LDAP Channel Binding

Michael Osipov michaelo at apache.org
Tue Feb 18 18:17:20 UTC 2020


Since we don't know what type of channel binding is used, how do you 
want to fix that?

Are we finally talking about TLS channel binding? But which tls-unique 
or tls-server-end-point?

Can you provide a pcap from that comm as well as debug dump from JSSE 
and JNDI?

Michael

Am 2020-02-18 um 12:43 schrieb Bernd Eckenfels:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I am not sure why you say so, when the channel binding option is turned on as Microsoft recommends and plans to default to in March the Java LDAP directory implementation will no longer be able to connect when using GSSAPI or DIGEST-MD5 over LDAPs.
> 
> I think this should be possible. It will most likely require changes in JSSE, SASL, JNDI and JNDI-LDAP (both in implementations but also public APIs (in SASL maybe only properties?). It looks like JGSS might not need a  new API.
> 
> If there are also SPNEGO/NTLM external SASL mechanisms which are used with JNDI, that would be an additional check condition if the new APIs are enough to handle that.
> 
> Gruss
> Bernd
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> Von: Michael Osipov <1983-01-06 at gmx.net>
> Gesendet: Sunday, February 16, 2020 11:02:16 AM
> An: Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com>
> Cc: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki at zusammenkunft.net>; security-dev at openjdk.java.net <security-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Betreff: Re: LDAP Channel Binding
> 
> Am 2020-02-14 um 15:53 schrieb Weijun Wang:
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 22, 2020, at 6:31 AM, Michael Osipov <1983-01-06 at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 2020-01-21 um 17:57 schrieb Bernd Eckenfels:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have now repeated the tests with LdapEnforceChannelBinding=2 and I
>>>> could see the rejection with error code 80090346 for GSSAPI and
>>>> DIGEST-MD5 with TLS.
>>>>
>>>> The simple bind with TLS and the GSSAPI or DIGEST-MD5 without TLS but
>>>> with auth-int/conf all work with signing and binding required (I.e
>>>> after Microsoft charged defaults in March)
>>>>
>>>> (Which makes the TLS binding a bit useless, but we should still think
>>>> about supporting it.)
>>>>
>>>> Jgss seems to already allow to set it, so only JSSE needs to provide
>>>> an api for sasl/jndi.
>>>
>>> How? I am confused! The Kerberos SaslClient does not use/set GSS channel
>>> bindings. I don't see any in com.sun.security.sasl.gsskerb.
>>
>> Are you suggesting any change here? JGSS has channel binding method but the SASL mech has not called it.
> 
> None yet, because we do not know what channel binding is actually used.
> We assume that MS uses TLS channel binding regardless of the underlying
> authentication scheme.
> 
> M
> 




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