2 INTERNET-DRAFT Brian Tung
3 draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-16.txt Clifford Neuman
4 Updates: RFC 1510bis USC/ISI
5 expires March 12, 2002 Matthew Hur
15 Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
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49 This document defines extensions (PKINIT) to the Kerberos protocol
50 specification (RFC 1510bis [1]) to provide a method for using public
51 key cryptography during initial authentication. The methods
52 defined specify the ways in which preauthentication data fields and
53 error data fields in Kerberos messages are to be used to transport
58 The popularity of public key cryptography has produced a desire for
59 its support in Kerberos [2]. The advantages provided by public key
60 cryptography include simplified key management (from the Kerberos
61 perspective) and the ability to leverage existing and developing
62 public key certification infrastructures.
64 Public key cryptography can be integrated into Kerberos in a number
65 of ways. One is to associate a key pair with each realm, which can
66 then be used to facilitate cross-realm authentication; this is the
67 topic of another draft proposal. Another way is to allow users with
68 public key certificates to use them in initial authentication. This
69 is the concern of the current document.
71 PKINIT utilizes ephemeral-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys in
72 combination with RSA keys as the primary, required mechanism. Note
73 that PKINIT supports the use of separate signature and encryption
76 PKINIT enables access to Kerberos-secured services based on initial
77 authentication utilizing public key cryptography. PKINIT utilizes
78 standard public key signature and encryption data formats within the
79 standard Kerberos messages. The basic mechanism is as follows: The
80 user sends an AS-REQ message to the KDC as before, except that if that
81 user is to use public key cryptography in the initial authentication
82 step, his certificate and a signature accompany the initial request
83 in the preauthentication fields. Upon receipt of this request, the
84 KDC verifies the certificate and issues a ticket granting ticket
85 (TGT) as before, except that the encPart from the AS-REP message
86 carrying the TGT is now encrypted utilizing either a Diffie-Hellman
87 derived key or the user's public key. This message is authenticated
88 utilizing the public key signature of the KDC.
90 Note that PKINIT does not require the use of certificates. A KDC
91 may store the public key of a principal as part of that principal's
92 record. In this scenario, the KDC is the trusted party that vouches
93 for the principal (as in a standard, non-cross realm, Kerberos
94 environment). Thus, for any principal, the KDC may maintain a
95 symmetric key, a public key, or both.
97 The PKINIT specification may also be used as a building block for
98 other specifications. PKINIT may be utilized to establish
99 inter-realm keys for the purposes of issuing cross-realm service
100 tickets. It may also be used to issue anonymous Kerberos tickets
101 using the Diffie-Hellman option. Efforts are under way to draft
102 specifications for these two application protocols.
104 Additionally, the PKINIT specification may be used for direct peer
105 to peer authentication without contacting a central KDC. This
106 application of PKINIT is based on concepts introduced in [6, 7].
107 For direct client-to-server authentication, the client uses PKINIT
108 to authenticate to the end server (instead of a central KDC), which
109 then issues a ticket for itself. This approach has an advantage
110 over TLS [5] in that the server does not need to save state (cache
111 session keys). Furthermore, an additional benefit is that Kerberos
112 tickets can facilitate delegation (see [6]).
114 3. Proposed Extensions
116 This section describes extensions to RFC 1510bis for supporting the
117 use of public key cryptography in the initial request for a ticket
118 granting ticket (TGT).
120 In summary, the following change to RFC 1510bis is proposed:
122 * Users may authenticate using either a public key pair or a
123 conventional (symmetric) key. If public key cryptography is
124 used, public key data is transported in preauthentication
125 data fields to help establish identity. The user presents
126 a public key certificate and obtains an ordinary TGT that may
127 be used for subsequent authentication, with such
128 authentication using only conventional cryptography.
130 Section 3.1 provides definitions to help specify message formats.
131 Section 3.2 describes the extensions for the initial authentication
136 The extensions involve new preauthentication fields; we introduce
137 the following preauthentication types:
142 The extensions also involve new error types; we introduce the
145 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 62
146 KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 63
147 KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG 64
148 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK 65
149 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH 66
150 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE 70
151 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE 71
152 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE 72
153 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN 73
154 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE 74
155 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH 75
156 KDC_ERR_KDC_NAME_MISMATCH 76
158 We utilize the following typed data for errors:
160 TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES 101
162 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS 104
163 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX 105
165 We utilize the following encryption types (which map directly to
169 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
170 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
172 rsaEncryption-EnvOID (PKCS#1 v1.5) 13
173 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID (PKCS#1 v2.0) 14
174 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
176 These mappings are provided so that a client may send the
177 appropriate enctypes in the AS-REQ message in order to indicate
178 support for the corresponding OIDs (for performing PKINIT). The
179 above encryption types are utilized only within CMS structures
180 within the PKINIT preauthentication fields. Their use within
181 the Kerberos EncryptedData structure is unspecified.
