeed without an error, the server is assured that
1083 the client possesses the credentials of the principal named in the ticket
1084 and thus, the client has been authenticated to the server. See section A.10
1087 Passing these checks provides only authentication of the named principal;
1088 it does not imply authorization to use the named service. Applications must
1089 make a separate authorization decisions based upon the authenticated name
1090 of the user, the requested operation, local acces control information such
1091 as that contained in a .k5login or .k5users file, and possibly a separate
1092 distributed authorization service.
1094 3.2.4. Generation of a KRB_AP_REP message
1096 Typically, a client's request will include both the authentication
1097 information and its initial request in the same message, and the server
1098 need not explicitly reply to the KRB_AP_REQ. However, if mutual
1099 authentication (not only authenticating the client to the server, but also
1100 the server to the client) is being performed, the KRB_AP_REQ message will
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1110 have MUTUAL-REQUIRED set in its ap-options field, and a KRB_AP_REP message
1111 is required in response. As with the error message, this message may be
1112 encapsulated in the application protocol if its "raw" form is not
1113 acceptable to the application's protocol. The timestamp and microsecond
1114 field used in the reply must be the client's timestamp and microsecond
1115 field (as provided in the authenticator)[12]. If a sequence number is to be
1116 included, it should be randomly chosen as described above for the
1117 authenticator. A subkey may be included if the server desires to negotiate
1118 a different subkey. The KRB_AP_REP message is encrypted in the session key
1119 extracted from the ticket. See section A.11 for pseudocode.
1121 3.2.5. Receipt of KRB_AP_REP message
1123 If a KRB_AP_REP message is returned, the client uses the session key from
1124 the credentials obtained for the server[13] to decrypt the message, and
1125 verifies that the timestamp and microsecond fields match those in the
1126 Authenticator it sent to the server. If they match, then the client is
1127 assured that the server is genuine. The sequence number and subkey (if
1128 present) are retained for later use. See section A.12 for pseudocode.
1130 3.2.6. Using the encryption key
1132 After the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP exchange has occurred, the client and
1133 server share an encryption key which can be used by the application. The
1134 'true session key' to be used for KRB_PRIV, KRB_SAFE, or other
1135 application-specific uses may be chosen by the application based on the
1136 subkeys in the KRB_AP_REP message and the authenticator[14]. In some cases,
1137 the use of this session key will be implicit in the protocol; in others the
1138 method of use must be chosen from several alternatives. We leave the
1139 protocol negotiations of how to use the key (e.g. selecting an encryption
1140 or checksum type) to the application programmer; the Kerberos protocol does
1141 not constrain the implementation options, but an example of how this might
1144 One way that an application may choose to negotiate a key to be used for
1145 subequent integrity and privacy protection is for the client to propose a
1146 key in the subkey field of the authenticator. The server can then choose a
1147 key using the proposed key from the client as input, returning the new
1148 subkey in the subkey field of the application reply. This key could then be
1149 used for subsequent communication. To make this example more concrete, if
1150 the encryption method in use required a 56 bit key, and for whatever
1151 reason, one of the parties was prevented from using a key with more than 40
1152 unknown bits, this method would allow the the party which is prevented from
1153 using more than 40 bits to either propose (if the client) an initial key
1154 with a known quantity for 16 of those bits, or to mask 16 of the bits (if
1155 the server) with the known quantity. The application implementor is warned,
1156 however, that this is only an example, and that an analysis of the
1157 particular crytosystem to be used, and the reasons for limiting the key
1158 length, must be made before deciding whether it is acceptable to mask bits
1161 With both the one-way and mutual authentication exchanges, the peers should
1162 take care not to send sensitive information to each other without proper
1163 assurances. In particular, applications that require privacy or integrity
1164 should use the KRB_AP_REP response from the server to client to assure both
1165 client and server of their peer's identity. If an application protocol
1166 requires privacy of its messages, it can use the KRB_PRIV message (section
1167 3.5). The KRB_SAFE message (section 3.4) can be used to assure integrity.
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1178 3.3. The Ticket-Granting Service (TGS) Exchange
1181 Message direction Message type Section
1182 1. Client to Kerberos KRB_TGS_REQ 5.4.1
1183 2. Kerberos to client KRB_TGS_REP or 5.4.2
1186 The TGS exchange between a client and the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server
1187 is initiated by a client when it wishes to obtain authentication
1188 credentials for a given server (which might be registered in a remote
1189 realm), when it wishes to renew or validate an existing ticket, or when it
1190 wishes to obtain a proxy ticket. In the first case, the client must already
1191 have acquired a ticket for the Ticket-Granting Service using the AS
1192 exchange (the ticket-granting ticket is usually obtained when a client
1193 initially authenticates to the system, such as when a user logs in). The
1194 message format for the TGS exchange is almost identical to that for the AS
1195 exchange. The primary difference is that encryption and decryption in the
1196 TGS exchange does not take place under the client's key. Instead, the
1197 session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable ticket, or
1198 sub-session key from an Authenticator is used. As is the case for all
1199 application servers, expired tickets are not accepted by the TGS, so once a
1200 renewable or ticket-granting ticket expires, the client must use a separate
1201 exchange to obtain valid tickets.
1203 The TGS exchange consists of two messages: A request (KRB_TGS_REQ) from the
1204 client to the Kerberos Ticket-Granting Server, and a reply (KRB_TGS_REP or
1205 KRB_ERROR). The KRB_TGS_REQ message includes information authenticating the
1206 client plus a request for credentials. The authentication information
1207 consists of the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) which includes the
1208 client's previously obtained ticket-granting, renewable, or invalid ticket.
1209 In the ticket-granting ticket and proxy cases, the request may include one
1210 or more of: a list of network addresses, a collection of typed
1211 authorization data to be sealed in the ticket for authorization use by the
1212 application server, or additional tickets (the use of which are described
1213 later). The TGS reply (KRB_TGS_REP) contains the requested credentials,
1214 encrypted in the session key from the ticket-granting ticket or renewable
1215 ticket, or if present, in the sub-session key from the Authenticator (part
1216 of the authentication header). The KRB_ERROR message contains an error code
1217 and text explaining what went wrong. The KRB_ERROR message is not
1218 encrypted. The KRB_TGS_REP message contains information which can be used
1219 to detect replays, and to associate it with the message to which it
1220 replies. The KRB_ERROR message also contains information which can be used
1221 to associate it with the message to which it replies, but the lack of
1222 encryption in the KRB_ERROR message precludes the ability to detect replays
1223 or fabrications of such messages.
1225 3.3.1. Generation of KRB_TGS_REQ message
1227 Before sending a request to the ticket-granting service, the client must
1228 determine in which realm the application server is registered[15], if it is
1229 known. If the client does know the service principal name and realm and it
1230 does not already possess a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate
1231 realm, then one must be obtained. This is first attempted by requesting a
1232 ticket-granting ticket for the destination realm from a Kerberos server for
1233 which the client does posess a ticket-granting ticket (using the
1234 KRB_TGS_REQ message recursively). The Kerberos server may return a TGT for
1235 the desired realm in which case one can proceed.
1237 If the client does not know the realm of the service or the true service
1238 principal name, then the CANONICALIZE option must be used in the request.
1239 This will cause the TGS to locate the service principal based on the target
1240 service name in the ticket and return the service principal name in the
1241 response. Alternatively, the Kerberos server may return a TGT for a realm
1242 which is 'closer' to the desired realm (further along the standard
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1252 hierarchical path) or the realm that may contain the requested service
1253 principal name in a request with the CANONCALIZE option set [JBrezak], in
1254 which case this step must be repeated with a Kerberos server in the realm
1255 specified in the returned TGT. If neither are returned, then the request
1256 must be retried with a Kerberos server for a realm higher in the hierarchy.
1257 This request will itself require a ticket-granting ticket for the higher
1258 realm which must be obtained by recursively applying these directions.
1260 Once the client obtains a ticket-granting ticket for the appropriate realm,
1261 it determines which Kerberos servers serve that realm, and contacts one.
1262 The list might be obtained through a configuration file or network service
1263 or it may be generated from the name of the realm; as long as the secret
1264 keys exchanged by realms are kept secret, only denial of service results
1265 from using a false Kerberos server.
1267 As in the AS exchange, the client may specify a number of options in the
1268 KRB_TGS_REQ message. The client prepares the KRB_TGS_REQ message, providing
1269 an authentication header as an element of the padata field, and including
1270 the same fields as used in the KRB_AS_REQ message along with several
1271 optional fields: the enc-authorization-data field for application server
1272 use and additional tickets required by some options.
1274 In preparing the authentication header, the client can select a sub-session
1275 key under which the response from the Kerberos server will be
1276 encrypted[16]. If the sub-session key is not specified, the session key
1277 from the ticket-granting ticket will be used. If the enc-authorization-data
1278 is present, it must be encrypted in the sub-session key, if present, from
1279 the authenticator portion of the authentication header, or if not present,
1280 using the session key from the ticket-granting ticket.
1282 Once prepared, the message is sent to a Kerberos server for the destination
1283 realm. See section A.5 for pseudocode.
1285 3.3.2. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REQ message
1287 The KRB_TGS_REQ message is processed in a manner similar to the KRB_AS_REQ
1288 message, but there are many additional checks to be performed. First, the
1289 Kerberos server must determine which server the accompanying ticket is for
1290 and it must select the appropriate key to decrypt it. For a normal
1291 KRB_TGS_REQ message, it will be for the ticket granting service, and the
1292 TGS's key will be used. If the TGT was issued by another realm, then the
1293 appropriate inter-realm key must be used. If the accompanying ticket is not
1294 a ticket granting ticket for the current realm, but is for an application
1295 server in the current realm, the RENEW, VALIDATE, or PROXY options are
1296 specified in the request, and the server for which a ticket is requested is
1297 the server named in the accompanying ticket, then the KDC will decrypt the
1298 ticket in the authentication header using the key of the server for which
1299 it was issued. If no ticket can be found in the padata field, the
1300 KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
1302 Once the accompanying ticket has been decrypted, the user-supplied checksum
1303 in the Authenticator must be verified against the contents of the request,
1304 and the message rejected if the checksums do not match (with an error code
1305 of KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED) or if the checksum is not keyed or not
1306 collision-proof (with an error code of KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM). If the
1307 checksum type is not supported, the KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP error is
1308 returned. If the authorization-data are present, they are decrypted using
1309 the sub-session key from the Authenticator.
1311 If any of the decryptions indicate failed integrity checks, the
1312 KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is returned. If the CANONICALIZE option is
1313 set in the KRB_TGS_REQ, then the requested service name may not be the true
1314 principal name or the service may not be in the TGS realm.
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1325 3.3.3. Generation of KRB_TGS_REP message
1327 The KRB_TGS_REP message shares its format with the KRB_AS_REP
1328 (KRB_KDC_REP), but with its type field set to KRB_TGS_REP. The detailed
1329 specification is in section 5.4.2.
1331 The response will include a ticket for the requested server. The Kerberos
1332 database is queried to retrieve the record for the requested server
1333 (including the key with which the ticket will be encrypted). If the request
1334 is for a ticket granting ticket for a remote realm, and if no key is shared
1335 with the requested realm, then the Kerberos server will select the realm
1336 "closest" to the requested realm with which it does share a key, and use
1337 that realm instead. If the CANONICALIZE option is set, the TGS may return a
1338 ticket containing the server name of the true service principal. If the
1339 requested server cannot be found in the TGS database, then a TGT for
1340 another trusted realm may be returned instead of a ticket for the service.
1341 This TGT is a referral mechanism to cause the client to retry the request
1342 to the realm of the TGT. These are the only cases where the response for
1343 the KDC will be for a different server than that requested by the client.
1345 By default, the address field, the client's name and realm, the list of
1346 transited realms, the time of initial authentication, the expiration time,
1347 and the authorization data of the newly-issued ticket will be copied from
1348 the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) or renewable ticket. If the transited
1349 field needs to be updated, but the transited type is not supported, the
1350 KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP error is returned.
1352 If the request specifies an endtime, then the endtime of the new ticket is
1353 set to the minimum of (a) that request, (b) the endtime from the TGT, and
1354 (c) the starttime of the TGT plus the minimum of the maximum life for the
1355 application server and the maximum life for the local realm (the maximum
1356 life for the requesting principal was already applied when the TGT was
1357 issued). If the new ticket is to be a renewal, then the endtime above is
1358 replaced by the minimum of (a) the value of the renew_till field of the
1359 ticket and (b) the starttime for the new ticket plus the life
1360 (endtime-starttime) of the old ticket.
1362 If the FORWARDED option has been requested, then the resulting ticket will
1363 contain the addresses specified by the client. This option will only be
1364 honored if the FORWARDABLE flag is set in the TGT. The PROXY option is
1365 similar; the resulting ticket will contain the addresses specified by the
1366 client. It will be honored only if the PROXIABLE flag in the TGT is set.
1367 The PROXY option will not be honored on requests for additional
1368 ticket-granting tickets.
1370 If the requested start time is absent, indicates a time in the past, or is
1371 within the window of acceptable clock skew for the KDC and the POSTDATE
1372 option has not been specified, then the start time of the ticket is set to
1373 the authentication server's current time. If it indicates a time in the
1374 future beyond the acceptable clock skew, but the POSTDATED option has not
1375 been specified or the MAY-POSTDATE flag is not set in the TGT, then the
1376 error KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE is returned. Otherwise, if the
1377 ticket-granting ticket has the MAY-POSTDATE flag set, then the resulting
1378 ticket will be postdated and the requested starttime is checked against the
1379 policy of the local realm. If acceptable, the ticket's start time is set as
1380 requested, and the INVALID flag is set. The postdated ticket must be
1381 validated before use by presenting it to the KDC after the starttime has
1382 been reached. However, in no case may the starttime, endtime, or renew-till
1383 time of a newly-issued postdated ticket extend beyond the renew-till time
1384 of the ticket-granting ticket.
1386 If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been specified and an additional ticket
1387 has been included in the request, the KDC will decrypt the additional
1388 ticket using the key for the server to which the additional ticket was
1389 issued and verify that it is a ticket-granting ticket. If the name of the
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1399 requested server is missing from the request, the name of the client in the
1400 additional ticket will be used. Otherwise the name of the requested server
1401 will be compared to the name of the client in the additional ticket and if
1402 different, the request will be rejected. If the request succeeds, the
1403 session key from the additional ticket will be used to encrypt the new
1404 ticket that is issued instead of using the key of the server for which the
1405 new ticket will be used[17].
1407 If the name of the server in the ticket that is presented to the KDC as
1408 part of the authentication header is not that of the ticket-granting server
1409 itself, the server is registered in the realm of the KDC, and the RENEW
1410 option is requested, then the KDC will verify that the RENEWABLE flag is
1411 set in the ticket, that the INVALID flag is not set in the ticket, and that
1412 the renew_till time is still in the future. If the VALIDATE option is
1413 rqeuested, the KDC will check that the starttime has passed and the INVALID
1414 flag is set. If the PROXY option is requested, then the KDC will check that
1415 the PROXIABLE flag is set in the ticket. If the tests succeed, and the
1416 ticket passes the hotlist check described in the next paragraph, the KDC
1417 will issue the appropriate new ticket.
1419 3.3.3.1. Checking for revoked tickets
1421 Whenever a request is made to the ticket-granting server, the presented
1422 ticket(s) is(are) checked against a hot-list of tickets which have been
1423 canceled. This hot-list might be implemented by storing a range of issue
1424 timestamps for 'suspect tickets'; if a presented ticket had an authtime in
1425 that range, it would be rejected. In this way, a stolen ticket-granting
1426 ticket or renewable ticket cannot be used to gain additional tickets
1427 (renewals or otherwise) once the theft has been reported. Any normal ticket
1428 obtained before it was reported stolen will still be valid (because they
1429 require no interaction with the KDC), but only until their normal
1432 The ciphertext part of the response in the KRB_TGS_REP message is encrypted
1433 in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, if present, or the session
1434 key key from the ticket-granting ticket. It is not encrypted using the
1435 client's secret key. Furthermore, the client's key's expiration date and
1436 the key version number fields are left out since these values are stored
1437 along with the client's database record, and that record is not needed to
1438 satisfy a request based on a ticket-granting ticket. See section A.6 for
1441 3.3.3.2. Encoding the transited field
1443 If the identity of the server in the TGT that is presented to the KDC as
1444 part of the authentication header is that of the ticket-granting service,
1445 but the TGT was issued from another realm, the KDC will look up the
1446 inter-realm key shared with that realm and use that key to decrypt the
1447 ticket. If the ticket is valid, then the KDC will honor the request,
1448 subject to the constraints outlined above in the section describing the AS
1449 exchange. The realm part of the client's identity will be taken from the
1450 ticket-granting ticket. The name of the realm that issued the
1451 ticket-granting ticket will be added to the transited field of the ticket
1452 to be issued. This is accomplished by reading the transited field from the
1453 ticket-granting ticket (which is treated as an unordered set of realm
1454 names), adding the new realm to the set, then constructing and writing out
1455 its encoded (shorthand) form (this may involve a rearrangement of the
1458 Note that the ticket-granting service does not add the name of its own
1459 realm. Instead, its responsibility is to add the name of the previous
1460 realm. This prevents a malicious Kerberos server from intentionally leaving
1461 out its own name (it could, however, omit other realms' names).
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1472 The names of neither the local realm nor the principal's realm are to be
1473 included in the transited field. They appear elsewhere in the ticket and
1474 both are known to have taken part in authenticating the principal. Since
1475 the endpoints are not included, both local and single-hop inter-realm
1476 authentication result in a transited field that is empty.
1478 Because the name of each realm transited is added to this field, it might
1479 potentially be very long. To decrease the length of this field, its
1480 contents are encoded. The initially supported encoding is optimized for the
1481 normal case of inter-realm communication: a hierarchical arrangement of
1482 realms using either domain or X.500 style realm names. This encoding
1483 (called DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS) is now described.
1485 Realm names in the transited field are separated by a ",". The ",", "\",
1486 trailing "."s, and leading spaces (" ") are special characters, and if they
1487 are part of a realm name, they must be quoted in the transited field by
1488 preced- ing them with a "\".
1490 A realm name ending with a "." is interpreted as being prepended to the
1491 previous realm. For example, we can encode traversal of EDU, MIT.EDU,
1492 ATHENA.MIT.EDU, WASHINGTON.EDU, and CS.WASHINGTON.EDU as:
1494 "EDU,MIT.,ATHENA.,WASHINGTON.EDU,CS.".
1496 Note that if ATHENA.MIT.EDU, or CS.WASHINGTON.EDU were end-points, that
1497 they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
1499 "EDU,MIT.,WASHINGTON.EDU"
1501 A realm name beginning with a "/" is interpreted as being appended to the
1502 previous realm[18]. If it is to stand by itself, then it should be preceded
1503 by a space (" "). For example, we can encode traversal of /COM/HP/APOLLO,
1504 /COM/HP, /COM, and /COM/DEC as:
1506 "/COM,/HP,/APOLLO, /COM/DEC".
1508 Like the example above, if /COM/HP/APOLLO and /COM/DEC are endpoints, they
1509 they would not be included in this field, and we would have:
1513 A null subfield preceding or following a "," indicates that all realms
1514 between the previous realm and the next realm have been traversed[19].
1515 Thus, "," means that all realms along the path between the client and the
1516 server have been traversed. ",EDU, /COM," means that that all realms from
1517 the client's realm up to EDU (in a domain style hierarchy) have been
1518 traversed, and that everything from /COM down to the server's realm in an
1519 X.500 style has also been traversed. This could occur if the EDU realm in
1520 one hierarchy shares an inter-realm key directly with the /COM realm in
1523 3.3.4. Receipt of KRB_TGS_REP message
1525 When the KRB_TGS_REP is received by the client, it is processed in the same
1526 manner as the KRB_AS_REP processing described above. The primary difference
1527 is that the ciphertext part of the response must be decrypted using the
1528 session key from the ticket-granting ticket rather than the client's secret
1529 key. The server name returned in the reply is the true principal name of
1530 the service. See section A.7 for pseudocode.
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1541 3.4. The KRB_SAFE Exchange
1543 The KRB_SAFE message may be used by clients requiring the ability to detect
1544 modifications of messages they exchange. It achieves this by including a
1545 keyed collision-proof checksum of the user data and some control
1546 information. The checksum is keyed with an encryption key (usually the last
1547 key negotiated via subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has
1550 3.4.1. Generation of a KRB_SAFE message
1552 When an application wishes to send a KRB_SAFE message, it collects its data
1553 and the appropriate control information and computes a checksum over them.
1554 The checksum algorithm should be a keyed one-way hash function (such as the
1555 RSA- MD5-DES checksum algorithm specified in section 6.4.5, or the DES
1556 MAC), generated using the sub-session key if present, or the session key.
1557 Different algorithms may be selected by changing the checksum type in the
1558 message. Unkeyed or non-collision-proof checksums are not suitable for this
1561 The control information for the KRB_SAFE message includes both a timestamp
1562 and a sequence number. The designer of an application using the KRB_SAFE
1563 message must choose at least one of the two mechanisms. This choice should
1564 be based on the needs of the application protocol.
1566 Sequence numbers are useful when all messages sent will be received by
1567 one's peer. Connection state is presently required to maintain the session
1568 key, so maintaining the next sequence number should not present an
1571 If the application protocol is expected to tolerate lost messages without
1572 them being resent, the use of the timestamp is the appropriate replay
1573 detection mechanism. Using timestamps is also the appropriate mechanism for
1574 multi-cast protocols where all of one's peers share a common sub-session
1575 key, but some messages will be sent to a subset of one's peers.
1577 After computing the checksum, the client then transmits the information and
1578 checksum to the recipient in the message format specified in section 5.6.1.
1580 3.4.2. Receipt of KRB_SAFE message
1582 When an application receives a KRB_SAFE message, it verifies it as follows.
1583 If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
1585 The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and
1586 type fields match the current version and KRB_SAFE, respectively. A
1587 mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error.
1588 The application verifies that the checksum used is a collision-proof keyed
1589 checksum, and if it is not, a KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM error is generated. If
1590 the sender's address was included in the control information, the recipient
1591 verifies that the operating system's report of the sender's address matches
1592 the sender's address in the message, and (if a recipient address is
1593 specified or the recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's
1594 addresses appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match
1595 for either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp
1596 and usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and
1597 usec are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
1598 KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
1599 client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
1600 recently-seen (sent or received[20] ) such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT
1601 error is generated. If an incorrect sequence number is included, or a
1602 sequence number is expected but not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error
1603 is generated. If neither a time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is
1604 present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated. Finally, the checksum is
1605 computed over the data and control information, and if it doesn't match the
1606 received checksum, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error is generated.
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1617 If all the checks succeed, the application is assured that the message was
1618 generated by its peer and was not modi- fied in transit.
1620 3.5. The KRB_PRIV Exchange
1622 The KRB_PRIV message may be used by clients requiring confidentiality and
1623 the ability to detect modifications of exchanged messages. It achieves this
1624 by encrypting the messages and adding control information.
