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Re: [Ipsec] FW: I-D ACTION:draft-friedman-ike-short-term-certs-00.txt
I see our introduction needs more work!
On 12/4/06, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:16:29PM +0200, Arik Friedman wrote:
> This document describes an extension to IKEv2 that allows an endpoint
> to prove to a security gateway that it was already authenticated by
> another trusted security gateway, thereby allowing the authentication
> of the endpoint without user intervention. This is accomplished
> using a Short Term Credential that the endpoint requests from the
> authenticating security gateway. This credential is a certificate
> issued by the authenticating gateway for a short period of time, and
> it can be used to authenticate the user with IKE signature based
> authentication.
Sounds like a ticketing system.
True.
However, more VPN gateways and clients are PKI-capable than are
Kerberos-capable. We aim to use PKI capabilities of the client,
without requiring the administrator to deploy PKI to clients.
Sounds like Kerberos V (with PKINIT).
We are after a lighter weight solution than Kerberos. (RFC 4556 uses
client certs to produce Kerberos authentication, we use IKE EAP
authentication to produce a client cert).
Obviously Kerberos authentication (or PKI authentication) for clients
could solve re-authentication issues. So-called "legacy"
authentication is a fact of life. Kerberos (and PKI deployment for
client certs) are less so.
Sounds fairly unrelated to IKEv2 and rather specific to PKIX.
PKIX specifies certificate infrastructures which we use -- we do not
rewrite RFC 3280, we use it.
Our draft defines an IKEv2 exchange allowing a client to request
short-term credentials, and specifies behaviour for such an exchange.
It provides a re-authentication mechanism that requires fewer new
entities than would using Kerberos (or yet another EAP method).
We have to make these points clearer in -01.
Thanks,
--
Ariel.
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