TLS S. Santesson
Internet-Draft 3xA Security AB
Intended status: Standards Track H. Tschofenig
Expires: July 29, 2016 ARM Ltd.
January 26, 2016

Transport Layer Security (TLS) Cached Information Extension
draft-ietf-tls-cached-info-22.txt

Abstract

Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshakes often include fairly static information, such as the server certificate and a list of trusted certification authorities (CAs). This information can be of considerable size, particularly if the server certificate is bundled with a complete certificate chain (i.e., the certificates of intermediate CAs up to the root CA).

This document defines an extension that allows a TLS client to inform a server of cached information, allowing the server to omit already available information.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Reducing the amount of information exchanged during a Transport Layer Security handshake to a minimum helps to improve performance in environments where devices are connected to a network with a low bandwidth, and lossy radio technology. With Internet of Things such environments exist, for example, when devices use IEEE 802.15.4 or Bluetooth Smart. For more information about the challenges with smart object deployments please see [RFC6574].

This specification defines a TLS extension that allows a client and a server to exclude transmission information cached in an earlier TLS handshake.

A typical example exchange may therefore look as follows. First, the client and the server executes the full TLS handshake. The client then caches the certificate provided by the server. When the TLS client connects to the TLS server some time in the future, without using session resumption, it then attaches the cached_info extension defined in this document to the client hello message to indicate that it had cached the certificate, and it provides the fingerprint of it. If the server's certificate has not changed then the TLS server does not need to send its certificate and the corresponding certificate chain again. In case information has changed, which can be seen from the fingerprint provided by the client, the certificate payload is transmitted to the client to allow the client to update the cache.

2. Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

This document refers to the TLS protocol but the description is equally applicable to DTLS as well.

3. Cached Information Extension

This document defines a new extension type (cached_info(TBD)), which is used in client hello and server hello messages. The extension type is specified as follows.

              
enum {
  cached_info(TBD), (65535)
} ExtensionType;

The extension_data field of this extension, when included in the client hello, MUST contain the CachedInformation structure. The client MAY send multiple CachedObjects of the same CachedInformationType. This may, for example, be the case when the client has cached multiple certificates from a server.

              
	enum {
		cert(1), cert_req(2) (255)
	} CachedInformationType;

	struct {
		select (type) {
		case client:
			CachedInformationType type;
			opaque hash_value[4];
		case server:
			CachedInformationType type;
		};
	} CachedObject;

	struct {
		CachedObject cached_info<1..255>;
	} CachedInformation;

This document defines the following two types:

'cert' Type for not sending the complete Server Certificate Message:


With the type field set to 'cert', the client MUST include the fingerprint of the Certificate message in the hash_value field. For this type the fingerprint MUST be calculated using the procedure described in Section 5 with the Certificate message as input data.
'cert_req' Type for not sending the complete CertificateRequest Message:


With the type set to 'cert_req', the client MUST include the fingerprint of the CertificateRequest message in the hash_value field. For this type the fingerprint MUST be calculated using the procedure described in Section 5 with the CertificateRequest message as input data.

New cached info types can be added following the policy described in the IANA considerations section, see Section 8. New hash algorithms can also be added by registering a new type. For practical reasons we recommend to re-use hash algorithms already available with TLS ciphersuites to avoid additional code and to keep the collision probably low new hash algorithms MUST NOT have a collision resistance worse than SHA-256 when truncated to 4 bytes.

4. Exchange Specification

Clients supporting this extension MAY include the "cached_info" extension in the (extended) client hello. If the client includes the extension then it MUST contain one or more CachedObject attributes.

A server supporting this extension MAY include the "cached_info" extension in the (extended) server hello. By returning the "cached_info" extension the server indicates that it supports the cached info types. For each indicated cached info type the server MUST alter the transmission of respective payloads, according to the rules outlined with each type. If the server includes the extension it MUST only include CachedObjects of a type also supported by the client (as expressed in the client hello). For example, if a client indicates support for 'cert' and 'cert_req' then the server cannot respond with a "cached_info" attribute containing support for ('foo-bar').