1626 3.5.1. Generation of a KRB_PRIV message
1628 When an application wishes to send a KRB_PRIV message, it collects its data
1629 and the appropriate control information (specified in section 5.7.1) and
1630 encrypts them under an encryption key (usually the last key negotiated via
1631 subkeys, or the session key if no negotiation has occured). As part of the
1632 control information, the client must choose to use either a timestamp or a
1633 sequence number (or both); see the discussion in section 3.4.1 for
1634 guidelines on which to use. After the user data and control information are
1635 encrypted, the client transmits the ciphertext and some 'envelope'
1636 information to the recipient.
1638 3.5.2. Receipt of KRB_PRIV message
1640 When an application receives a KRB_PRIV message, it verifies it as follows.
1641 If any error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application.
1643 The message is first checked by verifying that the protocol version and
1644 type fields match the current version and KRB_PRIV, respectively. A
1645 mismatch generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error.
1646 The application then decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant
1647 plaintext. If decryption shows the data to have been modified, a
1648 KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error is generated. If the sender's address was
1649 included in the control information, the recipient verifies that the
1650 operating system's report of the sender's address matches the sender's
1651 address in the message, and (if a recipient address is specified or the
1652 recipient requires an address) that one of the recipient's addresses
1653 appears as the recipient's address in the message. A failed match for
1654 either case generates a KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. Then the timestamp and
1655 usec and/or the sequence number fields are checked. If timestamp and usec
1656 are expected and not present, or they are present but not current, the
1657 KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is generated. If the server name, along with the
1658 client name, time and microsecond fields from the Authenticator match any
1659 recently-seen such tuples, the KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT error is generated. If an
1660 incorrect sequence number is included, or a sequence number is expected but
1661 not present, the KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER error is generated. If neither a
1662 time-stamp and usec or a sequence number is present, a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED
1665 If all the checks succeed, the application can assume the message was
1666 generated by its peer, and was securely transmitted (without intruders able
1667 to see the unencrypted contents).
1669 3.6. The KRB_CRED Exchange
1671 The KRB_CRED message may be used by clients requiring the ability to send
1672 Kerberos credentials from one host to another. It achieves this by sending
1673 the tickets together with encrypted data containing the session keys and
1674 other information associated with the tickets.
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1685 3.6.1. Generation of a KRB_CRED message
1687 When an application wishes to send a KRB_CRED message it first (using the
1688 KRB_TGS exchange) obtains credentials to be sent to the remote host. It
1689 then constructs a KRB_CRED message using the ticket or tickets so obtained,
1690 placing the session key needed to use each ticket in the key field of the
1691 corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence of the encrypted part of the the
1694 Other information associated with each ticket and obtained during the
1695 KRB_TGS exchange is also placed in the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence
1696 in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message. The current time and, if
1697 specifically required by the application the nonce, s-address, and
1698 r-address fields, are placed in the encrypted part of the KRB_CRED message
1699 which is then encrypted under an encryption key previosuly exchanged in the
1700 KRB_AP exchange (usually the last key negotiated via subkeys, or the
1701 session key if no negotiation has occured).
1703 3.6.2. Receipt of KRB_CRED message
1705 When an application receives a KRB_CRED message, it verifies it. If any
1706 error occurs, an error code is reported for use by the application. The
1707 message is verified by checking that the protocol version and type fields
1708 match the current version and KRB_CRED, respectively. A mismatch generates
1709 a KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION or KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE error. The application then
1710 decrypts the ciphertext and processes the resultant plaintext. If
1711 decryption shows the data to have been modified, a KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY
1714 If present or required, the recipient verifies that the operating system's
1715 report of the sender's address matches the sender's address in the message,
1716 and that one of the recipient's addresses appears as the recipient's
1717 address in the message. A failed match for either case generates a
1718 KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR error. The timestamp and usec fields (and the nonce
1719 field if required) are checked next. If the timestamp and usec are not
1720 present, or they are present but not current, the KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW error is
1723 If all the checks succeed, the application stores each of the new tickets
1724 in its ticket cache together with the session key and other information in
1725 the corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the encrypted part of the
1728 4. The Kerberos Database
1730 The Kerberos server must have access to a database containing the principal
1731 identifiers and secret keys of principals to be authenticated[21].
1733 4.1. Database contents
1735 A database entry should contain at least the following fields:
1739 name Principal's identifier
1740 key Principal's secret key
1741 p_kvno Principal's key version
1742 max_life Maximum lifetime for Tickets
1743 max_renewable_life Maximum total lifetime for renewable Tickets
1745 The name field is an encoding of the principal's identifier. The key field
1746 contains an encryption key. This key is the principal's secret key. (The
1747 key can be encrypted before storage under a Kerberos "master key" to
1748 protect it in case the database is compromised but the master key is not.
1749 In that case, an extra field must be added to indicate the master key
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1759 version used, see below.) The p_kvno field is the key version number of the
1760 principal's secret key. The max_life field contains the maximum allowable
1761 lifetime (endtime - starttime) for any Ticket issued for this principal.
1762 The max_renewable_life field contains the maximum allowable total lifetime
1763 for any renewable Ticket issued for this principal. (See section 3.1 for a
1764 description of how these lifetimes are used in determining the lifetime of
1767 A server may provide KDC service to several realms, as long as the database
1768 representation provides a mechanism to distinguish between principal
1769 records with identifiers which differ only in the realm name.
1771 When an application server's key changes, if the change is routine (i.e.
1772 not the result of disclosure of the old key), the old key should be
1773 retained by the server until all tickets that had been issued using that
1774 key have expired. Because of this, it is possible for several keys to be
1775 active for a single principal. Ciphertext encrypted in a principal's key is
1776 always tagged with the version of the key that was used for encryption, to
1777 help the recipient find the proper key for decryption.
1779 When more than one key is active for a particular principal, the principal
1780 will have more than one record in the Kerberos database. The keys and key
1781 version numbers will differ between the records (the rest of the fields may
1782 or may not be the same). Whenever Kerberos issues a ticket, or responds to
1783 a request for initial authentication, the most recent key (known by the
1784 Kerberos server) will be used for encryption. This is the key with the
1785 highest key version number.
1787 4.2. Additional fields
1789 Project Athena's KDC implementation uses additional fields in its database:
1793 K_kvno Kerberos' key version
1794 expiration Expiration date for entry
1795 attributes Bit field of attributes
1796 mod_date Timestamp of last modification
1797 mod_name Modifying principal's identifier
1799 The K_kvno field indicates the key version of the Kerberos master key under
1800 which the principal's secret key is encrypted.
1802 After an entry's expiration date has passed, the KDC will return an error
1803 to any client attempting to gain tickets as or for the principal. (A
1804 database may want to maintain two expiration dates: one for the principal,
1805 and one for the principal's current key. This allows password aging to work
1806 independently of the principal's expiration date. However, due to the
1807 limited space in the responses, the KDC must combine the key expiration and
1808 principal expiration date into a single value called 'key_exp', which is
1809 used as a hint to the user to take administrative action.)
1811 The attributes field is a bitfield used to govern the operations involving
1812 the principal. This field might be useful in conjunction with user
1813 registration procedures, for site-specific policy implementations (Project
1814 Athena currently uses it for their user registration process controlled by
1815 the system-wide database service, Moira [LGDSR87]), to identify whether a
1816 principal can play the role of a client or server or both, to note whether
1817 a server is appropriate trusted to recieve credentials delegated by a
1818 client, or to identify the 'string to key' conversion algorithm used for a
1819 principal's key[22]. Other bits are used to indicate that certain ticket
1820 options should not be allowed in tickets encrypted under a principal's key
1821 (one bit each): Disallow issuing postdated tickets, disallow issuing
1822 forwardable tickets, disallow issuing tickets based on TGT authentication,
1823 disallow issuing renewable tickets, disallow issuing proxiable tickets, and
1824 disallow issuing tickets for which the principal is the server.
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1835 The mod_date field contains the time of last modification of the entry, and
1836 the mod_name field contains the name of the principal which last modified
1839 4.3. Frequently Changing Fields
1841 Some KDC implementations may wish to maintain the last time that a request
1842 was made by a particular principal. Information that might be maintained
1843 includes the time of the last request, the time of the last request for a
1844 ticket-granting ticket, the time of the last use of a ticket-granting
1845 ticket, or other times. This information can then be returned to the user
1846 in the last-req field (see section 5.2).
1848 Other frequently changing information that can be maintained is the latest
1849 expiration time for any tickets that have been issued using each key. This
1850 field would be used to indicate how long old keys must remain valid to
1851 allow the continued use of outstanding tickets.
1855 The KDC implementation should have the following configurable constants or
1856 options, to allow an administrator to make and enforce policy decisions:
1858 * The minimum supported lifetime (used to determine whether the
1859 KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID error should be returned). This constant should
1860 reflect reasonable expectations of round-trip time to the KDC,
1861 encryption/decryption time, and processing time by the client and
1862 target server, and it should allow for a minimum 'useful' lifetime.
1863 * The maximum allowable total (renewable) lifetime of a ticket
1864 (renew_till - starttime).
1865 * The maximum allowable lifetime of a ticket (endtime - starttime).
1866 * Whether to allow the issue of tickets with empty address fields
1867 (including the ability to specify that such tickets may only be issued
1868 if the request specifies some authorization_data).
1869 * Whether proxiable, forwardable, renewable or post-datable tickets are
1872 5. Message Specifications
1874 The following sections describe the exact contents and encoding of protocol
1875 messages and objects. The ASN.1 base definitions are presented in the first
1876 subsection. The remaining subsections specify the protocol objects (tickets
1877 and authenticators) and messages. Specification of encryption and checksum
1878 techniques, and the fields related to them, appear in section 6.
1880 Optional field in ASN.1 sequences
1882 For optional integer value and date fields in ASN.1 sequences where a
1883 default value has been specified, certain default values will not be
1884 allowed in the encoding because these values will always be represented
1885 through defaulting by the absence of the optional field. For example, one
1886 will not send a microsecond zero value because one must make sure that
1887 there is only one way to encode this value.
1889 Additional fields in ASN.1 sequences
1891 Implementations receiving Kerberos messages with additional fields present
1892 in ASN.1 sequences should carry the those fields through, unmodified, when
1893 the message is forwarded. Implementations should not drop such fields if
1894 the sequence is reencoded.
1896 5.1. ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Representation
1898 All uses of ASN.1 in Kerberos shall use the Distinguished Encoding
1899 Representation of the data elements as described in the X.509
1900 specification, section 8.7 [X509-88].
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1911 5.2. ASN.1 Base Definitions
1913 The following ASN.1 base definitions are used in the rest of this section.
1914 Note that since the underscore character (_) is not permitted in ASN.1
1915 names, the hyphen (-) is used in its place for the purposes of ASN.1 names.
1917 Realm ::= GeneralString
1918 PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
1919 name-type[0] INTEGER,
1920 name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
1923 Kerberos realms are encoded as GeneralStrings. Realms shall not contain a
1924 character with the code 0 (the ASCII NUL). Most realms will usually consist
1925 of several components separated by periods (.), in the style of Internet
1926 Domain Names, or separated by slashes (/) in the style of X.500 names.
1927 Acceptable forms for realm names are specified in section 7. A
1928 PrincipalName is a typed sequence of components consisting of the following
1932 This field specifies the type of name that follows. Pre-defined values
1933 for this field are specified in section 7.2. The name-type should be
1934 treated as a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the
1935 same (i.e. at least one of the components, or the realm, must be
1936 different). This constraint may be eliminated in the future.
1938 This field encodes a sequence of components that form a name, each
1939 component encoded as a GeneralString. Taken together, a PrincipalName
1940 and a Realm form a principal identifier. Most PrincipalNames will have
1941 only a few components (typically one or two).
1943 KerberosTime ::= GeneralizedTime
1944 -- Specifying UTC time zone (Z)
1946 The timestamps used in Kerberos are encoded as GeneralizedTimes. An
1947 encoding shall specify the UTC time zone (Z) and shall not include any
1948 fractional portions of the seconds. It further shall not include any
1949 separators. Example: The only valid format for UTC time 6 minutes, 27
1950 seconds after 9 pm on 6 November 1985 is 19851106210627Z.
1952 HostAddress ::= SEQUENCE {
1953 addr-type[0] INTEGER,
1954 address[1] OCTET STRING
1957 HostAddresses ::= SEQUENCE OF HostAddress
1959 The host adddress encodings consists of two fields:
1962 This field specifies the type of address that follows. Pre-defined
1963 values for this field are specified in section 8.1.
1965 This field encodes a single address of type addr-type.
1967 The two forms differ slightly. HostAddress contains exactly one address;
1968 HostAddresses contains a sequence of possibly many addresses.
1970 AuthorizationData ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
1972 ad-data[1] OCTET STRING
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1985 This field contains authorization data to be interpreted according to
1986 the value of the corresponding ad-type field.
1988 This field specifies the format for the ad-data subfield. All negative
1989 values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved
1992 Each sequence of type and data is refered to as an authorization element.
1993 Elements may be application specific, however, there is a common set of
1994 recursive elements that should be understood by all implementations. These
1995 elements contain other elements embedded within them, and the
1996 interpretation of the encapsulating element determines which of the
1997 embedded elements must be interpreted, and which may be ignored.
1998 Definitions for these common elements may be found in Appendix B.
2000 TicketExtensions ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
2002 te-data[1] OCTET STRING
2008 This field contains opaque data that must be caried with the ticket to
2009 support extensions to the Kerberos protocol including but not limited
2010 to some forms of inter-realm key exchange and plaintext authorization
2011 data. See appendix C for some common uses of this field.
2013 This field specifies the format for the te-data subfield. All negative
2014 values are reserved for local use. Non-negative values are reserved
2017 APOptions ::= BIT STRING
2019 -- use-session-key(1),
2020 -- mutual-required(2)
2022 TicketFlags ::= BIT STRING
2035 -- transited-policy-checked(12),
2036 -- ok-as-delegate(13)
2038 KDCOptions ::= BIT STRING io
2044 -- allow-postdate(5),
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2062 -- requestanonymous(14),
2063 -- canonicalize(15),
2064 -- disable-transited-check(26),
2065 -- renewable-ok(27),
2066 -- enc-tkt-in-skey(28),
2070 ASN.1 Bit strings have a length and a value. When used in Kerberos for the
2071 APOptions, TicketFlags, and KDCOptions, the length of the bit string on
2072 generated values should be the smallest number of bits needed to include
2073 the highest order bit that is set (1), but in no case less than 32 bits.
2074 The ASN.1 representation of the bit strings uses unnamed bits, with the
2075 meaning of the individual bits defined by the comments in the specification
2076 above. Implementations should accept values of bit strings of any length
2077 and treat the value of flags corresponding to bits beyond the end of the
2078 bit string as if the bit were reset (0). Comparison of bit strings of
2079 different length should treat the smaller string as if it were padded with
2080 zeros beyond the high order bits to the length of the longer string[23].
2082 LastReq ::= SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
2084 lr-value[1] KerberosTime
2088 This field indicates how the following lr-value field is to be
2089 interpreted. Negative values indicate that the information pertains
2090 only to the responding server. Non-negative values pertain to all
2091 servers for the realm. If the lr-type field is zero (0), then no
2092 information is conveyed by the lr-value subfield. If the absolute
2093 value of the lr-type field is one (1), then the lr-value subfield is
2094 the time of last initial request for a TGT. If it is two (2), then the
2095 lr-value subfield is the time of last initial request. If it is three
2096 (3), then the lr-value subfield is the time of issue for the newest
2097 ticket-granting ticket used. If it is four (4), then the lr-value
2098 subfield is the time of the last renewal. If it is five (5), then the
2099 lr-value subfield is the time of last request (of any type). If it is
2100 (6), then the lr-value subfield is the time when the password will
2103 This field contains the time of the last request. the time must be
2104 interpreted according to the contents of the accompanying lr-type
2107 See section 6 for the definitions of Checksum, ChecksumType, EncryptedData,
2108 EncryptionKey, EncryptionType, and KeyType.
2110 5.3. Tickets and Authenticators
2112 This section describes the format and encryption parameters for tickets and
2113 authenticators. When a ticket or authenticator is included in a protocol
2114 message it is treated as an opaque object.
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2127 A ticket is a record that helps a client authenticate to a service. A
2128 Ticket contains the following information:
2130 Ticket ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
2133 sname[2] PrincipalName,
2134 enc-part[3] EncryptedData,
2135 extensions[4] TicketExtensions OPTIONAL
2138 -- Encrypted part of ticket
2139 EncTicketPart ::= [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
2140 flags[0] TicketFlags,
2141 key[1] EncryptionKey,
2143 cname[3] PrincipalName,
2144 transited[4] TransitedEncoding,
2145 authtime[5] KerberosTime,
2146 starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
2147 endtime[7] KerberosTime,
2148 renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
2149 caddr[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
2150 authorization-data[10] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
2152 -- encoded Transited field
2153 TransitedEncoding ::= SEQUENCE {
2154 tr-type[0] INTEGER, -- must be
2156 contents[1] OCTET STRING
2159 The encoding of EncTicketPart is encrypted in the key shared by Kerberos
2160 and the end server (the server's secret key). See section 6 for the format
2164 This field specifies the version number for the ticket format. This
2165 document describes version number 5.
2167 This field specifies the realm that issued a ticket. It also serves to
2168 identify the realm part of the server's principal identifier. Since a
2169 Kerberos server can only issue tickets for servers within its realm,
2170 the two will always be identical.
2172 This field specifies all components of the name part of the server's
2173 identity, including those parts that identify a specific instance of a
2176 This field holds the encrypted encoding of the EncTicketPart sequence.
2178 This optional field contains a sequence of extentions that may be used
2179 to carry information that must be carried with the ticket to support
2180 several extensions, including but not limited to plaintext
2181 authorization data, tokens for exchanging inter-realm keys, and other
2182 information that must be associated with a ticket for use by the
2183 application server. See Appendix C for definitions of some common
2186 Note that some older versions of Kerberos did not support this field.
2187 Because this is an optional field it will not break older clients, but
2188 older clients might strip this field from the ticket before sending it
2189 to the application server. This limits the usefulness of this ticket
2190 field to environments where the ticket will not be parsed and
2191 reconstructed by these older Kerberos clients.
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2202 If it is known that the client will strip this field from the ticket,
2203 as an interim measure the KDC may append this field to the end of the
2204 enc-part of the ticket and append a traler indicating the lenght of
2205 the appended extensions field. (this paragraph is open for discussion,
2206 including the form of the traler).
2208 This field indicates which of various options were used or requested
2209 when the ticket was issued. It is a bit-field, where the selected
2210 options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected
2211 options and reserved fields being reset (0). Bit 0 is the most
2212 significant bit. The encoding of the bits is specified in section 5.2.
2213 The flags are described in more detail above in section 2. The
2214 meanings of the flags are:
2216 Bit(s) Name Description
2219 Reserved for future expansion of this
2223 The FORWARDABLE flag is normally only
2224 interpreted by the TGS, and can be
2225 ignored by end servers. When set, this
2226 flag tells the ticket-granting server
2227 that it is OK to issue a new ticket-
2228 granting ticket with a different network
2229 address based on the presented ticket.
2232 When set, this flag indicates that the
2233 ticket has either been forwarded or was
2234 issued based on authentication involving
2235 a forwarded ticket-granting ticket.
2238 The PROXIABLE flag is normally only
2239 interpreted by the TGS, and can be
2240 ignored by end servers. The PROXIABLE
2241 flag has an interpretation identical to
2242 that of the FORWARDABLE flag, except
2243 that the PROXIABLE flag tells the
2244 ticket-granting server that only non-
2245 ticket-granting tickets may be issued
2246 with different network addresses.
2249 When set, this flag indicates that a
2253 The MAY-POSTDATE flag is normally only
2254 interpreted by the TGS, and can be
2255 ignored by end servers. This flag tells
2256 the ticket-granting server that a post-
2257 dated ticket may be issued based on this
2258 ticket-granting ticket.
2261 This flag indicates that this ticket has
2262 been postdated. The end-service can
2263 check the authtime field to see when the
2264 original authentication occurred.
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2276 This flag indicates that a ticket is
2277 invalid, and it must be validated by the
2278 KDC before use. Application servers
2279 must reject tickets which have this flag
2283 The RENEWABLE flag is normally only
2284 interpreted by the TGS, and can usually
2285 be ignored by end servers (some particu-
2286 larly careful servers may wish to disal-
2287 low renewable tickets). A renewable
2288 ticket can be used to obtain a replace-
2289 ment ticket that expires at a later
2293 This flag indicates that this ticket was
2294 issued using the AS protocol, and not
2295 issued based on a ticket-granting
2299 This flag indicates that during initial
2300 authentication, the client was authenti-
2301 cated by the KDC before a ticket was
2302 issued. The strength of the pre-
2303 authentication method is not indicated,
2304 but is acceptable to the KDC.
2307 This flag indicates that the protocol
2308 employed for initial authentication
2309 required the use of hardware expected to
2310 be possessed solely by the named client.
2311 The hardware authentication method is
2312 selected by the KDC and the strength of
2313 the method is not indicated.
2315 12 TRANSITED This flag indicates that the KDC for the
2316 POLICY-CHECKED realm has checked the transited field
2317 against a realm defined policy for
2318 trusted certifiers. If this flag is
2319 reset (0), then the application server
2320 must check the transited field itself,
2321 and if unable to do so it must reject
2322 the authentication. If the flag is set
2323 (1) then the application server may skip
2324 its own validation of the transited
2325 field, relying on the validation
2326 performed by the KDC. At its option the
2327 application server may still apply its
2328 own validation based on a separate
2329 policy for acceptance.
2331 13 OK-AS-DELEGATE This flag indicates that the server (not
2332 the client) specified in the ticket has
2333 been determined by policy of the realm
2334 to be a suitable recipient of
2335 delegation. A client can use the
2336 presence of this flag to help it make a
2337 decision whether to delegate credentials
2338 (either grant a proxy or a forwarded
2339 ticket granting ticket) to this server.
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2349 The client is free to ignore the value
2350 of this flag. When setting this flag,
2351 an administrator should consider the
2352 Security and placement of the server on
2353 which the service will run, as well as
2354 whether the service requires the use of
2355 delegated credentials.
2358 This flag indicates that the principal
2359 named in the ticket is a generic princi-
2360 pal for the realm and does not identify
2361 the individual using the ticket. The
2362 purpose of the ticket is only to
2363 securely distribute a session key, and
2364 not to identify the user. Subsequent
2365 requests using the same ticket and ses-
2366 sion may be considered as originating
2367 from the same user, but requests with
2368 the same username but a different ticket
2369 are likely to originate from different
2373 Reserved for future use.
2376 This field exists in the ticket and the KDC response and is used to
2377 pass the session key from Kerberos to the application server and the
2378 client. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
2380 This field contains the name of the realm in which the client is
2381 registered and in which initial authentication took place.
2383 This field contains the name part of the client's principal
2386 This field lists the names of the Kerberos realms that took part in
2387 authenticating the user to whom this ticket was issued. It does not
2388 specify the order in which the realms were transited. See section
2389 3.3.3.2 for details on how this field encodes the traversed realms.
2390 When the names of CA's are to be embedded inthe transited field (as
2391 specified for some extentions to the protocol), the X.500 names of the
2392 CA's should be mapped into items in the transited field using the
2393 mapping defined by RFC2253.
