Automatic FAST via Anonymous PKINIT

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Wed Jun 11 14:51:08 EDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Nathaniel McCallum
<npmccallum at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 13:52 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
>> If the KDC knows that the principal cannot authenticate using PKINIT, I
>> don't think it should offer PKINIT at all.  Right now, the MIT KDC
>> doesn't know what principals have client certificates issued to them (if
>> any), so it offers PKINIT to all principals if the KDC is configured
>> with a KDC cert.  But that's an implementation issue.
>
> Are you suggesting that PKINIT shouldn't be offered even when anonymous
> PKINIT is supported? Put otherwise, that the client should try anonymous
> PKINIT even when not offered it?

It should be offered when the cname is the anon cname, if the AS
supports anon PKINIT.


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