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+ Eric Rescorla |
+INTERNET-DRAFT RTFM, Inc. |
+<draft-ietf-tls-rfc2246-bis-01.txt> March 2002 (Expires September 2002) |
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+ The TLS Protocol
+ Version 1.0
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+Status of this Memo
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+ This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with |
+ all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working |
+ documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, |
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+Copyright Notice
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+ Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document specifies Version 1.0 of the Transport Layer Security
+ (TLS) protocol. The TLS protocol provides communications privacy over
+ the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to
+ communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping,
+ tampering, or message forgery.
+
+Table of Contents
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+ 1. Introduction 3
+ 2. Goals 4
+ 3. Goals of this document 5
+ 4. Presentation language 5
+ 4.1. Basic block size 6
+ 4.2. Miscellaneous 6
+ 4.3. Vectors 6
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+ 4.4. Numbers 7
+ 4.5. Enumerateds 7
+ 4.6. Constructed types 8
+ 4.6.1. Variants 9
+ 4.7. Cryptographic attributes 10
+ 4.8. Constants 11
+ 5. HMAC and the pseudorandom function 11
+ 6. The TLS Record Protocol 13
+ 6.1. Connection states 14
+ 6.2. Record layer 16
+ 6.2.1. Fragmentation 16
+ 6.2.2. Record compression and decompression 17
+ 6.2.3. Record payload protection 18
+ 6.2.3.1. Null or standard stream cipher 19
+ 6.2.3.2. CBC block cipher 19
+ 6.3. Key calculation 21
+ 6.3.1. Export key generation example 22
+ 7. The TLS Handshake Protocol 23
+ 7.1. Change cipher spec protocol 24
+ 7.2. Alert protocol 24
+ 7.2.1. Closure alerts 25
+ 7.2.2. Error alerts 26
+ 7.3. Handshake Protocol overview 29
+ 7.4. Handshake protocol 32
+ 7.4.1. Hello messages 33
+ 7.4.1.1. Hello request 33
+ 7.4.1.2. Client hello 34
+ 7.4.1.3. Server hello 36
+ 7.4.2. Server certificate 37
+ 7.4.3. Server key exchange message 39
+ 7.4.4. Certificate request 41
+ 7.4.5. Server hello done 42
+ 7.4.6. Client certificate 43
+ 7.4.7. Client key exchange message 43
+ 7.4.7.1. RSA encrypted premaster secret message 44
+ 7.4.7.2. Client Diffie-Hellman public value 45
+ 7.4.8. Certificate verify 45
+ 7.4.9. Finished 46
+ 8. Cryptographic computations 47
+ 8.1. Computing the master secret 47
+ 8.1.1. RSA 48
+ 8.1.2. Diffie-Hellman 48
+ 9. Mandatory Cipher Suites 48
+ 10. Application data protocol 48
+ A. Protocol constant values 49
+ A.1. Record layer 49
+ A.2. Change cipher specs message 50
+ A.3. Alert messages 50
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+ A.4. Handshake protocol 51
+ A.4.1. Hello messages 51
+ A.4.2. Server authentication and key exchange messages 52
+ A.4.3. Client authentication and key exchange messages 53
+ A.4.4. Handshake finalization message 54
+ A.5. The CipherSuite 54
+ A.6. The Security Parameters 56
+ B. Glossary 57
+ C. CipherSuite definitions 61
+ D. Implementation Notes 64
+ D.1. Temporary RSA keys 64
+ D.2. Random Number Generation and Seeding 64
+ D.3. Certificates and authentication 65
+ D.4. CipherSuites 65
+ E. Backward Compatibility With SSL 66
+ E.1. Version 2 client hello 67
+ E.2. Avoiding man-in-the-middle version rollback 68
+ F. Security analysis 69
+ F.1. Handshake protocol 69
+ F.1.1. Authentication and key exchange 69
+ F.1.1.1. Anonymous key exchange 69
+ F.1.1.2. RSA key exchange and authentication 70
+ F.1.1.3. Diffie-Hellman key exchange with authentication 71
+ F.1.2. Version rollback attacks 71
+ F.1.3. Detecting attacks against the handshake protocol 72
+ F.1.4. Resuming sessions 72
+ F.1.5. MD5 and SHA 72
+ F.2. Protecting application data 72
+ F.3. Final notes 73
+ G. Patent Statement 74
+ Security Considerations 75
+ References 75
+ Credits 77
+ Comments 78
+ Full Copyright Statement 80
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+Change history |
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+ Note: Change bars in this draft are from RFC 2246, not draft-00 |
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+ 01-Mar-02 ekr@rtfm.com |
+ * Tightened up the language in F.1.1.2 [Peter Watkins] |
+ * Fixed smart quotes [Bodo Moeller] |
+ * Changed handling of padding errors to prevent CBC-based attack |
+ [Bodo Moeller] |
+ * Fixed certificate_list spec in the appendix [Aman Sawrup] |
+ * Fixed a bug in the V2 definitions [Aman Sawrup] |
+ * Fixed S 7.2.1 to point out that you don't need a close notify |
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+ if you just sent some other fatal alert [Andreas Sterbenz] |
+ * Marked alert 41 reserved [Andreas Sterbenz] |
+ * Changed S 7.4.2 to point out that 512-bit keys cannot be used for |
+ signing [Andreas Sterbenz] |
+ * Added reserved client key types from SSLv3 [Andreas Sterbenz] |
+ * Changed EXPORT40 to "40-bit EXPORT" in S 9 [Andreas Sterbenz] |
