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diff --git a/doc/protocol/rfc4346.txt b/doc/protocol/rfc4346.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9a960d2057..0000000000 --- a/doc/protocol/rfc4346.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4875 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - -Network Working Group T. Dierks -Request for Comments: 4346 Independent -Obsoletes: 2246 E. Rescorla -Category: Standards Track RTFM, Inc. - April 2006 - - - The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol - Version 1.1 - -Status of This Memo - - This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the - Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for - improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet - Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state - and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. - -Copyright Notice - - Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). - -Abstract - - This document specifies Version 1.1 of the Transport Layer Security - (TLS) protocol. The TLS protocol provides communications security - over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to - communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, - tampering, or message forgery. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 1] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -Table of Contents - - 1. Introduction ....................................................4 - 1.1. Differences from TLS 1.0 ...................................5 - 1.2. Requirements Terminology ...................................5 - 2. Goals ...........................................................5 - 3. Goals of This Document ..........................................6 - 4. Presentation Language ...........................................6 - 4.1. Basic Block Size ...........................................7 - 4.2. Miscellaneous ..............................................7 - 4.3. Vectors ....................................................7 - 4.4. Numbers ....................................................8 - 4.5. Enumerateds ................................................8 - 4.6. Constructed Types ..........................................9 - 4.6.1. Variants ...........................................10 - 4.7. Cryptographic Attributes ..................................11 - 4.8. Constants .................................................12 - 5. HMAC and the Pseudorandom Function .............................12 - 6. The TLS Record Protocol ........................................14 - 6.1. Connection States .........................................15 - 6.2. Record layer ..............................................17 - 6.2.1. Fragmentation ......................................17 - 6.2.2. Record Compression and Decompression ...............19 - 6.2.3. Record Payload Protection ..........................19 - 6.2.3.1. Null or Standard Stream Cipher ............20 - 6.2.3.2. CBC Block Cipher ..........................21 - 6.3. Key Calculation ...........................................24 - 7. The TLS Handshaking Protocols ..................................24 - 7.1. Change Cipher Spec Protocol ...............................25 - 7.2. Alert Protocol ............................................26 - 7.2.1. Closure Alerts .....................................27 - 7.2.2. Error Alerts .......................................28 - 7.3. Handshake Protocol Overview ...............................31 - 7.4. Handshake Protocol ........................................34 - 7.4.1. Hello Messages .....................................35 - 7.4.1.1. Hello request .............................35 - 7.4.1.2. Client Hello ..............................36 - 7.4.1.3. Server Hello ..............................39 - 7.4.2. Server Certificate .................................40 - 7.4.3. Server Key Exchange Message ........................42 - 7.4.4. Certificate request ................................44 - 7.4.5. Server Hello Done ..................................46 - 7.4.6. Client certificate .................................46 - 7.4.7. Client Key Exchange Message ........................47 - 7.4.7.1. RSA Encrypted Premaster Secret Message ....47 - 7.4.7.2. Client Diffie-Hellman Public Value ........50 - 7.4.8. Certificate verify .................................50 - 7.4.9. Finished ...........................................51 - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 2] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - 8. Cryptographic Computations .....................................52 - 8.1. Computing the Master Secret ...............................52 - 8.1.1. RSA ................................................53 - 8.1.2. Diffie-Hellman .....................................53 - 9. Mandatory Cipher Suites ........................................53 - 10. Application Data Protocol .....................................53 - 11. Security Considerations .......................................53 - 12. IANA Considerations ...........................................54 - A. Appendix - Protocol constant values ............................55 - A.1. Record layer .........................................55 - A.2. Change cipher specs message ..........................56 - A.3. Alert messages .......................................56 - A.4. Handshake protocol ...................................57 - A.4.1. Hello messages .....................................57 - A.4.2. Server authentication and key exchange messages ....58 - A.4.3. Client authentication and key exchange messages ....59 - A.4.4.Handshake finalization message ......................60 - A.5. The CipherSuite ......................................60 - A.6. The Security Parameters ..............................63 - B. Appendix - Glossary ............................................64 - C. Appendix - CipherSuite definitions .............................68 - D. Appendix - Implementation Notes ................................69 - D.1 Random Number Generation and Seeding ..................70 - D.2 Certificates and authentication .......................70 - D.3 CipherSuites ..........................................70 - E. Appendix - Backward Compatibility With SSL .....................71 - E.1. Version 2 client hello ...............................72 - E.2. Avoiding man-in-the-middle version rollback ..........74 - F. Appendix - Security analysis ...................................74 - F.1. Handshake protocol ...................................74 - F.1.1. Authentication and key exchange ....................74 - F.1.1.1. Anonymous key exchange ...........................75 - F.1.1.2. RSA key exchange and authentication ..............75 - F.1.1.3. Diffie-Hellman key exchange with authentication ..76 - F.1.2. Version rollback attacks ...........................77 - F.1.3. Detecting attacks against the handshake protocol ...77 - F.1.4. Resuming sessions ..................................78 - F.1.5. MD5 and SHA ........................................78 - F.2. Protecting application data ..........................78 - F.3. Explicit IVs .........................................79 - F.4 Security of Composite Cipher Modes ...................79 - F.5 Denial of Service ....................................80 - F.6. Final notes ..........................................80 - Normative References ..............................................81 - Informative References ............................................82 - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 3] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -1. Introduction - - The primary goal of the TLS Protocol is to provide privacy and data - integrity between two communicating applications. The protocol is - composed of two layers: the TLS Record Protocol and the TLS Handshake - Protocol. At the lowest level, layered on top of some reliable - transport protocol (e.g., TCP[TCP]), is the TLS Record Protocol. The - TLS Record Protocol provides connection security that has two basic - properties: - - - The connection is private. Symmetric cryptography is used for - data encryption (e.g., DES [DES], RC4 [SCH] etc.). The keys for - this symmetric encryption are generated uniquely for each - connection and are based on a secret negotiated by another - protocol (such as the TLS Handshake Protocol). The Record - Protocol can also be used without encryption. - - - The connection is reliable. Message transport includes a message - integrity check using a keyed MAC. Secure hash functions (e.g., - SHA, MD5, etc.) are used for MAC computations. The Record - Protocol can operate without a MAC, but is generally only used in - this mode while another protocol is using the Record Protocol as a - transport for negotiating security parameters. - - The TLS Record Protocol is used for encapsulation of various higher- - level protocols. One such encapsulated protocol, the TLS Handshake - Protocol, allows the server and client to authenticate each other and - to negotiate an encryption algorithm and cryptographic keys before - the application protocol transmits or receives its first byte of - data. The TLS Handshake Protocol provides connection security that - has three basic properties: - - - The peer's identity can be authenticated using asymmetric, or - public key, cryptography (e.g., RSA [RSA], DSS [DSS], etc.). This - authentication can be made optional, but is generally required for - at least one of the peers. - - - The negotiation of a shared secret is secure: the negotiated - secret is unavailable to eavesdroppers, and for any authenticated - connection the secret cannot be obtained, even by an attacker who - can place himself in the middle of the connection. - - - The negotiation is reliable: no attacker can modify the - negotiation communication without being detected by the parties to - the communication. - - One advantage of TLS is that it is application protocol independent. - Higher level protocols can layer on top of the TLS Protocol - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 4] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - transparently. The TLS standard, however, does not specify how - protocols add security with TLS; the decisions on how to initiate TLS - handshaking and how to interpret the authentication certificates - exchanged are left to the judgment of the designers and implementors - of protocols that run on top of TLS. - -1.1. Differences from TLS 1.0 - - This document is a revision of the TLS 1.0 [TLS1.0] protocol, and - contains some small security improvements, clarifications, and - editorial improvements. The major changes are: - - - The implicit Initialization Vector (IV) is replaced with an - explicit IV to protect against CBC attacks [CBCATT]. - - - Handling of padding errors is changed to use the bad_record_mac - alert rather than the decryption_failed alert to protect against - CBC attacks. - - - IANA registries are defined for protocol parameters. - - - Premature closes no longer cause a session to be nonresumable. - - - Additional informational notes were added for various new attacks - on TLS. - - In addition, a number of minor clarifications and editorial - improvements were made. - -1.2. Requirements Terminology - - In this document, the keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", - "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT" and "MAY" are to be interpreted as described - in RFC 2119 [REQ]. - -2. Goals - - The goals of TLS Protocol, in order of their priority, are as - follows: - - 1. Cryptographic security: TLS should be used to establish a secure - connection between two parties. - - 2. Interoperability: Independent programmers should be able to - develop applications utilizing TLS that can successfully exchange - cryptographic parameters without knowledge of one another's code. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 5] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - 3. Extensibility: TLS seeks to provide a framework into which new - public key and bulk encryption methods can be incorporated as - necessary. This will also accomplish two sub-goals: preventing - the need to create a new protocol (and risking the introduction of - possible new weaknesses) and avoiding the need to implement an - entire new security library. - - 4. Relative efficiency: Cryptographic operations tend to be highly - CPU intensive, particularly public key operations. For this - reason, the TLS protocol has incorporated an optional session - caching scheme to reduce the number of connections that need to be - established from scratch. Additionally, care has been taken to - reduce network activity. - -3. Goals of This Document - - This document and the TLS protocol itself are based on the SSL 3.0 - Protocol Specification as published by Netscape. The differences - between this protocol and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are - significant enough that TLS 1.1, TLS 1.0, and SSL 3.0 do not - interoperate (although each protocol incorporates a mechanism by - which an implementation can back down prior versions). This document - is intended primarily for readers who will be implementing the - protocol and for those doing cryptographic analysis of it. The - specification has been written with this in mind, and it is intended - to reflect the needs of those two groups. For that reason, many of - the algorithm-dependent data structures and rules are included in the - body of the text (as opposed to in an appendix), providing easier - access to them. - - This document is not intended to supply any details of service - definition or of interface definition, although it does cover select - areas of policy as they are required for the maintenance of solid - security. - -4. Presentation Language - - This document deals with the formatting of data in an external - representation. The following very basic and somewhat casually - defined presentation syntax will be used. The syntax draws from - several sources in its structure. Although it resembles the - programming language "C" in its syntax and XDR [XDR] in both its - syntax and intent, it would be risky to draw too many parallels. The - purpose of this presentation language is to document TLS only; it has - no general application beyond that particular goal. - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 6] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -4.1. Basic Block Size - - The representation of all data items is explicitly specified. The - basic data block size is one byte (i.e., 8 bits). Multiple byte data - items are concatenations of bytes, from left to right, from top to - bottom. From the bytestream, a multi-byte item (a numeric in the - example) is formed (using C notation) by: - - value = (byte[0] << 8*(n-1)) | (byte[1] << 8*(n-2)) | - ... | byte[n-1]; - - This byte ordering for multi-byte values is the commonplace network - byte order or big endian format. - -4.2. Miscellaneous - - Comments begin with "/*" and end with "*/". - - Optional components are denoted by enclosing them in "[[ ]]" double - brackets. - - Single-byte entities containing uninterpreted data are of type - opaque. - -4.3. Vectors - - A vector (single dimensioned array) is a stream of homogeneous data - elements. The size of the vector may be specified at documentation - time or left unspecified until runtime. In either case, the length - declares the number of bytes, not the number of elements, in the - vector. The syntax for specifying a new type, T', that is a fixed- - length vector of type T is - - T T'[n]; - - Here, T' occupies n bytes in the data stream, where n is a multiple - of the size of T. The length of the vector is not included in the - encoded stream. - - In the following example, Datum is defined to be three consecutive - bytes that the protocol does not interpret, while Data is three - consecutive Datum, consuming a total of nine bytes. - - opaque Datum[3]; /* three uninterpreted bytes */ - Datum Data[9]; /* 3 consecutive 3 byte vectors */ - - Variable-length vectors are defined by specifying a subrange of legal - lengths, inclusively, using the notation <floor..ceiling>. When - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 7] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - these are encoded, the actual length precedes the vector's contents - in the byte stream. The length will be in the form of a number - consuming as many bytes as required to hold the vector's specified - maximum (ceiling) length. A variable-length vector with an actual - length field of zero is referred to as an empty vector. - - T T'<floor..ceiling>; - - In the following example, mandatory is a vector that must contain - between 300 and 400 bytes of type opaque. It can never be empty. - The actual length field consumes two bytes, a uint16, sufficient to - represent the value 400 (see Section 4.4). On the other hand, longer - can represent up to 800 bytes of data, or 400 uint16 elements, and it - may be empty. Its encoding will include a two-byte actual length - field prepended to the vector. The length of an encoded vector must - be an even multiple of the length of a single element (for example, a - 17-byte vector of uint16 would be illegal). - - opaque mandatory<300..400>; - /* length field is 2 bytes, cannot be empty */ - uint16 longer<0..800>; - /* zero to 400 16-bit unsigned integers */ - -4.4. Numbers - - The basic numeric data type is an unsigned byte (uint8). All larger - numeric data types are formed from fixed-length series of bytes - concatenated as described in Section 4.1 and are also unsigned. The - following numeric types are predefined. - - uint8 uint16[2]; - uint8 uint24[3]; - uint8 uint32[4]; - uint8 uint64[8]; - - All values, here and elsewhere in the specification, are stored in - "network" or "big-endian" order; the uint32 represented by the hex - bytes 01 02 03 04 is equivalent to the decimal value 16909060. - -4.5. Enumerateds - - An additional sparse data type is available called enum. A field of - type enum can only assume the values declared in the definition. - Each definition is a different type. Only enumerateds of the same - type may be assigned or compared. Every element of an enumerated - must be assigned a value, as demonstrated in the following example. - Since the elements of the enumerated are not ordered, they can be - assigned any unique value, in any order. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 8] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - enum { e1(v1), e2(v2), ... , en(vn) [[, (n)]] } Te; - - Enumerateds occupy as much space in the byte stream as would its - maximal defined ordinal value. The following definition would cause - one byte to be used to carry fields of type Color. - - enum { red(3), blue(5), white(7) } Color; - - One may optionally specify a value without its associated tag to - force the width definition without defining a superfluous element. - In the following example, Taste will consume two bytes in the data - stream but can only assume the values 1, 2, or 4. - - enum { sweet(1), sour(2), bitter(4), (32000) } Taste; - - The names of the elements of an enumeration are scoped within the - defined type. In the first example, a fully qualified reference to - the second element of the enumeration would be Color.blue. Such - qualification is not required if the target of the assignment is well - specified. - - Color color = Color.blue; /* overspecified, legal */ - Color color = blue; /* correct, type implicit */ - - For enumerateds that are never converted to external representation, - the numerical information may be omitted. - - enum { low, medium, high } Amount; - -4.6. Constructed Types - - Structure types may be constructed from primitive types for - convenience. Each specification declares a new, unique type. The - syntax for definition is much like that of C. - - struct { - T1 f1; - T2 f2; - ... - Tn fn; - } [[T]]; - - The fields within a structure may be qualified using the type's name, - with a syntax much like that available for enumerateds. For example, - T.f2 refers to the second field of the previous declaration. - Structure definitions may be embedded. