Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2001-07-31
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
Wei Lu <wlu@syl.dl.nec.com>
Security Area Director(s):
Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Security Area Advisor:
Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:aft@socks.nec.com
To Subscribe: aft-request@socks.nec.com
Archive: http://www.socks.nec.com/aftmail/
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.
Done Publish sample implementation for UNIX.
Done Issue Internet-Draft on SOCKS base authentication methods.
Done Submit final draft of SOCKS protocol and authentication
methods for RFC.
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1929 PS Apr 96 Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5
RFC1928 PS Apr 96 SOCKS Protocol Version 5
RFC1961 PS Jun 96 GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5