[TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-06)
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Subject: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-06)
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Hi! this issue was buried in the Ben’s review, but I think it is worth getting some attention on. > On Aug 13, 2020, at 13:54, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 04:29:56PM -0400, Kathleen Moriarty wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 5:22 PM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote: >>> >>> - Similarly, the downgrade protection provided by the SCSV of RFC 7507 >>> seems to be entirely obsolete. Any implementation that is compliant >>> with this document will support only 1.2 or higher. If it only >>> supports one version, no downgrade is possible; if it also supports >>> 1.3 or newer, the new downgrade-detection mechanism defined by TLS 1.3 >>> applies, so the SCSV mechanism is entirely redundant (i.e., obsolete). >>> We could effectuate that status change in this document as well. >>> >> >> Has this been addressed in RFC8446? If not, the specific downgrade >> examples are just listed as examples. If a gap is left, then the full >> document should not be deprecated and made obsolete. The text infers other >> versions in my read. I have not looked to see if this was addressed in >> RFC8446 yet though. > > I'd really like to get a few more people to weigh in on this one -- IIRC > David Benjamin and Martin Thomson had mentioned some thoughts in the chat > during the session at 108, and Ekr as author of 8446 would be expected to > have a good sense of what it does. > > The specific RFC 8446 mechanism here is described at > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446#section-4.1.3 : "TLS 1.3 has a > downgrade protection mechanism embedded in the server's random value. > [...]" > > While the RFC 8446 mechanism has the client do the actual detection of > downgrade, there's a MUST-level requirement on clients to make the check, > so from a specification point of view the check can be treated as reliable. > The RFC 7507 mechanism has the server do the detection, but I think the end > result is still the same: in an "downgraded" exchange between two honest > participants, the handshake fails and the downgrade is detected. > > Since the functionality is still useful, just superseded, this one seems > like a better fit for "obsoletes" (vs. "historic). > Right now, we have a list of RFCs draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate will update. RFC 7507 "TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) for Preventing Protocol Downgrade Attacks" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7507/) is in this list. If you agree with Ben’s logic then we would be move 7507 out of the list of “updates” and adding an obsoletes header, i.e., “Obsoletes: 7507 (if approved)”, and moving 7507 down in s1.1 to the obsoletes paragraph. While this might seem like a minor point, this is the kind of the IESG loves to sink its teeth into so have a WG opinion on this matter can make overcoming later hurdles easier for the AD and doc shepherd. Thanks for the your time, spt (doc shepherd)
- [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-dep… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Kathleen Moriarty
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Benjamin Kaduk
- [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of draft… Sean Turner
- Re: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of d… Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of d… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of d… Sean Turner
- Re: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of d… Sean Turner
- Re: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of d… Loganaden Velvindron
- Re: [TLS] Obsolete SCSV!? (was Re: AD review of d… Loganaden Velvindron
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Sean Turner
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Salz, Rich
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Sean Turner
- Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions… Benjamin Kaduk