Re: [Cfrg] How to circumvent the obstacles for PAKE integration into TLS // slides.

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

Here are my 5 cents:

I don’t expect PAKEs to be used for web-based scenarios as a replacement for passwords used in web-based applications.
Instead, the only use of PAKEs I had seen over the last few years was in the area of IoT as part of onboarding mechanisms.

Unless those folks developing browsers tell me that they want to put PAKEs into their browsers I would focus on the IoT use cases instead. The reason why I am saying this is because FIDO, which also tackles the password problem, looks like a much, much more promising route…

Ciao
Hannes

From: Cfrg <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Jonathan Trostle
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To: Owen Friel (ofriel) <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] How to circumvent the obstacles for PAKE integration into TLS // slides.

A good future goal is to eliminate plaintext passwords being sent over TLS.

So a future TLS implementation based on a config setting, could abort a TLS handshake if there is no preshared key authentication or certificate verify sent by the client. It seems the OPAQUE-sign option (in the TLS Opaque draft) supports this but the Exported Authenticators do not.

It seems difficult for a TLS client to know which of Exported Authenticators with OPAQUE or plaintext password over TLS is being used.

Best regards,
Jonathan

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 8:29 AM Owen Friel (ofriel) <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
Björn,

Its worth reading https://datatracker.ietf..org/doc/draft-sullivan-tls-opaque<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sullivan-tls-opaque>  which Nick presented at 104: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/slides-104-tls-slides-ietf104-tls-opaque-00. It covers both OPAQUE in the TLS handshake, and OPAQUE via Exported Authenticators https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-exported-authenticator/ at some point after TLS handshake has taken place. Its currently OPAQUE specific, but the EA model could probably be applied to other PAKEs. And finally, https://datatracker.ietf..org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-secondary-certs/<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-secondary-certs/> covers how to use EA with HTTP2.

Owen

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] How to circumvent the obstacles for PAKE integration into TLS // slides.

Dear Ben,

>To build on that, a big motivation for wanting auth at the HTTP layer
>is that most generic web servers aren't going to know *at TLS handshake
>time* whether a given client is going to need to authenticate for the
>HTTP requests that will subsequently be conveyed over that connection.

I fully agree. When saying this, I think that we might better be careful not to mix-up two aspects:

1) The human at the client side mostly wants to be sure that the server side contents are authentic, from the very beginning.
2) The server side requires authentication often only when operations with privileges are requested.

What we have here is something similar to what I'd be calling "re-authentication use-case" for password checks in a connection that is already established.

Moreover I see differences regarding the use-cases A  "End-customer-managed web servers (IoT)" and  B "Conventional Web-Shop use-cases (Web-PKI)". The main additional benefit of PAKE for use-case A is that the server-authentication (1.) above) is provided also without the need of Web-PKI integration of the server.

I think that one might best try to realize the maximum possible re-use for authentication mechanisms in both use-cases A/B. Again this might be a reason for "outsourcing" all of the user-handling related stuff outside of the main TLS body. Also for use case "B" it might be worth to consider pulling out the password handling out from the main html application. Maybe one could use the same mechanisms of a "user authentication" module that we would be using for PAKE? For doing so again some kind of channel-linked tunnel mechanism through TLS might be helpful/necessary.

Yours,

Björn.

P.S.: I have moved this discussion back to the main list. Sorry for starting this discussion with the "not yet publication-ready" slides.


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