183 In many cases, PKINIT requires the encoding of the X.500 name of a
184 certificate authority as a Realm. When such a name appears as
185 a realm it will be represented using the "Other" form of the realm
186 name as specified in the naming constraints section of RFC 1510bis.
187 For a realm derived from an X.500 name, NAMETYPE will have the value
188 X500-RFC2253. The full realm name will appear as follows:
190 <nametype> + ":" + <string>
192 where nametype is "X500-RFC2253" and string is the result of doing
193 an RFC2253 encoding of the distinguished name, i.e.
195 "X500-RFC2253:" + RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
197 where DistinguishedName is an X.500 name, and RFC2253Encode is a
198 function returing a readable UTF encoding of an X.500 name, as
199 defined by RFC 2253 [11] (part of LDAPv3 [15]).
201 Each component of a DistinguishedName is called a
202 RelativeDistinguishedName, where a RelativeDistinguishedName is a
203 SET OF AttributeTypeAndValue. RFC 2253 does not specify the order
204 in which to encode the elements of the RelativeDistinguishedName and
205 so to ensure that this encoding is unique, we add the following rule
206 to those specified by RFC 2253:
208 When converting a multi-valued RelativeDistinguishedName
209 to a string, the output consists of the string encodings
210 of each AttributeTypeAndValue, in the same order as
211 specified by the DER encoding.
213 Similarly, in cases where the KDC does not provide a specific
214 policy-based mapping from the X.500 name or X.509 Version 3
215 SubjectAltName extension in the user's certificate to a Kerberos
216 principal name, PKINIT requires the direct encoding of the X.500
217 name as a PrincipalName. In this case, the name-type of the
218 principal name MUST be set to KRB_NT-X500-PRINCIPAL. This new
219 name type is defined in RFC 1510bis as:
221 KRB_NT_X500_PRINCIPAL 6
223 For this type, the name-string MUST be set as follows:
225 RFC2253Encode(DistinguishedName)
227 as described above. When this name type is used, the principal's
228 realm MUST be set to the certificate authority's distinguished
229 name using the X500-RFC2253 realm name format described earlier in
232 Note that the same string may be represented using several different
233 ASN.1 data types. As the result, the reverse conversion from an
234 RFC2253-encoded principal name back to an X.500 name may not be
235 unique and may result in an X.500 name that is not the same as the
236 original X.500 name found in the client certificate.
238 RFC 1510bis describes an alternate encoding of an X.500 name into a
239 realm name. However, as described in RFC 1510bis, the alternate
240 encoding does not guarantee a unique mapping from a
241 DistinguishedName inside a certificate into a realm name and
242 similarly cannot be used to produce a unique principal name. PKINIT
243 therefore uses an RFC 2253-based name mapping approach, as specified
246 RFC 1510bis specifies the ASN.1 structure for PrincipalName as follows:
248 PrincipalName ::= SEQUENCE {
249 name-type[0] INTEGER,
250 name-string[1] SEQUENCE OF GeneralString
253 The following rules relate to the the matching of PrincipalNames
254 with regard to the PKI name constraints for CAs as laid out in RFC
255 2459 [12]. In order to be regarded as a match (for permitted and
256 excluded name trees), the following MUST be satisfied.
258 1. If the constraint is given as a user plus realm name, or
259 as a client principal name plus realm name (as specified in
260 RFC 1510bis), the realm name MUST be valid (see 2.a-d below)
261 and the match MUST be exact, byte for byte.
263 2. If the constraint is given only as a realm name, matching
264 depends on the type of the realm:
266 a. If the realm contains a colon (':') before any equal
267 sign ('='), it is treated as a realm of type Other,
268 and MUST match exactly, byte for byte.
270 b. Otherwise, if the realm name conforms to rules regarding
271 the format of DNS names, it is considered a realm name of
272 type Domain. The constraint may be given as a realm
273 name 'FOO.BAR', which matches any PrincipalName within
274 the realm 'FOO.BAR' but not those in subrealms such as
275 'CAR.FOO.BAR'. A constraint of the form '.FOO.BAR'
276 matches PrincipalNames in subrealms of the form
277 'CAR.FOO.BAR' but not the realm 'FOO.BAR' itself.
