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TLS 1.3 Extended Key Schedule
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draft-jhoyla-tls-extended-key-schedule-01
jhoyla                                                        J. Hoyland
Internet-Draft                                           Cloudflare Ltd.
Intended status: Standards Track                               C.A. Wood
Expires: 10 September 2020                                   Apple, Inc.
                                                            9 March 2020

                     TLS 1.3 Extended Key Schedule
               draft-jhoyla-tls-extended-key-schedule-01

Abstract

   TLS 1.3 is sometimes used in situations where it is necessary to
   inject extra key material into the handshake.  This draft aims to
   describe methods for doing so securely.  This key material must be
   injected in such a way that both parties agree on what is being
   injected and why, and further, in what order.

Note to Readers

   Discussion of this document takes place on the TLS Working Group
   mailing list (tls@ietf.org), which is archived at
   https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/tls/
   (https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/tls/).

   Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
   https://github.com/jhoyla/draft-jhoyla-tls-key-injection
   (https://github.com/jhoyla/draft-jhoyla-tls-key-injection).

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Key Schedule Extension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Handshake Secret Injection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  Master Secret Injection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Key Schedule Extension Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

1.  Introduction

   Introducing additional key material into the TLS handshake is a non-
   trivial process because both parties need to agree on the injection
   content and context.  If the two parties do not agree then an
   attacker may exploit the mismatch in so-called channel
   synchronization attacks.

   Injecting key material into the TLS handshake allows other protocols
   to be bound to the handshake.  For example, it may provide additional
   protections to the ClientHello message, which in the standard TLS
   handshake only receives protections after the server's Finished
   message has been received.  It may also permit the use of combined
   shared secrets, possibly from multiple key exchange algorithms, to be
   included in the key schedule.  This pattern is common for Post
   Quantum key exchange algorithms, as discussed in
   [I-D.stebila-tls-hybrid-design].

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2.  Conventions and Definitions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Key Schedule Extension

   This section describes two places in which additional secrets can be
   injected into the TLS 1.3 key schedule.

3.1.  Handshake Secret Injection

   To inject key material into the Handshake Secret it is recommended to
   use an extra derive secret.

                |
                v
          Derive-Secret(., "derived early", "")
                |
                v
       Input -> HKDF-Extract
                |
                v
          Derive-Secret(., "derived", "")
                |
                v
     (EC)DHE -> HKDF-Extract = Handshake Secret
                |
                v

   As shown in the figure above, the key schedule has an extra derive
   secret and HKDF-Extract step.  This extra step isolates the Input
   material from the rest of the handshake secret, such that even
   maliciously chosen values cannot weaken the security of the key
   schedule overall.

   The additional Derive-Secret with the "derived early" label enforces
   the separation of the key schedule from vanilla TLS handshakes,
   because HKDFs can be assumed to ensure that keys derived with
   different labels are independent.

3.2.  Master Secret Injection

   To inject key material into the Master Secret it is recommended to
   use an extra derive secret.

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                |
                v
          Derive-Secret(., "derived early", "")
                |
                v
       Input -> HKDF-Extract
                |
                v
          Derive-Secret(., "derived", "")
                |
                v
       0 -> HKDF-Extract = Master Secret
                |
                v

   This structrue mirrors the Handshake Injection point, the key
   schedule has an extra Extract, Derive-Secret pattern.  This, again,
   should isolate the Input material from the rest of the Master Secret.

4.  Key Schedule Extension Structure

   In some cases, protocols may require more than one secret to be
   injected at a particular stage in the key schedule.  Thus, we require
   a generic and extensible way of doing so.  To accomplish this, we use
   a structure - KeyScheduleInput - that encodes well-ordered sequences
   of secret material to inject into the key schedule.  KeyScheduleInput
   is defined as follows:

   struct {
       KeyScheduleSecretType type;
       opaque secret_data<0..2^16-1>;
   } KeyScheduleSecret;

   enum {
       (65535)
   } KeyScheduleSecretType;

   struct {
       KeyScheduleSecret secrets<0..2^16-1>;
   } KeyScheduleInput;

   Each secret included in a KeyScheduleInput structure has a type and
   corresponding secret data.  Each secret MUST have a unique
   KeyScheduleSecretType.  When encoding KeyScheduleInput as the key
   schedule Input value, the KeyScheduleSecret values MUST be in
   ascending sorted order.  This ensures that endpoints always encode
   the same KeyScheduleInput value when using the same secret keying
   material.

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5.  Security Considerations

   [[OPEN ISSUE: This draft has not seen any security analysis.]]

6.  IANA Considerations

   [[TODO: define secret registry structure]]

7.  References

7.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

7.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.stebila-tls-hybrid-design]
              Steblia, D., Fluhrer, S., and S. Gueron, "Hybrid key
              exchange in TLS 1.3", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-stebila-tls-hybrid-design-03, 12 February 2020,
              <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-stebila-tls-
              hybrid-design-03.txt>.

Acknowledgments

   We thank Karthik Bhargavan for his comments.

Authors' Addresses

   Jonathan Hoyland
   Cloudflare Ltd.

   Email: jonathan.hoyland@gmail.com

   Christopher A. Wood
   Apple, Inc.

   Email: cawood@apple.com

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