Hi Nico:

Are you suggesting the initiator sends the TGT and obtains several STs in 
return from the KDC in a single exchange?

Best regards.

El 07/09/2011, a las 00:36, Nico Williams escribió:

> Options to make this happen:
> 
> a) Make the GSS-EAP client aware of the AS exchange and give it the
> bits it needs to recover the reply key and extract the credentials.
> Now how to get a service ticket for the RP in a round-trip efficient
> way?  Well, have the RP mint one and be done, say.  Or define a new
> way to use a TGT as an additional ticket with which to get the desired
> service ticket (sortof like reverse user-to-user).
> 
> b) Define a new AS-like exchange where the final reply in a successful
> case contains a KRB-CRED, so that multiple tickets may be issued at
> once, then apply the solution above this one.
> 
> c) Add some AS-REQ flags so that the AS-REP will contain an pre-auth
> element that contains a KRB-CRED in it with the desired tickets.  In
> this case the enc-part of the AS-REP will be useless and will be
> thrown out.
> 
> d) Add some AS-REQ flags so that the AS-REP's pre-auth method data
> will contain an embedded KRB-CRED (in the case of GSS pre-auth
> probably using the Null enctype and embedded in a wrap token).
> 
> It all sounds rather messy to me.  Desirable, yes, but also messy.
> 
> (d) implies that the pre-auth plugin on the KDC must have access to
> all details of the AS-REQ.  Probably not a big deal.  It also implies
> that the pre-auth plugiin must have some way to get the desired
> tickets minted, which sounds like a fairly major abstraction
> violation, but one I could make peace with.
> 
> (a), (b), and (c) would make GSS-EAP as a protocol have too much
> Kerberos knowledge for my comfort.
> 
> I think (d) is the best option, then.
> 
> The best part of this though is that it gives you a reason to want GSS
> pre-auth ;)
> 
> Nico
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