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+TLS Working Group S. Santesson (Microsoft)
+INTERNET-DRAFT A. Medvinsky (Microsoft)
+Intended Category: Standards track J. Ball (Microsoft)
+Expires July 2006 January 2006
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+ TLS User Mapping Extension
+ <draft-santesson-tls-ume-01.txt>
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+Status of this Memo
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+ By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any
+ applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware
+ have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes
+ aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79.
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+ This document may not be modified, and derivative works of it may not
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+Abstract
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+ This document specifies a TLS extension that enables clients to send
+ generic user mapping data in a new handshake message. In particular
+ one such mapping is defined, the UpnDomainHint, which may be used by
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+Table of Contents
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+ 1 Introduction ................................................ 2
+ 2 User mapping extension ...................................... 3
+ 3 User mapping handshake protocol ............................. 3
+ 4 Message flow ................................................ 6
+ 5 Security Considerations ..................................... 7
+ 6 References .................................................. 8
+ Appendix A. IPR Disclosure ..................................... 9
+ Authors' Addresses ............................................. 9
+ Disclaimer ..................................................... 10
+ Copyright Statement ............................................ 10
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+1. Introduction
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+ This specification documents a TLS extension and a handshake message,
+ which has been defined and implemented by Microsoft to accommodate
+ mapping of users to their user accounts when using TLS client
+ authentication as the authentication method.
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+ The UPN (User Principal Name) is a name form defined by Microsoft
+ which specifies a user's entry in a directory in the form of
+ userName@domainName. Traditionally Microsoft has relied on such UPN
+ names to be present in the client certificate when logging on to a
+ domain account.
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+ This has several drawbacks however since it prevents the use of
+ certificates with an absent UPN and also requires re-issuance of
+ certificates or issuance of multiple certificates to reflect account
+ changes or creation of new accounts.
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+ The extension defined in this document provide a significant
+ improvement to this situation since it allows a single certificate to
+ be mapped to one or more accounts of the user and does not require
+ the certificate to contain a UPN.
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+ The new extension (user_mapping) is sent in the Client Hello message.
+ Per convention defined in RFC3546 [N3], the server places the same
+ extension (user_mapping) in the Server Hello message, to inform the
+ client that the server understands this extension. If the server does
+ not understand the extension, it will respond with a Server Hello
+ omitting this extension and the client will proceed as normal,
+ ignoring the extension.
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+ If the new extension is understood, the client will inject a new
+ handshake message prior to the Client's Certificate message. The
+ server will then parse this message, extracting the client's domain,
+ and store it in the context for use when mapping the certificate to
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+ the user's directory account.
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+ The reason the mapping data itself is not placed in the extension
+ portion of the ClientHello is to prevent broadcasting this
+ information to servers that don't understand the extension.
+ Additionally, if new mapping information were to be considered
+ confidential, the addition of a new handshake message allows the data
+ to be encrypted using the servers public key.
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+ No other modifications to the protocol are required. The messages are
+ detailed in the following sections.
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+1.1 Terminology
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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 [STDWORDS].
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+2 User mapping extension
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+ A new extension type (user_mapping(n)) is added to the Extension used
+ in both the Client Hello and Server Hello messages. The extension
+ type is specified as follows and has no data associated with it.
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+ enum {
+ user_mapping(n), (65535)
+ } ExtensionType;
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+3 User mapping handshake protocol
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+ A new HandshakeType (user_mapping_data) is defined to accommodate
+ communication of generic user mapping data.
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+ The information in this handshake message carries an unauthenticated
+ hint, inserted by the client side. Upon receipt and successful
+ completion of the TLS handshake, the server MAY use this hint to
+ locate the user's account from which user information and credentials
+ MAY be retrieved to support authentication based on the client
+ certificate.
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+ user_mapping_data(n),(255)
+ } HandshakeType;
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+ The user_mapping_data(n) enumeration results in a new Handshake
+ Message UserMappingDataList with the following structure:
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+ enum {
+ upn_domain_hint(0), (255)
+ } UserMappingType;
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+ struct {
+ opaque user_principal_name<0..2^16-1>;
+ opaque domain_name<0..2^16-1>;
+ } UpnDomainHint;
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+ struct {
+ UserMappingType user_mapping_version
+ select(UserMappingType) {
+ case upn_domain_hint:
+ UpnDomainHint;
+ }
+ } UserMappingData;
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+ struct{
+ UserMappingData user_mapping_data_list<1..2^16-1>;
+ }UserMappingDataList;
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+ The user_principal_name parameter, when specified, SHALL be specified
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+ For example the UPN 'foo@example.com' represents user 'foo' at domain
+ 'example.com'.
