Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sipcore-sip-push-21

Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com> Thu, 03 January 2019 11:29 UTC

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From: Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com>
To: "Scott G. Kelly" <scott@hyperthought.com>, "secdir@ietf.org" <secdir@ietf.org>, "iesg@ietf.org" <iesg@ietf.org>, "draft-ietf-sipcore-sip-push.all@ietf.org" <draft-ietf-sipcore-sip-push.all@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sipcore-sip-push-21
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Hi Scott,


Thank You for the review! Please see inline.


>The summary of the review is ready with issues.
>
>The document describes how to enable a push notification service (PNS) to
>wake a suspended SIP user agent.
>
>Due to the writing style, I found the document very difficult to understand. Maybe
>the RFC editor can help with this, but it might be better if someone from the working
>group helped out with word-smithing.

I have done quite a bit of word-smithing based on WGLC/AD reviews etc, but if something is unclear I am of course very happy to fix that.

>For security considerations, there are 3 entities involved in the communications defined by this document: the >user agent (UA), the PNS server, and the application server (in this case, a SIP proxy). The basic idea is that the >UA registers with the PNS, obtaining a Push Resource ID (PRID). The UA provides the PRID to the SIP proxy, and >then the SIP proxy presents the PRID to the PNS along with a message for the UA, and the PNS uses the PRID to >route the message to the right UA.

Correct.

Note, though, that the "message" is only a push notification in order to wake up the UA. The actual SIP message (that triggered the push notification) will then be routed to the UA using normal SIP procedures.

>The security considerations section mostly punts. With respect to UA-PNS interactions, it says "The mechanisms >for authorizing and authenticating the users are PNS-specific, and are outside the scope of this document." It >says nothing about how the UA authenticates the PNS.

The UA-PNS interactions, including how the UA authenticates the PNS, are PNS specific.

>For application server (SIP proxy) to PNS interactions, it mentions the fact that a PNS may requires some sort of >authz/authn for the SIP proxy, but it gives no requirements/recommendations here. It later mentions a JWT >mechanism for this purposes described in RFC8292, but again, no requirement, no recommendation.

The proxy-PNS interactions are also PNS specific, and not defined by this document. RFC8292 is an extension that can be used with the mechanism defined in RFC8030, but it cannot be applied to any PNS on the fly. A PNS would have to explicitly support it.

>Also, it says
>
  > Operators MUST ensure that the SIP signalling is properly secured,
   > e.g., using encryption, from malicious middlemen.  TLS MUST be used,
   > unless the operators know that the signalling is secured using some
   > other mechanism.
>
>I don't think there is a clear requirement stated here. If an operator chooses a proprietary
>scheme with weak crypto and claims that is "properly secured", have they met this requirement?

I could say something like: "is secured using some other mechanism that provides strong crypto properties".

>Finally, I think RFC8030 has a good description of the security considerations for this use case, and
>should be referenced here.

I can add a reference. However, while many of the security considerations in RFC8030 probably apply to any PNS, they are still written for a specific PNS.

Regards,

Christesr