Since the client includes a fingerprint of information it cached (for each indicated type) the server is able to determine whether cached information is stale. If the server supports this specification and notices a mismatch between the data cached by the client and its own information then the server MUST include the information in full and MUST NOT list the respective type in the "cached_info" extension.

Note: If a server is part of a hosting environment then the client may have cached multiple data items for a single server. To allow the client to select the appropriate information from the cache it is RECOMMENDED that the client utilizes the Server Name Indication extension [RFC6066].

Following a successful exchange of the "cached_info" extension in the client and server hello, the server alters sending the corresponding handshake message. How information is altered from the handshake messages is defined in Section 4.1, and in Section 4.2 for the types defined in this specification.

Appendix A shows an example hash calculation and Section 6 shows an example protocol exchange.

4.1. Server Certificate Message

When a ClientHello message contains the "cached_info" extension with a type set to 'cert' then the server MAY send the Certificate message shown in Figure 1 under the following conditions:

The original Certificate handshake message syntax is defined in [RFC5246] and has been extended with [RFC7250]. RFC 7250 allows the certificate payload to contain only the SubjectPublicKeyInfo instead of the full information typically found in a certificate. Hence, when this specification is used in combination with [RFC7250] and the negotiated certificate type is a raw public key then the TLS server omits sending a Certificate payload that contains an ASN.1 Certificate structure with the included SubjectPublicKeyInfo rather than the full certificate chain. As such, this extension is compatible with the raw public key extension defined in RFC 7250. Note: We assume that the server implementation is able to select the appropriate certificate or SubjectPublicKeyInfo from the received hash value. If the SNI extension is used by the client then the server has additional information to guide the selection of the appropriate cached info.

When the cached info specification is used then a modified version of the Certificate message is exchanged. The modified structure is shown in Figure 1.

              
	struct {
		opaque hash_value[4];
	} Certificate;

Figure 1: Cached Info Certificate Message.

4.2. CertificateRequest Message

When a fingerprint for an object of type 'cert_req' is provided in the client hello, the server MAY send the CertificateRequest message shown in Figure 2 message under the following conditions:

The original CertificateRequest handshake message syntax is defined in [RFC5246]. The modified structure of the CertificateRequest message is shown in Figure 2.


	struct {
		opaque hash_value[4];
	} CertificateRequest;

Figure 2: Cached Info CertificateRequest Message.

The CertificateRequest payload is the input parameter to the fingerprint calculation described in Section 5.

5. Fingerprint Calculation

The fingerprint MUST be computed as follows:

  1. Compute the SHA-256 [RFC6234] hash of the input data. The input data depends on the cached info type. This document defines two cached info types, described in Section 4.1 and in Section 4.2. Note that the computed hash only covers the input data structure (and not any type and length information of the record layer). Appendix A shows an example.
  2. Truncate the output of the SHA-256 hash. When a hash value is truncated to 32 bits, the leftmost 32 bits (that is, the most significant 32 bits in network byte order) from the binary representation of the hash value MUST be used as the truncated value. An example of a 256-bit hash output truncated to 32 bits is shown in Figure 3.

              
256-bit hash: 
0x265357902fe1b7e2a04b897c6025d7a2265357902fe1b7e2a04b897c6025d7a2

32-bit truncated hash: 
0x26535790

Figure 3: Truncated Hash Example.

The purpose of the fingerprint provided by the client is to help the server select the correct information. For example, in case of the certificate message the fingerprint identifies the server certificate (and the corresponding private key) for use for with the rest of the handshake. Servers may have more than one certificate and therefore a hash needs to be long enough to keep the probably of hash collisions low. On the other hand, the cached info design aims to reduce the amount of data being exchanged. The security of the handshake depends on the private key and not on the size of the fingerprint. Hence, the fingerprint is a way to prevent the server from accidentally selecting the wrong information. If an attacker injects an incorrect fingerprint then two outcomes are possible: (1) The fingerprint does not relate to any cached state and the server has to fall back to a full exchange. (2) If the attacker manages to inject a fingerprint that refers to data the client has not cached then the exchange will fail later when the client continues with the handshake and aims to verify the digital signature. The signature verification will fail since the public key cached by the client will not correspond to the private key that was used by server to sign the message.

