Network Working Group                                       P. Sangster
Internet Draft                                     Symantec Corporation
Intended status: Proposed Standard                        N. Cam-Winget
Expires: February 2012                                    Cisco Systems

                                                         August 30, 2011

      PT-EAP: Posture Transport (PT) Protocol For EAP Tunnel Methods
                       draft-ietf-nea-pt-eap-00.txt


Abstract

   This document specifies PT-EAP, a Posture Broker Protocol compatible
   with the Trusted Computing Group's IF-T Protocol Bindings for
   Tunneled EAP Methods (also known as EAP-TNC). The document then
   evaluates PT-EAP against the requirements defined in the NEA
   Requirements and PB-TNC specifications.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction...................................................3
      1.1. Prerequisites.............................................4
      1.2. Message Diagram Conventions...............................4
      1.3. Terminology...............................................5
      1.4. Conventions used in this document.........................5
   2. Use of EAP-TNC.................................................5
   3. Definition of EAP-TNC..........................................5
      3.1. Protocol Overview.........................................6
      3.2. Version Negotiation.......................................6
      3.3. Fragmentation.............................................7
      3.4. EAP-TNC Message Format....................................8
      3.5. Preventing MITM Attacks with Channel Bindings............10
   4. Security Considerations.......................................11
      4.1. Trust Relationships......................................11
         4.1.1. Posture Transport Client............................11
         4.1.2. Posture Transport Server............................12
      4.2. Security Threats and Countermeasures.....................13
         4.2.1. Message Theft.......................................14
         4.2.2. Message Fabrication.................................14
         4.2.3. Message Modification................................15
         4.2.4. Denial of Service...................................15
         4.2.5. NEA Asokan Attacks..................................16
      4.3. Requirements for EAP Tunnel Methods......................16
      4.4. Candidate EAP Tunnel Method Protections..................17
      4.5. Security Claims for EAP-TNC as per RFC3748...............18
   5. Privacy Considerations........................................18
   6. IANA Considerations...........................................19
      6.1. Registry for EAP-TNC Versions............................19
   7. References....................................................20
      7.1. Normative References.....................................20
      7.2. Informative References...................................20
   8. Acknowledgments...............................................21
   Appendix A. Evaluation Against NEA Requirements..................23
      A.1. Evaluation Against Requirement C-1.......................23
      A.2. Evaluation Against Requirements C-2......................23


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      A.3. Evaluation Against Requirements C-3......................23
      A.4. Evaluation Against Requirements C-4......................24
      A.5. Evaluation Against Requirements C-5......................24
      A.6. Evaluation Against Requirements C-6......................24
      A.7. Evaluation Against Requirements C-7......................24
      A.8. Evaluation Against Requirements C-8......................25
      A.9. Evaluation Against Requirements C-9......................25
      A.10. Evaluation Against Requirements C-10....................25
      A.11. Evaluation Against Requirements C-11....................26
      A.12. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-1....................26
      A.13. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-2....................26
      A.14. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-3....................27
      A.15. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-4....................27
      A.16. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-5....................27
      A.17. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-6 (from PB-TNC
      specification)................................................28
      A.18. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-7 (from PB-TNC
      specification)................................................28
      A.19. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-8 (from PB-TNC
      specification)................................................28
      A.20. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-9 (from PB-TNC
      specification)................................................28

1. Introduction

   This document specifies PT-EAP, a Posture Transport Protocol (PT)
   compatible with the Trusted Computing Group's IF-T Protocol Bindings
   for Tunneled EAP Methods (also known as EAP-TNC) [10].  The document
   then evaluates PT-EAP against the requirements defined in the NEA
   Requirements [7] and PB-TNC specifications [4].

   The PT protocol in the NEA architecture is responsible for
   transporting PB-TNC batches (often containing PA-TNC [3] attributes)
   across the network between the NEA Client and NEA Server.  The PT
   protocol also offers strong security protections to ensure the
   exchanged messages are protected from a variety of threats from
   hostile intermediaries.

   NEA protocols are intended to be used both for pre-admission
   assessment of endpoints joining the network and to assess endpoints
   already present on the network.  In order to support both usage
   models, two types of PT protocols are needed.  One type of PT
   operates after the endpoint has an assigned IP address, layering on
   top of the IP protocol to carry a NEA exchange.  The other type of PT
   operates before the endpoint gains any access to the IP network. This
   specification defines PT-EAP, the PT protocol used to assess
   endpoints before they gain access to the network.


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   PT-EAP is comprised of two related protocols, an outer EAP tunnel
   method (not defined in this specification) and an inner EAP method
   that carries the NEA assessment inside the protections of the outer
   EAP tunnel method.  This specification uses the term PT-EAP to refer
   to both collectively.  The inner EAP method is based upon a method
   called EAP-TNC, which is part of the Trusted Computing Group's TNC
   architecture and standards.  This specification defines the EAP-TNC
   inner EAP method, while allowing the outer EAP tunnel method to be
   specified in another specification (possibly defined by another IETF
   WG). The reason to define PT-EAP as including both the outer EAP
   tunnel method and the inner EAP method is because both are required
   to meet the PT requirements.

   EAP-TNC is designed to operate as an inner EAP [8] method over an EAP
   tunnel method that meets the Requirements for a Tunnel Based EAP
   Method [15]. PT-EAP therefore can operate over a number of existing
   access protocols that support EAP for authentication. Some examples
   of such access protocols include 802.1X [5] for wired and wireless
   networks and IKEv2 [13] for establishing VPNs over IP networks.

   This document defines a standard EAP inner method called EAP-TNC.  It
   also shows how EAP-TNC may be carried over two existing EAP tunnel
   EAP methods: EAP-FAST [12] and EAP-TTLS [14].

1.1. Prerequisites

   This document does not define an architecture or reference model.
   Instead, it defines a protocol that works within the reference model
   described in the NEA Requirements specification [7].  The reader is
   assumed to be thoroughly familiar with that document.  No familiarity
   with Trusted Computing Group (TCG) specifications is assumed.

