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INTERNET-DRAFT Clifford Neuman
draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-03.txt Brian Tung
Updates: RFC 1510 ISI
expires September 30, 1997 John Wray
Digital Equipment Corporation
Ari Medvinsky
Matthew Hur
CyberSafe Corporation
Jonathan Trostle
Novell
Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos
0. Status Of this Memo
This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working
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The distribution of this memo is unlimited. It is filed as
draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-pk-init-03.txt, and expires September 30,
1997. Please send comments to the authors.
1. Abstract
This document defines extensions (PKINIT) to the Kerberos protocol
specification (RFC 1510 [1]) to provide a method for using public
key cryptography during initial authentication. The methods
defined specify the ways in which preauthentication data fields and
error data fields in Kerberos messages are to be used to transport
public key data.
2. Introduction
The popularity of public key cryptography has produced a desire for
its support in Kerberos [2]. The advantages provided by public key
cryptography include simplified key management (from the Kerberos
perspective) and the ability to leverage existing and developing
public key certification infrastructures.
Public key cryptography can be integrated into Kerberos in a number
of ways. One is to to associate a key pair with each realm, which
can then be used to facilitate cross-realm authentication; this is
the topic of another draft proposal. Another way is to allow users
with public key certificates to use them in initial authentication.
This is the concern of the current document.
One of the guiding principles in the design of PKINIT is that
changes should be as minimal as possible. As a result, the basic
mechanism of PKINIT is as follows: The user sends a request to the
KDC as before, except that if that user is to use public key
cryptography in the initial authentication step, his certificate
accompanies the initial request, in the preauthentication fields.
Upon receipt of this request, the KDC verifies the certificate and
issues a ticket granting ticket (TGT) as before, except that instead
of being encrypted in the user's long-term key (which is derived
from a password), it is encrypted in a randomly-generated key. This
random key is in turn encrypted using the public key certificate
that came with the request and signed using the KDC's signature key,
and accompanies the reply, in the preauthentication fields.
PKINIT also allows for users with only digital signature keys to
authenticate using those keys, and for users to store and retrieve
private keys on the KDC.
The PKINIT specification may also be used for direct peer to peer
authentication without contacting a central KDC. This application
of PKINIT is described in PKTAPP [4] and is based on concepts
introduced in [5, 6]. For direct client-to-server authentication,
the client uses PKINIT to authenticate to the end server (instead
of a central KDC), which then issues a ticket for itself. This
approach has an advantage over SSL [7] in that the server does not
need to save state (cache session keys). Furthermore, an
additional benefit is that Kerberos tickets can facilitate
delegation (see [8]).
3. Proposed Extensions
This section describes extensions to RFC 1510 for supporting the
use of public key cryptography in the initial request for a ticket
granting ticket (TGT).
In summary, the following changes to RFC 1510 are proposed:
--> Users may authenticate using either a public key pair or a
conventional (symmetric) key. If public key cryptography is
used, public key data is transported in preauthentication
data fields to help establish identity.
--> Users may store private keys on the KDC for retrieval during
Kerberos initial authentication.
This proposal addresses two ways that users may use public key
cryptography for initial authentication. Users may present public
key certificates, or they may generate their own session key,
signed by their digital signature key. In either case, the end
result is that the user obtains an ordinary TGT that may be used for
subsequent authentication, with such authentication using only
conventional cryptography.
Section 3.1 provides definitions to help specify message formats.
Section 3.2 and 3.3 describe the extensions for the two initial
authentication methods. Section 3.3 describes a way for the user to
store and retrieve his private key on the KDC.
3.1. Definitions
Hash and encryption types will be specified using ENCTYPE tags; we
propose the addition of the following types:
#define ENCTYPE_SIGN_DSA_GENERATE 0x0011
#define ENCTYPE_SIGN_DSA_VERIFY 0x0012
#define ENCTYPE_ENCRYPT_RSA_PRIV 0x0021
#define ENCTYPE_ENCRYPT_RSA_PUB 0x0022
allowing further signature types to be defined in the range 0x0011
through 0x001f, and further encryption types to be defined in the
range 0x0021 through 0x002f.
The extensions involve new preauthentication fields. The
preauthentication data types are in the range 17 through 21.
These values are also specified along with their corresponding
ASN.1 definition.
#define PA-PK-AS-REQ 17
#define PA-PK-AS-REP 18
#define PA-PK-AS-SIGN 19
#define PA-PK-KEY-REQ 20
#define PA-PK-KEY-REP 21
The extensions also involve new error types. The new error types
are in the range 227 through 229. They are:
#define KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED 227
#define KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED 228
#define KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG 229
In the exposition below, we use the following terms: encryption key,
decryption key, signature key, verification key. It should be
understood that encryption and verification keys are essentially
public keys, and decryption and signature keys are essentially
private keys. The fact that they are logically distinct does
not preclude the assignment of bitwise identical keys.
