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Security TLS Internet-Draft This document specifies the Connection ID (CID) construct for the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol version 1.2. A CID is an identifier carried in the record layer header that gives the recipient additional information for selecting the appropriate security association. In “classical” DTLS, selecting a security association of an incoming DTLS record is accomplished with the help of the 5-tuple. If the source IP address and/or source port changes during the lifetime of an ongoing DTLS session then the receiver will be unable to locate the correct security context.

The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol was designed for securing connection-less transports, like UDP. DTLS, like TLS, starts with a handshake, which can be computationally demanding (particularly when public key cryptography is used). After a successful handshake, symmetric key cryptography is used to apply data origin authentication, integrity and confidentiality protection. This two-step approach allows endpoints to amortize the cost of the initial handshake across subsequent application data protection. Ideally, the second phase where application data is protected lasts over a longer period of time since the established keys will only need to be updated once the key lifetime expires. In the current version of DTLS, the IP address and port of the peer are used to identify the DTLS association. Unfortunately, in some cases, such as NAT rebinding, these values are insufficient. This is a particular issue in the Internet of Things when devices enter extended sleep periods to increase their battery lifetime. The NAT rebinding leads to connection failure, with the resulting cost of a new handshake. This document defines an extension to DTLS 1.2 to add a CID to the DTLS record layer. The presence of the CID is negotiated via a DTLS extension.

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “NOT RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 . This document assumes familiarity with DTLS 1.2 .

This document defines the “connection_id” extension, which is used in ClientHello and ServerHello messages. The extension type is specified as follows.

The extension_data field of this extension, when included in the ClientHello, MUST contain the ConnectionId structure. This structure contains the CID value the client wishes the server to use when sending messages to the client. A zero-length CID value indicates that the client is prepared to send with a CID but does not wish the server to use one when sending. Alternatively, this can be interpreted as the client wishes the server to use a zero-length CID; the result is the same.

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A server willing to use CIDs will respond with a “connection_id” extension in the ServerHello, containing the CID it wishes the client to use when sending messages towards it. A zero-length value indicates that the server will send with the client’s CID but does not wish the client to include a CID (or again, alternately, to use a zero-length CID). Because each party sends the value in the “connection_id” extension it wants to receive as a CID in encrypted records, it is possible for an endpoint to use a globally constant length for such connection identifiers. This can in turn ease parsing and connection lookup, for example by having the length in question be a compile-time constant. Implementations, which want to use variable-length CIDs, are responsible for constructing the CID in such a way that its length can be determined on reception. Such implementations must still be able to send CIDs of different length to other parties. Note that there is no CID length information included in the record itself. In DTLS 1.2, CIDs are exchanged at the beginning of the DTLS session only. There is no dedicated “CID update” message that allows new CIDs to be established mid-session, because DTLS 1.2 in general does not allow TLS 1.3-style post-handshake messages that do not themselves begin other handshakes. When a DTLS session is resumed or renegotiated, the “connection_id” extension is negotiated afresh. If DTLS peers have not negotiated the use of CIDs then the RFC 6347-defined record format and content type MUST be used. If DTLS peers have negotiated the use of a CIDs using the ClientHello and the ServerHello messages then the peers need to take the following steps. The DTLS peers determine whether incoming and outgoing messages need to use the new record format, i.e., the record format containing the CID. The new record format with the the tls12_cid content type is only used once encryption is enabled. Plaintext payloads never use the new record type and the CID content type. For sending, if a zero-length CID has been negotiated then the RFC 6347-defined record format and content type MUST be used (see Section 4.1 of ) else the new record layer format with the tls12_cid content type defined in MUST be used. When transmitting a datagram with the tls12_cid content type, the new MAC computation defined in MUST be used. For receiving, if the tls12_cid content type is set, then the CID is used to look up the connection and the security association. If the tls12_cid content type is not set, then the connection and security association is looked up by the 5-tuple and a check MUST be made to determine whether the expected CID value is indeed zero length. If the check fails, then the datagram MUST be dropped. When receiving a datagram with the tls12_cid content type, the new MAC computation defined in MUST be used. When receiving a datagram with the RFC 6347-defined record format the MAC calculation defined in Section 4.1.2 of MUST be used.

This specification defines the DTLS 1.2 record layer format and specifies how to carry the CID in DTLS 1.3. To allow a receiver to determine whether a record has a CID or not, connections which have negotiated this extension use a distinguished record type tls12_cid(TBD2). Use of this content type has the following three implications: The CID field is present and contains one or more bytes. The MAC calculation follows the process described in . The true content type is inside the encryption envelope, as described below. Plaintext records are not impacted by this extension. Hence, the format of the DTLSPlaintext structure is left unchanged, as shown in .

When CIDs are being used, the content to be sent is first wrapped along with its content type and optional padding into a DTLSInnerPlaintext structure. This newly introduced structure is shown in . The DTLSInnerPlaintext byte sequence is then encrypted. To create the DTLSCiphertext structure shown in the CID is added.