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+ The domain_name parameter, when specified, SHALL contain a domain
+ name in the "preferred name syntax," as specified by RFC 1034 [N4]
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+ The UpnDomainHint MUST at least contain a non empty
+ user_principal_name or a non empty domain_name. The UpnDomainHint MAY
+ contain both user_principal_name and domain_name.
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+ The UserMappingData structure contains a single mapping of type
+ UserMappingType. This structure can be leveraged to define new types
+ of user mapping hints in the future. The UserMappingDataList MAY
+ carry multiple hints; it is defined as a vector of UserMappingData
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+4 Message flow
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+ In order to negotiate to send user mapping data to a server in
+ accordance with this specification, clients MUST include an extension
+ of type "user_mapping" in the (extended) client hello. The
+ "extension_data" field of this extension SHALL be empty.
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+ Servers that receive an extended client hello containing a
+ "user_mapping" extension, MAY indicate that they are willing to
+ accept user mapping data by including an extension of type
+ "user_mapping" in the (extended) server hello. The "extension_data"
+ field of this extension SHALL be empty.
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+ After negotiation of the use of user mapping has been successfully
+ completed (by exchanging hellos including "user_mapping" extensions),
+ clients MAY send a "UserMappingDataList" message before the
+ "Certificate" message. The message flow is illustrated in Fig. 1
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+ /* with user_mapping ext */ -------->
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+ /* with user-mapping ext */
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+ <-------- ServerHelloDone
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+ ClientKeyExchange
+ CertificateVerify*
+ [ChangeCipherSpec]
+ Finished -------->
+ [ChangeCipherSpec]
+ <-------- Finished
+ Application Data <-------> Application Data
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+ Fig. 1 - Message flow with user mapping data
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+ * Indicates optional or situation-dependent messages that are not
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+5 Security Considerations
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+ The UPN sent in the UserMappingDataList is unauthenticated data that
+ MUST NOT be treated as a trusted identifier. Authentication of the
+ user represented by that UPN MUST rely solely on validation of the
+ client certificate. One way to do this safely is to use the UPN to
+ locate and extract a certificate of the claimed user from a directory
+ and subsequently match this certificate against the validated client
+ certificate from the TLS handshake.
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+ As the client is the initiator of this TLS extension, it needs to
+ determine when it is appropriate to send the User Mapping
+ Information. It may not be prudent to broadcast this information to
+ just any server at any time, as it can reveal network infrastructure
+ the client and server are using.
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+ To avoid superfluously sending this information, two techniques
+ SHOULD be used to control its dissemination.
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+ - The client SHOULD only send the UserMappingDataList handshake
+ message if it is agreed upon in the Hello exchange, preventing
+ the information from being sent to a server that doesn't
+ understand the User Mapping Extension.
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+ - The client SHOULD further only send this information if the
+ server belongs to a domain to which the client intends to
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+6 References
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+ Normative references:
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+ [N1] S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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+ [N2] T. Dierks, C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
+ RFC 2246, January 1999.
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+ [N3] S. Blake-Wilson, M. Nystrom, D. Hopwood, J. Mikkelsen,
+ T. Wright, "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions",
+ RFC 3546, June 2003.
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+ [N4] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Concepts and
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+Appendix A. IPR Disclosure
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+ TBD
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+Authors' Addresses
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+ Stefan Santesson
+ Microsoft
+ Tuborg Boulevard 12
+ 2900 Hellerup
+ Denmark
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+ EMail: stefans(at)microsoft.com
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+ Ari Medvinsky
+ Microsoft
+ One Microsoft Way
+ Redmond, WA 98052-6399
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+ Email: arimed(at)microsoft.com
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+ Microsoft
+ One Microsoft Way
+ Redmond, WA 98052-6399
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+ This document and the information contained herein are provided on an
+ "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS
+ OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET
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+ Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
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+ This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions
+ contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors
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