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Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01: Is public key validation necessary or helpful?

Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> Thu, 31 December 2015 00:08 UTC

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:08:03 +0200
From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01: Is public key validation necessary or helpful?
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:55:10AM +1100, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 30 December 2015 at 22:16, Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> wrote:
> >> Would it make sense to have session hash as a requirement in TLS
> >> 1.2 when you want to use Curve25519?
> >
> > I don't think that is reasonable.
> 
> I think that is entirely reasonable.  TLS 1.2 relies on contributory
> behaviour.  25519 doesn't provide that unless you do some extra
> checking that we know many implementations don't do.
> 
> I'd be OK with either requiring session hash, some checking of values,
> or both.  Otherwise we create a situation where the shared secret can
> be forced by an attacker.

The draft already has the checks.

I also think I figured out a way to truly force contributory behaviour
without any checks:

It is a bit nasty hack: Throw the exchange keys into the PMS, expanding
it from 32/56 bytes to 96/168 bytes.


-Ilari

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