2395 This field indicates the time of initial authentication for the named
2396 principal. It is the time of issue for the original ticket on which
2397 this ticket is based. It is included in the ticket to provide
2398 additional information to the end service, and to provide the
2399 necessary information for implementation of a `hot list' service at
2400 the KDC. An end service that is particularly paranoid could refuse to
2401 accept tickets for which the initial authentication occurred "too far"
2402 in the past. This field is also returned as part of the response from
2403 the KDC. When returned as part of the response to initial
2404 authentication (KRB_AS_REP), this is the current time on the Kerberos
2407 This field in the ticket specifies the time after which the ticket is
2408 valid. Together with endtime, this field specifies the life of the
2409 ticket. If it is absent from the ticket, its value should be treated
2410 as that of the authtime field.
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2421 This field contains the time after which the ticket will not be
2422 honored (its expiration time). Note that individual services may place
2423 their own limits on the life of a ticket and may reject tickets which
2424 have not yet expired. As such, this is really an upper bound on the
2425 expiration time for the ticket.
2427 This field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set
2428 in the flags field. It indicates the maximum endtime that may be
2429 included in a renewal. It can be thought of as the absolute expiration
2430 time for the ticket, including all renewals.
2432 This field in a ticket contains zero (if omitted) or more (if present)
2433 host addresses. These are the addresses from which the ticket can be
2434 used. If there are no addresses, the ticket can be used from any
2435 location. The decision by the KDC to issue or by the end server to
2436 accept zero-address tickets is a policy decision and is left to the
2437 Kerberos and end-service administrators; they may refuse to issue or
2438 accept such tickets. The suggested and default policy, however, is
2439 that such tickets will only be issued or accepted when additional
2440 information that can be used to restrict the use of the ticket is
2441 included in the authorization_data field. Such a ticket is a
2444 Network addresses are included in the ticket to make it harder for an
2445 attacker to use stolen credentials. Because the session key is not
2446 sent over the network in cleartext, credentials can't be stolen simply
2447 by listening to the network; an attacker has to gain access to the
2448 session key (perhaps through operating system security breaches or a
2449 careless user's unattended session) to make use of stolen tickets.
2451 It is important to note that the network address from which a
2452 connection is received cannot be reliably determined. Even if it could
2453 be, an attacker who has compromised the client's workstation could use
2454 the credentials from there. Including the network addresses only makes
2455 it more difficult, not impossible, for an attacker to walk off with
2456 stolen credentials and then use them from a "safe" location.
2458 The authorization-data field is used to pass authorization data from
2459 the principal on whose behalf a ticket was issued to the application
2460 service. If no authorization data is included, this field will be left
2461 out. Experience has shown that the name of this field is confusing,
2462 and that a better name for this field would be restrictions.
2463 Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the name of this field at
2466 This field contains restrictions on any authority obtained on the
2467 basis of authentication using the ticket. It is possible for any
2468 principal in posession of credentials to add entries to the
2469 authorization data field since these entries further restrict what can
2470 be done with the ticket. Such additions can be made by specifying the
2471 additional entries when a new ticket is obtained during the TGS
2472 exchange, or they may be added during chained delegation using the
2473 authorization data field of the authenticator.
2475 Because entries may be added to this field by the holder of
2476 credentials, except when an entry is separately authenticated by
2477 encapulation in the kdc-issued element, it is not allowable for the
2478 presence of an entry in the authorization data field of a ticket to
2479 amplify the priveleges one would obtain from using a ticket.
2481 The data in this field may be specific to the end service; the field
2482 will contain the names of service specific objects, and the rights to
2483 those objects. The format for this field is described in section 5.2.
2484 Although Kerberos is not concerned with the format of the contents of
2485 the sub-fields, it does carry type information (ad-type).
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2496 By using the authorization_data field, a principal is able to issue a
2497 proxy that is valid for a specific purpose. For example, a client
2498 wishing to print a file can obtain a file server proxy to be passed to
2499 the print server. By specifying the name of the file in the
2500 authorization_data field, the file server knows that the print server
2501 can only use the client's rights when accessing the particular file to
2504 A separate service providing authorization or certifying group
2505 membership may be built using the authorization-data field. In this
2506 case, the entity granting authorization (not the authorized entity),
2507 may obtain a ticket in its own name (e.g. the ticket is issued in the
2508 name of a privelege server), and this entity adds restrictions on its
2509 own authority and delegates the restricted authority through a proxy
2510 to the client. The client would then present this authorization
2511 credential to the application server separately from the
2512 authentication exchange. Alternatively, such authorization credentials
2513 may be embedded in the ticket authenticating the authorized entity,
2514 when the authorization is separately authenticated using the
2515 kdc-issued authorization data element (see B.4).
2517 Similarly, if one specifies the authorization-data field of a proxy
2518 and leaves the host addresses blank, the resulting ticket and session
2519 key can be treated as a capability. See [Neu93] for some suggested
2522 The authorization-data field is optional and does not have to be
2523 included in a ticket.
2525 5.3.2. Authenticators
2527 An authenticator is a record sent with a ticket to a server to certify the
2528 client's knowledge of the encryption key in the ticket, to help the server
2529 detect replays, and to help choose a "true session key" to use with the
2530 particular session. The encoding is encrypted in the ticket's session key
2531 shared by the client and the server:
2533 -- Unencrypted authenticator
2534 Authenticator ::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
2535 authenticator-vno[0] INTEGER,
2537 cname[2] PrincipalName,
2538 cksum[3] Checksum OPTIONAL,
2540 ctime[5] KerberosTime,
2541 subkey[6] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
2542 seq-number[7] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
2543 authorization-data[8] AuthorizationData OPTIONAL
2548 This field specifies the version number for the format of the
2549 authenticator. This document specifies version 5.
2551 These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
2554 This field contains a checksum of the the applica- tion data that
2555 accompanies the KRB_AP_REQ.
2557 This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
2558 Its value (before encryption) ranges from 0 to 999999. It often
2559 appears along with ctime. The two fields are used together to specify
2560 a reasonably accurate timestamp.
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2571 This field contains the current time on the client's host.
2573 This field contains the client's choice for an encryption key which is
2574 to be used to protect this specific application session. Unless an
2575 application specifies otherwise, if this field is left out the session
2576 key from the ticket will be used.
2578 This optional field includes the initial sequence number to be used by
2579 the KRB_PRIV or KRB_SAFE messages when sequence numbers are used to
2580 detect replays (It may also be used by application specific messages).
2581 When included in the authenticator this field specifies the initial
2582 sequence number for messages from the client to the server. When
2583 included in the AP-REP message, the initial sequence number is that
2584 for messages from the server to the client. When used in KRB_PRIV or
2585 KRB_SAFE messages, it is incremented by one after each message is
2586 sent. Sequence numbers fall in the range of 0 through 2^32 - 1 and
2587 wrap to zero following the value 2^32 - 1.
2589 For sequence numbers to adequately support the detection of replays
2590 they should be non-repeating, even across connection boundaries. The
2591 initial sequence number should be random and uniformly distributed
2592 across the full space of possible sequence numbers, so that it cannot
2593 be guessed by an attacker and so that it and the successive sequence
2594 numbers do not repeat other sequences.
2596 This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
2597 It is optional and will only appear when additional restrictions are
2598 to be placed on the use of a ticket, beyond those carried in the
2601 5.4. Specifications for the AS and TGS exchanges
2603 This section specifies the format of the messages used in the exchange
2604 between the client and the Kerberos server. The format of possible error
2605 messages appears in section 5.9.1.
2607 5.4.1. KRB_KDC_REQ definition
2609 The KRB_KDC_REQ message has no type of its own. Instead, its type is one of
2610 KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ depending on whether the request is for an
2611 initial ticket or an additional ticket. In either case, the message is sent
2612 from the client to the Authentication Server to request credentials for a
2615 The message fields are:
2617 AS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 10] KDC-REQ
2618 TGS-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 12] KDC-REQ
2620 KDC-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
2622 msg-type[2] INTEGER,
2623 padata[3] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
2624 req-body[4] KDC-REQ-BODY
2627 PA-DATA ::= SEQUENCE {
2628 padata-type[1] INTEGER,
2629 padata-value[2] OCTET STRING,
2630 -- might be encoded AP-REQ
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2642 KDC-REQ-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
2643 kdc-options[0] KDCOptions,
2644 cname[1] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
2645 -- Used only in AS-REQ
2646 realm[2] Realm, -- Server's realm
2647 -- Also client's in AS-REQ
2648 sname[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
2649 from[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
2650 till[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
2651 rtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
2653 etype[8] SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
2655 -- in preference order
2656 addresses[9] HostAddresses OPTIONAL,
2657 enc-authorization-data[10] EncryptedData OPTIONAL,
2658 -- Encrypted AuthorizationData
2660 additional-tickets[11] SEQUENCE OF Ticket OPTIONAL
2663 The fields in this message are:
2666 This field is included in each message, and specifies the protocol
2667 version number. This document specifies protocol version 5.
2669 This field indicates the type of a protocol message. It will almost
2670 always be the same as the application identifier associated with a
2671 message. It is included to make the identifier more readily accessible
2672 to the application. For the KDC-REQ message, this type will be
2673 KRB_AS_REQ or KRB_TGS_REQ.
2675 The padata (pre-authentication data) field contains a sequence of
2676 authentication information which may be needed before credentials can
2677 be issued or decrypted. In the case of requests for additional tickets
2678 (KRB_TGS_REQ), this field will include an element with padata-type of
2679 PA-TGS-REQ and data of an authentication header (ticket-granting
2680 ticket and authenticator). The checksum in the authenticator (which
2681 must be collision-proof) is to be computed over the KDC-REQ-BODY
2682 encoding. In most requests for initial authentication (KRB_AS_REQ) and
2683 most replies (KDC-REP), the padata field will be left out.
2685 This field may also contain information needed by certain extensions
2686 to the Kerberos protocol. For example, it might be used to initially
2687 verify the identity of a client before any response is returned. When
2688 this field is used to authenticate or pre-authenticate a request, it
2689 should contain a keyed checksum over the KDC-REQ-BODY to bind the
2690 pre-authentication data to rest of the request. The KDC, as a matter
2691 of policy, may decide whether to honor a KDC-REQ which includes any
2692 pre-authentication data that does not contain the checksum field.
2693 PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP defines a pre-authentication data type that is used
2694 for authenticating a client by way of an encrypted timestamp. This is
2695 accomplished with a padata field with padata-type equal to
2696 PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP and padata-value defined as follows (query: the
2697 checksum is new in this definition. If the optional field will break
2698 things we can keep the old PA-ENC-TS-ENC, and define a new alternate
2699 form that includes the checksum). :
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2710 padata-type ::= PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP
2711 padata-value ::= EncryptedData -- PA-ENC-TS-ENC
2713 PA-ENC-TS-ENC ::= SEQUENCE {
2714 patimestamp[0] KerberosTime, -- client's time
2715 pausec[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
2716 pachecksum[2] checksum OPTIONAL
2717 -- keyed checksum of
2721 with patimestamp containing the client's time and pausec containing
2722 the microseconds which may be omitted if a client will not generate
2723 more than one request per second. The ciphertext (padata-value)
2724 consists of the PA-ENC-TS-ENC sequence, encrypted using the client's
2727 [use-specified-kvno item is here for discussion and may be removed] It
2728 may also be used by the client to specify the version of a key that is
2729 being used for accompanying preauthentication, and/or which should be
2730 used to encrypt the reply from the KDC.
2732 PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO ::= Integer
2734 The KDC should only accept and abide by the value of the
2735 use-specified-kvno preauthentication data field when the specified key
2736 is still valid and until use of a new key is confirmed. This situation
2737 is likely to occur primarily during the period during which an updated
2738 key is propagating to other KDC's in a realm.
2740 The padata field can also contain information needed to help the KDC
2741 or the client select the key needed for generating or decrypting the
2742 response. This form of the padata is useful for supporting the use of
2743 certain token cards with Kerberos. The details of such extensions are
2744 specified in separate documents. See [Pat92] for additional uses of
2747 The padata-type element of the padata field indicates the way that the
2748 padata-value element is to be interpreted. Negative values of
2749 padata-type are reserved for unregistered use; non-negative values are
2750 used for a registered interpretation of the element type.
2752 This field is a placeholder delimiting the extent of the remaining
2753 fields. If a checksum is to be calculated over the request, it is
2754 calculated over an encoding of the KDC-REQ-BODY sequence which is
2755 enclosed within the req-body field.
2757 This field appears in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ requests to the
2758 KDC and indicates the flags that the client wants set on the tickets
2759 as well as other information that is to modify the behavior of the
2760 KDC. Where appropriate, the name of an option may be the same as the
2761 flag that is set by that option. Although in most case, the bit in the
2762 options field will be the same as that in the flags field, this is not
2763 guaranteed, so it is not acceptable to simply copy the options field
2764 to the flags field. There are various checks that must be made before
2765 honoring an option anyway.
2767 The kdc_options field is a bit-field, where the selected options are
2768 indicated by the bit being set (1), and the unselected options and
2769 reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding of the bits is specified
2770 in section 5.2. The options are described in more detail above in
2771 section 2. The meanings of the options are:
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2782 Bit(s) Name Description
2784 Reserved for future expansion of
2789 The FORWARDABLE option indicates
2791 the ticket to be issued is to have
2793 forwardable flag set. It may only
2795 set on the initial request, or in a
2797 sequent request if the
2799 ticket on which it is based is also
2804 The FORWARDED option is only
2808 server and will only be honored if
2810 ticket-granting ticket in the
2812 has its FORWARDABLE bit set.
2814 option indicates that this is a
2816 for forwarding. The address(es) of
2818 host from which the resulting ticket
2820 to be valid are included in
2822 addresses field of the request.
2825 The PROXIABLE option indicates that
2827 ticket to be issued is to have its
2829 iable flag set. It may only be set
2831 the initial request, or in a
2833 request if the ticket-granting ticket
2835 which it is based is also proxiable.
2838 The PROXY option indicates that this
2840 a request for a proxy. This option
2842 only be honored if the
2844 ticket in the request has its
2846 bit set. The address(es) of the
2848 from which the resulting ticket is to
2850 valid are included in the
2852 field of the request.
2855 The ALLOW-POSTDATE option indicates
2857 the ticket to be issued is to have
2859 MAY-POSTDATE flag set. It may only
2861 set on the initial request, or in a
2863 sequent request if the
2865 ticket on which it is based also has
2867 MAY-POSTDATE flag set.
2870 The POSTDATED option indicates that
2872 is a request for a postdated
2874 This option will only be honored if
2876 ticket-granting ticket on which it
2878 based has its MAY-POSTDATE flag
2880 The resulting ticket will also have
2882 INVALID flag set, and that flag may
2884 reset by a subsequent request to the
2886 after the starttime in the ticket
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2900 This option is presently unused.
2903 The RENEWABLE option indicates that
2905 ticket to be issued is to have
2907 RENEWABLE flag set. It may only be
2909 on the initial request, or when
2911 ticket-granting ticket on which
2913 request is based is also renewable.
2915 this option is requested, then the
2917 field in the request contains
2919 desired absolute expiration time for
2924 Reserved for PK-Cross
2927 These options are presently unused.
2929 14 REQUEST-ANONYMOUS
2930 The REQUEST-ANONYMOUS option
2932 that the ticket to be issued is not
2934 identify the user to which it
2936 issued. Instead, the principal
2938 ier is to be generic, as specified
2940 the policy of the realm (e.g.
2942 anonymous@realm). The purpose of
2944 ticket is only to securely distribute
2946 session key, and not to identify
2948 user. The ANONYMOUS flag on the
2950 to be returned should be set. If
2952 local realms policy does not
2954 anonymous credentials, the request is
2959 The CANONICALIZE option indicates that
2960 the client will accept the return of a
2961 true server name instead of the name
2962 specified in the request. In addition
2963 the client will be able to process
2964 any TGT referrals that will direct
2965 the client to another realm to locate
2966 the requested server. If a KDC does
2967 not support name- canonicalization,
2968 the option is ignored and the
2970 KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN or
2971 KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN error is
2975 Reserved for future use.
2977 26 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK
2978 By default the KDC will check the
2979 transited field of a ticket-granting-
2980 ticket against the policy of the local
2981 realm before it will issue derivative
2982 tickets based on the ticket granting
2983 ticket. If this flag is set in the
2984 request, checking of the transited
2986 is disabled. Tickets issued without
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2997 performance of this check will be
2999 by the reset (0) value of the
3000 TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED flag,
3001 indicating to the application server
3002 that the tranisted field must be
3004 locally. KDC's are encouraged but not
3005 required to honor the
3006 DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK option.
3009 The RENEWABLE-OK option indicates that
3011 renewable ticket will be acceptable if
3013 ticket with the requested life
3015 otherwise be provided. If a ticket
3017 the requested life cannot be
3019 then a renewable ticket may be
3021 with a renew-till equal to the
3023 requested endtime. The value of
3025 renew-till field may still be limited
3027 local limits, or limits selected by
3029 individual principal or server.
3032 This option is used only by the
3034 granting service. The
3036 option indicates that the ticket for
3038 end server is to be encrypted in
3040 session key from the additional
3042 granting ticket provided.
3045 Reserved for future use.
3048 This option is used only by the
3050 granting service. The RENEW
3052 indicates that the present request
3054 for a renewal. The ticket provided
3056 encrypted in the secret key for
3058 server on which it is valid.
3060 option will only be honored if
3062 ticket to be renewed has its
3064 flag set and if the time in its
3066 till field has not passed. The
3068 to be renewed is passed in the
3070 field as part of the
3075 This option is used only by the
3077 granting service. The VALIDATE
3079 indicates that the request is to
3081 date a postdated ticket. It will
3083 be honored if the ticket presented
3085 postdated, presently has its
3087 flag set, and would be otherwise
3089 at this time. A ticket cannot be
3091 dated before its starttime. The
3093 presented for validation is encrypted
3095 the key of the server for which it
3097 valid and is passed in the padata
3099 as part of the authentication header.
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3111 These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
3112 5.3.1. sname may only be absent when the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is
3113 specified. If absent, the name of the server is taken from the name of
3114 the client in the ticket passed as additional-tickets.
3115 enc-authorization-data
3116 The enc-authorization-data, if present (and it can only be present in
3117 the TGS_REQ form), is an encoding of the desired authorization-data
3118 encrypted under the sub-session key if present in the Authenticator,
3119 or alternatively from the session key in the ticket-granting ticket,
3120 both from the padata field in the KRB_AP_REQ.
3122 This field specifies the realm part of the server's principal
3123 identifier. In the AS exchange, this is also the realm part of the
3124 client's principal identifier. If the CANONICALIZE option is set, the
3125 realm is used as a hint to the KDC for its database lookup.
3127 This field is included in the KRB_AS_REQ and KRB_TGS_REQ ticket
3128 requests when the requested ticket is to be postdated. It specifies
3129 the desired start time for the requested ticket. If this field is
3130 omitted then the KDC should use the current time instead.
3132 This field contains the expiration date requested by the client in a
3133 ticket request. It is optional and if omitted the requested ticket is
3134 to have the maximum endtime permitted according to KDC policy for the
3135 parties to the authentication exchange as limited by expiration date
3136 of the ticket granting ticket or other preauthentication credentials.
3138 This field is the requested renew-till time sent from a client to the
3139 KDC in a ticket request. It is optional.
3141 This field is part of the KDC request and response. It it intended to
3142 hold a random number generated by the client. If the same number is
3143 included in the encrypted response from the KDC, it provides evidence
3144 that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker.
3145 Nonces must never be re-used. Ideally, it should be generated
3146 randomly, but if the correct time is known, it may suffice[25].
3148 This field specifies the desired encryption algorithm to be used in
3151 This field is included in the initial request for tickets, and
3152 optionally included in requests for additional tickets from the
3153 ticket-granting server. It specifies the addresses from which the
3154 requested ticket is to be valid. Normally it includes the addresses
3155 for the client's host. If a proxy is requested, this field will
3156 contain other addresses. The contents of this field are usually copied
3157 by the KDC into the caddr field of the resulting ticket.
3159 Additional tickets may be optionally included in a request to the
3160 ticket-granting server. If the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option has been
3161 specified, then the session key from the additional ticket will be
3162 used in place of the server's key to encrypt the new ticket. When he
3163 ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY option is used for user-to-user authentication, this
3164 addional ticket may be a TGT issued by the local realm or an
3165 inter-realm TGT issued for the current KDC's realm by a remote KDC. If
3166 more than one option which requires additional tickets has been
3167 specified, then the additional tickets are used in the order specified
3168 by the ordering of the options bits (see kdc-options, above).
3170 The application code will be either ten (10) or twelve (12) depending on
3171 whether the request is for an initial ticket (AS-REQ) or for an additional
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3183 The optional fields (addresses, authorization-data and additional-tickets)
3184 are only included if necessary to perform the operation specified in the
3187 It should be noted that in KRB_TGS_REQ, the protocol version number appears
3188 twice and two different message types appear: the KRB_TGS_REQ message
3189 contains these fields as does the authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ) that
3190 is passed in the padata field.
3192 5.4.2. KRB_KDC_REP definition
3194 The KRB_KDC_REP message format is used for the reply from the KDC for
3195 either an initial (AS) request or a subsequent (TGS) request. There is no
3196 message type for KRB_KDC_REP. Instead, the type will be either KRB_AS_REP
3197 or KRB_TGS_REP. The key used to encrypt the ciphertext part of the reply
3198 depends on the message type. For KRB_AS_REP, the ciphertext is encrypted in
3199 the client's secret key, and the client's key version number is included in
3200 the key version number for the encrypted data. For KRB_TGS_REP, the
3201 ciphertext is encrypted in the sub-session key from the Authenticator, or
3202 if absent, the session key from the ticket-granting ticket used in the
3203 request. In that case, no version number will be present in the
3204 EncryptedData sequence.
3206 The KRB_KDC_REP message contains the following fields:
3208 AS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 11] KDC-REP
3209 TGS-REP ::= [APPLICATION 13] KDC-REP
3211 KDC-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
3213 msg-type[1] INTEGER,
3214 padata[2] SEQUENCE OF PA-DATA OPTIONAL,
3216 cname[4] PrincipalName,
3218 enc-part[6] EncryptedData
3221 EncASRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 25[27]] EncKDCRepPart
3222 EncTGSRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 26] EncKDCRepPart
3224 EncKDCRepPart ::= SEQUENCE {
3225 key[0] EncryptionKey,
3226 last-req[1] LastReq,
3228 key-expiration[3] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3229 flags[4] TicketFlags,
3230 authtime[5] KerberosTime,
3231 starttime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3232 endtime[7] KerberosTime,
3233 renew-till[8] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3235 sname[10] PrincipalName,
3236 caddr[11] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
3240 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is either
3241 KRB_AS_REP or KRB_TGS_REP.
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3252 This field is described in detail in section 5.4.1. One possible use
3253 for this field is to encode an alternate "mix-in" string to be used
3254 with a string-to-key algorithm (such as is described in section
3255 6.3.2). This ability is useful to ease transitions if a realm name
3256 needs to change (e.g. when a company is acquired); in such a case all
3257 existing password-derived entries in the KDC database would be flagged
3258 as needing a special mix-in string until the next password change.
