Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness
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From: "Hale, Britta (CIV)" <britta.hale@nps.edu>
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Subject: Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness
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I am trying to understand the threat model we are working with on this. When trying to protect against bad randomness, the goal would seem to be to protect a receiver against potentially bad randomness from the sender. However, if receiver would not notice if the sender took the correct steps, then they do not have any guarantee - in fact, a sender could just incorrectly implement this without breaking functionality and no one would be the wiser that the bad-randomness protection has been lost (if I understand the proposal correctly). So is the goal to protect the sender from their own bad randomness, or to protect an unaware receiver, in the event that the sender actually behaves correctly? There can still be a gain from such a change, but it seems to be a far weaker guarantee if there is no awareness at the receiver. We also need to be careful in the differentiation of leaking state to the adversary, which may well reveal the entire current state, and a bad random generator. -- Britta On 4/22/20, 5:48 AM, "MLS on behalf of Joel Alwen" <mls-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of jalwen@wickr.com> wrote: Hey Konrad! On 22/04/2020 21:24, Konrad Kohbrok wrote: > One way to keep it transparent for the receiver (if that is indeed what we want) > would be for the updating party to include the previous epoch's path_secret[0] > when creating a fresh path_secret[0] and then KDF'ing up the tree as before. In > other words, follow your MLS specific suggestion, but only for the leaf secrets. > Since that is (I think?) the only place new randomness comes into the tree > anyway, it would have about the same effect, wouldn't it? Also, it would be a > minor change to the protocol and the receiver wouldn't even notice if the sender > did it (for better or worse). I like that this is less invasive in terms of changes. (Though IMO its actually a Pro not a Con that functionality breaks when you don't implement any given defense correctly, including those against bad randomness.) One nit: better to derive something off of the old path_secret[0] and use that rather than use path_secret[0] directly. Don't want to keep path_secret[0] around after a commit (bad for FS of TreeKEM / PCFS of MLS). I do think that using only path_secret[0] defends a bit less though. E.g. say Alice & Bob are siblings (and everything is delivered & process immediately). Here's an execution. 1) Alice commits. 2) Leak Alice's state to adversary. 3) Bob commits. 4) Alice commits with bad randomness. Mixing in only something from path_secret[0] means all keys in commit (4) are now bad. But mixing in something from old path_secret[n] for new pub/priv key n means all but her leaf are now good keys. - Joël _______________________________________________ MLS mailing list MLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mls
- [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Joel Alwen
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Christopher Wood
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Richard Barnes
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Joel Alwen
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Konrad Kohbrok
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Joel Alwen
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Hale, Britta (CIV)
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Joel Alwen
- Re: [MLS] hardening MLS against bad randomness Hale, Britta (CIV)