Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the plea for integrating
Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@Sun.COM> Wed, 25 July 2007 19:23 UTC
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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:24:31 -0500
From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the plea for integrating
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For my IESG review of draft-ietf-tls-srp-14.txt, I voted to abstain with the following comment: ------ This a matter of application software architecture that applies to any user-based authentication mechanism embedded in TLS that involves or may involve unspecified server storage of per-user credential information. TLS stacks and the APIs to TLS stacks have started to ossify into operating systems, mobile devices and shipping application software. Such stacks are absolutely critical to application security, and are already so complex that they are the cause of a significant number of software defects and security updates. I am very concerned about adding unnecessary complexity to such a critical software component. There is already a great deal of flux upgrading the cipher suites, cipher modes and hash functions in these stacks. Meanwhile, all the software infrastructure in applications surrounding user identity, server credential repositories for users, and identity federation is highly complex and in a great deal of flux. If one looks at the amount of complexity in the GSSAPI or deployed general purpose SASL APIs and imagines the complexity of a software stack including all those APIs blended with a TLS API, I find the prospect daunting. Indeed the complexity is sufficiently great that I consider it bad architecture. Meanwhile, there's a viable alternative. If TLS and an authentication framework such as GSSAPI, EAP or SASL are loosely bound using a mechanism such as TLS channel bindings (TLS negotiates the security layer which is subsequently bound to a completely separate user authentication), then there is a very simple and clean boundary between the two software stacks, leading to a much more pragmatic real-world architecture. ------ I have subsequently spoken to other implementers in the applications area who integrate TLS and identity stacks into their application server software. They all shared this concern to varying degrees. This issue clearly also applies to a mechanism that embeds GSS in TLS. As a measure of IETF consensus in support of such a mechanism, I want to see evidence there are real-world consumers of this technology sufficient that it might deploy. Specifically, is this likely to be implemented in multiple TLS stacks? Are applications that consume TLS stacks interested in using this instead of their present identity APIs and models? - Chris Newman Applications Area Director _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
- [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the ple… Larry Zhu
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Larry Zhu
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Larry Zhu
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Love Hörnquist Åstrand
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Larry Zhu
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Love Hörnquist Åstrand
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Larry Zhu
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Love Hörnquist Åstrand
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Jeffrey Altman
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Jeffrey Altman
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Kemp, David P.
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Leif Johansson
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Leif Johansson
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Chris Newman
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Larry Zhu
- [TLS] Re: the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Simon Josefsson
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Chris Newman
- Re: [TLS] Re: the use cases for GSS-based TLS and… Leif Johansson
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Larry Zhu
- [TLS] Re: the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Chris Newman
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Leif Johansson
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Kemp, David P.
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Jeffrey Altman
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Leif Johansson
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Chris Newman
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Chris Newman
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… pgut001
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Jeffrey Altman
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… pgut001
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Kyle Hamilton
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… pgut001
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… pgut001
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… pgut001
- Re: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Martin Rex
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Kemp, David P.
- RE: [TLS] the use cases for GSS-based TLS and the… Chris Newman