The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
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Richard Barnes
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Benjamin Beurdouche
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Jon Millican
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Emad Omara
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Katriel Cohn-Gordon
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Raphael Robert
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Network Working Group R. Barnes
Internet-Draft Cisco
Intended status: Informational B. Beurdouche
Expires: June 25, 2021 Inria
J. Millican
Facebook
E. Omara
Google
K. Cohn-Gordon
University of Oxford
R. Robert
Wire
December 22, 2020
The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
draft-ietf-mls-protocol-11
Abstract
Messaging applications are increasingly making use of end-to-end
security mechanisms to ensure that messages are only accessible to
the communicating endpoints, and not to any servers involved in
delivering messages. Establishing keys to provide such protections
is challenging for group chat settings, in which more than two
clients need to agree on a key but may not be online at the same
time. In this document, we specify a key establishment protocol that
provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment with forward
secrecy and post-compromise security for groups in size ranging from
two to thousands.
Status of This Memo
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This Internet-Draft will expire on June 25, 2021.
Barnes, et al. Expires June 25, 2021 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft MLS December 2020
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3. Basic Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Ratchet Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.1. Tree Computation Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2. Ratchet Tree Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3. Views of a Ratchet Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.4. Ratchet Tree Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.5. Synchronizing Views of the Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6. Cryptographic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.1. Ciphersuites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.2. Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7. Key Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.1. Client Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
7.2. Lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.3. KeyPackage Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.4. Parent Hash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.4.1. Using Parent Hashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.4.2. Verifying Parent Hashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7.5. Tree Hashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.6. Group State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.7. Update Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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