6. Example

In the regular, full TLS handshake exchange, shown in Figure 4, the TLS server provides its certificate in the Certificate payload to the client, see step (1). This allows the client to store the certificate for future use. After some time the TLS client again interacts with the same TLS server and makes use of the TLS cached info extension, as shown in Figure 5. The TLS client indicates support for this specification via the "cached_info" extension, see step (2), and indicates that it has stored the certificate from the earlier exchange (by indicating the 'cert' type). With step (3) the TLS server acknowledges the supports of the 'cert' type and by including the value in the server hello informs the client that the content of the certificate payload contains the fingerprint of the certificate instead of the RFC 5246-defined payload of the certificate message in step (4).

              
ClientHello            ->
                       <-  ServerHello
                           Certificate* // (1)
                           ServerKeyExchange*
                           CertificateRequest*
                           ServerHelloDone 

Certificate*
ClientKeyExchange
CertificateVerify*
[ChangeCipherSpec]
Finished               ->

                       <- [ChangeCipherSpec]
                          Finished

Application Data <-------> Application Data

Figure 4: Example Message Exchange: Initial (full) Exchange.

              
ClientHello 
cached_info=(cert)     -> // (2)
                       <-  ServerHello
                           cached_info=(cert) (3) 
                           Certificate (4)
                           ServerKeyExchange*
                           ServerHelloDone 

ClientKeyExchange
CertificateVerify*
[ChangeCipherSpec]
Finished               ->

                       <- [ChangeCipherSpec]
                          Finished

Application Data <-------> Application Data

Figure 5: Example Message Exchange: TLS Cached Extension Usage.

7. Security Considerations

This specification defines a mechanism to reference stored state using a fingerprint. Sending a fingerprint of cached information in an unencrypted handshake, as the client and server hello is, may allow an attacker or observer to correlate independent TLS exchanges. While some information elements used in this specification, such as server certificates, are public objects and usually do not contain sensitive information, other not yet defined types may. Those who implement and deploy this specification should therefore make an informed decision whether the cached information is inline with their security and privacy goals. In case of concerns, it is advised to avoid sending the fingerprint of the data objects in clear.

The use of the cached info extension allows the server to send significantly smaller TLS messages. Consequently, these omitted parts of the messages are not included in the transcript of the handshake in the TLS Finish message. However, since the client and the server communicate the hash values of the cached data in the initial handshake messages the fingerprints are included in the TLS Finish message.

Clients MUST ensure that they only cache information from legitimate sources. For example, when the client populates the cache from a TLS exchange then it must only cache information after the successful completion of a TLS exchange to ensure that an attacker does not inject incorrect information into the cache. Failure to do so allows for man-in-the-middle attacks.

Security considerations for the fingerprint calculation are discussed in Section 5.

8. IANA Considerations

8.1. New Entry to the TLS ExtensionType Registry

IANA is requested to add an entry to the existing TLS ExtensionType registry, defined in [RFC5246], for cached_info(TBD) defined in this document.

8.2. New Registry for CachedInformationType

IANA is requested to establish a registry for TLS CachedInformationType values. The first entries in the registry are

  • cert(1)
  • cert_req(2)

The policy for adding new values to this registry, following the terminology defined in [RFC5226], is as follows:

  • 0-63 (decimal): Standards Action
  • 64-223 (decimal): Specification Required
  • 224-255 (decimal): reserved for Private Use

9. Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the following persons for your detailed document reviews:

  • Paul Wouters and Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (December 2011)
  • Rob Stradling (February 2012)
  • Ondrej Mikle (March 2012)
  • Ilari Liusvaara, Adam Langley, and Eric Rescorla (July 2014)
  • Sean Turner (August 2014)
  • Martin Thomson (August 2015)
  • Jouni Korhonen (November 2015)
  • Matt Miller (December 2015)
  • Dave Garrett (December 2015)

We would also to thank Martin Thomson, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Sankalp Bagaria and Eric Rescorla for their feedback regarding the fingerprint calculation.

