Network Working Group                                         J. Salowey
Internet-Draft                                       Cisco Systems, Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track                                T. Petch
Expires: August 8, 2010                         Engineering Networks Ltd
                                                             R. Gerhards
                                                            Adiscon GmbH
                                                                 H. Feng
                                                        February 4, 2010


 Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog
                     draft-ietf-syslog-dtls-01.txt

Abstract

   This document describes the transport of syslog messages over DTLS
   (Datagram Transport Level Security).  It provides a secure transport
   for syslog messages in cases where a connection-less transport is
   desired.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4

   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5

   3.  Security Requirements for Syslog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6

   4.  Using DTLS to Secure Syslog  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7

   5.  Protocol Elements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     5.1.  Transport  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     5.2.  Port Assignment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     5.3.  Initiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       5.3.1.  Certificate-Based Authentication . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     5.4.  Sending data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       5.4.1.  Message Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     5.5.  Closure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

   6.  Security Policies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

   7.  IANA Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     8.1.  Cryptographic Level  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

   9.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

   10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17


















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1.  Introduction

   The Syslog protocol [RFC5424] is designed to run over different
   transports for different environments.  Syslog over TLS [RFC5425]
   provides a combination of TCP transport reliability with TLS security
   [RFC5246].

   However, TCP performance can be a problem when a network has a high
   rate of lost packets.  In these circumstances, an operator might
   prefer using UDP to TCP as transport.  Transmission of Syslog
   Messages over UDP [RFC5426] defines how to provide unreliable, non-
   secure datagram transport for SYSLOG.

   The datagram transport layer security protocol (DTLS) [RFC4347] is
   designed to meet the requirements of applications that need secure
   datagram transport, by combining UDP transport with TLS security.
   DTLS has been mapped onto different transports (i.e.  UDP [RFC0768]
   and DCCP [RFC4340] ), to secure syslog in more situations.

   As the Internet best runs on the basis of appropriate resource
   sharing, SYSLOG over DTLS over DCCP [RFC5238] is defined in this
   document.  For systems where DCCP is either not available or not
   usable (such as the aforementioned situation), DTLS over UDP is also
   defined.  In those circumstances where reliability or ordering is
   important, SYSLOG over TLS is appropriate.  Syslog over TLS does not
   provide application layer acknowledgements and therefore is not a
   fully reliable solution.
























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2.  Terminology

   The following definitions from [RFC5424] are used in this document:

   o  An "originator" generates syslog content to be carried in a
      message.

   o  A "collector" gathers syslog content for further analysis.

   o  A "relay" forwards messages, accepting messages from originators
      or other relays, and sending them to collectors or other relays.

   o  A "transport sender" passes SYSLOG messages to a specific
      transport protocol.

   o  A "transport receiver" takes SYSLOG messages from a specific
      transport protocol.

   This document adds the following definitions:

      A "DTLS client" is an application that can initiate a DTLS Client
      Hello to a server.

      A "DTLS server" is an application that can receive a Client Hello
      from a client and reply with a Server Hello.

   The term "connection" used in this document is used to refer to a
   secure association between transport sender and transport receiver
   that permits the transmission of one or more SYSLOG messages within
   the lifetime of the connection.

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

















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3.  Security Requirements for Syslog

   Syslog messages are secured in a hop-by-hop manner.  The security
   requirements for Syslog are discussed in [RFC5425].

   The following secondary threat is also considered in this document:

   o  Denial of Service.  Denial of service is discussed in [RFC5424],
      which states that an attacker may send more messages to a
      transport receiver than the transport receiver could handle.  When
      using a secure transport protocol handshake, an attacker may use a
      spoofed IP source to engage the server in a cryptographic
      handshake to deliberately consume the server's resources.






































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4.  Using DTLS to Secure Syslog

   DTLS can be used as a secure transport to counter all the primary
   threats to SYSLOG described in [RFC5425]:

   o  Confidentiality to counter disclosure of the message contents.

   o  Integrity checking to counter modifications to a message on a hop-
      by-hop basis.

   o  Server or mutual authentication to counter masquerade.

   In addition DTLS also provides:

   o  A cookie exchange mechanism during handshake to counter Denial of
      Service attacks

   o  A sequence number in the header to counter replay attacks.