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 9] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -4.6.1. Variants - - Defined structures may have variants based on some knowledge that is - available within the environment. The selector must be an enumerated - type that defines the possible variants the structure defines. There - must be a case arm for every element of the enumeration declared in - the select. The body of the variant structure may be given a label - for reference. The mechanism by which the variant is selected at - runtime is not prescribed by the presentation language. - - struct { - T1 f1; - T2 f2; - .... - Tn fn; - select (E) { - case e1: Te1; - case e2: Te2; - .... - case en: Ten; - } [[fv]]; - } [[Tv]]; - - For example: - - enum { apple, orange } VariantTag; - struct { - uint16 number; - opaque string<0..10>; /* variable length */ - } V1; - struct { - uint32 number; - opaque string[10]; /* fixed length */ - } V2; - struct { - select (VariantTag) { /* value of selector is implicit */ - case apple: V1; /* VariantBody, tag = apple */ - case orange: V2; /* VariantBody, tag = orange */ - } variant_body; /* optional label on variant */ - } VariantRecord; - - Variant structures may be qualified (narrowed) by specifying a value - for the selector prior to the type. For example, an - - orange VariantRecord - - is a narrowed type of a VariantRecord containing a variant_body of - type V2. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 10] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -4.7. Cryptographic Attributes - - The four cryptographic operations digital signing, stream cipher - encryption, block cipher encryption, and public key encryption are - designated digitally-signed, stream-ciphered, block-ciphered, and - public-key-encrypted, respectively. A field's cryptographic - processing is specified by prepending an appropriate key word - designation before the field's type specification. Cryptographic - keys are implied by the current session state (see Section 6.1). - - In digital signing, one-way hash functions are used as input for a - signing algorithm. A digitally-signed element is encoded as an - opaque vector <0..2^16-1>, where the length is specified by the - signing algorithm and key. - - In RSA signing, a 36-byte structure of two hashes (one SHA and one - MD5) is signed (encrypted with the private key). It is encoded with - PKCS #1 block type 1, as described in [PKCS1A]. - - Note: The standard reference for PKCS#1 is now RFC 3447 [PKCS1B]. - However, to minimize differences with TLS 1.0 text, we are - using the terminology of RFC 2313 [PKCS1A]. - - In DSS, the 20 bytes of the SHA hash are run directly through the - Digital Signing Algorithm with no additional hashing. This produces - two values, r and s. The DSS signature is an opaque vector, as - above, the contents of which are the DER encoding of: - - Dss-Sig-Value ::= SEQUENCE { - r INTEGER, - s INTEGER - } - - In stream cipher encryption, the plaintext is exclusive-ORed with an - identical amount of output generated from a cryptographically secure - keyed pseudorandom number generator. - - In block cipher encryption, every block of plaintext encrypts to a - block of ciphertext. All block cipher encryption is done in CBC - (Cipher Block Chaining) mode, and all items that are block-ciphered - will be an exact multiple of the cipher block length. - - In public key encryption, a public key algorithm is used to encrypt - data in such a way that it can be decrypted only with the matching - private key. A public-key-encrypted element is encoded as an opaque - vector <0..2^16-1>, where the length is specified by the signing - algorithm and key. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 11] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - An RSA-encrypted value is encoded with PKCS #1 block type 2, as - described in [PKCS1A]. - - In the following example, - - stream-ciphered struct { - uint8 field1; - uint8 field2; - digitally-signed opaque hash[20]; - } UserType; - - the contents of hash are used as input for the signing algorithm, and - then the entire structure is encrypted with a stream cipher. The - length of this structure, in bytes, would be equal to two bytes for - field1 and field2, plus two bytes for the length of the signature, - plus the length of the output of the signing algorithm. This is - known because the algorithm and key used for the signing are known - prior to encoding or decoding this structure. - -4.8. Constants - - Typed constants can be defined for purposes of specification by - declaring a symbol of the desired type and assigning values to it. - Under-specified types (opaque, variable length vectors, and - structures that contain opaque) cannot be assigned values. No fields - of a multi-element structure or vector may be elided. - - For example: - - struct { - uint8 f1; - uint8 f2; - } Example1; - - Example1 ex1 = {1, 4}; /* assigns f1 = 1, f2 = 4 */ - -5. HMAC and the Pseudorandom Function - - A number of operations in the TLS record and handshake layer require - a keyed MAC; this is a secure digest of some data protected by a - secret. Forging the MAC is infeasible without knowledge of the MAC - secret. The construction we use for this operation is known as HMAC, - and is described in [HMAC]. - - HMAC can be used with a variety of different hash algorithms. TLS - uses it in the handshake with two different algorithms, MD5 and SHA- - 1, denoting these as HMAC_MD5(secret, data) and HMAC_SHA(secret, - data). Additional hash algorithms can be defined by cipher suites - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 12] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - and used to protect record data, but MD5 and SHA-1 are hard coded - into the description of the handshaking for this version of the - protocol. - - In addition, a construction is required to do expansion of secrets - into blocks of data for the purposes of key generation or validation. - This pseudo-random function (PRF) takes as input a secret, a seed, - and an identifying label and produces an output of arbitrary length. - - In order to make the PRF as secure as possible, it uses two hash - algorithms in a way that should guarantee its security if either - algorithm remains secure. - - First, we define a data expansion function, P_hash(secret, data) that - uses a single hash function to expand a secret and seed into an - arbitrary quantity of output: - - P_hash(secret, seed) = HMAC_hash(secret, A(1) + seed) + - HMAC_hash(secret, A(2) + seed) + - HMAC_hash(secret, A(3) + seed) + ... - - Where + indicates concatenation. - - A() is defined as: - - A(0) = seed - A(i) = HMAC_hash(secret, A(i-1)) - - P_hash can be iterated as many times as is necessary to produce the - required quantity of data. For example, if P_SHA-1 is being used to - create 64 bytes of data, it will have to be iterated 4 times (through - A(4)), creating 80 bytes of output data; the last 16 bytes of the - final iteration will then be discarded, leaving 64 bytes of output - data. - - TLS's PRF is created by splitting the secret into two halves and - using one half to generate data with P_MD5 and the other half to - generate data with P_SHA-1, then exclusive-ORing the outputs of these - two expansion functions together. - - S1 and S2 are the two halves of the secret, and each is the same - length. S1 is taken from the first half of the secret, S2 from the - second half. Their length is created by rounding up the length of - the overall secret, divided by two; thus, if the original secret is - an odd number of bytes long, the last byte of S1 will be the same as - the first byte of S2. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 13] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - L_S = length in bytes of secret; - L_S1 = L_S2 = ceil(L_S / 2); - - - The secret is partitioned into two halves (with the possibility of - one shared byte) as described above, S1 taking the first L_S1 bytes, - and S2 the last L_S2 bytes. - - The PRF is then defined as the result of mixing the two pseudorandom - streams by exclusive-ORing them together. - - PRF(secret, label, seed) = P_MD5(S1, label + seed) XOR - P_SHA-1(S2, label + seed); - - The label is an ASCII string. It should be included in the exact - form it is given without a length byte or trailing null character. - For example, the label "slithy toves" would be processed by hashing - the following bytes: - - 73 6C 69 74 68 79 20 74 6F 76 65 73 - - Note that because MD5 produces 16-byte outputs and SHA-1 produces - 20-byte outputs, the boundaries of their internal iterations will not - be aligned. Generating an 80-byte output will require that P_MD5 - iterate through A(5), while P_SHA-1 will only iterate through A(4). - -6. The TLS Record Protocol - - The TLS Record Protocol is a layered protocol. At each layer, - messages may include fields for length, description, and content. - The Record Protocol takes messages to be transmitted, fragments the - data into manageable blocks, optionally compresses the data, applies - a MAC, encrypts, and transmits the result. Received data is - decrypted, verified, decompressed, reassembled, and then delivered to - higher-level clients. - - Four record protocol clients are described in this document: the - handshake protocol, the alert protocol, the change cipher spec - protocol, and the application data protocol. In order to allow - extension of the TLS protocol, additional record types can be - supported by the record protocol. Any new record types SHOULD - allocate type values immediately beyond the ContentType values for - the four record types described here (see Appendix A.1). All such - values must be defined by RFC 2434 Standards Action. See Section 11 - for IANA Considerations for ContentType values. - - If a TLS implementation receives a record type it does not - understand, it SHOULD just ignore it. Any protocol designed for use - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 14] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - over TLS MUST be carefully designed to deal with all possible attacks - against it. Note that because the type and length of a record are - not protected by encryption, care SHOULD be taken to minimize the - value of traffic analysis of these values. - -6.1. Connection States - - A TLS connection state is the operating environment of the TLS Record - Protocol. It specifies a compression algorithm, and encryption - algorithm, and a MAC algorithm. In addition, the parameters for - these algorithms are known: the MAC secret and the bulk encryption - keys for the connection in both the read and the write directions. - Logically, there are always four connection states outstanding: the - current read and write states, and the pending read and write states. - All records are processed under the current read and write states. - The security parameters for the pending states can be set by the TLS - Handshake Protocol, and the Change Cipher Spec can selectively make - either of the pending states current, in which case the appropriate - current state is disposed of and replaced with the pending state; the - pending state is then reinitialized to an empty state. It is illegal - to make a state that has not been initialized with security - parameters a current state. The initial current state always - specifies that no encryption, compression, or MAC will be used. - - The security parameters for a TLS Connection read and write state are - set by providing the following values: - - connection end - Whether this entity is considered the "client" or the "server" in - this connection. - - bulk encryption algorithm - An algorithm to be used for bulk encryption. This specification - includes the key size of this algorithm, how much of that key is - secret, whether it is a block or stream cipher, and the block size - of the cipher (if appropriate). - - MAC algorithm - An algorithm to be used for message authentication. This - specification includes the size of the hash returned by the MAC - algorithm. - - compression algorithm - An algorithm to be used for data compression. This specification - must include all information the algorithm requires compression. - - master secret - A 48-byte secret shared between the two peers in the connection. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 15] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - client random - A 32-byte value provided by the client. - - server random - A 32-byte value provided by the server. - - These parameters are defined in the presentation language as: - - enum { server, client } ConnectionEnd; - - enum { null, rc4, rc2, des, 3des, des40, idea, aes } - BulkCipherAlgorithm; - - enum { stream, block } CipherType; - - enum { null, md5, sha } MACAlgorithm; - - enum { null(0), (255) } CompressionMethod; - - /* The algorithms specified in CompressionMethod, - BulkCipherAlgorithm, and MACAlgorithm may be added to. */ - - struct { - ConnectionEnd entity; - BulkCipherAlgorithm bulk_cipher_algorithm; - CipherType cipher_type; - uint8 key_size; - uint8 key_material_length; - MACAlgorithm mac_algorithm; - uint8 hash_size; - CompressionMethod compression_algorithm; - opaque master_secret[48]; - opaque client_random[32]; - opaque server_random[32]; - } SecurityParameters; - - The record layer will use the security parameters to generate the - following four items: - - client write MAC secret - server write MAC secret - client write key - server write key - - The client write parameters are used by the server when receiving and - processing records and vice-versa. The algorithm used for generating - these items from the security parameters is described in Section 6.3. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 16] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Once the security parameters have been set and the keys have been - generated, the connection states can be instantiated by making them - the current states. These current states MUST be updated for each - record processed. Each connection state includes the following - elements: - - compression state - The current state of the compression algorithm. - - cipher state - The current state of the encryption algorithm. This will consist - of the scheduled key for that connection. For stream ciphers, - this will also contain whatever state information is necessary to - allow the stream to continue to encrypt or decrypt data. - - MAC secret - The MAC secret for this connection, as generated above. - - sequence number - Each connection state contains a sequence number, which is - maintained separately for read and write states. The sequence - number MUST be set to zero whenever a connection state is made the - active state. Sequence numbers are of type uint64 and may not - exceed 2^64-1. Sequence numbers do not wrap. If a TLS - implementation would need to wrap a sequence number, it must - renegotiate instead. A sequence number is incremented after each - record: specifically, the first record transmitted under a - particular connection state MUST use sequence number 0. - -6.2. Record layer - - The TLS Record Layer receives uninterpreted data from higher layers - in non-empty blocks of arbitrary size. - -6.2.1. Fragmentation - - The record layer fragments information blocks into TLSPlaintext - records carrying data in chunks of 2^14 bytes or less. Client - message boundaries are not preserved in the record layer (i.e., - multiple client messages of the same ContentType MAY be coalesced - into a single TLSPlaintext record, or a single message MAY be - fragmented across several records). - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 17] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - struct { - uint8 major, minor; - } ProtocolVersion; - - enum { - change_cipher_spec(20), alert(21), handshake(22), - application_data(23), (255) - } ContentType; - - struct { - ContentType type; - ProtocolVersion version; - uint16 length; - opaque fragment[TLSPlaintext.length]; - } TLSPlaintext; - - type - The higher-level protocol used to process the enclosed fragment. - - version - The version of the protocol being employed. This document - describes TLS Version 1.1, which uses the version { 3, 2 }. The - version value 3.2 is historical: TLS version 1.1 is a minor - modification to the TLS 1.0 protocol, which was itself a minor - modification to the SSL 3.0 protocol, which bears the version - value 3.0. (See Appendix A.1.) - - length - The length (in bytes) of the following TLSPlaintext.fragment. The - length should not exceed 2^14. - - fragment - The application data. This data is transparent and is treated as - an independent block to be dealt with by the higher-level protocol - specified by the type field. - - Note: Data of different TLS Record layer content types MAY be - interleaved. Application data is generally of lower precedence for - transmission than other content types. However, records MUST be - delivered to the network in the same order as they are protected by - the record layer. Recipients MUST receive and process interleaved - application layer traffic during handshakes subsequent to the first - one on a connection. - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 18] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -6.2.2. Record Compression and Decompression - - All records are compressed using the compression algorithm defined in - the current session state. There is always an active compression - algorithm; however, initially it is defined as - CompressionMethod.null. The compression algorithm translates a - TLSPlaintext structure into a TLSCompressed structure. Compression - functions are initialized with default state information whenever a - connection state is made active. - - Compression must be lossless and may not increase the content length - by more than 1024 bytes. If the decompression function encounters a - TLSCompressed.fragment that would decompress to a length in excess of - 2^14 bytes, it should report a fatal decompression failure error. - - struct { - ContentType type; /* same as TLSPlaintext.type */ - ProtocolVersion version;/* same as TLSPlaintext.version */ - uint16 length; - opaque fragment[TLSCompressed.length]; - } TLSCompressed; - - length - The length (in bytes) of the following TLSCompressed.fragment. - The length should not exceed 2^14 + 1024. - - fragment - The compressed form of TLSPlaintext.fragment. - - Note: A CompressionMethod.null operation is an identity operation; no - fields are altered. - - Implementation note: Decompression functions are responsible for - ensuring that messages cannot cause internal - buffer overflows. - -6.2.3. Record Payload Protection - - The encryption and MAC functions translate a TLSCompressed structure - into a TLSCiphertext. The decryption functions reverse the process. - The MAC of the record also includes a sequence number so that - missing, extra, or repeated messages are detectable. - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 19] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - struct { - ContentType type; - ProtocolVersion version; - uint16 length; - select (CipherSpec.cipher_type) { - case stream: GenericStreamCipher; - case block: GenericBlockCipher; - } fragment; - } TLSCiphertext; - - type - The type field is identical to TLSCompressed.type. - - version - The version field is identical to TLSCompressed.version. - - length - The length (in bytes) of the following TLSCiphertext.fragment. - The length may not exceed 2^14 + 2048. - - fragment - The encrypted form of TLSCompressed.fragment, with the MAC. - -6.2.3.1. Null or Standard Stream Cipher - - Stream ciphers (including BulkCipherAlgorithm.null, see Appendix A.6) - convert TLSCompressed.fragment structures to and from stream - TLSCiphertext.fragment structures. - - stream-ciphered struct { - opaque content[TLSCompressed.length]; - opaque MAC[CipherSpec.hash_size]; - } GenericStreamCipher; - - The MAC is generated as: - - HMAC_hash(MAC_write_secret, seq_num + TLSCompressed.type + - TLSCompressed.version + TLSCompressed.length + - TLSCompressed.fragment)); - - where "+" denotes concatenation. - - seq_num - The sequence number for this record. - - hash - The hashing algorithm specified by - SecurityParameters.mac_algorithm. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 20] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Note that the MAC is computed before encryption. The stream cipher - encrypts the entire block, including the MAC. For stream ciphers - that do not use a synchronization vector (such as RC4), the stream - cipher state from the end of one record is simply used on the - subsequent packet. If the CipherSuite is TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL, - encryption consists of the identity operation (i.e., the data is not - encrypted, and the MAC size is zero, implying that no MAC is used). - TLSCiphertext.length is TLSCompressed.length plus - CipherSpec.hash_size. - -6.2.3.2. CBC Block Cipher - - For block ciphers (such as RC2, DES, or AES), the encryption and MAC - functions convert TLSCompressed.fragment structures to and from block - TLSCiphertext.fragment structures. - - block-ciphered struct { - opaque IV[CipherSpec.block_length]; - opaque content[TLSCompressed.length]; - opaque MAC[CipherSpec.hash_size]; - uint8 padding[GenericBlockCipher.padding_length]; - uint8 padding_length; - } GenericBlockCipher; - - The MAC is generated as described in Section 6.2.3.1. - - IV - Unlike previous versions of SSL and TLS, TLS 1.1 uses an explicit - IV in order to prevent the attacks described by [CBCATT]. We - recommend the following equivalently strong procedures. For - clarity we use the following notation. - - IV - The transmitted value of the IV field in the GenericBlockCipher - structure. - - CBC residue - The last ciphertext block of the previous record. - - mask - The actual value that the cipher XORs with the plaintext prior - to encryption of the first cipher block of the record. - - In prior versions of TLS, there was no IV field and the CBC - residue and mask were one and the same. See Sections 6.1, - 6.2.3.2, and 6.3, of [TLS1.0] for details of TLS 1.0 IV handling. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 21] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - One of the following two algorithms SHOULD be used to generate the - per-record IV: - - (1) Generate a cryptographically strong random string R of length - CipherSpec.block_length. Place R in the IV field. Set the - mask to R. Thus, the first cipher block will be encrypted as - E(R XOR Data). - - (2) Generate a cryptographically strong random number R of length - CipherSpec.block_length and prepend it to the plaintext prior - to encryption. In this case either: - - (a) The cipher may use a fixed mask such as zero. - (b) The CBC residue from the previous record may be used as - the mask. This preserves maximum code compatibility with - TLS 1.0 and SSL 3. It also has the advantage that it does - not require the ability to quickly reset the IV, which is - known to be a problem on some systems. - - In either (2)(a) or (2)(b) the data (R || data) is fed into - the encryption process. The first cipher block (containing - E(mask XOR R) is placed in the IV field. The first block of - content contains E(IV XOR data). - - The following alternative procedure MAY be used; however, it has - not been demonstrated to be as cryptographically strong as the - above procedures. The sender prepends a fixed block F to the - plaintext (or, alternatively, a block generated with a weak PRNG). - He then encrypts as in (2), above, using the CBC residue from the - previous block as the mask for the prepended block. Note that in - this case the mask for the first record transmitted by the - application (the Finished) MUST be generated using a - cryptographically strong PRNG. - - The decryption operation for all three alternatives is the same. - The receiver decrypts the entire GenericBlockCipher structure and - then discards the first cipher block, corresponding to the IV - component. - - padding - Padding that is added to force the length of the plaintext to be - an integral multiple of the block cipher's block length. The - padding MAY be any length up to 255 bytes, as long as it results - in the TLSCiphertext.length being an integral multiple of the - block length. Lengths longer than necessary might be desirable to - frustrate attacks on a protocol that are based on analysis of the - lengths of exchanged messages. Each uint8 in the padding data - vector MUST be filled with the padding length value. The receiver - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 22] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - MUST check this padding and SHOULD use the bad_record_mac alert to - indicate padding errors. - - padding_length - The padding length MUST be such that the total size of the - GenericBlockCipher structure is a multiple of the cipher's block - length. Legal values range from zero to 255, inclusive. This - length specifies the length of the padding field exclusive of the - padding_length field itself. - - The encrypted data length (TLSCiphertext.length) is one more than the - sum of CipherSpec.block_length, TLSCompressed.length, - CipherSpec.hash_size, and padding_length. - - Example: If the block length is 8 bytes, the content length - (TLSCompressed.length) is 61 bytes, and the MAC length is 20 - bytes, then the length before padding is 82 bytes (this does - not include the IV, which may or may not be encrypted, as - discussed above). Thus, the padding length modulo 8 must be - equal to 6 in order to make the total length an even - multiple of 8 bytes (the block length). The padding length - can be 6, 14, 22, and so on, through 254. If the padding - length were the minimum necessary, 6, the padding would be 6 - bytes, each containing the value 6. Thus, the last 8 octets - of the GenericBlockCipher before block encryption would be - xx 06 06 06 06 06 06 06, where xx is the last octet of the - MAC. - - Note: With block ciphers in CBC mode (Cipher Block Chaining), it is - critical that the entire plaintext of the record be known - before any ciphertext is transmitted. Otherwise, it is - possible for the attacker to mount the attack described in - [CBCATT]. - - Implementation Note: Canvel et al. [CBCTIME] have demonstrated a - timing attack on CBC padding based on the time - required to compute the MAC. In order to defend - against this attack, implementations MUST ensure - that record processing time is essentially the - same whether or not the padding is correct. In - general, the best way to do this is to compute - the MAC even if the padding is incorrect, and - only then reject the packet. For instance, if - the pad appears to be incorrect, the - implementation might assume a zero-length pad - and then compute the MAC. This leaves a small - timing channel, since MAC performance depends to - some extent on the size of the data fragment, - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 23] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - but it is not believed to be large enough to be - exploitable, due to the large block size of - existing MACs and the small size of the timing - signal. - -6.3. Key Calculation - - The Record Protocol requires an algorithm to generate keys, and MAC - secrets from the security parameters provided by the handshake - protocol. - - The master secret is hashed into a sequence of secure bytes, which - are assigned to the MAC secrets and keys required by the current - connection state (see Appendix A.6). CipherSpecs require a client - write MAC secret, a server write MAC secret, a client write key, and - a server write key, each of which is generated from the master secret - in that order. Unused values are empty. - - When keys and MAC secrets are generated, the master secret is used as - an entropy source. - - To generate the key material, compute - - key_block = PRF(SecurityParameters.master_secret, - "key expansion", - SecurityParameters.server_random + - SecurityParameters.client_random); - - until enough output has been generated. Then the key_block is - partitioned as follows: - - client_write_MAC_secret[SecurityParameters.hash_size] - server_write_MAC_secret[SecurityParameters.hash_size] - client_write_key[SecurityParameters.key_material_length] - server_write_key[SecurityParameters.key_material_length] - - Implementation note: The currently defined cipher suite that requires - the most material is AES_256_CBC_SHA, defined in [TLSAES]. It - requires 2 x 32 byte keys, 2 x 20 byte MAC secrets, and 2 x 16 byte - Initialization Vectors, for a total of 136 bytes of key material. - -7. The TLS Handshaking Protocols - - TLS has three subprotocols that are used to allow peers to agree upon - security parameters for the record layer, to authenticate themselves, - to instantiate negotiated security parameters, and to report error - conditions to each other. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 24] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - The Handshake Protocol is responsible for negotiating a session, - which consists of the following items: - - session identifier - An arbitrary byte sequence chosen by the server to identify an - active or resumable session state. - - peer certificate - X509v3 [X509] certificate of the peer. This element of the state - may be null. - - compression method - The algorithm used to compress data prior to encryption. - - cipher spec - Specifies the bulk data encryption algorithm (such as null, DES, - etc.) and a MAC algorithm (such as MD5 or SHA). It also defines - cryptographic attributes such as the hash_size. (See Appendix A.6 - for formal definition.) - - master secret - 48-byte secret shared between the client and server. - - is resumable - A flag indicating whether the session can be used to initiate new - connections. - - These items are then used to create security parameters for use by - the Record Layer when protecting application data. Many connections - can be instantiated using the same session through the resumption - feature of the TLS Handshake Protocol. - -7.1. Change Cipher Spec Protocol - - The change cipher spec protocol exists to signal transitions in - ciphering strategies. The protocol consists of a single message, - which is encrypted and compressed under the current (not the pending) - connection state. The message consists of a single byte of value 1. - - struct { - enum { change_cipher_spec(1), (255) } type; - } ChangeCipherSpec; - - The change cipher spec message is sent by both the client and the - server to notify the receiving party that subsequent records will be - protected under the newly negotiated CipherSpec and keys. Reception - of this message causes the receiver to instruct the Record Layer to - immediately copy the read pending state into the read current state. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 25] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Immediately after sending this message, the sender MUST instruct the - record layer to make the write pending state the write active state. - (See Section 6.1.) The change cipher spec message is sent during the - handshake after the security parameters have been agreed upon, but - before the verifying finished message is sent (see Section 7.4.9). - - Note: If a rehandshake occurs while data is flowing on a connection, - the communicating parties may continue to send data using the - old CipherSpec. However, once the ChangeCipherSpec has been - sent, the new CipherSpec MUST be used. The first side to send - the ChangeCipherSpec does not know that the other side has - finished computing the new keying material (e.g., if it has to - perform a time consuming public key operation). Thus, a small - window of time, during which the recipient must buffer the - data, MAY exist. In practice, with modern machines this - interval is likely to be fairly short. - -7.2. Alert Protocol - - One of the content types supported by the TLS Record layer is - the alert type. Alert messages convey the severity of the - message and a description of the alert. Alert messages with a - level of fatal result in the immediate termination of the - connection. In this case, other connections corresponding to - the session may continue, but the session identifier MUST be - invalidated, preventing the failed session from being used to - establish new connections. Like other messages, alert messages - are encrypted and compressed, as specified by the current - connection state. - - enum { warning(1), fatal(2), (255) } AlertLevel; - - enum { - close_notify(0), - unexpected_message(10), - bad_record_mac(20), - decryption_failed(21), - record_overflow(22), - decompression_failure(30), - handshake_failure(40), - no_certificate_RESERVED (41), - bad_certificate(42), - unsupported_certificate(43), - certificate_revoked(44), - certificate_expired(45), - certificate_unknown(46), - illegal_parameter(47), - unknown_ca(48), - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 26] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - access_denied(49), - decode_error(50), - decrypt_error(51), - export_restriction_RESERVED(60), - protocol_version(70), - insufficient_security(71), - internal_error(80), - user_canceled(90), - no_renegotiation(100), - (255) - } AlertDescription; - - struct { - AlertLevel level; - AlertDescription description; - } Alert; - -7.2.1. Closure Alerts - - The client and the server must share knowledge that the connection is - ending in order to avoid a truncation attack. Either party may - initiate the exchange of closing messages. - - close_notify - This message notifies the recipient that the sender will not send - any more messages on this connection. Note that as of TLS 1.1, - failure to properly close a connection no longer requires that a - session not be resumed. This is a change from TLS 1.0 to conform - with widespread implementation practice. - - Either party may initiate a close by sending a close_notify alert. - Any data received after a closure alert is ignored. - - Unless some other fatal alert has been transmitted, each party is - required to send a close_notify alert before closing the write side - of the connection. The other party MUST respond with a close_notify - alert of its own and close down the connection immediately, - discarding any pending writes. It is not required for the initiator - of the close to wait for the responding close_notify alert before - closing the read side of the connection. - - If the application protocol using TLS provides that any data may be - carried over the underlying transport after the TLS connection is - closed, the TLS implementation must receive the responding - close_notify alert before indicating to the application layer that - the TLS connection has ended. If the application protocol will not - transfer any additional data, but will only close the underlying - transport connection, then the implementation MAY choose to close the - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 27] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - transport without waiting for the responding close_notify. No part - of this standard should be taken to dictate the manner in which a - usage profile for TLS manages its data transport, including when - connections are opened or closed. - - Note: It is assumed that closing a connection reliably delivers - pending data before destroying the transport. - -7.2.2. Error Alerts - - Error handling in the TLS Handshake protocol is very simple. When an - error is detected, the detecting party sends a message to the other - party. Upon transmission or receipt of a fatal alert message, both - parties immediately close the connection. Servers and clients MUST - forget any session-identifiers, keys, and secrets associated with a - failed connection. Thus, any connection terminated with a fatal - alert MUST NOT be resumed. The following error alerts are defined: - - unexpected_message - An inappropriate message was received. This alert is always fatal - and should never be observed in communication between proper - implementations. - - bad_record_mac - This alert is returned if a record is received with an incorrect - MAC. This alert also MUST be returned if an alert is sent because - a TLSCiphertext decrypted in an invalid way: either it wasn't an - even multiple of the block length, or its padding values, when - checked, weren't correct. This message is always fatal. - - decryption_failed - This alert MAY be returned if a TLSCiphertext decrypted in an - invalid way: either it wasn't an even multiple of the block - length, or its padding values, when checked, weren't correct. - This message is always fatal. - - Note: Differentiating between bad_record_mac and decryption_failed - alerts may permit certain attacks against CBC mode as used in - TLS [CBCATT]. It is preferable to uniformly use the - bad_record_mac alert to hide the specific type of the error. - - record_overflow - A TLSCiphertext record was received that had a length more than - 2^14+2048 bytes, or a record decrypted to a TLSCompressed - record with more than 2^14+1024 bytes. This message is always - fatal. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 28] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - decompression_failure - The decompression function received improper input (e.g., data - that would expand to excessive length). This message is always - fatal. - - handshake_failure - Reception of a handshake_failure alert message indicates that - the sender was unable to negotiate an acceptable set of - security parameters given the options available. This is a - fatal error. - - no_certificate_RESERVED - This alert was used in SSLv3 but not in TLS. It should not be - sent by compliant implementations. - - bad_certificate - A certificate was corrupt, contained signatures that did not - verify correctly, etc. - - unsupported_certificate - A certificate was of an unsupported type. - - certificate_revoked - A certificate was revoked by its signer. - - certificate_expired - A certificate has expired or is not currently valid. - - certificate_unknown - Some other (unspecified) issue arose in processing the - certificate, rendering it unacceptable. - - illegal_parameter - A field in the handshake was out of range or inconsistent with - other fields. This is always fatal. - - unknown_ca - A valid certificate chain or partial chain was received, but - the certificate was not accepted because the CA certificate - could not be located or couldn't be matched with a known, - trusted CA. This message is always fatal. - - access_denied - A valid certificate was received, but when access control was - applied, the sender decided not to proceed with negotiation. - This message is always fatal. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 29] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - decode_error - A message could not be decoded because some field was out of - the specified range or the length of the message was incorrect. - This message is always fatal. - - decrypt_error - A handshake cryptographic operation failed, including being - unable to correctly verify a signature, decrypt a key exchange, - or validate a finished message. - - export_restriction_RESERVED - This alert was used in TLS 1.0 but not TLS 1.1. - - protocol_version - The protocol version the client has attempted to negotiate is - recognized but not supported. (For example, old protocol - versions might be avoided for security reasons). This message - is always fatal. - - insufficient_security - Returned instead of handshake_failure when a negotiation has - failed specifically because the server requires ciphers more - secure than those supported by the client. This message is - always fatal. - - internal_error - An internal error unrelated to the peer or the correctness of - the protocol (such as a memory allocation failure) makes it - impossible to continue. This message is always fatal. - - user_canceled - This handshake is being canceled for some reason unrelated to a - protocol failure. If the user cancels an operation after the - handshake is complete, just closing the connection by sending a - close_notify is more appropriate. This alert should be - followed by a close_notify. This message is generally a - warning. - - no_renegotiation - Sent by the client in response to a hello request or by the - server in response to a client hello after initial handshaking. - Either of these would normally lead to renegotiation; when that - is not appropriate, the recipient should respond with this - alert. At that point, the original requester can decide - whether to proceed with the connection. One case where this - would be appropriate is where a server has spawned a process to - satisfy a request; the process might receive security - parameters (key length, authentication, etc.) at startup and it - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 30] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - might be difficult to communicate changes to these parameters - after that point. This message is always a warning. - - For all errors where an alert level is not explicitly specified, the - sending party MAY determine at its discretion whether this is a fatal - error or not; if an alert with a level of warning is received, the - receiving party MAY decide at its discretion whether to treat this as - a fatal error or not. However, all messages that are transmitted - with a level of fatal MUST be treated as fatal messages. - - New alert values MUST be defined by RFC 2434 Standards Action. See - Section 11 for IANA Considerations for alert values. - -7.3. Handshake Protocol Overview - - The cryptographic parameters of the session state are produced by the - TLS Handshake Protocol, which operates on top of the TLS Record - Layer. When a TLS client and server first start communicating, they - agree on a protocol version, select cryptographic algorithms, - optionally authenticate each other, and use public-key encryption - techniques to generate shared secrets. - - The TLS Handshake Protocol involves the following steps: - - - Exchange hello messages to agree on algorithms, exchange random - values, and check for session resumption. - - - Exchange the necessary cryptographic