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Network Working Group S. Josefsson
Internet-Draft November 13, 2004
Expires: May 14, 2005
Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Kerberos 5
draft-josefsson-kerberos5-starttls-00
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Abstract
This document specify how the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol
is used in conjunction with the Kerberos 5 protocol.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Extension Mechanism for TCP/IP transport . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Kerberos 5 STARTTLS Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1 STARTTLS requested by client (extension 1) . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 STARTTLS request accepted by server (extension 2) . . . . 5
3.3 Proceeding after successful TLS negotiation . . . . . . . 5
3.4 Proceeding after failed TLS negotiation . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5 STARTTLS aware KDC Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.6 Initial Authentication via TLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 8
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1. Introduction and Background
This document describe how Shishi, a Kerberos 5 [1] implementation,
upgrade communication between clients and Key Distribution Centers
(KDCs) to use the Transport Layer Security (TLS) [2] protocol.
The TLS protocol offer integrity and privacy protected exchanges that
can be authentication using X.509 certificates, OpenPGP keys [6], and
user name and passwords via SRP [5].
An inconclusive list of the motivation for using TLS with Kerberos 5
is given below.
o Explicit server authentication of the KDC to the client. In
traditional Kerberos 5, authentication of the KDC is proved as a
side effect that the KDC knows your encryption key (i.e., your
password).
o Flexible authentication against KDC. Kerberos 5 assume the user
knows a key (usually in the form of a password). Sometimes
external factors make this hard to fulfill. In some situations,
users are equipped with smart cards with a RSA authentication key.
In others, users have a OpenPGP client on their desktop, with a
public OpenPGP key known to the server. In some situations, the
policy may be that password authentication may only be done
through SRP.
o Kerberos exchanges are privacy protected. Part of many Kerberos
packets are transfered without privacy protection (i.e.,
encryption). That part contains information, such as the client
principal name, the server principal name, the encryption types
supported by the client, the lifetime of tickets, etc. Revealing
such information is, in some threat models, considered a problem.
o Prevents downgrade attacks affecting encryption types. The
encryption type of the ticket in KDC-REQ are sent in the clear in
Kerberos 5. This allows an attacker to replace the encryption
type with a compromised mechanisms, e.g. 56-bit DES. Since
clients in general cannot know the encryption types other servers
support, it is difficult for the client to detect if there was a
man-in-the-middle or if the remote server simply did not support a
stronger mechanism. Clients could chose to refuse 56-bit DES
altogether, but in some environments this leads to operational
difficulties.
o The TLS protocol has been studied by many parties. In some threat
models, the designer prefer to reduce the number of protocols that
can hurt the overall system security if they are compromised.
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [4].
2. Extension Mechanism for TCP/IP transport
Kerberos 5 require Key Distribution Centers (KDCs) to accept requests
over TCP. Each request and response is prefixed by 4 octets,
encoding an integer in network byte order, that indicate the length
of the packet. The high bit of the 4 octet length field was reserved
for future expansion. Servers that do not understand how to
interpret a set high bit are required to return a KRB-ERROR with the
KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG error code, and to close the TCP stream.
We will use the reserved bit to provide an extension mechanism. When
the reserved high bit is set, the remaining 31 bits of the 4 octets
are treated as an extensible typed hole, and thus form a 31 bit
integer enumerating various extensions. Each of the values indicate
a specific extended operation mode, two of which are used and defined
here, and the rest are left for others to use.
If the KDC do not understand a requested extension, it MUST return a
KRB-ERROR with a KRB_ERR_FIELD_TOOLONG value (prefixed by the 4 octet
length integer, with the high bit clear, as usual) and close the TCP
stream.
The following table specify the meaning of the 31 lower bits in the 4
octet field, when the high bit is set:
0 RESERVED.
1 STARTTLS requested by client.
2 STARTTLS request accepted by server.
3...2147483647 AVAILABLE for registration (via bug-shishi@josefsson.org)
.