1.2. Message Diagram Conventions

   This specification defines the syntax of EAP-TNC messages using
   diagrams.  Each diagram depicts the format and size of each field in
   bits.  Implementations MUST send the bits in each diagram as they are
   shown, traversing the diagram from top to bottom and then from left
   to right within each line (which represents a 32-bit quantity).
   Multi-byte fields representing numeric values MUST be sent in network
   (big endian) byte order.

   Descriptions of bit field (e.g. flag) values are described referring
   to the position of the bit within the field.  These bit positions are
   numbered from the most significant bit through the least significant
   bit so a one octet field with only bit 0 set has the value 0x80.



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1.3. Terminology

   This document reuses many terms defined in the NEA Requirements
   document [7], such as Posture Transport Client and Posture Transport
   Server. The reader is assumed to have read that document and
   understood it.

   When defining the EAP-TNC method, this specification does not use the
   terms "EAP peer" and "EAP authenticator". Instead, it uses the terms
   "NEA Client" and "NEA Server" since those are considered to be more
   familiar to NEA WG participants. However, these terms are equivalent
   for the purposes of these specifications. The part of the NEA Client
   that terminates EAP-TNC (generally in the Posture Transport Client)
   is the EAP peer for EAP-TNC. The part of the NEA Server that
   terminates EAP-TNC (generally in the Posture Transport Server) is the
   EAP authenticator for EAP-TNC.

1.4. Conventions used in this document

   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 [1].

2. Use of EAP-TNC

   EAP-TNC is designed to encapsulate PB-TNC batches in a simple EAP
   method that can be carried within EAP tunnel methods. The EAP tunnel
   methods provide confidentiality and message integrity, so EAP-TNC
   does not have to do so. Therefore, EAP-TNC MUST only be used inside
   an EAP tunnel method that provides strong cryptographic
   authentication (possibly server only), message integrity and
   confidentiality services.

3. Definition of EAP-TNC

   The EAP-TNC protocol operates between a Posture Transport Client and
   a Posture Transport Server, allowing them to send PB-TNC batches to
   each other over an EAP tunnel method. When EAP-TNC is used, the
   Posture Transport Client in the NEA reference model acts as an EAP
   peer (terminating the EAP-TNC method on the endpoint) and the Posture
   Transport Server acts as an EAP authenticator (terminating the EAP-
   TNC method on the NEA Server).

   This section describes and defines the EAP-TNC method. First, it
   provides a protocol overview and a flow diagram. Second, it describes
   specific features like version negotiation and fragmentation. Third,
   it gives a detailed packet description. Finally, it describes how the


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   tls-unique channel binding [18] may be used to PA-TNC exchanges to
   the EAP tunnel method, defeating MITM attacks such as the Asokan
   attack [11].

3.1. Protocol Overview

   EAP-TNC has two phases that follow each other in strict sequence:
   negotiation and data transport.

   The EAP-TNC method begins with the negotiation phase.  The NEA Server
   starts this phase by sending an EAP-TNC Start message: an EAP Request
   message of type EAP-TNC with the S (Start) flag set. The NEA Server
   also sets the Version field as described in section 3.2. This is the
   only message in the negotiation phase.

   The data transport phase is the only phase of EAP-TNC where PB-TNC
   batches are allowed to be exchanged.  This phase always starts with
   the NEA Client sending a PB-TNC batch to the NEA Server.  The NEA
   Client and NEA Server then engage in a round-robin exchange with one
   PB-TNC batch in flight at a time.  The data transport phase always
   ends with an EAP Response message from the NEA Client to the NEA
   Server.  This message may be empty (not contain any data) if the NEA
   Server has just sent the last PB-TNC batch in the PB-TNC exchange.

   At the end of the EAP-TNC method, the NEA Server will indicate
   success or failure to the EAP tunnel method.  Some EAP tunnel methods
   may provide explicit confirmation of inner method success; others may
   not.  This is out of scope for the EAP-TNC method.  Successful
   completion of EAP-TNC does not imply successful completion of the
   overall authentication nor does EAP-TNC failure imply overall
   failure. This depends on the administrative policy in place.

   The NEA Server and NEA Client may engage in an abnormal termination
   of the EAP-TNC exchange at any time by simply stopping the exchange.
   This may also require terminating the EAP tunnel method, depending on
   the capabilities of the EAP tunnel method.

   The NEA Server and NEA Client MUST follow the protocol sequence
   described in this section.

3.2. Version Negotiation

   EAP-TNC version negotiation takes place in the first EAP-TNC message
   sent by the NEA Server (the Start message) and the first EAP-TNC
   message sent by the NEA Client (the response to the Start message).
   The NEA Server MUST set the Version field in the Start message to the



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   maximum EAP-TNC version that the NEA Server supports and is willing
   to accept.

   The NEA Client chooses the EAP-TNC version to be used for the
   exchange and places this value in the Version field in its response
   to the Start message. The NEA Client SHOULD choose the value sent by
   the NEA Server if the NEA Client supports it. However, the NEA Client
   MAY set the Version field to a value less than the value sent by the
   NEA Server (for example, if the NEA Client only supports lesser EAP-
   TNC versions). If the NEA Client only supports EAP-TNC versions
   greater than the value sent by the NEA Server, the EAP client MUST
   abnormally terminate the EAP negotiation.

   If the version sent by the NEA Client is not acceptable to the NEA
   Server, the NEA Server MUST terminate the EAP-TNC session
   immediately.  Otherwise, the version sent by the NEA Client is the
   version of EAP-TNC that MUST be used. Both the NEA Client and the NEA
   Server MUST set the Version field to the chosen version number in all
   subsequent EAP-TNC messages in this exchange.

   This specification defines version 1 of EAP-TNC.  Version 0 is
   reserved and MUST never be sent. New versions of EAP-TNC (values 2-7)
   may be defined by Standards Action, as defined in RFC 5226 [6].

3.3. Fragmentation

   In most cases, EAP-TNC fragmentation will not be required. But PB-TNC
   batches can be very long and EAP message length is sometimes tightly
   constrained so EAP-TNC includes a fragmentation mechanism to be used
   when a particular PB-TNC batch is too long to fit into a single EAP-
   TNC message.