Finally, we would like to thank the TLS working group chairs, Sean Turner and Joe Salowey, as well as the responsible security area director, Stephen Farrell, for their support and their reviews.

10. References

10.1. Normative References

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997.
[RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, DOI 10.17487/RFC5246, August 2008.
[RFC6066] Eastlake 3rd, D., "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension Definitions", RFC 6066, DOI 10.17487/RFC6066, January 2011.
[RFC6234] Eastlake 3rd, D. and T. Hansen, "US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)", RFC 6234, DOI 10.17487/RFC6234, May 2011.

10.2. Informative References

[ASN.1-Dump] Gutmann, P., "ASN.1 Object Dump Program", February 2013.
[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, DOI 10.17487/RFC5226, May 2008.
[RFC6574] Tschofenig, H. and J. Arkko, "Report from the Smart Object Workshop", RFC 6574, DOI 10.17487/RFC6574, April 2012.
[RFC7250] Wouters, P., Tschofenig, H., Gilmore, J., Weiler, S. and T. Kivinen, "Using Raw Public Keys in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)", RFC 7250, DOI 10.17487/RFC7250, June 2014.

Appendix A. Example

Consider a certificate containing an NIST P256 elliptic curve public key displayed using Peter Gutmann's ASN.1 decoder [ASN.1-Dump] in Figure 6.