279 c. Otherwise, the realm name is invalid and does not match
280 under any conditions.
282 3.1.1. Encryption and Key Formats
284 In the exposition below, we use the terms public key and private
285 key generically. It should be understood that the term "public
286 key" may be used to refer to either a public encryption key or a
287 signature verification key, and that the term "private key" may be
288 used to refer to either a private decryption key or a signature
289 generation key. The fact that these are logically distinct does
290 not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys for RSA
293 In the case of Diffie-Hellman, the key is produced from the agreed
294 bit string as follows:
296 * Truncate the bit string to the required length.
297 * Apply the specific cryptosystem's random-to-key function.
299 Appropriate key constraints for each valid cryptosystem are given
302 3.1.2. Algorithm Identifiers
304 PKINIT does not define, but does permit, the algorithm identifiers
307 3.1.2.1. Signature Algorithm Identifiers
309 The following signature algorithm identifiers specified in [8] and
310 in [12] are used with PKINIT:
312 sha-1WithRSAEncryption (RSA with SHA1)
313 md5WithRSAEncryption (RSA with MD5)
314 id-dsa-with-sha1 (DSA with SHA1)
316 3.1.2.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Algorithm Identifier
318 The following algorithm identifier shall be used within the
319 SubjectPublicKeyInfo data structure: dhpublicnumber
321 This identifier and the associated algorithm parameters are
322 specified in RFC 2459 [12].
324 3.1.2.3. Algorithm Identifiers for RSA Encryption
326 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
327 structure, for encrypting the temporary key with a public key:
329 rsaEncryption (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v1.5)
330 id-RSAES-OAEP (RSA encryption, PKCS#1 v2.0)
332 Both of the above RSA encryption schemes are specified in [13].
333 Currently, only PKCS#1 v1.5 is specified by CMS [8], although the
334 CMS specification says that it will likely include PKCS#1 v2.0 in
335 the future. (PKCS#1 v2.0 addresses adaptive chosen ciphertext
336 vulnerability discovered in PKCS#1 v1.5.)
338 3.1.2.4. Algorithm Identifiers for Encryption with Secret Keys
340 These algorithm identifiers are used inside the EnvelopedData data
341 structure in the PKINIT Reply, for encrypting the reply key with the
343 des-ede3-cbc (3-key 3-DES, CBC mode)
344 rc2-cbc (RC2, CBC mode)
346 The full definition of the above algorithm identifiers and their
347 corresponding parameters (an IV for block chaining) is provided in
348 the CMS specification [8].
350 3.2. Public Key Authentication
352 Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
353 compliance with PKINIT.
355 3.2.1. Client Request
357 Public keys may be signed by some certification authority (CA), or
358 they may be maintained by the KDC in which case the KDC is the
359 trusted authority. Note that the latter mode does not require the
362 The initial authentication request is sent as per RFC 1510bis, except
363 that a preauthentication field containing data signed by the user's
364 private key accompanies the request:
366 PA-PK-AS-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
368 signedAuthPack [0] ContentInfo,
369 -- Defined in CMS [8];
370 -- SignedData OID is {pkcs7 2}
371 -- AuthPack (below) defines the
372 -- data that is signed.
373 trustedCertifiers [1] SEQUENCE OF TrustedCas OPTIONAL,
374 -- This is a list of CAs that the
375 -- client trusts and that certify
377 kdcCert [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
378 -- As defined in CMS [8];
379 -- specifies a particular KDC
380 -- certificate if the client
382 encryptionCert [3] IssuerAndSerialNumber OPTIONAL
383 -- For example, this may be the
384 -- client's Diffie-Hellman
385 -- certificate, or it may be the
386 -- client's RSA encryption
390 TrustedCas ::= CHOICE {
391 principalName [0] KerberosName,
394 -- fully qualified X.500 name
395 -- as defined by X.509
396 issuerAndSerial [2] IssuerAndSerialNumber
397 -- Since a CA may have a number of
398 -- certificates, only one of which
402 The type of the ContentInfo in the signedAuthPack is SignedData.
403 Its usage is as follows:
405 The SignedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
406 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
407 IETF. The following describes how to fill in the fields of
410 1. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the PKAuthenticator
411 and, optionally, the client's Diffie Hellman public value.
413 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
414 pkauthdata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
415 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkauthdata (1)
417 b. The eContent field is data of the type AuthPack (below).
419 2. The signerInfos field contains the signature of AuthPack.
