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

Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Tue, 23 December 2014 14:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Signed messages should be prefixed with a NUL-terminated context string.
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 01:38:36PM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> Adam updated his PR to sign the prefix concatenated with the handshake
> hashes, which makes it easier to have a single hash context.
> 
> https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/100
> 
> I haven't seen any objections to this idea, so I'll merge this on Wednesday
> unless I hear an objection before then.
> 

Any reason not to fix the hash function per-ciphersuite, so servers
and clients don't have to run multiple hashes in parrallel? 

Suitable hash function is required by the THS fix anyway, and one
could just reuse that context if one has implementation capable of
intermediate hashes or hash context cloning.

If one is worried about cross-hash attacks (even if all hashes should
be strong), stick the ciphersuite ID (which fixes the hash) into
data to be signed.


-Ilari

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