3259 crealm, cname, srealm and sname
3260 These fields are the same as those described for the ticket in section
3263 The newly-issued ticket, from section 5.3.1.
3265 This field is a place holder for the ciphertext and related
3266 information that forms the encrypted part of a message. The
3267 description of the encrypted part of the message follows each
3268 appearance of this field. The encrypted part is encoded as described
3271 This field is the same as described for the ticket in section 5.3.1.
3273 This field is returned by the KDC and specifies the time(s) of the
3274 last request by a principal. Depending on what information is
3275 available, this might be the last time that a request for a
3276 ticket-granting ticket was made, or the last time that a request based
3277 on a ticket-granting ticket was successful. It also might cover all
3278 servers for a realm, or just the particular server. Some
3279 implementations may display this information to the user to aid in
3280 discovering unauthorized use of one's identity. It is similar in
3281 spirit to the last login time displayed when logging into timesharing
3284 This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
3286 The key-expiration field is part of the response from the KDC and
3287 specifies the time that the client's secret key is due to expire. The
3288 expiration might be the result of password aging or an account
3289 expiration. This field will usually be left out of the TGS reply since
3290 the response to the TGS request is encrypted in a session key and no
3291 client information need be retrieved from the KDC database. It is up
3292 to the application client (usually the login program) to take
3293 appropriate action (such as notifying the user) if the expiration time
3295 flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till and caddr
3296 These fields are duplicates of those found in the encrypted portion of
3297 the attached ticket (see section 5.3.1), provided so the client may
3298 verify they match the intended request and to assist in proper ticket
3299 caching. If the message is of type KRB_TGS_REP, the caddr field will
3300 only be filled in if the request was for a proxy or forwarded ticket,
3301 or if the user is substituting a subset of the addresses from the
3302 ticket granting ticket. If the client-requested addresses are not
3303 present or not used, then the addresses contained in the ticket will
3304 be the same as those included in the ticket-granting ticket.
3306 5.5. Client/Server (CS) message specifications
3308 This section specifies the format of the messages used for the
3309 authentication of the client to the application server.
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3320 5.5.1. KRB_AP_REQ definition
3322 The KRB_AP_REQ message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
3323 message type KRB_AP_REQ, an options field to indicate any options in use,
3324 and the ticket and authenticator themselves. The KRB_AP_REQ message is
3325 often referred to as the 'authentication header'.
3327 AP-REQ ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
3329 msg-type[1] INTEGER,
3330 ap-options[2] APOptions,
3332 authenticator[4] EncryptedData
3335 APOptions ::= BIT STRING {
3344 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
3347 This field appears in the application request (KRB_AP_REQ) and affects
3348 the way the request is processed. It is a bit-field, where the
3349 selected options are indicated by the bit being set (1), and the
3350 unselected options and reserved fields being reset (0). The encoding
3351 of the bits is specified in section 5.2. The meanings of the options
3354 Bit(s) Name Description
3357 Reserved for future expansion of this
3361 The USE-SESSION-KEY option indicates
3362 that the ticket the client is presenting
3363 to a server is encrypted in the session
3364 key from the server's ticket-granting
3365 ticket. When this option is not speci-
3366 fied, the ticket is encrypted in the
3367 server's secret key.
3370 The MUTUAL-REQUIRED option tells the
3371 server that the client requires mutual
3372 authentication, and that it must respond
3373 with a KRB_AP_REP message.
3376 Reserved for future use.
3379 This field is a ticket authenticating the client to the server.
3381 This contains the authenticator, which includes the client's choice of
3382 a subkey. Its encoding is described in section 5.3.2.
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3393 5.5.2. KRB_AP_REP definition
3395 The KRB_AP_REP message contains the Kerberos protocol version number, the
3396 message type, and an encrypted time- stamp. The message is sent in in
3397 response to an application request (KRB_AP_REQ) where the mutual
3398 authentication option has been selected in the ap-options field.
3400 AP-REP ::= [APPLICATION 15] SEQUENCE {
3402 msg-type[1] INTEGER,
3403 enc-part[2] EncryptedData
3406 EncAPRepPart ::= [APPLICATION 27[29]] SEQUENCE {
3407 ctime[0] KerberosTime,
3409 subkey[2] EncryptionKey OPTIONAL,
3410 seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL
3413 The encoded EncAPRepPart is encrypted in the shared session key of the
3414 ticket. The optional subkey field can be used in an application-arranged
3415 negotiation to choose a per association session key.
3418 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
3421 This field is described above in section 5.4.2.
3423 This field contains the current time on the client's host.
3425 This field contains the microsecond part of the client's timestamp.
3427 This field contains an encryption key which is to be used to protect
3428 this specific application session. See section 3.2.6 for specifics on
3429 how this field is used to negotiate a key. Unless an application
3430 specifies otherwise, if this field is left out, the sub-session key
3431 from the authenticator, or if also left out, the session key from the
3432 ticket will be used.
3434 5.5.3. Error message reply
3436 If an error occurs while processing the application request, the KRB_ERROR
3437 message will be sent in response. See section 5.9.1 for the format of the
3438 error message. The cname and crealm fields may be left out if the server
3439 cannot determine their appropriate values from the corresponding KRB_AP_REQ
3440 message. If the authenticator was decipherable, the ctime and cusec fields
3441 will contain the values from it.
3443 5.6. KRB_SAFE message specification
3445 This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
3446 side (client or server) of an application to send a tamper-proof message to
3447 its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been exchanged (for
3448 example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
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3459 5.6.1. KRB_SAFE definition
3461 The KRB_SAFE message contains user data along with a collision-proof
3462 checksum keyed with the last encryption key negotiated via subkeys, or the
3463 session key if no negotiation has occured. The message fields are:
3465 KRB-SAFE ::= [APPLICATION 20] SEQUENCE {
3467 msg-type[1] INTEGER,
3468 safe-body[2] KRB-SAFE-BODY,
3472 KRB-SAFE-BODY ::= SEQUENCE {
3473 user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
3474 timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3475 usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3476 seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3477 s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
3478 r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
3482 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
3485 This field is a placeholder for the body of the KRB-SAFE message.
3487 This field contains the checksum of the application data. Checksum
3488 details are described in section 6.4. The checksum is computed over
3489 the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence. First, the cksum is zeroed and
3490 the checksum is computed over the encoding of the KRB-SAFE sequence,
3491 then the checksum is set to the result of that computation, and
3492 finally the KRB-SAFE sequence is encoded again.
3494 This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages and contain
3495 the application specific data that is being passed from the sender to
3498 This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV messages. Its contents
3499 are the current time as known by the sender of the message. By
3500 checking the timestamp, the recipient of the message is able to make
3501 sure that it was recently generated, and is not a replay.
3503 This field is part of the KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV headers. It contains
3504 the microsecond part of the timestamp.
3506 This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
3508 This field specifies the address in use by the sender of the message.
3509 It may be omitted if not required by the application protocol. The
3510 application designer considering omission of this field is warned,
3511 that the inclusion of this address prevents some kinds of replay
3512 attacks (e.g., reflection attacks) and that it is only acceptable to
3513 omit this address if there is sufficient information in the integrity
3514 protected part of the application message for the recipient to
3515 unambiguously determine if it was the intended recipient.
3517 This field specifies the address in use by the recipient of the
3518 message. It may be omitted for some uses (such as broadcast
3519 protocols), but the recipient may arbitrarily reject such messages.
3520 This field along with s-address can be used to help detect messages
3521 which have been incorrectly or maliciously delivered to the wrong
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3533 5.7. KRB_PRIV message specification
3535 This section specifies the format of a message that can be used by either
3536 side (client or server) of an application to securely and privately send a
3537 message to its peer. It presumes that a session key has previously been
3538 exchanged (for example, by using the KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages).
3540 5.7.1. KRB_PRIV definition
3542 The KRB_PRIV message contains user data encrypted in the Session Key. The
3545 KRB-PRIV ::= [APPLICATION 21] SEQUENCE {
3547 msg-type[1] INTEGER,
3548 enc-part[3] EncryptedData
3551 EncKrbPrivPart ::= [APPLICATION 28[31]] SEQUENCE {
3552 user-data[0] OCTET STRING,
3553 timestamp[1] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3554 usec[2] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3555 seq-number[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3556 s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL, -- sender's
3558 r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL -- recip's
3563 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
3566 This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbPrivPart sequence encrypted
3567 under the session key[32]. This encrypted encoding is used for the
3568 enc-part field of the KRB-PRIV message. See section 6 for the format
3570 user-data, timestamp, usec, s-address and r-address
3571 These fields are described above in section 5.6.1.
3573 This field is described above in section 5.3.2.
3575 5.8. KRB_CRED message specification
3577 This section specifies the format of a message that can be used to send
3578 Kerberos credentials from one principal to another. It is presented here to
3579 encourage a common mechanism to be used by applications when forwarding
3580 tickets or providing proxies to subordinate servers. It presumes that a
3581 session key has already been exchanged perhaps by using the
3582 KRB_AP_REQ/KRB_AP_REP messages.
3584 5.8.1. KRB_CRED definition
3586 The KRB_CRED message contains a sequence of tickets to be sent and
3587 information needed to use the tickets, including the session key from each.
3588 The information needed to use the tickets is encrypted under an encryption
3589 key previously exchanged or transferred alongside the KRB_CRED message. The
3592 KRB-CRED ::= [APPLICATION 22] SEQUENCE {
3594 msg-type[1] INTEGER, -- KRB_CRED
3595 tickets[2] SEQUENCE OF Ticket,
3596 enc-part[3] EncryptedData
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3608 EncKrbCredPart ::= [APPLICATION 29] SEQUENCE {
3609 ticket-info[0] SEQUENCE OF KrbCredInfo,
3610 nonce[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3611 timestamp[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3612 usec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3613 s-address[4] HostAddress OPTIONAL,
3614 r-address[5] HostAddress OPTIONAL
3617 KrbCredInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
3618 key[0] EncryptionKey,
3619 prealm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
3620 pname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
3621 flags[3] TicketFlags OPTIONAL,
3622 authtime[4] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3623 starttime[5] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3624 endtime[6] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
3625 renew-till[7] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3626 srealm[8] Realm OPTIONAL,
3627 sname[9] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
3628 caddr[10] HostAddresses OPTIONAL
3632 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
3635 These are the tickets obtained from the KDC specifically for use by
3636 the intended recipient. Successive tickets are paired with the
3637 corresponding KrbCredInfo sequence from the enc-part of the KRB-CRED
3640 This field holds an encoding of the EncKrbCredPart sequence encrypted
3641 under the session key shared between the sender and the intended
3642 recipient. This encrypted encoding is used for the enc-part field of
3643 the KRB-CRED message. See section 6 for the format of the ciphertext.
3645 If practical, an application may require the inclusion of a nonce
3646 generated by the recipient of the message. If the same value is
3647 included as the nonce in the message, it provides evidence that the
3648 message is fresh and has not been replayed by an attacker. A nonce
3649 must never be re-used; it should be generated randomly by the
3650 recipient of the message and provided to the sender of the message in
3651 an application specific manner.
3653 These fields specify the time that the KRB-CRED message was generated.
3654 The time is used to provide assurance that the message is fresh.
3655 s-address and r-address
3656 These fields are described above in section 5.6.1. They are used
3657 optionally to provide additional assurance of the integrity of the
3660 This field exists in the corresponding ticket passed by the KRB-CRED
3661 message and is used to pass the session key from the sender to the
3662 intended recipient. The field's encoding is described in section 6.2.
3664 The following fields are optional. If present, they can be associated with
3665 the credentials in the remote ticket file. If left out, then it is assumed
3666 that the recipient of the credentials already knows their value.
3669 The name and realm of the delegated principal identity.
3670 flags, authtime, starttime, endtime, renew-till, srealm, sname, and caddr
3671 These fields contain the values of the correspond- ing fields from the
3672 ticket found in the ticket field. Descriptions of the fields are
3673 identical to the descriptions in the KDC-REP message.
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3684 5.9. Error message specification
3686 This section specifies the format for the KRB_ERROR message. The fields
3687 included in the message are intended to return as much information as
3688 possible about an error. It is not expected that all the information
3689 required by the fields will be available for all types of errors. If the
3690 appropriate information is not available when the message is composed, the
3691 corresponding field will be left out of the message.
3693 Note that since the KRB_ERROR message is only optionally integrity
3694 protected, it is quite possible for an intruder to synthesize or modify
3695 such a message. In particular, this means that unless appropriate integrity
3696 protection mechanisms have been applied to the KRB_ERROR message, the
3697 client should not use any fields in this message for security-critical
3698 purposes, such as setting a system clock or generating a fresh
3699 authenticator. The message can be useful, however, for advising a user on
3700 the reason for some failure.
3702 5.9.1. KRB_ERROR definition
3704 The KRB_ERROR message consists of the following fields:
3706 KRB-ERROR ::= [APPLICATION 30] SEQUENCE {
3708 msg-type[1] INTEGER,
3709 ctime[2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
3710 cusec[3] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3711 stime[4] KerberosTime,
3713 error-code[6] INTEGER,
3714 crealm[7] Realm OPTIONAL,
3715 cname[8] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
3716 realm[9] Realm, -- Correct realm
3717 sname[10] PrincipalName, -- Correct name
3718 e-text[11] GeneralString OPTIONAL,
3719 e-data[12] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
3720 e-cksum[13] Checksum OPTIONAL,
3726 These fields are described above in section 5.4.1. msg-type is
3729 This field is described above in section 5.4.1.
3731 This field is described above in section 5.5.2.
3733 This field contains the current time on the server. It is of type
3736 This field contains the microsecond part of the server's timestamp.
3737 Its value ranges from 0 to 999999. It appears along with stime. The
3738 two fields are used in conjunction to specify a reasonably accurate
3741 This field contains the error code returned by Kerberos or the server
3742 when a request fails. To interpret the value of this field see the
3743 list of error codes in section 8. Implementations are encouraged to
3744 provide for national language support in the display of error
3746 crealm, cname, srealm and sname
3747 These fields are described above in section 5.3.1.
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3758 This field contains additional text to help explain the error code
3759 associated with the failed request (for example, it might include a
3760 principal name which was unknown).
3762 This field contains additional data about the error for use by the
3763 application to help it recover from or handle the error. If present,
3764 this field will contain the encoding of a sequence of TypedData
3765 (TYPED-DATA below), unless the errorcode is KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED,
3766 in which case it will contain the encoding of a sequence of of padata
3767 fields (METHOD-DATA below), each corresponding to an acceptable
3768 pre-authentication method and optionally containing data for the
3771 TYPED-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of TypeData
3772 METHOD-DATA ::= SEQUENCE of PA-DATA
3774 TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
3775 data-type[0] INTEGER,
3776 data-value[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
3779 Note that e-data-types have been reserved for all PA data types
3780 defined prior to July 1999. For the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message,
3781 when using new PA data types defined in July 1999 or later, the
3782 METHOD-DATA sequence must itself be encapsulated in an TypedData
3783 element of type TD-PADATA. All new implementations interpreting the
3784 METHOD-DATA field for the KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED message must accept
3785 a type of TD-PADATA, extract the typed data field and interpret the
3786 use any elements encapsulated in the TD-PADATA elements as if they
3787 were present in the METHOD-DATA sequence.
3789 This field contains an optional checksum for the KRB-ERROR message.
3790 The checksum is calculated over the Kerberos ASN.1 encoding of the
3791 KRB-ERROR message with the checksum absent. The checksum is then added
3792 to the KRB-ERROR structure and the message is re-encoded. The Checksum
3793 should be calculated using the session key from the ticket granting
3794 ticket or service ticket, where available. If the error is in response
3795 to a TGS or AP request, the checksum should be calculated uing the the
3796 session key from the client's ticket. If the error is in response to
3797 an AS request, then the checksum should be calulated using the
3798 client's secret key ONLY if there has been suitable preauthentication
3799 to prove knowledge of the secret key by the client[33]. If a checksum
3800 can not be computed because the key to be used is not available, no
3801 checksum will be included.
3803 6. Encryption and Checksum Specifications
3805 The Kerberos protocols described in this document are designed to use
3806 stream encryption ciphers, which can be simulated using commonly
3807 available block encryption ciphers, such as the Data Encryption
3808 Standard [DES77], and triple DES variants, in conjunction with block
3809 chaining and checksum methods [DESM80]. Encryption is used to prove
3810 the identities of the network entities participating in message
3811 exchanges. The Key Distribution Center for each realm is trusted by
3812 all principals registered in that realm to store a secret key in
3813 confidence. Proof of knowledge of this secret key is used to verify
3814 the authenticity of a principal.
3816 The KDC uses the principal's secret key (in the AS exchange) or a
3817 shared session key (in the TGS exchange) to encrypt responses to
3818 ticket requests; the ability to obtain the secret key or session key
3819 implies the knowledge of the appropriate keys and the identity of the
3820 KDC. The ability of a principal to decrypt the KDC response and
3821 present a Ticket and a properly formed Authenticator (generated with
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3831 the session key from the KDC response) to a service verifies the
3832 identity of the principal; likewise the ability of the service to
3833 extract the session key from the Ticket and prove its knowledge
3834 thereof in a response verifies the identity of the service.
3836 The Kerberos protocols generally assume that the encryption used is
3837 secure from cryptanalysis; however, in some cases, the order of fields
3838 in the encrypted portions of messages are arranged to minimize the
3839 effects of poorly chosen keys. It is still important to choose good
3840 keys. If keys are derived from user-typed passwords, those passwords
3841 need to be well chosen to make brute force attacks more difficult.
3842 Poorly chosen keys still make easy targets for intruders.
3844 The following sections specify the encryption and checksum mechanisms
3845 currently defined for Kerberos. The encodings, chaining, and padding
3846 requirements for each are described. For encryption methods, it is
3847 often desirable to place random information (often referred to as a
3848 confounder) at the start of the message. The requirements for a
3849 confounder are specified with each encryption mechanism.
3851 Some encryption systems use a block-chaining method to improve the the
3852 security characteristics of the ciphertext. However, these chaining
3853 methods often don't provide an integrity check upon decryption. Such
3854 systems (such as DES in CBC mode) must be augmented with a checksum of
3855 the plain-text which can be verified at decryption and used to detect
3856 any tampering or damage. Such checksums should be good at detecting
3857 burst errors in the input. If any damage is detected, the decryption
3858 routine is expected to return an error indicating the failure of an
3859 integrity check. Each encryption type is expected to provide and
3860 verify an appropriate checksum. The specification of each encryption
3861 method sets out its checksum requirements.
3863 Finally, where a key is to be derived from a user's password, an
3864 algorithm for converting the password to a key of the appropriate type
3865 is included. It is desirable for the string to key function to be
3866 one-way, and for the mapping to be different in different realms. This
3867 is important because users who are registered in more than one realm
3868 will often use the same password in each, and it is desirable that an
3869 attacker compromising the Kerberos server in one realm not obtain or
3870 derive the user's key in another.
3872 For an discussion of the integrity characteristics of the candidate
3873 encryption and checksum methods considered for Kerberos, the reader is
3876 6.1. Encryption Specifications
3878 The following ASN.1 definition describes all encrypted messages. The
3879 enc-part field which appears in the unencrypted part of messages in
3880 section 5 is a sequence consisting of an encryption type, an optional
3881 key version number, and the ciphertext.
3883 EncryptedData ::= SEQUENCE {
3884 etype[0] INTEGER, -- EncryptionType
3885 kvno[1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
3886 cipher[2] OCTET STRING -- ciphertext
3892 This field identifies which encryption algorithm was used to
3893 encipher the cipher. Detailed specifications for selected
3894 encryption types appear later in this section.
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3905 This field contains the version number of the key under which
3906 data is encrypted. It is only present in messages encrypted under
3907 long lasting keys, such as principals' secret keys.
3909 This field contains the enciphered text, encoded as an OCTET
3911 The cipher field is generated by applying the specified encryption
3912 algorithm to data composed of the message and algorithm-specific
3913 inputs. Encryption mechanisms defined for use with Kerberos must take
3914 sufficient measures to guarantee the integrity of the plaintext, and
3915 we recommend they also take measures to protect against precomputed
3916 dictionary attacks. If the encryption algorithm is not itself capable
3917 of doing so, the protections can often be enhanced by adding a
3918 checksum and a confounder.
3920 The suggested format for the data to be encrypted includes a
3921 confounder, a checksum, the encoded plaintext, and any necessary
3922 padding. The msg-seq field contains the part of the protocol message
3923 described in section 5 which is to be encrypted. The confounder,
3924 checksum, and padding are all untagged and untyped, and their length
3925 is exactly sufficient to hold the appropriate item. The type and
3926 length is implicit and specified by the particular encryption type
3927 being used (etype). The format for the data to be encrypted for some
3928 methods is described in the following diagram, but other methods may
3929 deviate from this layour - so long as the definition of the method
3930 defines the layout actually in use.
3932 +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
3933 |confounder | check | msg-seq | pad |
3934 +-----------+----------+-------------+-----+
3936 The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
3937 ASN.1-like notation:
3939 CipherText ::= ENCRYPTED SEQUENCE {
3940 confounder[0] UNTAGGED[35] OCTET STRING(conf_length)
3942 check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(checksum_length)
3944 msg-seq[2] MsgSequence,
3945 pad UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(pad_length) OPTIONAL
3948 One generates a random confounder of the appropriate length, placing
3949 it in confounder; zeroes out check; calculates the appropriate
3950 checksum over confounder, check, and msg-seq, placing the result in
3951 check; adds the necessary padding; then encrypts using the specified
3952 encryption type and the appropriate key.
3954 Unless otherwise specified, a definition of an encryption algorithm
3955 that specifies a checksum, a length for the confounder field, or an
3956 octet boundary for padding uses this ciphertext format[36]. Those
3957 fields which are not specified will be omitted.
3959 In the interest of allowing all implementations using a particular
3960 encryption type to communicate with all others using that type, the
3961 specification of an encryption type defines any checksum that is
3962 needed as part of the encryption process. If an alternative checksum
3963 is to be used, a new encryption type must be defined.
3965 Some cryptosystems require additional information beyond the key and
3966 the data to be encrypted. For example, DES, when used in
3967 cipher-block-chaining mode, requires an initialization vector. If
3968 required, the description for each encryption type must specify the
3969 source of such additional information. 6.2. Encryption Keys
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3980 The sequence below shows the encoding of an encryption key:
3982 EncryptionKey ::= SEQUENCE {
3984 keyvalue[1] OCTET STRING
3988 This field specifies the type of encryption that is to be
3989 performed using the key that follows in the keyvalue field. It
3990 will always correspond to the etype to be used to generate or
3991 decode the EncryptedData. In cases when multiple algorithms use a
3992 common kind of key (e.g., if the encryption algorithm uses an
3993 alternate checksum algorithm for an integrity check, or a
3994 different chaining mechanism), the keytype provides information
3995 needed to determine which algorithm is to be used.
3997 This field contains the key itself, encoded as an octet string.
3998 All negative values for the encryption key type are reserved for local
3999 use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
4000 fields and interpreta- tions.
4002 6.3. Encryption Systems
4004 6.3.1. The NULL Encryption System (null)
4006 If no encryption is in use, the encryption system is said to be the
4007 NULL encryption system. In the NULL encryption system there is no
4008 checksum, confounder or padding. The ciphertext is simply the
4009 plaintext. The NULL Key is used by the null encryption system and is
4010 zero octets in length, with keytype zero (0).