+ * Removed RSA patent statement [Andreas Sterbenz] |
+ * Removed references to BSAFE and RSAREF [Andreas Sterbenz] |
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+ 14-Feb-02 ekr@rtfm.com |
+ * Re-converted to I-D from RFC |
+ * Made RSA/3DES the mandatory cipher suite. |
+ * Added discussion of the EncryptedPMS encoding and PMS version number|
+ issues to 7.4.7.1 |
+ * Removed the requirement in 7.4.1.3 that the Server random must be |
+ different from the Client random, since these are randomly generated|
+ and we don't expect servers to reject Server random values which |
+ coincidentally are the same as the Client random. |
+ * Replaced may/should/must with MAY/SHOULD/MUST where appropriate. |
+ In many cases, shoulds became MUSTs, where I believed that was the |
+ actual sense of the text. Added an RFC 2119 bulletin. |
+ * Clarified the meaning of "empty certificate" message. [Peter Gutmann]|
+ * Redid the CertificateRequest grammar to allow no distinguished names.|
+ [Peter Gutmann] |
+ * Removed the reference to requiring the master secret to generate |
+ the CertificateVerify in F.1.1 [Bodo Moeller] |
+ * Deprecated EXPORT40. |
+ * Fixed a bunch of errors in the SSLv2 backward compatible client hello.|
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+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:
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+ - - The connection is private. Symmetric cryptography is used for
+ data encryption (e.g., DES [DES], RC4 [RC4], 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.
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+ - - 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.
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+ 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:
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+ - - 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.
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+ - - 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.
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+ - - The negotiation is reliable: no attacker can modify the
+ negotiation communication without being detected by the parties
+ to the communication.
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+ One advantage of TLS is that it is application protocol independent.
+ Higher level protocols can layer on top of the TLS Protocol
+ 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 up to the judgment of the designers and
+ implementors of protocols which run on top of TLS.
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+1.1 Requirements Terminology |
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+ Keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT" and |
+ "MAY" that appear in this document are to be interpreted as described |
+ in RFC 2119 [REQ]. |
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+2. Goals
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+ The goals of TLS Protocol, in order of their priority, are:
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+ 1. Cryptographic security: TLS should be used to establish a secure
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+ connection between two parties.
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+ 2. Interoperability: Independent programmers should be able to
+ develop applications utilizing TLS that will then be able to
+ successfully exchange cryptographic parameters without knowledge
+ of one another's code.
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+ 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: to prevent
+ the need to create a new protocol (and risking the introduction
+ of possible new weaknesses) and to avoid the need to implement an
+ entire new security library.
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+ 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.
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+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 1.0 and SSL 3.0 do not interoperate
+ (although TLS 1.0 does incorporate a mechanism by which a TLS
+ implementation can back down to SSL 3.0). This document is intended
+ primarily for readers who will be implementing the protocol and 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.
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+ This document is not intended to supply any details of service
+ definition nor interface definition, although it does cover select
+ areas of policy as they are required for the maintenance of solid
+ security.
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+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
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+ purpose of this presentation language is to document TLS only, not to
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+ 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:
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+ value = (byte[0] << 8*(n-1)) | (byte[1] << 8*(n-2)) |
+ ... | byte[n-1];
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+ This byte ordering for multi-byte values is the commonplace network
+ byte order or big endian format.