421 3. The Certificates field, when non-empty, contains the client's
422 certificate chain. If present, the KDC uses the public key
423 from the client's certificate to verify the signature in the
424 request. Note that the client may pass different certificate
425 chains that are used for signing or for encrypting. Thus,
426 the KDC may utilize a different client certificate for
427 signature verification than the one it uses to encrypt the
428 reply to the client. For example, the client may place a
429 Diffie-Hellman certificate in this field in order to convey
430 its static Diffie Hellman certificate to the KDC to enable
431 static-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman mode for the reply; in this
432 case, the client does NOT place its public value in the
433 AuthPack (defined below). As another example, the client may
434 place an RSA encryption certificate in this field. However,
435 there MUST always be (at least) a signature certificate.
437 4. When a DH key is being used, the public exponent is provided
438 in the subjectPublicKey field of the SubjectPublicKeyInfo and
439 the DH parameters are supplied as a DomainParameters in the
440 AlgorithmIdentitfier parameters. The DH paramters SHOULD be
441 chosen from the First and Second defined Oakley Groups [The
442 Internet Key Exchange (IKE) RFC-2409], if a server will not
443 accept either of these groups, it will respond with a krb-
444 error of KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. The accompanying e-data is
445 a SEQUENCE of TypedData that includes type
446 TD-DH-PARAMETERS (102) whose data-value is DomainParameters
447 with appropriate Diffie-Hellman parameters for the client to
450 5. The KDC may wish to use cached Diffie-Hellman parameters
451 (see Section 3.2.2, KDC Response). To indicate acceptance
452 of cached parameters, the client sends zero in the nonce
453 field of the PKAuthenticator. Zero is not a valid value
454 for this field under any other circumstances. If cached
455 parameters are used, the client and the KDC MUST perform
456 key derivation (for the appropriate cryptosystem) on the
457 resulting encryption key, as specified in RFC 1510bis. (With
458 a zero nonce, message binding is performed using the nonce
459 in the main request, which must be encrypted using the
460 encapsulated reply key.)
462 AuthPack ::= SEQUENCE {
463 pkAuthenticator [0] PKAuthenticator,
464 clientPublicValue [1] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL
465 -- if client is using Diffie-Hellman
466 -- (ephemeral-ephemeral only)
469 PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
471 -- for replay prevention as in RFC 1510bis
472 ctime [1] KerberosTime,
473 -- for replay prevention as in RFC 1510bis
475 -- zero only if client will accept
476 -- cached DH parameters from KDC;
477 -- must be non-zero otherwise
478 pachecksum [3] Checksum
479 -- Checksum over KDC-REQ-BODY
480 -- Defined by Kerberos spec;
481 -- must be unkeyed, e.g. sha1 or rsa-md5
484 SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
485 algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
487 subjectPublicKey BIT STRING
489 -- public exponent (INTEGER encoded
490 -- as payload of BIT STRING)
491 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [7]
493 AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE {
494 algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
495 -- for dhPublicNumber, this is
496 -- { iso (1) member-body (2) US (840)
497 -- ansi-x942(10046) number-type(2) 1 }
498 -- from RFC 2459 [12]
499 parameters ANY DEFINED by algorithm OPTIONAL
500 -- for dhPublicNumber, this is
502 } -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [7]
504 DomainParameters ::= SEQUENCE {
505 p INTEGER, -- odd prime, p=jq +1
506 g INTEGER, -- generator, g
507 q INTEGER, -- factor of p-1
508 j INTEGER OPTIONAL, -- subgroup factor
509 validationParms ValidationParms OPTIONAL
510 } -- as defined in RFC 2459 [12]
512 ValidationParms ::= SEQUENCE {
514 -- seed for the system parameter
515 -- generation process
517 -- integer value output as part
518 -- of the of the system parameter
519 -- prime generation process
520 } -- as defined in RFC 2459 [12]
522 If the client passes an issuer and serial number in the request,
523 the KDC is requested to use the referred-to certificate. If none
524 exists, then the KDC returns an error of type
525 KDC_ERR_CERTIFICATE_MISMATCH. It also returns this error if, on the
526 other hand, the client does not pass any trustedCertifiers,
527 believing that it has the KDC's certificate, but the KDC has more
528 than one certificate. The KDC should include information in the
529 KRB-ERROR message that indicates the KDC certificate(s) that a
530 client may utilize. This data is specified in the e-data, which
531 is defined in RFC 1510bis revisions as a SEQUENCE of TypedData:
533 TypedData ::= SEQUENCE {
534 data-type [0] INTEGER,
535 data-value [1] OCTET STRING,
536 } -- per Kerberos RFC 1510bis
538 where one of the TypedData elements is:
539 data-type = TD-PKINIT-CMS-CERTIFICATES = 101
540 data-value = CertificateSet // as specified by CMS [8]
542 The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks, to
543 bind the pre-authentication data to the KDC-REQ-BODY, and to bind the
544 request and response. The PKAuthenticator is signed with the client's
