On 25/04/2020, 11:11, "Thomas Fossati" <thomas.foss...@arm.com> wrote: > On 25/04/2020, 01:30, "Christopher Wood" <c...@heapingbits.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 2:17 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > > 1. Allowing implicit CIDs is very recent (it was introduced in > > > -34) > > > 2. The CID specification explicitly prohibits it for DTLS 1.2. 3. > > > I haven't really heard a very compelling argument for this and I > > > note that QUIC forbids it [and in fact has much worse problems > > > when you mix epochs because the long header is so long] > > > > > > So, given that the simplest and most consistent thing is to simply > > > forbid it: can someone make an argument for why this is important > > > to permit? > > > > Thanks to everyone who participated in this thread so far! Given the > > points above, the chairs would like to hear arguments in favor of > > implicit CIDs. Absent substantial rationale, we'll assume rough > > consensus for explicit CIDs. > > Hi Chris, I think implicit CID needs to be considered in the wider > scope of unified_hdr compression, together with implicit length and > shortened epoch. In particular, from Chris P's emails I understand > that being able to authenticate records' length is a core assumption > in the security proof of TLS. Therefore leaving it out from DTLS AAD > when it's not in the header looks like a pretty bad idea. If this is > the case (i.e. the fact that the wire image by itself is not > sufficient input to the AAD), then authenticating implicit CIDs should > just come in the same bundle.
Sorry, scratch that for the moment - I had missed the most recent emails on this thread :-( IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
