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Re: [TLS] Comments/Questions on draft-gutmann-tls-encrypt-then-mac-00.txt

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Wed, 25 September 2013 21:10 UTC

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Alfredo Pironti wrote:
> Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> > Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> writes:
> >
> >> - Maybe I am misreading the draft, but I'm unclear on how you get
> >>    the TLSCompressed.length for the MAC computation in Section 3.
> >>    Does this have the same issue as was raised for McGrew's CBC AEAD
> >>    draft?

Eric is correct, the definition of the MAC in Peter's draft is
obviously incorrect (and likely does not match Peter's implementation):

TLSv1.0:  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2246#section-6.2.3.1

   The MAC is generated as:

       HMAC_hash(MAC_write_secret, seq_num + TLSCompressed.type +
                     TLSCompressed.version + TLSCompressed.length +
                     TLSCompressed.fragment));

When changing from mac-pad-encrypt to encrypt-mac, as suggested
by Peter's draft, the MAC no longer operates on the TLSComressed PDU,
but on the TLSCiphertext PDU -- which results in:

       HMAC_hash(MAC_write_secret, seq_num + TLSCiphertext.type +
                     TLSCiphertext.version + TLSCiphertext.length +
                     TLSCiphertext.fragment));

    The computation of TLSCompressed.length on receive changes slightly,
    because there no longer is a MAC trailing the data after decrypt.


-Martin

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