549 Upon receipt of the AS_REQ with PA-PK-AS-REQ pre-authentication
550 type, the KDC attempts to verify the client's certificate chain, if
551 one is provided in the request. This is done by verifying the
552 certification path against the KDC's policy of legitimate
555 If the KDC cannot find a trusted client certificate chain within
556 the PA-PK-AS-REQ, then the KDC sends back an error message of type
557 KDC_ERR_CANT_VERIFY_CERTIFICATE. Certificate chain validation is
558 defined in RFC 2459 [12]. The accompanying e-data for this error
559 code is a SEQUENCE of TypedData that includes type
560 TD-TRUSTED-CERTIFIERS (104) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
561 which is the DER encoding of
563 TrustedCertifiers ::= SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName
564 -- X.500 name encoded as a principal name
567 If while verifying a certificate chain the KDC determines that the
568 signature on one of the certificates in the CertificateSet from
569 the signedAuthPack fails verification, then the KDC returns an
570 error of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE. The accompanying
571 e-data is a SEQUENCE of TypedData that includes type
572 TD-CERTIFICATE-INDEX (105) whose data-value is an OCTET STRING
573 which is the DER encoding of the index into the CertificateSet
574 ordered as sent by the client.
576 CertificateIndex ::= INTEGER
577 -- 0 = 1st certificate,
578 -- (in order of encoding)
579 -- 1 = 2nd certificate, etc
581 The KDC may also check whether any of the certificates in the
582 client's chain has been revoked. If one of the certificates has
583 been revoked, then the KDC returns an error of type
584 KDC_ERR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE; if such a query reveals that
585 the certificate's revocation status is unknown or not
586 available, then if required by policy, the KDC returns the
587 appropriate error of type KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNKNOWN or
588 KDC_ERR_REVOCATION_STATUS_UNAVAILABLE. In any of these three
589 cases, the affected certificate is identified by the accompanying
590 e-data, which contains a CertificateIndex as described for
591 KDC_ERR_INVALID_CERTIFICATE.
593 If the certificate chain can be verified, but the name of the
594 client in the certificate does not match the client's name in the
595 request, then the KDC returns an error of type
596 KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NAME_MISMATCH. There is no accompanying e-data
599 Even if all succeeds, the KDC may--for policy reasons--decide not
600 to trust the client. In this case, the KDC returns an error message
601 of type KDC_ERR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED. One specific case of this is
602 the presence or absence of an Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) OID within
603 the certificate extensions. The rules regarding acceptability of
604 an EKU sequence (or the absence of any sequence) are a matter of
605 local policy. For the benefit of implementers, we define a PKINIT
606 EKU OID as the following: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
607 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkekuoid (2).
609 If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
610 signature on AuthPack. If that fails, the KDC returns an error
611 message of type KDC_ERR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC uses the
612 timestamp (ctime and cusec) in the PKAuthenticator to assure that
613 the request is not a replay. The KDC also verifies that its name
614 is specified in the PKAuthenticator.
616 If the clientPublicValue field is filled in, indicating that the
617 client wishes to use Diffie-Hellman key agreement, then the KDC
618 checks to see that the parameters satisfy its policy. If they do
619 not (e.g., the prime size is insufficient for the expected
620 encryption type), then the KDC sends back an error message of type
621 KDC_ERR_KEY_TOO_WEAK. The accompanying e-data is a SEQUENCE of
622 TypedData that includes type TD-DH-PARAMETERS (102) whose data-value
623 is DomainParameters with appropriate Diffie-Hellman parameters for
624 the client to retry the request. Otherwise, it generates its own
625 public and private values for the response.
627 The KDC also checks that the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator is
628 within the allowable window and that the principal name and realm
629 are correct. If the local (server) time and the client time in the
630 authenticator differ by more than the allowable clock skew, then the
631 KDC returns an error message of type KRB_AP_ERR_SKEW as defined in
634 Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510bis, except as
635 follows. The user's name in the ticket is determined by the
636 following decision algorithm:
638 1. If the KDC has a mapping from the name in the certificate
639 to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
641 2. If the certificate contains the SubjectAltName extention
642 and the local KDC policy defines a mapping from the
643 SubjectAltName to a Kerberos name, then use that name.
645 3. Use the name as represented in the certificate, mapping
646 as necessary (e.g., as per RFC 2253 for X.500 names). In
647 this case the realm in the ticket MUST be the name of the
648 certifier that issued the user's certificate.