   The fragmentation mechanism used in EAP-TNC is quite similar to the
   mechanism used by EAP-TLS [17], EAP-TTLS [14], and EAP-FAST [12]. It
   uses the L flag (length included) and the M flag (more fragments) as
   well as the Data Length field.

   A party (NEA Client or NEA Server) that needs to fragment a long PB-
   TNC batch SHOULD break the batch into pieces (called "fragments")
   that will fit into EAP-TNC messages. Then this party sends the
   fragments in proper sequence, one fragment per EAP-TNC message.  The
   receiving party recognizes the fragments and holds them for
   reassembly, sending an acknowledgment for each fragment so that the
   next fragment can be sent (since EAP only allows one message in
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   The EAP-TNC message that contains the first fragment MUST have the L
   flag set to indicate that fragmentation is being initiated. This
   packet also MUST contain the Data Length field, indicating the total
   octet length of the unfragmented batch and allowing the party
   receiving the fragments to know how much data will eventually be
   coming. The L flag MUST NOT be set and the Data Length field MUST NOT
   be present in any EAP-TNC message unless that message contains the
   first fragment of a fragmented PB-TNC batch. The M flag MUST be set
   on all but the last fragment and MUST NOT be set on the last
   fragment.

   A party that receives an EAP-TNC message with the M flag set MUST
   respond with an EAP-TNC Acknowledgement message: an EAP-TNC message
   with no Data and with the L, M, and S flags set to 0. The party that
   sent an EAP-TNC message with the M flag set MUST wait for the EAP-TNC
   Acknowledgement packet before sending the next fragment.

   EAP-TNC authenticators and NEA Clients MUST include support for EAP-
   TNC fragmentation with Data Lengths up to 100,000 octets.  However, a
   NEA Server or peer still MAY decide to terminate an EAP-TNC exchange
   at any time for a variety of reasons.

3.4. EAP-TNC Message Format

   This section provides a detailed description of the fields in an EAP-
   TNC message.  For a description of the diagram conventions used here,
   see section 1.2.  Since EAP-TNC is an EAP method, the first four
   fields in each message are mandated by and defined in EAP.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Code      |   Identifier  |            Length             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |    Type       |   Flags | Ver |     Data Length               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         Data Length           |           Data ...            |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Code

      The Code field is one octet and identifies the type of the EAP
      message. The only values used for EAP-TNC are:

      1 - Request

      2 - Response


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   Identifier

      The Identifier field is one octet and aids in matching Responses
      with Requests.

   Length

      The Length field is two octets and indicates the length in octets
      of this EAP-TNC message, starting from the Code field.  If an EAP-
      TNC message has been fragmented, the Length field will cover only
      this fragment and thus doesn't reflect the overall length of the
      entire unfragmented EAP-TNC message.

   Type

      38

      [IANA Note: This value was previously reserved for another purpose
      but has been used for EAP-TNC for some time and never used for the
      other purpose so please assign this value to EAP-TNC.]

   Flags

      +-+-+-+-+-+
      |L M S R R|
      +-+-+-+-+-+


   L: Length included

      Indicates the presence of the Data Length field in the EAP-TNC
      message. This flag MUST be set for an EAP-TNC message that
      contains the first fragment of a fragmented EAP-TNC message and
      only for such a message. This flag MUST NOT be set for non-
      fragmented messages.

   M: More fragments

      Indicates that more fragments are to follow. This flag MUST be set
      for all EAP-TNC messages that contain a fragmented EAP-TNC message
      except that this bit MUST NOT be set for EAP-TNC messages that
      contain the last fragment of a fragmented message. This flag MUST
      NOT be set for EAP-TNC messages that contain unfragmented Data.

   S: Start




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      Indicates the beginning of an EAP-TNC exchange. This flag MUST be
      set only for the first message from the NEA Server. If the S flag
      is set, the EAP message MUST NOT contain Data or have the L or M
      flags set.

   R: Reserved

      This flag MUST be set to 0 and ignored upon receipt.

   Version

      This field is used for version negotiation, as described in
      section 3.2.

   Data Length

      Data Length is an optional field four octets in length. It MUST be
      present if and only if the L flag is set. When present, it
      indicates the total length, before fragmentation, of a fragmented
      PB-TNC batch. The Data Length field MUST be set in the EAP-TNC
      message that contains the first in a series of fragments and MUST
      NOT be set in subsequent fragments.

   Data

      Variable length data. The length of the Data field in a particular
      EAP-TNC message may be determined by subtracting the length of the
      EAP-TNC header fields from the value of the two octet Length
      field. Note, however, that this data may be just one part of a
      longer fragmented PB-TNC batch conveyed in multiple EAP-TNC
      messages.

3.5. Preventing MITM Attacks with Channel Bindings

   As described in the NEA Asokan Attack Analysis [16], a sophisticated
   MITM attack can be mounted against NEA systems.  The attacker
   forwards PA-TNC messages from a healthy machine through an unhealthy
   one so that the unhealthy machine can gain network access.  Because
   there are easier attacks on NEA systems, like having the unhealthy
   machine lie about its configuration, this attack is generally only
   mounted against machines with an External Measurement Agent (EMA).
   The EMA is a separate entity, difficult to compromise, which measures
   and attests to the configuration of the endpoint.

   To protect against NEA Asokan attacks, the Posture Broker on an EMA-
   equipped endpoint SHOULD pass the tls-unique channel binding [18] for
   PT-EAP's tunnel method to the EMA.  This value can then be included


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   in the EMA's attestation and the Posture Validator responsible for
   communicating with the EMA may then confirm that the value matches
   the tls-unique channel binding for its end of the tunnel. If the
   values match and the integrity of the endpoint is good, the posture
   sent by the EMA and NEA Client is from the same endpoint as the
   client side of the TLS connection (since the endpoint knows the tls-
   unique value) so no man-in-the-middle is forwarding posture. If they
   differ, an attack has been detected and the Posture Validator SHOULD
   fail its verification.

