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Re: [TLS] Pre_shared_key Extension Question

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> Fri, 09 September 2016 14:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Pre_shared_key Extension Question
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Hi Ekr,

thanks for the response.

The psk_identity_hint in RFC 4279 was sent from the server to the client 
and was a mechanism that was believed to be needed by the 3GPP in their 
bootstrapping architecture, which in the end was never widely used (as 
far as I know). So, not necessarily a super important features, as it 
seems.

As mentioned in my other mail regarding sending the ticket together with 
the long-term PSK identity could be addressed better by clarifying the 
server is intending to keep the ticket cached for the time indicated in 
ticket_lifetime (rather than saying the opposite which may lead 
implementers to care less).

Hence, I would mind if you delete the following two sentences in Section 
4.5.1 "New Session Ticket Message":

"
It MAY delete the ticket earlier based on local policy. A server MAY 
treat a ticket as valid for a shorter period of time than what is stated 
in the ticket_lifetime.
"

Ciao
Hannes


On 08/18/2016 12:17 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> The intention here was to compensate for not having psk_identity_hint.
> However, it also allows you to do resumption of PSK-established sessions.
>
> It would be a fairly significant simplification to say you could only
> have one PSK, because then we could easily require the client to prove
> knowledge of the key, for instance by stuffing a MAC at the end of the
> ClientHello as we discussed in Berlin.
>
> So:
> Is there any demand for multiple identities? I do not believe there is
> any in the Web context. If not, we should remove this feature.
>
> -Ekr
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Hannes Tschofenig
> <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net <mailto:hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     the currently defined “pre_shared_key” extension allows clients to send
>     a list of the identities. I was wondering in what use cases this is
>     useful and what policy guides the server to pick the most appropriate
>     psk identity. I couldn't find any discussion in the document about this
>     aspect.
>
>     Ciao
>     Hannes
>
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