650 Note that a principal name may be carried in the subjectAltName
651 field of a certificate. This name may be mapped to a principal
652 record in a security database based on local policy, for example
653 the subjectAltName may be kerberos/principal@realm format. In
654 this case the realm name is not that of the CA but that of the
655 local realm doing the mapping (or some realm name chosen by that
658 If a non-KDC X.509 certificate contains the principal name within
659 the subjectAltName version 3 extension, that name may utilize
660 KerberosName as defined below, or, in the case of an S/MIME
661 certificate [14], may utilize the email address. If the KDC
662 is presented with an S/MIME certificate, then the email address
663 within subjectAltName will be interpreted as a principal and realm
664 separated by the "@" sign, or as a name that needs to be mapped
665 according to local policy. If the resulting name does not correspond
666 to a registered principal name, then the principal name is formed as
667 defined in section 3.1.
669 The trustedCertifiers field contains a list of certification
670 authorities trusted by the client, in the case that the client does
671 not possess the KDC's public key certificate. If the KDC has no
672 certificate signed by any of the trustedCertifiers, then it returns
673 an error of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED.
675 KDCs should try to (in order of preference):
676 1. Use the KDC certificate identified by the serialNumber included
677 in the client's request.
678 2. Use a certificate issued to the KDC by one of the client's
680 If the KDC is unable to comply with any of these options, then the
681 KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED to the
684 The KDC encrypts the reply not with the user's long-term key, but
685 with the Diffie Hellman derived key or a random key generated
686 for this particular response which is carried in the padata field of
689 PA-PK-AS-REP ::= CHOICE {
691 dhSignedData [0] ContentInfo,
692 -- Defined in CMS [8] and used only with
693 -- Diffie-Hellman key exchange (if the
694 -- client public value was present in the
696 -- SignedData OID is {pkcs7 2}
697 -- This choice MUST be supported
698 -- by compliant implementations.
699 encKeyPack [1] ContentInfo
700 -- Defined in CMS [8].
701 -- The temporary key is encrypted
702 -- using the client public key
704 -- EnvelopedData OID is {pkcs7 3}
705 -- SignedReplyKeyPack, encrypted
706 -- with the temporary key, is also
710 The type of the ContentInfo in the dhSignedData is SignedData.
711 Its usage is as follows:
713 When the Diffie-Hellman option is used, dhSignedData in
714 PA-PK-AS-REP provides authenticated Diffie-Hellman parameters
715 of the KDC. The reply key used to encrypt part of the KDC reply
716 message is derived from the Diffie-Hellman exchange:
718 1. Both the KDC and the client calculate a secret value
719 (g^ab mod p), where a is the client's private exponent and
720 b is the KDC's private exponent.
722 2. Both the KDC and the client take the first N bits of this
723 secret value and convert it into a reply key. N depends on
726 a. For example, if the reply key is DES, N=64 bits, where
727 some of the bits are replaced with parity bits, according
730 b. As another example, if the reply key is (3-key) 3-DES,
731 N=192 bits, where some of the bits are replaced with
732 parity bits, according to FIPS PUB 74.
734 3. The encapContentInfo field MUST contain the KdcDHKeyInfo as
737 a. The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value for
738 pkdhkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
739 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkdhkeydata (2)
741 b. The eContent field is data of the type KdcDHKeyInfo
744 4. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
745 necessary for the client to establish trust in the KDC's
746 certificate based on the list of trusted certifiers sent by
747 the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. This field may be empty if
748 the client did not send to the KDC a list of trusted
749 certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning
750 that the client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
752 5. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at least
753 one member, since it contains the actual signature.
755 6. If the client indicated acceptance of cached Diffie-Hellman
756 parameters from the KDC, and the KDC supports such an option
757 (for performance reasons), the KDC should return a zero in
758 the nonce field and include the expiration time of the
759 parameters in the dhKeyExpiration field. If this time is
760 exceeded, the client SHOULD NOT use the reply. If the time
761 is absent, the client SHOULD NOT use the reply and MAY
762 resubmit a request with a non-zero nonce (thus indicating
763 non-acceptance of cached Diffie-Hellman parameters). As
764 indicated above in Section 3.2.1, Client Request, when the
765 KDC uses cached parameters, the client and the KDC MUST
766 perform key derivation (for the appropriate cryptosystem)
767 on the resulting encryption key, as specified in RFC 1510bis.
