Hi Ekr,

Sorry for the delay. I don’t quite understand “The way that this mechanism 
works is that it either replaces all of them or supplements the set.” I see the 
new CID is encrypted in the post-handshake message and transferred to the peer. 
So, the record header of this message needs to contain the “old” CID.

Besides, I have summarized the ways of distinguishing the CID packet and 
standard packet that people have discussed in the mailing list:

a)       Adding new ContentType.

b)       Adding new version. (As you replied, since 1.3 is going to remove 
version field in the record header, so this choice may not be proper.)

c)       Using specifically-constructed CID. (I saw you replied that it would 
be a way for DTLS 1.2. But for 1.3, you want a different way.)

d)       By comparing the 5-tuple. Martin made this. (If I understand right) 
His idea is that first check the 5-tuple of the packet, if there is a match, 
then use the corresponding key. If there is no match, then treat the packet as 
a CID packet and find the CID in the packet according to the new format. But, 
the precondition for well working is that the 5-tuple of the CID packet will 
not be successfully matched in the receiver's 5-tuple table.


For the above choices, what do you think? Or do you have any other good 
solution to be updated in the draft?

Regards,
Yin Xinxing

发件人: Eric Rescorla [mailto:e...@rtfm.com]
发送时间: 2017年10月23日 20:13
收件人: yinxinxing
抄送: tls@ietf.org
主题: Re: [TLS] Connection ID Draft



On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:53 AM, yinxinxing 
<yinxinx...@huawei.com<mailto:yinxinx...@huawei.com>> wrote:
Hi Ekr,

For the post-handshake messages in the draft, I have some comments.


1.       When one peer sends NewconnectionID message to the other, it uses a 
newly defined handshake type. This new CID is attached in the payload of the 
record message. But there must be some information for the receiver to know 
which CID is going to be updated. I mean that when sending new CID through the 
NewConnectionID message, the record header should include the “old” CID, so 
that the receiver knows which one to replace.
The way that this mechanism works is that it either replaces all of them or 
supplements the set. I'm not sure that this is the right dynamic, but I'd first 
want to see some worked through cases.


2.       In the draft, is the new CID encrypted? I suggest that the new CID 
(for the first time sending) can be encrypted  to make sure that an attacker 
can not associate a new CID with an old CID. Let’s consider a case where an 
attacker wants to track an IOT device. If the newly generated CID is not 
encrypted when updating, the attacker can associate the new CID with the old 
one. Then, when the peer sends message with the new CID later, the attacker 
knows this packet is sent from the victim. If we encrypt the new CID when 
updating, this tracking problem can be avoided.

TLS 1.3 post-handshake messages are always encrypted.

 Another comment is about symmetrical CID.

1.       Consider a client sends a normal CID (CID length is not zero, named 
C-CID) to server, but the server doesn’t wants to use client’s CID and sends a 
CID generated by the server (named S-CID) to the client.
No. The CID is for the client's benefit, so why would this be useful?


At the same time, client needs to know server has ignored C-CID (which means 
the downlink application message from the server will not include C-CID), and 
client will use S-CID in its application message. Will the draft cover this 
scenario?
No.

-Ekr



Yin Xinxing

发件人: Eric Rescorla [mailto:e...@rtfm.com<mailto:e...@rtfm.com>]
发送时间: 2017年10月13日 21:00
收件人: yinxinxing
抄送: tls@ietf.org<mailto:tls@ietf.org>
主题: Re: [TLS] Connection ID Draft



On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:11 AM, yinxinxing 
<yinxinx...@huawei.com<mailto:yinxinx...@huawei.com>> wrote:
Hi Ekr,

Thanks for your effort. The draft looks good. A few comments are listed below.


1.       Based on the draft, for either DTLS1.2 or 1.3, server can’t 
differentiate whether the packet from client is a “connection ID” packet or a 
standard DTLS 1.2/1.3 packet. (I saw Thomas Fossati and Nikos also introduced 
this problem)

Maybe we can add a new “ContentType” in the DTLS record format to help server 
identify the “connection ID” packet. In addition, you see the length of the 
record payload is limited by 2^14-1, this means the first two bits of “length” 
is zero. We could utilize this feature and set the first two bits or more bits 
of CID being one, e.g., 1111….(but the CID must be put between sequence number 
and length). When server finds 1111 after sequence number, it knows this is a 
“connection ID” packet. However, I don’t know whether it is proper to use such 
magic number. In my view, adding new contenttype may be a choice.

As I said to Nikos, for DTLS 1.2, you can use a specially-constructed CID that 
would not be a valid length field. This can actually just have the leading bit 
set. As we're revising the DTLS 1.3 record format, we would need to do 
something different for that.


2.        For DTLS 1.2, there is no NewConnectionID and RequestConnectionID 
message. DTLS 1.2 server and client also has the requirement to request for a 
new CID, and at present, many products still use DTLS1.2 and I believe it will 
continue to be used for a long time even if TLS/DTLS1.3 is published. My point 
is that we need a corresponding method for updating CID for DTLS1.2 too.
In general, the WG is working on TLS 1.3, not TLS 1.2, so I'm not really that 
excited about putting a lot of effort into enhancing TLS 1.2. The basic 
extension works fine for them, but if they want to change CIDs, then they 
should adopt DTLS 1.3.


I don’t quite understand the following sentences

“In DTLS 1.2, connection ids are exchanged at the beginning of the

   DTLS session only.  There is no dedicated "connection id update"

   message that allows new connection ids to be established mid-session,

   because DTLS 1.2 in general does not allow post-handshake messages

   that do not themselves begin other handshakes.”

The only post-handshake messages allowed in DTLS 1.2 are ClientHello and 
HelloRequest.


Besides, for CID in DTLS1.3, I think the corresponding responding messages of  
NewConnectionID and RequestConnectionID are also needed to ensure that the peer 
has received CID.

No, you use the ACK for these 
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-dtls13-01#section-7). This is one 
reason why there is not a straightforward port to DTLS 1.2 for these messages.


4.       The generation of CID should be more concrete. For example, using 
random number or a counter?
I explicitly did not want to do that, because there are a lot of valid ways to 
generate CID. This is also what we did in QUIC.

-Ekr



Regards,
Yin Xinxing

发件人: TLS [mailto:tls-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:tls-boun...@ietf.org>] 代表 Eric 
Rescorla
发送时间: 2017年10月13日 7:14
收件人: tls@ietf.org<mailto:tls@ietf.org>
主题: [TLS] Connection ID Draft

Hi folks,

I have just posted a first cut at a connection ID draft.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-dtls-connection-id-00

Comments welcome.

-Ekr





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