Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-10

[Hervé Ruellan <[e-mail]>]

I tried to integrate all these comments, as well as those of Martin on 
GitHub into: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/704

Hervé.

On 01/23/2015 05:51 PM, Black, David wrote:
> This sort of guidance will definitely be a useful addition.   A little
> more wordsmithing on Stephen's proposed text follows:
>
>    The decision on whether a header field is ok to
>    compress or
>    not is highly dependent on the context. As a generic
>    guidance, header fields used for conveying highly valued
>    information, such as the Authorization or Cookie header
>    fields, can be considered to be on the more sensitive
>    side. In addition, a header field with a short value
>    has potentially a smaller entropy and can be more at
>    risk. We know that compressing low-entropy sensitive
>    header fields can create vulnerabilities so such
>    cases are most likely the ones to not compress today.
>    Note though that the criteria to apply here may evolve
>    over time as we gain knowledge of new attacks.
>
>
> OLD
>    We know that compressing low-entropy sensitive
>    header fields can create vulnerabilities so such
>    cases are most likely the ones to not compress today.
>    Note though that the criteria to apply here may evolve
>    over time as we gain knowledge of new attacks.
> NEW
>    We currently know that compressing low-entropy sensitive
>    header fields can create vulnerabilities so compression
>    of such fields ought to be avoided.
>    This guidance may evolve
>    over time as we gain knowledge of new attacks.
>
> Thanks,
> --David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Farrell [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 10:45 AM
>> To: Jari Arkko; Hervé Ruellan
>> Cc: Martin Thomson; Black, David; [e-mail]; General Area Review Team
>> ([e-mail]); [e-mail]; [e-mail]
>> Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-httpbis-
>> header-compression-10
>>
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>> On 23/01/15 15:35, Jari Arkko wrote:
>>>
>>>> I made a proposal at
>>>> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/704
>>>
>>> Looked reasonable to me.
>>
>> Me too. Quibbling, I'd suggest:
>>
>> OLD:
>>
>>   The decision on whether a header field is sensitive or
>>   not is highly dependent on the context. As a generic
>>   guidance, header fields used for conveying highly valued
>>   information, such as the Authorization or Cookie header
>>   fields, can be considered to be on the more sensitive
>>   side. In addition, a header field with a short value
>>   has potentially a smaller entropy and can be more at
>>   risk.
>>
>> NEW:
>>
>>   The decision on whether a header field is ok to
>>   compress or
>>   not is highly dependent on the context. As a generic
>>   guidance, header fields used for conveying highly valued
>>   information, such as the Authorization or Cookie header
>>   fields, can be considered to be on the more sensitive
>>   side. In addition, a header field with a short value
>>   has potentially a smaller entropy and can be more at
>>   risk. We know that compressing low-entropy sensitive
>>   header fields can create vulnerabilities so such
>>   cases are most likely the ones to not compress today.
>>   Note though that the criteria to apply here may evolve
>>   over time as we gain knowledge of new attacks.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> S.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> jari
>>>
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