Re: [SECMECH] Framework Bindings Vs. Mechanism Bridges

Shumon Huque <shuque@isc.upenn.edu> Mon, 22 August 2005 04:18 UTC

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:18:08 -0400
From: Shumon Huque <shuque@isc.upenn.edu>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [SECMECH] Framework Bindings Vs. Mechanism Bridges
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:58:41AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:10:35PM -0400, Shumon Huque wrote:
> > I think the Kerberos community needs to work on standardizing password 
> > based pre-authentication mechanisms invulnerable to dictionary attack 
> > (perhaps EKE, AEKE, SPEKE, SRP etc). Hardware pre-authentication
> > mitigates the threat somewhat. But PKINIT isn't really an option for 
> > the many sites that don't plan to authenticate users with public key 
> > credentials (or deploy PKI).
> 
> Did you attend the SACRED WG meeting at IETF 63?

No, but I just read a summary of their session. The credential
mobility stuff isn't really relevant to (non PKINIT) Kerberos
sites. So I assume you are referring to the IPR issues with those
protocols. It sounds like there might be some hope though!

> > At one time, some of us were talking about an EAP method that
> > transported Kerberos messages directly. It seems to me that putting
> > some effort into completing that work would be immediately useful
> > to Kerberos sites that need to deploy 802.1X or 802.11i soon.
> 
> Indeed.  That would be an example of framework bindings of a security
> mechanisms, as opposed to EAP-GSS, which would be a bridge.

Agreed.

Some folks at Penn are interested in working on an EAP-Kerberos 
method. Is there anyone else interested in this?

Thanks!
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