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+4.2. Miscellaneous
+
+ Comments begin with "/*" and end with "*/".
+
+ Optional components are denoted by enclosing them in "[[ ]]" double
+ brackets.
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+ Single byte entities containing uninterpreted data are of type
+ opaque.
+
+4.3. Vectors
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+ 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
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+ T T'[n];
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+ 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.
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+ 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.
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+ opaque Datum[3]; /* three uninterpreted bytes */
+ Datum Data[9]; /* 3 consecutive 3 byte vectors */
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+ Variable length vectors are defined by specifying a subrange of legal
+ lengths, inclusively, using the notation <floor..ceiling>. When
+ 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.
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+ T T'<floor..ceiling>;
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+ 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).
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+ 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.
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+ uint8 uint16[2];
+ uint8 uint24[3];
+ uint8 uint32[4];
+ uint8 uint64[8];
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+ 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.
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+4.5. Enumerateds
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+ 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
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+ 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.
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+ enum { e1(v1), e2(v2), ... , en(vn) [[, (n)]] } Te;
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+ 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.
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+ enum { red(3), blue(5), white(7) } Color;
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+ 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.
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+ 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.
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+ Color color = Color.blue; /* overspecified, legal */
+ Color color = blue; /* correct, type implicit */
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+ For enumerateds that are never converted to external representation,
+ the numerical information may be omitted.
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+ enum { low, medium, high } Amount;
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+4.6. Constructed types
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+ 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.
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+ struct {
+ T1 f1;
+ T2 f2;
+ ...
+ Tn fn;
+ } [[T]];
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+ The fields within a structure may be qualified using the type's name
+ using 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.
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+4.6.1. Variants
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+ 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]];
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+ For example:
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+ 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;
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+ Variant structures may be qualified (narrowed) by specifying a value
+ for the selector prior to the type. For example, a
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+ is a narrowed type of a VariantRecord containing a variant_body of
+ type V2.
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+4.7. Cryptographic attributes
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+ 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 0 or type 1 as described in [PKCS1].
+
+ 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:
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+ Dss-Sig-Value ::= SEQUENCE {
+ r INTEGER,
+ s INTEGER
+ }
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+ In stream cipher encryption, the plaintext is exclusive-ORed with an
+ identical amount of output generated from a cryptographically-secure
+ keyed pseudorandom number generator.
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+ 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 which are block-ciphered
+ will be an exact multiple of the cipher block length.
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+ 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
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+ described in [PKCS1].
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+ In the following example:
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+ stream-ciphered struct {
+ uint8 field1;
+ uint8 field2;
+ digitally-signed opaque hash[20];
+ } UserType;
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+ The contents of hash are used as input for the signing algorithm,
+ then the entire structure is encrypted with a stream cipher. The
+ length of this structure, in bytes would be equal to 2 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
+ due to the fact that the algorithm and key used for the signing are
+ known prior to encoding or decoding this structure.
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+4.8. Constants
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+ 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,
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+ struct {
+ uint8 f1;
+ uint8 f2;
+ } Example1;
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+ 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 required
+ 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,
+ 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,
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+ data). Additional hash algorithms can be defined by cipher suites 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 which should guarantee its security if either
+ algorithm remains secure.
+
+ First, we define a data expansion function, P_hash(secret, data)
+ which uses a single hash function to expand a secret and seed into an
+ arbitrary quantity of output:
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+ P_hash(secret, seed) = HMAC_hash(secret, A(1) + seed) +
+ HMAC_hash(secret, A(2) + seed) +
+ HMAC_hash(secret, A(3) + seed) + ...
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+ Where + indicates concatenation.
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+ A() is defined as:
+ A(0) = seed
+ A(i) = HMAC_hash(secret, A(i-1))
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+ P_hash can be iterated as many times as is necessary to produce the
+ required quantity of data. For example, if P_SHA-1 was being used to
+ create 64 bytes of data, it would have to be iterated 4 times
+ (through A(4)), creating 80 bytes of output data; the last 16 bytes
+ of the final iteration would then be discarded, leaving 64 bytes of
+ output data.
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+ 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-or'ing 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.
