Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
RFC 7525
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(May 2015; Errata)
Also known as BCP 195
Was draft-ietf-uta-tls-bcp (uta WG)
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Authors | Yaron Sheffer , Ralph Holz , Peter Saint-Andre | ||
Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
Replaces | draft-sheffer-tls-bcp | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Orit Levin | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2015-01-12) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7525 (Best Current Practice) | |
Action Holders |
(None)
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Stephen Farrell | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Y. Sheffer Request for Comments: 7525 Intuit BCP: 195 R. Holz Category: Best Current Practice NICTA ISSN: 2070-1721 P. Saint-Andre &yet May 2015 Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Abstract Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) are widely used to protect data exchanged over application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, SIP, and XMPP. Over the last few years, several serious attacks on TLS have emerged, including attacks on its most commonly used cipher suites and their modes of operation. This document provides recommendations for improving the security of deployed services that use TLS and DTLS. The recommendations are applicable to the majority of use cases. Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7525. Sheffer, et al. Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 7525 TLS Recommendations May 2015 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Sheffer, et al. Best Current Practice [Page 2] RFC 7525 TLS Recommendations May 2015 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. General Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Protocol Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.1. SSL/TLS Protocol Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.2. DTLS Protocol Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.3. Fallback to Lower Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2. Strict TLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3. Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4. TLS Session Resumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.5. TLS Renegotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.6. Server Name Indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. Recommendations: Cipher Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.1. General Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2. Recommended Cipher Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.2.1. Implementation Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.3. Public Key Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.4. Modular Exponential vs. Elliptic Curve DH Cipher Suites . 13 4.5. Truncated HMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5. Applicability Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.1. Security Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.2. Opportunistic Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6.1. Host Name Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6.2. AES-GCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 6.3. Forward Secrecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 6.4. Diffie-Hellman Exponent Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 6.5. Certificate Revocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Show full document text