2147483648 RESERVED.
3. Kerberos 5 STARTTLS Extension
3.1 STARTTLS requested by client (extension 1)
When this message is sent by the client, the client is requesting the
server to start TLS negotiation on the TCP stream. The client MUST
NOT start TLS negotiation immediately. Instead, the client wait for
either a KRB-ERROR (sent normally, prefixed by a 4 octet length
integer) indicating the server do not understand the set high bit, or
4 octets which is to be interpreted as an integer in network byte
order, where the high bit is set and the remaining 31 bit are
interpreted as an integer specifying ``STARTTLS request accepted by
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server'' (extension 2). In the first case, the client infer that the
server do not understand (or wish to support) STARTTLS, and can
re-try using normal TCP, if unprotected Kerberos 5 exchanges are
acceptable to the client policy. In the latter case, it should
invoke TLS negotiation on the stream. If any other data is received,
the client MUST close the TCP stream.
3.2 STARTTLS request accepted by server (extension 2)
This message should be sent by the server when it has received the
extension 1 message. The message is an acknowledgment of the
client's request to initiate STARTTLS on the channel. The server
MUST then invoke a TLS negotiation.
3.3 Proceeding after successful TLS negotiation
If the TLS negotiation ended successfully, possibly also considering
client or server policies, the exchange within the TLS protected
stream is performed like normal UDP Kerberos 5 exchanges, i.e., there
is no TCP 4 octet length field before each packet. Instead each
Kerberos packet MUST be sent within one TLS record, so the
application can use the TLS record length as the Kerberos 5 packet
length.
3.4 Proceeding after failed TLS negotiation
If the TLS negotiation fails, possibly due to client or server policy
(e.g., inadequate support of encryption types in TLS, or lack of
client or server authentication) the entity that detect the failure
MUST disconnected the connection. It is expected that any error
messages that explain the error condition is transfered by TLS.
3.5 STARTTLS aware KDC Discovery
Section 7.2.3 of Kerberos 5 [1] describe how Domain Name System (DNS)
SRV records [3] can be used to find the address of an KDC. To locate
a KDC that support the STARTTLS extension, we use the "_tls" domain.
For example:
_kerberos._tls._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. IN SRV 0 0 88 kdc1.example.com.
_kerberos._tls._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. IN SRV 1 0 88 kdc2.example.com.
3.6 Initial Authentication via TLS
The server MAY consider the authentication performed by the TLS
exchange as sufficient to issue Kerberos 5 tickets to the client,
without requiring, e.g., pre-authentication. However, it is not an
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error to require or use pre-authentication as well.
The client may also indicate that it wishes to use TLS both for
authentication and data protection by using the NULL encryption type
in its request. The server can decide from its local policy whether
or not issuing tickets based solely on TLS authentication, and
whether NULL encryption within TLS, is acceptable or not.
4. Security Considerations
Because the initial token is not protected, it is possible for an
active attacker to make it appear to the client that the server do
not support this extension. It is up to client configuration to
disallow non-TLS connections, if that vulnerability is deemed
unacceptable. For interoperability, we suggest the default behaviour
should be to allow automatic fall back to TCP or UDP.
The security considerations of both TLS and Kerberos 5 are inherited.
Using TLS for authentication and/or data protection together with
Kerberos alter the authentication logic fundamentally. Thus, it may
be that even if the TLS and Kerberos 5 protocols and implementations
were secure, the combination of TLS and Kerberos 5 described here
could be insecure.
No channel bindings are provided in the Kerberos messages. It is an
open question whether, and how, this could be solved. One idea for
solving this may be to specify a new encryption algorithm in Kerberos
5 that is similar to the NULL encryption algorithm, but also include
the TLS session identifier.
5. References
5.1 Normative References
[1] Neuman, C., "The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)",
draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-clarifications-07 (work in progress),
September 2004.
[2] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0", RFC
2246, January 1999.
[3] Gulbrandsen, A., Vixie, P. and L. Esibov, "A DNS RR for
specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)", RFC 2782,
February 2000.
5.2 Informative References
[4] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
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Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[5] Taylor, D., "Using SRP for TLS Authentication",
draft-ietf-tls-srp-08 (work in progress), August 2004.
[6] Mavroyanopoulos, N., "Using OpenPGP keys for TLS
authentication", draft-ietf-tls-openpgp-keys-05 (work in
progress), April 2004.
Author's Address
Simon Josefsson
EMail: simon@josefsson.org
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