4012 6.3.2. DES in CBC mode with a CRC-32 checksum (des-cbc-crc)
4014 The des-cbc-crc encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
4015 Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
4016 [DESM80]. A CRC-32 checksum (described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]) is
4017 applied to the confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in
4018 the cksum field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be
4019 encrypted (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message)
4020 must be padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of
4021 the encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5
4024 Note that, since the CRC-32 checksum is not collision-proof, an
4025 attacker could use a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack to generate
4026 a valid message even if a confounder is used [SG92]. The use of
4027 collision-proof checksums is recommended for environments where such
4028 attacks represent a significant threat. The use of the CRC-32 as the
4029 checksum for ticket or authenticator is no longer mandated as an
4030 interoperability requirement for Kerberos Version 5 Specification 1
4031 (See section 9.1 for specific details).
4033 6.3.3. DES in CBC mode with an MD4 checksum (des-cbc-md4)
4035 The des-cbc-md4 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
4036 Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
4037 [DESM80]. An MD4 checksum (described in [MD492]) is applied to the
4038 confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
4039 field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
4040 (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be
4041 padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption. The details of the
4042 encryption of this data are identical to those for the des-cbc-md5
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4054 6.3.4. DES in CBC mode with an MD5 checksum (des-cbc-md5)
4056 The des-cbc-md5 encryption mode encrypts information under the Data
4057 Encryption Standard [DES77] using the cipher block chaining mode
4058 [DESM80]. An MD5 checksum (described in [MD5-92].) is applied to the
4059 confounder and message sequence (msg-seq) and placed in the cksum
4060 field. DES blocks are 8 bytes. As a result, the data to be encrypted
4061 (the concatenation of confounder, checksum, and message) must be
4062 padded to an 8 byte boundary before encryption.
4064 Plaintext and DES ciphtertext are encoded as blocks of 8 octets which
4065 are concatenated to make the 64-bit inputs for the DES algorithms. The
4066 first octet supplies the 8 most significant bits (with the octet's
4067 MSbit used as the DES input block's MSbit, etc.), the second octet the
4068 next 8 bits, ..., and the eighth octet supplies the 8 least
4071 Encryption under DES using cipher block chaining requires an
4072 additional input in the form of an initialization vector. Unless
4073 otherwise specified, zero should be used as the initialization vector.
4074 Kerberos' use of DES requires an 8 octet confounder.
4076 The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys;
4077 those keys shall not be used for encrypting messages for use in
4078 Kerberos. Additionally, because of the way that keys are derived for
4079 the encryption of checksums, keys shall not be used that yield 'weak'
4080 or 'semi-weak' keys when eXclusive-ORed with the hexadecimal constant
4083 A DES key is 8 octets of data, with keytype one (1). This consists of
4084 56 bits of key, and 8 parity bits (one per octet). The key is encoded
4085 as a series of 8 octets written in MSB-first order. The bits within
4086 the key are also encoded in MSB order. For example, if the encryption
4087 key is (B1,B2,...,B7,P1,B8,...,B14,P2,B15,...,B49,P7,B50,...,B56,P8)
4088 where B1,B2,...,B56 are the key bits in MSB order, and P1,P2,...,P8
4089 are the parity bits, the first octet of the key would be
4090 B1,B2,...,B7,P1 (with B1 as the MSbit). [See the FIPS 81 introduction
4093 String to key transformation
4095 To generate a DES key from a text string (password), a "salt" is
4096 concatenated to the text string, and then padded with ASCII nulls to
4097 an 8 byte boundary. This "salt" is normally the realm and each
4098 component of the principal's name appended. However, sometimes
4099 different salts are used --- for example, when a realm is renamed, or
4100 if a user changes her username, or for compatibility with Kerberos V4
4101 (whose string-to-key algorithm uses a null string for the salt). This
4102 string is then fan-folded and eXclusive-ORed with itself to form an 8
4103 byte DES key. Before eXclusive-ORing a block, every byte is shifted
4104 one bit to the left to leave the lowest bit zero. The key is the
4105 "corrected" by correcting the parity on the key, and if the key
4106 matches a 'weak' or 'semi-weak' key as described in the DES
4107 specification, it is eXclusive-ORed with the constant
4108 00000000000000F0. This key is then used to generate a DES CBC checksum
4109 on the initial string (with the salt appended). The result of the CBC
4110 checksum is the "corrected" as described above to form the result
4111 which is return as the key. Pseudocode follows:
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4122 name_to_default_salt(realm, name) {
4124 for(each component in name) {
4130 key_correction(key) {
4132 if (is_weak_key_key(key))
4137 string_to_key(string,salt) {
4142 pad(s); /* with nulls to 8 byte boundary */
4143 for(8byteblock in s) {
4149 left shift every byte in 8byteblock one bit;
4150 tempkey = tempkey XOR 8byteblock;
4152 tempkey = key_correction(tempkey);
4153 key = key_correction(DES-CBC-check(s,tempkey));
4157 6.3.5. Triple DES with HMAC-SHA1 Kerberos Encryption Type with and
4158 without Key Derivation [Original draft by Marc Horowitz, revisions by
4161 There are still a few pieces of this specification to be included
4162 by falue, rather than by reference. This will be done before the
4164 This encryption type is based on the Triple DES cryptosystem, the
4165 HMAC-SHA1 [Krawczyk96] message authentication algorithm, and key
4166 derivation for Kerberos V5 [HorowitzB96]. Key derivation may or may
4167 not be used in conjunction with the use of Triple DES keys.
4169 Algorithm Identifiers
4171 The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 encryption type has been assigned the value 7.
4172 The des3-cbc-hmac-sha1-kd encryption type, specifying the key
4173 derivation variant of the encryption type, has been assigned the value
4174 16. The hmac-sha1-des3 checksum type has been assigned the value 13.
4175 The hmac-sha1-des3-kd checksum type, specifying the key derivation
4176 variant of the checksum, has been assigned the value 12.
4178 Triple DES Key Production
4180 The EncryptionKey value is 24 octets long. The 7 most significant bits
4181 of each octet contain key bits, and the least significant bit is the
4182 inverse of the xor of the key bits.
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4193 For the purposes of key derivation, the block size is 64 bits, and the
4194 key size is 168 bits. The 168 bits output by key derivation are
4195 converted to an EncryptionKey value as follows. First, the 168 bits
4196 are divided into three groups of 56 bits, which are expanded
4197 individually into 64 bits as follows:
4200 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 p
4201 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 p
4202 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 p
4203 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 p
4204 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 p
4205 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 p
4206 56 48 40 32 24 16 8 p
4208 The "p" bits are parity bits computed over the data bits. The output
4209 of the three expansions are concatenated to form the EncryptionKey
4212 When the HMAC-SHA1 of a string is computed, the key is used in the
4215 The string-to-key function is used to tranform UNICODE passwords into
4216 DES3 keys. The DES3 string-to-key function relies on the "N-fold"
4217 algorithm, which is detailed in [9]. The description of the N-fold
4218 algorithm in that document is as follows:
4219 o To n-fold a number X, replicate the input value to a length that
4220 is the least common multiple of n and the length of X. Before
4221 each repetition, the input is rotated to the right by 13 bit
4222 positions. The successive n-bit chunks are added together using
4223 1's-complement addition (that is, addition with end-around carry)
4224 to yield an n-bit result"
4225 o The n-fold algorithm, as with DES string-to-key, is applied to
4226 the password string concatenated with a salt value. The salt
4227 value is derived in the same was as for the DES string-to-key
4228 algorithm. For 3-key triple DES then, the operation will involve
4229 a 168-fold of the input password string. The remainder of the
4230 string-to-key function for DES3 is shown here in pseudocode:
4232 DES3string-to-key(passwordString, key)
4234 salt = name_to_default_salt(realm, name)
4235 s = passwordString + salt
4236 tmpKey1 = 168-fold(s)
4238 if not weakKey(tmpKey1)
4240 * Encrypt temp key in itself with a
4241 * zero initialization vector
4243 * Function signature is DES3encrypt(plain, key, iv)
4244 * with cipher as the return value
4246 tmpKey2 = DES3encrypt(tmpKey1, tmpKey1, zeroIvec)
4248 * Encrypt resultant temp key in itself with third component
4249 * of first temp key as initialization vector
4251 key = DES3encrypt(tmpKey2, tmpKey1, tmpKey1[2])
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4269 The weakKey function above is the same weakKey function used with DES
4270 keys, but applied to each of the three single DES keys that comprise
4273 The lengths of UNICODE encoded character strings include the trailing
4274 terminator character (0).
4276 Encryption Types des3-cbc-hmac-sha1 and des3-cbc-hmac-sha1-kd
4278 EncryptedData using this type must be generated as described in
4279 [Horowitz96]. The encryption algorithm is Triple DES in Outer-CBC
4280 mode. The checksum algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. If the key derivation
4281 variant of the encryption type is used, encryption key values are
4282 modified according to the method under the Key Derivation section
4285 Unless otherwise specified, a zero IV must be used.
4287 If the length of the input data is not a multiple of the block size,
4288 zero octets must be used to pad the plaintext to the next eight-octet
4289 boundary. The counfounder must be eight random octets (one block).
4291 Checksum Types hmac-sha1-des3 and hmac-sha1-des3-kd
4293 Checksums using this type must be generated as described in
4294 [Horowitz96]. The keyed hash algorithm is HMAC-SHA1. If the key
4295 derivation variant of the checksum type is used, checksum key values
4296 are modified according to the method under the Key Derivation section
4301 In the Kerberos protocol, cryptographic keys are used in a number of
4302 places. In order to minimize the effect of compromising a key, it is
4303 desirable to use a different key for each of these places. Key
4304 derivation [Horowitz96] can be used to construct different keys for
4305 each operation from the keys transported on the network. For this to
4306 be possible, a small change to the specification is necessary.
4308 This section specifies a profile for the use of key derivation
4309 [Horowitz96] with Kerberos. For each place where a key is used, a
4310 ``key usage'' must is specified for that purpose. The key, key usage,
4311 and encryption/checksum type together describe the transformation from
4312 plaintext to ciphertext, or plaintext to checksum.
4316 This is a complete list of places keys are used in the kerberos
4317 protocol, with key usage values and RFC 1510 section numbers:
4319 1. AS-REQ PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP padata timestamp, encrypted with the
4320 client key (section 5.4.1)
4321 2. AS-REP Ticket and TGS-REP Ticket (includes tgs session key or
4322 application session key), encrypted with the service key
4324 3. AS-REP encrypted part (includes tgs session key or application
4325 session key), encrypted with the client key (section 5.4.2)
4326 4. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
4327 session key (section 5.4.1)
4328 5. TGS-REQ KDC-REQ-BODY AuthorizationData, encrypted with the tgs
4329 authenticator subkey (section 5.4.1)
4330 6. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed
4331 with the tgs session key (sections 5.3.2, 5.4.1)
4332 7. TGS-REQ PA-TGS-REQ padata AP-REQ Authenticator (includes tgs
4333 authenticator subkey), encrypted with the tgs session key
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4344 8. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
4345 encrypted with the tgs session key (section 5.4.2)
4346 9. TGS-REP encrypted part (includes application session key),
4347 encrypted with the tgs authenticator subkey (section 5.4.2)
4348 10. AP-REQ Authenticator cksum, keyed with the application session
4350 11. AP-REQ Authenticator (includes application authenticator
4351 subkey), encrypted with the application session key (section
4353 12. AP-REP encrypted part (includes application session subkey),
4354 encrypted with the application session key (section 5.5.2)
4355 13. KRB-PRIV encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
4356 application (section 5.7.1)
4357 14. KRB-CRED encrypted part, encrypted with a key chosen by the
4358 application (section 5.6.1)
4359 15. KRB-SAVE cksum, keyed with a key chosen by the application
4361 18. KRB-ERROR checksum (e-cksum in section 5.9.1)
4362 19. AD-KDCIssued checksum (ad-checksum in appendix B.1)
4363 20. Checksum for Mandatory Ticket Extensions (appendix B.6)
4364 21. Checksum in Authorization Data in Ticket Extensions (appendix B.7)
4366 Key usage values between 1024 and 2047 (inclusive) are reserved for
4367 application use. Applications should use even values for encryption
4368 and odd values for checksums within this range.
4370 A few of these key usages need a little clarification. A service which
4371 receives an AP-REQ has no way to know if the enclosed Ticket was part
4372 of an AS-REP or TGS-REP. Therefore, key usage 2 must always be used
4373 for generating a Ticket, whether it is in response to an AS- REQ or
4376 There might exist other documents which define protocols in terms of
4377 the RFC1510 encryption types or checksum types. Such documents would
4378 not know about key usages. In order that these documents continue to
4379 be meaningful until they are updated, key usages 1024 and 1025 must be
4380 used to derive keys for encryption and checksums, respectively. New
4381 protocols defined in terms of the Kerberos encryption and checksum
4382 types should use their own key usages. Key usages may be registered
4383 with IANA to avoid conflicts. Key usages must be unsigned 32 bit
4384 integers. Zero is not permitted.
4386 Defining Cryptosystems Using Key Derivation
4388 Kerberos requires that the ciphertext component of EncryptedData be
4389 tamper-resistant as well as confidential. This implies encryption and
4390 integrity functions, which must each use their own separate keys. So,
4391 for each key usage, two keys must be generated, one for encryption
4392 (Ke), and one for integrity (Ki):
4394 Ke = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0xAA)
4395 Ki = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x55)
4397 where the protocol key is from the EncryptionKey from the wire
4398 protocol, and the key usage is represented as a 32 bit integer in
4399 network byte order. The ciphertest must be generated from the
4400 plaintext as follows:
4402 ciphertext = E(Ke, confounder | plaintext | padding) |
4403 H(Ki, confounder | plaintext | padding)
4405 The confounder and padding are specific to the encryption algorithm E.
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4416 When generating a checksum only, there is no need for a confounder or
4417 padding. Again, a new key (Kc) must be used. Checksums must be
4418 generated from the plaintext as follows:
4420 Kc = DK(protocol key, key usage | 0x99)
4421 MAC = H(Kc, plaintext)
4423 Note that each enctype is described by an encryption algorithm E and a
4424 keyed hash algorithm H, and each checksum type is described by a keyed
4425 hash algorithm H. HMAC, with an appropriate hash, is required for use
4428 Key Derivation from Passwords
4430 The well-known constant for password key derivation must be the byte
4431 string {0x6b 0x65 0x72 0x62 0x65 0x72 0x6f 0x73}. These values
4432 correspond to the ASCII encoding for the string "kerberos".
4436 The following is the ASN.1 definition used for a checksum:
4438 Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
4439 cksumtype[0] INTEGER,
4440 checksum[1] OCTET STRING
4444 This field indicates the algorithm used to generate the
4445 accompanying checksum.
4447 This field contains the checksum itself, encoded as an octet
4449 Detailed specification of selected checksum types appear later in this
4450 section. Negative values for the checksum type are reserved for local
4451 use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
4452 fields and interpretations.
4454 Checksums used by Kerberos can be classified by two properties:
4455 whether they are collision-proof, and whether they are keyed. It is
4456 infeasible to find two plaintexts which generate the same checksum
4457 value for a collision-proof checksum. A key is required to perturb or
4458 initialize the algorithm in a keyed checksum. To prevent
4459 message-stream modification by an active attacker, unkeyed checksums
4460 should only be used when the checksum and message will be subsequently
4461 encrypted (e.g. the checksums defined as part of the encryption
4462 algorithms covered earlier in this section).
4464 Collision-proof checksums can be made tamper-proof if the checksum
4465 value is encrypted before inclusion in a message. In such cases, the
4466 composition of the checksum and the encryption algorithm must be
4467 considered a separate checksum algorithm (e.g. RSA-MD5 encrypted using
4468 DES is a new checksum algorithm of type RSA-MD5-DES). For most keyed
4469 checksums, as well as for the encrypted forms of unkeyed
4470 collision-proof checksums, Kerberos prepends a confounder before the
4471 checksum is calculated.
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4482 6.4.1. The CRC-32 Checksum (crc32)
4484 The CRC-32 checksum calculates a checksum based on a cyclic redundancy
4485 check as described in ISO 3309 [ISO3309]. The resulting checksum is
4486 four (4) octets in length. The CRC-32 is neither keyed nor
4487 collision-proof. The use of this checksum is not recommended. An
4488 attacker using a probabilistic chosen-plaintext attack as described in
4489 [SG92] might be able to generate an alternative message that satisfies
4490 the checksum. The use of collision-proof checksums is recommended for
4491 environments where such attacks represent a significant threat.
4493 6.4.2. The RSA MD4 Checksum (rsa-md4)
4495 The RSA-MD4 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD4 algorithm
4496 [MD4-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary
4497 length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD4
4498 is believed to be collision-proof.
4500 6.4.3. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md4-des)
4502 The RSA-MD4-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
4503 by prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA
4504 MD4 checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum
4505 using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the
4506 key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
4507 constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0[39]. The initialization vector should be
4508 zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of which are
4509 redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
4512 The DES specifications identify some weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys';
4513 those keys shall not be used for generating RSA-MD4 checksums for use
4516 The format for the checksum is described in the follow- ing diagram:
4519 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
4520 | des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md4(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0)
4523 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
4525 The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
4526 ASN.1-like notation:
4528 rsa-md4-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
4529 confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
4530 check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
4533 6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)
4535 The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5
4536 algorithm. [MD5-92]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of
4537 arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum.
4538 RSA-MD5 is believed to be collision-proof.
4540 6.4.5. RSA MD5 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES (rsa-md5-des)
4542 The RSA-MD5-DES checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
4543 by prepending an 8 octet confounder before the text, applying the RSA
4544 MD5 checksum algorithm, and encrypting the confounder and the checksum
4545 using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a variant of the
4546 key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing the key with the
4547 hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The initialization vector
4548 should be zero. The resulting checksum is 24 octets long (8 octets of
4549 which are redundant). This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
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4561 The DES specifications identify some 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys';
4562 those keys shall not be used for encrypting RSA-MD5 checksums for use
4565 The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
4568 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
4569 | des-cbc(confounder + rsa-md5(confounder+msg),key=var(key),iv=0)
4572 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
4574 The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
4575 ASN.1-like notation:
4577 rsa-md5-des-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
4578 confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
4579 check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(16)
4582 6.4.6. DES cipher-block chained checksum (des-mac)
4584 The DES-MAC checksum is computed by prepending an 8 octet confounder
4585 to the plaintext, performing a DES CBC-mode encryption on the result
4586 using the key and an initialization vector of zero, taking the last
4587 block of the ciphertext, prepending the same confounder and encrypting
4588 the pair using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a a
4589 variant of the key, where the variant is computed by eXclusive-ORing
4590 the key with the hexadecimal constant F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0. The
4591 initialization vector should be zero. The resulting checksum is 128
4592 bits (16 octets) long, 64 bits of which are redundant. This checksum
4593 is tamper-proof and collision-proof.
4595 The format for the checksum is described in the following diagram:
4598 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
4599 | des-cbc(confounder + des-mac(conf+msg,iv=0,key),key=var(key),iv=0)
4602 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
4604 The format cannot be described in ASN.1, but for those who prefer an
4605 ASN.1-like notation:
4607 des-mac-checksum ::= ENCRYPTED UNTAGGED SEQUENCE {
4608 confounder[0] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8),
4609 check[1] UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(8)
4612 The DES specifications identify some 'weak' and 'semi-weak' keys;
4613 those keys shall not be used for generating DES-MAC checksums for use
4614 in Kerberos, nor shall a key be used whose variant is 'weak' or
4617 6.4.7. RSA MD4 Cryptographic Checksum Using DES alternative
4620 The RSA-MD4-DES-K checksum calculates a keyed collision-proof checksum
4621 by applying the RSA MD4 checksum algorithm and encrypting the results
4622 using DES in cipher-block-chaining (CBC) mode using a DES key as both
4623 key and initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 16 octets
4624 long. This checksum is tamper-proof and believed to be
4625 collision-proof. Note that this checksum type is the old method for
4626 encoding the RSA-MD4-DES checksum and it is no longer recommended.
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4637 6.4.8. DES cipher-block chained checksum alternative (des-mac-k)
4639 The DES-MAC-K checksum is computed by performing a DES CBC-mode
4640 encryption of the plaintext, and using the last block of the
4641 ciphertext as the checksum value. It is keyed with an encryption key
4642 and an initialization vector; any uses which do not specify an
4643 additional initialization vector will use the key as both key and
4644 initialization vector. The resulting checksum is 64 bits (8 octets)
4645 long. This checksum is tamper-proof and collision-proof. Note that
4646 this checksum type is the old method for encoding the DES-MAC checksum
4647 and it is no longer recommended. The DES specifications identify some
4648 'weak keys' and 'semi-weak keys'; those keys shall not be used for
4649 generating DES-MAC checksums for use in Kerberos.
4651 7. Naming Constraints
4655 Although realm names are encoded as GeneralStrings and although a
4656 realm can technically select any name it chooses, interoperability
4657 across realm boundaries requires agreement on how realm names are to
4658 be assigned, and what information they imply.
4660 To enforce these conventions, each realm must conform to the
4661 conventions itself, and it must require that any realms with which
4662 inter-realm keys are shared also conform to the conventions and
4663 require the same from its neighbors.
4665 Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. Realm names that differ only
4666 in the case of the characters are not equivalent. There are presently
4667 four styles of realm names: domain, X500, other, and reserved.
4668 Examples of each style follow:
4670 domain: ATHENA.MIT.EDU (example)
4671 X500: C=US/O=OSF (example)
4672 other: NAMETYPE:rest/of.name=without-restrictions (example)
4673 reserved: reserved, but will not conflict with above
4675 Domain names must look like domain names: they consist of components
4676 separated by periods (.) and they contain neither colons (:) nor
4677 slashes (/). Though domain names themselves are case insensitive, in
4678 order for realms to match, the case must match as well. When
4679 establishing a new realm name based on an internet domain name it is
4680 recommended by convention that the characters be converted to upper
4683 X.500 names contain an equal (=) and cannot contain a colon (:) before
4684 the equal. The realm names for X.500 names will be string
4685 representations of the names with components separated by slashes.
4686 Leading and trailing slashes will not be included.
4688 Names that fall into the other category must begin with a prefix that
4689 contains no equal (=) or period (.) and the prefix must be followed by
4690 a colon (:) and the rest of the name. All prefixes must be assigned
4691 before they may be used. Presently none are assigned.
4693 The reserved category includes strings which do not fall into the
4694 first three categories. All names in this category are reserved. It is
4695 unlikely that names will be assigned to this category unless there is
4696 a very strong argument for not using the 'other' category.
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4707 These rules guarantee that there will be no conflicts between the
4708 various name styles. The following additional constraints apply to the
4709 assignment of realm names in the domain and X.500 categories: the name
4710 of a realm for the domain or X.500 formats must either be used by the
4711 organization owning (to whom it was assigned) an Internet domain name
4712 or X.500 name, or in the case that no such names are registered,
4713 authority to use a realm name may be derived from the authority of the
4714 parent realm. For example, if there is no domain name for E40.MIT.EDU,
4715 then the administrator of the MIT.EDU realm can authorize the creation
4716 of a realm with that name.
