Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical for TLS 1.3 after all?
Henrick Hellström <henrick@streamsec.se> Sat, 28 November 2015 16:58 UTC
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical for TLS 1.3 after all?
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On 2015-11-28 17:41, Roland Zink wrote: >> Most times, the latter row of requests could easily be encoded in a >> single TLS fragment. This means that the server will become aware of >> all of the requests at the same time, and might encode all of the HTTP >> responses before beginning to encode the TLS fragments. > Even if it could be encoded in a single TLS fragment a simple minded > browser may encode it one by one. Also there are many more use cases > where such optimization may not work. Can you provide data what browsers > are actually doing for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP2? AFAIK, HTTP 1.1 browsers typically don't send a new request over an open connection, before it has received the response to the previous request. If that is the case, it is trivial to get the message lengths from the traffic, with or without encrypted TLS record headers. IOW you gain nothing by encrypting the length fields. >> Carefully implemented, such a solution would not necessarily require >> significantly more resources to handle pipe-lining, compared to an >> alternative solution that would serve, encode and send the responses >> on-the-fly, and as a consequence quickly fill up the outgoing TCP/IP >> queue. >> > I think it is more complicated so it will use more resources. You have > to weight what is more important, the additional "security" or the > "overhead". Anyway I thought the decision was to hide the record length. You will have to make sure the peer is sending out a continuous stream of encrypted messages, anyway, or else you will not gain much by encrypting the TLS record headers. Relying on TLS fragments piling up at the TCP/IP level, rather than at the application level or TLS level, is not a reliable way to make traffic analysis harder. Even if the responses to a specific pair of requests pile up 999 times of 1000, there will still be a signal from the 1 in 1000 event that will be detectable by traffic analysis.
- [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical for TL… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Henrick Hellström
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Henrick Hellström
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Roland Zink
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Henrick Hellström
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Henrick Hellström
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Roland Zink
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Tony Arcieri
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Henrick Hellström
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Henrick Hellström
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bill Cox
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Dave Garrett
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Short, Todd
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Hubert Kario
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Fabrice Gautier
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jim Schaad
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Hubert Kario
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Aaron Zauner
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… John Mattsson
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated headers (… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Dmitry Belyavsky
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Fabrice Gautier
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Martin Thomson
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Dmitry Belyavsky
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Bryan Ford
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Bryan Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… GUBALLA, JENS (JENS)
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Hubert Kario
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Yoav Nir
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Mike Copley
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Fabrice Gautier
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Dave Garrett
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Eric Mill
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Martin Thomson
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Bryan A Ford
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Aaron Zauner
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Aaron Zauner
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Watson Ladd
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Aaron Zauner
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Aaron Zauner
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Valery Smyslov
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Bryan Ford
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… GUBALLA, JENS (JENS)
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Valery Smyslov
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Jacob Appelbaum
- Re: [TLS] Fully encrypted and authenticated heade… Jeff Burdges
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical fo… Jacob Appelbaum