path: root/source4/heimdal/doc/standardisation/draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-set-passwd-00.txt

Kerberos Working Group                                  Jonathan Trostle
INTERNET-DRAFT                                             Cisco Systems
Category: Standards Track                                     Mike Swift
                                                        University of WA
                                                             John Brezak
                                                               Microsoft
                                                            Bill Gossman
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                        Nicolas Williams
                                                        Sun Microsystems



                Kerberos Set/Change Password: Version 2
              <draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-set-passwd-00.txt>




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Abstract

   This proposal specifies an extensible protocol for setting keys and
   changing the passwords of Kerberos [RFC1510] principals.

   The protocol support a single operation per-session when run over UDP, or

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   multiple operations per-session when run over TCP.  Clients can
   change their own principal's password or keys or they can change
   other principals', provided that they are properly authorized to do
   so.

   Additional related features include the ability to determine the
   known aliases of Kerberos principals.  This feature will facilitate
   the implementation of aliasing of target principal names in KDC
   requests by allowing principals to know which names are aliases of
   their canonical principal names.  Principal aliasing is needed to
   properly support the use of aliases and short-form names by users
   without requiring that clients canonicalize principal names, possibly
   using insecure name services in the process.

   This protocol uses IETF language tags [RFC3066] to negotiate proper
   localization of help messages intended for users.  UTF-8 is used
   throughout for strings, suitably constrained, where necessary, by the
   minor version of Kerberos V in use by clients and servers.

1. Introduction

   Kerberos lacks a single, standard protocol for changing passwords and
   keys.  While several vendor-specific protocols exist for changing
   Kerberos passwords/keys, none are properly internationalized.

   This document defines a protocol that is somewhat backward-compatible
   with the "kpasswd" protocol, version 1 [KPASSWDv1] and a derivative
   defined in [RFC3244] that uses more or less the same protocol framing.

   This new protocol is designed to be extensible and properly
   internationalized.

2. Conventions used in this document

   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 [RFC2119].

3. Table of Contents

   1. Introduction
   2. Conventions used in this document
   3. Table of Contents
   4. The Protocol
   4.1 Transports
   4.2 Protocol Framing
   4.2.1 The protocol over UDP
   4.2.2 The protocol over TCP
   4.3 Protocol version negotiation
   4.3.1 Protocol major version negotiation
   4.3.2 Protocol minor version negotiation
   4.4 Use of Kerberos V
   4.4.1 Use of KRB-ERROR

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   4.5 Use of ASN.1
   4.6 Protocol internationalization
   4.6.1 Normalization forms for UTF-8 strings
   4.6.2 Language negotiation
   4.7 Protocol Extensibility
   4.8 Protocol Subsets
   5  Protocol Operations
   5.1 PDUs
   6  ASN1 Module
   7 Descriptions of each protocol requests and responses
   7.1 Null Request
   7.2 Change Password
   7.3 Set Keys Requests
   7.5 The Get Policy Request
   7.6 The Get Aliases Request
   7.7 The Get Supported Enctypes Request
   8 IANA Considerations
   9 Security Considerations
   10 Description of TLV Encoding of Sample Subsets of the Protocol
   10.1 TLV encoding of the Null request and response
   10.2 TLV encoding of Error-Response
   10.3 TLV encoding of the change password requests and responses
   10.4 TLV encoding of Change Keys requests and responses
   11 Acknowledgements
   12 References
   13 Expiration Date
   14 Authors' Addresses
   15 Notes to the RFC Editor

4. The Protocol

   The structure of the protocol is quite similar to that of typical RPC
   protocols.  Each operation has a structure for each client request and
   a structure for each server response.  Each transaction consists of a
   single operation; the abstract syntax for the protocol implies the
   use, on the wire, of an operation identifier associated with an
   opaque blob representing the request of response.  The protocol data
   is wrapped in a KRB-PRIV and framed in a header that is backwards
   compatible with version 1 of this protocol.

4.1 Transports 

   The service SHOULD accept requests on UDP port 464 and TCP port 464.
   This is the same port used by version 1 [KPASSWDv1] of this protocol,
   but version 2 is a completely different protocol sharing with version
   1 only the outer framing.

4.2 Protocol Framing

   For compatibility with the original Kerberos password changing
   protocol developed at MIT, the first 4 bytes of the message consist
   of a 2-byte network byte order message length, followed by a 2 byte
   network byte order protocol version number, followed by a 2 byte

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   network byte order length for an optional AP-REQ, AP-REP or
   KRB-ERROR, followed by the same, if present, followed by a KRB-PRIV
   (optional in TCP) containing the actual protocol message encoded in
   DER [X690].

