[TLS]Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-10.txt

[Deirdre Connolly <[e-mail]>]

Not a direct reference for TLS 1.3, but recent related work from the
document author, Douglas's analysis of PQ3 iMessage¹, has a hybrid
encrypted session setup with commonalities with the TLS 1.3 key schedule,
especially the layers of calls to HKDF.Expand and HKDF.extract, albeit in a
different order than TLS. These proofs rely on PRF-ODH for the curves and
that HKDF.Expand/Extract are PRFs in their first argument and more PRF
assumptions of the ~equivalent of the large key schedule that it is also a
PRF in two arguments (any chaining key material and the public session
information, including the ephemeral public keys) to achieve session key
indistinguishability.

¹
https://security.apple.com/assets/files/Security_analysis_of_the_iMessage_PQ3_protocol_Stebila.pdf

Maybe Douglas will be able to answer directly on TLS 1.3 but hopefully this
is also useful ✨



On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 6:41 AM Peter C <Peter.C=[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Douglas,
>
> The agenda for the TLS session is looking packed, and this is a very
> in-the-weeds comment, so I hope you don't mind me posting it to the list.
> Happy to take any discussion off-list, if you'd prefer.
>
> The draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design security considerations currently say:
>
>     The shared secrets computed in the hybrid key exchange should be
>     computed in a way that achieves the "hybrid" property: the resulting
>     secret is secure as long as at least one of the component key
>     exchange algorithms is unbroken. See [GIACON] and [BINDEL] for an
>     investigation of these issues.
>
> If you assume the PQ KEM is IND-CCA2 secure, then I agree that [GIACON]
> and [BINDEL] imply that the derived traffic secrets will be
> indistinguishable from random and from each other.  The same is true if the
> KEM is only OW-CCA2 secure by Petcher-Campagna (https://ia.cr/2023/972)
>
> If you assume the PQ KEM is broken, however, then [GIACON] and [BINDEL] do
> not apply since ECDH-as-a-KEM is not IND-CCA2 secure.  Similarly,
> Petcher-Campagna does not apply because ECDH is not OW-CCA2 secure.  Nor do
> I think it's possible to fall back on [DOWLING] since X25519 and NIST P-256
> (as they are used in RFC 8446) do not satisfy the dual-snPRF-ODH assumption
> for any choice of KDF.  In this case, I don't believe the derived traffic
> secrets are guaranteed to be indistinguishable from random.
>
> Flo raised similar points a couple of years ago which I don't think were
> fully addressed at the time.  I suspect this is just a security proof issue
> - the inclusion of the ciphertexts in the transcript hash should still
> protect against any actual attacks - and it's entirely possible that I've
> missed more recent results covering all of this.  If not, one easy solution
> might be to adopt the X-Wing approach and use
>
>     concatenated_ss = pqkem_ss || ecdh_ss || ecdh_ct || ecdh_pk,
>
> although this currently only works with ML-KEM.
>
> Best,
>
> Peter
>
>
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> > Subject: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-10.txt
> >
> > Internet-Draft draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-10.txt is now available. It
> is a
> > work item of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) WG of the IETF.
> >
> >    Title:   Hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3
> >    Authors: Douglas Stebila
> >             Scott Fluhrer
> >             Shay Gueron
> >    Name:    draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-10.txt
> >    Pages:   24
> >    Dates:   2024-04-05
> >
> > Abstract:
> >
> >    Hybrid key exchange refers to using multiple key exchange algorithms
> >    simultaneously and combining the result with the goal of providing
> >    security even if all but one of the component algorithms is broken.
> >    It is motivated by transition to post-quantum cryptography.  This
> >    document provides a construction for hybrid key exchange in the
> >    Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol version 1.3.
> >
> >    Discussion of this work is encouraged to happen on the TLS IETF
> >    mailing list [e-mail] or on the GitHub repository which contains
> >    the draft:
> > https://github/.
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> > There is also an HTML version available at:
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