Re: [secdir] SecDir review of draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-referrals-14

Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 25 September 2012 17:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] SecDir review of draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-referrals-14
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Nope, but that's per the process described in 
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/sec/trac/wiki/SecDirReview. The WG 
chairs are supposedly on the ".all" alias.

Thanks,
	Yaron

On 09/25/2012 07:06 PM, Sean Turner wrote:
> Did these ever make it to the krb-wg mailing list?
>
> spt
>
> On 9/23/12 4:46 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>> I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
>> ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG.
>> These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security
>> area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat these
>> comments just like any other last call comments.
>>
>> This document adds a "referral" mechanism to Kerberos, where a client
>> (e.g. an end user) can use a generic enterprise-wide name, and have it
>> mapped to one that is specific to its correct realm; similarly, a
>> generic name can be used for a service, and the KDC will respond with
>> the correct principal name (and realm) for the service.
>>
>> Summary
>>
>> It is obvious that the analysis in the document's Security
>> Considerations is very thorough. Unfortunately I do not have the
>> Kerberos expertise (which apparently requires knowledge of specific
>> implementations' quirky behavior) to determine if all relevant cases
>> were covered.
>>
>> A cursory reading of the Considerations is quite discouraging: several
>> security mechanisms exist but they are not universally applied, some
>> implementations do not even follow the base protocol etc. I can only
>> hope that modern Kerberos implementations have improved in the 11 years
>> since this protocol first got started.
>>
>> Details
>>
>> - Sec. 4: "trusted name service" is not well defined. In fact it can be
>> construed as a euphemism for "enterprise-internal DNS", which is advised
>> against earlier.
>> - 4.1, last paragraph: is there no possibility to an "issuing realm" to
>> "publish" ownership of some resources to the consuming realm, and thus
>> effectively claim those resources?
>> - 6. In the authorization ASN.1 snippet, what is the value of MAX?
>> - 7, first paragraph: when the client sends the request to example.com,
>> shouldn't it ensure first that it has a pre-existing (pre-configured)
>> trust relationship with example.com?
>> - 10: the last paragraph ("Accordingly") is a bit too vague and probably
>> does not provide implementors with sufficient advice.
>> - 10: overall it is not clear if this section also applies to caching of
>> client referrals.
>> - 11: surprise! FAST (which was an optional SHOULD in Sec. 6) is now a
>> MUST! Even if it's just FAST negotiation that's a MUST, but FAST itself
>> (or an equivalent) is just a SHOULD, this still doesn't make a lot of
>> sense, and should at least be explained.
>> - 11: this section defines a new structure, but only explains a few of
>> its members. Please mention where all the other members are defined (RFC
>> 4120?). By the way, key-expiration is said to be deprecated in RFC 4120,
>> but what do I know.
>> - General: the document is said to update RFC 4120. A short section with
>> a summary of the specific updates would be very useful, so that
>> implementors can find out if they need to change anything, even if they
>> do NOT support the Referral functionality. (This is really a shortcoming
>> of the IETF notion of "RFC X updates RFC Y.")
>> - Appendix A: in "current implementation", do you mean post-Win 2003?
>> Please clarify.
>> - Appendix A: a reference to the MS documentation might be appropriate:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc233855(v=prot.13).aspx
>>
>> Thanks,
>>       Yaron
>>
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