Re: [MLS] AEAD data in messages

Jeff Burdges <burdges@gnunet.org> Tue, 13 August 2019 06:24 UTC

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> On 13 Aug 2019, at 01:15, Peter Slatala <psla=2Bmls=40google.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> I was wondering if you considered allowing additional plaintext but authenticated data in MLS messages.

It’d be outside the header encryption, making the AEAD would be the header encryption?

How would the delivery service authenticate it?

> Here are some use-cases for MLS that I can think of:
> * sending a 'sending device identifier' in case if delivery service can't differentiate different user devices from each other.

I’d hope the delivery service does not care too much to which device it communicates.

> * sending 'message type' that server can act upon. For example, delivery report sent by the recipient to the sender, which also acts as an ACK to the server that the message was persisted.

> * authenticating message id (but make it visible to server to avoid redelivery),

ACKs and message ids should often be done fully encrypted, but yeah making one ACK or message id notify both the delivery service and the end user makes sense in some use cases.

Jeff