+
+ L_S = length in bytes of secret;
+ L_S1 = L_S2 = ceil(L_S / 2);
+
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+ 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-or'ing 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; to generate a 80 byte output will involve P_MD5 being
+ iterated 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, and reassembled, 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.2). If a TLS
+ implementation receives a record type it does not understand, it |
+ SHOULD just ignore it. Any protocol designed for use 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.
+
+
+
+
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+6.1. Connection states
+
+ A TLS connection state is the operating environment of the TLS Record
+ Protocol. It specifies a compression algorithm, encryption algorithm,
+ and MAC algorithm. In addition, the parameters for these algorithms
+ are known: the MAC secret and the bulk encryption keys and IVs 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 Handshake Protocol 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 which 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, the block size of
+ the cipher (if appropriate), and whether it is considered an
+ "export" cipher.
+
+ MAC algorithm
+ An algorithm to be used for message authentication. This
+ specification includes the size of the hash which is returned by
+ the MAC algorithm.
+
+ compression algorithm
+ An algorithm to be used for data compression. This specification
+ must include all information the algorithm requires to do
+ compression.
+
+ master secret
+ A 48 byte secret shared between the two peers in the connection.
+
+ client random
+ A 32 byte value provided by the client.
+
+
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+ 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 } BulkCipherAlgorithm;
+
+ enum { stream, block } CipherType;
+
+ enum { true, false } IsExportable;
+
+ 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;
+ IsExportable is_exportable;
+ 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 six items:
+
+ client write MAC secret
+ server write MAC secret
+ client write key
+ server write key
+ client write IV (for block ciphers only)
+ server write IV (for block ciphers only)
+
+ 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.
+
+
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+ 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. In addition, for block
+ ciphers running in CBC mode (the only mode specified for TLS),
+ this will initially contain the IV for that connection state and
+ be updated to contain the ciphertext of the last block encrypted
+ or decrypted as records are processed. For stream ciphers, this
+ will contain whatever the necessary state information is 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. A sequence number is incremented after each
+ record: specifically, the first record which is 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). |
+
+
+ struct {
+ uint8 major, minor;
+
+
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+ } 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 1.0, which uses the version { 3, 1 }. The
+ version value 3.1 is historical: TLS version 1.0 is 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
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+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+
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+ 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.
+
+ 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 or DES), the encryption and MAC
+ functions convert TLSCompressed.fragment structures to and from block
+ TLSCiphertext.fragment structures.
+
+
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+ block-ciphered struct {
+ 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.
+
+ 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 long, 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 based on analysis of
+ the lengths of exchanged messages. Each uint8 in the padding data |
+ vector MUST be filled with the padding length value.
+
+ 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 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, the length before padding is 82 bytes. 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) the
+ initialization vector (IV) for the first record is generated with
+ the other keys and secrets when the security parameters are set.
+ The IV for subsequent records is the last ciphertext block from
+ the previous record.
+
+
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+6.3. Key calculation
+
+ The Record Protocol requires an algorithm to generate keys, IVs, 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, keys, and non-export IVs 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, a server write key, a client write IV, and a server write IV,
+ which are generated from the master secret in that order. Unused
+ values are empty.
+
+ When generating keys and MAC secrets, the master secret is used as an
+ entropy source, and the random values provide unencrypted salt
+ material and IVs for exportable ciphers.
+
+ 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]
+ client_write_IV[SecurityParameters.IV_size]
+ server_write_IV[SecurityParameters.IV_size]
+
+ The client_write_IV and server_write_IV are only generated for non-
+ export block ciphers. For exportable block ciphers, the
+ initialization vectors are generated later, as described below. Any
+ extra key_block material is discarded.
+
+ Implementation note:
+ The cipher spec which is defined in this document which requires
+ the most material is 3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA: it requires 2 x 24 byte
+ keys, 2 x 20 byte MAC secrets, and 2 x 8 byte IVs, for a total of
+ 104 bytes of key material.
+
+
+
+
+
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+ Exportable encryption algorithms (for which CipherSpec.is_exportable
+ is true) require additional processing as follows to derive their
+ final write keys:
+
+ final_client_write_key =
+ PRF(SecurityParameters.client_write_key,
+ "client write key",
+ SecurityParameters.client_random +
+ SecurityParameters.server_random);
+ final_server_write_key =
+ PRF(SecurityParameters.server_write_key,
+ "server write key",
+ SecurityParameters.client_random +
+ SecurityParameters.server_random);
+
+ Exportable encryption algorithms derive their IVs solely from the
+ random values from the hello messages:
+
+ iv_block = PRF("", "IV block", SecurityParameters.client_random +
+ SecurityParameters.server_random);
+
+ The iv_block is partitioned into two initialization vectors as the
+ key_block was above:
+
+ client_write_IV[SecurityParameters.IV_size]
+ server_write_IV[SecurityParameters.IV_size]
+
+ Note that the PRF is used without a secret in this case: this just
+ means that the secret has a length of zero bytes and contributes
+ nothing to the hashing in the PRF.
