Re: Packet Number Encryption outside of AEAD

Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <mikkelfj@gmail.com> Sat, 28 July 2018 13:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: Packet Number Encryption outside of AEAD
To: "Deval, Manasi" <manasi.deval@intel.com>, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>
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You can have one core with access to an input queue that does nothing but
decrypting packet numbers.
The decrypted PN’s are placed on a queue.
Meanwhile one or several other cores verify the AEAD tag and places
validation on a queue.
A third set of cores processes decryption and places decrypted packets on a
queue. High priority frames are read from the decrypted packet queue and
processed, pending tag confirmation.
A fourth set of cores deal with ACK processing and other packet number
sensitive content.

If the original receive buffer needs to be modified, you first incur the
PNE decryption delay, then you force a possibly shared cache line into
exclusive mode by writing to the buffer. The separate concurrent stages now
not only have to wait for PNE, but also for the inter-processor cache
coherency synchronisation to take effect.

For encoding there are fewer benefits, but one is that you can encrypt
buffers without deciding the packet number immediately. This might be
helpful if sending via multiple cores feeding to a final transmit process
that synchronises packet numbers and applies PNE before sending data on the
wire.


Kind Regards,
Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen


On 28 July 2018 at 15.16.03, Kazuho Oku (kazuhooku@gmail.com) wrote:

2018-07-28 7:11 GMT+09:00 Deval, Manasi <manasi.deval@intel.com>:
> About the issue of Packet Number Encryption outside of AEAD - We agree it
simplifies both hardware and software logic. It also allows the2 encryption
operations to run mostly in parallel, so it is a welcome modification.

Would you mind elaborating a bit on how the proposed change would help
parallelization?

My understanding is that it does not help parallelizing "encryption",
because the only change is if you have the cleartext PN (which is
something you can prepare beforehand) as part of the AAD.

I also do not understand how it helps parallelizing decryption in practice.

The proposed change removes cleartext PN from AAD. It sounds like that
you would then have a chance to start processing AAD for GCM. But I am
not sure if that is correct.

In the current approach, input to GCM is: GCM(first-octet || CID ||
plaintext-PN || payload).

With the proposed change, it becomes: GCM(fist-octet || CID || payload).

Because where the payload begins depends on the value of the PN being
decrypted, in both cases you have the same degree of parallelism. You
can process GCM to the end of CID, but no more.

To conclude, I do not see how the proposed change helps parallelize
the encoder or the decoder.

> Thanks,
> Manasi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QUIC [mailto:quic-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Christian Huitema
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> To: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>; Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <
mikkelfj@gmail.com>
> Cc: IETF QUIC WG <quic@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: Packet Number Encryption outside of AEAD
>
>
>
> On 7/26/2018 9:14 PM, Kazuho Oku wrote:
>> Consider the case where a sender encodes a packet number using 4
>> octets even when just using 1 octet is enough.
>>
>> An on-path attacker rewrites the packet by applying XOR 0x80 to the
>> first octet of the encrypted PN, and trimming the latter three octets
>> of the encrypted PN.
> That attack does not work, because the encoding of the PN is big-endian.
> The actual packet number is in the fourth octet. Or rather, it only
> works in the special case where the PN is 0.
>
> -- Christian Huitema
>



-- 
Kazuho Oku