+1 in favor of option1.

Cheers,

Andrei

From: Russ Housley <hous...@vigilsec.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2024 9:43 AM
To: Joe Salowey <j...@salowey.net>
Cc: IETF TLS <tls@ietf.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [TLS] Re: Disallowing reuse of ephemeral keys

I prefer option 1.

Russ


On Dec 12, 2024, at 12:35 PM, Joseph Salowey 
<j...@salowey.net<mailto:j...@salowey.net>> wrote:

Currently RFC 8446 (and RFC8446bis) do not forbid the reuse of ephemeral keys.  
This was the consensus of the working group during the development of TLS 1.3.  
There has been more recent discussion on the list to forbid reuse for 
ML-KEM/hybrid key exchange.  There are several possible options here:


  1.  Keep things as they are (ie. say nothing, as was done in previous TLS 
versions, to forbid the reuse of ephemeral keys) - this is the default action 
if there is no consensus

  1.  Disallow reuse for specific ciphersuites.  It doesn’t appear that there 
is any real difference in this matter between MLKEM/hybrids and ECDH here 
except that there are many more ECDH implementations (some of which may reuse a 
keyshare)

  1.  Update 8446 to disallow reuse of ephemeral keyshares in general.  This 
could be done by revising RFC 8446bis or with a separate document that updates 
RFC 8446/bis

We would like to know if there are folks who think the reuse of keyshares is 
important for HTTP or non-HTTP use cases.


Thanks,


Joe, Deirdre and Sean

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