3.2. Standard Public Key Authentication
Implementation of the changes in this section is REQUIRED for
compliance with pk-init.
It is assumed that all public keys are signed by some certification
authority (CA). The initial authentication request is sent as per
RFC 1510, except that a preauthentication field containing data
signed by the user's signature key accompanies the request:
PA-PK-AS-REQ ::- SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 17
signedPKAuth [0] SignedPKAuthenticator,
userCert [1] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL,
-- the user's certificate
-- optionally followed by that
-- certificate's certifier chain
trustedCertifiers [2] SEQUENCE OF PrincipalName OPTIONAL
-- CAs that the client trusts
}
SignedPKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
pkAuth [0] PKAuthenticator,
pkAuthSig [1] Signature,
-- of pkAuth
-- using user's signature key
}
PKAuthenticator ::= SEQUENCE {
cusec [0] INTEGER,
-- for replay prevention
ctime [1] KerberosTime,
-- for replay prevention
nonce [2] INTEGER,
-- binds response to this request
kdcName [3] PrincipalName,
clientPubValue [4] SubjectPublicKeyInfo OPTIONAL,
-- for Diffie-Hellman algorithm
}
Signature ::= SEQUENCE {
signedHash [0] EncryptedData
-- of type Checksum
-- encrypted under signature key
}
Checksum ::= SEQUENCE {
cksumtype [0] INTEGER,
checksum [1] OCTET STRING
} -- as specified by RFC 1510
SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
algorithm [0] algorithmIdentifier,
subjectPublicKey [1] BIT STRING
} -- as specified by the X.509 recommendation [9]
Certificate ::= SEQUENCE {
CertType [0] INTEGER,
-- type of certificate
-- 1 = X.509v3 (DER encoding)
-- 2 = PGP (per PGP draft)
CertData [1] OCTET STRING
-- actual certificate
-- type determined by CertType
}
Note: If the signature uses RSA keys, then it is to be performed
as per PKCS #1.
The PKAuthenticator carries information to foil replay attacks,
to bind the request and response, and to optionally pass the
client's Diffie-Hellman public value (i.e. for using DSA in
combination with Diffie-Hellman). The PKAuthenticator is signed
with the private key corresponding to the public key in the
certificate found in userCert (or cached by the KDC).
In the PKAuthenticator, the client may specify the KDC name in one
of two ways: 1) a Kerberos principal name, or 2) the name in the
KDC's certificate (e.g., an X.500 name, or a PGP name). Note that
case #1 requires that the certificate name and the Kerberos principal
name be bound together (e.g., via an X.509v3 extension).
The userCert field is a sequence of certificates, the first of which
must be the user's public key certificate. Any subsequent
certificates will be certificates of the certifiers of the user's
certificate. These cerificates may be used by the KDC to verify the
user's public key. This field is empty if the KDC already has the
user's certifcate.
The trustedCertifiers field contains a list of certification
authorities trusted by the client, in the case that the client does
not possess the KDC's public key certificate.
Upon receipt of the AS_REQ with PA-PK-AS-REQ pre-authentication
type, the KDC attempts to verify the user's certificate chain
(userCert), if one is provided in the request. This is done by
verifying the certification path against the KDC's policy of
legitimate certifiers. This may be based on a certification
hierarchy, or it may be simply a list of recognized certifiers in a
system like PGP. If the certification path does not match one of
the KDC's trusted certifiers, the KDC sends back an error message of
type KDC_ERROR_CLIENT_NOT_TRUSTED, and it includes in the error data
field a list of its own trusted certifiers, upon which the client
resends the request.
If trustedCertifiers is provided in the PA-PK-AS-REQ, the KDC
verifies that it has a certificate issued by one of the certifiers
trusted by the client. If it does not have a suitable certificate,
the KDC returns an error message of type KDC_ERROR_KDC_NOT_TRUSTED
to the client.
If a trust relationship exists, the KDC then verifies the client's
signature on PKAuthenticator. If that fails, the KDC returns an
error message of type KDC_ERROR_INVALID_SIG. Otherwise, the KDC
uses the timestamp in the PKAuthenticator to assure that the request
is not a replay. The KDC also verifies that its name is specified
in PKAuthenticator.