4. Security Considerations

   This section discusses the major threats and countermeasures provided
   by the EAP-TNC inner EAP method. As discussed throughout the
   document, the EAP-TNC method is designed to run inside an EAP tunnel
   method which is capable of protecting the EAP-TNC protocol from many
   threats. Since the EAP tunnel method will be specified separately,
   these security considerations specify requirements on the tunnel
   method but do not evaluate its ability to meet those requirements.

4.1.  Trust Relationships

   In order to understand where security countermeasures are necessary,
   this section starts with a discussion of where the NEA architecture
   envisions some trust relationships between the processing elements of
   the PT-EAP protocol.  The following sub-sections discuss the trust
   properties associated with each portion of the NEA reference model
   directly involved with the processing of the PT-TNC protocol.

4.1.1. Posture Transport Client

   The Posture Transport Client is trusted by the Posture Broker Client
   to:

   o  Not to observe, fabricate or alter the contents of the PB-TNC
      batches received from the network

   o  Not to observe, fabricate or alter the PB-TNC batches passed down
      from the Posture Broker Client for transmission on the network

   o  Transmit on the network any PB-TNC batches passed down from the
      Posture Broker Client

   o  Deliver properly security protected messages received from the
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   o  Provide configured security protections (e.g. authentication,
      integrity and confidentiality) for the Posture Broker Client's PB-
      TNC batches sent on the network

   o  Expose the authenticated identity of the Posture Transport Server

   o  Verify the security protections placed upon messages received from
      the network to ensure the messages are authentic and protected
      from attacks on the network

   o  Provide a secure, reliable, in order delivery, full duplex
      transport for the Posture Broker Client's messages

   The Posture Transport Client is trusted by the Posture Transport
   Server to:

   o  Not send malicious traffic intending to harm (e.g. denial of
      service) the Posture Transport Server

   o  Not to intentionally send malformed messages to cause processing
      problems for the Posture Transport Server

   o  Not to send invalid or incorrect responses to messages (e.g.
      errors when no error is warranted)

   o  Not to ignore or drop messages causing issues for the protocol
      processing

   o  Verify the security protections placed upon messages received from
      the network to ensure the messages are authentic and protected
      from attacks on the network

4.1.2. Posture Transport Server

   The Posture Transport Server is trusted by the Posture Broker Server
   to:

   o  Not to observe, fabricate or alter the contents of the PB-TNC
      batches received from the network

   o  Not to observe, fabricate or alter the PB-TNC batches passed down
      from the Posture Broker Server for transmission on the network

   o  Transmit on the network any PB-TNC batches passed down from the
      Posture Broker Server




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   o  Deliver properly security protected messages received from the
      network that are destined for the Posture Broker Server

   o  Provide configured security protections (e.g. authentication,
      integrity and confidentiality) for the Posture Broker Server's
      messages sent on the network

   o  Expose the authenticated identity of the Posture Transport Client

   o  Verify the security protections placed upon messages received from
      the network to ensure the messages are authentic and protected
      from attacks on the network

   The Posture Transport Server is trusted by the Posture Transport
   Client to:

   o  Not send malicious traffic intending to harm (e.g. denial of
      service) the Posture Transport Server

   o  Not to send malformed messages

   o  Not to send invalid or incorrect responses to messages (e.g.
      errors when no error is warranted)

   o  Not to ignore or drop messages causing issues for the protocol
      processing

   o  Verify the security protections placed upon messages received from
      the network to ensure the messages are authentic and protected
      from attacks on the network

4.2. Security Threats and Countermeasures

   Beyond the trusted relationships assumed in section 4.1. the PT-EAP
   EAP method faces a number of potential security attacks that could
   require security countermeasures.

   Generally, the PT protocol is responsible for providing strong
   security protections for all of the NEA protocols so any threats to
   PT's ability to protect NEA protocol messages could be very damaging
   to deployments.  For the PT-EAP method, most of the cryptographic
   security is provided by the outer EAP tunnel method and EAP-TNC is
   encapsulated within the protected tunnel.   Therefore, this section
   highlights the cryptographic requirements that need to be met by the
   EAP tunnel method carrying EAP-TNC in order to meet the NEA PT
   requirements.



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   Once the message is delivered to the Posture Broker Client or Posture
   Broker Server, the posture brokers are trusted to properly safely
   process the messages.

4.2.1. Message Theft

   When EAP-TNC messages are sent over unprotected network links or
   spanning local software stacks that are not trusted, the contents of
   the messages may be subject to information theft by an intermediary
   party.  This theft could result in information being recorded for
   future use or analysis by the adversary.  Messages observed by
   eavesdroppers could contain information that exposes potential
   weaknesses in the security of the endpoint, or system fingerprinting
   information easing the ability of the attacker to employ attacks more
   likely to be successful against the endpoint.  The eavesdropper might
   also learn information about the endpoint or network policies that
   either singularly or collectively is considered sensitive
   information.  For example, if EAP-TNC is housed in an EAP tunnel
   method that does not provide confidentiality protection, an adversary
   could observe the PA-TNC attributes included in the PB-TNC batch and
   determine that the endpoint is lacking patches, or particular sub-
   networks have more lenient policies.

   In order to protect again NEA assessment message theft, the EAP
   tunnel method carrying EAP-TNC MUST provide strong cryptographic
   authentication, integrity and confidentiality protection.  The use of
   bi-directional authentication in the EAP tunnel method carrying EAP-
   TNC ensures that only properly authenticated and authorized parties
   may be involved in an assessment message exchange.  When EAP-TNC is
   carried within a cryptographically protected EAP tunnel method like
   EAP-TTLS, all of the PB-TNC and PA-TNC protocol messages contents are
   hidden from potential theft by intermediaries lurking on the network.

4.2.2. Message Fabrication

   Attackers on the network or present within the NEA system could
   introduce fabricated PT-EAP messages intending to trick or create a
   denial of service against aspects of an assessment.  For example, an
   adversary could attempt to insert into the message exchange fake PT-
   EAP error codes in order to disrupt communications.

