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4Network Working Group                               L. Hornquist Astrand
5Internet-Draft                                      Stockholm University
6Expires: September 2, 2006                                        L. Zhu
7                                                   Microsoft Corporation
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41   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
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43Abstract
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45   The PK-INIT protocol have in several places hard coded crypto
46   algorithms.  The protocol specification needs to be updated so it can
47   support negotiation to upgrading to newer versions of crypto
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62   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
63   2.  Requirements notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
64   3.  paChecksum agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
65   4.  CMS Digest Algorithm agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
66   5.  Certificate Signer Algorithm Identifier agility  . . . . . . .  7
67   6.  octetstring2key function agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
68   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
69   8.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
70   9.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
71   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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118   The Kerberos PK-INIT document contains several hardcoded algorithms
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174   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
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230   The paChecksum binds the PK-INIT part of the request to main body of
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233   The problem is that paChecksum is hardcoded to use SHA1-1, however,
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235   within the PK-INIT prototcol.  Newer clients can choose not send the
236   paChecksum field, but rather add some new fields after the existing
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247   checksum over the whole request in the asChecksum field, in this case
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514   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
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564Authors' Addresses
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566   Love Hornquist Astrand
567   Stockholm University
568   SE-106 91  STOCKHOLM
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574   Larry Zhu
575   Microsoft Corporation
576   One Microsoft Way
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