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Article #992Re: Distinguishing "users" and "services"
From: steiner
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 15:32
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 15:32
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Perhaps there ought to be pairs of keys - one key for the principal-as-client; the other for principal-as-server. For example, I could have a key K-steiner-c which corresponds to my password and which I use to decrypt ticket replies from the authentication server, and a key K-steiner-s which I use to decrypt tickets from would-be clients of a service I am providing. This way, if someone compromises my K-steiner-s key, they can falsely "authenticate" themselves to me, but they cannot impersonate me. The two keys can be protected at different levels of paranoia accordingly: I don't want to write down my password or store it on disk, but I do want to be able to remember it. My server key, on the other hand, I might be willing to keep in a file, and I don't care if it's hard to remember (it can just be a big random number). Similarly, a server could use one key, K-server-s, to decrypt and verify tickets from prospective clients, and use another key, K-server-c, to obtain tickets for other servers from Kerberos. This might also be useful for peer servers (e.g. two Zephyrs exchanging data, if they authenticated to each other), because they could use different keys depending on who was acting as client (initiator) and who was acting as server (responder). Jennifer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!eos!shelby!osf.org!steiner From: steiner@osf.org Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos Subject: Re: Distinguishing "users" and "services" Message-ID: <8905091532.AA00801@spaghetti.osf.org> Date: 9 May 89 15:32:42 GMT References: <8905091012.AA02886@uk.ac.cam.cl.castle> Sender: daemon@shelby.Stanford.EDU Organization: Open Software Foundation, Cambridge MA Lines: 24