4718 This is acceptable because the organization to which the parent is
4719 assigned is presumably the organization authorized to assign names to
4720 its children in the X.500 and domain name systems as well. If the
4721 parent assigns a realm name without also registering it in the domain
4722 name or X.500 hierarchy, it is the parent's responsibility to make
4723 sure that there will not in the future exists a name identical to the
4724 realm name of the child unless it is assigned to the same entity as
4727 7.2. Principal Names
4729 As was the case for realm names, conventions are needed to ensure that
4730 all agree on what information is implied by a principal name. The
4731 name-type field that is part of the principal name indicates the kind
4732 of information implied by the name. The name-type should be treated as
4733 a hint. Ignoring the name type, no two names can be the same (i.e. at
4734 least one of the components, or the realm, must be different). The
4735 following name types are defined:
4737 name-type value meaning
4739 NT-UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
4740 NT-PRINCIPAL 1 General principal name (e.g. username, DCE
4742 NT-SRV-INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
4743 NT-SRV-HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet, rcmds)
4744 NT-SRV-XHST 4 Service with slash-separated host name components
4746 NT-X500-PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 1779]
4747 NT-SMTP-NAME 7 Name in form of SMTP email name (e.g.
4750 When a name implies no information other than its uniqueness at a
4751 particular time the name type PRINCIPAL should be used. The principal
4752 name type should be used for users, and it might also be used for a
4753 unique server. If the name is a unique machine generated ID that is
4754 guaranteed never to be reassigned then the name type of UID should be
4755 used (note that it is generally a bad idea to reassign names of any
4756 type since stale entries might remain in access control lists).
4758 If the first component of a name identifies a service and the
4759 remaining components identify an instance of the service in a server
4760 specified manner, then the name type of SRV-INST should be used. An
4761 example of this name type is the Kerberos ticket-granting service
4762 whose name has a first component of krbtgt and a second component
4763 identifying the realm for which the ticket is valid.
4765 If instance is a single component following the service name and the
4766 instance identifies the host on which the server is running, then the
4767 name type SRV-HST should be used. This type is typically used for
4768 Internet services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands. If the
4769 separate components of the host name appear as successive components
4770 following the name of the service, then the name type SRV-XHST should
4771 be used. This type might be used to identify servers on hosts with
4772 X.500 names where the slash (/) might otherwise be ambiguous.
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4783 A name type of NT-X500-PRINCIPAL should be used when a name from an
4784 X.509 certificiate is translated into a Kerberos name. The encoding of
4785 the X.509 name as a Kerberos principal shall conform to the encoding
4786 rules specified in RFC 2253.
4788 A name type of SMTP allows a name to be of a form that resembles a
4789 SMTP email name. This name type can be used in conjunction with
4790 name-canonicalization to allow a free-form of username to be specified
4791 as a client name and allow the KDC to determine the Kerberos principal
4792 name for the requested name. [JBrezak]
4794 A name type of UNKNOWN should be used when the form of the name is not
4795 known. When comparing names, a name of type UNKNOWN will match
4796 principals authenticated with names of any type. A principal
4797 authenticated with a name of type UNKNOWN, however, will only match
4798 other names of type UNKNOWN.
4800 Names of any type with an initial component of 'krbtgt' are reserved
4801 for the Kerberos ticket granting service. See section 8.2.3 for the
4804 7.2.1. Name of server principals
4806 The principal identifier for a server on a host will generally be
4807 composed of two parts: (1) the realm of the KDC with which the server
4808 is registered, and (2) a two-component name of type NT-SRV-HST if the
4809 host name is an Internet domain name or a multi-component name of type
4810 NT-SRV-XHST if the name of the host is of a form such as X.500 that
4811 allows slash (/) separators. The first component of the two- or
4812 multi-component name will identify the service and the latter
4813 components will identify the host. Where the name of the host is not
4814 case sensitive (for example, with Internet domain names) the name of
4815 the host must be lower case. If specified by the application protocol
4816 for services such as telnet and the Berkeley R commands which run with
4817 system privileges, the first component may be the string 'host'
4818 instead of a service specific identifier. When a host has an official
4819 name and one or more aliases, the official name of the host must be
4820 used when constructing the name of the server principal.
4822 8. Constants and other defined values
4824 8.1. Host address types
4826 All negative values for the host address type are reserved for local
4827 use. All non-negative values are reserved for officially assigned type
4828 fields and interpretations.
4830 The values of the types for the following addresses are chosen to
4831 match the defined address family constants in the Berkeley Standard
4832 Distributions of Unix. They can be found in with symbolic names AF_xxx
4833 (where xxx is an abbreviation of the address family name).
4835 Internet (IPv4) Addresses
4837 Internet (IPv4) addresses are 32-bit (4-octet) quantities, encoded in
4838 MSB order. The type of IPv4 addresses is two (2).
4840 Internet (IPv6) Addresses [Westerlund]
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4848 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
4851 IPv6 addresses are 128-bit (16-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
4852 order. The type of IPv6 addresses is twenty-four (24). [RFC1883]
4853 [RFC1884]. The following addresses (see [RFC1884]) MUST not appear in
4854 any Kerberos packet:
4855 o the Unspecified Address
4856 o the Loopback Address
4857 o Link-Local addresses
4858 IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses MUST be represented as addresses of type 2.
4862 CHAOSnet addresses are 16-bit (2-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB
4863 order. The type of CHAOSnet addresses is five (5).
4867 ISO addresses are variable-length. The type of ISO addresses is seven
4870 Xerox Network Services (XNS) addresses
4872 XNS addresses are 48-bit (6-octet) quantities, encoded in MSB order.
4873 The type of XNS addresses is six (6).
4875 AppleTalk Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) addresses
4877 AppleTalk DDP addresses consist of an 8-bit node number and a 16-bit
4878 network number. The first octet of the address is the node number; the
4879 remaining two octets encode the network number in MSB order. The type
4880 of AppleTalk DDP addresses is sixteen (16).
4882 DECnet Phase IV addresses
4884 DECnet Phase IV addresses are 16-bit addresses, encoded in LSB order.
4885 The type of DECnet Phase IV addresses is twelve (12).
4889 Netbios addresses are 16-octet addresses typically composed of 1 to 15
4890 characters, trailing blank (ascii char 20) filled, with a 16th octet
4891 of 0x0. The type of Netbios addresses is 20 (0x14).
4895 8.2.1. UDP/IP transport
4897 When contacting a Kerberos server (KDC) for a KRB_KDC_REQ request
4898 using UDP IP transport, the client shall send a UDP datagram
4899 containing only an encoding of the request to port 88 (decimal) at the
4900 KDC's IP address; the KDC will respond with a reply datagram
4901 containing only an encoding of the reply message (either a KRB_ERROR
4902 or a KRB_KDC_REP) to the sending port at the sender's IP address.
4903 Kerberos servers supporting IP transport must accept UDP requests on
4904 port 88 (decimal). The response to a request made through UDP/IP
4905 transport must also use UDP/IP transport.
4907 8.2.2. TCP/IP transport [Westerlund,Danielsson]
4909 Kerberos servers (KDC's) should accept TCP requests on port 88
4910 (decimal) and clients should support the sending of TCP requests on
4911 port 88 (decimal). When the KRB_KDC_REQ message is sent to the KDC
4912 over a TCP stream, a new connection will be established for each
4913 authentication exchange (request and response). The KRB_KDC_REP or
4914 KRB_ERROR message will be returned to the client on the same TCP
4915 stream that was established for the request. The response to a request
4917 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
4922 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
4925 made through TCP/IP transport must also use TCP/IP transport.
4926 Implementors should note that some extentions to the Kerberos protocol
4927 will not work if any implementation not supporting the TCP transport
4928 is involved (client or KDC). Implementors are strongly urged to
4929 support the TCP transport on both the client and server and are
4930 advised that the current notation of "should" support will likely
4931 change in the future to must support. The KDC may close the TCP stream
4932 after sending a response, but may leave the stream open if it expects
4933 a followup - in which case it may close the stream at any time if
4934 resource constratints or other factors make it desirable to do so.
4935 Care must be taken in managing TCP/IP connections with the KDC to
4936 prevent denial of service attacks based on the number of TCP/IP
4937 connections with the KDC that remain open. If multiple exchanges with
4938 the KDC are needed for certain forms of preauthentication, multiple
4939 TCP connections may be required. A client may close the stream after
4940 receiving response, and should close the stream if it does not expect
4941 to send followup messages. The client must be prepared to have the
4942 stream closed by the KDC at anytime, in which case it must simply
4943 connect again when it is ready to send subsequent messages.
4945 The first four octets of the TCP stream used to transmit the request
4946 request will encode in network byte order the length of the request
4947 (KRB_KDC_REQ), and the length will be followed by the request itself.
4948 The response will similarly be preceeded by a 4 octet encoding in
4949 network byte order of the length of the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR
4950 message and will be followed by the KRB_KDC_REP or the KRB_ERROR
4951 response. If the sign bit is set on the integer represented by the
4952 first 4 octets, then the next 4 octets will be read, extending the
4953 length of the field by another 4 octets (less the sign bit which is
4954 reserved for future expansion).
4956 8.2.3. OSI transport
4958 During authentication of an OSI client to an OSI server, the mutual
4959 authentication of an OSI server to an OSI client, the transfer of
4960 credentials from an OSI client to an OSI server, or during exchange of
4961 private or integrity checked messages, Kerberos protocol messages may
4962 be treated as opaque objects and the type of the authentication
4965 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {iso (1), org(3), dod(6),internet(1),
4966 security(5),kerberosv5(2)}
4968 Depending on the situation, the opaque object will be an
4969 authentication header (KRB_AP_REQ), an authentication reply
4970 (KRB_AP_REP), a safe message (KRB_SAFE), a private message (KRB_PRIV),
4971 or a credentials message (KRB_CRED). The opaque data contains an
4972 application code as specified in the ASN.1 description for each
4973 message. The application code may be used by Kerberos to determine the
4976 8.2.3. Name of the TGS
4978 The principal identifier of the ticket-granting service shall be
4979 composed of three parts: (1) the realm of the KDC issuing the TGS
4980 ticket (2) a two-part name of type NT-SRV-INST, with the first part
4981 "krbtgt" and the second part the name of the realm which will accept
4982 the ticket-granting ticket. For example, a ticket-granting ticket
4983 issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
4984 ATHENA.MIT.EDU KDC has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
4985 (realm), ("krbtgt", "ATHENA.MIT.EDU") (name). A ticket-granting ticket
4986 issued by the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm to be used to get tickets from the
4987 MIT.EDU realm has a principal identifier of "ATHENA.MIT.EDU" (realm),
4988 ("krbtgt", "MIT.EDU") (name).
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4996 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
4999 8.3. Protocol constants and associated values
5001 The following tables list constants used in the protocol and defines
5002 their meanings. Ranges are specified in the "specification" section
5003 that limit the values of constants for which values are defined here.
5004 This allows implementations to make assumptions about the maximum
5005 values that will be received for these constants. Implementation
5006 receiving values outside the range specified in the "specification"
5007 section may reject the request, but they must recover cleanly.
5009 Encryption type etype value block size minimum pad confounder
5016 des3-cbc-md5 5 8 0 8
5018 des3-cbc-sha1 7 8 0 8
5019 dsaWithSHA1-CmsOID 9
5021 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
5023 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
5027 rsaEncryption-EnvOID 13 (pkinit from PKCS#1
5029 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID 14 (pkinit from PKCS#1
5031 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
5033 des3-cbc-sha1-kd 16 (Tom
5042 Checksum type sumtype value checksum size
5048 rsa-md4-des-k 6 16 (drop rsa ?)
5049 rsa-md5 7 16 (drop rsa ?)
5050 rsa-md5-des 8 24 (drop rsa ?)
5051 rsa-md5-des3 9 24 (drop rsa ?)
5052 hmac-sha1-des3-kd 12 20
5053 hmac-sha1-des3 13 20
5054 sha1 (unkeyed) 14 20
5056 padata type padata-type value
5062 PA-ENC-UNIX-TIME 5 (depricated)
5063 PA-SANDIA-SECUREID 6
5066 PA-CYBERSAFE-SECUREID 9
5069 PA-SAM-CHALLENGE 12 (sam/otp)
5070 PA-SAM-RESPONSE 13 (sam/otp)
5071 PA-PK-AS-REQ 14 (pkinit)
5072 PA-PK-AS-REP 15 (pkinit)
5073 PA-USE-SPECIFIED-KVNO 20
5074 PA-SAM-REDIRECT 21 (sam/otp)
5075 PA-GET-FROM-TYPED-DATA 22
5076 PA-SAM-ETYPE-INFO 23 (sam/otp)
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5084 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5087 data-type value form of typed-data
5091 TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101 CertificateSet from CMS
5092 TD-KRB-PRINCIPAL 102
5094 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
5095 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
5096 TD-APP-DEFINED-ERROR 106
5098 authorization data type ad-type value
5100 AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER 2
5101 AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS 3
5104 AD-MANDATORY-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 6
5105 AD-IN-TICKET-EXTENSIONS 7
5106 reserved values 8-63
5109 AD-OSF-DCE-PKI-CERTID 66 (hemsath@us.ibm.com)
5111 (jbrezak@exchange.microsoft.com)
5113 Ticket Extension Types
5115 TE-TYPE-NULL 0 Null ticket extension
5116 TE-TYPE-EXTERNAL-ADATA 1 Integrity protected authorization
5118 reserved 2 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-KDC
5119 TE-TYPE-PKCROSS-CLIENT 3 PKCROSS cross realm key ticket
5120 TE-TYPE-CYBERSAFE-EXT 4 Assigned to CyberSafe Corp
5121 reserved 5 TE-TYPE-DEST-HOST
5123 alternate authentication type method-type value
5124 reserved values 0-63
5125 ATT-CHALLENGE-RESPONSE 64
5127 transited encoding type tr-type value
5128 DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS 1
5129 reserved values all others
5131 Label Value Meaning or MIT code
5133 pvno 5 current Kerberos protocol version number
5137 KRB_AS_REQ 10 Request for initial authentication
5138 KRB_AS_REP 11 Response to KRB_AS_REQ request
5139 KRB_TGS_REQ 12 Request for authentication based on TGT
5140 KRB_TGS_REP 13 Response to KRB_TGS_REQ request
5141 KRB_AP_REQ 14 application request to server
5142 KRB_AP_REP 15 Response to KRB_AP_REQ_MUTUAL
5143 KRB_SAFE 20 Safe (checksummed) application message
5144 KRB_PRIV 21 Private (encrypted) application message
5145 KRB_CRED 22 Private (encrypted) message to forward
5147 KRB_ERROR 30 Error response
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5160 KRB_NT_UNKNOWN 0 Name type not known
5161 KRB_NT_PRINCIPAL 1 Just the name of the principal as in DCE, or
5163 KRB_NT_SRV_INST 2 Service and other unique instance (krbtgt)
5164 KRB_NT_SRV_HST 3 Service with host name as instance (telnet,
5166 KRB_NT_SRV_XHST 4 Service with host as remaining components
5167 KRB_NT_UID 5 Unique ID
5168 KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6 Encoded X.509 Distingished name [RFC 2253]
5172 KDC_ERR_NONE 0 No error
5173 KDC_ERR_NAME_EXP 1 Client's entry in database has
5175 KDC_ERR_SERVICE_EXP 2 Server's entry in database has
5177 KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO 3 Requested protocol version number
5179 KDC_ERR_C_OLD_MAST_KVNO 4 Client's key encrypted in old
5181 KDC_ERR_S_OLD_MAST_KVNO 5 Server's key encrypted in old
5183 KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 6 Client not found in Kerberos
5185 KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN 7 Server not found in Kerberos
5187 KDC_ERR_PRINCIPAL_NOT_UNIQUE 8 Multiple principal entries in
5189 KDC_ERR_NULL_KEY 9 The client or server has a null key
5190 KDC_ERR_CANNOT_POSTDATE 10 Ticket not eligible for postdating
5191 KDC_ERR_NEVER_VALID 11 Requested start time is later than
5193 KDC_ERR_POLICY 12 KDC policy rejects request
5194 KDC_ERR_BADOPTION 13 KDC cannot accommodate requested
5196 KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP 14 KDC has no support for encryption
5198 KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP 15 KDC has no support for checksum
5200 KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP 16 KDC has no support for padata type
5201 KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP 17 KDC has no support for transited
5203 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_REVOKED 18 Clients credentials have been
5205 KDC_ERR_SERVICE_REVOKED 19 Credentials for server have been
5207 KDC_ERR_TGT_REVOKED 20 TGT has been revoked
5208 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOTYET 21 Client not yet valid - try again
5210 KDC_ERR_SERVICE_NOTYET 22 Server not yet valid - try again
5212 KDC_ERR_KEY_EXPIRED 23 Password has expired - change
5214 KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED 24 Pre-authentication information was
5216 KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED 25 Additional
5217 pre-authenticationrequired [40]
5218 KDC_ERR_SERVER_NOMATCH 26 Requested server and ticket don't
5220 KDC_ERR_MUST_USE_USER2USER 27 Server principal valid for
5222 KDC_ERR_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED 28 KDC Policy rejects transited path
5223 KDC_ERR_SVC_UNAVAILABLE 29 A service is not available
5224 KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY 31 Integrity check on decrypted field
5226 KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED 32 Ticket expired
5227 KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV 33 Ticket not yet valid
5228 KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT 34 Request is a replay
5229 KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US 35 The ticket isn't for us
5230 KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH 36 Ticket and authenticator don't
5232 KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW 37 Clock skew too great
5233 KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR 38 Incorrect net address
5234 KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION 39 Protocol version mismatch
5235 KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE 40 Invalid msg type
5236 KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 41 Message stream modified
5237 KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER 42 Message out of order
5238 KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER 44 Specified version of key is not
5240 KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY 45 Service key not available
5241 KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL 46 Mutual authentication failed
5242 KRB_AP_ERR_BADDIRECTION 47 Incorrect message direction
5243 KRB_AP_ERR_METHOD 48 Alternative authentication method
5245 KRB_AP_ERR_BADSEQ 49 Incorrect sequence number in
5247 KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM 50 Inappropriate type of checksum in
5249 KRB_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCEPTED 51 Policy rejects transited path
5250 KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG 52 Response too big for UDP, retry
5252 KRB_ERR_GENERIC 60 Generic error (description in
5254 KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG 61 Field is too long for this
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5265 KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62 (pkinit)
5266 KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63 (pkinit)
5267 KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 64 (pkinit)
5268 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65 (pkinit)
5269 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66 (pkinit)
5270 KRB_AP_ERR_NO_TGT 67 (user-to-user)
5271 KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM 68 (user-to-user)
5272 KRB_AP_ERR_USER_TO_USER_REQUIRED 69 (user-to-user)
5273 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70 (pkinit)
5274 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71 (pkinit)
5275 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72 (pkinit)
5276 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73 (pkinit)
5277 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74 (pkinit)
5278 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75 (pkinit)
5279 KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76 (pkinit)
5281 9. Interoperability requirements
5283 Version 5 of the Kerberos protocol supports a myriad of options. Among
5284 these are multiple encryption and checksum types, alternative encoding
5285 schemes for the transited field, optional mechanisms for
5286 pre-authentication, the handling of tickets with no addresses, options
5287 for mutual authentication, user to user authentication, support for
5288 proxies, forwarding, postdating, and renewing tickets, the format of
5289 realm names, and the handling of authorization data.
5291 In order to ensure the interoperability of realms, it is necessary to
5292 define a minimal configuration which must be supported by all
5293 implementations. This minimal configuration is subject to change as
5294 technology does. For example, if at some later date it is discovered
5295 that one of the required encryption or checksum algorithms is not
5296 secure, it will be replaced.
5298 9.1. Specification 2
5300 This section defines the second specification of these options.
5301 Implementations which are configured in this way can be said to
5302 support Kerberos Version 5 Specification 2 (5.1). Specification 1
5303 (depricated) may be found in RFC1510.
5307 TCP/IP and UDP/IP transport must be supported by KDCs claiming
5308 conformance to specification 2. Kerberos clients claiming conformance
5309 to specification 2 must support UDP/IP transport for messages with the
5310 KDC and should support TCP/IP transport.
5312 Encryption and checksum methods
5314 The following encryption and checksum mechanisms must be supported.
5315 Implementations may support other mechanisms as well, but the
5316 additional mechanisms may only be used when communicating with
5317 principals known to also support them: This list is to be determined.
5319 Encryption: DES-CBC-MD5, one triple des variant (tbd)
5320 Checksums: CRC-32, DES-MAC, DES-MAC-K, and DES-MD5 (tbd)
5324 All implementations must understand hierarchical realms in both the
5325 Internet Domain and the X.500 style. When a ticket granting ticket for
5326 an unknown realm is requested, the KDC must be able to determine the
5327 names of the intermediate realms between the KDCs realm and the
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5336 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5339 Transited field encoding
5341 DOMAIN-X500-COMPRESS (described in section 3.3.3.2) must be supported.
5342 Alternative encodings may be supported, but they may be used only when
5343 that encoding is supported by ALL intermediate realms.
5345 Pre-authentication methods
5347 The TGS-REQ method must be supported. The TGS-REQ method is not used
5348 on the initial request. The PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method must be supported
5349 by clients but whether it is enabled by default may be determined on a
5350 realm by realm basis. If not used in the initial request and the error
5351 KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED is returned specifying PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP as an
5352 acceptable method, the client should retry the initial request using
5353 the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP preauthentication method. Servers need not
5354 support the PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP method, but if not supported the server
5355 should ignore the presence of PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP pre-authentication in a
5358 Mutual authentication
5360 Mutual authentication (via the KRB_AP_REP message) must be supported.
5362 Ticket addresses and flags
5364 All KDC's must pass on tickets that carry no addresses (i.e. if a TGT
5365 contains no addresses, the KDC will return derivative tickets), but
5366 each realm may set its own policy for issuing such tickets, and each
5367 application server will set its own policy with respect to accepting
5370 Proxies and forwarded tickets must be supported. Individual realms and
5371 application servers can set their own policy on when such tickets will
5374 All implementations must recognize renewable and postdated tickets,
5375 but need not actually implement them. If these options are not
5376 supported, the starttime and endtime in the ticket shall specify a
5377 ticket's entire useful life. When a postdated ticket is decoded by a
5378 server, all implementations shall make the presence of the postdated
5379 flag visible to the calling server.
5381 User-to-user authentication
5383 Support for user to user authentication (via the ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY KDC
5384 option) must be provided by implementations, but individual realms may
5385 decide as a matter of policy to reject such requests on a
5386 per-principal or realm-wide basis.
5390 Implementations must pass all authorization data subfields from
5391 ticket-granting tickets to any derivative tickets unless directed to
5392 suppress a subfield as part of the definition of that registered
5393 subfield type (it is never incorrect to pass on a subfield, and no
5394 registered subfield types presently specify suppression at the KDC).
5396 Implementations must make the contents of any authorization data
5397 subfields available to the server when a ticket is used.
5398 Implementations are not required to allow clients to specify the
5399 contents of the authorization data fields.
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5407 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5412 All protocol constants are constrained to 32 bit (signed) values
5413 unless further constrained by the protocol definition. This limit is
5414 provided to allow implementations to make assumptions about the
5415 maximum values that will be received for these constants.
5416 Implementation receiving values outside this range may reject the
5417 request, but they must recover cleanly.