              
  0 556: SEQUENCE {
  4 434:   SEQUENCE {
  8   3:     [0] {
 10   1:       INTEGER 2
       :       }
 13   1:     INTEGER 13
 16  10:     SEQUENCE {
 18   8:      OBJECT IDENTIFIER ecdsaWithSHA256 (1 2 840 10045 4 3 2)
       :       }
 28  62:     SEQUENCE {
 30  11:       SET {
 32   9:         SEQUENCE {
 34   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER countryName (2 5 4 6)
 39   2:           PrintableString 'NL'
       :           }
       :         }
 43  17:       SET {
 45  15:         SEQUENCE {
 47   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER organizationName (2 5 4 10)
 52   8:           PrintableString 'PolarSSL'
       :           }
       :         }
 62  28:       SET {
 64  26:         SEQUENCE {
 66   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER commonName (2 5 4 3)
 71  19:           PrintableString 'Polarssl Test EC CA'
       :           }
       :         }
       :       }
 92  30:     SEQUENCE {
 94  13:       UTCTime 24/09/2013 15:52:04 GMT
109  13:       UTCTime 22/09/2023 15:52:04 GMT
       :       }
124  65:     SEQUENCE {
126  11:       SET {
128   9:         SEQUENCE {
130   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER countryName (2 5 4 6)
135   2:           PrintableString 'NL'
       :           }
       :         }
139  17:       SET {
141  15:         SEQUENCE {
143   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER organizationName (2 5 4 10)
148   8:           PrintableString 'PolarSSL'
       :           }
       :         }
158  31:       SET {
160  29:         SEQUENCE {
162   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER commonName (2 5 4 3)
167  22:           PrintableString 'PolarSSL Test Client 2'
       :           }
       :         }
       :       }
191  89:     SEQUENCE {
193  19:       SEQUENCE {
195   7:         OBJECT IDENTIFIER ecPublicKey (1 2 840 10045 2 1)
204   8:         OBJECT IDENTIFIER prime256v1 (1 2 840 10045 3 1 7)
       :         }
214  66:       BIT STRING
       :         04 57 E5 AE B1 73 DF D3 AC BB 93 B8 81 FF 12 AE
       :         EE E6 53 AC CE 55 53 F6 34 0E CC 2E E3 63 25 0B
       :         DF 98 E2 F3 5C 60 36 96 C0 D5 18 14 70 E5 7F 9F
       :         D5 4B 45 18 E5 B0 6C D5 5C F8 96 8F 87 70 A3 E4
       :         C7
       :       }
282 157:     [3] {
285 154:       SEQUENCE {
288   9:         SEQUENCE {
290   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER basicConstraints (2 5 29 19)
295   2:           OCTET STRING, encapsulates {
297   0:             SEQUENCE {}
       :             }
       :           }
299  29:         SEQUENCE {
301   3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER subjectKeyIdentifier (2 5 29 14)
306  22:           OCTET STRING, encapsulates {
308  20:             OCTET STRING
       :              7A 00 5F 86 64 FC E0 5D E5 11 10 3B B2 E6 3B C4
       :              26 3F CF E2
       :             }
       :           }
330 110:         SEQUENCE {
332   3:          OBJECT IDENTIFIER authorityKeyIdentifier (2 5 29 35)
337 103:          OCTET STRING, encapsulates {
339 101:             SEQUENCE {
341  20:               [0]
       :               9D 6D 20 24 49 01 3F 2B CB 78 B5 19 BC 7E 24 C9
       :               DB FB 36 7C
363  66:               [1] {
365  64:                 [4] {
367  62:                   SEQUENCE {
369  11:                     SET {
371   9:                      SEQUENCE {
373   3:                       OBJECT IDENTIFIER countryName (2 5 4 6)
378   2:                       PrintableString 'NL'
       :                       }
       :                      }
382  17:                     SET {
384  15:                      SEQUENCE {
386   3:                        OBJECT IDENTIFIER organizationName 
       :                               (2 5 4 10)
391   8:                        PrintableString 'PolarSSL'
       :                        }
       :                      }
401  28:                     SET {
403  26:                      SEQUENCE {
405   3:                       OBJECT IDENTIFIER commonName (2 5 4 3)
410  19:                       PrintableString 'Polarssl Test EC CA'
       :                        }
       :                      }
       :                     }
       :                   }
       :                 }
431   9:               [2] 00 C1 43 E2 7E 62 43 CC E8
       :               }
       :             }
       :           }
       :         }
       :       }
       :     }
442  10:   SEQUENCE {
444   8:     OBJECT IDENTIFIER ecdsaWithSHA256 (1 2 840 10045 4 3 2)
       :     }
454 104:   BIT STRING, encapsulates {
457 101:     SEQUENCE {
459  48:       INTEGER
       :         4A 65 0D 7B 20 83 A2 99 B9 A8 0F FC 8D EE 8F 3D
       :         BB 70 4C 96 03 AC 8E 78 70 DD F2 0E A0 B2 16 CB
       :         65 8E 1A C9 3F 2C 61 7E F8 3C EF AD 1C EE 36 20
509  49:       INTEGER
       :         00 9D F2 27 A6 D5 74 B8 24 AE E1 6A 3F 31 A1 CA
       :         54 2F 08 D0 8D EE 4F 0C 61 DF 77 78 7D B4 FD FC
       :         42 49 EE E5 B2 6A C2 CD 26 77 62 8E 28 7C 9E 57
       :         45
       :       }
       :     }
       :   }

Figure 6: ASN.1-based Certificate: Example.

To include the certificate shown in Figure 6 in a TLS/DTLS Certificate message it is prepended with a message header. This Certificate message header in our example is 0b 00 02 36 00 02 33 00 02 00 02 30, which indicates:

Message Type:
0b -- 1 byte type field indicating a Certificate message
Length:
00 02 36 -- 3 byte length field indicating a 566 bytes payload
Certificates Length:
00 02 33 -- 3 byte length field indicating 563 bytes for the entire certificates_list structure, which may contain multiple certificates. In our example only one certificate is included.
Certificate Length:
00 02 30 -- 3 byte length field indicating 560 bytes of the actual certificate following immediately afterwards. In our example, this is the certificate content with 30 82 02 .... 9E 57 45 shown in Figure 7.

The hex encoding of the ASN.1 encoded certificate payload shown in Figure 6 leads to the following encoding.