769 KdcDHKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
770 -- used only when utilizing Diffie-Hellman
771 subjectPublicKey [0] BIT STRING,
772 -- Equals public exponent (g^a mod p)
773 -- INTEGER encoded as payload of
776 -- Binds response to the request
777 -- Exception: Set to zero when KDC
778 -- is using a cached DH value
779 dhKeyExpiration [2] KerberosTime OPTIONAL
780 -- Expiration time for KDC's cached
784 The type of the ContentInfo in the encKeyPack is EnvelopedData. Its
787 The EnvelopedData data type is specified in the Cryptographic
788 Message Syntax, a product of the S/MIME working group of the
789 IETF. It contains a temporary key encrypted with the PKINIT
790 client's public key. It also contains a signed and encrypted
793 1. The originatorInfo field is not required, since that
794 information may be presented in the signedData structure
795 that is encrypted within the encryptedContentInfo field.
797 2. The optional unprotectedAttrs field is not required for
800 3. The recipientInfos field is a SET which MUST contain exactly
801 one member of the KeyTransRecipientInfo type for encryption
804 a. The encryptedKey field (in KeyTransRecipientInfo)
805 contains the temporary key which is encrypted with the
806 PKINIT client's public key.
808 4. The encryptedContentInfo field contains the signed and
811 a. The contentType field MUST contain the OID value for
812 id-signedData: iso (1) member-body (2) us (840)
813 rsadsi (113549) pkcs (1) pkcs7 (7) signedData (2)
815 b. The encryptedContent field is encrypted data of the CMS
816 type signedData as specified below.
818 i. The encapContentInfo field MUST contains the
821 * The eContentType field MUST contain the OID value
822 for pkrkeydata: iso (1) org (3) dod (6) internet (1)
823 security (5) kerberosv5 (2) pkinit (3) pkrkeydata (3)
825 * The eContent field is data of the type ReplyKeyPack
828 ii. The certificates field MUST contain the certificates
829 necessary for the client to establish trust in the
830 KDC's certificate based on the list of trusted
831 certifiers sent by the client in the PA-PK-AS-REQ.
832 This field may be empty if the client did not send
833 to the KDC a list of trusted certifiers (the
834 trustedCertifiers field was empty, meaning that the
835 client already possesses the KDC's certificate).
837 iii. The signerInfos field is a SET that MUST contain at
838 least one member, since it contains the actual
841 ReplyKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
842 -- not used for Diffie-Hellman
843 replyKey [0] EncryptionKey,
845 -- used to encrypt main reply
846 -- ENCTYPE is at least as strong as
847 -- ENCTYPE of session key
849 -- binds response to the request
850 -- must be same as the nonce
851 -- passed in the PKAuthenticator
855 3.2.2.1. Use of transited Field
857 Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
858 certificate is equivalent to a separate Kerberos realm, the name
859 of each certifier in the certificate chain MUST be added to the
860 transited field of the ticket. The format of these realm names is
861 defined in Section 3.1 of this document. If applicable, the
862 transit-policy-checked flag should be set in the issued ticket.
865 3.2.2.2. Kerberos Names in Certificates
867 The KDC's certificate(s) MUST bind the public key(s) of the KDC to
868 a name derivable from the name of the realm for that KDC. X.509
869 certificates MUST contain the principal name of the KDC (defined in
870 RFC 1510bis) as the SubjectAltName version 3 extension. Below is
871 the definition of this version 3 extension, as specified by the
874 subjectAltName EXTENSION ::= {
876 IDENTIFIED BY id-ce-subjectAltName
879 GeneralNames ::= SEQUENCE SIZE(1..MAX) OF GeneralName
881 GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
882 otherName [0] OtherName,
886 OtherName ::= SEQUENCE {
887 type-id OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
888 value [0] EXPLICIT ANY DEFINED BY type-id
891 For the purpose of specifying a Kerberos principal name, the value
892 in OtherName MUST be a KerberosName, defined as follows:
894 KerberosName ::= SEQUENCE {
896 principalName [1] PrincipalName
899 This specific syntax is identified within subjectAltName by setting
900 the type-id in OtherName to krb5PrincipalName, where (from the
901 Kerberos specification) we have
903 krb5 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso (1)
910 krb5PrincipalName OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { krb5 2 }
912 (This specification may also be used to specify a Kerberos name
913 within the user's certificate.) The KDC's certificate may be signed
914 directly by a CA, or there may be intermediaries if the server resides
915 within a large organization, or it may be unsigned if the client
916 indicates possession (and trust) of the KDC's certificate.
