Re: [Ietf-krb-wg] Review of draft-sorce-krbwg-general-pac-02

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 05 July 2011 20:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-krb-wg] Review of draft-sorce-krbwg-general-pac-02
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Josh Howlett <Josh.Howlett@ja.net> wrote:
> 1. Encoding
>
> The document specifies the use of ASN.1 encoding of attributes, on the
> basis that this is what Kerberos uses. As a general principle the choice
> of encoding should, IMO, be determined principally by the preferences of
> the parties expected to issue and consume the PAD. For the purposes of
> this document, I would expect those to be the KDC (issuer) and -- for
> modern usage of Kerberos -- the GSS acceptor (consumer). So, in the former
> case the choice of ASN.1 is reasonable. However, in the second case I
> would expect that application developers would prefer to use GSS-API
> naming extensions, rather than parse the PAD directly. Quoting
> draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-naming-exts:

The original intention was to allow access to the raw authorization
data elements and even sub-elements.  Support for naming elements in a
SAML-friendly way came later, but I don't believe there's anything
requiring that the elements themselves be SAML elements.

Nico
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