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The size of IV depends on the applied 18 transform, being usually 8 or 16 octets for the transforms defined by 19 the time this document is written. Some algorithms such as AES-GCM, 20 AES-CCM, AES-CTR and ChaCha20-Poly1305 require a unique nonce but do 21 not require an unpredictable nonce. When using such algorithms the 22 packet counter value can be used to generate a nonce. This avoids 23 sending the nonce itself, and saves in the case of AES-GCM, AES-CCM, 24 AES-CTR and ChaCha20-Poly1305 8 octets per packet. This document 25 describes how to do this. 27 Status of This Memo 29 This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the 30 provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. 32 Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering 33 Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute 34 working documents as Internet-Drafts. 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Code Components extracted from this document must 55 include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of 56 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as 57 described in the Simplified BSD License. 59 Table of Contents 61 1. Requirements notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 62 2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 63 3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 64 4. Implicit IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 65 5. Initiator Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 66 6. Responder Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 67 7. Security Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 68 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 69 9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 70 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 71 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 72 10.2. Informational References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 73 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 75 1. Requirements notation 77 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 78 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 79 document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 81 2. Introduction 83 Counter-based AES modes of operation such as AES-CTR ([RFC3686]), 84 AES-CCM ([RFC4309]), and AES-GCM ([RFC4106]) require the 85 specification of an nonce for each ESP packet. The same applies for 86 ChaCha20-Poly1305 ([RFC7634]). Currently this nonce is sent in each 87 ESP packet ([RFC4303]). This practice is designated in this document 88 as "explicit nonce". 90 In some context, such as IoT, it may be preferable to avoid carrying 91 the extra bytes associated to the IV and instead generate it locally 92 on each peer. The local generation of the nonce is designated in 93 this document as "implicit IV". 95 The size of this nonce depends on the specific algorithm, but all of 96 the algorithms mentioned above take an 8-octet nonce. 98 This document defines how to compute the nonce locally when it is 99 implicit. It also specifies how peers agree with the Internet Key 100 Exchange version 2 (IKEv2 - [RFC7296]) on using an implicit IV versus 101 an explicit IV. 103 This document limits its scope to the algorithms mentioned above. 104 Other algorithms with similar properties may later be defined to use 105 this extension. 107 This document does not consider AES-CBC ([RFC3602]) as AES-CBC 108 requires the IV to be unpredictable. Deriving it directly from the 109 packet counter as described below is insecure as mentioned in 110 Security Consideration of [RFC3602] and has led to real world chosen 111 plain-text attack such as BEAST [BEAST]. 113 3. Terminology 115 o IoT: Internet of Things. 117 o IV: Initialization Vector. 119 o IIV: Implicit Initialization Vector. 121 o Nonce: a fixed-size octet string used only once. This is similar 122 to IV, except that in common usage there is no implication of non- 123 predictability. 125 4. Implicit IV 127 With the algorithms listed in Section 2, the 8 byte nonce MUST NOT 128 repeat. The binding between a ESP packet and its nonce is provided 129 using the Sequence Number or the Extended Sequence Number. Figure 1 130 and Figure 2 represent the IV with a regular 4-byte Sequence Number 131 and with an 8-byte Extended Sequence Number respectively. 133 0 1 2 3 134 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 135 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 136 | Zero | 137 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 138 | Sequence Number | 139 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 141 Figure 1: Implicit IV with a 4 byte Sequence Number 143 o Sequence Number: the 4 byte Sequence Number carried in the ESP 144 packet. 146 o Zero: a 4 byte array with all bits set to zero. 148 0 1 2 3 149 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 150 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 151 | Extended | 152 | Sequence Number | 153 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 155 Figure 2: Implicit IV with an 8 byte Extended Sequence Number 157 o Extended Sequence Number: the 8 byte Extended Sequence Number of 158 the Security Association. The 4 byte low order bytes are carried 159 in the ESP packet. 161 As the IV MUST NOT repeat for one SA when Counter-Mode ciphers are 162 used, Implicit IV as described in this document MUST NOT be used in 163 setups with the chance that the Sequence Number overlaps for one SA. 164 Multicast as described in [RFC5374], [RFC6407] and 165 [I-D.yeung-g-ikev2] is a prominent example, where many senders share 166 one secret and thus one SA. Section 3.5 of [RFC6407] provides a 167 mechanism that MAY be used to prevent IV collisions when the same key 168 is used by multiple users. The mechanism consists in partitioning 169 the IV space between users by assigning the most significant byte to 170 a user. When implicit IV transforms are used, such mechanism cannot 171 be applied as the IV is not sent, but instead it is derived from the 172 Sequence Number. A similar mechanism could be used by associating 173 the most significant byte of the Sequence Number to a sender, while 174 the 3 remaining bytes will be used to carry the counter value. Such 175 mechanism prevents the use of Extended Sequence Number and limits the 176 number of packet to be sent to 2** 24 = 16777216, that is 16 M. Note 177 that associating instead the least significant byte of the Sequence 178 Number to the sender, would enable the system to use Extended 179 Sequence Number and as such extend the limit of packet to be sent to 180 2 ** ( 24 + 32 ) = 72057594037927936, that is 72 P. Note also that 181 in both cases the Sequence Number are not interpreted as numeric 182 values which impacts the replay window processing defined in 183 [RFC4302] and [RFC4302]. 