NETWORK WORKING GROUP J. Altman Internet-Draft Secure Endpoints Intended status: Standards Track N. Williams Expires: December 13, 2009 Sun June 11, 2009 Channel Bindings for TLS draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings-04.txt Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on December 13, 2009. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 1] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 Abstract This document defines three channel binding types for Transport Layer Security (TLS), tls-unique, tls-server-end-point, and tls-unique-for- telnet, in accordance with RFC 5056 (On Channel Binding). Table of Contents 1. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. The 'tls-unique' Channel Binding Type . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. The 'tls-server-end-point' Channel Binding Type . . . . . . 6 5. The 'tls-unique-for-telnet' Channel Binding Type . . . . . . 8 6. Applicability of TLS Channel Binding Types . . . . . . . . . 9 7. Required Application Programming Interfaces . . . . . . . . 10 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9.1. Cryptographic Algorithm Agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9.2. On Disclosure of Channel Bindings Data by Authentication Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10.2. Normative References for 'tls-server-end-point' . . . . . . 14 10.3. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 2] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 1. Conventions used in this document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 3] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 2. Introduction Subsequent to the publication of "On Channel Bindings" [RFC5246], three channel binding types for Transport Layer Security (TLS) were proposed, reviewed and added to the IANA channel binding type registry, all in accordance with [RFC5246]. Those channel binding types are: 'tls-unique', 'tls-server-end-point', and 'tls-unique-for- telnet'. It has become desirable to have these channel binding types re-registered through an RFC so as to make it easier to reference them. This document does just that. The authors of those three channel binding types have, or have indicated that they will, transferred "ownership" of those channel binding types to the IESG. We also provide some advice on the applicability of these channel binding types, as well as advice on when to use which. And we provide an abstract API that TLS implementors should provide, by which to obtain channel bindings data for a TLS connection. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 4] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 3. The 'tls-unique' Channel Binding Type IANA is hereby directed to update the registration of the 'tls- unique' channel binding type to match the following. Note that the only material changes from the original registration should be: the "owner" (now the IESG), contacts, the published specfication, and a clarification to the description by the addition of a parenthetical note (that is, the first such note in the descritption is a new addition). We also added a note indicating that this specification contains applicability advice, and we moved security considerations notes to the security considerations section of this document. All other fields of the registration are copied here for the convenience of readers. o Channel binding unique prefix: tls-unique o Channel binding type: unique o Channel type: TLS [RFC5246] o Published specification: o Channel binding is secret: no o Description: The client's TLS Finished message (note: the Finished struct) from the first handshake of the connection (note: connection, not session, so that the channel binding is specific to each connection regardless of whether session resumption is used). o Intended usage: COMMON o Person and email address to contact for further information: Larry Zhu (lzhu@microsoft.com), Nicolas Williams (Nicolas.Williams@sun.com). o Owner/Change controller name and email address: IESG. o Expert reviewer name and contact information: IETF (ietf@ietf.org) o Note: see the published specification for advice on the applicability of this channel binding type. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 5] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 4. The 'tls-server-end-point' Channel Binding Type IANA is hereby directed to update the registration of the 'tls- server-end-point' channel binding type to match the following. Note that the only material changes from the original registration should be: the "owner" (now the IESG), the contacts, the published specfication, and a note indicating that the published specification should be consulted for applicability advice. References were added to the description. All other fields of the registration are copied here for the convenience of readers. o Channel binding unique prefix: tls-server-end-point o Channel binding type: end-point o Channel type: TLS [RFC5246] o Published specification: o Channel binding is secret: no o Description: The hash of the TLS server's end entity certificate [RFC5280] as it appears, octet for octet, in the server's Certificate message (note that the Certificate message contains a certificate_list, the first element of which is the server's end entity certificate.) The hash function to be selected is as follows: if the certificate's signature hash algorithm is either MD5 [RFC1321] or SHA-1 [RFC3174], then use SHA-256 [FIPS-180-2], otherwise use the certificate's signature hash algorithm. The reason for using a hash of the certificate is that some implementations need to track the channel binding of a TLS session in kernel-mode memory, which is often at a premium. o Intended usage: COMMON o Person and email address to contact for further information: Larry Zhu (lzhu@microsoft.com), Nicolas Williams (Nicolas.Williams@sun.com). o Owner/Change controller name and email address: IESG. o Expert reviewer name and contact information: IETF (ietf@ietf.org) o Note: This channel binding is only suitable for use with PKIX server certificates [RFC5280], not OpenPGP certificates [RFC5081] [RFC4880]. