full-disclosure - Re: RDP, can it be done safely?

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:10:58 +0000
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <Thor@...merofgod.com>
To: Marsh Ray <marsh@...endedsubset.com>, "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk"
	<full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: RDP, can it be done safely?

To be specific, it actually doesn't require a "client" cert in the strictest sense.  You can configure certificate parameters on the server in such a way that certificate trust chains must be honored (close enough) but if you want true client authentication based on a certificate, you would have to publish the RDP over RPC/HTTP(s) via something like ISA where you can specifically configure a listener to require client authentication certificates to be "presented" to the publisher, but that's not really the same thing.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk [mailto:full-disclosure-
>bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Marsh Ray
>Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 3:44 AM
>To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] RDP, can it be done safely?
>
>On 6/10/2010 4:44 AM, Larry Seltzer wrote:
>> All right, I guess you've got a point. I reflexively say VPN at times
>> like this because the very few reported RDP attacks I've seen have
>> been MITM attacks of the sort that VPNs effectively block. But a
>> client certificate/TLS implementation accomplishes the same thing and
>> all you have to open is the RDP port.
>
>MS Terminal Services Gateway can be set up to require client cert
>authentication and comes in over SSL/TLS over port 443 (RPC over HTTPS I
>think).
>
>Allowing raw RDP to come in through the firewall is not something I would feel
>real good about.
>
>- Marsh
>
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