   In the case of TCP there is an additional 4 byte network byte order
   length prepended to the frame described above.
   
   The protocol version number MUST be set to 2 for this protocol.

   Bytes on the wire description of the framing:

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |         message length        |    protocol version number    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | AP-REQ length (0 if absent)   | AP-REQ data (if present)      /
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      /                   KRB-PRIV message                            /
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The same framing applies equally to requests and responses, but 
   responses use AP-REP and/or KRB-ERROR instead of AP-REQ:

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |         message length        |    protocol version number    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | AP-REP length (0 if absent)   | AP-REP data (if present)      /
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      /                   KRB-PRIV message                            /
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |         message length        |    protocol version number    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | KRB-ERROR length (0 if absent)| KRB-ERROR data (if present)   /
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   For the UDP case the AP-REQ/AP-REP/KRB-ERROR MUST always be included.

   Note that this framing is used by version 1 [KPASSWDv1] and version
   0xff80 [RFC3244], though the latter does not use the framing when
   responding with KRB-ERROR messages.

   Servers MAY respond to version 0xff80 requests with an un-framed
   KRB-ERROR and e-data set as per-RFC3244 [RFC3244], otherwise clients
   and server MUST always use this framing.  See section 4.3.


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4.2.1 The protocol over UDP

   In the UDP case there is a single message from the client and a
   single response from the server with no state kept between requests,
   and each request MUST include a Kerberos AP-REQ and a KRB-PRIV and
   each response MUST carry an AP-REP, or KRB-ERROR and a KDB-PRIV.
   Both the client and server MUST destroy the authentication context
   after each operation.

   UDP clients MUST not request the use of sequence numbers, otherwise
   it cannot generate the KRB-PRIV prior to receiving the AP-REP.
   Clients MAY refuse to operate version 2 of the protocol over UDP; it
   is RECOMMENDED that servers reject version 2 UDP requests.

4.2.2 The protocol over TCP

   When used with the TCP transport, there is a 4 octet header in
   network byte order that precedes the message and specifies the length
   of the message.

   The initial message from the client MUST carry an AP-REQ and the
   response to any request bearing an AP-REQ MUST carry an AP-REP.

   Subsequent messages MAY involve Kerberos V AP exchanges, but
   generally the client SHOULD NOT initiate a new AP exchange except
   when it desires to authenticate as a different principal, when
   its current authentication context is about to expire or when the
   server responds with an error indicating that the client must
   re-initialize the authentication context (possibly due to the
   previous context expiring).

   The server MUST NOT process any requests that do not contain an
   AP-REQ unless a non-expired authentication context is currently
   established with the client on the same TCP connection.

   Servers MAY close open sessions at any time.

4.3 Protocol version negotiation

   There are several major versions of this protocol.  Version 2 also
   introduces a notion of protocol minor versions for use in negotiating
   protocol extensions.  As of this time only one minor version is
   defined for major version 2: minor version 0.

4.3.1 Protocol major version negotiation

   Version 2 clients that also support other versions, such as
   [KPASSWDv1] or [rfc3244] SHOULD attempt to use version 2 of the
   protocol first and then try other versions if the server
   responds with either a message framed as described in section 4.2 but
   with a protocol version number other than 2 (in the case of
   [KPASSWDv1], or a KRB-ERRROR with an error code of
   KRB5_KPASSWD_BAD_VERSION in the e-data field [RFC3244].

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   Note that some version 1 servers return a KRB-ERROR indicating that
   versions other than 1 of the change password protocol are not
   supported rather than an AP-REP and a KRB-PRIV containing the error
   data.  Therefore change password protocol negotiation is subject to
   downgrade attacks where version 2 clients support version 1 of this
   protocol.

   Also note that some [RFC3244] implementations do not return any
   responses to requests for protocol versions other than 0xff80, and in
   the TCP case close the TCP connection.

   Version 2 servers MAY support other versions of the Kerberos password
   change protocol.

   Version 2 servers SHOULD respond to non-v2 requests using whatever
   response is appropriate for the versions used by the clients, but if
   a server does not do this or know how to do this then it MUST respond
   with an error framed as in section 4.2, using an AP-REP and KRB-PRIV
   if the client's AP-REQ can be accepted, or a KRB-ERROR (framed)
   otherwise and using a ProtocolErrorCode value of
   unsupported-major-version.

4.3.2 Protocol minor version negotiation

   Version 2 clients are free to use whatever protocol minor version and
   message extensions are available to them in their initial messages to
   version 2 servers, provided that the minor versions (other than 0)
   have been defined through IETF documents and registered with the
   IANA.

