Re: [rtcweb] Security Architecture -07 review

Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> Fri, 26 July 2013 00:00 UTC

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On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 July 2013 14:54, Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> However, the cookie issue is still a problem.  Removing the
>>> certificate and key pair when cookies are cleared is necessary.
>> 
>> Wrapping the DTLS handshake inside a DH exchange would achieve both goals (preventing a super-cookie from being passively observed, as well as giving key continuity).
> 
> For passive observers, yes, but I'm not that concerned about them.
> After all, they are seeing the flow, so can make all sorts of
> inferences based on the flow addressing.

But that doesn't mean we should purposefully leak even more information at another layer.

> The concern is the first party, who gets the certificate.  Using DH
> isn't going to fix that.

Then you're arguing for "endpoint MUST NOT change its certificate".

-d