   Note: This secure transport (i.e., DTLS) only secures syslog
   transport in a hop-by-hop manner, and is not concerned with the
   contents of syslog messages.  In particular, the authenticated
   identity of the transport sender (e.g., subject name in the
   certificate) is not necessarily related to the HOSTNAME field of the
   syslog message.  When authentication of syslog message origin is
   required, [I-D.ietf-syslog-sign] can be used.

























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5.  Protocol Elements

5.1.  Transport

   DTLS can run over multiple transports.  Implementations of this
   specification MUST support DTLS over UDP and SHOULD support DTLS over
   DCCP [RFC5238].  Transports, such as UDP or DCCP do not provide
   session multiplexing and session-demultiplexing.  In such cases, the
   application implementer provides this functionality by mapping a
   unique combination of the remote address, remote port number, local
   address and local port number to a session.

   Each SYSLOG message is delivered by the DTLS record protocol, which
   assigns a sequence number to each DTLS record.  Although the DTLS
   implementer may adopt a queue mechanism to resolve reordering, it may
   not assure that all the messages delivered in order when mapping on
   UDP transport.

   When DTLS runs over an unreliable transport such as UDP reliability
   is not provided.  With DTLS, an originator or relay may not realize
   that a collector has gone down or lost its connection state so
   messages may be lost.

   When TCP is used syslog over DTLS MUST NOT be used.  If a secure
   transport is required with TCP then the appropriate mechanism is
   syslog over TLS.

5.2.  Port Assignment

   A SYSLOG transport sender is always a DTLS client and a transport
   receiver is always a DTLS server.

   The UDP and DCCP port [TBD] has been allocated as the default port
   for syslog over DTLS as defined in this document.

5.3.  Initiation

   The transport sender initiates a DTLS connection by sending a DTLS
   Client Hello to the transport receiver.  Implementations MUST support
   the denial of service countermeasures defined by DTLS.  When these
   countermeasures are enabled, the transport receiver responds with a
   DTLS Hello Verify Request containing a cookie.  The transport sender
   responds with a DTLS Client Hello containing the received cookie
   which initiates the DTLS handshake.  When the DTLS handshake has
   finished, the transport sender MAY then send the first syslog
   message.

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   Implementations MUST support DTLS 1.1 [RFC4347] and MUST support the
   mandatory to implement cipher suite, which is
   TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA.

5.3.1.  Certificate-Based Authentication

   Both syslog transport sender (DTLS client) and syslog transport
   receiver (DTLS server) MUST implement certificate-based
   authentication.  This consists of validating the certificate and
   verifying that the peer has the corresponding private key.  The
   latter part is performed by DTLS.  To ensure interoperability between
   clients and servers, the methods for certificate validation defined
   in [RFC5425] SHALL be implemented.

   Both transport receiver and transport sender implementations MUST
   provide means to generate a key pair and self-signed certificate in
   the case that a key pair and certificate are not available through
   another mechanism.

   The transport receiver and transport sender SHOULD provide mechanisms
   to record the end-entity certificate for the purpose of correlating
   it with the sent or received data.

5.4.  Sending data

   All syslog messages MUST be sent as DTLS "application data".  It is
   possible that multiple syslog messages be contained in one DTLS
   record, or that a syslog message be transferred in multiple DTLS
   records.  The application data is defined with the following ABNF
   [RFC5234] expression:

   APPLICATION-DATA = 1*SYSLOG-FRAME

   SYSLOG-FRAME = MSG-LEN SP SYSLOG-MSG

   MSG-LEN = NONZERO-DIGIT *DIGIT

   SP = %d32

   NONZERO-DIGIT = %d49-57

   DIGIT = %d48 / NONZERO-DIGIT

   SYSLOG-MSG is defined in syslog [RFC5424] protocol.







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5.4.1.  Message Size

   The message length is the octet count of the SYSLOG-MSG in the
   SYSLOG-FRAME.  A transport receiver MUST use the message length to
   delimit a syslog message.  There is no upper limit for a message
   length per se.  As stated in [RFC4347], each DTLS record must fit
   within a single DTLS datagram.  When mapping onto different
   transports, DTLS has different record size limitations.  The
   application implementer SHOULD determine the maximum record size
   allowed by DTLS protocol running over the transport in use.  The
   message size SHOULD NOT exceed the DTLS maximum record size
   limitation of 2^14 bytes.

