Re: [TLS] ETSI releases standards for enterprise security and data centre management

Now this WG is finally starting to talk about a solution to a real problem and need.  We can either address the use case and need here in the IETF, or we can let the solutions be done else where. I would personally prefer we take this work item back and solve it here in the IETF.

Finally, remember, you may not like the use case or need, but that does not mean the use case is not valid and needed. 

Thanks,
Bret
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> On Dec 5, 2018, at 1:18 AM, Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 3:36 PM Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com <mailto:nico@cryptonector.com>> wrote:
>  > I'm not a fan of systems like this, but I believe for security reasons they
> > should be designed in such a way that only the confidentiality of traffic
> > is impacted, and a "visibility" system isn't able to leverage the decrypted
> > traffic to resume decrypted sessions and thereby impersonate clients.
> 
> Any key escrow system will have this property.  Given the session keys
> (or a way to recover them) you can resume decrypted sessions.
> 
> Wouldn't escrowing only the client/server application traffic secrets (instead of keys higher in the schedule) avoid this problem? These keys would permit the one capability "visibility" appliance vendors allege to care about: traffic decryption, without permitting others like session resumption.
> 
>  The most obvious escrow design requiring no changes to the clients is to
> use a static eDH key on the server-side.  The next most obvious such
> design is to have the server talk to the escrow agent.
> 
> It seems like with an out-of-band escrow agent, the traffic secrets could be escrowed with no changes to TLS.
> 
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> Tony Arcieri
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