   The EAP tunnel method carrying an EAP-TNC method needs to provide
   strong security protections for the complete message exchange over
   the network.  These security protections prevent an intermediary from
   being able to insert fake messages into the assessment.  For example,
   the EAP-TTLS method's use of hashing algorithms provides strong
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   content of the message exchange.  Additionally, adversaries are
   unable to observe the EAP-TNC method housed inside of an encrypting
   EAP tunnel method (e.g. EAP-TTLS) because the messages are encrypted
   by the TLS [2] ciphers, so an attacker would have difficulty in
   determining where to insert the falsified message, since the attacker
   is unable to determine where the message boundaries exist.

4.2.3. Message Modification

   This attack could allow an active attacker capable of intercepting a
   message to modify a PT-EAP message or transported PA-TNC attribute to
   a desired value to ease the compromise of an endpoint.  Without the
   ability for message recipients to detect whether a received message
   contains the same content as what was originally sent, active
   attackers can stealthily modify the attribute exchange.

   The EAP-TNC method leverages the EAP tunnel method (e.g. EAP-TTLS) to
   provide strong authentication and integrity protections as a
   countermeasure to this threat.  The bi-directional authentication
   prevents the attacker from acting as an active man-in-the-middle to
   the protocol that could be used to modify the message exchange.  The
   strong integrity protections (hashing) offered by EAP-TTLS allows the
   EAP-TNC message recipients to detect message alterations by other
   types of network based adversaries.  Because EAP-TNC does not itself
   provide explicit integrity protection for the EAP-TNC payload, an EAP
   tunnel method that offers strong integrity protection is required to
   mitigate this threat.

4.2.4. Denial of Service

   A variety of types of denial of service attacks are possible against
   the PT-EAP if the message exchange are left unprotected while
   traveling over the network.   The Posture Transport Client and
   Posture Transport Server are trusted not to participate in the denial
   of service of the assessment session, leaving the threats to come
   from the network.

   The EAP-TNC method primarily relies on the outer EAP tunnel method to
   provide strong authentication (at least of one party) and deployers
   are expected to leverage other EAP methods to authenticate the other
   party (typically the client) within the protected tunnel.  The use of
   a protected bi-directional authentication will prevent unauthorized
   parties from participating in a PT-EAP exchange.

   After the cryptographic authentication by the EAP tunnel method, the
   session can be encrypted and hashed to prevent undetected
   modification that could create a denial of service situation.


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   However it is possible for an adversary to alter the message flows
   causing each message to be rejected by the recipient because it fails
   the integrity checking.

4.2.5. NEA Asokan Attacks

   As described in section 3.5. and in the NEA Asokan Attack Analysis
   [16], a sophisticated MITM attack can be mounted against NEA systems.
   The attacker forwards PA-TNC messages from a healthy machine through
   an unhealthy one so that the unhealthy machine can gain network
   access.  Section 3.5. and the NEA Asokan Attack Analysis provide a
   detailed description of this attack and of the countermeasures that
   can be employed against it.

   Because lying endpoint attacks are much easier than Asokan attacks
   and the only known effective countermeasure against lying endpoint
   attacks is the use of an External Measurement Agent (EMA),
   countermeasures against an Asokan attack are not necessary unless an
   EMA is in use. However, PT-EAP implementers may not know whether an
   EMA will be used with their implementation. Therefore, PT-EAP
   implementers SHOULD support these countermeasures by providing the
   value of the tls-unique channel binding to higher layers in the NEA
   reference model: Posture Broker Clients, Posture Broker Servers,
   Posture Collectors, and Posture Validators.

4.3. Requirements for EAP Tunnel Methods

   Because the PT-EAP inner method described in this specification
   relies on the outer EAP tunnel method for a majority of its security
   protections, this section reiterates the PT requirements that MUST be
   met by the IETF standard EAP tunnel method for use with PT-EAP.

   The security requirements described in this specification MUST be
   implemented in any product claiming to be PT-EAP compliant.  The
   decision of whether a particular deployment chooses to use these
   protections is a deployment issue.  A customer may choose to avoid
   potential deployment issues or performance penalties associated with
   the use of cryptography when the required protection has been
   achieved through other mechanisms (e.g. physical isolation).  If
   security mechanisms may be deactivated by policy, an implementation
   SHOULD offer an interface to query how a message will be (or was)
   protected by PT so higher layer NEA protocols can factor this into
   their decisions.

   RFC 5209 includes the following requirement that is to be applied
   during the selection of the EAP tunnel method(s) used in conjunction
   with EAP-TNC:


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      PT-2 The PT protocol MUST be capable of supporting mutual
      authentication, integrity, confidentiality, and replay
      protection of the PB messages between the Posture Transport
      Client and the Posture Transport Server.

   Note that mutual authentication could be achieved by a combination of
   a strong authentication of one party (e.g. TLS server when EAP-TTLS
   is used) by the EAP tunnel method in conjunction with a second
   authentication of the other party (e.g. client authentication inside
   the protected tunnel) by another EAP method running prior to EAP-TNC.

   Having the Posture Transport Client always authenticate the Posture
   Transport Server provides assurance to the NEA Client that the NEA
   Server is authentic (not a rogue or MiTM) prior to disclosing secret
   or potentially privacy sensitive information about what is running or
   configured on the endpoint.  However the NEA Server's policy may
   allow for the delay of the authentication of the NEA Client until a
   suitable protected channel has been established allowing for non-
   cryptographic NEA Client credentials (e.g. username/password) to be
   used.  Whether the communication channel is established with both or
   one party performing a cryptographic authentication, the resulting
   channel needs to provide strong integrity and confidentiality
   protection to its contents.  These protections are to be bound to at
   least the authentication of the NEA Client, so the session is
   cryptographically bound to a particular authentication event.

   To support countermeasures against NEA Asokan attacks as described in
   section 3.5. the EAP Tunnel Method used with EAP-TNC will need to
   support the tls-unique channel binding. This should not be a high bar
   since all EAP tunnel methods currently support this but not all
   implementations of those methods may do so.

4.4. Candidate EAP Tunnel Method Protections

   This section discusses how EAP-TNC is used within various EAP tunnel
   methods to meet the PT requirements from section 4.3.

