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<div class="section" id="kdc-cookie-format">
<h1>KDC cookie format<a class="headerlink" href="#kdc-cookie-format" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6113.html"><strong>RFC 6113</strong></a> section 5.2 specifies a pa-data type PA-FX-COOKIE, which
clients are required to reflect back to the KDC during
pre-authentication. The MIT krb5 KDC uses the following formats for
cookies.</p>
<div class="section" id="trivial-cookie-version-0">
<h2>Trivial cookie (version 0)<a class="headerlink" href="#trivial-cookie-version-0" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>If there is no pre-authentication mechanism state information to save,
a trivial cookie containing the value “MIT” is used. A trivial cookie
is needed to indicate that the conversation can continue.</p>
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<div class="section" id="secure-cookie-version-1">
<h2>Secure cookie (version 1)<a class="headerlink" href="#secure-cookie-version-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In release 1.14 and later, a secure cookie can be sent if there is any
mechanism state to save for the next request. A secure cookie
contains the concatenation of the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>the four bytes “MIT1”</li>
<li>a four-byte big-endian kvno value</li>
<li>an <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3961.html"><strong>RFC 3961</strong></a> ciphertext</li>
</ul>
<p>The ciphertext is encrypted in the cookie key with key usage
number 513. The cookie key is derived from a key in the local krbtgt
principal entry for the realm (e.g. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">krbtgt/KRBTEST.COM@KRBTEST.COM</span></code>
if the request is to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KRBTEST.COM</span></code> realm). The first krbtgt key
for the indicated kvno value is combined with the client principal as
follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">cookie</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">key</span> <span class="o"><-</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">to</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">PRF</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tgt</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"COOKIE"</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="n">client</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">princ</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>where <strong>random-to-key</strong> is the <span class="target" id="index-2"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3961.html"><strong>RFC 3961</strong></a> random-to-key operation for
the krbtgt key’s encryption type, <strong>PRF+</strong> is defined in <span class="target" id="index-3"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6113.html"><strong>RFC 6113</strong></a>,
and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">|</span></code> denotes concatenation. <em>client-princ</em> is the request client
principal name with realm, marshalled according to <span class="target" id="index-4"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1964.html"><strong>RFC 1964</strong></a> section
2.1.1.</p>
<p>The plain text of the encrypted part of a cookie is the DER encoding
of the following ASN.1 type:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">SecureCookie</span> <span class="p">::</span><span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">SEQUENCE</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="n">time</span> <span class="n">INTEGER</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">data</span> <span class="n">SEQUENCE</span> <span class="n">OF</span> <span class="n">PA</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">DATA</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>The time field represents the cookie creation time; for brevity, it is
encoded as an integer giving the POSIX timestamp rather than as an
ASN.1 GeneralizedTime value. The data field contains one element for
each pre-authentication type which requires saved state. For
mechanisms which have separate request and reply types, the request
type is used; this allows the KDC to determine whether a cookie is
relevant to a request by comparing the request pa-data types to the
cookie data types.</p>
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<div class="section" id="spake-cookie-format-version-1">
<h2>SPAKE cookie format (version 1)<a class="headerlink" href="#spake-cookie-format-version-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Inside the SecureCookie wrapper, a data value of type 151 contains
state for SPAKE pre-authentication. This data is the concatenation of
the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>a two-byte big-endian version number with the value 1</li>
<li>a two-byte big-endian stage number</li>
<li>a four-byte big-endian group number</li>
<li>a four-byte big-endian length and data for the SPAKE value</li>
<li>a four-byte big-endian length and data for the transcript hash</li>
<li>zero or more second factor records, each consisting of:
- a four-byte big-endian second-factor type
- a four-byte big-endian length and data</li>
</ul>
<p>The stage value is 0 if the cookie was sent with a challenge message.
Otherwise it is 1 for the first encdata message sent by the KDC during
an exchange, 2 for the second, etc..</p>
<p>The group value indicates the group number used in the SPAKE challenge.</p>
<p>For a stage-0 cookie, the SPAKE value is the KDC private key,
represented in the scalar marshalling form of the group. For other
cookies, the SPAKE value is the SPAKE result K, represented in the
group element marshalling form.</p>
<p>For a stage-0 cookie, the transcript hash is the intermediate hash
after updating with the client support message (if one was sent) and
challenge. For other cookies it is the final hash.</p>
<p>For a stage-0 cookie, there may be any number of second-factor
records, including none; a second-factor type need not create a state
field if it does not need one, and no record is created for SF-NONE.
For other cookies, there must be exactly one second-factor record
corresponding to the factor type chosen by the client.</p>
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