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Network Working Group Internet Engineering Task Force Kerberos Abstract: This document specifies a Kerberos Authorization Data container that supersedes AD-KDC-ISSUED. It allows for multiple Message Authentication Codes (MACs) or signatures to authenticate the contained Authorization Data elements.

This document specifies a new Authorization Data container for Kerberos, called AD-CAMMAC (Container Authenticated by Multiple MACs), that supersedes AD-KDC-ISSUED. The container allows both the receiving application service and the Key Distribution Center (KDC) itself to verify the authenticity of the contained authorization data. The AD-CAMMAC container can also include additional verifiers that "trusted services" can use to verify the contained authorization data.

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 RFC 2119.

Kerberos ticket authorization data are highly sensitive and must be validated to insure that no tampering has occurred. Although authorization data are in the encrypted part of a Kerberos ticket and therefore have their integrity protected by the ticket encryption, clients can request that KDCs insert potentially arbitrary authorization data into tickets on their behalf. The Kerberos protocol specifications allow this client behavior because the originally envisioned usage of authorization data was to serve as restrictions on the client's privileges. Services that need to interpret specific authorization data as granting increased privileges need some way to ensure that the KDC originated those authorization data. In order to validate any information, the receiving application service needs to be able to cryptographically verify the data. This is done by introducing a new AuthorizationData element called AD-CAMMAC that contains enough information to bind the contents to a principal in a way that a receiving application service can verify autonomously without further contact with the KDC. The following information is needed: The KDC MAC The Service MAC Optional Trusted Service MAC The KDC MAC is required to allow the KDC to validate the data without needing to recompute the contents at every Ticket Granting Service (TGS) request. The Service MAC is required so that the Service can verify that the authorization data has been validated by the KDC. The Trusted Service MAC is useful to verify the authenticity of the contents on the same host, when the data is received by a less trusted service and passed to a more trusted service on the same host without the need for additional round trips to the KDC. The ad-type for AD-CAMMAC is (TBD).

The Kerberos protocol is defined in using Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) . As such, this specification also uses the ASN.1 syntax for specifying both the abstract layout of the AD-CAMMAC attributes, as well as its encoding.

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Although authorization data are generally conveyed within the encrypted part of a ticket and are thereby protected by the existing encryption methods on the ticket, some authorization data requires the additional protection provided by the CAMMAC. Extracting a CAMMAC from a ticket for use as a credential removes it from the context of the ticket. In the general case, this could turn it into a bearer token, with all of the associated security implications. Also, the CAMMAC does not itself contain sufficient information to identify the client principal. Therefore, application protocols that rely on extracted CAMMACs might need to duplicate a substantial portion of the ticket contents and include that duplicated information in the authorization data contained within the CAMMAC. A KDC that needs to verify the contents of a CAMMAC in a non-TGS service ticket MUST ensure that the CAMMAC in the ticket is the same one that it inserted into the ticket. A malicious service could substitute legitimate CAMMACs from other tickets that it has received (but not fabricate completely new CAMMACs) into a service ticket. A CAMMAC by itself does not contain sufficient information to accomplish this.

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&RFC4120; &RFC3961; &RFC3962; ISO ISO &RFC2119; &RFC3552; &RFC1510;

This becomes an Appendix.