   EAP-FAST and EAP-TTLS make use of TLS [2] to protect the transport of
   information between the NEA Client and NEA Server.  Each of these EAP
   tunnel methods has two phases. In the first phase, a TLS tunnel is
   established between NEA Client and NEA Server. In the second phase,
   the tunnel is used to pass other information.  PT-EAP requires that
   establishing this tunnel include at least an authentication of the
   NEA Server by the NEA Client.

   The phase two dialog may include authentication of the user by doing
   other EAP methods or in the case of TTLS by using non-EAP


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   authentication dialogs.  EAP-TNC is also carried by the phase two
   tunnel allowing the NEA assessment to be within an encrypted and
   integrity protected transport.

   With all these methods, a cryptographic key is derived from the
   authentication that may be used to secure later transmissions.  Each
   of these methods employs at least a NEA Server authentication using
   an X.509 certificates.  Within each EAP tunnel method will exist a
   set of inner EAP method (or an equivalent using TLVs if inner methods
   aren't directly supported.)  These inner methods may perform
   additional security handshakes including more granular
   authentications or exchanges of integrity information (such as EAP-
   TNC.)  At some point after the conclusion of each inner EAP method,
   some of the methods will export the established secret keys to the
   outer tunnel method.  It's expected that the outer method will
   cryptographically mix these keys into any keys it is currently using
   to protect the session and perform a final operation to determine
   whether both parties have arrived at the same mixed key.  This
   cryptographic binding of the inner method results to the outer
   methods keys is essential for detection of conventional (non-NEA)
   Asokan attacks.

4.5. Security Claims for EAP-TNC as per RFC3748

   This section summarizes the security claims as required by RFC3748
   Section 7.2:

      Auth. mechanism:              None
      Ciphersuite negotiation:      No
      Mutual authentication:        No
      Integrity protection:         No
      Replay protection:            No
      Confidentiality:              No
      Key derivation:               No
      Key strength:                 N/A
      Dictionary attack resistant:  N/A
      Fast reconnect:               No
      Crypt. binding:               N/A
      Session independence:         N/A
      Fragmentation:                Yes
      Channel binding:              No

5. Privacy Considerations

   The role of PT-EAP is to act as a secure transport for PB-TNC over a
   network before the endpoint has been admitted to the network.  As a
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   direct knowledge of any personally identifiable information (PII).
   PT-EAP will typically be used in conjunction with other EAP methods
   that provide for the user authentication (if bi-directional
   authentication is used), so the user's credentials are not directly
   seen by the EAP-TNC inner method.  Therefore, the Posture Transport
   Client and Posture Transport Server's implementation of EAP-TNC MUST
   NOT observe the contents of the carried PB-TNC batches that could
   contain PII carried by PA-TNC or PB-TNC.

   While EAP-TNC does not provide cryptographic protection for the PB-
   TNC batches, it is designed to operate within an EAP tunnel method
   that provides strong authentication, integrity and confidentiality
   services.  Therefore, it is important for deployers to leverage these
   protections in order to prevent disclosure of PII potentially
   contained within PA-TNC or PB-TNC within the EAP-TNC payload.

6. IANA Considerations

   This document defines an EAP method type named EAP-TNC with the
   value 38.

   [IANA Note: This value was previously reserved for another
   purpose but has been used for EAP-TNC for some time and never
   used for another purpose so please assign this value to EAP-
   TNC.]

   This document also defines one new IANA registry: EAP-TNC
   Versions.  This section explains how this registry works.

   Because only eight (8) values are available in this registry, a
   high bar is set for new assignments. The only way to register
   new values in this registry is through Standards Action (via an
   approved Standards Track RFC).

6.1. Registry for EAP-TNC Versions

   The name for this registry is "EAP-TNC Versions".  Each entry
   in this registry includes a decimal integer value between 1 and
   7 identifying the version, and a reference to the RFC where the
   version is defined.

   The following entries for this registry are defined in this
   document.  Once this document becomes an RFC, they will become
   the initial entries in the registry for EAP-TNC Versions.
   Additional entries to this registry are added by Standards
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      Value                 Defining Specification
      -----                 ----------------------
          1                 RFC # Assigned to this I-D


7. References

7.1. Normative References

   [1]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
         Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [2]   Dierks T., Rescorla E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS)
         Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.

   [3]   Sangster P., Narayan K., "PA-TNC: A Posture Attribute Protocol
         (PA) Compatible with TNC", RFC 5792, March 2010.

   [4]   Sahita, R., Hanna, S., and R. Hurst, "PB-TNC: A Posture Broker
         Protocol (PB) Compatible with TNC", RFC 5793, March 2010.

   [5]   LAN/MAN Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society,
         Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Port Based
         Network Access Control, IEEE Std. 802.1X-2004, December 2004.

   [6]   T. Narten, H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
         Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 5226, May 2008.

7.2. Informative References

   [7]   Sangster, P., Khosravi, H., Mani, M., Narayan, K., and J.
         Tardo, "Network Endpoint Assessment (NEA): Overview and
         Requirements", RFC 5209, June 2008.

   [8]   Aboba, B., Blunk, L., Vollbrecht, J., Carlson, J., and H.
         Levkowetz, "Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)", RFC
         3748, June 2004.

   [9]   Sangster, P., Cam-Winget N., Salowey, J., "PT-TLS: A Posture
         Transport Protocol (PT) Protocol Based on Transport Layer
         Security (TLS)", draft-ietf-nea-pt-tls-00.txt, work in
         progress, June 2011.

   [10]  Trusted Computing Group, "TNC IF-T: Binding to TLS",
         http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/files/resource_files/51F07
         57E-1D09-3519-AD63B6FD099658A6/TNC_IFT_TLS_v1_0_r16.pdf, May
         2009.


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   [11]  N. Asokan, Valtteri Niemi, Kaisa Nyberg, "Man in the Middle
         Attacks in Tunneled Authentication Protocols", Nokia Research
         Center, Finland, Nov. 11, 2002,
         http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/163.pdf

   [12]  N. Cam-Winget, D. McGrew, J. Salowey, H. Zhou, "The Flexible
         Authentication via Secure Tunneling Extensible Authentication
         Protocol Method (EAP-FAST)", RFC 4851, May 2007.