   Version 2 clients and servers MUST support all protocol minor
   versions between 0 to the highest version supported by the client and
   server.  That is, a client or server that supports minor version 4
   MUST also support minor versions 0, 1, 2 and 3.

   Version 2 servers MUST answer with the highest protocol minor version
   number supported by the server and the client.

   Version 2 clients MUST use the protocol minor version used in a
   server's reply for any subsequent messages in the same session
   (currently this only applies to TCP sessions).

   See section 4.7 for further description of the protocol's
   extensibility and its relation to protocol minor versions and the
   negotiation thereof.

4.4 Use of Kerberos V

   This protocol makes use of messages defined in [RFC1510] and
   [clarifications].  Specifically, AP-REQ, AP-REP, KRB-ERROR and
   KRB-PRIV.  Because of the proposed extensions to Kerberos V which
   will require a new ASN.1 module, and because of the ways that the

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   Kerberos V ASN.1 types will change, this protocol cannot safely
   import any types from the Kerberos V module, therefore the Kerberos
   PDUs are encoded as OCTET STRINGs herein.

   All operations are to be performed by the server on behalf of the
   client principal.

   The client SHOULD use "kadmin/changepw" as the server principal name
   for this protocol.  The server MUST have a principal name of
   "kadmin/changepw" and MAY have a principal name of "kadmin/setpw."

   The client MUST request mutual authentication and the client MUST NOT
   request the use of sequence numbers when using the protocol over
   UDP, but it MUST request the use of sequence numbers when running
   over TCP.

   The server MUST reject requests that operate on the same principal as
   the client's if the client's principal is not in the same realm as
   the server's principal name or if the client's ticket is not INITIAL.

   The server MAY reject all requests from clients operating on
   principals not in the client's realm.  The server MAY reject all
   requests operating on principals other than the client's.

4.4.1 Use of KRB-ERROR

   When an error arises during the AP exchange for which
   [clarifications] does not provide an appropriate error code then the
   server MUST use KRB_ERR_GENERIC as the error, a localized (if
   possible [er, is that ok, pre-extensions? probably not]) error string
   for the e-text field of KRB-ERROR and the encoding of an
   Error-Response PDU (see section 6) as e-data.

4.5 Use of ASN.1

   This protocol's messages are defined in ASN.1, using only features
   from [X680].  All ASN.1 types defined herein are to be encoded in
   DER [X690].  A complete ASN.1 module is given in section 6.  The
   ASN.1 tagging environment for this module is EXPLICIT.

   The DER encoding of the ASN.1 PDUs are exchanged wrapped in a
   KRB-PRIV as described above.

4.6 Protocol internationalization

   Protocol requests have an optional field indicationg the languages
   spoken by the client user; the client SHOULD send its list of spoken
   languages to the server (once per-TCP session), but if future
   extensions to the Kerberos protocol should add similar functionality
   then the client SHOULD NOT use this field when using the extended
   Kerberos protocol.  All strings in the protocol are UTF-8 strings.
   The server SHOULD localize all strings intended for users to a
   language in common with the languages spoken by the client user.

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   For TCP sessions servers MUST cache the optional language tag lists
   from prior requests for use with requests that exclude the language
   tag list.  Clients MAY expect such server behaviour and send the
   language tag lists only when they change or even just once per-TCP
   session.  Clients SHOULD send the server the language tag list at
   least once, with or before any actual operation.

   Kerberos principal and realm names used in this protocol MUST be
   constrained as per the specification of the version of Kerberos V
   used by the client.

4.6.1 Normalization forms for UTF-8 strings

   No normalization form is required for string types other than
   for PrincipalName and Realm, which two types are constrained by the
   specification of the version of Kerberos V used by the client, and
   the password fields in the change password operation, which MUST be
   normalized according to [k5stringprep].

4.6.2 Language negotiation

   The server MUST pick a language from the client's input list or
   the default language tag (see [RFC3066]) for text in its responses
   which is meant for the user to read.

   The server SHOULD use a language selection algorithm such that
   consideration is first given to exact matches between the client's
   spoken languages and the server's available locales, followed by
   "fuzzy" matches where only the first sub-tags of the client's
   language tag list are used for matching against the servers available
   locales.

   When the server has a message catalog for one of the client's spoken
   languages the server SHOULD localize any text strings intended for
   users to read.

4.7 Protocol Extensibility

   The protocol is defined in ASN.1 and uses extensibility markers
   throughout.  As such, the module presented herein can be extended
   within the framework of [X680].

