Re: [TLS] 0-RTT and Anti-Replay

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Mon, 23 March 2015 19:30 UTC

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:29:36 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] 0-RTT and Anti-Replay
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 01:12:57PM -0500, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> If I can refer you back to the diagrams I provided in my e-mail, I
> think you'll see that this doesn't help. The issue is that the first
> time that the client's data is handled there is *no* feedback from the
> server to the client, so nothing that the server says is going to
> help.

Indeed.  If the server ever responds to the client (for that
connection), then there is feedback, but such feedback is too late, and
might never arrive (the client application times out, maybe retries).
Therefore such feedback must not be security-critical, which means that
the data sent must be more than idempotent: it must yield no meaningful
side-effects on the server-side.

Again, optimizing something like a SASL mechanism negotiation, "open
INBOX" (but not "open my-secret-design-for-xyz") -- that's fine.
Optimizing arbitrary application protocols this way is not.

This is really a security consideration, but it should come with API
design advice (since TLS lacks an abstract API).

Nico
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