   [13]  C. Kaufman, P. Hoffman, Y. Nir, P. Eronen, "Internet Key
         Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", RFC 5996, September 2010.

   [14]  P. Funk, S. Blake-Wilson, "Extensible Authentication Protocol
         Tunneled Transport Layer Security Authenticated Protocol
         Version 0 (EAP-TTLSv0)", RFC 5281, August 2008.

   [15]  K. Hoeper, S. Hanna, H. Zhou, J. Salowey, "Requirements for a
         Tunnel Based EAP Method", draft-ietf-emu-eaptunnel-req-09.txt
         (work in progress), December 2010.

   [16]  J. Salowey, S. Hanna, "NEA Asokan Attack Analysis", draft-
         salowey-nea-asokan-00.txt (work in progress), October 2010.

   [17]  D. Simon, B. Aboba, R. Hurst, "The EAP-TLS Authentication
         Protocol", RFC 5216, March 2008.

   [18]  J. Altman, N. Williams, L. Zhu, "Channel Bindings for TLS", RFC
         5929, July 2010.

8. Acknowledgments

   Thanks to the Trusted Computing Group for contributing the initial
   text upon which this document was based.  In particular, thanks to
   Steve Hanna and Paul Sangster who authored the individual submission
   which was the starting point for this document.

   The authors of this draft would like to acknowledge the following
   people who have contributed to or provided substantial input on the
   preparation of this document or predecessors to it: Amit Agarwal,
   Morteza Ansari, Diana Arroyo, Stuart Bailey, Boris Balacheff, Uri
   Blumenthal, Gene Chang, Scott Cochrane, Pasi Eronen, Aman Garg,
   Sandilya Garimella, David Grawrock, Thomas Hardjono, Chris Hessing,
   Ryan Hurst, Hidenobu Ito, John Jerrim, Meenakshi Kaushik, Greg
   Kazmierczak, Scott Kelly, Bryan Kingsford, PJ Kirner, Sung Lee, Lisa
   Lorenzin, Mahalingam Mani, Bipin Mistry, Seiji Munetoh, Rod
   Murchison, Barbara Nelson, Kazuaki Nimura, Ron Pon, Ivan Pulleyn,
   Alex Romanyuk, Ravi Sahita, Chris Salter, Mauricio Sanchez, Paul


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   Sangster, Dean Sheffield, Curtis Simonson, Jeff Six, Ned Smith,
   Michelle Sommerstad, Joseph Tardo, Lee Terrell, Chris Trytten, and
   John Vollbrecht.

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Appendix A.                 Evaluation Against NEA Requirements

   This section evaluates the PT-EAP protocol against the PT
   requirements defined in the NEA Overview and Requirements and
   PB-TNC specifications.  Each subsection considers a separate
   requirement and highlights how PT-EAP meets the requirement.

A.1. Evaluation Against Requirement C-1

   Requirement C-1 says:

   C-1   NEA protocols MUST support multiple round trips between
   the NEA Client and NEA Server in a single assessment.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  Use of the EAP protocol along
   with EAP-TNC and suitable EAP tunnel methods will allow for
   multiple roundtrips.

A.2. Evaluation Against Requirements C-2

   Requirement C-2 says:

   C-2   NEA protocols SHOULD provide a way for both the NEA
   Client and the NEA Server to initiate a posture assessment or
   reassessment as needed.

   PT-EAP does NOT meet this requirement.  Generally EAP is used
   by the endpoint during the joining of the network.  At that
   time, the endpoint lacks an IP address so is unable to accept
   inbound posture assessment requests from the NEA Server.
   Subsequent reassessments of the endpoint after it has been
   given access to a portion of the IP network can use the PT-TLS
   protocol that supports the NEA Client and NEA Server to
   initiate an assessment.

A.3. Evaluation Against Requirements C-3

   Requirement C-3 says:

   C-3   NEA protocols including security capabilities MUST be
   capable of protecting against active and passive attacks by
   intermediaries and endpoints including prevention from replay
   based attacks.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement by leveraging the security
   capabilities of the underlying EAP tunnel method.  EAP-TNC
   itself does not provide protection against a variety of


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   potential attacksso it relies on cryptographic support by the
   EAP tunnel method.

A.4. Evaluation Against Requirements C-4

   Requirement C-4 says:

   C-4   The PA and PB protocols MUST be capable of operating over
   any PT protocol.  For example, the PB protocol must provide a
   transport independent interface allowing the PA protocol to
   operate without change across a variety of network protocol
   environments (e.g. EAP/802.1X, PANA, TLS and IKE/IPsec).

   Not applicable to PT, but PT-EAP is independent of PA and PB
   allowing those protocols to operate over other PT protocols.

A.5. Evaluation Against Requirements C-5

   Requirement C-5 says:

   C-5   The selection process for NEA protocols MUST evaluate and
   prefer the reuse of existing open standards that meet the
   requirements before defining new ones.  The goal of NEA is not
   to create additional alternative protocols where acceptable
   solutions already exist.

   Based on this requirement, PT-EAP should receive a strong
   preference.  PT-EAP is compatible with IF-T Binding to Tunneled
   EAP Methods 1.1, an open TCG specification that has been widely
   implemented.

A.6. Evaluation Against Requirements C-6

   Requirement C-6 says:

   C-6   NEA protocols MUST be highly scalable; the protocols MUST
   support many Posture Collectors on a large number of NEA
   Clients to be assessed by numerous Posture Validators residing
   on multiple NEA Servers.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP protocol is
   independent of the number of Posture Collectors and Posture
   Validators.

A.7. Evaluation Against Requirements C-7

   Requirement C-7 says:


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   C-7   The protocols MUST support efficient transport of a large
   number of attribute messages between the NEA Client and the NEA
   Server.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement, subject to the limitations of
   the underlying EAP protocol.  PT-EAP allows for the transport
   of a very large number of attributes, up to 2^32 - 1 octets per
   PB-TNC batch.  Furthermore, the PT-EAP protocol transports data
   efficiently, only adding 10 octets of overhead per PT-EAP
   message, which is small considering that a single PT-EAP
   message may carry multiple PA-TNC attributes.