   Typed holes are not used in this protocol as it is very simple and
   does not require the ability to deal with abstract data types defined
   in different layers.  For this reason, the only way to extend this
   protocol is by extending the ASN.1 module within the framework of the
   IETF; all future extensions to this protocol have to be defined in
   IETF documents unless otherwise specified in a future IETF revision
   of this protocol.

   A protocol minor version number is used to negotiate use of
   extensions.  See section 4.3.2 for the minor version negotiation.

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   Message extensions are to be closely tied to protocol minor numbers.
   Clients MAY use any protocol minor version that they support in
   initial requests, and MUST use the protocol minor version indicated
   in the server's initial reply in any subsequent requests in the same
   session (this only applies in the TCP case).  Clients MAY cache the
   minor version number supported by any given server for a reasonably
   short and finite amount of time - 24 hours is the maximum RECOMMENDED
   time for caching server minor version information.

   Servers SHOULD ignore protocol extensions and minor versions that they
   do not understand in initial requests, except for extensions to the
   "Op-req" type, which MUST result in an error; servers MAY respond
   with an error (ProtocolErrorCode value of unsupported-minor-version)
   to clients that use minor versions unsupported by the server in their
   initial requests.

   Servers MUST select the highest minor version in common with their
   clients for use in replies.

   Servers MAY support a subset of the operations defined in this
   protocol but MUST support all the PDUs.

4.8 Protocol Subsets

   The structure of the protocol is such that the ASN.1 syntaxes for the
   various operations supported by the protocol are independent of the
   each other.  Clients and servers MAY implement subsets of the overall
   protocol.

   The structure of this protocol and the properties of the
   tag-length-value (TLV) DER encoding of ASN.1 make it possible to
   describe the encoding of individual operations' messages very simply.

   In the interest of facilitating ease of implementation for trivial
   subsets of this protocol, without the need for ASN.1 compilers,
   section 10 describes examples of TLV layouts of some individual
   protocol operations (but the DER encodings of tags, lengths and
   UNIVERSAL values is not described).


5  Protocol Operations

   The protocol as defined herein supports the following operations
   relating to the management of Kerberos principal's passwords or keys:

     - change password
     - set key
     - get password policy name and/or description of principal
     - list aliases of a principal
     - list enctypes supported by realm

   These operations are needed to support Kerberos V interoperability

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   between clients and KDCs of different implementation origins.

   The operation for retrieving a list of aliases of a principal is
   needed where KDCs implement aliasing of principal names and allows
   clients to properly setup their "keytabs" when principal aliasing is
   in use.

   Operations such as creation or deletion of principals are outside the
   scope of this document, and should be performed via directories or
   other Kerberos administration protocols.  However, it is conceivable
   that such operations could be added to this protocol at a later
   point.

   Operations can be added to the protocol only via future IETF RFCs.

   The individual operations are described in section 7.

5.1 PDUs

   The types "Request," "Response" and "Error-Response" are the ASN.1
   module's PDUs.

   The "Request" and "Response" PDUs are always to be sent wrapped in
   KRB-PRIV messages, except for the "Error-Response" PDU which MUST be
   sent as KRB-ERROR e-data (see section 4.4.1) when AP exchanges fail,
   otherwise it MUST be sent wrapped in a KRB-PRIV.

   The PDUs are described in section 6.


6  ASN1 Module

DEFINITIONS EXPLICIT TAGS ::= BEGIN

-- Unsafe: IMPORT AP-REQ, AP-REP, KRB-ERROR, KRB-PRIV, PrincipalName,
--			    Realm, KerberosString, FROM KerberosV5Spec2

-- From [clarifications]
PrincipalName	    ::= SEQUENCE {
	name-type   [0] Int32,
	name-string [1] SEQUENCE OF UTF8String
}
Realm		    ::= UTF8String
-- NOTE WELL: Principal and realm names MUST be constrained by the
--            specification of the version of Kerberos V used by the
--            client.
-- 
-- [Perhaps PrincipalName should be a SEQUENCE of an optional name type
-- and a UTF8String, for simplicity.]

-- From [clarifications]
Int32	    ::= INTEGER (-2147483648..2147483647)
UInt32	    ::= INTEGER (0..4294967295)

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-- Based on EncryptionKey type from [clarifications]
Key	    ::= SEQUENCE {
	enc-type	[0] Int32,	-- from Kerberos
	key		[1] OCTET STRING,
	...
}

Etype	    ::= Int32	-- as in [clarifications]
-- Perhaps we should use an extensible CHOICE of Int32?