185 Unless some mechanism are provided to avoid collision between 186 Sequence Number, ( and so IV ), Implicit IV MUST NOT be used. As 187 such, it is NOT RECOMMENDED to use Implicit IV with Multicast. 189 5. Initiator Behavior 191 An initiator supporting this feature SHOULD propose implicit IV 192 algorithms in the Transform Type 1 (Encryption Algorithm) 193 Substructure of the Proposal Substructure inside the SA Payload. To 194 facilitate backward compatibility with non-supporting peers the 195 initiator SHOULD also include those same algorithms without Implicit 196 IV (IIV) as separate transforms. 198 6. Responder Behavior 200 The rules of SA Payload processing require that responder picks its 201 algorithms from the proposal sent by the initiator, thus this will 202 ensure that the responder will never send an SA payload containing 203 the IIV transform to an initiator that did not propose it. 205 7. Security Consideration 207 Nonce generation for these algorithms has not been explicitly 208 defined. It has been left to the implementation as long as certain 209 security requirements are met. Typically, for AES-GCM, AES-CCM, AES- 210 CTR and ChaCha20-Poly1305, the IV is not allowed being repeated for 211 one particular key. This document provides an explicit and normative 212 way to generate IVs. The mechanism described in this document meets 213 the IV security requirements of all relevant algorithms. 215 8. IANA Considerations 217 This section assigns new code points to the recommended AEAD suites 218 provided in [RFC8221], thus the new Transform Type 1 - Encryption 219 Algorithm Transform IDs [IANA] are as defined below: 221 - ENCR_AES_CCM_8_IIV: 29 223 - ENCR_AES_GCM_16_IIV: 30 225 - ENCR_CHACHA20_POLY1305_IIV: 31 227 These algorithms should be added with this document as ESP Reference 228 and "Not Allowed" for IKEv2 Reference. 230 9. Acknowledgements 232 We would like to thanks people Valery Smyslov for their valuable 233 comments, David Schinazi for its implementation, as well as the 234 ipseceme chairs Tero Kivinen and David Waltermire for moving this 235 work forward. 237 10. References 238 10.1. Normative References 240 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 241 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, 242 DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, 243 . 245 [RFC3602] Frankel, S., Glenn, R., and S. Kelly, "The AES-CBC Cipher 246 Algorithm and Its Use with IPsec", RFC 3602, 247 DOI 10.17487/RFC3602, September 2003, 248 . 250 [RFC3686] Housley, R., "Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 251 Counter Mode With IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload 252 (ESP)", RFC 3686, DOI 10.17487/RFC3686, January 2004, 253 . 255 [RFC4106] Viega, J. and D. McGrew, "The Use of Galois/Counter Mode 256 (GCM) in IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", 257 RFC 4106, DOI 10.17487/RFC4106, June 2005, 258 . 260 [RFC4302] Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header", RFC 4302, 261 DOI 10.17487/RFC4302, December 2005, 262 . 264 [RFC4303] Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", 265 RFC 4303, DOI 10.17487/RFC4303, December 2005, 266 . 268 [RFC4309] Housley, R., "Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) CCM 269 Mode with IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", 270 RFC 4309, DOI 10.17487/RFC4309, December 2005, 271 . 273 [RFC5374] Weis, B., Gross, G., and D. Ignjatic, "Multicast 274 Extensions to the Security Architecture for the Internet 275 Protocol", RFC 5374, DOI 10.17487/RFC5374, November 2008, 276 . 278 [RFC6407] Weis, B., Rowles, S., and T. Hardjono, "The Group Domain 279 of Interpretation", RFC 6407, DOI 10.17487/RFC6407, 280 October 2011, . 282 [RFC7296] Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., Eronen, P., and T. 283 Kivinen, "Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 284 (IKEv2)", STD 79, RFC 7296, DOI 10.17487/RFC7296, October 285 2014, . 287 [RFC7634] Nir, Y., "ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Their Use in the 288 Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) and IPsec", RFC 7634, 289 DOI 10.17487/RFC7634, August 2015, 290 . 292 [RFC8221] Wouters, P., Migault, D., Mattsson, J., Nir, Y., and T. 293 Kivinen, "Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation 294 Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security 295 Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)", RFC 8221, 296 DOI 10.17487/RFC8221, October 2017, 297 . 299 10.2. Informational References 301 [BEAST] Thai, T. and J. Juliano, "Here Come The xor Ninjas", , 302 May 2011, . 305 [I-D.yeung-g-ikev2] 306 Weis, B., Nir, Y., and V. Smyslov, "Group Key Management 307 using IKEv2", draft-yeung-g-ikev2-13 (work in progress), 308 March 2018. 310 [IANA] "IANA IKEv2 Parameter - Type 1 - Encryption Algorithm 311 Transform IDs", . 314 Authors' Addresses 316 Daniel Migault 317 Ericsson 318 8275 Trans Canada Route 319 Saint Laurent, QC H4S 0B6 320 Canada 322 Email: daniel.migault@ericsson.com 324 Tobias Guggemos 325 LMU Munich 326 Oettingenstr. 67 327 80538 Munich, Bavaria 328 Germany 330 Email: guggemos@mnm-team.org 331 URI: http://mnm-team.org/~guggemos 332 Yoav Nir 333 Dell EMC 334 9 Andrei Sakharov St 335 Haifa 3190500 336 Israel 338 Email: ynir.ietf@gmail.com