parameters to allow the - client and server to agree on a premaster secret. - - - Exchange certificates and cryptographic information to allow the - client and server to authenticate themselves. - - - Generate a master secret from the premaster secret and exchanged - random values. - - - Provide security parameters to the record layer. - - - Allow the client and server to verify that their peer has - calculated the same security parameters and that the handshake - occurred without tampering by an attacker. - - Note that higher layers should not be overly reliant on whether TLS - always negotiates the strongest possible connection between two - peers. There are a number of ways in which a man-in-the-middle - attacker can attempt to make two entities drop down to the least - secure method they support. The protocol has been designed to - minimize this risk, but there are still attacks available. For - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 31] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - example, an attacker could block access to the port a secure service - runs on, or attempt to get the peers to negotiate an unauthenticated - connection. The fundamental rule is that higher levels must be - cognizant of what their security requirements are and never transmit - information over a channel less secure than what they require. The - TLS protocol is secure in that any cipher suite offers its promised - level of security: if you negotiate 3DES with a 1024 bit RSA key - exchange with a host whose certificate you have verified, you can - expect to be that secure. - - However, one SHOULD never send data over a link encrypted with 40-bit - security unless one feels that data is worth no more than the effort - required to break that encryption. - - These goals are achieved by the handshake protocol, which can be - summarized as follows: The client sends a client hello message to - which the server must respond with a server hello message, or else a - fatal error will occur and the connection will fail. The client - hello and server hello are used to establish security enhancement - capabilities between client and server. The client hello and server - hello establish the following attributes: Protocol Version, Session - ID, Cipher Suite, and Compression Method. Additionally, two random - values are generated and exchanged: ClientHello.random and - ServerHello.random. - - The actual key exchange uses up to four messages: the server - certificate, the server key exchange, the client certificate, and the - client key exchange. New key exchange methods can be created by - specifying a format for these messages and by defining the use of the - messages to allow the client and server to agree upon a shared - secret. This secret MUST be quite long; currently defined key - exchange methods exchange secrets that range from 48 to 128 bytes in - length. - - Following the hello messages, the server will send its certificate, - if it is to be authenticated. Additionally, a server key exchange - message may be sent, if it is required (e.g., if the server has no - certificate, or if its certificate is for signing only). If the - server is authenticated, it may request a certificate from the - client, if that is appropriate to the cipher suite selected. Next, - the server will send the server hello done message, indicating that - the hello-message phase of the handshake is complete. The server - will then wait for a client response. If the server has sent a - certificate request message, the client must send the certificate - message. The client key exchange message is now sent, and the - content of that message will depend on the public key algorithm - selected between the client hello and the server hello. If the - client has sent a certificate with signing ability, a digitally- - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 32] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - signed certificate verify message is sent to explicitly verify the - certificate. - - - At this point, a change cipher spec message is sent by the client, - and the client copies the pending Cipher Spec into the current Cipher - Spec. The client then immediately sends the finished message under - the new algorithms, keys, and secrets. In response, the server will - send its own change cipher spec message, transfer the pending to the - current Cipher Spec, and send its finished message under the new - Cipher Spec. At this point, the handshake is complete, and the - client and server may begin to exchange application layer data. (See - flow chart below.) Application data MUST NOT be sent prior to the - completion of the first handshake (before a cipher suite other - TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL is established). - - Client Server - - ClientHello --------> - ServerHello - Certificate* - ServerKeyExchange* - CertificateRequest* - <-------- ServerHelloDone - Certificate* - ClientKeyExchange - CertificateVerify* - [ChangeCipherSpec] - Finished --------> - [ChangeCipherSpec] - <-------- Finished - Application Data <-------> Application Data - - Fig. 1. Message flow for a full handshake - - * Indicates optional or situation-dependent messages that are not - always sent. - - Note: To help avoid pipeline stalls, ChangeCipherSpec is an - independent TLS Protocol content type, and is not actually a - TLS handshake message. - - When the client and server decide to resume a previous session or - duplicate an existing session (instead of negotiating new security - parameters), the message flow is as follows: - - The client sends a ClientHello using the Session ID of the session to - be resumed. The server then checks its session cache for a match. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 33] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - If a match is found, and the server is willing to re-establish the - connection under the specified session state, it will send a - ServerHello with the same Session ID value. At this point, both - client and server MUST send change cipher spec messages and proceed - directly to finished messages. Once the re-establishment is - complete, the client and server MAY begin to exchange application - layer data. (See flow chart below.) If a Session ID match is not - found, the server generates a new session ID and the TLS client and - server perform a full handshake. - - Client Server - - ClientHello --------> - ServerHello - [ChangeCipherSpec] - <-------- Finished - [ChangeCipherSpec] - Finished --------> - Application Data <-------> Application Data - - Fig. 2. Message flow for an abbreviated handshake - - The contents and significance of each message will be presented in - detail in the following sections. - -7.4. Handshake Protocol - - The TLS Handshake Protocol is one of the defined higher-level clients - of the TLS Record Protocol. This protocol is used to negotiate the - secure attributes of a session. Handshake messages are supplied to - the TLS Record Layer, where they are encapsulated within one or more - TLSPlaintext structures, which are processed and transmitted as - specified by the current active session state. - - enum { - hello_request(0), client_hello(1), server_hello(2), - certificate(11), server_key_exchange (12), - certificate_request(13), server_hello_done(14), - certificate_verify(15), client_key_exchange(16), - finished(20), (255) - } HandshakeType; - - struct { - HandshakeType msg_type; /* handshake type */ - uint24 length; /* bytes in message */ - select (HandshakeType) { - case hello_request: HelloRequest; - case client_hello: ClientHello; - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 34] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - case server_hello: ServerHello; - case certificate: Certificate; - case server_key_exchange: ServerKeyExchange; - case certificate_request: CertificateRequest; - case server_hello_done: ServerHelloDone; - case certificate_verify: CertificateVerify; - case client_key_exchange: ClientKeyExchange; - case finished: Finished; - } body; - } Handshake; - - The handshake protocol messages are presented below in the order they - MUST be sent; sending handshake messages in an unexpected order - results in a fatal error. Unneeded handshake messages can be - omitted, however. Note one exception to the ordering: the - Certificate message is used twice in the handshake (from server to - client, then from client to server), but is described only in its - first position. The one message that is not bound by these ordering - rules is the Hello Request message, which can be sent at any time, - but which should be ignored by the client if it arrives in the middle - of a handshake. - - New Handshake message type values MUST be defined via RFC 2434 - Standards Action. See Section 11 for IANA Considerations for these - values. - -7.4.1. Hello Messages - - The hello phase messages are used to exchange security enhancement - capabilities between the client and server. When a new session - begins, the Record Layer's connection state encryption, hash, and - compression algorithms are initialized to null. The current - connection state is used for renegotiation messages. - -7.4.1.1. Hello request - - When this message will be sent: - - The hello request message MAY be sent by the server at any time. - - Meaning of this message: - - Hello request is a simple notification that the client should - begin the negotiation process anew by sending a client hello - message when convenient. This message will be ignored by the - client if the client is currently negotiating a session. This - message may be ignored by the client if it does not wish to - renegotiate a session, or the client may, if it wishes, respond - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 35] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - with a no_renegotiation alert. Since handshake messages are - intended to have transmission precedence over application data, it - is expected that the negotiation will begin before no more than a - few records are received from the client. If the server sends a - hello request but does not receive a client hello in response, it - may close the connection with a fatal alert. - - After sending a hello request, servers SHOULD not repeat the - request until the subsequent handshake negotiation is complete. - - Structure of this message: - - struct { } HelloRequest; - - Note: This message MUST NOT be included in the message hashes that - are maintained throughout the handshake and used in the - finished messages and the certificate verify message. - -7.4.1.2. Client Hello - - When this message will be sent: - - When a client first connects to a server it is required to send - the client hello as its first message. The client can also send a - client hello in response to a hello request or on its own - initiative in order to renegotiate the security parameters in an - existing connection. - - Structure of this message: - - The client hello message includes a random structure, which is - used later in the protocol. - - struct { - uint32 gmt_unix_time; - opaque random_bytes[28]; - } Random; - - gmt_unix_time The current time and date in standard UNIX 32-bit - format (seconds since the midnight starting Jan 1, 1970, GMT, - ignoring leap seconds) according to the sender's internal clock. - Clocks are not required to be set correctly by the basic TLS - Protocol; higher-level or application protocols may define - additional requirements. - - random_bytes - 28 bytes generated by a secure random number generator. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 36] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - The client hello message includes a variable-length session - identifier. If not empty, the value identifies a session between the - same client and server whose security parameters the client wishes to - reuse. The session identifier MAY be from an earlier connection, - from this connection, or from another currently active connection. - The second option is useful if the client only wishes to update the - random structures and derived values of a connection, and the third - option makes it possible to establish several independent secure - connections without repeating the full handshake protocol. These - independent connections may occur sequentially or simultaneously; a - SessionID becomes valid when the handshake negotiating it completes - with the exchange of Finished messages and persists until it is - removed due to aging or because a fatal error was encountered on a - connection associated with the session. The actual contents of the - SessionID are defined by the server. - - opaque SessionID<0..32>; - - Warning: Because the SessionID is transmitted without encryption or - immediate MAC protection, servers MUST not place - confidential information in session identifiers or let the - contents of fake session identifiers cause any breach of - security. (Note that the content of the handshake as a - whole, including the SessionID, is protected by the Finished - messages exchanged at the end of the handshake.) - - The CipherSuite list, passed from the client to the server in the - client hello message, contains the combinations of cryptographic - algorithms supported by the client in order of the client's - preference (favorite choice first). Each CipherSuite defines a key - exchange algorithm, a bulk encryption algorithm (including secret key - length), and a MAC algorithm. The server will select a cipher suite - or, if no acceptable choices are presented, return a handshake - failure alert and close the connection. - - uint8 CipherSuite[2]; /* Cryptographic suite selector */ - - The client hello includes a list of compression algorithms supported - by the client, ordered according to the client's preference. - - - - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 37] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - enum { null(0), (255) } CompressionMethod; - - struct { - ProtocolVersion client_version; - Random random; - SessionID session_id; - CipherSuite cipher_suites<2..2^16-1>; - CompressionMethod compression_methods<1..2^8-1>; - } ClientHello; - - client_version - The version of the TLS protocol by which the client wishes to - communicate during this session. This SHOULD be the latest - (highest valued) version supported by the client. For this - version of the specification, the version will be 3.2. (See - Appendix E for details about backward compatibility.) - - random - A client-generated random structure. - - session_id - The ID of a session the client wishes to use for this connection. - This field should be empty if no session_id is available or if the - client wishes to generate new security parameters. - - cipher_suites - This is a list of the cryptographic options supported by the - client, with the client's first preference first. If the - session_id field is not empty (implying a session resumption - request) this vector MUST include at least the cipher_suite from - that session. Values are defined in Appendix A.5. - - compression_methods - This is a list of the compression methods supported by the client, - sorted by client preference. If the session_id field is not empty - (implying a session resumption request) it MUST include the - compression_method from that session. This vector MUST contain, - and all implementations MUST support, CompressionMethod.null. - Thus, a client and server will always be able to agree on a - compression method. - - After sending the client hello message, the client waits for a server - hello message. Any other handshake message returned by the server - except for a hello request is treated as a fatal error. - - Forward compatibility note: In the interests of forward - compatibility, it is permitted that a client hello message include - extra data after the compression methods. This data MUST be included - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 38] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - in the handshake hashes, but must otherwise be ignored. This is the - only handshake message for which this is legal; for all other - messages, the amount of data in the message MUST match the - description of the message precisely. - - Note: For the intended use of trailing data in the ClientHello, - see RFC 3546 [TLSEXT]. - -7.4.1.3. Server Hello - - The server will send this message in response to a client hello - message when it was able to find an acceptable set of algorithms. If - it cannot find such a match, it will respond with a handshake failure - alert. - - Structure of this message: - - struct { - ProtocolVersion server_version; - Random random; - SessionID session_id; - CipherSuite cipher_suite; - CompressionMethod compression_method; - } ServerHello; - - server_version - This field will contain the lower of that suggested by the client - in the client hello and the highest supported by the server. For - this version of the specification, the version is 3.2. (See - Appendix E for details about backward compatibility.) - - random - This structure is generated by the server and MUST be - independently generated from the ClientHello.random. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 39] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - session_id - This is the identity of the session corresponding to this - connection. If the ClientHello.session_id was non-empty, the - server will look in its session cache for a match. If a match is - found and the server is willing to establish the new connection - using the specified session state, the server will respond with - the same value as was supplied by the client. This indicates a - resumed session and dictates that the parties must proceed - directly to the finished messages. Otherwise this field will - contain a different value identifying the new session. The server - may return an empty session_id to indicate that the session will - not be cached and therefore cannot be resumed. If a session is - resumed, it must be resumed using the same cipher suite it was - originally negotiated with. - - cipher_suite - The single cipher suite selected by the server from the list in - ClientHello.cipher_suites. For resumed sessions, this field is - the value from the state of the session being resumed. - - compression_method The single compression algorithm selected by the - server from the list in ClientHello.compression_methods. For - resumed sessions this field is the value from the resumed session - state. - -7.4.2. Server Certificate - - When this message will be sent: - - The server MUST send a certificate whenever the agreed-upon key - exchange method is not an anonymous one. This message will always - immediately follow the server hello message. - - Meaning of this message: - - The certificate type MUST be appropriate for the selected cipher - suite's key exchange algorithm, and is generally an X.509v3 - certificate. It MUST contain a key that matches the key exchange - method, as follows. Unless otherwise specified, the signing - algorithm for the certificate MUST be the same as the algorithm - for the certificate key. Unless otherwise specified, the public - key MAY be of any length. - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 40] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Key Exchange Algorithm Certificate Key Type - - RSA RSA public key; the certificate MUST - allow the key to be used for encryption. - - DHE_DSS DSS public key. - - DHE_RSA RSA public key that can be used for - signing. - - DH_DSS Diffie-Hellman key. The algorithm used - to sign the certificate MUST be DSS. - - DH_RSA Diffie-Hellman key. The algorithm used - to sign the certificate MUST be RSA. - - All certificate profiles and key and cryptographic formats are - defined by the IETF PKIX working group [PKIX]. When a key usage - extension is present, the digitalSignature bit MUST be set for the - key to be eligible for signing, as described above, and the - keyEncipherment bit MUST be present to allow encryption, as described - above. The keyAgreement bit must be set on Diffie-Hellman - certificates. - - As CipherSuites that specify new key exchange methods are specified - for the TLS Protocol, they will imply certificate format and the - required encoded keying information. - - Structure of this message: - - opaque ASN.1Cert<1..2^24-1>; - - struct { - ASN.1Cert certificate_list<0..2^24-1>; - } Certificate; - - certificate_list - This is a sequence (chain) of X.509v3 certificates. The sender's - certificate must come first in the list. Each following - certificate must directly certify the one preceding it. Because - certificate validation requires that root keys be distributed - independently, the self-signed certificate that specifies the root - certificate authority may optionally be omitted from the chain, - under the assumption that the remote end must already possess it - in order to validate it in any case. - - The same message type and structure will be used for the client's - response to a certificate request message. Note that a client MAY - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 41] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - send no certificates if it does not have an appropriate certificate - to send in response to the server's authentication request. - - Note: PKCS #7 [PKCS7] is not used as the format for the - certificate vector because PKCS #6 [PKCS6] extended - certificates are not used. Also, PKCS #7 defines a SET rather - than a SEQUENCE, making the task of parsing the list more - difficult. - -7.4.3. Server Key Exchange Message - - When this message will be sent: - - This message will be sent immediately after the server certificate - message (or the server hello message, if this is an anonymous - negotiation). - - The server key exchange message is sent by the server only when - the server certificate message (if sent) does not contain enough - data to allow the client to exchange a premaster secret. This is - true for the following key exchange methods: - - DHE_DSS - DHE_RSA - DH_anon - - It is not legal to send the server key exchange message for the - following key exchange methods: - - RSA - DH_DSS - DH_RSA - - Meaning of this message: - - This message conveys cryptographic information to allow the client - to communicate the premaster secret: either an RSA public key with - which to encrypt the premaster secret, or a Diffie-Hellman public - key with which the client can complete a key exchange (with the - result being the premaster secret). - - As additional CipherSuites are defined for TLS that include new key - exchange algorithms, the server key exchange message will be sent if - and only if the certificate type associated with the key exchange - algorithm does not provide enough information for the client to - exchange a premaster secret. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 42] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Structure of this message: - - enum { rsa, diffie_hellman } KeyExchangeAlgorithm; - - struct { - opaque rsa_modulus<1..2^16-1>; - opaque rsa_exponent<1..2^16-1>; - } ServerRSAParams; - - rsa_modulus - The modulus of the server's temporary RSA key. - - rsa_exponent - The public exponent of the server's temporary RSA key. - - struct { - opaque dh_p<1..2^16-1>; - opaque dh_g<1..2^16-1>; - opaque dh_Ys<1..2^16-1>; - } ServerDHParams; /* Ephemeral DH parameters */ - - dh_p - The prime modulus used for the Diffie-Hellman operation. - - dh_g - The generator used for the Diffie-Hellman operation. - - dh_Ys - The server's Diffie-Hellman public value (g^X mod p). - - struct { - select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { - case diffie_hellman: - ServerDHParams params; - Signature signed_params; - case rsa: - ServerRSAParams params; - Signature signed_params; - }; - } ServerKeyExchange; - - - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 43] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - struct { - select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { - case diffie_hellman: - ServerDHParams params; - case rsa: - ServerRSAParams params; - }; - } ServerParams; - - params - The server's key exchange parameters. - - signed_params - For non-anonymous key exchanges, a hash of the corresponding - params value, with the signature appropriate to that hash - applied. - - md5_hash - MD5(ClientHello.random + ServerHello.random + ServerParams); - - sha_hash - SHA(ClientHello.random + ServerHello.random + ServerParams); - - enum { anonymous, rsa, dsa } SignatureAlgorithm; - - - struct { - select (SignatureAlgorithm) { - case anonymous: struct { }; - case rsa: - digitally-signed struct { - opaque md5_hash[16]; - opaque sha_hash[20]; - }; - case dsa: - digitally-signed struct { - opaque sha_hash[20]; - }; - }; - }; - } Signature; - -7.4.4. Certificate request - - When this message will be sent: - - A non-anonymous server can optionally request a certificate from - the client, if it is appropriate for the selected cipher suite. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 44] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - This message, if sent, will immediately follow the Server Key - Exchange message (if it is sent; otherwise, the Server Certificate - message). - - Structure of this message: - - enum { - rsa_sign(1), dss_sign(2), rsa_fixed_dh(3), dss_fixed_dh(4), - rsa_ephemeral_dh_RESERVED(5), dss_ephemeral_dh_RESERVED(6), - fortezza_dms_RESERVED(20), - (255) - - } ClientCertificateType; - - opaque DistinguishedName<1..2^16-1>; - - struct { - ClientCertificateType certificate_types<1..2^8-1>; - DistinguishedName certificate_authorities<0..2^16-1>; - } CertificateRequest; - - certificate_types - This field is a list of the types of certificates requested, - sorted in order of the server's preference. - - certificate_authorities - A list of the distinguished names of acceptable certificate - authorities. These distinguished names may specify a desired - distinguished name for a root CA or for a subordinate CA; thus, - this message can be used to describe both known roots and a - desired authorization space. If the certificate_authorities - list is empty then the client MAY send any certificate of the - appropriate ClientCertificateType, unless there is some - external arrangement to the contrary. - - ClientCertificateType values are divided into three groups: - - 1. Values from 0 (zero) through 63 decimal (0x3F) inclusive are - reserved for IETF Standards Track protocols. - - 2. Values from 64 decimal (0x40) through 223 decimal (0xDF) - inclusive are reserved for assignment for non-Standards Track - methods. - - 3. Values from 224 decimal (0xE0) through 255 decimal (0xFF) - inclusive are reserved for private use. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 45] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Additional information describing the role of IANA in the allocation - of ClientCertificateType code points is described in Section 11. - - Note: Values listed as RESERVED may not be used. They were used in - SSLv3. - - Note: DistinguishedName is derived from [X501]. DistinguishedNames - are represented in DER-encoded format. - - Note: It is a fatal handshake_failure alert for an anonymous server - to request client authentication. - -7.4.5. Server Hello Done - - When this message will be sent: - - The server hello done message is sent by the server to indicate - the end of the server hello and associated messages. After - sending this message, the server will wait for a client response. - - Meaning of this message: - - This message means that the server is done sending messages to - support the key exchange, and the client can proceed with its - phase of the key exchange. - - Upon receipt of the server hello done message, the client SHOULD - verify that the server provided a valid certificate, if required - and check that the server hello parameters are acceptable. - - Structure of this message: - - struct { } ServerHelloDone; - -7.4.6. Client certificate - - When this message will be sent: - - This is the first message the client can send after receiving a - server hello done message. This message is only sent if the - server requests a certificate. If no suitable certificate is - available, the client SHOULD send a certificate message containing - no certificates. That is, the certificate_list structure has a - length of zero. If client authentication is required by the - server for the handshake to continue, it may respond with a fatal - handshake failure alert. Client certificates are sent using the - Certificate structure defined in Section 7.4.2. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 46] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Note: When using a static Diffie-Hellman based key exchange method - (DH_DSS or DH_RSA), if client authentication is requested, the - Diffie-Hellman group and generator encoded in the client's - certificate MUST match the server specified Diffie-Hellman - parameters if the client's parameters are to be used for the key - exchange. - -7.4.7. Client Key Exchange Message - - When this message will be sent: - - This message is always sent by the client. It MUST immediately - follow the client certificate message, if it is sent. Otherwise - it MUST be the first message sent by the client after it receives - the server hello done message. - - Meaning of this message: - - With this message, the premaster secret is set, either though - direct transmission of the RSA-encrypted secret or by the - transmission of Diffie-Hellman parameters that will allow each - side to agree upon the same premaster secret. When the key - exchange method is DH_RSA or DH_DSS, client certification has been - requested, and the client was able to respond with a certificate - that contained a Diffie-Hellman public key whose parameters (group - and generator) matched those specified by the server in its - certificate, this message MUST not contain any data. - - Structure of this message: - - The choice of messages depends on which key exchange method has - been selected. See Section 7.4.3 for the KeyExchangeAlgorithm - definition. - - struct { - select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { - case rsa: EncryptedPreMasterSecret; - case diffie_hellman: ClientDiffieHellmanPublic; - } exchange_keys; - } ClientKeyExchange; - -7.4.7.1. RSA Encrypted Premaster Secret Message - - Meaning of this message: - - If RSA is being used for key agreement and authentication, the - client generates a 48-byte premaster secret, encrypts it using the - public key from the server's certificate or the temporary RSA key - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 47] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - provided in a server key exchange message, and sends the result in - an encrypted premaster secret message. This structure is a - variant of the client key exchange message and is not a message in - itself. - - Structure of this message: - - struct { - ProtocolVersion client_version; - opaque random[46]; - } PreMasterSecret; - - client_version The latest (newest) version supported by the - client. This is used to detect version roll-back attacks. - Upon receiving the premaster secret, the server SHOULD check - that this value matches the value transmitted by the client in - the client hello message. - - random - 46 securely-generated random bytes. - - struct { - public-key-encrypted PreMasterSecret pre_master_secret; - } EncryptedPreMasterSecret; - - pre_master_secret - This random value is generated by the client and is used to - generate the master secret, as specified in Section 8.1. - - Note: An attack discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher [BLEI] can be - used to attack a TLS server that is using PKCS#1 v 1.5 encoded - RSA. The attack takes advantage of the fact that, by failing - in different ways, a TLS server can be coerced into revealing - whether a particular message, when decrypted, is properly - PKCS#1 v1.5 formatted or not. - - The best way to avoid vulnerability to this attack is to treat - incorrectly formatted messages in a manner indistinguishable - from correctly formatted RSA blocks. Thus, when a server - receives an incorrectly formatted RSA block, it should generate - a random 48-byte value and proceed using it as the premaster - secret. Thus, the server will act identically whether the - received RSA block is correctly encoded or not. - - [PKCS1B] defines a newer version of PKCS#1 encoding that is - more secure against the Bleichenbacher attack. However, for - maximal compatibility with TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 retains the - original encoding. No variants of the Bleichenbacher attack - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 48] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - are known to exist provided that the above recommendations are - followed. - - Implementation Note: Public-key-encrypted data is represented as an - opaque vector <0..2^16-1> (see Section 4.7). - Thus, the RSA-encrypted PreMasterSecret in a - ClientKeyExchange is preceded by two length - bytes. These bytes are redundant in the case of - RSA because the EncryptedPreMasterSecret is the - only data in the ClientKeyExchange and its - length can therefore be unambiguously - determined. The SSLv3 specification was not - clear about the encoding of public-key-encrypted - data, and therefore many SSLv3 implementations - do not include the length bytes, encoding the - RSA encrypted data directly in the - ClientKeyExchange message. - - This specification requires correct encoding of - the EncryptedPreMasterSecret complete with - length bytes. The resulting PDU is incompatible - with many SSLv3 implementations. Implementors - upgrading from SSLv3 must modify their - implementations to generate and accept the - correct encoding. Implementors who wish to be - compatible with both SSLv3 and TLS should make - their implementation's behavior dependent on the - protocol version. - - Implementation Note: It is now known that remote timing-based attacks - on SSL are possible, at least when the client - and server are on the same LAN. Accordingly, - implementations that use static RSA keys SHOULD - use RSA blinding or some other anti-timing - technique, as described in [TIMING]. - - Note: The version number in the PreMasterSecret MUST be the version - offered by the client in the ClientHello, not the version - negotiated for the connection. This feature is designed to - prevent rollback attacks. Unfortunately, many implementations - use the negotiated version instead, and therefore checking the - version number may lead to failure to interoperate with such - incorrect client implementations. Client implementations, MUST - and Server implementations MAY, check the version number. In - practice, since the TLS handshake MACs prevent downgrade and no - good attacks are known on those MACs, ambiguity is not - considered a serious security risk. Note that if servers - choose to check the version number, they should randomize the - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 49] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - PreMasterSecret in case of error, rather than generate an - alert, in order to avoid variants on the Bleichenbacher attack. - [KPR03] - -7.4.7.2. Client Diffie-Hellman Public Value - - Meaning of this message: - - This structure conveys the client's Diffie-Hellman public value - (Yc) if it was not already included in the client's certificate. - The encoding used for Yc is determined by the enumerated - PublicValueEncoding. This structure is a variant of the client - key exchange message and not a message in itself. - - Structure of this message: - - enum { implicit, explicit } PublicValueEncoding; - - implicit - If the client certificate already contains a suitable Diffie- - Hellman key, then Yc is implicit and does not need to be sent - again. In this case, the client key exchange message will be - sent, but it MUST be empty. - - explicit - Yc needs to be sent. - - struct { - select (PublicValueEncoding) { - case implicit: struct { }; - case explicit: opaque dh_Yc<1..2^16-1>; - } dh_public; - } ClientDiffieHellmanPublic; - - dh_Yc - The client's Diffie-Hellman public value (Yc). - -7.4.8. Certificate verify - - When this message will be sent: - - This message is used to provide explicit verification of a client - certificate. This message is only sent following a client - certificate that has signing capability (i.e., all certificates - except those containing fixed Diffie-Hellman parameters). When - sent, it MUST immediately follow the client key exchange message. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 50] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Structure of this message: - - struct { - Signature signature; - } CertificateVerify; - - The Signature type is defined in 7.4.3. - - CertificateVerify.signature.md5_hash - MD5(handshake_messages); - - CertificateVerify.signature.sha_hash - SHA(handshake_messages); - - Here handshake_messages refers to all handshake messages sent or - received starting at client hello up to but not including this - message, including the type and length fields of the handshake - messages. This is the concatenation of all the Handshake structures, - as defined in 7.4, exchanged thus far. - -7.4.9. Finished - - When this message will be sent: - - A finished message is always sent immediately after a change - cipher spec message to verify that the key exchange and - authentication processes were successful. It is essential that a - change cipher spec message be received between the other handshake - messages and the Finished message. - - Meaning of this message: - - The finished message is the first protected with the just- - negotiated algorithms, keys, and secrets. Recipients of finished - messages MUST verify that the contents are correct. Once a side - has sent its Finished message and received and validated the - Finished message from its peer, it may begin to send and receive - application data over the connection. - - struct { - opaque verify_data[12]; - } Finished; - - verify_data - PRF(master_secret, finished_label, MD5(handshake_messages) + - SHA-1(handshake_messages)) [0..11]; - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 51] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - finished_label - For Finished messages sent by the client, the string "client - finished". For Finished messages sent by the server, the - string "server finished". - - handshake_messages - All of the data from all messages in this handshake (not - including any HelloRequest messages) up to but not including - this message. This is only data visible at the handshake - layer and does not include record layer headers. This is the - concatenation of all the Handshake structures, as defined in - 7.4, exchanged thus far. - - It is a fatal error if a finished message is not preceded by a change - cipher spec message at the appropriate point in the handshake. - - The value handshake_messages includes all handshake messages starting - at client hello up to, but not including, this finished message. - This may be different from handshake_messages in Section 7.4.8 - because it would include the certificate verify message (if sent). - Also, the handshake_messages for the finished message sent by the - client will be different from that for the finished message sent by - the server, because the one that is sent second will include the - prior one. - - Note: Change cipher spec messages, alerts, and any other record types - are not handshake messages and are not included in the hash - computations. Also, Hello Request messages are omitted from - handshake hashes. - -8. Cryptographic Computations - - In order to begin connection protection, the TLS Record Protocol - requires specification of a suite of algorithms, a master secret, and - the client and server random values. The authentication, encryption, - and MAC algorithms are determined by the cipher_suite selected by the - server and revealed in the server hello message. The compression - algorithm is negotiated in the hello messages, and the random values - are exchanged in the hello messages. All that remains is to - calculate the master secret. - -8.1. Computing the Master Secret - - For all key exchange methods, the same algorithm is used to convert - the pre_master_secret into the master_secret. The pre_master_secret - should be deleted from memory once the master_secret has been - computed. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 52] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - master_secret = PRF(pre_master_secret, "master secret", - ClientHello.random + ServerHello.random) - [0..47]; - - The master secret is always exactly 48 bytes in length. The length - of the premaster secret will vary depending on key exchange method. - -8.1.1. RSA - - When RSA is used for server authentication and key exchange, a 48- - byte pre_master_secret is generated by the client, encrypted under - the server's public key, and sent to the server. The server uses its - private key to decrypt the pre_master_secret. Both parties then - convert the pre_master_secret into the master_secret, as specified - above. - - RSA digital signatures are performed using PKCS #1 [PKCS1] block type - 1. RSA public key encryption is performed using PKCS #1 block type 2. - -8.1.2. Diffie-Hellman - - A conventional Diffie-Hellman computation is performed. The - negotiated key (Z) is used as the pre_master_secret, and is converted - into the master_secret, as specified above. Leading bytes of Z that - contain all zero bits are stripped before it is used as the - pre_master_secret. - - Note: Diffie-Hellman parameters are specified by the server and may - be either ephemeral or contained within the server's - certificate. - -9. Mandatory Cipher Suites - - In the absence of an application profile standard specifying - otherwise, a TLS compliant application MUST implement the cipher - suite TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA. - -10. Application Data Protocol - - Application data messages are carried by the Record Layer and are - fragmented, compressed, and encrypted based on the current connection - state. The messages are treated as transparent data to the record - layer. - -11. Security Considerations - - Security issues are discussed throughout this memo, especially in - Appendices D, E, and F. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 53] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -12. IANA Considerations - - This document describes a number of new registries that have been - created by IANA. We recommended that they be placed as individual - registries items under a common TLS category. - - Section 7.4.3 describes a TLS ClientCertificateType Registry to be - maintained by the IANA, defining a number of such code point - identifiers. ClientCertificateType identifiers with values in the - range 0-63 (decimal) inclusive are assigned via RFC 2434 Standards - Action. Values from the range 64-223 (decimal) inclusive are - assigned via [RFC2434] Specification Required. Identifier values - from 224-255 (decimal) inclusive are reserved for RFC 2434 Private - Use. The registry will initially be populated with the values in - this document, Section 7.4.4. - - Section A.5 describes a TLS Cipher Suite Registry to be maintained by - the IANA, and it defines a number of such cipher suite identifiers. - Cipher suite values with the first byte in the range 0-191 (decimal) - inclusive are assigned via RFC 2434 Standards Action. Values with - the first byte in the range 192-254 (decimal) are assigned via RFC - 2434 Specification Required. Values with the first byte 255 - (decimal) are reserved for RFC 2434 Private Use. The registry will - initially be populated with the values from Section A.5 of this - document, [TLSAES], and from Section 3 of [TLSKRB]. - - Section 6 requires that all ContentType values be defined by RFC 2434 - Standards Action. IANA has created a TLS ContentType registry, - initially populated with values from Section 6.2.1 of this document. - Future values MUST be allocated via Standards Action as described in - [RFC2434]. - - Section 7.2.2 requires that all Alert values be defined by RFC 2434 - Standards Action. IANA has created a TLS Alert registry, initially - populated with values from Section 7.2 of this document and from - Section 4 of [TLSEXT]. Future values MUST be allocated via Standards - Action as described in [RFC2434]. - - Section 7.4 requires that all HandshakeType values be defined by RFC - 2434 Standards Action. IANA has created a TLS HandshakeType - registry, initially populated with values from Section 7.4 of this - document and from Section 2.4 of [TLSEXT]. Future values MUST be - allocated via Standards Action as described in [RFC2434]. - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 54] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -Appendix A. Protocol Constant Values - - This section describes protocol types and constants. - -A.1. Record Layer - - struct { - uint8 major, minor; - } ProtocolVersion; - - ProtocolVersion version = { 3, 2 }; /* TLS v1.1 */ - - enum { - change_cipher_spec(20), alert(21), handshake(22), - application_data(23), (255) - } ContentType; - - struct { - ContentType type; - ProtocolVersion version; - uint16 length; - opaque fragment[TLSPlaintext.length]; - } TLSPlaintext; - - struct { - ContentType type; - ProtocolVersion version; - uint16 length; - opaque fragment[TLSCompressed.length]; - } TLSCompressed; - - struct { - ContentType type; - ProtocolVersion version; - uint16 length; - select (CipherSpec.cipher_type) { - case stream: GenericStreamCipher; - case block: GenericBlockCipher; - } fragment; - } TLSCiphertext; - - stream-ciphered struct { - opaque content[TLSCompressed.length]; - opaque MAC[CipherSpec.hash_size]; - } GenericStreamCipher; - - block-ciphered struct { - opaque IV[CipherSpec.block_length]; - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 55] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - opaque content[TLSCompressed.length]; - opaque MAC[CipherSpec.hash_size]; - uint8 padding[GenericBlockCipher.padding_length]; - uint8 padding_length; - } GenericBlockCipher; - -A.2. Change Cipher Specs Message - - struct { - enum { change_cipher_spec(1), (255) } type; - } ChangeCipherSpec; - -A.3. Alert Messages - - enum { warning(1), fatal(2), (255) } AlertLevel; - - enum { - close_notify(0), - unexpected_message(10), - bad_record_mac(20), - decryption_failed(21), - record_overflow(22), - decompression_failure(30), - handshake_failure(40), - no_certificate_RESERVED (41), - bad_certificate(42), - unsupported_certificate(43), - certificate_revoked(44), - certificate_expired(45), - certificate_unknown(46), - illegal_parameter(47), - unknown_ca(48), - access_denied(49), - decode_error(50), - decrypt_error(51), - export_restriction_RESERVED(60), - protocol_version(70), - insufficient_security(71), - internal_error(80), - user_canceled(90), - no_renegotiation(100), - (255) - } AlertDescription; - - struct { - AlertLevel level; - AlertDescription description; - } Alert; - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 56] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -A.4. Handshake Protocol - - enum { - hello_request(0), client_hello(1), server_hello(2), - certificate(11), server_key_exchange (12), - certificate_request(13), server_hello_done(14), - certificate_verify(15), client_key_exchange(16), - finished(20), (255) - } HandshakeType; - - struct { - HandshakeType msg_type; - uint24 length; - select (HandshakeType) { - case hello_request: HelloRequest; - case client_hello: ClientHello; - case server_hello: ServerHello; - case certificate: Certificate; - case server_key_exchange: ServerKeyExchange; - case certificate_request: CertificateRequest; - case server_hello_done: ServerHelloDone; - case certificate_verify: CertificateVerify; - case client_key_exchange: ClientKeyExchange; - case finished: Finished; - } body; - } Handshake; - -A.4.1. Hello messages - - struct { } HelloRequest; - - struct { - uint32 gmt_unix_time; - opaque random_bytes[28]; - } Random; - - opaque SessionID<0..32>; - - uint8 CipherSuite[2]; - - enum { null(0), (255) } CompressionMethod; - - struct { - ProtocolVersion client_version; - Random random; - SessionID session_id; - CipherSuite cipher_suites<2..2^16-1>; - CompressionMethod compression_methods<1..2^8-1>; - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 57] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - } ClientHello; - - struct { - ProtocolVersion server_version; - Random random; - SessionID session_id; - CipherSuite cipher_suite; - CompressionMethod compression_method; - } ServerHello; - -A.4.2. Server Authentication and Key Exchange Messages - - opaque ASN.1Cert<2^24-1>; - - struct { - ASN.1Cert certificate_list<0..2^24-1>; - } Certificate; - - enum { rsa, diffie_hellman } KeyExchangeAlgorithm; - - struct { - opaque rsa_modulus<1..2^16-1>; - opaque rsa_exponent<1..2^16-1>; - } ServerRSAParams; - - struct { - opaque dh_p<1..2^16-1>; - opaque dh_g<1..2^16-1>; - opaque dh_Ys<1..2^16-1>; - } ServerDHParams; - - struct { - select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { - case diffie_hellman: - ServerDHParams params; - Signature signed_params; - case rsa: - ServerRSAParams params; - Signature signed_params; - }; - } ServerKeyExchange; - - enum { anonymous, rsa, dsa } SignatureAlgorithm; - - struct { - select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { - case diffie_hellman: - ServerDHParams params; - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 58] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - case rsa: - ServerRSAParams params; - }; - } ServerParams; - - struct { - select (SignatureAlgorithm) { - case anonymous: struct { }; - case rsa: - digitally-signed struct { - opaque md5_hash[16]; - opaque sha_hash[20]; - }; - case dsa: - digitally-signed struct { - opaque sha_hash[20]; - }; - }; - }; - } Signature; - - enum { - rsa_sign(1), dss_sign(2), rsa_fixed_dh(3), dss_fixed_dh(4), - rsa_ephemeral_dh_RESERVED(5), dss_ephemeral_dh_RESERVED(6), - fortezza_dms_RESERVED(20), - (255) - } ClientCertificateType; - - opaque DistinguishedName<1..2^16-1>; - - struct { - ClientCertificateType certificate_types<1..2^8-1>; - DistinguishedName certificate_authorities<0..2^16-1>; - } CertificateRequest; - - struct { } ServerHelloDone; - -A.4.3. Client Authentication and Key Exchange Messages - - struct { - select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) { - case rsa: EncryptedPreMasterSecret; - case diffie_hellman: ClientDiffieHellmanPublic; - } exchange_keys; - } ClientKeyExchange; - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 59] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - struct { - ProtocolVersion client_version; - opaque random[46]; - } - PreMasterSecret; - - struct { - public-key-encrypted PreMasterSecret pre_master_secret; - } EncryptedPreMasterSecret; - - enum { implicit, explicit } PublicValueEncoding; - - struct { - select (PublicValueEncoding) { - case implicit: struct {}; - case explicit: opaque DH_Yc<1..2^16-1>; - } dh_public; - } ClientDiffieHellmanPublic; - - struct { - Signature signature; - } CertificateVerify; - -A.4.4. Handshake Finalization Message - - struct { - opaque verify_data[12]; - } Finished; - -A.5. The CipherSuite - - The following values define the CipherSuite codes used in the client - hello and server hello messages. - - A CipherSuite defines a cipher specification supported in TLS Version - 1.1. - - TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL is specified and is the initial state of a - TLS connection during the first handshake on that channel, but must - not be negotiated, as it provides no more protection than an - unsecured connection. - - CipherSuite TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL = { 0x00,0x00 }; - - The following CipherSuite definitions require that the server provide - an RSA certificate that can be used for key exchange. The server may - request either an RSA or a DSS signature-capable certificate in the - certificate request message. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 60] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5 = { 0x00,0x01 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA = { 0x00,0x02 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 = { 0x00,0x04 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0x00,0x05 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x07 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x09 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0A }; - - The following CipherSuite definitions are used for server- - authenticated (and optionally client-authenticated) Diffie-Hellman. - DH denotes cipher suites in which the server's certificate contains - the Diffie-Hellman parameters signed by the certificate authority - (CA). DHE denotes ephemeral Diffie-Hellman, where the Diffie-Hellman - parameters are signed by a DSS or RSA certificate that has been - signed by the CA. The signing algorithm used is specified after the - DH or DHE parameter. The server can request an RSA or DSS - signature-capable certificate from the client for client - authentication or it may request a Diffie-Hellman certificate. Any - Diffie-Hellman certificate provided by the client must use the - parameters (group and generator) described by the server. - - CipherSuite TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0C }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0D }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0F }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x10 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x12 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x13 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x15 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x16 }; - - The following cipher suites are used for completely anonymous - Diffie-Hellman communications in which neither party is - authenticated. Note that this mode is vulnerable to man-in-the- - middle attacks and is therefore deprecated. - - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 = { 0x00,0x18 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x1A }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x1B }; - - When SSLv3 and TLS 1.0 were designed, the United States restricted - the export of cryptographic software containing certain strong - encryption algorithms. A series of cipher suites were designed to - operate at reduced key lengths in order to comply with those - regulations. Due to advances in computer performance, these - algorithms are now unacceptably weak, and export restrictions have - since been loosened. TLS 1.1 implementations MUST NOT negotiate - these cipher suites in TLS 1.1 mode. However, for backward - compatibility they may be offered in the ClientHello for use with TLS - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 61] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - 1.0 or SSLv3-only servers. TLS 1.1 clients MUST check that the - server did not choose one of these cipher suites during the - handshake. These ciphersuites are listed below for informational - purposes and to reserve the numbers. - - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x03 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x06 }; - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x08 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0B }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0E }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x11 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x14 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x17 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x19 }; - - The following cipher suites were defined in [TLSKRB] and are included - here for completeness. See [TLSKRB] for details: - - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x1E }: - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x1F }; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0x00,0x20 }; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x21 }; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_DES_CBC_MD5 = { 0x00,0x22 }; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_MD5 = { 0x00,0x23 }; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 = { 0x00,0x24 }; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_WITH_IDEA_CBC_MD5 = { 0x00,0x25 }; - - The following exportable cipher suites were defined in [TLSKRB] and - are included here for completeness. TLS 1.1 implementations MUST NOT - negotiate these cipher suites. - - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_DES_CBC_40_SHA = { 0x00,0x26}; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_SHA = { 0x00,0x27}; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_SHA = { 0x00,0x28}; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_DES_CBC_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x29}; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x2A}; - CipherSuite TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x2B}; - - - The following cipher suites were defined in [TLSAES] and are included - here for completeness. See [TLSAES] for details: - - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x2F }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x30 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x31 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x32 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x33 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x34 }; - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 62] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x35 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x36 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x37 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x38 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x39 }; - CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x3A }; - - The cipher suite space is divided into three regions: - - 1. Cipher suite values with first byte 0x00 (zero) through decimal - 191 (0xBF) inclusive are reserved for the IETF Standards Track - protocols. - - 2. Cipher suite values with first byte decimal 192 (0xC0) through - decimal 254 (0xFE) inclusive are reserved for assignment for - non-Standards Track methods. - - 3. Cipher suite values with first byte 0xFF are reserved for - private use. - - Additional information describing the role of IANA in the allocation - of cipher suite code points is described in Section 11. - - Note: The cipher suite values { 0x00, 0x1C } and { 0x00, 0x1D } are - reserved to avoid collision with Fortezza-based cipher suites - in SSL 3. - -A.6. The Security Parameters - - These security parameters are determined by the TLS Handshake - Protocol and provided as parameters to the TLS Record Layer in - order to initialize a connection state. SecurityParameters - includes: - - enum { null(0), (255) } CompressionMethod; - - enum { server, client } ConnectionEnd; - - enum { null, rc4, rc2, des, 3des, des40, aes, idea } - BulkCipherAlgorithm; - - enum { stream, block } CipherType; - - enum { null, md5, sha } MACAlgorithm; - - /* The algorithms specified in CompressionMethod, - BulkCipherAlgorithm, and MACAlgorithm may be added to. */ - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 63] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - struct { - ConnectionEnd entity; - BulkCipherAlgorithm bulk_cipher_algorithm; - CipherType cipher_type; - uint8 key_size; - uint8 key_material_length; - MACAlgorithm mac_algorithm; - uint8 hash_size; - CompressionMethod compression_algorithm; - opaque master_secret[48]; - opaque client_random[32]; - opaque server_random[32]; - } SecurityParameters; - -Appendix B. Glossary - - Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - AES is a widely used symmetric encryption algorithm. AES is a - block cipher with a 128, 192, or 256 bit keys and a 16 byte block - size. [AES] TLS currently only supports the 128 and 256 bit key - sizes. - - application protocol - An application protocol is a protocol that normally layers - directly on top of the transport layer (e.g., TCP/IP). Examples - include HTTP, TELNET, FTP, and SMTP. - - asymmetric cipher - See public key cryptography. - - authentication - Authentication is the ability of one entity to determine the - identity of another entity. - - block cipher - A block cipher is an algorithm that operates on plaintext in - groups of bits, called blocks. 