Assuming no errors, the KDC replies as per RFC 1510, except that it
encrypts the reply not with the user's key, but with a random key
generated only for this particular response. This random key
is sealed in the preauthentication field:
PA-PK-AS-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 18
kdcCert [0] SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL,
-- the KDC's certificate
-- optionally followed by that
-- certificate's certifier chain
encPaReply [1] EncryptedData,
-- of type PaReply
-- using either the client public
-- key or the Diffie-Hellman key
-- specified by SignedDHPublicValue
signedDHPublicValue [2] SignedDHPublicValue OPTIONAL
}
PaReply ::= SEQUENCE {
replyEncKeyPack [0] ReplyEncKeyPack,
replyEncKeyPackSig [1] Signature,
-- of replyEncKeyPack
-- using KDC's signature key
}
ReplyEncKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
replyEncKey [0] EncryptionKey,
-- used to encrypt main reply
nonce [1] INTEGER
-- binds response to the request
-- passed in the PKAuthenticator
}
SignedDHPublicValue ::= SEQUENCE {
dhPublicValue [0] SubjectPublicKeyInfo,
dhPublicValueSig [1] Signature
-- of dhPublicValue
-- using KDC's signature key
}
The kdcCert field is a sequence of certificates, the first of which
must have as its root certifier one of the certifiers sent to the
KDC in the PA-PK-AS-REQ. Any subsequent certificates will be
certificates of the certifiers of the KDC's certificate. These
cerificates may be used by the client to verify the KDC's public
key. This field is empty if the client did not send to the KDC a
list of trusted certifiers (the trustedCertifiers field was empty).
Since each certifier in the certification path of a user's
certificate is essentially a separate realm, the name of each
certifier shall be added to the transited field of the ticket. The
format of these realm names shall follow the naming constraints set
forth in RFC 1510 (sections 7.1 and 3.3.3.1). Note that this will
require new nametypes to be defined for PGP certifiers and other
types of realms as they arise.
The KDC's certificate must bind the public key to a name derivable
from the name of the realm for that KDC. The client then extracts
the random key used to encrypt the main reply. This random key (in
encPaReply) is encrypted with either the client's public key or
with a key derived from the DH values exchanged between the client
and the KDC.
3.3. Digital Signature
Implementation of the changes in this section are OPTIONAL for
compliance with pk-init.
We offer this option with the warning that it requires the client to
generate a random key; the client may not be able to guarantee the
same level of randomness as the KDC.
If the user registered a digital signature key with the KDC instead
of an encryption key, then a separate exchange must be used. The
client sends a request for a TGT as usual, except that it (rather
than the KDC) generates the random key that will be used to encrypt
the KDC response. This key is sent to the KDC along with the
request in a preauthentication field:
PA-PK-AS-SIGN ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 19
encSignedKeyPack [0] EncryptedData
-- of SignedKeyPack
-- using the KDC's public key
}
SignedKeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
signedKey [0] KeyPack,
signedKeyAuth [1] PKAuthenticator,
signedKeySig [2] Signature
-- of signedKey.signedKeyAuth
-- using user's signature key
}
KeyPack ::= SEQUENCE {
randomKey [0] EncryptionKey,
-- will be used to encrypt reply
nonce [1] INTEGER
}
where the nonce is copied from the request.
Upon receipt of the PA-PK-AS-SIGN, the KDC decrypts then verifies
the randomKey. It then replies as per RFC 1510, except that the
reply is encrypted not with a password-derived user key, but with
the randomKey sent in the request. Since the client already knows
this key, there is no need to accompany the reply with an extra
preauthentication field. The transited field of the ticket should
specify the certification path as described in Section 3.2.
3.4. Retrieving the Private Key From the KDC
Implementation of the changes in this section is RECOMMENDED for
compliance with pk-init.
When the user's private key is not stored local to the user, he may
choose to store the private key (normally encrypted using a
password-derived key) on the KDC. We provide this option to present
the user with an alternative to storing the private key on local
disk at each machine where he expects to authenticate himself using
pk-init. It should be noted that it replaces the added risk of
long-term storage of the private key on possibly many workstations
with the added risk of storing the private key on the KDC in a
form vulnerable to brute-force attack.
In order to obtain a private key, the client includes a
preauthentication field with the AS-REQ message:
PA-PK-KEY-REQ ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 20
patimestamp [0] KerberosTime OPTIONAL,
-- used to address replay attacks.
pausec [1] INTEGER OPTIONAL,
-- used to address replay attacks.
nonce [2] INTEGER,
-- binds the reply to this request
privkeyID [3] SEQUENCE OF KeyID OPTIONAL
-- constructed as a hash of
-- public key corresponding to
-- desired private key
}
KeyID ::= SEQUENCE {
KeyIdentifier [0] OCTET STRING
}
The client may request a specific private key by sending the
corresponding ID. If this field is left empty, then all
private keys are returned.
