Internet-Draft Keromytis, Angelos D. October 2008 Columbia University Expires: April 14, 2009 October 13, 2008 Intended Status: Proposed Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Using KeyNote 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. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). Abstract This document specifies the use of the KeyNote trust-management system as an authorization extension in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Handshake Protocol, according to [AUTHZ]. Extensions carried in the client and server hello messages confirm that both parties support the desired authorization data types. Then, if supported by both the client and the server, KeyNote credentials are exchanged during the supplemental data handshake message. 1. Introduction This document describes the identifiers necessary to exchange KeyNote [KEYNOTE] credential assertions inside a TLS [TLS1.0] [TLS1.1] [TLS1.2] exchange. Such credential assertions can authorize the client and/or the server to perform certain actions. In most usage scenarios, the KeyNote credential assertions will be signed by a cryptographic public key [RFC2792]. By using the X.509 key and signature encoding [X509KEY], it is possible to add KeyNote-based authorization and policy compliance support to the existing, unmodified X.509 authentication exchange in TLS. A list of KeyNote credentials (e.g., forming a delegation chain) may be sent as part of the same payload. In most scenarios, at least one of these credentials will be issued to the public key of the transmitter of the credentials, i.e., said public key will appear in the ``Licensees'' field of at least one KeyNote credential assertion. The same public key will generally be used by the transmitter of the same credentials to authenticate as part of the TLS exchange. The authentication material (e.g., cryptographic public key) that was used by the transmitter to authenticate in the TLS exchange will be provided to the KeyNote evaluation engine as an ``Action Authorizer''. 2. KeyNote Credential Assertion Lists The KeyNote Assertion List type definition in the TLS Authorization Data Formats registry is: keynote_assertion_list(TBA) When the keynote_assertion_list value is present, the authorization data is a list of KeyNote credential assertions that conforms to the profile in RFC 2704 [KEYNOTE]. A KeyNote assertion list is transmitted inside an AuthorizationData structure as an opaque sequence of 1 - 2^16-1 bytes: opaque KeyNoteAssertionList<1..2^16-1>; When KeyNoteAssertion List is used, the field contains an ASCII- encoded list of signed KeyNote assertions, as described in RFC 2704 [KEYNOTE]. The assertions are separated by two '\n' (newline) characters. A KeyNote assertion is a structure similar to a public key certificate; the main difference is that instead of a binding between a name and a public key, KeyNote assertions bind public keys to authorization rules that are evaluated by the peer when the sender later issues specific requests. When making an authorization decision based on a list of KeyNote assertions, proper linkage between the KeyNote assertions and the public key certificate that is transferred in the TLS Certificate message is needed. Receivers of a KeyNote assertion list should initialize the ACTION_AUTHORIZER variable to be the sender's public key, which was used to authenticate the TLS exchange. If a different authentication mechanism is used, it is the responsibility of the credential issuer to issue the appropriate credentials. 3. IANA Considerations This document requires a new entry in the IANA-maintained TLS Authorization Data Formats registry, keynote_assertion_list(TBD). This registry is defined in [AUTHZ]. 4. Security Considerations There are no security considerations beyond those discussed in [KEYNOTE], [RFC2792], and [AUTHZ]. 5. Normative References [TLS1.0] Dierks, T., and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol, Version 1.0", RFC 2246, January 1999. [TLS1.1] Dierks, T., and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol, Version 1.1", RFC 4346, February 2006. [TLS1.2] Dierks, T., and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol, Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008. [KEYNOTE] Blaze, M., Feigenbaum, J., Ioannidis, J., and A. Keromytis, "The KeyNote Trust-Management System, Version 2", RFC 2704, September 1999. [RFC2792] Blaze, M., Ioannidis, J., and A. Keromytis, "DSA and RSA Key and Signature Encoding for the KeyNote Trust Management System", RFC 2792, March 2000. [AUTHZ] Brown, M., and R. Housley, "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions", June 2006 (work in progress) [X509KEY] A. D. Keromytis, "X.509 Key and Signature Encoding for the KeyNote Trust Management System", October 2008 (work in progress) 6. Informative References Authors' Addresses Angelos D. 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