5.5.  Closure

   A transport sender MUST close the associated DTLS connection if the
   connection is not expected to deliver any syslog messages later.  It
   MUST send a DTLS close_notify alert before closing the connection.  A
   transport sender (DTLS client) MAY choose to not wait for the
   transport receiver's close_notify alert and simply close the
   connection.  Once the transport receiver gets a close_notify from the
   transport sender, it MUST reply with a close_notify.

   When no data is received from a connection for a long time (where the
   application decides what "long" means), a transport receiver MAY
   close the connection.  The transport receiver (DTLS server) MUST
   attempt to initiate an exchange of close_notify alerts with the
   transport sender before closing the connection.  Transport receivers
   that are unprepared to receive any more data MAY close the connection
   after sending the close_notify alert.

   Although closure alerts form part of DTLS, they, like all alerts, are
   not retransmitted by DTLS and so may be lost over an unreliable
   network.

















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6.  Security Policies

   Syslog transport over DTLS has been designed to minimize the security
   and operational differences for environments where both [RFC5425] and
   SYSLOG over DTLS are supported.  The security policies for SYSLOG
   over DTLS are the same as those described in [RFC5425].













































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7.  IANA Consideration

   IANA is requested to assign a registered UDP and DCCP port number for
   SYSLOG over DTLS.  The same value as for Syslog over TLS (6514) is
   requested.














































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8.  Security Considerations

   The security considerations in [RFC5425], [RFC5246] and [RFC4347]
   apply to this document.

8.1.  Cryptographic Level

   Syslog applications SHOULD be implemented in a manner that permits
   administrators, as a matter of local policy, to select the
   cryptographic level and authentication options they desire.  An
   exiting DTLS session MUST NOT be reused if its protection does not
   match the minimum policy requirements of the new SYSLOG over DTLS
   session request.






































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9.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Wes Hardaker for his review on this
   proposal and contributing his valuable suggestions on the use of
   DTLS.  Thanks also to Pasi Eronen, David Harrington and Eliot Lear
   and members of the Syslog working group for their comments,
   suggestions and review.












































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10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

   [RFC0768]  Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
              August 1980.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC4340]  Kohler, E., Handley, M., and S. Floyd, "Datagram
              Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 4340, March 2006.

   [RFC4347]  Rescorla, E. and N. Modadugu, "Datagram Transport Layer
              Security", RFC 4347, April 2006.

   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
              Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.

   [RFC5238]  Phelan, T., "Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) over
              the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)",
              RFC 5238, May 2008.

   [RFC5246]  Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.

   [RFC5280]  Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
              (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.

   [RFC5424]  Gerhards, R., "The Syslog Protocol", RFC 5424, March 2009.

   [RFC5425]  Miao, F., Ma, Y., and J. Salowey, "Transport Layer
              Security (TLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog", RFC 5425,
              March 2009.

   [RFC5426]  Okmianski, A., "Transmission of Syslog Messages over UDP",
              RFC 5426, March 2009.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-syslog-sign]
              Kelsey, J., Callas, J., and A. Clemm, "Signed syslog
              Messages", draft-ietf-syslog-sign-29 (work in progress),
              December 2009.

   [RFC2914]  Floyd, S., "Congestion Control Principles", BCP 41,



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              RFC 2914, September 2000.

   [RFC5405]  Eggert, L. and G. Fairhurst, "Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines
              for Application Designers", BCP 145, RFC 5405,
              November 2008.














































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Authors' Addresses

   Joseph Salowey
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   2901 3rd. Ave
   Seattle, WA  98121
   USA

   Email: jsalowey@cisco.com


   Tom Petch
   Engineering Networks Ltd
   18 Parkwood Close
   Lymm, Cheshire  WA13 0NQ
   UK

   Email: tomSecurity@network-engineer.co.uk


   Rainer Gerhards
   Adiscon GmbH
   Mozartstrasse 21
   Grossrinderfeld, BW  97950
   Germany

   Email: rgerhards@adiscon.com


   Hongyan. Feng

   Email: fhyfeng@gmail.com



















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