+
+6.3.1. Export key generation example
+
+ TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5 requires five random bytes for
+ each of the two encryption keys and 16 bytes for each of the MAC
+ keys, for a total of 42 bytes of key material. The PRF output is
+ stored in the key_block. The key_block is partitioned, and the write
+ keys are salted because this is an exportable encryption algorithm.
+
+ key_block = PRF(master_secret,
+ "key expansion",
+ server_random +
+ client_random)[0..41]
+ client_write_MAC_secret = key_block[0..15]
+ server_write_MAC_secret = key_block[16..31]
+ client_write_key = key_block[32..36]
+ server_write_key = key_block[37..41]
+
+
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+ final_client_write_key = PRF(client_write_key,
+ "client write key",
+ client_random +
+ server_random)[0..15]
+ final_server_write_key = PRF(server_write_key,
+ "server write key",
+ client_random +
+ server_random)[0..15]
+
+ iv_block = PRF("", "IV block", client_random +
+ server_random)[0..15]
+ client_write_IV = iv_block[0..7]
+ server_write_IV = iv_block[8..15]
+
+7. The TLS Handshake Protocol
+
+ The TLS Handshake Protocol consists of a suite of three sub-protocols
+ which are used to allow peers to agree upon security parameters for
+ the record layer, authenticate themselves, instantiate negotiated
+ security parameters, and report error conditions to each other.
+
+ 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.
+
+
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+ 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 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. |
+ 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).
+
+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),
+
+
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+ 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(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. The session MUST not be |
+ resumed if any connection is terminated without proper
+ close_notify messages with level equal to warning.
+
+ 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.
+
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+ 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
+ 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.
+
+ NB: 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 an 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. 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 |
+ This alert is returned if a record is received with an incorrect |
+ MAC. This alert also SHOULD 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.
+
+ 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. |
+
+ NB: Differentiating between bad_record_mac and decryption_failed |
+ alerts may permit certain attacks against CBC mode as used in |
+ TLS. It is preferable to uniformly use the bad_record_mac alert |
+ to hide the specific type of the error. |
+
+
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+ record_overflow
+ A TLSCiphertext record was received which 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.
+
+ 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
+
+
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+ applied, the sender decided not to proceed with negotiation.
+ This message is always fatal.
+
+ 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
+ A negotiation not in compliance with export restrictions was
+ detected; for example, attempting to transfer a 1024 bit
+ ephemeral RSA key for the RSA_EXPORT handshake method. This
+ message is always fatal.
+
+ 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 makes it impossible to continue (such as a memory
+ allocation failure). 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;
+
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+ at that point, the original requester can decide whether to
+ proceed with the connection. One case where this would be
+ appropriate would be 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 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
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+ receiving party MAY decide at its discretion whether to treat this as |
+ a fatal error or not. However, all messages which are transmitted |
+ with a level of fatal MUST be treated as fatal messages.
+
+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 TLS always
+ negotiating the strongest possible connection between two peers:
+ there are a number of ways 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 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.
+
+
+
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+ However, you SHOULD never send data over a link encrypted with 40 bit |
+ security unless you feel 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 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 which 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 their 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. Now 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-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
+
+
+
+
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+ 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.)
+
+ 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. 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.
+
+
+
+
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+ 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;
+ 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;
+
+
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+ 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 described only in its first position. The one
+ message which is not bound by these ordering rules in 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.
+
+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
+ 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 which are |
+ maintained throughout the handshake and used in the finished
+ messages and the certificate verify message.
+
+
+
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+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) 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.
+
+ 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, this connection, or 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, while 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 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>;
+
+
+
+
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+ 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.
+
+ 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 3.1 (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 the
+ client wishes to generate new security parameters.