918 Note that the KDC's principal name has the instance equal to the
919 realm, and those fields should be appropriately set in the realm
920 and principalName fields of the KerberosName. This is the case
921 even when obtaining a cross-realm ticket using PKINIT.
924 3.2.3. Client Extraction of Reply
926 The client then extracts the random key used to encrypt the main
927 reply. This random key (in encPaReply) is encrypted with either the
928 client's public key or with a key derived from the DH values
929 exchanged between the client and the KDC. The client uses this
930 random key to decrypt the main reply, and subsequently proceeds as
931 described in RFC 1510bis.
933 3.2.4. Required Algorithms
935 Not all of the algorithms in the PKINIT protocol specification have
936 to be implemented in order to comply with the proposed standard.
937 Below is a list of the required algorithms:
939 * Diffie-Hellman public/private key pairs
940 * utilizing Diffie-Hellman ephemeral-ephemeral mode
941 * SHA1 digest and RSA for signatures
942 * SHA1 digest for the Checksum in the PKAuthenticator
943 * using Kerberos checksum type 'sha1'
944 * 3-key triple DES keys derived from the Diffie-Hellman Exchange
945 * 3-key triple DES Temporary and Reply keys
947 4. Logistics and Policy
949 This section describes a way to define the policy on the use of
950 PKINIT for each principal and request.
952 The KDC is not required to contain a database record for users
953 who use public key authentication. However, if these users are
954 registered with the KDC, it is recommended that the database record
955 for these users be modified to an additional flag in the attributes
956 field to indicate that the user should authenticate using PKINIT.
957 If this flag is set and a request message does not contain the
958 PKINIT preauthentication field, then the KDC sends back as error of
959 type KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED indicating that a preauthentication
960 field of type PA-PK-AS-REQ must be included in the request.
962 5. Security Considerations
964 PKINIT raises a few security considerations, which we will address
967 First of all, PKINIT extends the cross-realm model to the public
968 key infrastructure. Anyone using PKINIT must be aware of how the
969 certification infrastructure they are linking to works.
971 Also, as in standard Kerberos, PKINIT presents the possibility of
972 interactions between different cryptosystems of varying strengths,
973 and this now includes public-key cryptosystems. Many systems, for
974 instance, allow the use of 512-bit public keys. Using such keys
975 to wrap data encrypted under strong conventional cryptosystems,
976 such as triple-DES, may be inappropriate.
978 Care should be taken in how certificates are choosen for the purposes
979 of authentication using PKINIT. Some local policies require that key
980 escrow be applied for certain certificate types. People deploying
981 PKINIT should be aware of the implications of using certificates that
982 have escrowed keys for the purposes of authentication.
984 As described in Section 3.2, PKINIT allows for the caching of the
985 Diffie-Hellman parameters on the KDC side, for performance reasons.
986 For similar reasons, the signed data in this case does not vary from
987 message to message, until the cached parameters expire. Because of
988 the persistence of these parameters, the client and the KDC are to
989 use the appropriate key derivation measures (as described in RFC
990 1510bis) when using cached DH parameters.
992 PKINIT does not provide for a "return routability test" to prevent
993 attackers from mounting a denial of service attack on the KDC by
994 causing it to perform needless expensive cryptographic operations.
995 Strictly speaking, this is also true of base Kerberos, although the
996 potential cost is not as great in base Kerberos, because it does
997 not make use of public key cryptography.
999 Lastly, PKINIT calls for randomly generated keys for conventional
1000 cryptosystems. Many such systems contain systematically "weak"
1001 keys. For recommendations regarding these weak keys, see RFC
1006 Certificate chains can potentially grow quite large and span several
1007 UDP packets; this in turn increases the probability that a Kerberos
1008 message involving PKINIT extensions will be broken in transit. In
1009 light of the possibility that the Kerberos specification will
1010 require KDCs to accept requests using TCP as a transport mechanism,
1011 we make the same recommendation with respect to the PKINIT
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1082 Some of the ideas on which this proposal is based arose during
1083 discussions over several years between members of the SAAG, the IETF
1084 CAT working group, and the PSRG, regarding integration of Kerberos
1085 and SPX. Some ideas have also been drawn from the DASS system.
1086 These changes are by no means endorsed by these groups. This is an
1087 attempt to revive some of the goals of those groups, and this
1088 proposal approaches those goals primarily from the Kerberos
1089 perspective. Lastly, comments from groups working on similar ideas
1090 in DCE have been invaluable.
1094 This draft expires March 12, 2002.
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