Corresponds to the fragment of a given length. The content type describing the payload. An arbitrary-length run of zero-valued bytes may appear in the cleartext after the type field. This provides an opportunity for senders to pad any DTLS record by a chosen amount as long as the total stays within record size limits. See Section 5.4 of for more details. (Note that the term TLSInnerPlaintext in RFC 8446 refers to DTLSInnerPlaintext in this specification.)

The outer content type of a DTLSCiphertext record carrying a CID is always set to tls12_cid(TBD2). The real content type of the record is found in DTLSInnerPlaintext.real_type after decryption. The CID value, cid_length bytes long, as agreed at the time the extension has been negotiated. The encrypted form of the serialized DTLSInnerPlaintext structure. All other fields are as defined in RFC 6347.

Several types of ciphers have been defined for use with TLS and DTLS and the MAC calculation for those ciphers differs slightly. This specification modifies the MAC calculation defined in and as well as the definition of the additional data used with AEAD ciphers provided in for records with content type tls12_cid. The modified algorithm MUST NOT be applied to records that do not carry a CID, i.e., records with content type other than tls12_cid. The following fields are defined in this document; all other fields are as defined in the cited documents. Value of the negotiated CID. 1 byte field indicating the length of the negotiated CID. The length (in bytes) of the serialised DTLSInnerPlaintext. The length MUST NOT exceed 2^14. Note “+” denotes concatenation.

The following MAC algorithm applies to block ciphers that do not use the with Encrypt-then-MAC processing described in .

The following MAC algorithm applies to block ciphers that use the with Encrypt-then-MAC processing described in .

For ciphers utilizing authenticated encryption with additional data the following modification is made to the additional data calculation.

When a record with a CID is received that has a source address different than the one currently associated with the DTLS connection, the receiver MUST NOT replace the address it uses for sending records to its peer with the source address specified in the received datagram unless the following conditions are met: The received datagram has been cryptographically verified using the DTLS record layer processing procedures. The received datagram is “newer” (in terms of both epoch and sequence number) than the newest datagram received. Reordered datagrams that are sent prior to a change in a peer address might otherwise cause a valid address change to be reverted. This also limits the ability of an attacker to use replayed datagrams to force a spurious address change, which could result in denial of service. An attacker might be able to succeed in changing a peer address if they are able to rewrite source addresses and if replayed packets are able to arrive before any original. There is a strategy for ensuring that the new peer address is able to receive and process DTLS records. No such test is defined in this specification. The above is necessary to protect against attacks that use datagrams with spoofed addresses or replayed datagrams to trigger attacks. Note that there is no requirement to use of the anti-replay window mechanism defined in Section 4.1.2.6 of DTLS 1.2. Both solutions, the “anti-replay window” or “newer algorithm” will prevent address updates from replay attacks while the latter will only apply to peer address updates and the former applies to any application layer traffic. Application protocols that implement protection against these attacks depend on being aware of changes in peer addresses so that they can engage the necessary mechanisms. When delivered such an event, an application layer-specific address validation mechanism can be triggered, for example one that is based on successful exchange of minimal amount of ping-pong traffic with the peer. Alternatively, an DTLS-specific mechanism may be used, as described in .

shows an example exchange where a CID is used uni-directionally from the client to the server. To indicate that a zero-length CID we use the term ‘connection_id=empty’.

(connection_id=empty) <-------- HelloVerifyRequest (cookie) ClientHello --------> (connection_id=empty) (cookie) ServerHello (connection_id=100) Certificate ServerKeyExchange CertificateRequest <-------- ServerHelloDone Certificate ClientKeyExchange CertificateVerify [ChangeCipherSpec] Finished --------> [ChangeCipherSpec] <-------- Finished Application Data ========> <======== Application Data Legend: <...> indicates that a connection id is used in the record layer (...) indicates an extension [...] indicates a payload other than a handshake message ]]>

Note: In the example exchange the CID is included in the record layer once encryption is enabled. In DTLS 1.2 only one handshake message is encrypted, namely the Finished message. Since the example shows how to use the CID for payloads sent from the client to the server only the record layer payloads containing the Finished messages include a CID. Application data payloads sent from the client to the server contain a CID in this example as well.

The CID replaces the previously used 5-tuple and, as such, introduces an identifier that remains persistent during the lifetime of a DTLS connection. Every identifier introduces the risk of linkability, as explained in . An on-path adversary observing the DTLS protocol exchanges between the DTLS client and the DTLS server is able to link the observed payloads to all subsequent payloads carrying the same ID pair (for bi-directional communication). Without multi-homing or mobility, the use of the CID exposes the same information as the 5-tuple. With multi-homing, a passive attacker is able to correlate the communication interaction over the two paths and the sequence number makes it possible to correlate packets across CID changes. The lack of a CID update mechanism in DTLS 1.2 makes this extension unsuitable for mobility scenarios where correlation must be considered. Deployments that use DTLS in multi-homing environments and are concerned about this aspects SHOULD refuse to use CIDs in DTLS 1.2 and switch to DTLS 1.3 where a CID update mechanism is provided and sequence number encryption is available. The specification introduces record padding for the CID-enhanced record layer, which is a privacy feature not available with the original DTLS 1.2 specification. Padding allows to inflate the size of the ciphertext making traffic analysis more difficult. More details about record padding can be found in Section 5.4 and Appendix E.3 of RFC 8446. Finally, endpoints can use the CID to attach arbitrary metadata to each record they receive. This may be used as a mechanism to communicate per-connection information to on-path observers. There is no straightforward way to address this concern with CIDs that contain arbitrary values. Implementations concerned about this aspects SHOULD refuse to use CIDs.

