[TLS] IANA questions (was Re: changes to draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-09)

Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com> Fri, 15 May 2015 09:43 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] IANA questions (was Re: changes to draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-09)
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During the review process, IANA regularly verifies that they understand what they’re do wrt any IANA assignments noted in the IANA considerations section.  Their questions got us to thinking about the following two points:

1. Currently the registry in which the FFDHE groups will be added is named "EC Named Curve Registry.”  Now that we’re adding DH groups into that registry it would be clearer if it were renamed “Supported Groups Registry”.  This change does not affect interoperability, it only impacts the name of the registry.  We can also get them to add a note that indicates this registry was renamed, i.e., “Renamed from EC Named Curve Registry” so folks can follow along. The registry can be found here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xhtml#tls-parameters-8

2.  The “Extensions Type” registry associated with this extension is “elliptic_curves”, see value #10 in the registry, this should/could also be changed to “supported_groups”.  The registry can be found here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/tls-extensiontype-values.xhtml#tls-extensiontype-values-1

If you object to these changes please let us know by May 20th.

spt

On May 12, 2015, at 23:50, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:

> Hi TLS folks--
> 
> As a result of ongoing feedback, i've made several more minor changes to
> draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe, which are now visible in version 09 of
> that document.
> 
> There were several minor nits addressed, but the following minor changes
> are slightly more than nits:
> 
> * the draft clarifies that the named ffdhe* groups do have a small
>   subgroup, but that it is easily avoided (as opposed to custom groups,
>   in which possible small subgroups are either unknown or expensive to
>   avoid).  
> 
> * slight tuning of some of the RFC 2119 language.
> 
> * explicitly relaxing the old requirement that the Supported Groups
>   extension needed to be sent only when ECDHE ciphersuites were
>   offered, which no one appears to have followed anyway
> 
> * Added a new section describing local policy for compatible clients
>   that are considering accepting custom groups from the server, with
>   baseline guidance for how to protect users by at least ensuring that
>   the length of the group is minimally strong (no attempt is made to
>   enumerate all possible local policy or to claim there is only one
>   legitimate local policy).
> 
> * encourage bounds checking of the public share against the group
>   modulus, regardless of whether a named group is used.
> 
> Thanks to all the folks who gave feedback on the draft.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>        --dkg
> 
> 
> 
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