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diff --git a/doc/standards/draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth-05.txt b/doc/standards/draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth-05.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f5fd3cc0c..000000000 --- a/doc/standards/draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth-05.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,729 +0,0 @@ - - - -Network Working Group P. Eronen -Internet-Draft Nokia -Expires: December 28, 2006 H. Tschofenig - Siemens - June 26, 2006 - - - Extension for EAP Authentication in IKEv2 - draft-eronen-ipsec-ikev2-eap-auth-05.txt - -Status of this Memo - - By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any - applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware - have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes - aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. - - Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering - Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that - other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- - Drafts. - - Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months - and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any - time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference - material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." - - The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at - http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. - - The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at - http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. - - This Internet-Draft will expire on December 28, 2006. - -Copyright Notice - - Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). - -Abstract - - IKEv2 specifies that EAP authentication must be used together with - public key signature based responder authentication. This is - necessary with old EAP methods that provide only unilateral - authentication using, e.g., one-time passwords or token cards. - - This document specifies how EAP methods that provide mutual - authentication and key agreement can be used to provide extensible - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 1] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - responder authentication for IKEv2 based on other methods than public - key signatures. - - -1. Introduction - - The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), defined in [4], is an - authentication framework which supports multiple authentication - mechanisms. Today, EAP has been implemented at end hosts and routers - that connect via switched circuits or dial-up lines using PPP [13], - IEEE 802 wired switches [9], and IEEE 802.11 wireless access points - [11]. - - One of the advantages of the EAP architecture is its flexibility. - EAP is used to select a specific authentication mechanism, typically - after the authenticator requests more information in order to - determine the specific authentication method to be used. Rather than - requiring the authenticator (e.g., wireless LAN access point) to be - updated to support each new authentication method, EAP permits the - use of a backend authentication server which may implement some or - all authentication methods. - - IKEv2 [3] is a component of IPsec used for performing mutual - authentication and establishing and maintaining security associations - for IPsec ESP and AH. In addition to supporting authentication using - public key signatures and shared secrets, IKEv2 also supports EAP - authentication. - - IKEv2 provides EAP authentication since it was recognized that public - key signatures and shared secrets are not flexible enough to meet the - requirements of many deployment scenarios. By using EAP, IKEv2 can - leverage existing authentication infrastructure and credential - databases, since EAP allows users to choose a method suitable for - existing credentials, and also makes separation of the IKEv2 - responder (VPN gateway) from the EAP authentication endpoint (backend - AAA server) easier. - - Some older EAP methods are designed for unilateral authentication - only (that is, EAP peer to EAP server). These methods are used in - conjunction with IKEv2 public key based authentication of the - responder to the initiator. It is expected that this approach is - especially useful for "road warrior" VPN gateways that use, for - instance, one-time passwords or token cards to authenticate the - clients. - - However, most newer EAP methods, such as those typically used with - IEEE 802.11i wireless LANs, provide mutual authentication and key - agreement. Currently, IKEv2 specifies that also these EAP methods - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 2] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - must be used together with public key signature based responder - authentication. - - In some environments, requiring the deployment of PKI for just this - purpose can be counterproductive. Deploying new infrastructure can - be expensive, and it may weaken security by creating new - vulnerabilities. Mutually authenticating EAP methods alone can - provide a sufficient level of security in many circumstances, and - indeed, IEEE 802.11i uses EAP without any PKI for authenticating the - WLAN access points. - - This document specifies how EAP methods that offer mutual - authentication and key agreement can be used to provide responder - authentication in IKEv2 completely based on EAP. - -1.1. Terminology - - 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 [2]. - - -2. Scenarios - - In this section we describe two scenarios for extensible - authentication within IKEv2. These scenarios are intended to be - illustrative examples rather than specifying how things should be - done. - - Figure 1 shows a configuration where the EAP and the IKEv2 endpoints - are co-located. Authenticating the IKEv2 responder using both EAP - and public key signatures is redundant. Offering EAP based - authentication has the advantage that multiple different - authentication and key exchange protocols are available with EAP with - different security properties (such as strong password based - protocols, protocols offering user identity confidentiality and many - more). As an example it is possible to use GSS-API support within - EAP [6] to support Kerberos based authentication which effectively - replaces the need for KINK [14]. - - +------+-----+ +------------+ - O | IKEv2 | | IKEv2 | - /|\ | Initiator |<---////////////////////--->| Responder | - / \ +------------+ IKEv2 +------------+ - User | EAP Peer | Exchange | EAP Server | - +------------+ +------------+ - - Figure 1: EAP and IKEv2 endpoints are co-located - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 3] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - Figure 2 shows a typical corporate network access scenario. The - initiator (client) interacts with the responder (VPN gateway) in the - corporate network. The EAP exchange within IKE runs between the - client and the home AAA server. As a result of a successful EAP - authentication protocol run, session keys are established and sent - from the AAA server to the VPN gateway, and then used to authenticate - the IKEv2 SA with AUTH payloads. - - The protocol used between the VPN gateway and AAA server could be, - for instance, Diameter [4] or RADIUS [5]. See Section 5 for related - security considerations. - - +-------------------------------+ - | Corporate network | - | | - +-----------+ +--------+ | - | IKEv2 | AAA | Home | | - IKEv2 +////----->+ Responder +<---------->+ AAA | | - Exchange / | (VPN GW) | (RADIUS/ | Server | | - / +-----------+ Diameter) +--------+ | - / | carrying EAP | - | | | - | +-------------------------------+ - v - +------+-----+ - o | IKEv2 | - /|\ | Initiator | - / \ | VPN client | - User +------------+ - - Figure 2: Corporate Network Access - - -3. Solution - - IKEv2 specifies that when the EAP method establishes a shared secret - key, that key is used by both the initiator and responder to generate - an AUTH payload (thus authenticating the IKEv2 SA set up by messages - 1 and 2). - - When used together with public key responder authentication, the - responder is in effect authenticated using two different methods: the - public key signature AUTH payload in message 4, and the EAP-based - AUTH payload later. - - If the initiator does not wish to use public key based responder - authentication, it includes an EAP_ONLY_AUTHENTICATION notification - payload (type TBD-BY-IANA) in message 3. The SPI size field is set - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 4] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - to zero, and there is no additional data associated with this - notification. - - If the responder supports this notification, it omits the public key - based AUTH payload and CERT payloads from message 4. - - If the responder does not support the EAP_ONLY_AUTHENTICATION - notification, it ignores the notification payload, and includes the - AUTH payload in message 4. In this case the initiator can, based on - its local policy, choose to either ignore the AUTH payload, or verify - it and any associated certificates as usual. - - Both the initiator and responder MUST verify that the EAP method - actually used provided mutual authentication and established a shared - secret key. The AUTH payloads sent after EAP Success MUST use the - EAP-generated key, and MUST NOT use SK_pi or SK_pr. - - An IKEv2 message exchange with this modification is shown below: - - - Initiator Responder - ----------- ----------- - HDR, SAi1, KEi, Ni, - [N(NAT_DETECTION_SOURCE_IP), - N(NAT_DETECTION_DESTINATION_IP)] --> - - <-- HDR, SAr1, KEr, Nr, [CERTREQ], - [N(NAT_DETECTION_SOURCE_IP), - N(NAT_DETECTION_DESTINATION_IP)] - - HDR, SK { IDi, [IDr], SAi2, TSi, TSr, - N(EAP_ONLY_AUTHENTICATION), - [CP(CFG_REQUEST)] } --> - - <-- HDR, SK { IDr, EAP(Request) } - - HDR, SK { EAP(Response) } --> - - <-- HDR, SK { EAP(Request) } - - HDR, SK { EAP(Response) } --> - - <-- HDR, SK { EAP(Success) } - - HDR, SK { AUTH } --> - - <-- HDR, SK { AUTH, SAr2, TSi, TSr, - [CP(CFG_REPLY] } - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 5] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - The NAT detection and Configuration payloads are shown for - informative purposes only; they do not change how EAP authentication - works. - - -4. IANA considerations - - This document defines a new IKEv2 Notification Payload type, - EAP_ONLY_AUTHENTICATION, described in Section 3. This payload must - be assigned a new type number from the "status types" range. - - This document does not define any new namespaces to be managed by - IANA. - - -5. Security Considerations - - Security considerations applicable to all EAP methods are discussed - in [1]. The EAP Key Management Framework [7] deals with issues that - arise when EAP is used as a part of a larger system. - -5.1. Authentication of IKEv2 SA - - It is important