An on-path adversary can create reflection attacks against third parties because a DTLS peer has no means to distinguish a genuine address update event (for example, due to a NAT rebinding) from one that is malicious. This attack is of concern when there is a large asymmetry of request/response message sizes. Additionally, an attacker able to observe the data traffic exchanged between two DTLS peers is able to replay datagrams with modified IP address/port numbers. The topic of peer address updates is discussed in .

IANA is requested to allocate an entry to the existing TLS “ExtensionType Values” registry, defined in , for connection_id(TBD1) as described in the table below. IANA is requested to add an extra column to the TLS ExtensionType Values registry to indicate whether an extension is only applicable to DTLS.

Note: The value “N” in the Recommended column is set because this extension is intended only for specific use cases. This document describes an extension for DTLS 1.2 only; it is not to TLS (1.3). The DTLS 1.3 functionality is described in . IANA is requested to allocate tls12_cid(TBD2) in the “TLS ContentType Registry”. The tls12_cid ContentType is only applicable to DTLS 1.2.

In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. This document specifies Version 1.2 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The TLS protocol provides communications security over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document specifies version 1.2 of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. The DTLS protocol provides communications privacy for datagram protocols. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. The DTLS protocol is based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and provides equivalent security guarantees. Datagram semantics of the underlying transport are preserved by the DTLS protocol. This document updates DTLS 1.0 to work with TLS version 1.2. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.This document updates RFCs 5705 and 6066, and obsoletes RFCs 5077, 5246, and 6961. This document also specifies new requirements for TLS 1.2 implementations. This document describes a means of negotiating the use of the encrypt-then-MAC security mechanism in place of the existing MAC-then-encrypt mechanism in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS). The MAC-then-encrypt mechanism has been the subject of a number of security vulnerabilities over a period of many years. This document specifies a return routability check for use in context of the Connection ID (CID) construct for the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol versions 1.2 and 1.3. This document offers guidance for developing privacy considerations for inclusion in protocol specifications. It aims to make designers, implementers, and users of Internet protocols aware of privacy-related design choices. It suggests that whether any individual RFC warrants a specific privacy considerations section will depend on the document's content. This document specifies Version 1.3 of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. DTLS 1.3 allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. The DTLS 1.3 protocol is intentionally based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 protocol and provides equivalent security guarantees with the exception of order protection/non-replayability. Datagram semantics of the underlying transport are preserved by the DTLS protocol.

RFC EDITOR: PLEASE REMOVE THE THIS SECTION draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-07 Wording changes in the security and privacy consideration and the peer address update sections. draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-06 Updated IANA considerations Enhanced security consideration section to describe a potential man-in-the-middle attack concerning address validation. draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-05 Restructed Section 5 “Record Payload Protection” draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-04 Editorial simplifications to the ‘Record Layer Extensions’ and the ‘Record Payload Protection’ sections. Added MAC calculations for block ciphers with and without Encrypt-then-MAC processing. draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-03 Updated list of contributors Updated list of contributors and acknowledgements Updated example Changed record layer design Changed record payload protection Updated introduction and security consideration section Author- and affiliation changes draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-02 Move to internal content types a la DTLS 1.3. draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-01 Remove 1.3 based on the WG consensus at IETF 101 draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-00 Initial working group version (containing a solution for DTLS 1.2 and 1.3) draft-rescorla-tls-dtls-connection-id-00 Initial version

RFC EDITOR: PLEASE REMOVE THE THIS SECTION The discussion list for the IETF TLS working group is located at the e-mail address tls@ietf.org. Information on the group and information on how to subscribe to the list is at https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls Archives of the list can be found at: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/index.html

Many people have contributed to this specification and we would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions:

Additionally, we would like to thank the Connection ID task force team members: Martin Thomson (Mozilla) Christian Huitema (Private Octopus Inc.) Jana Iyengar (Google) Daniel Kahn Gillmor (ACLU) Patrick McManus (Mozilla) Ian Swett (Google) Mark Nottingham (Fastly) The task force team discussed various design ideas, including cryptographically generated session ids using hash chains and public key encryption, but dismissed them due to their inefficiency. The approach described in this specification is the simplest possible design that works given the limitations of DTLS 1.2. DTLS 1.3 provides better privacy features and developers are encouraged to switch to the new version of DTLS. Finally, we want to thank the IETF TLS working group chairs, Chris Wood, Joseph Salowey, and Sean Turner, for their patience, support and feedback.

We would like to thank Achim Kraus for his review comments and implementation feedback.