Re: [kitten] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on draft-ietf-kitten-pkinit-freshness-07: (with DISCUSS)

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 20/12/16 19:43, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thanks for digging into this.  Inline.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]
>> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Kathleen, Kitten-WG:
>>
>> I read the thread on this and I think a suggestion made
>> on the kitten list [1] by Greg Hudson ought work to
>> address the valid concern that a too-short or predictable
>> freshness token could be abused.
>>
>> The suggestion was to add a new paragraph to the security
>> considerations saying:
>>
>> "If freshness tokens sent by the KDC are too short or too
>> predictable, an attacker may be able to defeat the mechanism
>> by creating signatures using every possible token value.
>> To prevent this attack, the freshness token SHOULD contain
>> a minimum of 64 unpredictable bits."
>>
>>
> Yes, that works for me, thanks.
> 

Great. So are the authors/chairs/WG ok with adding that
too? If nobody objects I'll add the RFC editor note
tomorrow and we can go from there. (There'll still be
plent of time for later objections if this is somehow
a horrible thing, but I can't see how that'd be the
case at all:-)

All going well, Kathleen can clear her discuss then
and we can give this one to the RFC editor as a very
slightly early holiday present.

Cheers,
S.

> 
>> If that works, I can add an RFC editor note to that effect
>> or the authors can fire out a new draft.
>>
>> Greg also said: "I am willing to accept an amendment changing
>> 64 to 96 or 128.  It's a SHOULD, so it doesn't really constrain
>> the implementation." And I agree that any of those numbers
>> would likely be fine.
>>
>> So:
>>
>> Kathleen - do you think that'd be sufficient to resolve your
>> discuss? If not, what would work?
>>
>> (If the above is good enough to get the discuss cleared, then
>> I'll ask for opinions from the WG as to whether there are any
>> issues with it. But please hold off for now until we see if
>> Kathleen is ok with this resolution.)
>>
>>
> Please let me know if the WG agrees or next steps.
> 
> Thank you,
> Kathleen
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> S.
>>
>> PS: Be nice to get this sorted before the holidays:-)
>>
>> [1] https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/kitten/current/msg06199.html
>>
>> On 30/11/16 02:21, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
>>> Kathleen Moriarty has entered the following ballot position for
>>> draft-ietf-kitten-pkinit-freshness-07: Discuss
>>>
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>>> DISCUSS:
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>>>
>>> Holding a discuss until the Gen-art conversation on minimum size of the
>>> fressness token resolves.  Will switch to a yes once that is resolved.
>>> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/gen-art/current/msg13942.html
>>>
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