EAP-AKA patch for Freeradius 1.1.2

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Mon Apr 2 18:14:22 CEST 2007


awaneesh kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I have downloaded patch from http://bugs.freeradius.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386.
> I have succesfully applied patch to Freeradius1.1.2. Few questions i have..
>  
> a) Does patch supports optional identity privacy support, optional
> result indications, and an optional fast re-authentication procedure.

  No idea.

> b)   After receiving EAP-Request/AKA-Challenge from server, client
> should calculate AT_MAC and compares with the received one. If it
> matches it should send back the EAP-Response/AKA-Challenge with AT_RES
> and new AT_MAC.
> As per section 10.8 of RFC 4187, AT_RES should be encoded as follows. 
> // 
> /        The value field of this attribute begins with the
> 2-byte                             RES Length,which identifies the exact
> length of the RES in bits.  The RES length is followed by the AKA RES
> parameter.  According to [TS33.105
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4187#ref-TS33.105>], the length of the
> AKA RES can vary between 32 and 128 bits.  Because the length of the
> AT_RES         attribute must be a multiple of 4 bytes, the sender pads
> the RES with zero bits        where necessary/
>            
> Trace below is packet from client to server:-
>  
> 0x0242003017010000*03050000d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0*0b0500           
> 000d6eb3a8082c9d2c0a031505b7a0fac0

  Looks to be wrong.

  As always, patches are welcome.

> c)   As per section 3 (Figure 2) from RFC 4187, if server is unable to
> authenticate client if AT_MAC or AT_RES is incorrect, it should back the
> EAP-Request/AKA-Notification to client and client should respond back
> with EAP-Response/AKA-Notification. Then only server should send back
> EAP result as Failure. But Freeradius1.1.2 sends back the EAP Result
> (FAILURE) with Access-Reject.         How ever success scenarion works
> perfectly.

  As always, patches are welcome.

> d) After receiving AKA-Challenge from Radius server, does patch supports
> the checking of Sequence No from AUTN parameter?

  No idea.  Check the source code.

> Do we have any latest patch to support EAP-AKA?

  Yes.

  If you have issues with it, you can always send an updated patch with
bugs fixed.

  Alan DeKok.
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