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

"Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com> Tue, 30 October 2018 01:41 UTC

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From: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>
To: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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Because distributing public keys is easier.
Private keys don't need to be distributed. They stay inside the machine that generates them.

Distributing and safe guarding symmetric keys is a major hassle.

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 6:22 PM, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com<mailto:jheitz@cisco.com>> wrote:

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.

You’d have to find a way to specify the use of private and public keys on both sides, in advance, and distribute enough for the upcoming connections - then you’d have to hash into that list in a way that avoids reuse. At that point, why not just distribute symmetric keys and be done with it?

Joe

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<mailto:touch@strayalpha.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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