On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 18:50:14 CEST Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Hubert Kario <hka...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:06:27 CEST Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 02:42:51PM +0200, Hubert Kario wrote:
> > > > All the implementations I deal with in my day-to-day work fail to
> > 
> > handle
> > 
> > > > the 0-RTT client hello correctly when the 0-RTT support is not enabled
> > 
> > on
> > 
> > > > the server.
> > > > 
> > > > I.e. they ignore the MUST clause from
> > > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-tls13-28#page-58 stating
> > 
> > that
> > 
> > > > the server can handle an early_data extension (and following encrypted
> > > > data) in only one of three ways, neither which allows for
> > > > unconditional
> > > > connection abort.
> > > > 
> > > > This also runs afoul the recommendation from
> > 
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/
> > 
> > > > draft-ietf-tls-tls13-28#section-D.3 on 0-RTT backwards compatibility.
> > > 
> > > OTOH, such servers probably do not send out tickets allowing 0-RTT, so
> > > any client attempting 0-RTT with such server is very broken.
> > 
> > please read Section D.3, it is spelled out in detail there why that's not
> > the
> > case
> > 
> > 
> > the short of it: the client has no way of knowing if it is connecting to
> > the
> > same server/instance/process it received the ticket from
> 
> That's true if you have some kind of mixed rollout, but if you never
> supported
> 0-RTT, then there is something wrong with the client.

yes, from omniscient point of view, there is something wrong from the client

but I think we can agree that there are no omniscient TLS server 
implementations and there won't be for quite some time :)

(e.g. there could be a situation with a TLS-enabled transparent proxy between 
a client and a server that was later removed – internal corporate network vs. 
coffee shop)
-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 115, 612 00  Brno, Czech Republic

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