Re: [TLS] Signed messages should be prefixed with a NUL-terminated context string.

Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Wed, 24 December 2014 19:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Signed messages should be prefixed with a NUL-terminated context string.
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On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:55:53AM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ilari Liusvaara <
> ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:21:58AM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Ilari Liusvaara <
> > > ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Any reason not to fix the hash function per-ciphersuite, so servers
> > > > and clients don't have to run multiple hashes in parrallel?
> > > >
> > >
> > > The client and server may want to use different signature algorithms.
> >
> > I mean the hash in data to be signed (not the internal hash function in
> > signature algortithm).
> >
> > That is, it would be digital signature of:
> >
> > - 32 padding bytes (or ClientRandom)
> > - 32 padding bytes (or ServerRandom)
> > - Context string
> > - Ciphersuite ID (to provode domain separation)
> > - handshake_hash(transcript)
> >
> 
> So to be clear, you are proposing that we might (for instance) have
> a signature with (say) SHA-1 over a handshake hash computed with
> SHA-256?

Yes.

E.g ECDSA/SHA1 for signatures and TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
for connection. That would result in SHA-1 signature over SHA-256 hash.


The other way around can't happen with any current ciphersuite (because
every current one has prf-hash of either SHA-256 or SHA-384).



-Ilari