Telnet Authentication: SRP
RFC 2944
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(September 2000; No errata)
Was draft-wu-telnet-auth-srp (individual)
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Network Working Group T. Wu Request for Comments: 2944 Standford University Category: Standards Track September 2000 Telnet Authentication: SRP Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This document specifies an authentication scheme for the Telnet protocol under the framework described in [RFC2941], using the Secure Remote Password Protocol (SRP) authentication mechanism. The specific mechanism, SRP-SHA1, is described in [RFC2945]. 1. Command Names and Codes Authentication Types SRP 5 Suboption Commands AUTH 0 REJECT 1 ACCEPT 2 CHALLENGE 3 RESPONSE 4 EXP 8 PARAMS 9 Wu Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 2944 Telnet Authentication: SRP September 2000 2. Command Meanings IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS <authentication-type-pair> AUTH IAC SE This command indicates that the client has supplied the username and is ready to receive that user's field parameters. There is no authentication information to be sent to the remote side of the connection yet. This should only be sent after the IAC SB AUTHENTICATION NAME command has been issued. If the modifier byte (second byte of the authentication-type-pair) has any bits other than AUTH_WHO_MASK or AUTH_HOW_MASK set, both bytes are included in the session key hash described later. This ensures that the authentication type pair was correctly negotiated, while maintaining backward-compatibility with existing software. IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> PARAMS <values of modulus, generator, and salt> IAC SE This command is used to pass the three parameter values used in the exponentiation to the client. These values are often called n, g, and s. IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS <authentication-type-pair> EXP <client's exponential residue> IAC SE This command is used to pass the client's exponential residue, otherwise known as A, computed against the parameters exchanged earlier. IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> CHALLENGE <server's exponential residue> IAC SE This command is used to pass the server's exponential residue, computed against the same parameters. This quantity is actually the sum of two residues, i.e. g^x + g^b. For details see [SRP] and [RFC2945]. IAC SB AUTHENTICATION IS <authentication-type-pair> RESPONSE <response from client> IAC SE This command gives the server proof of the client's authenticity with a 160-bit (20 byte) response. Wu Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 2944 Telnet Authentication: SRP September 2000 IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> ACCEPT <server's response> IAC SE This command indicates that the authentication was successful. The server will construct its own proof of authenticity and include it as sub-option data. IAC SB AUTHENTICATION REPLY <authentication-type-pair> REJECT <optional reason for rejection> IAC SE This command indicates that the authentication was not successful, and if there is any more data in the sub-option, it is an ASCII text message of the reason for the rejection. For the PARAMS command, since three pieces of data are being transmitted, each parameter is preceded by a 16-bit (two byte) length specifier in network byte order. The EXP commands do not have a count in front of the data because there is only one piece of data in that suboption. The CHALLENGE, RESPONSE, and ACCEPT data also do not have a count because they are all fixed in size. 3. Implementation Rules Currently, only AUTH_CLIENT_TO_SERVER mode is supported. Although the SRP protocol effectively performs implicit mutual authentication as a result of the two-way proofs, only the AUTH_HOW_ONE_WAY authentication mode is currently defined. The AUTH_HOW_MUTUAL setting is being reserved for an explicit mutual-authentication variant of the SRP protocol to be defined in future specifications. All large number data sent in the arguments of the PARAMS and EXP commands must be in network byte order, i.e. most significant byteShow full document text