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Re: [tcpinc] Adam Roach's Yes on draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt-09: (with COMMENT)

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Fri, 17 November 2017 03:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Adam Roach's Yes on draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt-09: (with COMMENT)
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On 11/17/17 11:17, Daniel B Giffin wrote:
> Is your concern that these two peers can get "stuck" in a
> state where they repeatedly fail a mutual attempt at
> resumption, thus forever falling back to no encryption?
>
> In the case of a hash-collision of resumption identifiers,
> it seems we don't get stuck because the active opener will
> advance to the next session secret on the next connection:
>
> 	When proposing resumption, the active opener MUST use the lowest value
> 	of `i` that has not already been used (successfully or not) to
> 	negotiate resumption with the same host and for the same pre-session
> 	key `ss[0]`.
>

Ah, you're right -- this will prevent issues with hash collisions. I 
suppose there's still a small chance of this situation arising due to 
implementation errors, but I suspect it's not worth decreasing the 
incidence of resumption to account for those.

/a

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