Language-Tag	    ::= UTF8String -- Constrained by [RFC3066]

-- Use LangTaggedText instead of UTF8String for *-text fields and remove
-- "language" field?
--
-- LangTaggedText should be used as e-text for KRB-ERROR, at least in
-- extensions, perhaps in [clarifications]
LangTaggedText	    ::= SEQUENCE {
	language	[0] Language-Tag OPTIONAL,
	text		[1] UTF8String,
	...
}

Request		::= [APPLICATION 0] SEQUENCE {
	pvno-major	[0] INTEGER DEFAULT 2,
	pvno-minor	[1] INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
	languages	[2] SEQUENCE OF Language-Tag OPTIONAL,
	targ-name	[3] PrincipalName OPTIONAL,
	targ-realm	[4] Realm OPTIONAL,
		-- If targ-name/realm are missing then the request
		-- applies to the principal of the client
	operation	[5] Op-req,
	...
}

Response	::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
	pvno-major	[0] INTEGER DEFAULT 2,
	pvno-minor	[1] INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
	language	[2] Language-Tag DEFAULT "i-default",
	result		[3] Op-rep OPTIONAL,
	...
}

Error-Response	::= [APPLICATION 2] SEQUENCE {
	pvno-major	[0] INTEGER DEFAULT 2,
	pvno-minor	[1] INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
	language	[2] Language-Tag DEFAULT "i-default",
	error-code	[3] ProtocolErrorCode,
	help-text	[4] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	op-error	[5] Op-error OPTIONAL,
	...
}

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Op-req		::= CHOICE {
	null			[0] Req-null,
	change-pw		[1] Req-change-pw,
	set-keys		[2] Req-set-keys,
	get-pw-policy		[3] Req-get-pw-policy,
	get-princ-aliases	[4] Req-get-princ-aliases,
	get-supported-etypes	[5] Req-get-supported-etypes,
	...
}

Op-rep		::= CHOICE {
	null			[0] Rep-null,
	change-pw		[1] Rep-change-pw,
	set-keys		[2] Rep-set-keys,
	get-pw-policy		[3] Rep-get-pw-policy,
	get-princ-aliases	[4] Rep-get-princ-aliases,
	get-supported-etypes	[5] Rep-get-supported-etypes,
	...
}

Op-error	::= CHOICE {
	null			[0] Err-null,
	change-pw		[1] Err-change-pw,
	set-keys		[2] Err-set-keys,
	get-pw-policy		[3] Err-get-pw-policy,
	get-princ-aliases	[4] Err-get-princ-aliases,
	get-supported-etypes	[5] Err-get-supported-etypes,
	...
}

ProtocolErrorCode	    ::= ENUM {
	-- Remember, ASN.1 enums are zero-based
	generic-error,
	unsupported-major-version,
	unsupported-minor-version,
	unsupported-operation,
	authorization-failed,
	initial-ticket-required,
	target-principal-unknown,
	...
}

--
-- Requests and responses
--

-- NULL request, much like ONC RPC's NULL procedure
Req-null    ::= NULL

Rep-null    ::= NULL

Err-null    ::= NULL

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-- Change password
Req-change-pw	::= SEQUENCE {
	old-pw		[0] UTF8String,
	new-pw		[1] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	etypes		[2] SEQUENCE (1..) OF Etype OPTIONAL,
	...
}

Rep-change-pw	::= SEQUENCE {
	info-text	[0] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	new-pw		[1] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
				-- generated by the server if present
				-- (and requested by the client)
	etypes		[2] SEQUENCE (1..) OF Etype OPTIONAL,
	...
}

Err-change-pw	::= SEQUENCE {
	help-text		[0] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	code			[1] ENUM {
		generic,
		wont-generate-new-pw,
		old-pw-incorrect,
		new-pw-rejected-generic,
		pw-change-too-soon,
		...
	},
	suggested-new-pw	[2] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	...
}

-- Change/Set keys

Req-set-keys	::= SEQUENCE {
	etypes		[0] SEQUENCE (1..) OF Etype,
	entropy		[1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL,
				-- The client can provide entropy for
				-- the server's use while generating
				-- keys.
	...
}

Rep-set-keys	::= SEQUENCE {
	info-text	[0] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	kvno		[1] UInt32,
	keys		[2] SEQUENCE (1..) OF Key,
				-- The server always makes the keys.
	aliases		[3] SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
		name	    [0] PrincipalName,
		realm	    [1] Realm OPTIONAL,
		...
	} OPTIONAL,

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	...
}

Err-set-keys	::= SEQUENCE {
	help-text	[0] UTF8String OPTIONAL, -- Reason for rejection
	enctypes	[1] SEQUENCE of Etype OPTIONAL, -- supported enctypes
	code		[2] ENUM {
		etype-no-support,
		...
	}
}