5419 9.2. Recommended KDC values
5421 Following is a list of recommended values for a KDC implementation,
5422 based on the list of suggested configuration constants (see section
5425 minimum lifetime 5 minutes
5426 maximum renewable lifetime 1 week
5427 maximum ticket lifetime 1 day
5428 empty addresses only when suitable restrictions appear
5429 in authorization data
5430 proxiable, etc. Allowed.
5434 [NT94] B. Clifford Neuman and Theodore Y. Ts'o, "An Authenti-
5435 cation Service for Computer Networks," IEEE Communica-
5436 tions Magazine, Vol. 32(9), pp. 33-38 (September 1994).
5438 [MNSS87] S. P. Miller, B. C. Neuman, J. I. Schiller, and J. H.
5439 Saltzer, Section E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and
5440 Authorization System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge,
5441 Massachusetts (December 21, 1987).
5443 [SNS88] J. G. Steiner, B. C. Neuman, and J. I. Schiller, "Ker-
5444 beros: An Authentication Service for Open Network Sys-
5445 tems," pp. 191-202 in Usenix Conference Proceedings,
5446 Dallas, Texas (February, 1988).
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5449 Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Com-
5450 puters," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 21(12),
5451 pp. 993-999 (December, 1978).
5453 [DS81] Dorothy E. Denning and Giovanni Maria Sacco, "Time-
5454 stamps in Key Distribution Protocols," Communications
5455 of the ACM, Vol. 24(8), pp. 533-536 (August 1981).
5457 [KNT92] John T. Kohl, B. Clifford Neuman, and Theodore Y. Ts'o,
5458 "The Evolution of the Kerberos Authentication Service,"
5459 in an IEEE Computer Society Text soon to be published
5462 [Neu93] B. Clifford Neuman, "Proxy-Based Authorization and
5463 Accounting for Distributed Systems," in Proceedings of
5464 the 13th International Conference on Distributed Com-
5465 puting Systems, Pittsburgh, PA (May, 1993).
5467 [DS90] Don Davis and Ralph Swick, "Workstation Services and
5468 Kerberos Authentication at Project Athena," Technical
5469 Memorandum TM-424, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
5473 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5478 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5481 [LGDSR87] P. J. Levine, M. R. Gretzinger, J. M. Diaz, W. E. Som-
5482 merfeld, and K. Raeburn, Section E.1: Service Manage-
5483 ment System, M.I.T. Project Athena, Cambridge, Mas-
5486 [X509-88] CCITT, Recommendation X.509: The Directory Authentica-
5487 tion Framework, December 1988.
5489 [Pat92]. J. Pato, Using Pre-Authentication to Avoid Password
5490 Guessing Attacks, Open Software Foundation DCE Request
5491 for Comments 26 (December 1992).
5493 [DES77] National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Com-
5494 merce, "Data Encryption Standard," Federal Information
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5499 merce, "DES Modes of Operation," Federal Information
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5504 Integrity in Cryptographic Protocols," in Proceedings
5505 of the IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and
5506 Privacy, Oakland, California (May 1992).
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5509 Information Processing Systems - Data Communication -
5510 High-Level Data Link Control Procedure - Frame Struc-
5511 ture," IS 3309 (October 1984). 3rd Edition.
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5514 1320, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
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5518 1321, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (April
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5522 Hashing for Message Authentication," Working Draft
5523 draft-ietf-ipsec-hmac-md5-01.txt, (August 1996).
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5536 md5-01.txt, August, 1996.
5538 A. Pseudo-code for protocol processing
5540 This appendix provides pseudo-code describing how the messages are to
5541 be constructed and interpreted by clients and servers.
5544 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5549 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5552 A.1. KRB_AS_REQ generation
5554 request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
5555 request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_AS_REQ */
5557 if(pa_enc_timestamp_required) then
5558 request.padata.padata-type = PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP;
5560 padata-body.patimestamp,pausec = system_time;
5561 encrypt padata-body into request.padata.padata-value
5562 using client.key; /* derived from password */
5565 body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
5566 body.cname := user's name;
5567 body.realm := user's realm;
5568 body.sname := service's name; /* usually "krbtgt",
5570 if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
5571 body.from := requested starting time;
5575 body.till := requested end time;
5576 if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
5577 body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
5579 body.nonce := random_nonce();
5580 body.etype := requested etypes;
5581 if (user supplied addresses) then
5582 body.addresses := user's addresses;
5584 omit body.addresses;
5586 omit body.enc-authorization-data;
5587 request.req-body := body;
5589 kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberos server (or servers));
5590 send(packet,kerberos);
5594 retry or use alternate server;
5597 A.2. KRB_AS_REQ verification and KRB_AS_REP generation
5599 decode message into req;
5601 client := lookup(req.cname,req.realm);
5602 server := lookup(req.sname,req.realm);
5605 kdc_time := system_time.seconds;
5608 /* no client in Database */
5609 error_out(KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
5612 /* no server in Database */
5613 error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
5616 if(client.pa_enc_timestamp_required and
5617 pa_enc_timestamp not present) then
5619 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5624 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5627 error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP));
5630 if(pa_enc_timestamp present) then
5631 decrypt req.padata-value into decrypted_enc_timestamp
5633 using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
5634 if (decrypt_error()) then
5635 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
5636 if(decrypted_enc_timestamp is not within allowable
5638 error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
5640 if(decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec is replay)
5641 error_out(KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED);
5643 add decrypted_enc_timestamp and usec to replay cache;
5646 use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
5648 if (no support for req.etypes) then
5649 error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
5652 new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
5653 new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
5654 new_tkt.srealm := req.srealm;
5655 reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
5657 /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
5658 /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
5659 /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
5661 if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
5662 set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
5664 if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
5665 set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
5668 if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
5669 set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
5671 if ((req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) or
5672 (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) or
5673 (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) or
5674 (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) or
5675 (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set)) then
5676 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
5679 new_tkt.session := random_session_key();
5680 new_tkt.cname := req.cname;
5681 new_tkt.crealm := req.crealm;
5682 new_tkt.transited := empty_transited_field();
5684 new_tkt.authtime := kdc_time;
5686 if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
5687 if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
5688 error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
5690 set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
5691 set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
5692 new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
5694 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5699 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5703 omit new_tkt.starttime; /* treated as authtime when omitted
5706 if (req.till = 0) then
5712 new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
5713 new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
5714 new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
5715 new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm);
5717 if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
5718 (new_tkt.endtime < req.till)) then
5719 /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later processing */
5720 set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
5721 req.rtime := req.till;
5724 if (req.rtime = 0) then
5730 if (req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
5731 set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
5732 new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
5734 new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
5736 new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
5738 new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm);
5740 omit new_tkt.renew-till; /* only present if RENEWABLE
5744 if (req.addresses) then
5745 new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
5750 new_tkt.authorization_data := empty_authorization_data();
5752 encode to-be-encrypted part of ticket into OCTET STRING;
5753 new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
5754 using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key,
5757 /* Start processing the response */
5760 resp.msg-type := KRB_AS_REP;
5761 resp.cname := req.cname;
5762 resp.crealm := req.realm;
5763 resp.ticket := new_tkt;
5765 resp.key := new_tkt.session;
5766 resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
5767 resp.nonce := req.nonce;
5768 resp.key-expiration := client.expiration;
5769 resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
5771 resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
5772 resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
5774 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5779 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5782 resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
5784 if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
5785 resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
5788 resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
5789 resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
5791 resp.caddr := new_tkt.caddr;
5793 encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
5795 resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
5796 using use_etype, client.key, client.p_kvno;
5799 A.3. KRB_AS_REP verification
5801 decode response into resp;
5803 if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
5804 if(error = KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED(PA_ENC_TIMESTAMP))
5806 set pa_enc_timestamp_required;
5809 process_error(resp);
5813 /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key */
5814 /* from the response immediately */
5816 key = get_decryption_key(resp.enc-part.kvno,
5817 resp.enc-part.etype,
5819 unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of resp.enc-part
5820 using resp.enc-part.etype and key;
5823 if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
5828 if near(resp.princ_exp) then
5829 print(warning message);
5831 save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
5833 A.4. KRB_AS_REP and KRB_TGS_REP common checks
5835 if (decryption_error() or
5836 (req.cname != resp.cname) or
5837 (req.realm != resp.crealm) or
5838 (req.sname != resp.sname) or
5839 (req.realm != resp.realm) or
5840 (req.nonce != resp.nonce) or
5841 (req.addresses != resp.caddr)) then
5843 return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
5846 /* make sure no flags are set that shouldn't be, and that all
5848 /* should be are set
5850 if (!check_flags_for_compatability(req.kdc-options,resp.flags))
5853 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5858 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5862 return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
5865 if ((req.from = 0) and
5866 (resp.starttime is not within allowable skew)) then
5868 return KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW;
5870 if ((req.from != 0) and (req.from != resp.starttime)) then
5872 return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
5874 if ((req.till != 0) and (resp.endtime > req.till)) then
5876 return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
5879 if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
5880 (req.rtime != 0) and (resp.renew-till > req.rtime)) then
5882 return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
5884 if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
5885 (resp.flags.RENEWABLE) and
5887 (resp.renew-till > req.till)) then
5889 return KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED;
5892 A.5. KRB_TGS_REQ generation
5894 /* Note that make_application_request might have to recursivly
5896 /* call this routine to get the appropriate ticket-granting
5899 request.pvno := protocol version; /* pvno = 5 */
5900 request.msg-type := message type; /* type = KRB_TGS_REQ */
5902 body.kdc-options := users's preferences;
5903 /* If the TGT is not for the realm of the end-server */
5904 /* then the sname will be for a TGT for the end-realm */
5905 /* and the realm of the requested ticket (body.realm) */
5906 /* will be that of the TGS to which the TGT we are */
5907 /* sending applies */
5908 body.sname := service's name;
5909 body.realm := service's realm;
5911 if (body.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
5912 body.from := requested starting time;
5916 body.till := requested end time;
5917 if (body.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) then
5918 body.rtime := requested final renewal time;
5920 body.nonce := random_nonce();
5921 body.etype := requested etypes;
5922 if (user supplied addresses) then
5923 body.addresses := user's addresses;
5925 omit body.addresses;
5929 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
5934 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
5937 body.enc-authorization-data := user-supplied data;
5938 if (body.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY) then
5939 body.additional-tickets_ticket := second TGT;
5942 request.req-body := body;
5943 check := generate_checksum (req.body,checksumtype);
5945 request.padata[0].padata-type := PA-TGS-REQ;
5946 request.padata[0].padata-value := create a KRB_AP_REQ using
5947 the TGT and checksum
5949 /* add in any other padata as required/supplied */
5951 kerberos := lookup(name of local kerberose server (or
5953 send(packet,kerberos);
5957 retry or use alternate server;
5960 A.6. KRB_TGS_REQ verification and KRB_TGS_REP generation
5962 /* note that reading the application request requires first
5963 determining the server for which a ticket was issued, and
5965 correct key for decryption. The name of the server appears in
5967 plaintext part of the ticket. */
5969 if (no KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata) then
5970 error_out(KDC_ERR_PADATA_TYPE_NOSUPP);
5972 verify KRB_AP_REQ in req.padata;
5974 /* Note that the realm in which the Kerberos server is
5976 determined by the instance from the ticket-granting ticket.
5978 in the ticket-granting ticket is the realm under which the
5980 granting ticket was issued. It is possible for a single
5982 server to support more than one realm. */
5984 auth_hdr := KRB_AP_REQ;
5985 tgt := auth_hdr.ticket;
5987 if (tgt.sname is not a TGT for local realm and is not
5989 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOT_US);
5991 realm := realm_tgt_is_for(tgt);
5993 decode remainder of request;
5995 if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is missing) then
5996 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
5999 if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum type is not supported) then
6000 error_out(KDC_ERR_SUMTYPE_NOSUPP);
6002 if (auth_hdr.authenticator.cksum is not both collision-proof
6004 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
6007 set computed_checksum := checksum(req);
6008 if (computed_checksum != auth_hdr.authenticatory.cksum) then
6009 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
6012 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
6017 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6021 server := lookup(req.sname,realm);
6024 if (is_foreign_tgt_name(req.sname)) then
6025 server := best_intermediate_tgs(req.sname);
6027 /* no server in Database */
6028 error_out(KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN);
6032 session := generate_random_session_key();
6034 use_etype := first supported etype in req.etypes;
6036 if (no support for req.etypes) then
6037 error_out(KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP);
6040 new_tkt.vno := ticket version; /* = 5 */
6041 new_tkt.sname := req.sname;
6042 new_tkt.srealm := realm;
6043 reset all flags in new_tkt.flags;
6045 /* It should be noted that local policy may affect the */
6046 /* processing of any of these flags. For example, some */
6047 /* realms may refuse to issue renewable tickets */
6049 new_tkt.caddr := tgt.caddr;
6050 resp.caddr := NULL; /* We only include this if they change */
6051 if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDABLE is set) then
6052 if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
6053 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6055 set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDABLE;
6057 if (req.kdc-options.FORWARDED is set) then
6058 if (tgt.flags.FORWARDABLE is reset) then
6059 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6061 set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
6062 new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
6063 resp.caddr := req.addresses;
6065 if (tgt.flags.FORWARDED is set) then
6066 set new_tkt.flags.FORWARDED;
6069 if (req.kdc-options.PROXIABLE is set) then
6070 if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset)
6071 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6073 set new_tkt.flags.PROXIABLE;
6075 if (req.kdc-options.PROXY is set) then
6076 if (tgt.flags.PROXIABLE is reset) then
6077 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6079 set new_tkt.flags.PROXY;
6080 new_tkt.caddr := req.addresses;
6081 resp.caddr := req.addresses;
6084 if (req.kdc-options.ALLOW-POSTDATE is set) then
6086 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
6091 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6094 if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset)
6095 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6097 set new_tkt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE;
6099 if (req.kdc-options.POSTDATED is set) then
6100 if (tgt.flags.MAY-POSTDATE is reset) then
6101 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6103 set new_tkt.flags.POSTDATED;
6104 set new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
6105 if (against_postdate_policy(req.from)) then
6106 error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
6108 new_tkt.starttime := req.from;
6111 if (req.kdc-options.VALIDATE is set) then
6112 if (tgt.flags.INVALID is reset) then
6113 error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
6115 if (tgt.starttime > kdc_time) then
6116 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NYV);
6118 if (check_hot_list(tgt)) then
6119 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
6122 reset new_tkt.flags.INVALID;
6125 if (req.kdc-options.(any flag except ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY, RENEW,
6126 and those already processed) is set) then
6127 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6130 new_tkt.authtime := tgt.authtime;
6132 if (req.kdc-options.RENEW is set) then
6133 /* Note that if the endtime has already passed, the ticket
6135 /* have been rejected in the initial authentication stage, so
6137 /* there is no need to check again here
6139 if (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is reset) then
6140 error_out(KDC_ERR_BADOPTION);
6142 if (tgt.renew-till < kdc_time) then
6143 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
6146 new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
6147 old_life := tgt.endttime - tgt.starttime;
6148 new_tkt.endtime := min(tgt.renew-till,
6149 new_tkt.starttime + old_life);
6151 new_tkt.starttime := kdc_time;
6152 if (req.till = 0) then
6157 new_tkt.endtime := min(till,
6159 new_tkt.starttime+client.max_life,
6161 new_tkt.starttime+server.max_life,
6163 new_tkt.starttime+max_life_for_realm,
6166 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
6171 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6175 if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE-OK is set) and
6176 (new_tkt.endtime < req.till) and
6177 (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set) then
6178 /* we set the RENEWABLE option for later
6180 set req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE;
6181 req.rtime := min(req.till, tgt.renew-till);
6185 if (req.rtime = 0) then
6191 if ((req.kdc-options.RENEWABLE is set) and
6192 (tgt.flags.RENEWABLE is set)) then
6193 set new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE;
6194 new_tkt.renew-till := min(rtime,
6196 new_tkt.starttime+client.max_rlife,
6198 new_tkt.starttime+server.max_rlife,
6200 new_tkt.starttime+max_rlife_for_realm,
6203 new_tkt.renew-till := OMIT; /* leave the renew-till
6206 if (req.enc-authorization-data is present) then
6207 decrypt req.enc-authorization-data into
6208 decrypted_authorization_data
6209 using auth_hdr.authenticator.subkey;
6210 if (decrypt_error()) then
6211 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
6214 new_tkt.authorization_data :=
6215 req.auth_hdr.ticket.authorization_data +
6216 decrypted_authorization_data;
6218 new_tkt.key := session;
6219 new_tkt.crealm := tgt.crealm;
6220 new_tkt.cname := req.auth_hdr.ticket.cname;
6222 if (realm_tgt_is_for(tgt) := tgt.realm) then
6223 /* tgt issued by local realm */
6224 new_tkt.transited := tgt.transited;
6226 /* was issued for this realm by some other realm */
6227 if (tgt.transited.tr-type not supported) then
6228 error_out(KDC_ERR_TRTYPE_NOSUPP);
6230 new_tkt.transited := compress_transited(tgt.transited +
6232 /* Don't check tranited field if TGT for foreign realm,
6233 * or requested not to check */
6234 if (is_not_foreign_tgt_name(new_tkt.server)
6235 && req.kdc-options.DISABLE-TRANSITED-CHECK not set)
6237 /* Check it, so end-server does not have to
6238 * but don't fail, end-server may still accept
6240 if (check_transited_field(new_tkt.transited) ==
6243 new_tkt.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED;
6248 encode encrypted part of new_tkt into OCTET STRING;
6249 if (req.kdc-options.ENC-TKT-IN-SKEY is set) then
6250 if (server not specified) then
6252 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
6257 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6260 server = req.second_ticket.client;
6262 if ((req.second_ticket is not a TGT) or
6263 (req.second_ticket.client != server)) then
6264 error_out(KDC_ERR_POLICY);
6267 new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using
6268 using etype_for_key(second-ticket.key),
6271 new_tkt.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING
6272 using etype_for_key(server.key), server.key,
6277 resp.msg-type := KRB_TGS_REP;
6278 resp.crealm := tgt.crealm;
6279 resp.cname := tgt.cname;
6280 resp.ticket := new_tkt;
6282 resp.key := session;
6283 resp.nonce := req.nonce;
6284 resp.last-req := fetch_last_request_info(client);
6285 resp.flags := new_tkt.flags;
6287 resp.authtime := new_tkt.authtime;
6288 resp.starttime := new_tkt.starttime;
6289 resp.endtime := new_tkt.endtime;
6291 omit resp.key-expiration;
6293 resp.sname := new_tkt.sname;
6294 resp.realm := new_tkt.realm;
6296 if (new_tkt.flags.RENEWABLE) then
6297 resp.renew-till := new_tkt.renew-till;
6300 encode body of reply into OCTET STRING;
6302 if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
6303 resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
6304 req.padata.authenticator.subkey;
6305 else resp.enc-part := encrypt OCTET STRING using use_etype,
6310 A.7. KRB_TGS_REP verification
6312 decode response into resp;
6314 if (resp.msg-type = KRB_ERROR) then
6315 process_error(resp);
6319 /* On error, discard the response, and zero the session key
6321 the response immediately */
6323 if (req.padata.authenticator.subkey)
6324 unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
6326 using resp.enc-part.etype and subkey;
6327 else unencrypted part of resp := decode of decrypt of
6329 using resp.enc-part.etype and tgt's
6331 if (common_as_rep_tgs_rep_checks fail) then
6333 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
6338 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6345 check authorization_data as necessary;
6346 save_for_later(ticket,session,client,server,times,flags);
6348 A.8. Authenticator generation
6350 body.authenticator-vno := authenticator vno; /* = 5 */
6351 body.cname, body.crealm := client name;
6352 if (supplying checksum) then
6353 body.cksum := checksum;
6356 body.ctime, body.cusec := system_time;
6357 if (selecting sub-session key) then
6358 select sub-session key;
6359 body.subkey := sub-session key;
6361 if (using sequence numbers) then
6362 select initial sequence number;
6363 body.seq-number := initial sequence;
6366 A.9. KRB_AP_REQ generation
6368 obtain ticket and session_key from cache;
6370 packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
6371 packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REQ */
6373 if (desired(MUTUAL_AUTHENTICATION)) then
6374 set packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
6376 reset packet.ap-options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED;
6378 if (using session key for ticket) then
6379 set packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
6381 reset packet.ap-options.USE-SESSION-KEY;
6383 packet.ticket := ticket; /* ticket */
6384 generate authenticator;
6385 encode authenticator into OCTET STRING;
6386 encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.authenticator using
6389 A.10. KRB_AP_REQ verification
6392 if (packet.pvno != 5) then
6393 either process using other protocol spec
6394 or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
6396 if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REQ) then
6397 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
6399 if (packet.ticket.tkt_vno != 5) then
6400 either process using other protocol spec
6401 or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
6403 if (packet.ap_options.USE-SESSION-KEY is set) then
6404 retrieve session key from ticket-granting ticket for
6405 packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype};
6408 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
6413 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6416 retrieve service key for
6418 packet.ticket.{sname,srealm,enc-part.etype,enc-part.skvno};
6420 if (no_key_available) then
6421 if (cannot_find_specified_skvno) then
6422 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADKEYVER);
6424 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_NOKEY);
6427 decrypt packet.ticket.enc-part into decr_ticket using retrieved
6429 if (decryption_error()) then
6430 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
6432 decrypt packet.authenticator into decr_authenticator
6433 using decr_ticket.key;
6434 if (decryption_error()) then
6435 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
6437 if (decr_authenticator.{cname,crealm} !=
6438 decr_ticket.{cname,crealm}) then
6439 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADMATCH);
6441 if (decr_ticket.caddr is present) then
6442 if (sender_address(packet) is not in decr_ticket.caddr)
6444 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
6446 elseif (application requires addresses) then
6447 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
6449 if (not in_clock_skew(decr_authenticator.ctime,
6450 decr_authenticator.cusec)) then
6451 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
6453 if (repeated(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm}))
6455 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
6457 save_identifier(decr_authenticator.{ctime,cusec,cname,crealm});
6459 if ((decr_ticket.starttime-system_time > CLOCK_SKEW) or
6460 (decr_ticket.flags.INVALID is set)) then
6461 /* it hasn't yet become valid */
6462 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_NYV);
6464 if (system_time-decr_ticket.endtime > CLOCK_SKEW) then
6465 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED);
6467 if (decr_ticket.transited) then
6468 /* caller may ignore the TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED and do
6470 if (decr_ticket.flags.TRANSITED-POLICY-CHECKED not set)
6472 if (check_transited_field(decr_ticket.transited) then
6473 error_out(KDC_AP_PATH_NOT_ACCPETED);
6477 /* caller must check decr_ticket.flags for any pertinent
6479 return(OK, decr_ticket, packet.ap_options.MUTUAL-REQUIRED);
6481 A.11. KRB_AP_REP generation
6483 packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
6484 packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_AP_REP */
6486 body.ctime := packet.ctime;
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6496 body.cusec := packet.cusec;
6497 if (selecting sub-session key) then
6498 select sub-session key;
6499 body.subkey := sub-session key;
6501 if (using sequence numbers) then
6502 select initial sequence number;
6503 body.seq-number := initial sequence;
6506 encode body into OCTET STRING;
6508 select encryption type;
6509 encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part;
6511 A.12. KRB_AP_REP verification
