Re: [tcpm] public-private keys for TCP-AO

"Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com> Tue, 30 October 2018 01:22 UTC

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From: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] public-private keys for TCP-AO
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Can you think of a way to do it that will work?
Like the KDF is just a static list or something.
The sender generates a set of key pairs and numbers them.
It then puts the list of public keys into a file and distributes them to all receivers in the clear.
The KDF is just to index into this file.

Because the use case, at least, makes sense.

Regards,
Jakob.

From: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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To: Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] public-private keys for TCP-AO




On Oct 29, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com<mailto:jheitz@cisco.com>> wrote:

Why was there not a public-private key algorithm specified for TCP-AO? Or did I miss it?

There has not been. I doubt it would make sense (see below).


For example ECC.
An MKT can specify a private key for the sender and a public key for the receivers.

Yes, but the MKT is derived into public/private keys using a KDF.

I am not aware of a KDF that can take a private key and generate a derived private key that would work with a correspondingly derived public key generated from the corresponding public key.

To use, the sender will hash the data, encrypt the hash and put the result into the MAC field.
The receiver would decrypt the MAC field, then hash the data and verify the hash against the decrypted MAC.
This way, the private key never needs to be exposed to anyone, simplifying key management.
Is there any objection to getting this done?

See above; it doesn’t make sense with the way TCP-AO derives keys for each connection, AFAICT.

Joe



Regards,
Jakob.

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