-- Get password policy
Req-get-pw-policy   ::= NULL

Rep-get-pw-policy   ::= SEQUENCE {
	help-text	[0] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	policy-name	[1] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	description	[2] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	...
}

Err-get-pw-policy   ::= NULL

-- Get principal aliases
Req-get-princ-aliases	::= NULL

Rep-get-princ-aliases	::= SEQUENCE {
	help-text	[0] UTF8String OPTIONAL,
	aliases		[1] SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
		name	    [0] PrincipalName,
		realm	    [1] Realm OPTIONAL,
		...
	} OPTIONAL,
	...
}

Err-get-princ-aliases	::= NULL

-- Get list of enctypes supported by KDC for new keys
Req-get-supported-etypes    ::=	NULL

Rep-get-supported-etypes    ::= SEQUENCE OF Etype

Err-get-supported-etypes    ::= NULL

END

7 Descriptions of each protocol requests and responses

   This section describes the semantics of each operation request and
   response defined in the ASN.1 module in section 6.


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   Requests and responses consist of an outer structure ("Request," 
   "Response" and "Error-Response") containing fields common to all
   requests/responses, and an inner structure for fields that are
   specific to each operation's requests/responses.

   Specifically, the outer Request structure has a field for passing a
   client's spoken (read) languages to the server.  It also has two
   optional fields for identifying the operation's target principal's
   name and realm (if not sent then the server MUST use the client
   principal name and realm from the AP exchange as the target).

   The Response and Error PDU' outer structures include a field
   indicating the language that the server has chosen for localization
   of text intended to be displayed to users.

   All three PDUs, "Request," "Response," and "Error-Response" include a
   protocol version number and the two responses include an optional
   field through which the server can indicate which language, from the
   client's list, the server can "speak."

7.1 Null Request

   The null request is intended for use with TCP; its purpose is similar
   to RPC null procedures and is akin to a "ping" operation.

7.2 Change Password

   The change password request has two fields: old-pw (old password -
   required) and new-pw (new password - optional).  The server MUST
   validate the old password and MUST check the quality of the new
   password, if sent, according to the password policy associated with
   the client's principal before accepting the request.  If the client
   does not specify a new password the server MUST either generate one
   and return it in the response or reject the request with
   wont-generate-new-pw as the Err-change-pw message's error code.

   If the server rejects a client's proposed new password it SHOULD
   include a description of the password quality policy in effect for
   the target principal and/or an explanation of what was wrong with the
   proposed password in the help-text field of the Err-change-pw
   message.  Additionally, servers MAY include a randomly generated, but
   preferably user-friendly password in the suggested-new-pw field of
   Err-change-pw messages when the client's proposed new password
   violates the target principal's password quality policy; of course,
   any such suggested new password MUST pass the target principal's
   password quality policy.

   Clients MAY specify key enctypes to set with new passwords, but
   generally SHOULD NOT do so.  If a client requests specific enctypes
   then the server MUST NOT create keys from the new password of any
   enctype other than those requested by the client.

   Servers MAY indicate the enctypes of the keys created with new

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   passwords, but SHOULD NOT do so unless the client requested specific
   enctypes - in which case the server MUST include the new key enctypes
   in the change password response.

7.3 Set Keys Requests

   The set keys request consists of a sequence of key enctypes and an
   optional OCTET STRING of client-provided entropy.

   The server generates keys of the requested enctypes and returns them.
   The server MAY utilize some, all or none of the client-provided
   entropy, if any, to generate the keys, but the server SHOULD input
   some entropy in the process.

   The server SHOULD also include a list of the target principal's
   aliases, if there are any.

7.5 The Get Policy Request
   
   It is common for sites to set policies with respect to password
   quality.  It is beyond the scope of this document to describe such
   policies.  However, it is reasonable for password policies to have
   names and as such for this protocol to associate named password
   quality policies with principals.  It may also be reasonable for
   users to learn of their password quality policies.

   The protocol therefore provides an operation for retrieving the name
   and/or description of the password policy that applies to the target
   principal name.

   Management of password quality policies' actual content is beyond the
   scope of this protocol.

7.6 The Get Aliases Request
   
   This request allows a client to obtain a list of aliases associated
   with a principal so that the client can properly configure the
   principal's "keytab."

   Principal aliases are principal names for which the KDC will issue
   tickets (with the alias being either the client or target principal
   name of such tickets) using the same key as the "canonical" principal
   name, but without canonicalizing the aliased names in KDC exchanges.

7.7 The Get Supported Enctypes Request

   This request allows a client to learn of the target principal's
   realm's supported enctypes.


8 IANA Considerations

   ...