6514 if (packet.pvno != 5) then
6515 either process using other protocol spec
6516 or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
6518 if (packet.msg-type != KRB_AP_REP) then
6519 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
6521 cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using ticket's session
6523 if (decryption_error()) then
6524 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
6526 if (cleartext.ctime != authenticator.ctime) then
6527 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
6529 if (cleartext.cusec != authenticator.cusec) then
6530 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MUT_FAIL);
6532 if (cleartext.subkey is present) then
6533 save cleartext.subkey for future use;
6535 if (cleartext.seq-number is present) then
6536 save cleartext.seq-number for future verifications;
6538 return(AUTHENTICATION_SUCCEEDED);
6540 A.13. KRB_SAFE generation
6542 collect user data in buffer;
6544 /* assemble packet: */
6545 packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
6546 packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_SAFE */
6548 body.user-data := buffer; /* DATA */
6549 if (using timestamp) then
6551 body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
6553 if (using sequence numbers) then
6554 body.seq-number := sequence number;
6556 body.s-address := sender host addresses;
6557 if (only one recipient) then
6558 body.r-address := recipient host address;
6560 checksum.cksumtype := checksum type;
6561 compute checksum over body;
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6568 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6571 checksum.checksum := checksum value; /* checksum.checksum */
6572 packet.cksum := checksum;
6573 packet.safe-body := body;
6575 A.14. KRB_SAFE verification
6578 if (packet.pvno != 5) then
6579 either process using other protocol spec
6580 or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
6582 if (packet.msg-type != KRB_SAFE) then
6583 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
6585 if (packet.checksum.cksumtype is not both collision-proof and
6587 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_INAPP_CKSUM);
6589 if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(packet)) then
6590 set computed_checksum := checksum(packet.body);
6591 if (computed_checksum != packet.checksum) then
6592 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
6594 return (packet, PACKET_IS_GENUINE);
6596 return common_checks_error;
6599 A.15. KRB_SAFE and KRB_PRIV common checks
6601 if (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
6602 /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it
6604 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
6606 if ((packet.r-address is present) and
6607 (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
6608 /* was not sent to proper place */
6609 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
6611 if (((packet.timestamp is present) and
6612 (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec))) or
6613 (packet.timestamp is not present and timestamp expected))
6615 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
6617 if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address))
6619 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
6622 if (((packet.seq-number is present) and
6623 ((not in_sequence(packet.seq-number)))) or
6624 (packet.seq-number is not present and sequence expected))
6626 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADORDER);
6628 if (packet.timestamp not present and packet.seq-number not
6630 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
6633 save_identifier(packet.{timestamp,usec,s-address},
6634 sender_principal(packet));
6636 return PACKET_IS_OK;
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6647 A.16. KRB_PRIV generation
6649 collect user data in buffer;
6651 /* assemble packet: */
6652 packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
6653 packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_PRIV */
6655 packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
6657 body.user-data := buffer;
6658 if (using timestamp) then
6660 body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
6662 if (using sequence numbers) then
6663 body.seq-number := sequence number;
6665 body.s-address := sender host addresses;
6666 if (only one recipient) then
6667 body.r-address := recipient host address;
6670 encode body into OCTET STRING;
6672 select encryption type;
6673 encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher;
6675 A.17. KRB_PRIV verification
6678 if (packet.pvno != 5) then
6679 either process using other protocol spec
6680 or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
6682 if (packet.msg-type != KRB_PRIV) then
6683 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
6686 cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
6687 if (decryption_error()) then
6688 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
6691 if (safe_priv_common_checks_ok(cleartext)) then
6692 return(cleartext.DATA,
6693 PACKET_IS_GENUINE_AND_UNMODIFIED);
6695 return common_checks_error;
6698 A.18. KRB_CRED generation
6700 invoke KRB_TGS; /* obtain tickets to be provided to peer */
6702 /* assemble packet: */
6703 packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
6704 packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_CRED */
6706 for (tickets[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
6707 packet.tickets[n] = tickets[n].ticket;
6710 packet.enc-part.etype := encryption type;
6712 for (ticket[n] in tickets to be forwarded) do
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6722 body.ticket-info[n].key = tickets[n].session;
6723 body.ticket-info[n].prealm = tickets[n].crealm;
6724 body.ticket-info[n].pname = tickets[n].cname;
6725 body.ticket-info[n].flags = tickets[n].flags;
6726 body.ticket-info[n].authtime = tickets[n].authtime;
6727 body.ticket-info[n].starttime = tickets[n].starttime;
6728 body.ticket-info[n].endtime = tickets[n].endtime;
6729 body.ticket-info[n].renew-till = tickets[n].renew-till;
6730 body.ticket-info[n].srealm = tickets[n].srealm;
6731 body.ticket-info[n].sname = tickets[n].sname;
6732 body.ticket-info[n].caddr = tickets[n].caddr;
6736 body.timestamp, body.usec := system_time;
6738 if (using nonce) then
6739 body.nonce := nonce;
6742 if (using s-address) then
6743 body.s-address := sender host addresses;
6745 if (limited recipients) then
6746 body.r-address := recipient host address;
6749 encode body into OCTET STRING;
6751 select encryption type;
6752 encrypt OCTET STRING into packet.enc-part.cipher
6753 using negotiated encryption key;
6755 A.19. KRB_CRED verification
6758 if (packet.pvno != 5) then
6759 either process using other protocol spec
6760 or error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADVERSION);
6762 if (packet.msg-type != KRB_CRED) then
6763 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE);
6766 cleartext := decrypt(packet.enc-part) using negotiated key;
6767 if (decryption_error()) then
6768 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY);
6770 if ((packet.r-address is present or required) and
6771 (packet.s-address != O/S_sender(packet)) then
6772 /* O/S report of sender not who claims to have sent it
6774 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
6776 if ((packet.r-address is present) and
6777 (packet.r-address != local_host_address)) then
6778 /* was not sent to proper place */
6779 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_BADADDR);
6781 if (not in_clock_skew(packet.timestamp,packet.usec)) then
6782 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW);
6784 if (repeated(packet.timestamp,packet.usec,packet.s-address))
6786 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_REPEAT);
6788 if (packet.nonce is required or present) and
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6795 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
6798 (packet.nonce != expected-nonce) then
6799 error_out(KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
6802 for (ticket[n] in tickets that were forwarded) do
6803 save_for_later(ticket[n],key[n],principal[n],
6804 server[n],times[n],flags[n]);
6807 A.20. KRB_ERROR generation
6809 /* assemble packet: */
6810 packet.pvno := protocol version; /* 5 */
6811 packet.msg-type := message type; /* KRB_ERROR */
6814 packet.stime, packet.susec := system_time;
6815 packet.realm, packet.sname := server name;
6817 if (client time available) then
6818 packet.ctime, packet.cusec := client_time;
6820 packet.error-code := error code;
6821 if (client name available) then
6822 packet.cname, packet.crealm := client name;
6824 if (error text available) then
6825 packet.e-text := error text;
6827 if (error data available) then
6828 packet.e-data := error data;
6831 B. Definition of common authorization data elements
6833 This appendix contains the definitions of common authorization data
6834 elements. These common authorization data elements are recursivly
6835 defined, meaning the ad-data for these types will itself contain a
6836 sequence of authorization data whose interpretation is affected by the
6837 encapsulating element. Depending on the meaning of the encapsulating
6838 element, the encapsulated elements may be ignored, might be
6839 interpreted as issued directly by the KDC, or they might be stored in
6840 a separate plaintext part of the ticket. The types of the
6841 encapsulating elements are specified as part of the Kerberos
6842 specification because the behavior based on these values should be
6843 understood across implementations whereas other elements need only be
6844 understood by the applications which they affect.
6846 In the definitions that follow, the value of the ad-type for the
6847 element will be specified in the subsection number, and the value of
6848 the ad-data will be as shown in the ASN.1 structure that follows the
6853 AD-IF-RELEVANT AuthorizationData
6855 AD elements encapsulated within the if-relevant element are intended
6856 for interpretation only by application servers that understand the
6857 particular ad-type of the embedded element. Application servers that
6858 do not understand the type of an element embedded within the
6859 if-relevant element may ignore the uninterpretable element. This
6860 element promotes interoperability across implementations which may
6861 have local extensions for authorization.
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6872 B.2. Intended for server
6874 AD-INTENDED-FOR-SERVER SEQUENCE {
6875 intended-server[0] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
6876 elements[1] AuthorizationData
6879 AD elements encapsulated within the intended-for-server element may be
6880 ignored if the application server is not in the list of principal
6881 names of intended servers. Further, a KDC issuing a ticket for an
6882 application server can remove this element if the application server
6883 is not in the list of intended servers.
6885 Application servers should check for their principal name in the
6886 intended-server field of this element. If their principal name is not
6887 found, this element should be ignored. If found, then the encapsulated
6888 elements should be evaluated in the same manner as if they were
6889 present in the top level authorization data field. Applications and
6890 application servers that do not implement this element should reject
6891 tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
6893 B.3. Intended for application class
6895 AD-INTENDED-FOR-APPLICATION-CLASS SEQUENCE {
6896 intended-application-class[0] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString elements[1]
6897 AuthorizationData } AD elements encapsulated within the
6898 intended-for-application-class element may be ignored if the
6899 application server is not in one of the named classes of application
6900 servers. Examples of application server classes include "FILESYSTEM",
6901 and other kinds of servers.
6903 This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
6904 applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
6909 AD-KDCIssued SEQUENCE {
6910 ad-checksum[0] Checksum,
6911 i-realm[1] Realm OPTIONAL,
6912 i-sname[2] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
6913 elements[3] AuthorizationData.
6917 A checksum over the elements field using a cryptographic checksum
6918 method that is identical to the checksum used to protect the
6919 ticket itself (i.e. using the same hash function and the same
6920 encryption algorithm used to encrypt the ticket) and using a key
6921 derived from the same key used to protect the ticket.
6923 The name of the issuing principal if different from the KDC
6924 itself. This field would be used when the KDC can verify the
6925 authenticity of elements signed by the issuing principal and it
6926 allows this KDC to notify the application server of the validity
6929 A sequence of authorization data elements issued by the KDC.
6930 The KDC-issued ad-data field is intended to provide a means for
6931 Kerberos principal credentials to embed within themselves privilege
6932 attributes and other mechanisms for positive authorization, amplifying
6933 the priveleges of the principal beyond what can be done using a
6934 credentials without such an a-data element.
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6945 This can not be provided without this element because the definition
6946 of the authorization-data field allows elements to be added at will by
6947 the bearer of a TGT at the time that they request service tickets and
6948 elements may also be added to a delegated ticket by inclusion in the
6951 For KDC-issued elements this is prevented because the elements are
6952 signed by the KDC by including a checksum encrypted using the server's
6953 key (the same key used to encrypt the ticket - or a key derived from
6954 that key). Elements encapsulated with in the KDC-issued element will
6955 be ignored by the application server if this "signature" is not
6956 present. Further, elements encapsulated within this element from a
6957 ticket granting ticket may be interpreted by the KDC, and used as a
6958 basis according to policy for including new signed elements within
6959 derivative tickets, but they will not be copied to a derivative ticket
6960 directly. If they are copied directly to a derivative ticket by a KDC
6961 that is not aware of this element, the signature will not be correct
6962 for the application ticket elements, and the field will be ignored by
6963 the application server.
6965 This element and the elements it encapulates may be safely ignored by
6966 applications, application servers, and KDCs that do not implement this
6971 AD-AND-OR SEQUENCE {
6972 condition-count[0] INTEGER,
6973 elements[1] AuthorizationData
6976 When restrictive AD elements encapsulated within the and-or element
6977 are encountered, only the number specified in condition-count of the
6978 encapsulated conditions must be met in order to satisfy this element.
6979 This element may be used to implement an "or" operation by setting the
6980 condition-count field to 1, and it may specify an "and" operation by
6981 setting the condition count to the number of embedded elements.
6982 Application servers that do not implement this element must reject
6983 tickets that contain authorization data elements of this type.
6985 B.6. Mandatory ticket extensions
6987 AD-Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions SEQUENCE {
6989 te-checksum[0] Checksum
6992 An authorization data element of type mandatory-ticket-extensions
6993 specifies the type and a collision-proof checksum using the same hash
6994 algorithm used to protect the integrity of the ticket itself. This
6995 checksum will be calculated over an individual extension field of the
6996 type indicated. If there are more than one extension, multiple
6997 Mandatory-Ticket-Extensions authorization data elements may be
6998 present, each with a checksum for a different extension field. This
6999 restriction indicates that the ticket should not be accepted if a
7000 ticket extension is not present in the ticket for which the type and
7001 checksum do not match that checksum specified in the authorization
7002 data element. Note that although the type is redundant for the
7003 purposes of the comparison, it makes the comparison easier when
7004 multiple extensions are present. Application servers that do not
7005 implement this element must reject tickets that contain authorization
7006 data elements of this type.
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7017 B.7. Authorization Data in ticket extensions
7019 AD-IN-Ticket-Extensions Checksum
7021 An authorization data element of type in-ticket-extensions specifies a
7022 collision-proof checksum using the same hash algorithm used to protect
7023 the integrity of the ticket itself. This checksum is calculated over a
7024 separate external AuthorizationData field carried in the ticket
7025 extensions. Application servers that do not implement this element
7026 must reject tickets that contain authorization data elements of this
7027 type. Application servers that do implement this element will search
7028 the ticket extensions for authorization data fields, calculate the
7029 specified checksum over each authorization data field and look for one
7030 matching the checksum in this in-ticket-extensions element. If not
7031 found, then the ticket must be rejected. If found, the corresponding
7032 authorization data elements will be interpreted in the same manner as
7033 if they were contained in the top level authorization data field.
7035 Note that if multiple external authorization data fields are present
7036 in a ticket, each will have a corresponding element of type
7037 in-ticket-extensions in the top level authorization data field, and
7038 the external entries will be linked to the corresponding element by
7041 C. Definition of common ticket extensions
7043 This appendix contains the definitions of common ticket extensions.
7044 Support for these extensions is optional. However, certain extensions
7045 have associated authorization data elements that may require rejection
7046 of a ticket containing an extension by application servers that do not
7047 implement the particular extension. Other extensions have been defined
7048 beyond those described in this specification. Such extensions are
7049 described elswhere and for some of those extensions the reserved
7050 number may be found in the list of constants.
7052 It is known that older versions of Kerberos did not support this
7053 field, and that some clients will strip this field from a ticket when
7054 they parse and then reassemble a ticket as it is passed to the
7055 application servers. The presence of the extension will not break such
7056 clients, but any functionaly dependent on the extensions will not work
7057 when such tickets are handled by old clients. In such situations, some
7058 implementation may use alternate methods to transmit the information
7059 in the extensions field.
7061 C.1. Null ticket extension
7063 TE-NullExtension OctetString -- The empty Octet String
7065 The te-data field in the null ticket extension is an octet string of
7066 lenght zero. This extension may be included in a ticket granting
7067 ticket so that the KDC can determine on presentation of the ticket
7068 granting ticket whether the client software will strip the extensions
7071 C.2. External Authorization Data
7073 TE-ExternalAuthorizationData AuthorizationData
7075 The te-data field in the external authorization data ticket extension
7076 is field of type AuthorizationData containing one or more
7077 authorization data elements. If present, a corresponding authorization
7078 data element will be present in the primary authorization data for the
7079 ticket and that element will contain a checksum of the external
7080 authorization data ticket extension.
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7090 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
7091 [TM] Project Athena, Athena, and Kerberos are trademarks of the
7092 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of
7093 these trademarks may be made without prior written permission of MIT.
7095 [1] Note, however, that many applications use Kerberos' functions only
7096 upon the initiation of a stream-based network connection. Unless an
7097 application subsequently provides integrity protection for the data
7098 stream, the identity verification applies only to the initiation of
7099 the connection, and does not guarantee that subsequent messages on the
7100 connection originate from the same principal.
7102 [2] Secret and private are often used interchangeably in the
7103 literature. In our usage, it takes two (or more) to share a secret,
7104 thus a shared DES key is a secret key. Something is only private when
7105 no one but its owner knows it. Thus, in public key cryptosystems, one
7106 has a public and a private key.
7108 [3] Of course, with appropriate permission the client could arrange
7109 registration of a separately-named prin- cipal in a remote realm, and
7110 engage in normal exchanges with that realm's services. However, for
7111 even small numbers of clients this becomes cumbersome, and more
7112 automatic methods as described here are necessary.
7114 [4] Though it is permissible to request or issue tick- ets with no
7115 network addresses specified.
7117 [5] The password-changing request must not be honored unless the
7118 requester can provide the old password (the user's current secret
7119 key). Otherwise, it would be possible for someone to walk up to an
7120 unattended ses- sion and change another user's password.
7122 [6] To authenticate a user logging on to a local system, the
7123 credentials obtained in the AS exchange may first be used in a TGS
7124 exchange to obtain credentials for a local server. Those credentials
7125 must then be verified by a local server through successful completion
7126 of the Client/Server exchange.
7128 [7] "Random" means that, among other things, it should be impossible
7129 to guess the next session key based on knowledge of past session keys.
7130 This can only be achieved in a pseudo-random number generator if it is
7131 based on cryptographic principles. It is more desirable to use a truly
7132 random number generator, such as one based on measurements of random
7135 [8] Tickets contain both an encrypted and unencrypted portion, so
7136 cleartext here refers to the entire unit, which can be copied from one
7137 message and replayed in another without any cryptographic skill.
7139 [9] Note that this can make applications based on unreliable
7140 transports difficult to code correctly. If the transport might deliver
7141 duplicated messages, either a new authenticator must be generated for
7142 each retry, or the application server must match requests and replies
7143 and replay the first reply in response to a detected duplicate.
7145 [10] This is used for user-to-user authentication as described in [8].
7147 [11] Note that the rejection here is restricted to authenticators from
7148 the same principal to the same server. Other client principals
7149 communicating with the same server principal should not be have their
7150 authenticators rejected if the time and microsecond fields happen to
7151 match some other client's authenticator.
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7162 [12] In the Kerberos version 4 protocol, the timestamp in the reply
7163 was the client's timestamp plus one. This is not necessary in version
7164 5 because version 5 messages are formatted in such a way that it is
7165 not possible to create the reply by judicious message surgery (even in
7166 encrypted form) without knowledge of the appropriate encryption keys.
7168 [13] Note that for encrypting the KRB_AP_REP message, the sub-session
7169 key is not used, even if present in the Authenticator.
7171 [14] Implementations of the protocol may wish to provide routines to
7172 choose subkeys based on session keys and random numbers and to
7173 generate a negotiated key to be returned in the KRB_AP_REP message.
7175 [15]This can be accomplished in several ways. It might be known
7176 beforehand (since the realm is part of the principal identifier), it
7177 might be stored in a nameserver, or it might be obtained from a
7178 configura- tion file. If the realm to be used is obtained from a
7179 nameserver, there is a danger of being spoofed if the nameservice
7180 providing the realm name is not authenti- cated. This might result in
7181 the use of a realm which has been compromised, and would result in an
7182 attacker's ability to compromise the authentication of the application
7183 server to the client.
7185 [16] If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to
7186 ensure the randomness of the selected sub- session key. One approach
7187 would be to generate a random number and XOR it with the session key
7188 from the ticket-granting ticket.
7190 [17] This allows easy implementation of user-to-user authentication
7191 [8], which uses ticket-granting ticket session keys in lieu of secret
7192 server keys in situa- tions where such secret keys could be easily
7195 [18] For the purpose of appending, the realm preceding the first
7196 listed realm is considered to be the null realm ("").
7198 [19] For the purpose of interpreting null subfields, the client's
7199 realm is considered to precede those in the transited field, and the
7200 server's realm is considered to follow them.
7202 [20] This means that a client and server running on the same host and
7203 communicating with one another using the KRB_SAFE messages should not
7204 share a common replay cache to detect KRB_SAFE replays.
7206 [21] The implementation of the Kerberos server need not combine the
7207 database and the server on the same machine; it is feasible to store
7208 the principal database in, say, a network name service, as long as the
7209 entries stored therein are protected from disclosure to and
7210 modification by unauthorized parties. However, we recommend against
7211 such strategies, as they can make system management and threat
7212 analysis quite complex.
7214 [22] See the discussion of the padata field in section 5.4.2 for
7215 details on why this can be useful.
7217 [23] Warning for implementations that unpack and repack data
7218 structures during the generation and verification of embedded
7219 checksums: Because any checksums applied to data structures must be
7220 checked against the original data the length of bit strings must be
7221 preserved within a data structure between the time that a checksum is
7222 generated through transmission to the time that the checksum is
7226 Neuman, Ts'o, Kohl Expires: 14 January
7231 INTERNET-DRAFT draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-revisions-06 July 14,
7234 [24] It is NOT recommended that this time value be used to adjust the
7235 workstation's clock since the workstation cannot reliably determine
7236 that such a KRB_AS_REP actually came from the proper KDC in a timely
7239 [25] Note, however, that if the time is used as the nonce, one must
7240 make sure that the workstation time is monotonically increasing. If
7241 the time is ever reset backwards, there is a small, but finite,
7242 probability that a nonce will be reused.
7244 [27] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides
7245 an additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
7247 [29] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides
7248 an additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
7250 [31] An application code in the encrypted part of a message provides
7251 an additional check that the message was decrypted properly.
7253 [32] If supported by the encryption method in use, an initialization
7254 vector may be passed to the encryption procedure, in order to achieve
7255 proper cipher chaining. The initialization vector might come from the
7256 last block of the ciphertext from the previous KRB_PRIV message, but
7257 it is the application's choice whether or not to use such an
7258 initialization vector. If left out, the default initialization vector
7259 for the encryption algorithm will be used.
7261 [33] This prevents an attacker who generates an incorrect AS request
7262 from obtaining verifiable plaintext for use in an off-line password
7265 [35] In the above specification, UNTAGGED OCTET STRING(length) is the
7266 notation for an octet string with its tag and length removed. It is
7267 not a valid ASN.1 type. The tag bits and length must be removed from
7268 the confounder since the purpose of the confounder is so that the
7269 message starts with random data, but the tag and its length are fixed.
7270 For other fields, the length and tag would be redundant if they were
7271 included because they are specified by the encryption type. [36] The
7272 ordering of the fields in the CipherText is important. Additionally,
7273 messages encoded in this format must include a length as part of the
7274 msg-seq field. This allows the recipient to verify that the message
7275 has not been truncated. Without a length, an attacker could use a
7276 chosen plaintext attack to generate a message which could be
7277 truncated, while leaving the checksum intact. Note that if the msg-seq
7278 is an encoding of an ASN.1 SEQUENCE or OCTET STRING, then the length
7279 is part of that encoding.
7281 [37] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in"
7282 string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in
7285 [38] In some cases, it may be necessary to use a different "mix-in"
7286 string for compatibility reasons; see the discussion of padata in
7289 [39] A variant of the key is used to limit the use of a key to a
7290 particular function, separating the functions of generating a checksum
7291 from other encryption performed using the session key. The constant
7292 F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0 was chosen because it maintains key parity. The
7293 properties of DES precluded the use of the complement. The same
7294 constant is used for similar purpose in the Message Integrity Check in
7295 the Privacy Enhanced Mail standard.
7297 [40] This error carries additional information in the e- data field.
7298 The contents of the e-data field for this message is described in