done: https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/1219

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:36 PM Christopher Wood <c...@heapingbits.net>
wrote:

> Thanks, Martin! Perhaps we can file an issue and track this as part of
> rfc8446bis?
>
>    https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, at 4:32 PM, Martin Duke wrote:
> > After further consideration, the problem at hand is best resolved by
> > 8446, which has a generalized problem with subfield lengths that don't
> > add up to the field length. I will remove the DISCUSS
> >
> > Nevertheless, here's a PR that may help implementers avoid a problem:
> > https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-importer/pull/41
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:40 AM Martin Duke <martin.h.d...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Ekr,
> > >
> > > I appreciate that this is hard to represent in 8446 notation. Would it
> be possible to add some text in 4.1 that says "Due to the maximum size of
> the PSK extension, the external_identity and context fields MUST sum to a
> length of 2^16-5", or something to that effect?
> > >
> > > IMO, it would be unfortunate if the PSK Importer interface allowed
> parameters that result in undefined behavior on the wire.
> > >
> > > If this is unworkable or very very dumb for some other reason, I am
> willing to accept that feedback.
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:57 PM Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:39 PM Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 03:40:34PM -0800, Martin Duke via
> Datatracker wrote:
> > >>> > Martin Duke has entered the following ballot position for
> > >>> > draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-importer-06: Discuss
> > >>> >
> > >>> > When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to
> all
> > >>> > email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut
> this
> > >>> > introductory paragraph, however.)
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Please refer to
> https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html
> > >>> > for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> > >>> >
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-importer/
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>> > DISCUSS:
> > >>> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>> >
> > >>> > This is probably just my own ignorance, but I see two potential
> problems in Sec
> > >>> > 4.1.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > - 'The identity of "ipskx" as sent on the wire is
> ImportedIdentity, i.e., the
> > >>> > serialized content of ImportedIdentity is used as the  content of
> > >>> > PskIdentity.identity in the PSK extension.' IIUC ImportedIdentity
> has a maximum
> > >>> > length of 2^17 + 2. But the Identity field in the PSK option has a
> maximum
> > >>> > length of 2^16-1. I presume this never actually happens, but the
> spec should
> > >>> > handle the boundary condition, perhaps by limiting the first two
> fields of
> > >>> > Imported Identity to sum to 2^16-5 bytes or something.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'll leave this one for the authors.
> > >>
> > >> I can see how someone would want this, but in practice that's not how
> it's
> > >> generally done in TLS. Trying to compute the precise upper bounds gets
> > >> complicated very fast when there are multiple fields. We do generally
> > >> try to get the lower bound right, though even then there have been
> > >> mistakes:
> > >>
> > >> https://github.com/ekr/tls13-spec/pull/56/files
> > >>
> > >> -Ekr
>
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