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9 Security Considerations
   
   Implementors and site administrators should note that the redundancy
   of UTF-8 encodings varies by Unicode codepoint used.  Password
   quality policies should, therefore, take this into account when
   estimating the amount of redundancy and entropy in a proposed new
   password.  [?? It's late at night - I think this is correct.]

   Kerberos set/change password/key protocol major version negotiation
   cannot be done securely.  A downgrade attack is possible against
   clients that attempt to negotiate the protocol major version to use
   with a server.  It is not clear at this time that the attacker would
   gain much from such a downgrade attack other than denial of service
   (DoS) by forcing the client to use a protocol version which does not
   support some feature needed by the client (Kerberos V in general is
   subject to a variety of DoS attacks anyways [RFC1510]).

   [More text needed]

10 Description of TLV Encoding of Sample Subsets of the Protocol

  This section provides example descriptions of the TLV DER encodings of
  some requests and responses.  This section is not intended to be
  authoritative and implementors are encouraged to base their
  implementations on the ASN.1 syntax given in section 6.  These TLV
  descriptions are given here in the interest of promoting
  implementation of this protocol even by implementors who do not have
  access to ASN.1 development tools.

  Tags are described as T(<tag>) where <tag> is a letter denoting the
  tag type (u for UNIVERSAL, a for APPLICATION, c for CONTEXT and p for
  PRIVATE) and a number or universal type name.

  Lengths and values are described as L{<value>}, where <value> is a
  description of the encoding of the value, except for scalar UNIVERSAL
  types, where <value> shall be '<' description of value '>'.

  Optional fields are enclosed in square brackets ('[' and ']').

  Repetition is denoted by ellipsis ("...").

  Extensibility is denoted by "[...]".

  Comments are introduced by "--" as in ASN.1

10.1 TLV encoding of the Null request and response

   -- Null Request
   -- Outer application tag
   T(a0)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
     -- "preamble"
     -- pvno-major == 2 so it is left out

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     -- pvno-minor == 0 so it is left out
     -- optional languages list
     [T(c2)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
         T(uUTF8String)L{<language tag>}
         ...
       }
     }]
     -- optional targ-name
     [T(c3)L{
       Tc(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- name-type
         T(c0)L{T(uINTEGER)L{<name-type>}}
	 -- name-string
	 T(c1)L{
	   T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	     [T(uUTF8String)L{<component name>}]
	     ...
	   }
	 }
       }
     }]
     -- optional targ-realm
     [T(c4)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<realm name>}}]
     -- end of preamble

     -- operation choice tag
     T(c5)L{
       -- null CHOICE (this tag indicates the CHOICE taken; replace this
       -- TLV with the TLV for any operation to get the Request encoding
       -- of that operation)
       T(c0)L{
	 -- Req-null (this is the encoding of the value of the CHOICE
	 -- taken); NULL has no LV part.
	 T(uNULL)
       }
     }
     -- extensions
     [...]
   }}

   -- Null Response
   -- Outer application tag
   T(a1)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
     -- "preamble"
     -- pvno-major == 2 so it is left out
     -- pvno-minor == 0 so it is left out
     -- optional language
     [T(c1)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<language tag>}}]
     -- end preamble
     -- operation choice tag
     T(c2)L{
       -- null CHOICE

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       T(c0)L{
         T(uNULL)
       }
     }
   }}

10.2 TLV encoding of Error-Response

   -- Error Response
   -- Outer application tag
   T(a1)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
     -- "preamble"
     -- pvno-major == 2 so it is left out
     -- pvno-minor == 0 so it is left out
     -- optional language
     [T(c2)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<language tag>}}]
     -- end preamble
     -- error code
     T(c3)L{T(uENUM)L{<error code}}
     T(c4)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<error text}}
     -- optional CHOICE
     T(c5)L{
       -- CHOICE TLV goes here
       T(c<choice taken>)L{<value of CHOICE taken>}
     }
     -- extensions
     [...]
   }}

10.3 TLV encoding of the change password requests and responses

   -- Req-change-pw
     -- choice tag
     T(c1)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- old password
	 T(c0)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<password string>}}
	 -- new password (optional; if missing server must generate it)
	 [T(c1)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<password string>}}]
	 -- extensions
	 [...]
       }
     }

   -- Rep-change-pw
     -- choice tag
     T(c1)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- optional informational text
	 [T(c0)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<text>}}]
	 -- new password (optional; see section 6)
	 [T(c1)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<new password>}}]
	 -- extensions

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	 [...]
       }
     }

   -- Err-change-pw
     -- choice tag
     T(c1)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- optional help text
	 [T(c0)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<text>}}]
	 -- error code
	 T(c1)L{T(uENUM)L{<error code>}}]
	 -- extensions
	 [...]
       }
     }

