Subject: Re: IPSEC and user vs machine authentication
To: Love H?rnquist ?strand <lha@kth.se>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/16/2005 17:18:20
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:35:30PM +0200, Love H?rnquist ?strand wrote:
>=20
> Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> writes:
>=20
> > Right now, there are two paths into having a particular network
> > connection (say, a TCP session) encrypted/authenticated with IPSEC:
> > either via the setkey packet-filter SPD, or via per-socket policy set
> > by the application.
> [...]
> > There are similarities in requirements here for other kernel-mediated
> > network activities that may involve authentication, too, such as
> > potential Kerberised-RPC NFS or SMBFS. Are there any facilities for
> > this I have missed, prior art, thoughts, designs, active work,
> > comments, etc?
>=20
> Pushing down the credential into IKE is one way to do it.
>=20
> Another way is to not care about what credential IKE negotiated, but rath=
er
> just use the channel and bind it to your applications security context
> negotiation. One way to do that would be to fold something like IKE
> equvalent of secsh's `The exchange hash H' into your applications
> authentication.
>=20
> The this one of BTNS working groups items.

And the KITTEN working group and NFSv4 groups are working with channel=20
bindings regarding this. I have most of a draft extending iSCSI CHAP to=20
include this too.

The other thing that would be quite useful (required, depending on whom
you ask) for channel bindings is a way to require that TCP connection foo
is bound to a given set of identities. So if you use Kerberos Identity BAR=
=20
to log in, you can't later renegotiate IPsec FOR THIS CONN using PSK ID=20
BAZ. You can renego PSK, and you can make new connections, but the app=20
will see connection termination/establishment.

Solaris supposedly has this last feature.

Take care,

Bill

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