TLS Working Group Mohamad Badra Internet Draft LIMOS Laboratory Intended status: Informational February 1, 2008 Expires: July 2008 ECDHE_PSK Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) draft-badra-ecdhe-tls-psk-03.txt Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of 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 July 31, 2008. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). Abstract This document extends RFC 4279 and RFC 4785 and specifies a set of ciphersuites that use an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman exchange authenticated with a pre-shared key. These ciphersuites provide Perfect Forward Secrecy. It also specifies one authentication-only ciphersuites (with no encryption). This ciphersuite is useful when authentication and integrity protection is desired, but confidentiality is not needed or not permitted. Badra Expires July 31, 2008 [Page 1] Internet-Draft ECDHE_PSK Ciphersuites for TLS February 2008 The reader is expected to become familiar with RFC 4279 and RFC 4785 prior to studying this document. 1. Introduction RFC 4279 specifies ciphersuites for supporting TLS using pre-shared symmetric keys and they (a) use only symmetric key operations for authentication, (b) use a Diffie-Hellman exchange authenticated with a pre-shared key, or (c) combines public key authentication of the server with pre-shared key authentication of the client. RFC 4785 specifies authentication-only ciphersuites (with no encryption). This document specifies a set of ciphersuites that use an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman exchange authenticated with a pre-shared key. These ciphersuites provide Perfect Forward Secrecy. This document also specifies one authentication-only ciphersuites (with no encryption). This ciphersuite is useful when authentication and integrity protection is desired, but confidentiality is not needed or not permitted. 1.1. 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]. 2. ECDHE_PSK Key Exchange Algorithm The ciphersuites in this section match the ciphersuites defined in [RFC4279], except that they use an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman exchange [RFC4492] authenticated with a pre-shared key. They are defined as follow: CipherSuite Key Exchange Cipher Hash TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA ECDHE_PSK RC4_128 SHA TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA ECDHE_PSK 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA ECDHE_PSK AES_128_CBC SHA TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA ECDHE_PSK AES_256_CBC SHA When the ciphersuites defined in this document are used, the 'ec_diffie_hellman_psk' case inside the ServerKeyExchange and ClientKeyExchange structure is used instead of the 'psk' case defined in [RFC4279] (i.e. The ServerKeyExchange and ClientKeyExchange messages include the Diffie-Hellman parameters). The PSK identity and Badra Expires July 31, 2008 [Page 2] Internet-Draft ECDHE_PSK Ciphersuites for TLS February 2008 identity hint fields MUST have the same meaning specified in [RFC4279] (note that the ServerKeyExchange message is always sent, even if no PSK identity hint is provided). The format of the ServerKeyExchange and ClientKeyExchange messages is shown below. struct { select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */ case ec_diffie_hellman_psk: /* NEW */ opaque psk_identity_hint<0..2^16-1>; ServerECDHParams params; }; } ServerKeyExchange; struct { select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */ case ec_diffie_hellman_psk: /* NEW */ opaque psk_identity<0..2^16-1>; ClientECDiffieHellmanPublic public; } exchange_keys; } ClientKeyExchange; The premaster secret is formed as follows. First, perform an ECDH operation (See section 5.10 of [RFC4492]) to compute the shared secret. Next, concatenate a uint16 containing the length of the shared secret (in octets), the shared secret itself, a uint16 containing the length of the PSK (in octets), and the PSK itself. This corresponds to the general structure for the premaster secrets (see Note 1 in Section 2 of [RFC4279]), with "other_secret" containing the shared secret: struct { opaque other_secret<0..2^16-1>; opaque psk<0..2^16-1>; }; 3. 2. ECDHE_PSK Key Exchange Algorithm with NULL Encryption The ciphersuite in this section matches the ciphersuites defined in [RFC4785], except that it uses an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman exchange authenticated with a pre-shared key. Badra Expires July 31, 2008 [Page 3] Internet-Draft ECDHE_PSK Ciphersuites for TLS February 2008 CipherSuite Key Exchange Cipher Hash TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_NULL_SHA ECDHE_PSK NULL SHA 4. Security Considerations The security considerations described throughout [RFC4346], [RFC4785] and [RFC4279] apply here as well. 5. IANA Considerations This document defines the following new ciphersuites, whose values are to be assigned from the TLS Cipher Suite registry defined in [RFC4346]. CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0xXX, 0xXX }; CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0xXX, 0xXX }; CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0xXX, 0xXX }; CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0xXX, 0xXX }; CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_NULL_SHA = { 0xXX, 0xXX }; 6. Acknowledgments The author would like to thank Bodo Moeller, Simon Josefsson, Uri Blumenthal, Pasi Eronen, and the TLS mailing list members for their comments on the document. 7. References 7.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4346] Dierks, T., Rescorla, E., "The TLS Protocol Version 1.1", RFC 4346, April 200P. [RFC4279] Eronen, P. and H. Tschofenig, "Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 4279, December 2005. [RFC4785] Blumenthal, U., Goel, P., "Pre-Shared Key (PSK) Ciphersuites with NULL Encryption for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 4785, January 2007. Badra Expires July 31, 2008 [Page 4] Internet-Draft ECDHE_PSK Ciphersuites for TLS February 2008 [RFC4492] Blake-Wilson, S., Bolyard, N., Gupta, V., Hawk, C., Moeller, B., "Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 4492, May 2006. Author's Addresses Mohamad Badra LIMOS Laboratory - UMR6158, CNRS France Email: badra@isima.fr Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. 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