Hi Tero:

Thanks for your insight. Please see my comments inline.

> El 29 ene 2023, a las 16:32, Tero Kivinen <kivi...@iki.fi> escribió:
> 
> Rafa Marín López writes:
>> Hi John:
>>    - 2) Use PSK with ECDHE (similar to psk_dhe_ke in TLS)
>> 
>> Let me also add here, as a reference, IKEv2. Basically, section 1.3.2 in RFC
>> 7296 shows a 1-RTT exchange including DH exchange and nonces to regenerate 
>> the
>> IKE security association. 
>> 
>>    - 3) Use PSK with exchanged random values (similar to psk_ke in TLS)
>> 
>> Curiously, when IKEv2 tries to generate key material for the IPsec security
>> associations (and not for the IKEv2 SA) allows just sending nonces (see
>> section 1.3.3 in RFC 7296), though there is also the possibility to include a
>> DH exchange. I mention this because EDHOC can be used to regenerate OSCORE
>> contexts.
> 
> IKEv2 allows doing IPsec SA rekeys without Diffie-Hellman because
> there might be thousands of those between two gateways, and doing
> Diffie-Hellman for each of them would be too costly. I.e., it allows
> per SA decision whether you need PFS or not. If you are rekeying SA
> just because your traffic counters roll over, there is no need to do
> PFS.

Correct. For this reason (“would be too costly” or at least, more costly) I was 
mentioning the possibility of allowing or not PFS also in EDHOC for the rekey.
> 
> Note, in this context the Diffie-Hellman secret to protect IKE SA is
> considered as "long term secret", i.e., breaking that will allow you
> to see the IKEv2 SA traffic, thus break all the IPsec SAs negotiated
> over that IKE SA unless they did their own Diffie-Hellman. Doing IKE
> SA rekey will redo that Diffie-Hellman, meaning attacker need to break
> that new Diffie-Hellman secret again to allow it to break new IPsec
> SAs created after rekey.
Yes, correct.

> 
> For IKE SA rekeys there was no point to do rekey without doing
> Diffie-Hellman, so thats why doing Diffie-Hellman there is mandatory.

Yes, it makes a lot of sense to perform DH in this case.

Best Regards.

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