   However, it is important to note that the EAP protocol that
   underlies PT-EAP is not a good choice for transporting large
   amounts of data.  EAP only supports one packet in flight at a
   time, which severely limits throughput.  Further, some network
   equipment imposes timeout restrictions on EAP exchanges.
   Therefore, PT-EAP should not be used to transport large amounts
   of attributes.

A.8. Evaluation Against Requirements C-8

   Requirement C-8 says:

   C-8   NEA protocols MUST operate efficiently over low bandwidth
   or high latency links.

   PT-EAP protocols meet this requirement. PT-EAP was designed to
   minimize the amount of overhead included in the protocol to
   allow for efficient use over bandwidth or latency constrained
   network links.

A.9. Evaluation Against Requirements C-9

   Requirement C-9 says:

   C-9   For any strings intended for display to a user, the
   protocols MUST support adapting these strings to the user's
   language preferences.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  PT-EAP does not include
   messages intended for display to the user.

A.10. Evaluation Against Requirements C-10

   Requirement C-10 says:



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   C-10  NEA protocols MUST support encoding of strings in UTF-8
   format.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP protocol does not
   include any strings in its fields but it allows higher-layer
   protocols to encode their strings in UTF-8 format.  This allows
   the protocol to support a wide range of languages efficiently.

A.11. Evaluation Against Requirements C-11

   Requirement C-11 says:

   C-11  Due to the potentially different transport
   characteristics provided by the underlying candidate PT
   protocols, the NEA Client and NEA Server MUST be capable of
   becoming aware of and adapting to the limitations of the
   available PT protocol.  For example, some PT protocol
   characteristics that might impact the operation of PA and PB
   include restrictions on: which end can initiate a NEA
   connection, maximum data size in a message or full assessment,
   upper bound on number of roundtrips, and ordering (duplex) of
   messages exchanged.  The selection process for the PT protocols
   MUST consider the limitations the candidate PT protocol would
   impose upon the PA and PB protocols.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP implementations may
   be limited in number of roundtrips, assessment overall time, or
   data transmission.  These constraints will be exposed up the
   protocol stack so the Posture Broker Client and Posture Broker
   Server can optimize and make most efficient use of the
   available resources during the assessment.

A.12. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-1

   Requirement PT-1 says:

   PT-1 The PT protocol MUST NOT interpret the contents of PB
   messages being transported, i.e., the data it is carrying must
   be opaque to it.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP encapsulates PB-TNC
   batches without interpreting their contents.

A.13. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-2

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   PT-2 The PT protocol MUST be capable of supporting mutual
   authentication, integrity, confidentiality, and replay
   protection of the PB messages between the Posture Transport
   Client and the Posture Transport Server.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP protocol leverages
   an EAP tunnel method to provide mutual authentication,
   integrity protection and confidentiality as well as replay
   protection.  For more information see the Security
   Considerations in section 4.

A.14. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-3

   Requirement PT-3 says:

   PT-3 The PT protocol MUST provide reliable delivery for the PB
   protocol.  This includes the ability to perform fragmentation
   and reassembly, detect duplicates, and reorder to provide in-
   sequence delivery, as required.

   EAP-TNC includes support for fragmentation and the underlying
   EAP tunnel methods include support for duplicate detection and
   reordering to provide in-sequence delivery.

A.15. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-4

   Requirement PT-4 says:

   PT-4 The PT protocol SHOULD be able to run over existing
   network access protocols such as 802.1X and IKEv2.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement. The PT-EAP operates on top of
   the 802.1X and IKEv2 protocols.

A.16. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-5

   Requirement PT-5 says:

   PT-5 The PT protocol SHOULD be able to run between a NEA Client
   and NEA Server over TCP or UDP (similar to Lightweight
   Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)).

   PT-EAP does NOT meet this requirement.  PT-EAP is intended for
   a different usage.  PT-EAP is intended to be used for pre-
   network admission before the endpoint has been given an IP
   address and routes on the network.  This means that network
   layer protocols such as IP are not yet able to communicate with


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   the system.  The PT-TLS (PT Binding to TLS) [9] meets this
   requirement.

A.17. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-6 (from PB-TNC specification)

   Requirement PT-6 says:

   PT-6 The PT protocol MUST be connection oriented; it MUST
   support confirmed initiation and close down.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP fits into the EAP
   framework which provides for orderly initiation and shutdown.

A.18. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-7 (from PB-TNC specification)

   Requirement PT-7 says:

   PT-7 The PT protocol MUST be able to carry binary data.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP is capable of
   carrying binary data.

A.19. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-8 (from PB-TNC specification)

   Requirement PT-8 says:

   PT-8 The PT protocol MUST provide mechanisms for flow control
   and congestion control.

   PT-EAP meets this requirement.  The PT-EAP utilizes EAP's half
   duplex, round robin message exchange to provide flow and
   congestion control.

A.20. Evaluation Against Requirements PT-9 (from PB-TNC specification)

   Requirement PT-9 says:

   PT-9 PT protocol specifications MUST describe the capabilities
   that they provide for and limitations that they impose on the
   PB protocol (e.g. half/full duplex, maximum message size).

   PT-EAP specification meets this requirement.  This
   specification discusses the level of transport service provided
   to the Posture Broker Client and Posture Broker Server.
   Generally, the PT-EAP method supports the pre-network admission
   usages discussed in RFC 5209.  The maximum message size for PT-
   EAP is 2^16-10 octets.  EAP by its nature is half duplex and


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   simple which allows it to be used in a wide variety of settings
   including over link layer protocols during the entrance to the
   network.

Authors' Addresses


   Paul Sangster
   Symantec Corporation
   6825 Citrine Drive
   Carlsbad, CA 92009 USA
   Email: paul_sangster@symantec.com

   Nancy Cam-Winget
   Cisco Systems
   80 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134
   US
   Email: ncamwing@cisco.com






























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