Re: [TLS] Certificate compression draft

Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv@google.com> Wed, 22 March 2017 21:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Certificate compression draft
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:

> This proposal seems like a reasonable idea. One question I had is what the
> point of the "uncompressed length" field is:
>
>        struct {
>             uint24 uncompressed_length;
>             opaque compressed_certificate_message<1..2^24-1>;
>        } Certificate;
>
> I initially thought maybe it was a sanity check, but if so it's not a very
> good
> one. I see that in S 5 you encourage receivers to limit the compressed
> length, but having it expressed like this doesn't seem like that useful a
> security measure because the attacker gets to choose both the compressed
> data and the length. Is the idea just to let the receiver pre-allocate a
> buffer
> for decompression?
>

It's to some extent for all of the purposes you've mentioned, but in
general knowing
the size of decompression target makes writing code easier (since you only
need
to call inflate() once).


> The text says:
>
>    compressed_certificate_message  The compressed body of the
>       Certificate message, in the same format as the server would
>       normally express it.  The compression algorithm defines how the
>       bytes in the compressed_certificate_message are converted into the
>       Certificate message.
>
> I assume in this case "body" means "not including the header bytes"? I
> guess it's
> redundant, but it might be worthwhile being very precise
>

Indeed.  I'll see if I can make this more clear.


> Also:
>
>    The implementations MUST limit the size of the resulting decompressed
>    chain to the specified uncompressed length, and they MUST abort the
>    connection if the size exceeds that limit.  Implementations MAY
>    impose a lower limit on the chain size in addition to the 16777216
>    byte limit imposed by TLS framing, in which case they MUST apply the
>    same limit to the uncompressed chain before starting to decompress
>    it.
>
> Do you mean "upper" rather than "lower" for limit?
>

I meant "lower than 16M".  I've edited the editor's copy to make this
paragraph clearer.

  -- Victor.