to note that the IKEv2 SA is not authenticated by - just running an EAP conversation: the crucial step is the AUTH - payload based on the EAP-generated key. Thus, EAP methods that do - not provide mutual authentication or establish a shared secret key - MUST NOT be used with the modifications presented in this document. - -5.2. Authentication with separated IKEv2 responder/EAP server - - As described in Section 2, the EAP conversation can terminate either - at the IKEv2 responder or at a backend AAA server. - - If the EAP method terminates at the IKEv2 responder then no key - transport via the AAA infrastructure is required. Pre-shared secret - and public key based authentication offered by IKEv2 is then replaced - by a wider range of authentication and key exchange methods. - - However, typically EAP will be used with a backend AAA server. See - [7] for a more complete discussion of the related security issues; - here we provide only a short summary. - - When a backend server is used, there are actually two authentication - exchanges: the EAP method between the client and the AAA server, and - another authentication between the AAA server and IKEv2 gateway. The - AAA server authenticates the client using the selected EAP method, - and they establish a session key. The AAA server then sends this key - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 6] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - to the IKEv2 gateway over a connection authenticated using, e.g., - IPsec or TLS. - - Some EAP methods do not have any concept of pass-through - authenticator (e.g., NAS or IKEv2 gateway) identity, and these two - authentications remain quite independent of each other. That is, - after the client has verified the AUTH payload sent by the IKEv2 - gateway, it knows that it is talking to SOME gateway trusted by the - home AAA server, but not which one. The situation is somewhat - similar if a single cryptographic hardware accelerator, containing a - single private key, would be shared between multiple IKEv2 gateways - (perhaps in some kind of cluster configuration). In particular, if - one of the gateways is compromised, it can impersonate any of the - other gateways towards the user (until the compromise is discovered - and access rights revoked). - - In some environments it is not desirable to trust the IKEv2 gateways - this much (also known as the "Lying NAS Problem"). EAP methods that - provide what is called "connection binding" or "channel binding" - transport some identity or identities of the gateway (or WLAN access - point/NAS) inside the EAP method. Then the AAA server can check that - it is indeed sending the key to the gateway expected by the client. - A potential solution is described in [16]. - - In some deployment configurations, AAA proxies may be present between - the IKEv2 gateway and the backend AAA server. These AAA proxies MUST - be trusted for secure operation, and therefore SHOULD be avoided when - possible; see [4] and [7] for more discussion. - -5.3. Protection of EAP payloads - - Although the EAP payloads are encrypted and integrity protected with - SK_e/SK_a, this does not provide any protection against active - attackers. Until the AUTH payload has been received and verified, a - man-in-the-middle can change the KEi/KEr payloads and eavesdrop or - modify the EAP payloads. - - In IEEE 802.11i WLANs, the EAP payloads are neither encrypted nor - integrity protected (by the link layer), so EAP methods are typically - designed to take that into account. - - In particular, EAP methods that are vulnerable to dictionary attacks - when used in WLANs are still vulnerable (to active attackers) when - run inside IKEv2. - -5.4. User identity confidentiality - - IKEv2 provides confidentiality for the initiator identity against - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 7] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - passive eavesdroppers, but not against active attackers. The - initiator announces its identity first (in message #3), before the - responder has been authenticated. The usage of EAP in IKEv2 does not - change this situation, since the ID payload in message #3 is used - instead of the EAP Identity Request/Response exchange. This is - somewhat unfortunate since when EAP is used with public key - authentication of the responder, it would be possible to provide - active user identity confidentiality for the initiator. - - IKEv2 protects the responder identity even against active attacks. - This property cannot be provided when using EAP. If public key - responder authentication is used in addition to EAP, the responder - reveals its identity before authenticating the initiator. If only - EAP is used (as proposed in this document), the situation depends on - the EAP method used (in some EAP methods, the server reveals its - identity first). - - Hence, if active user identity confidentiality for the initiator is - required then EAP methods that offer this functionality have to be - used (see [1], Section 7.3). - - -6. Acknowledgments - - This document borrows some text from [1], [3], and [4]. We would - also like to thank Hugo Krawczyk for interesting discussions about - this topic. - - -7. References - -7.1. Normative References - - [1] Aboba, B., Blunk, L., Vollbrecht, J., Carlson, J., and H. - Levkowetz, "Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)", RFC 3748, - June 2004. - - [2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement - Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997. - - [3] Kaufman, C., "Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol", RFC 4306, - December 2005. - - [4] Eronen, P., Hiller, T., and G. Zorn, "Diameter Extensible - Authentication Protocol (EAP) Application", RFC 4072, - August 2005. - - - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 8] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - -7.2. Informative References - - [5] Aboba, B. and P. Calhoun, "RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial - In User Service) Support For Extensible Authentication Protocol - (EAP)", RFC 3579, September 2003. - - [6] Aboba, B. and D. Simon, "EAP GSS Authentication Protocol", - draft-aboba-pppext-eapgss-12 (work in progress), April 2002. - - [7] Aboba, B., "Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Key - Management Framework", draft-ietf-eap-keying-13 (work in - progress), May 2006. - - [8] Forsberg, D., "Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network - Access (PANA)", draft-ietf-pana-pana-11 (work in progress), - March 2006. - - [9] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "Local and - Metropolitan Area Networks: Port-Based Network Access Control", - IEEE Standard 802.1X-2001, 2001. - - [10] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "Information - technology - Telecommunications and information exchange - between systems - Local and metropolitan area networks - - Specific Requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access - Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications", IEEE - Standard 802.11-1999, 1999. - - [11] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "IEEE - Standard for Information technology - Telecommunications and - information exchange between systems - Local and metropolitan - area networks - Specific requirements - Part 11: Wireless - Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) - specifications: Amendment 6: Medium Access Control (MAC) - Security Enhancements", IEEE Standard 802.11i-2004, July 2004. - - [12] Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson, "Remote - Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC 2865, - June 2000. - - [13] Simpson, W., "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", STD 51, - RFC 1661, July 1994. - - [14] Sakane, S., Kamada, K., Thomas, M., and J. Vilhuber, - "Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (KINK)", RFC 4430, - March 2006. - - [15] Tschofenig, H., "EAP IKEv2 Method", - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 9] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - draft-tschofenig-eap-ikev2-11 (work in progress), June 2006. - - [16] Arkko, J. and P. Eronen, "Authenticated Service Information for - the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)", - draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-04 (work in progress), - October 2005. - - -Appendix A. Alternative Approaches - - In this section we list alternatives which have been considered - during the work on this document. Finally, the solution presented in - Section 3 seems to fit better into IKEv2. - -A.1. Ignore AUTH payload at the initiator - - With this approach, the initiator simply ignores the AUTH payload in - message #4 (but obviously must check the second AUTH payload later!). - The main advantage of this approach is that no protocol modifications - are required and no signature verification is required. - - The initiator could signal the responder (using a NOTIFY payload) - that it did not verify the first AUTH payload. - -A.2. Unauthenticated PKs in AUTH payload (message 4) - - The first solution approach suggests the use of unauthenticated - public keys in the public key signature AUTH payload (for message 4). - - That is, the initiator verifies the signature in the AUTH payload, - but does not verify that the public key indeed belongs to the - intended party (using certificates)--since it doesn't have a PKI that - would allow this. This could be used with X.509 certificates (the - initiator ignores all other fields of the certificate except the - public key), or "Raw RSA Key" CERT payloads. - - This approach has the advantage that initiators that wish to perform - certificate-based responder authentication (in addition to EAP) may - do so, without requiring the responder to handle these cases - separately. - - If using RSA, the overhead of signature verification is quite small - (compared to g^xy calculation). - -A.3. Use EAP derived session keys for IKEv2 - - It has been proposed that when using an EAP methods that provides - mutual authentication and key agreement, the IKEv2 Diffie-Hellman - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 10] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - - exchange could also be omitted. This would mean that the sessions - keys for IPsec SAs established later would rely only on EAP-provided - keys. - - It seems the only benefit of this approach is saving some computation - time (g^xy calculation). This approach requires designing a - completely new protocol (which would not resemble IKEv2 anymore) we - do not believe that it should be considered. Nevertheless, we - include it for completeness. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Eronen & Tschofenig Expires December 28, 2006 [Page 11] - -Internet-Draft Extension for EAP in IKEv2 June 2006 - - -Authors' Addresses - - Pasi Eronen - Nokia Research Center - P.O. 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