Channel Binding Signalling for the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface
draft-ietf-kitten-channel-bound-flag-04
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Expired Internet-Draft
(kitten WG)
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| Authors | Robbie Harwood , Nicolás Williams | ||
| Last updated | 2019-08-09 (Latest revision 2019-02-05) | ||
| RFC stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Additional resources | Mailing list discussion | ||
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| Document shepherd | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
Channel binding is a technique that allows applications to use a secure channel at a lower layer without having to use authentication at that lower layer. The concept of channel binding comes from the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS- API). It turns out that the semantics commonly implemented are different than those specified in the base GSS-API RFC (RFC2743), and that that specification has a serious bug. This document addresses both the inconsistency as-implemented and the specification bug. This Internet-Draft proposes the addition of a "channel bound" return flag for the GSS_Init_sec_context() and GSS_Accept_sec_context() functions. Two behaviors are specified: a default, safe behavior reflecting existing implementation deployments, and a behavior that is only safe when the application specifically tells the GSS-API that it (the application) supports the new behavior. Additional API elements related to this are also added, including a new security context establishment API.
Authors
Robbie Harwood
Nicolás Williams
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