10.4 TLV encoding of Change Keys requests and responses

   -- Req-set-keys
     -- choice tag
     T(c1)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- new key enctypes
	 T(c0)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	   T(uINTEGER)L{<etype integer>},
	   ...
	 }}
	 -- optional entropy
	 [T(c1)L{T(uOCTET STRING)L{<entropy>}}]
	 -- extensions
	 [...]
       }
     }

   -- Rep-set-keys
     -- choice tag
     T(c1)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- optional informational text
	 [T(c0)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<text>}}]
	 -- new kvno
	 T(c1)L{T(uINTEGER)L{<new kvno>}}
	 -- new keys
	 T(c2)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	   -- first key
	   T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	     T(uINTEGER)L{<etype>}
	     T(uOCTET STRING)L{<key>}
	     -- extensions to Key
	     [...]
	   }
	   -- additional keys, if any

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	   ...
	 }}
	 -- optional aliases
	 [T(c3)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	   -- first alias
	   T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	     -- principal name
	     T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	       T(uUTF8String)L{<component1>},
	       -- components 2..N, if any
	       ...
	     }
	     T(uUTF8String)L{<realm name>}
	     -- extensions
	     [...]
	   }
	   -- additional aliases, if any
	   ...
	 }}]
	 -- extensions
	 [...]
       }
     }

   -- Err-set-keys
     -- choice tag
     T(c1)L{
       T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	 -- optional help text
	 [T(c0)L{T(uUTF8String)L{<text>}}]
	 -- KDC supported enctypes
	 [T(c1)L{T(uSEQUENCE)L{
	   T(uINTEGER)L{<etype integer>},
	   ...
	 }}]
	 -- error code
	 T(c2)L{T(uENUM)L{<error code>}}]
	 -- extensions
	 [...]
       }
     }

11 Acknowledgements
   
   The authors would like to thank Sam Hartman, Paul W. Nelson and
   Marcus Watts for their assistance.

   The authors thank Ken Raeburn, Tom Yu, Martin Rex, Sam Hartman, Tony
   Andrea, Paul W. Nelson, Marcus Watts and other participants from the
   IETF Kerberos Working Group for their input to the document.

12 References


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12.1 Normative References

   [RFC2026]
      S. Bradner, RFC2026:  "The Internet Standard Process - Revision
      3," October 1996, Obsoletes - RFC 1602, Status: Best Current
      Practice.

   [RFC2119]
      S. Bradner, RFC2119 (BCP14):  "Key words for use in RFCs to
      Indicate Requirement Levels," March 1997, Status: Best Current
      Practice.

   [X680]
      Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of Basic
      Notation, ITU-T Recommendation X.680 (1997) | ISO/IEC
      International Standard 8824-1:1998.
      http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/X680_0702.pdf

   [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.
      http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/X690_0702.pdf

   [RFC1510]
      J. Kohl and  B. C. Neuman, RFC1510: "The Kerberos Network
      Authentication Service (v5)," September 1993, Status: Proposed
      Standard.

   [clarifications]
      RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-ietf-krb-wg-
      kerberos-clarifications.

   [k5stringprep]
      RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-ietf-krb-wg-
      utf8-profile.

   [RFC3066]
      H. Alvestrand, RFC3066 (BCP47): "Tags for the Identification of
      Languages," January 2001, Obsoletes RFC1766, Status: Best Current
      Practice.

   [KPASSWDv1]
      (Reference needed!)

12.1 Informative References

   [RFC3244]
      M. Swift, J. Trostle, J. Brezak, RFC3244: "Microsoft Windows 2000
      Kerberos Change Password and Set Password Protocols," February
      2002, Status: Informational.


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13 Authors' Addresses

      Jonathan Trostle
      Cisco Systems
      170 W. Tasman Dr.
      San Jose, CA 95134
      Email: jtrostle@cisco.com

      Mike Swift
      University of Washington
      Seattle, WA
      Email: mikesw@cs.washington.edu

      John Brezak
      Microsoft
      1 Microsoft Way
      Redmond, WA 98052
      Email: jbrezak@microsoft.com

      Bill Gossman
      Cisco Systems
      500 108th Ave. NE, Suite 500
      Bellevue, WA 98004
      Email: bgossman@cisco.com

      Nicolas Williams
      Sun Microsystems
      5300 Riata Trace Ct
      Austin, TX 78727
      Email: nicolas.williams@sun.com

14 Notes to the RFC Editor

   This document has two KRB WG drafts as normative references and
   cannot progress until those drafts progress, but no other draft
   depends on this one.

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