If all checks out, the KDC responds as described in the above
sections, except that an additional preauthentication field,
containing the user's private key, accompanies the reply:
PA-PK-KEY-REP ::= SEQUENCE {
-- PA TYPE 21
nonce [0] INTEGER,
-- binds the reply to the request
KeyData [1] SEQUENCE OF KeyPair
}
KeyPair ::= SEQUENCE {
privKeyID [0] OCTET STRING,
-- corresponding to encPrivKey
encPrivKey [1] OCTET STRING
}
3.4.1. Additional Protection of Retrieved Private Keys
We solicit discussion on the following proposal: that the client may
optionally include in its request additional data to encrypt the
private key, which is currently only protected by the user's
password. One possibility is that the client might generate a
random string of bits, encrypt it with the public key of the KDC (as
in the SignedKeyPack, but with an ordinary OCTET STRING in place of
an EncryptionKey), and include this with the request. The KDC then
XORs each returned key with this random bit string. (If the bit
string is too short, the KDC could either return an error, or XOR
the returned key with a repetition of the bit string.)
In order to make this work, additional means of preauthentication
need to be devised in order to prevent attackers from simply
inserting their own bit string. One way to do this is to store
a hash of the password-derived key (the one used to encrypt the
private key). This hash is then used in turn to derive a second
key (called the hash-key); the hash-key is used to encrypt an ASN.1
structure containing the generated bit string and a nonce value
that binds it to the request.
Since the KDC possesses the hash, it can generate the hash-key and
verify this (weaker) preauthentication, and yet cannot reproduce
the private key itself, since the hash is a one-way function.
4. Logistics and Policy Issues
We solicit discussion on how clients and KDCs should be configured
in order to determine which of the options described above (if any)
should be used. One possibility is to set the user's database
record to indicate that authentication is to use public key
cryptography; this will not work, however, in the event that the
client needs to know before making the initial request.
5. Compatibility with One-Time Passcodes
We solicit discussion on how the protocol changes proposed in this
draft will interact with the proposed use of one-time passcodes
discussed in draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-passwords-00.txt.
6. Strength of Cryptographic Schemes
In light of recent findings on the strength of MD5 and DES,
we solicit discussion on which encryption types to incorporate
into the protocol changes.
7. Bibliography
[1] J. Kohl, C. Neuman. The Kerberos Network Authentication
Service (V5). Request for Comments: 1510
[2] B.C. Neuman, Theodore Ts'o. Kerberos: An Authentication Service
for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications, 32(9):33-38.
September 1994.
[3] A. Medvinsky, M. Hur. Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to
Transport Layer Security (TLS).
draft-ietf-tls-kerb-cipher-suites-00.txt
[4] A. Medvinsky, M. Hur, B. Clifford Neuman. Public Key Utilizing
Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP).
draft-ietf-cat-pktapp-00.txt
[5] M. Sirbu, J. Chuang. Distributed Authentication in Kerberos Using
Public Key Cryptography. Symposium On Network and Distributed System
Security, 1997.
[6] B. Cox, J.D. Tygar, M. Sirbu. NetBill Security and Transaction
Protocol. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce,
July 1995.
[7] Alan O. Freier, Philip Karlton and Paul C. Kocher.
The SSL Protocol, Version 3.0 - IETF Draft.
[8] B.C. Neuman, Proxy-Based Authorization and Accounting for
Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1993
[9] ITU-T (formerly CCITT)
Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection -
The Directory: Authentication Framework Recommendation X.509
ISO/IEC 9594-8
8. Acknowledgements
Some of the ideas on which this proposal is based arose during
discussions over several years between members of the SAAG, the IETF
CAT working group, and the PSRG, regarding integration of Kerberos
and SPX. Some ideas have also been drawn from the DASS system.
These changes are by no means endorsed by these groups. This is an
attempt to revive some of the goals of those groups, and this
proposal approaches those goals primarily from the Kerberos
perspective. Lastly, comments from groups working on similar ideas
in DCE have been invaluable.
9. Expiration Date
This draft expires September 30, 1997.
10. Authors
Clifford Neuman
Brian Tung
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
Phone: +1 310 822 1511
E-mail: {bcn, brian}@isi.edu
John Wray
Digital Equipment Corporation
550 King Street, LKG2-2/Z7
Littleton, MA 01460
Phone: +1 508 486 5210
E-mail: wray@tuxedo.enet.dec.com
Ari Medvinsky
Matthew Hur
CyberSafe Corporation
1605 NW Sammamish Road Suite 310
Issaquah WA 98027-5378
Phone: +1 206 391 6000
E-mail: {ari.medvinsky, matt.hur}@cybersafe.com
Jonathan Trostle
Novell
E-mail: jonathan.trostle@novell.com