64 bits is a common block size. - - bulk cipher - A symmetric encryption algorithm used to encrypt large quantities - of data. - - cipher block chaining (CBC) - CBC is a mode in which every plaintext block encrypted with a - block cipher is first exclusive-ORed with the previous ciphertext - block (or, in the case of the first block, with the initialization - vector). For decryption, every block is first decrypted, then - exclusive-ORed with the previous ciphertext block (or IV). - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 64] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - certificate - As part of the X.509 protocol (a.k.a. ISO Authentication - framework), certificates are assigned by a trusted Certificate - Authority and provide a strong binding between a party's identity - or some other attributes and its public key. - - client - The application entity that initiates a TLS connection to a - server. This may or may not imply that the client initiated the - underlying transport connection. The primary operational - difference between the server and client is that the server is - generally authenticated, while the client is only optionally - authenticated. - - client write key - The key used to encrypt data written by the client. - - client write MAC secret - The secret data used to authenticate data written by the client. - - connection - A connection is a transport (in the OSI layering model definition) - that provides a suitable type of service. For TLS, such - connections are peer-to-peer relationships. The connections are - transient. Every connection is associated with one session. - - Data Encryption Standard - DES is a very widely used symmetric encryption algorithm. DES is - a block cipher with a 56 bit key and an 8 byte block size. Note - that in TLS, for key generation purposes, DES is treated as having - an 8 byte key length (64 bits), but it still only provides 56 bits - of protection. (The low bit of each key byte is presumed to be - set to produce odd parity in that key byte.) DES can also be - operated in a mode where three independent keys and three - encryptions are used for each block of data; this uses 168 bits of - key (24 bytes in the TLS key generation method) and provides the - equivalent of 112 bits of security. [DES], [3DES] - - Digital Signature Standard (DSS) - A standard for digital signing, including the Digital Signing - Algorithm, approved by the National Institute of Standards and - Technology, defined in NIST FIPS PUB 186, "Digital Signature - Standard," published May 1994 by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. - [DSS] - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 65] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - digital signatures - Digital signatures utilize public key cryptography and one-way - hash functions to produce a signature of the data that can be - authenticated, and is difficult to forge or repudiate. - - handshake - An initial negotiation between client and server that establishes - the parameters of their transactions. - - Initialization Vector (IV) - When a block cipher is used in CBC mode, the initialization vector - is exclusive-ORed with the first plaintext block prior to - encryption. - - IDEA - A 64-bit block cipher designed by Xuejia Lai and James Massey. - [IDEA] - - Message Authentication Code (MAC) - A Message Authentication Code is a one-way hash computed from a - message and some secret data. It is difficult to forge without - knowing the secret data. Its purpose is to detect if the message - has been altered. - - master secret - Secure secret data used for generating encryption keys, MAC - secrets, and IVs. - - MD5 - MD5 is a secure hashing function that converts an arbitrarily long - data stream into a digest of fixed size (16 bytes). [MD5] - - public key cryptography - A class of cryptographic techniques employing two-key ciphers. - Messages encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted with - the associated private key. Conversely, messages signed with the - private key can be verified with the public key. - - one-way hash function - A one-way transformation that converts an arbitrary amount of data - into a fixed-length hash. It is computationally hard to reverse - the transformation or to find collisions. MD5 and SHA are - examples of one-way hash functions. - - RC2 - A block cipher developed by Ron Rivest at RSA Data Security, Inc. - [RSADSI] described in [RC2]. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 66] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - RC4 - A stream cipher invented by Ron Rivest. A compatible cipher is - described in [SCH]. - - RSA - A very widely used public-key algorithm that can be used for - either encryption or digital signing. [RSA] - - server - The server is the application entity that responds to requests for - connections from clients. See also under client. - - session - A TLS session is an association between a client and a server. - Sessions are created by the handshake protocol. Sessions define a - set of cryptographic security parameters that can be shared among - multiple connections. Sessions are used to avoid the expensive - negotiation of new security parameters for each connection. - - session identifier - A session identifier is a value generated by a server that - identifies a particular session. - - server write key - The key used to encrypt data written by the server. - - server write MAC secret - The secret data used to authenticate data written by the server. - - SHA - The Secure Hash Algorithm is defined in FIPS PUB 180-2. It - produces a 20-byte output. Note that all references to SHA - actually use the modified SHA-1 algorithm. [SHA] - - SSL - Netscape's Secure Socket Layer protocol [SSL3]. TLS is based on - SSL Version 3.0 - - stream cipher - An encryption algorithm that converts a key into a - cryptographically strong keystream, which is then exclusive-ORed - with the plaintext. - - symmetric cipher - See bulk cipher. - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 67] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Transport Layer Security (TLS) - This protocol; also, the Transport Layer Security working group of - the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). See "Comments" at the - end of this document. - -Appendix C. CipherSuite Definitions - -CipherSuite Key Exchange Cipher Hash - -TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL NULL NULL NULL -TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5 RSA NULL MD5 -TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA RSA NULL SHA -TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 RSA RC4_128 MD5 -TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA RSA RC4_128 SHA -TLS_RSA_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA RSA IDEA_CBC SHA -TLS_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA RSA DES_CBC SHA -TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA RSA 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA -TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA DH_DSS DES_CBC SHA -TLS_DH_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA DH_DSS 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA -TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA DH_RSA DES_CBC SHA -TLS_DH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA DH_RSA 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA -TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA DHE_DSS DES_CBC SHA -TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA DHE_DSS 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA -TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA DHE_RSA DES_CBC SHA -TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA DHE_RSA 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA -TLS_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 DH_anon RC4_128 MD5 -TLS_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA DH_anon DES_CBC SHA -TLS_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA DH_anon 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA - - Key - Exchange - Algorithm Description Key size limit - - DHE_DSS Ephemeral DH with DSS signatures None - DHE_RSA Ephemeral DH with RSA signatures None - DH_anon Anonymous DH, no signatures None - DH_DSS DH with DSS-based certificates None - DH_RSA DH with RSA-based certificates None - RSA = none - NULL No key exchange N/A - RSA RSA key exchange None - - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 68] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Key Expanded IV Block - Cipher Type Material Key Material Size Size - - NULL Stream 0 0 0 N/A - IDEA_CBC Block 16 16 8 8 - RC2_CBC_40 Block 5 16 8 8 - RC4_40 Stream 5 16 0 N/A - RC4_128 Stream 16 16 0 N/A - DES40_CBC Block 5 8 8 8 - DES_CBC Block 8 8 8 8 - 3DES_EDE_CBC Block 24 24 8 8 - - Type - Indicates whether this is a stream cipher or a block cipher - running in CBC mode. - - Key Material - The number of bytes from the key_block that are used for - generating the write keys. - - Expanded Key Material - The number of bytes actually fed into the encryption algorithm. - - IV Size - The amount of data needed to be generated for the initialization - vector. Zero for stream ciphers; equal to the block size for - block ciphers. - - Block Size - The amount of data a block cipher enciphers in one chunk; a block - cipher running in CBC mode can only encrypt an even multiple of - its block size. - - Hash Hash Padding - function Size Size - NULL 0 0 - MD5 16 48 - SHA 20 40 - -Appendix D. Implementation Notes - - The TLS protocol cannot prevent many common security mistakes. This - section provides several recommendations to assist implementors. - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 69] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -D.1. Random Number Generation and Seeding - - TLS requires a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator - (PRNG). Care must be taken in designing and seeding PRNGs. PRNGs - based on secure hash operations, most notably MD5 and/or SHA, are - acceptable, but cannot provide more security than the size of the - random number generator state. (For example, MD5-based PRNGs usually - provide 128 bits of state.) - - To estimate the amount of seed material being produced, add the - number of bits of unpredictable information in each seed byte. For - example, keystroke timing values taken from a PC compatible's 18.2 Hz - timer provide 1 or 2 secure bits each, even though the total size of - the counter value is 16 bits or more. Seeding a 128-bit PRNG would - thus require approximately 100 such timer values. - - [RANDOM] provides guidance on the generation of random values. - -D.2 Certificates and Authentication - - Implementations are responsible for verifying the integrity of - certificates and should generally support certificate revocation - messages. Certificates should always be verified to ensure proper - signing by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). The selection and - addition of trusted CAs should be done very carefully. Users should - be able to view information about the certificate and root CA. - -D.3 CipherSuites - - TLS supports a range of key sizes and security levels, including some - that provide no or minimal security. A proper implementation will - probably not support many cipher suites. For example, 40-bit - encryption is easily broken, so implementations requiring strong - security should not allow 40-bit keys. Similarly, anonymous Diffie- - Hellman is strongly discouraged because it cannot prevent man-in- - the-middle attacks. Applications should also enforce minimum and - maximum key sizes. For example, certificate chains containing 512- - bit RSA keys or signatures are not appropriate for high-security - applications. - - - - - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 70] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -Appendix E. Backward Compatibility with SSL - - For historical reasons and in order to avoid a profligate consumption - of reserved port numbers, application protocols that are secured by - TLS 1.1, TLS 1.0, SSL 3.0, and SSL 2.0 all frequently share the same - connection port. For example, the https protocol (HTTP secured by - SSL or TLS) uses port 443 regardless of which security protocol it is - using. Thus, some mechanism must be determined to distinguish and - negotiate among the various protocols. - - TLS versions 1.1 and 1.0, and SSL 3.0 are very similar; thus, - supporting both is easy. TLS clients who wish to negotiate with such - older servers SHOULD send client hello messages using the SSL 3.0 - record format and client hello structure, sending {3, 2} for the - version field to note that they support TLS 1.1. If the server - supports only TLS 1.0 or SSL 3.0, it will respond with a downrev 3.0 - server hello; if it supports TLS 1.1 it will respond with a TLS 1.1 - server hello. The negotiation then proceeds as appropriate for the - negotiated protocol. - - Similarly, a TLS 1.1 server that wishes to interoperate with TLS 1.0 - or SSL 3.0 clients SHOULD accept SSL 3.0 client hello messages and - respond with a SSL 3.0 server hello if an SSL 3.0 client hello with a - version field of {3, 0} is received, denoting that this client does - not support TLS. Similarly, if a SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 hello with a - version field of {3, 1} is received, the server SHOULD respond with a - TLS 1.0 hello with a version field of {3, 1}. - - Whenever a client already knows the highest protocol known to a - server (for example, when resuming a session), it SHOULD initiate the - connection in that native protocol. - - TLS 1.1 clients that support SSL Version 2.0 servers MUST send SSL - Version 2.0 client hello messages [SSL2]. TLS servers SHOULD accept - either client hello format if they wish to support SSL 2.0 clients on - the same connection port. The only deviations from the Version 2.0 - specification are the ability to specify a version with a value of - three and the support for more ciphering types in the CipherSpec. - - Warning: The ability to send Version 2.0 client hello messages will be - phased out with all due haste. Implementors SHOULD make every - effort to move forward as quickly as possible. Version 3.0 - provides better mechanisms for moving to newer versions. - - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 71] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - The following cipher specifications are carryovers from SSL - Version 2.0. These are assumed to use RSA for key exchange and - authentication. - - V2CipherSpec TLS_RC4_128_WITH_MD5 = { 0x01,0x00,0x80 }; - V2CipherSpec TLS_RC4_128_EXPORT40_WITH_MD5 = { 0x02,0x00,0x80 }; - V2CipherSpec TLS_RC2_CBC_128_CBC_WITH_MD5 = { 0x03,0x00,0x80 }; - V2CipherSpec TLS_RC2_CBC_128_CBC_EXPORT40_WITH_MD5 - = { 0x04,0x00,0x80 }; - V2CipherSpec TLS_IDEA_128_CBC_WITH_MD5 = { 0x05,0x00,0x80 }; - V2CipherSpec TLS_DES_64_CBC_WITH_MD5 = { 0x06,0x00,0x40 }; - V2CipherSpec TLS_DES_192_EDE3_CBC_WITH_MD5 = { 0x07,0x00,0xC0 }; - - Cipher specifications native to TLS can be included in Version - 2.0 client hello messages using the syntax below. Any - V2CipherSpec element with its first byte equal to zero will be - ignored by Version 2.0 servers. Clients sending any of the above - V2CipherSpecs SHOULD also include the TLS equivalent (see - Appendix A.5): - - V2CipherSpec (see TLS name) = { 0x00, CipherSuite }; - - Note: TLS 1.1 clients may generate the SSLv2 EXPORT cipher suites in - handshakes for backward compatibility but MUST NOT negotiate them - in TLS 1.1 mode. - -E.1. Version 2 Client Hello - - The Version 2.0 client hello message is presented below using this - document's presentation model. The true definition is still assumed - to be the SSL Version 2.0 specification. Note that this message MUST - be sent directly on the wire, not wrapped as an SSLv3 record - - uint8 V2CipherSpec[3]; - - struct { - uint16 msg_length; - uint8 msg_type; - Version version; - uint16 cipher_spec_length; - uint16 session_id_length; - uint16 challenge_length; - V2CipherSpec cipher_specs[V2ClientHello.cipher_spec_length]; - opaque session_id[V2ClientHello.session_id_length]; - opaque challenge[V2ClientHello.challenge_length; - } V2ClientHello; - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 72] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - msg_length - This field is the length of the following data in bytes. The high - bit MUST be 1 and is not part of the length. - - msg_type - This field, in conjunction with the version field, identifies a - version 2 client hello message. The value SHOULD be one (1). - - version - The highest version of the protocol supported by the client - (equals ProtocolVersion.version; see Appendix A.1). - - cipher_spec_length - This field is the total length of the field cipher_specs. It - cannot be zero and MUST be a multiple of the V2CipherSpec length - (3). - - session_id_length - This field MUST have a value of zero. - - challenge_length - The length in bytes of the client's challenge to the server to - authenticate itself. When using the SSLv2 backward compatible - handshake the client MUST use a 32-byte challenge. - - cipher_specs - This is a list of all CipherSpecs the client is willing and able - to use. There MUST be at least one CipherSpec acceptable to the - server. - - session_id - This field MUST be empty. - - challenge The client challenge to the server for the server to - identify itself is a (nearly) arbitrary-length random. The TLS - server will right-justify the challenge data to become the - ClientHello.random data (padded with leading zeroes, if - necessary), as specified in this protocol specification. If the - length of the challenge is greater than 32 bytes, only the last 32 - bytes are used. It is legitimate (but not necessary) for a V3 - server to reject a V2 ClientHello that has fewer than 16 bytes of - challenge data. - - Note: Requests to resume a TLS session MUST use a TLS client - hello. - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 73] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -E.2. Avoiding Man-in-the-Middle Version Rollback - - When TLS clients fall back to Version 2.0 compatibility mode, they - SHOULD use special PKCS #1 block formatting. This is done so that - TLS servers will reject Version 2.0 sessions with TLS-capable - clients. - - When TLS clients are in Version 2.0 compatibility mode, they set the - right-hand (least significant) 8 random bytes of the PKCS padding - (not including the terminal null of the padding) for the RSA - encryption of the ENCRYPTED-KEY-DATA field of the CLIENT-MASTER-KEY - to 0x03 (the other padding bytes are random). After decrypting the - ENCRYPTED-KEY-DATA field, servers that support TLS SHOULD issue an - error if these eight padding bytes are 0x03. Version 2.0 servers - receiving blocks padded in this manner will proceed normally. - -Appendix F. Security Analysis - - The TLS protocol is designed to establish a secure connection between - a client and a server communicating over an insecure channel. This - document makes several traditional assumptions, including that - attackers have substantial computational resources and cannot obtain - secret information from sources outside the protocol. Attackers are - assumed to have the ability to capture, modify, delete, replay, and - otherwise tamper with messages sent over the communication channel. - This appendix outlines how TLS has been designed to resist a variety - of attacks. - -F.1. Handshake Protocol - - The handshake protocol is responsible for selecting a CipherSpec and - generating a Master Secret, which together comprise the primary - cryptographic parameters associated with a secure session. The - handshake protocol can also optionally authenticate parties who have - certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority. - -F.1.1. Authentication and Key Exchange - - TLS supports three authentication modes: authentication of both - parties, server authentication with an unauthenticated client, and - total anonymity. Whenever the server is authenticated, the channel - is secure against man-in-the-middle attacks, but completely anonymous - sessions are inherently vulnerable to such attacks. Anonymous - servers cannot authenticate clients. If the server is authenticated, - its certificate message must provide a valid certificate chain - leading to an acceptable certificate authority. Similarly, - authenticated clients must supply an acceptable certificate to the - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 74] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - server. Each party is responsible for verifying that the other's - certificate is valid and has not expired or been revoked. - - The general goal of the key exchange process is to create a - pre_master_secret known to the communicating parties and not to - attackers. The pre_master_secret will be used to generate the - master_secret (see Section 8.1). The master_secret is required to - generate the finished messages, encryption keys, and MAC secrets (see - Sections 7.4.8, 7.4.9, and 6.3). By sending a correct finished - message, parties thus prove that they know the correct - pre_master_secret. - -F.1.1.1. Anonymous Key Exchange - - Completely anonymous sessions can be established using RSA or Diffie- - Hellman for key exchange. With anonymous RSA, the client encrypts a - pre_master_secret with the server's uncertified public key extracted - from the server key exchange message. The result is sent in a client - key exchange message. Since eavesdroppers do not know the server's - private key, it will be infeasible for them to decode the - pre_master_secret. - - Note: No anonymous RSA Cipher Suites are defined in this document. - - With Diffie-Hellman, the server's public parameters are contained in - the server key exchange message and the client's are sent in the - client key exchange message. Eavesdroppers who do not know the - private values should not be able to find the Diffie-Hellman result - (i.e., the pre_master_secret). - - Warning: Completely anonymous connections only provide protection - against passive eavesdropping. Unless an independent - tamper-proof channel is used to verify that the finished - messages were not replaced by an attacker, server - authentication is required in environments where active - man-in-the-middle attacks are a concern. - -F.1.1.2. RSA Key Exchange and Authentication - - With RSA, key exchange and server authentication are combined. The - public key either may be contained in the server's certificate or may - be a temporary RSA key sent in a server key exchange message. When - temporary RSA keys are used, they are signed by the server's RSA - certificate. The signature includes the current ClientHello.random, - so old signatures and temporary keys cannot be replayed. Servers may - use a single temporary RSA key for multiple negotiation sessions. - - Note: The temporary RSA key option is useful if servers need large - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 75] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - certificates but must comply with government-imposed size - limits on keys used for key exchange. - - Note that if ephemeral RSA is not used, compromise of the server's - static RSA key results in a loss of confidentiality for all sessions - protected under that static key. TLS users desiring Perfect Forward - Secrecy should use DHE cipher suites. The damage done by exposure of - a private key can be limited by changing one's private key (and - certificate) frequently. - - After verifying the server's certificate, the client encrypts a - pre_master_secret with the server's public key. By successfully - decoding the pre_master_secret and producing a correct finished - message, the server demonstrates that it knows the private key - corresponding to the server certificate. - - When RSA is used for key exchange, clients are authenticated using - the certificate verify message (see Section 7.4.8). The client signs - a value derived from the master_secret and all preceding handshake - messages. These handshake messages include the server certificate, - which binds the signature to the server, and ServerHello.random, - which binds the signature to the current handshake process. - -F.1.1.3. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with Authentication - - When Diffie-Hellman key exchange is used, the server can either - supply a certificate containing fixed Diffie-Hellman parameters or - use the server key exchange message to send a set of temporary - Diffie-Hellman parameters signed with a DSS or RSA certificate. - Temporary parameters are hashed with the hello.random values before - signing to ensure that attackers do not replay old parameters. In - either case, the client can verify the certificate or signature to - ensure that the parameters belong to the server. - - If the client has a certificate containing fixed Diffie-Hellman - parameters, its certificate contains the information required to - complete the key exchange. Note that in this case the client and - server will generate the same Diffie-Hellman result (i.e., - pre_master_secret) every time they communicate. To prevent the - pre_master_secret from staying in memory any longer than necessary, - it should be converted into the master_secret as soon as possible. - Client Diffie-Hellman parameters must be compatible with those - supplied by the server for the key exchange to work. - - If the client has a standard DSS or RSA certificate or is - unauthenticated, it sends a set of temporary parameters to the server - in the client key exchange message, then optionally uses a - certificate verify message to authenticate itself. - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 76] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - If the same DH keypair is to be used for multiple handshakes, either - because the client or server has a certificate containing a fixed DH - keypair or because the server is reusing DH keys, care must be taken - to prevent small subgroup attacks. Implementations SHOULD follow the - guidelines found in [SUBGROUP]. - - Small subgroup attacks are most easily avoided by using one of the - DHE ciphersuites and generating a fresh DH private key (X) for each - handshake. If a suitable base (such as 2) is chosen, g^X mod p can - be computed very quickly, therefore the performance cost is - minimized. Additionally, using a fresh key for each handshake - provides Perfect Forward Secrecy. Implementations SHOULD generate a - new X for each handshake when using DHE ciphersuites. - -F.1.2. Version Rollback Attacks - - Because TLS includes substantial improvements over SSL Version 2.0, - attackers may try to make TLS-capable clients and servers fall back - to Version 2.0. This attack can occur if (and only if) two TLS- - capable parties use an SSL 2.0 handshake. - - Although the solution using non-random PKCS #1 block type 2 message - padding is inelegant, it provides a reasonably secure way for Version - 3.0 servers to detect the attack. This solution is not secure - against attackers who can brute force the key and substitute a new - ENCRYPTED-KEY-DATA message containing the same key (but with normal - padding) before the application specified wait threshold has expired. - Parties concerned about attacks of this scale should not use 40-bit - encryption keys. Altering the padding of the least-significant 8 - bytes of the PKCS padding does not impact security for the size of - the signed hashes and RSA key lengths used in the protocol, since - this is essentially equivalent to increasing the input block size by - 8 bytes. - -F.1.3. Detecting Attacks against the Handshake Protocol - - An attacker might try to influence the handshake exchange to make the - parties select different encryption algorithms than they would - normally chooses. - - For this attack, an attacker must actively change one or more - handshake messages. If this occurs, the client and server will - compute different values for the handshake message hashes. As a - result, the parties will not accept each others' finished messages. - Without the master_secret, the attacker cannot repair the finished - messages, so the attack will be discovered. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 77] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -F.1.4. Resuming Sessions - - When a connection is established by resuming a session, new - ClientHello.random and ServerHello.random values are hashed with the - session's master_secret. Provided that the master_secret has not - been compromised and that the secure hash operations used to produce - the encryption keys and MAC secrets are secure, the connection should - be secure and effectively independent from previous connections. - Attackers cannot use known encryption keys or MAC secrets to - compromise the master_secret without breaking the secure hash - operations (which use both SHA and MD5). - - Sessions cannot be resumed unless both the client and server agree. - If either party suspects that the session may have been compromised, - or that certificates may have expired or been revoked, it should - force a full handshake. An upper limit of 24 hours is suggested for - session ID lifetimes, since an attacker who obtains a master_secret - may be able to impersonate the compromised party until the - corresponding session ID is retired. Applications that may be run in - relatively insecure environments should not write session IDs to - stable storage. - -F.1.5. MD5 and SHA - - TLS uses hash functions very conservatively. Where possible, both - MD5 and SHA are used in tandem to ensure that non-catastrophic flaws - in one algorithm will not break the overall protocol. - -F.2. Protecting Application Data - - The master_secret is hashed with the ClientHello.random and - ServerHello.random to produce unique data encryption keys and MAC - secrets for each connection. - - Outgoing data is protected with a MAC before transmission. To - prevent message replay or modification attacks, the MAC is computed - from the MAC secret, the sequence number, the message length, the - message contents, and two fixed character strings. The message type - field is necessary to ensure that messages intended for one TLS - Record Layer client are not redirected to another. The sequence - number ensures that attempts to delete or reorder messages will be - detected. Since sequence numbers are 64 bits long, they should never - overflow. Messages from one party cannot be inserted into the - other's output, since they use independent MAC secrets. Similarly, - the server-write and client-write keys are independent, so stream - cipher keys are used only once. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 78] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - If an attacker does break an encryption key, all messages encrypted - with it can be read. Similarly, compromise of a MAC key can make - message modification attacks possible. Because MACs are also - encrypted, message-alteration attacks generally require breaking the - encryption algorithm as well as the MAC. - - Note: MAC secrets may be larger than encryption keys, so messages can - remain tamper resistant even if encryption keys are broken. - -F.3. Explicit IVs - - [CBCATT] describes a chosen plaintext attack on TLS that depends on - knowing the IV for a record. Previous versions of TLS [TLS1.0] used - the CBC residue of the previous record as the IV and therefore - enabled this attack. This version uses an explicit IV in order to - protect against this attack. - -F.4. Security of Composite Cipher Modes - - TLS secures transmitted application data via the use of symmetric - encryption and authentication functions defined in the negotiated - ciphersuite. The objective is to protect both the integrity and - confidentiality of the transmitted data from malicious actions by - active attackers in the network. It turns out that the order in - which encryption and authentication functions are applied to the data - plays an important role for achieving this goal [ENCAUTH]. - - The most robust method, called encrypt-then-authenticate, first - applies encryption to the data and then applies a MAC to the - ciphertext. This method ensures that the integrity and - confidentiality goals are obtained with ANY pair of encryption and - MAC functions, provided that the former is secure against chosen - plaintext attacks and that the MAC is secure against chosen-message - attacks. TLS uses another method, called authenticate-then-encrypt, - in which first a MAC is computed on the plaintext and then the - concatenation of plaintext and MAC is encrypted. This method has - been proven secure for CERTAIN combinations of encryption functions - and MAC functions, but it is not guaranteed to be secure in general. - In particular, it has been shown that there exist perfectly secure - encryption functions (secure even in the information-theoretic sense) - that combined with any secure MAC function, fail to provide the - confidentiality goal against an active attack. Therefore, new - ciphersuites and operation modes adopted into TLS need to be analyzed - under the authenticate-then-encrypt method to verify that they - achieve the stated integrity and confidentiality goals. - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 79] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Currently, the security of the authenticate-then-encrypt method has - been proven for some important cases. One is the case of stream - ciphers in which a computationally unpredictable pad of the length of - the message, plus the length of the MAC tag, is produced using a - pseudo-random generator and this pad is xor-ed with the concatenation - of plaintext and MAC tag. The other is the case of CBC mode using a - secure block cipher. In this case, security can be shown if one - applies one CBC encryption pass to the concatenation of plaintext and - MAC and uses a new, independent, and unpredictable IV for each new - pair of plaintext and MAC. In previous versions of SSL, CBC mode was - used properly EXCEPT that it used a predictable IV in the form of the - last block of the previous ciphertext. This made TLS open to chosen - plaintext attacks. This version of the protocol is immune to those - attacks. For exact details in the encryption modes proven secure, - see [ENCAUTH]. - -F.5. Denial of Service - - TLS is susceptible to a number of denial of service (DoS) attacks. - In particular, an attacker who initiates a large number of TCP - connections can cause a server to consume large amounts of CPU doing - RSA decryption. However, because TLS is generally used over TCP, it - is difficult for the attacker to hide his point of origin if proper - TCP SYN randomization is used [SEQNUM] by the TCP stack. - - Because TLS runs over TCP, it is also susceptible to a number of - denial of service attacks on individual connections. In particular, - attackers can forge RSTs, thereby terminating connections, or forge - partial TLS records, thereby causing the connection to stall. These - attacks cannot in general be defended against by a TCP-using - protocol. Implementors or users who are concerned with this class of - attack should use IPsec AH [AH-ESP] or ESP [AH-ESP]. - -F.6. Final Notes - - For TLS to be able to provide a secure connection, both the client - and server systems, keys, and applications must be secure. In - addition, the implementation must be free of security errors. - - The system is only as strong as the weakest key exchange and - authentication algorithm supported, and only trustworthy - cryptographic functions should be used. Short public keys, 40-bit - bulk encryption keys, and anonymous servers should be used with great - caution. Implementations and users must be careful when deciding - which certificates and certificate authorities are acceptable; a - dishonest certificate authority can do tremendous damage. - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 80] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -Normative References - - [AES] National Institute of Standards and Technology, - "Specification for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)" - FIPS 197. November 26, 2001. - - [3DES] W. Tuchman, "Hellman Presents No Shortcut Solutions To - DES," IEEE Spectrum, v. 16, n. 7, July 1979, pp. 40-41. - - [DES] ANSI X3.106, "American National Standard for Information - Systems-Data Link Encryption," American National Standards - Institute, 1983. - - [DSS] NIST FIPS PUB 186-2, "Digital Signature Standard," - National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. - Department of Commerce, 2000. - - [HMAC] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed- - Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February - 1997. - - [IDEA] X. Lai, "On the Design and Security of Block Ciphers," ETH - Series in Information Processing, v. 1, Konstanz: - Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1992. - - [MD5] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm ", RFC 1321, - April 1992. - - [PKCS1A] B. Kaliski, "Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #1: - RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 1.5", RFC 2313, - March 1998. - - [PKCS1B] J. Jonsson, B. Kaliski, "Public-Key Cryptography Standards - (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.1", - RFC 3447, February 2003. - - [PKIX] Housley, R., Polk, W., Ford, W., and D. Solo, "Internet - X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and - Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 3280, - April 2002. - - [RC2] Rivest, R., "A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption - Algorithm", RFC 2268, March 1998. - - [SCH] B. Schneier. "Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, - and Source Code in C, 2ed", Published by John Wiley & - Sons, Inc. 1996. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 81] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - [SHA] NIST FIPS PUB 180-2, "Secure Hash Standard," National - Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of - Commerce., August 2001. - - [REQ] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate - Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. - - [RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an - IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434, - October 1998. - - [TLSAES] Chown, P., "Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC - 3268, June 2002. - - [TLSEXT] Blake-Wilson, S., Nystrom, M., Hopwood, D., Mikkelsen, J., - and T. Wright, "Transport Layer Security (TLS) - Extensions", RFC 3546, June 2003. - - [TLSKRB] Medvinsky, A. and M. Hur, "Addition of Kerberos Cipher - Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 2712, - October 1999. - -Informative References - - [AH-ESP] Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header", RFC 4302, December - 2005. - - Eastlake 3rd, D., "Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation - Requirements for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and - Authentication Header (AH)", RFC 4305, December 2005. - - [BLEI] Bleichenbacher D., "Chosen Ciphertext Attacks against - Protocols Based on RSA Encryption Standard PKCS #1" in - Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO'98, LNCS vol. 1462, - pages: 1-12, 1998. - - [CBCATT] Moeller, B., "Security of CBC Ciphersuites in SSL/TLS: - Problems and Countermeasures", - http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt. - - [CBCTIME] Canvel, B., "Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel", - http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/memo_ssl.shtml, 2003. - - [ENCAUTH] Krawczyk, H., "The Order of Encryption and Authentication - for Protecting Communications (Or: How Secure is SSL?)", - Crypto 2001. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 82] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - [KPR03] Klima, V., Pokorny, O., Rosa, T., "Attacking RSA-based - Sessions in SSL/TLS", http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/052/, - March 2003. - - [PKCS6] RSA Laboratories, "PKCS #6: RSA Extended Certificate - Syntax Standard," version 1.5, November 1993. - - [PKCS7] RSA Laboratories, "PKCS #7: RSA Cryptographic Message - Syntax Standard," version 1.5, November 1993. - - [RANDOM] Eastlake, D., 3rd, Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, - "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, - June 2005. - - [RSA] R. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. M. Adleman, "A Method for - Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key - Cryptosystems," Communications of the ACM, v. 21, n. 2, - Feb 1978, pp. 120-126. - - [SEQNUM] Bellovin, S., "Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks", - RFC 1948, May 1996. - - [SSL2] Hickman, Kipp, "The SSL Protocol", Netscape Communications - Corp., Feb 9, 1995. - - [SSL3] A. Frier, P. Karlton, and P. Kocher, "The SSL 3.0 - Protocol", Netscape Communications Corp., Nov 18, 1996. - - [SUBGROUP] Zuccherato, R., "Methods for Avoiding the "Small-Subgroup" - Attacks on the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method for - S/MIME", RFC 2785, March 2000. - - [TCP] Hellstrom, G. and P. Jones, "RTP Payload for Text - Conversation", RFC 4103, June 2005. - - [TIMING] Boneh, D., Brumley, D., "Remote timing attacks are - practical", USENIX Security Symposium 2003. - - [TLS1.0] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0", - RFC 2246, January 1999. - - [X501] ITU-T Recommendation X.501: Information Technology - Open - Systems Interconnection - The Directory: Models, 1993. - - [X509] ITU-T Recommendation X.509 (1997 E): Information - Technology - Open Systems Interconnection - "The Directory - - Authentication Framework". 1988. - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 83] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - [XDR] Srinivasan, R., "XDR: External Data Representation - Standard", RFC 1832, August 1995. - -Authors' Addresses - - Working Group Chairs - - Win Treese - - EMail: treese@acm.org - - - Eric Rescorla - - EMail: ekr@rtfm.com - -Editors - - Tim Dierks - Independent - - EMail: tim@dierks.org - - - Eric Rescorla - RTFM, Inc. - - EMail: ekr@rtfm.com - -Other Contributors - - Christopher Allen (co-editor of TLS 1.0) - Alacrity Ventures - EMail: ChristopherA@AlacrityManagement.com - - - Martin Abadi - University of California, Santa Cruz - EMail: abadi@cs.ucsc.edu - - - Ran Canetti - IBM - EMail: canetti@watson.ibm.com - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 84] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - - Taher Elgamal - Securify - EMail: taher@securify.com - - - Anil Gangolli - EMail: anil@busybuddha.org - - - Kipp Hickman - - - Phil Karlton (co-author of SSLv3) - - - Paul Kocher (co-author of SSLv3) - Cryptography Research - EMail: paul@cryptography.com - - - Hugo Krawczyk - Technion Israel Institute of Technology - EMail: hugo@ee.technion.ac.il - - - Robert Relyea - Netscape Communications - EMail: relyea@netscape.com - - - Jim Roskind - Netscape Communications - EMail: jar@netscape.com - - - Michael Sabin - - - Dan Simon - Microsoft, Inc. - EMail: dansimon@microsoft.com - - - Tom Weinstein - - - - - - - -Dierks & Rescorla Standards Track [Page 85] - -RFC 4346 The TLS Protocol April 2006 - - -Comments - - The discussion list for the IETF TLS working group is located at the - e-mail address <ietf-tls@lists.consensus.com>. 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