Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of that in effect at the time of the 38th IETF Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. It may now be out-of-date.

Chair(s): 

Marcus Leech <mleech@nortel.ca>

Security Area Director(s): 

Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>

Mailing Lists: 

General Discussion:aft@unify.com
To Subscribe: aft-request@unify.com
Archive: ftp://ftp.unify.com/ietf/aft

Description of Working Group: 

The goal of the Authenticated Firewall Traversal Working Group is to specify a protocol to address the issue of application-layer support for firewall traversal. The working group intends to specify a traversal protocol supporting both TCP and UDP applications with a general framework for authentication of the firewall traversal. To promote interoperability, the group will also propose a base authentication technique for use within the general authentication framework. 

The output of the group will consist of a standards-track RFC(s) describing the traversal protocol, the base authentication methods and a reference implementation of the protocol, and base authentication methods. The working group will start with the SOCKS system described by David Koblas in his paper presented at the 1992 Usenix Security Symposium.

Goals and Milestones:

Done 

Issue Internet-Draft on V5 SOCKS protocol.

Oct 94 

Publish sample implementation for UNIX.

Done 

Issue Internet-Draft on SOCKS base authentication methods.

Nov 94 

Publish sample implementation for UNIX.

Dec 94 

Submit final draft of SOCKS protocol and authentication methods for RFC.
Internet-Drafts: 

· Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol for SOCKS V5 

· Challenge-Response Authentication Method for SOCKS V5 

· Secure Sockets Layer for SOCKS Version 5 

· SOCKS Protocol Version 5

Request For Comments:

RFC 

Status 

Title

RFC1928 

PS 

SOCKS Protocol Version 5

RFC1929 

PS 

Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5

RFC1961 

PS 

GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5

Current Meeting Report

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Slides

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