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 6] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 o Note: see the published specification for advice on the applicability of this channel binding type. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 7] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 5. The 'tls-unique-for-telnet' Channel Binding Type IANA is hereby directed to update the registration of the 'tls- unique-for-telnet' channel binding type to match the following. Note that the only material changes from the original registration should be: the "owner" (now the IESG), the contacts, the published specfication, and a note indicating that the published specification should be consulted for applicability advice. The description is also clarified. We also moved security considerations notes to the security considerations section of this document. All other fields of the registration are copied here for the convenience of readers. o Channel binding unique prefix: tls-unique-for-telnet o Channel binding type: unique o Channel type: TLS [RFC5246] o Published specification: o Channel binding is secret: no o Description: There is a proposal for adding a "StartTLS" extension to TELNET, and a channel binding extension for the various TELNET AUTH mechanisms whereby each side sends the other a "checksum" (MAC) of their view of the channel's bindings. The client uses the first TLS Finished messages (note: the Finished struct) from the client and server, each concatenated in that order and in their clear text form. The server does the same but in the opposite concatenation order (server, then client). o Intended usage: COMMON o Person and email address to contact for further information: Jeff Altman (jaltman@secure-endpoints.com), Nicolas Williams (Nicolas.Williams@sun.com). o Owner/Change controller name and email address: IESG. o Expert reviewer name and contact information: IETF (ietf@ietf.org) o Note: see the published specification for advice on the applicability of this channel binding type. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 8] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 6. Applicability of TLS Channel Binding Types The 'tls-unique-for-telnet' channel binding type is only applicable to TELNET [RFC0854]. The 'tls-unique' channel binding type is always available for TLS connections, while 'tls-server-end-point' is only available when TLS cipher suites with server certificates are used. Therefore 'tls- unique' is generally better than 'tls-server-end-point'. However, 'tls-server-end-point' may be used with existing TLS server-side proxies ("concentrators") without modification to the proxies, whereas 'tls-unique' may require firmware or software updates to server-side proxies. Therefore there are cases where 'tls-server- end-point' may interoperate but where 'tls-unique' may not. In other words, for many applications there may be two potentially applicable TLS channel binding types. Channel binding is all or nothing for the GSS-API [RFC2743], and likely other frameworks. Therefore agreement on the use of channel binding, and a particular channel binding type is necessary. Such agreement can be a priori or negotiated. The specifics of whether and how to negotiate channel binding types are beyond the scope of this document. However, it is RECOMMENDED that application protocols making use of TLS channel bindings, use 'tls-unique' exclusively, except, perhaps, where server-side proxies are common in deployments of an application protocol. In the latter case an application protocol MAY specify that 'tls-server-end-point' channel bindings must be used when available, with 'tls-unique' being used when 'tls-server-end-point' channel bindings are not available. Alternatively, the application may negotiate which channel binding type to use, or may make the choice of channel binding type configurable. Specifically, application protocol specifications MUST indicate at least one mandatory to implement channel binding type, MAY specify a negotiation protocol, MAY allow for out-of-band negotiation or configuration, and SHOULD prefer 'tls-unique' over 'tls-server-end- point'. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 9] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 7. Required Application Programming Interfaces TLS implementations supporting the use of 'tls-unique' and/or 'tls- unique-for-telnet' channel binding types, MUST provide application programming interfaces by which applications may obtain the channel bindings for a TLS connection. An implementation MAY provide interfaces for obtaining the initial Finished messages of a connection separately, letting TELNET [RFC0854] construct 'tls- unique-for-telnet' channel bindings from those, or the implementation MAY provide an interface specifically for extracting channel bindings data from a connection, and for a given channel binding type. TLS implementations supporting the use of 'tls-server-end-point' channel bindings MUST provide application programming interfaces to obtain this channel binding. Such an interface SHOULD produce the 'tls-server-end-point' channel bindings data directly, but MAY produce the certificate of the server for the connection instead, as it appears, octet for octet, in the server's Certificate message. When a connection results from TLS session resumption, the implementation may need to have cached the server certificate from the original connection, but MAY return an error instead of the channel binding or server certificate. Applications wishing to use 'tls-server-end-point' channel bindings and TLS session resumption MUST be prepared to handle the unavailability of 'tls-server-end- point' channel bindings in the case of TLS session resumption. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 10] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 8. IANA Considerations The IANA is hereby directed to update three existing channel binding type registrations. See the rest of this document. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 11] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 9. Security Considerations The Security Considerations section of [RFC5056] applies to this document. The TLS Finished messages (see section 7.4.9 of [RFC5246]) are known to both endpoints of a TLS connection, and are cryptographycally bound to it. Therefore the TLS Finished messages can be safely used as a channel binding provided that the authentication mechanism doing the channel binding conforms to the requirements in [RFC5056]. The server certificate, when present, is also cryptographically bound to the TLS connection through its use in key transport and/or authentication of the server (either by dint of its use in key transport, by its use in signing key agreement, or by its use in key agreement). Therefore the server certificate is suitable as an end- point channel binding as described in [RFC5056]. 9.1. Cryptographic Algorithm Agility The 'tls-unique' and 'tls-unique-for-telnet' channel binding types do not add any use of cryptography beyond that used by TLS itself. Therefore these two channel binding types add no considerations with respect to cryptographic algorithm agility. The 'tls-server-end-point' channel binding type consist of a hash of a server certificate. This use of a hash algorithm is above and beyond TLS's use of cryptography, therefore the 'tls-server-end- point' channel binding type has a security consideration with respect to hash algorithm agility. The algorithm to be used, however, is derived from the certificate itself: use SHA-256 if the certificate uses MD5 or SHA-1, else use whatever hash function the certificate uses. This construction automatically makes 'tls-server-end-point' hash algorithm agile. 9.2. On Disclosure of Channel Bindings Data by Authentication Mechanisms When these channel binding types were first considered, one issue that some commenters were concerned about was the possible impact on the security of the TLS channel, of disclosure of the channel bindings data by authentication mechanisms. This can happen, for example, when an authentication mechanism transports the channel bindings data, with no confidentiality protection, over other transports (for example, in communicating with a trusted third party), or when the TLS channel provides no confidentiality protection and the authentication mechanism does not protect the confidentiality of the channel bindings data. This section considers Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 12] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 that concern. When the TLS connection uses a cipher suite that does not provide confidentiality protection, the TLS Finished messages will be visible to eavesdroppers, regardless of what the authentication mechanism does. The same is true of the server certificate which, in any case, is generally visible to eavesdroppers. Therefore we must consider our choices of TLS channel bindings here to be safe to disclose by definition -- if that were not the case then TLS with cipher suites that don't provide confidentiality protection would be unsafe. Furthermore, the TLS Finished message construction depends on the security of the TLS PRF, which in turn needs to be resistant to key recovery attacks, and we think that it is, as it is based on HMAC, and the master secret is, well, secret (and the result of key exchange). Note too that in the case of an attempted active man-in-the-middle attack, the attacker will already possess knowledge of the TLS finished messages for both inbound and outbound TLS channels (which will differ, given that the attacker cannot force them to be the same). No additional information is obtained by the attacker from the authentication mechanism's disclosure of channel bindings data -- the attacker already has it, even when cipher suites providing confidentiality protection are provided. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 13] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 10. References 10.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC5056] Williams, N., "On the Use of Channel Bindings to Secure Channels", RFC 5056, November 2007. [RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008. 10.2. Normative References for 'tls-server-end-point' [FIPS-180-2] United States of America, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Secure Hash Standard (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-2". [RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S., Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008. 10.3. Informative References [RFC0854] Postel, J. and J. Reynolds, "Telnet Protocol Specification", STD 8, RFC 854, May 1983. [RFC1321] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321, April 1992. [RFC2743] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January 2000. [RFC3174] Eastlake, D. and P. Jones, "US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)", RFC 3174, September 2001. [RFC4880] Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., Shaw, D., and R. Thayer, "OpenPGP Message Format", RFC 4880, November 2007. [RFC5081] Mavrogiannopoulos, N., "Using OpenPGP Keys for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authentication", RFC 5081, November 2007. Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 14] Internet-Draft TLS Channel Bindings June 2009 Authors' Addresses Jeff Altman Secure Endpoints 255 W 94TH ST PHB New York, NY 10025 US Email: jaltman@secure-endpoints.com Nicolas Williams Sun Microsystems 5300 Riata Trace Ct Austin, TX 78727 US Email: Nicolas.Williams@sun.com Altman & Williams Expires December 13, 2009 [Page 15]