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+Network Working Group L. Zhu
+Request for Comments: 4557 K. Jaganathan
+Category: Standards Track Microsoft Corporation
+ N. Williams
+ Sun Microsystems
+ June 2006
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+ Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Support for
+ Public Key Cryptography for
+ Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT)
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+Status of This Memo
+
+ This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
+ Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
+ improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
+ Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
+ and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
+
+Copyright Notice
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+ Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document defines a mechanism to enable in-band transmission of
+ Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responses in the Kerberos
+ network authentication protocol. These responses are used to verify
+ the validity of the certificates used in Public Key Cryptography for
+ Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT), which is the Kerberos
+ Version 5 extension that provides for the use of public key
+ cryptography.
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+Table of Contents
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+ 1. Introduction ....................................................2
+ 2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................2
+ 3. Message Definition ..............................................2
+ 4. Security Considerations .........................................3
+ 5. Acknowledgements ................................................4
+ 6. References ......................................................4
+ 6.1. Normative References .......................................4
+ 6.2. Informative References .....................................4
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+1. Introduction
+
+ Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) [RFC2560] enables
+ applications to obtain timely information regarding the revocation
+ status of a certificate. Because OCSP responses are well bounded and
+ small in size, constrained clients may wish to use OCSP to check the
+ validity of the certificates for Kerberos Key Distribution Center
+ (KDC) in order to avoid transmission of large Certificate Revocation
+ Lists (CRLs) and therefore save bandwidth on constrained networks
+ [OCSP-PROFILE].
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+ This document defines a pre-authentication type [RFC4120], where the
+ client and the KDC MAY piggyback OCSP responses for certificates used
+ in authentication exchanges, as defined in [RFC4556].
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+ By using this OPTIONAL extension, PKINIT clients and the KDC can
+ maximize the reuse of cached OCSP responses.
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+2. Conventions Used in This Document
+
+ In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED",
+ "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
+ and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
+
+3. Message Definition
+
+ A pre-authentication type identifier is defined for this mechanism:
+
+ PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE 18
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+ The corresponding padata-value field [RFC4120] contains the DER [X60]
+ encoding of the following ASN.1 type:
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+ PKOcspData ::= SEQUENCE OF OcspResponse
+ -- If more than one OcspResponse is
+ -- included, the first OcspResponse
+ -- MUST contain the OCSP response
+ -- for the signer's certificate.
+ -- The signer refers to the client for
+ -- AS-REQ, and the KDC for the AS-REP,
+ -- respectively.
+
+ OcspResponse ::= OCTET STRING
+ -- Contains a complete OCSP response,
+ -- as defined in [RFC2560].
+
+ The client MAY send OCSP responses for certificates used in PA-PK-
+ AS-REQ [RFC4556] via a PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE.
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+ The KDC that receives a PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE SHOULD send a PA-PK-
+ OCSP-RESPONSE containing OCSP responses for certificates used in the
+ KDC's PA-PK-AS-REP. The client can request a PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE by
+ using a PKOcspData containing an empty sequence.
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+ The KDC MAY send a PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE when it does not receive a
+ PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE from the client.
+
+ The PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE sent by the KDC contains OCSP responses for
+ certificates used in PA-PK-AS-REP [RFC4556].
+
+ Note the lack of integrity protection for the empty or missing OCSP
+ response; lack of an expected OCSP response from the KDC for the
+ KDC's certificates SHOULD be treated as an error by the client,
+ unless it is configured otherwise.
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+ When using OCSP, the response is signed by the OCSP server, which is
+ trusted by the receiver. Depending on local policy, further
+ verification of the validity of the OCSP servers may be needed
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+ The client and the KDC SHOULD ignore invalid OCSP responses received
+ via this mechanism, and they MAY implement CRL processing logic as a
+ fall-back position, if the OCSP responses received via this mechanism
+ alone are not sufficient for the verification of certificate
+ validity. The client and/or the KDC MAY ignore a valid OCSP response
+ and perform its own revocation status verification independently.
+
+4. Security Considerations
+
+ The pre-authentication data in this document do not actually
+ authenticate any principals, but are designed to be used in
+ conjunction with PKINIT.
+
+ There is no binding between PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE pre-authentication
+ data and PKINIT pre-authentication data other than a given OCSP
+ response corresponding to a certificate used in a PKINIT pre-
+ authentication data element. Attacks involving removal or
+ replacement of PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE pre-authentication data elements
+ are, at worst, downgrade attacks, where a PKINIT client or KDC would
+ proceed without use of CRLs or OCSP for certificate validation, or
+ denial-of-service attacks, where a PKINIT client or KDC that cannot
+ validate the other's certificate without an accompanying OCSP
+ response might reject the AS exchange or might have to download very
+ large CRLs in order to continue. Kerberos V does not protect against
+ denial-of-service attacks; therefore, the denial-of-service aspect of
+ these attacks is acceptable.
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+ If a PKINIT client or KDC cannot validate certificates without the
+ aid of a valid PA-PK-OCSP-RESPONSE, then it SHOULD fail the AS
+ exchange, possibly according to local configuration.
+
+5. Acknowledgements
+
+ This document was based on conversations among the authors, Jeffrey
+ Altman, Sam Hartman, Martin Rex, and other members of the Kerberos
+ working group.
+
+6. References
+
+6.1. Normative References
+
+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
+
+ [RFC2560] Myers, M., Ankney, R., Malpani, A., Galperin, S., and
+ C. Adams, "X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure
+ Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP", RFC 2560,
+ June 1999.
+
+ [RFC4120] Neuman, C., Yu, T., Hartman, S., and K. Raeburn, "The
+ Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)", RFC
+ 4120, July 2005.
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+ [RFC4556] Zhu, L. and B. Tung, "Public Key Cryptography for
+ Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT)", RFC
+ 4556, June 2006.
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+ [X690] ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Basic Encoding
+ Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and
+ Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER), ITU-T
+ Recommendation X.690 (1997) | ISO/IEC International
+ Standard 8825-1:1998.
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+6.2. Informative References
+
+ [OCSP-PROFILE] Deacon, A. and R. Hurst, "Lightweight OCSP Profile for
+ High Volume Environments", Work in Progress, May 2006.
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+Authors' Addresses
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+ Larry Zhu
+ Microsoft Corporation
+ One Microsoft Way
+ Redmond, WA 98052
+ US
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+ EMail: lzhu@microsoft.com
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+ Karthik Jaganathan
+ Microsoft Corporation
+ One Microsoft Way
+ Redmond, WA 98052
+ US
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+ EMail: karthikj@microsoft.com
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+ Nicolas Williams
+ Sun Microsystems
+ 5300 Riata Trace Ct
+ Austin, TX 78727
+ US
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+ EMail: Nicolas.Williams@sun.com
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