[Users] qop authentication support
Klaus Darilion
klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Tue Dec 5 14:29:02 CET 2006
One more :-)
It moght be useful to force qop during authentication - e.g. reject
clients which do not support qop as it enables replay attacks.
I think this breaks compatibility with rfc2543 clients, but IMO it would
be good if this can be configured.
regards
klaus
Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Reading openser's docs about qop, it looks like openser supports qop.
>>
>> turning qop on with www_challenge("", "1") activates the qop parameter:
>>
>> WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="foo.bar",
>> nonce="457553154ed7b9d93effa4118b4fe21f11b7f887", qop="auth".
>>
>> Openser advertises only qop=auth. Looking at the source code I get the
>> impression that auth-int is supported too. How can this be activated?
>
> From Rfc 3261 how it looks like:
>
> WWW-Authenticate: Digest
> realm="biloxi.com",
> qop="auth,auth-int",
> nonce="dcd98b7102dd2f0e8b11d0f600bfb0c093",
> opaque="5ccc069c403ebaf9f0171e9517f40e41"
>
>
> I guess it should be easy to add this to the auth module. I think it
> will be useful to allow exact specification of the qop parameter with a
> bitmask, e.g:
>
> www_challenge("", "1"): qop="auth"
> www_challenge("", "2"): qop="auth-int"
> www_challenge("", "3"): qop="auth,auth-int"
>
>
> Further, I think it can be useful to extend www_authorize (and the
> radius functions) to return different return codes depending on the
> authentication problem (e.g. cnonce counter problem, ....).
>
> Further, does someone have any experience how clients handle qop=auth
> and qop=auth-int?
>
> regards
> klaus
>
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Klaus Darilion
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