Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-ecrit-additional-data

Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> Wed, 16 September 2015 17:58 UTC

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Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-ecrit-additional-
At 10:31 AM -0700 9/16/15, Magnus Nyström wrote:

Just a personal remark: BCP 195 still allows earlier versions of TLS, even TLS 1.0. I felt that for a new application like this, one could go stronger. Maybe  a combo - where you rely on BCP 195 but mandate TLS 1.2 (or later)?


And not mention CBC?



On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
At 7:38 AM +0000 9/16/15, stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie wrote:
 On Wed Sep 16 04:09:03 2015 GMT+0100, Magnus Nyström wrote:
 Yes, at least mandating TLS 1.2 or higher and recommending as per above
 seems reasonable.
 The references for the GCM suites would be RFC 5288 and RFC 5289.

 BCP195 has recent recommendations for most TLS options. I'd say it'd be best to use those or if not figure out why they're not correct for this context.

Just to be clear: are you suggesting that we replace text suggested by Magnus:

   TLS MUST be version 1.2 or later.  It is RECOMMENDED to use only
   cypher suites that offer Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) and avoid
   Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), for example,
   TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
   TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
   TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
   TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
   TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
   TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 [RFC5288] [RFC5289].

With this:

   TLS MUST be version 1.2 or later.  It is RECOMMENDED follow
   [BCP195].


Note that BCP 195 does not address CBC (but does discuss PFS).  I just want to be clear before making the change, so please confirm that this works.

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