Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv
mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Tue, 28 January 2014 00:17 UTC
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:17:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv
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Bodo Moeller wrote: > Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com>: >> >> We should consider whether we can define a single SCSV that a >> client issues when it thinks a server is extension intolerant. >> >> Such an SCSV could be used in conjunction with a normal extension >> used for downgrade protection, if the client gets pushed all the >> way back to TLSv1.0 without extensions, or to SSLv3. >> >> This approach could solve the problem of desiring more SCSVs in >> the future. > > Hm, that would mean having the SCSV for special-case downgrade protection > (extension intolerance) and an extension for general-case downgrade > protection (when extension intolerance is not an issue). That means > requiring more code to be added to servers (to *all* servers, since these > mechanisms only work as intended if all servers support them). But you _are_ aware that your proposal is vitally dependent that the TLS server puts a fatal SSL alert on the wire before closing the connection? Historically, (close to) all applications running on top of Microsoft SChannel (including MSIE client and IIS server) do not send any fatal alerts before closing connections, because they use a transport-free API (Microsoft SSPI, similar to GSS-API) to their TLS implementation, and the application code does not support (a) processing a fatal error messages and (b) sending tokens over the network at the same time. It's basically the same reason why the forwarding of error tokens and outputs of "gss_delete_sec_context()" was deprecated in GSS-API v2 -- because most apps will simple refuse to do it. It would not be possible to hide such a change in behaviour (writing a fatal alert to the network before closing the connection) within SChannel, it would also require a change to at least Microsoft IIS. How likely is that going to happen? (It's been the way it is not for the last ~14 years...). Which server implementers are eager to send such a fatal alert as is contained in this proposal anyway? I will certainly ensure that our server implementation will NEVER grow such silly behaviour. -Martin
- [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-do… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Ben Laurie
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Kurt Roeckx
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Rob Stradling
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Rob Stradling
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Thomson
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Ben Laurie
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Kurt Roeckx
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Daniel Kahn Gillmor
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Geoffrey Keating
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Daniel Kahn Gillmor
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bill Frantz
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yngve N. Pettesen
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… t.petch
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Andrei Popov
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Russ Housley
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Bodo Möller
- Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tl… Yngve N. Pettersen