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Vienna, february 18th, 2010

EAP-FAST. Paul Dekkers, SURFnet Tomasz Wolniewicz, PIONIER. Vienna, february 18th, 2010. EAP-FAST. Successor by Cisco for LEAP (and Cisco PEAP?) while still trying to stay “L”, lightweight PEAP is perceived difficult because of certificates to authenticate server to client

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Vienna, february 18th, 2010

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  1. EAP-FAST Paul Dekkers, SURFnet Tomasz Wolniewicz, PIONIER Vienna, february 18th, 2010

  2. EAP-FAST • Successor by Cisco for LEAP (and Cisco PEAP?) while still trying to stay “L”, lightweight • PEAP is perceived difficult because of certificates to authenticate server to client • EAP-FAST uses Protected Access Credential (PAC), per user file • Phase 0: manual PAC provisioningPhase 1: PAC is used to establish TLS tunnelPhase 2: credentials exchanged inside tunnel, in type/lengt/value (TLV) packets, MSCHAP-v2

  3. How to get a PAC • “Phase 0”, manual • Automatic PAC provisioningWhen done with server certificates; safe way of providing PAC (MiM risks still apply). • We used automatic PAC provisioning in TLS tunnel(which requires server certificates) • First auth attempt fails, but provides PAC So… is it easier? More secure? Faster? (Does it offer faster roaming then for instance PMK caching?)

  4. What we’ve done • Test how EAP-FAST works • Speed tests (generic EAP) from PIONIER to SURFnet, includes 8 hops adding latency • Packet count and size • Testing against Radiator and Cisco ACSwith Mac OS X client, eapol_test, Cisco client • See presentation from Maja for FreeRADIUS experience • We learned more about optimizing EAP in general

  5. EAP type selection (1) • Order of EAP-type in config (of Radiator) matterseg. EAPType PEAP, TTLS, TLS, FAST • Server requests first configured mechanism to client, after that (second attempt) the client preference is tried ./eapol_test … | grep "Received EAP-Request” EAP: Received EAP-Request id=0 method=1 (Identity) EAP: Received EAP-Request id=1 method=21 (TTLS) EAP: Received EAP-Request id=2 method=43 (FAST) EAP: Received EAP-Request id=3 method=43 EAP: Received EAP-Request id=4 method=43 EAP: Received EAP-Request id=5 method=43 EAP: Received EAP-Request id=6 method=43 EAP: Received EAP-Request id=7 method=43

  6. EAP type selection (2) • Some servers do not allow to configure order • It saves at most 2 packets (numbers with EAP-fast as type) So it’s smarter to configure your preferred mechanism as first option in the config, when possible.

  7. Influence of Diffie-Hellman keys • For EAP-FAST you need a EAPTLS_DHFile *, for other EAP-mechanisms this is optional • It does influence other EAP-typesFor EAP-TTLS, with and without DHFile: * Actually, there is more (Open)SSL specific stuff you need

  8. Differences in FAST implementations • Hard to do speed comparisons; • Amount of logging, OS, certificates matters • Differences local vs. remote • Differences in minimal amount of packets • Differences in tunneled auth, more pkts & bytes! • Radiator does not (yet) cache PACs, requested

  9. EAP, UDP packets by type With the maximum fragment size on the server set to 512 Packet-size from clients not restricted by server-settings, filling up MTU

  10. EAP, UDP packets by type With the maximum fragment size on the server set to 1000 Now other EAP-mechanisms fill up fragment-size too

  11. After optimization Reduced packet-size is an improvement considering RADIUS/UDP reliability * Radiator / Cisco ACS

  12. Conclusions • Packet-loss, -reordering and retransmissions are annoying (and sometimes killing) • EAP mechanisms that send less and smaller packets have less risks • EAP-FAST does a nice job in that regardWe do need (more, free) clients • Risks are higher at remote locations • RadSec solves many of these problems too, does not introduce much delay • 802.11r, PMK caching

  13. Paul.Dekkers@surfnet.nl

  14. Spare sheet 1 EAP tunables • EAPTLS_MaxFragmentSizeSetting of eg. 512 versus no (max UDP) can mean difference of 12 vs. 20 packets, ~800 bytes • CA and certificate sizes, public CA or self-signedGlobalsign instead of homebrew gives 2-4 extra packets, ~1500 bytes • DHfileadding one adds bytes (~800) and packets (2)

  15. Spare sheet 2 PACs consist of… • PAC-Key: A 256-bit key used by the client to establish the TLS tunnel. This key maps as the TLS pre-master-secret. The PAC-Key is randomly generated by the AS to produce a strong entropy 32-octet key. • PAC-Opaque: A variable length field that is sent to the server during the TLS tunnel establishment. The PAC-Opaque can only be interpreted by the server to recover the required information for the server to validate the peer’s identity and authentication. For example, the PAC-Opaque may include the PAC-Key and the PAC’s peer identity. The PAC-Opaque format and contents are specific to the issuing PAC server. • PAC-Info: A variable length field used to provide at minimum, the authority identity or PAC issuer. Other useful but not mandatory information, such as the PAC-Key lifetime, may also be conveyed by the AS to the peer during PAC provisioning or refreshment.

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