              
          30 82 02 2C 30 82 01 B2  A0 03 02 01 02 02 01 0D
          30 0A 06 08 2A 86 48 CE  3D 04 03 02 30 3E 31 0B
          30 09 06 03 55 04 06 13  02 4E 4C 31 11 30 0F 06
          03 55 04 0A 13 08 50 6F  6C 61 72 53 53 4C 31 1C
          30 1A 06 03 55 04 03 13  13 50 6F 6C 61 72 73 73
          6C 20 54 65 73 74 20 45  43 20 43 41 30 1E 17 0D
          31 33 30 39 32 34 31 35  35 32 30 34 5A 17 0D 32
          33 30 39 32 32 31 35 35  32 30 34 5A 30 41 31 0B
          30 09 06 03 55 04 06 13  02 4E 4C 31 11 30 0F 06
          03 55 04 0A 13 08 50 6F  6C 61 72 53 53 4C 31 1F
          30 1D 06 03 55 04 03 13  16 50 6F 6C 61 72 53 53
          4C 20 54 65 73 74 20 43  6C 69 65 6E 74 20 32 30
          59 30 13 06 07 2A 86 48  CE 3D 02 01 06 08 2A 86
          48 CE 3D 03 01 07 03 42  00 04 57 E5 AE B1 73 DF
          D3 AC BB 93 B8 81 FF 12  AE EE E6 53 AC CE 55 53
          F6 34 0E CC 2E E3 63 25  0B DF 98 E2 F3 5C 60 36
          96 C0 D5 18 14 70 E5 7F  9F D5 4B 45 18 E5 B0 6C
          D5 5C F8 96 8F 87 70 A3  E4 C7 A3 81 9D 30 81 9A
          30 09 06 03 55 1D 13 04  02 30 00 30 1D 06 03 55
          1D 0E 04 16 04 14 7A 00  5F 86 64 FC E0 5D E5 11
          10 3B B2 E6 3B C4 26 3F  CF E2 30 6E 06 03 55 1D
          23 04 67 30 65 80 14 9D  6D 20 24 49 01 3F 2B CB
          78 B5 19 BC 7E 24 C9 DB  FB 36 7C A1 42 A4 40 30
          3E 31 0B 30 09 06 03 55  04 06 13 02 4E 4C 31 11
          30 0F 06 03 55 04 0A 13  08 50 6F 6C 61 72 53 53
          4C 31 1C 30 1A 06 03 55  04 03 13 13 50 6F 6C 61
          72 73 73 6C 20 54 65 73  74 20 45 43 20 43 41 82
          09 00 C1 43 E2 7E 62 43  CC E8 30 0A 06 08 2A 86
          48 CE 3D 04 03 02 03 68  00 30 65 02 30 4A 65 0D
          7B 20 83 A2 99 B9 A8 0F  FC 8D EE 8F 3D BB 70 4C
          96 03 AC 8E 78 70 DD F2  0E A0 B2 16 CB 65 8E 1A
          C9 3F 2C 61 7E F8 3C EF  AD 1C EE 36 20 02 31 00
          9D F2 27 A6 D5 74 B8 24  AE E1 6A 3F 31 A1 CA 54
          2F 08 D0 8D EE 4F 0C 61  DF 77 78 7D B4 FD FC 42
          49 EE E5 B2 6A C2 CD 26  77 62 8E 28 7C 9E 57 45

Figure 7: Hex Encoding of the Example Certificate.

Applying the SHA-256 hash function to the Certificate message, which is starts with 0b 00 02 and ends with 9E 57 45, produces 0x086eefb4859adfe977defac494fff6b73033b4ce1f86b8f2a9fc0c6bf98605af. Subsequently, this output is truncated to 32 bits, which leads to a fingerprint of 0x086eefb4.

Authors' Addresses

Stefan Santesson 3xA Security AB Scheelev. 17 Lund, 223 70 Sweden EMail: sts@aaa-sec.com
Hannes Tschofenig ARM Ltd. Hall in Tirol, 6060 Austria EMail: Hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net URI: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at