+
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+ 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 for a
+ client hello message to include extra data after the compression |
+ methods. This data MUST be included 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 |
+ XXXX [Extensions]. |
+
+7.4.1.3. Server hello
+
+ When this message will be sent:
+ 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;
+
+
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+ 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 3.1 (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.
+
+ 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 which matches the key exchange
+ method, as follows. Unless otherwise specified, the signing
+
+
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+ 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.
+
+ Key Exchange Algorithm Certificate Key Type
+
+ RSA RSA public key; the certificate MUST |
+ allow the key to be used for encryption.
+
+ RSA_EXPORT RSA public key of length greater than
+ 512 bits which can be used for signing,
+ or a key of 512 bits or shorter which
+ can be used for encryption. |
+
+ DHE_DSS DSS public key.
+
+ DHE_DSS_EXPORT DSS public key.
+
+ DHE_RSA RSA public key which can be used for
+ signing.
+
+ DHE_RSA_EXPORT RSA public key which 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, 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 which 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;
+
+
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+ 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 which 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
+ 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:
+
+ RSA_EXPORT (if the public key in the server certificate is
+ longer than 512 bits)
+ DHE_DSS
+ DHE_DSS_EXPORT
+ DHE_RSA
+ DHE_RSA_EXPORT
+ DH_anon
+
+ It is not legal to send the server key exchange message for the
+ following key exchange methods:
+
+ RSA
+ RSA_EXPORT (when the public key in the server certificate is
+ less than or equal to 512 bits in length)
+ DH_DSS
+ DH_RSA
+
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+ Meaning of this message:
+ This message conveys cryptographic information to allow the
+ client to communicate the premaster secret: either an RSA public
+ key to encrypt the premaster secret with, 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 which 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.
+
+ Note: According to current US export law, RSA moduli larger than 512
+ bits may not be used for key exchange in software exported from
+ the US. With this message, the larger RSA keys encoded in
+ certificates may be used to sign temporary shorter RSA keys for
+ the RSA_EXPORT key exchange method.
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
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+
+ struct {
+ select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
+ case diffie_hellman:
+ ServerDHParams params;
+ Signature signed_params;
+ case rsa:
+ ServerRSAParams params;
+ Signature signed_params;
+ };
+ } ServerKeyExchange;
+
+ 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;
+
+ 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 appropriate for the selected cipher suite. This
+ message, if sent, will immediately follow the Server Key Exchange
+ message (if it is sent; otherwise, the Server Certificate
+ message).
+
+
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+
+ 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<3..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 both to describe known roots
+ and a desired authorization space.
+
+ Note: values listed as RESERVED may not be used. They were |
+ used in SSLv3. |
+
+
+ Note: DistinguishedName is derived from [X509].
+
+ Note: It is a fatal handshake_failure alert for an anonymous server to
+ request client identification.
+
+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 |
+
+
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+
+ 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: I.e. the certificate_list structure |
+ should have 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.
+
+ 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 will immediately
+ follow the client certificate message, if it is sent. Otherwise
+ it will 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 which 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 which 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:
+
+
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+
+ 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 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, 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 which is using PKCS#1 encoded RSA. The
+
+
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+
+ 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 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 it receives an
+ incorrectly formatted RSA block, a server 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.
+
+ Implementation Note: public-key-encrypted data is represented as an |
+ opaque vector <0..2^16-1> (see S. 4.7). Thus the RSA-encrypted |
+ PreMaster Secret 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 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. |
+
+ Note: The version number in the PreMasterSecret is that offered by the |
+ client, 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 Server implementations MAY check the version |
+ number. In practice, since there are no significant known |
+ security differences between TLS and SSLv3, rollback to SSLv3 is |
+ not believed to be a serious security risk.
+
+7.4.7.2. Client Diffie-Hellman public value
+
+ Meaning of this message:
+ This structure conveys the client's Diffie-Hellman public value
+
+
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+
+ (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, 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 will 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 will immediately follow the client key exchange message.
+
+ Structure of this message:
+ struct {
+ Signature signature;
+ } CertificateVerify;
+
+ The Signature type is defined in 7.4.3.
+
+ CertificateVerify.signature.md5_hash
+ MD5(handshake_messages);
+
+ Certificate.signature.sha_hash
+ SHA(handshake_messages);
+
+
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+
+ 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];
+
+ 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 handshake 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
+
+
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+
+ 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 which 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+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.
+
+ 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. |
+
+ The 40-bit cipher suites are known to be susceptible to exhaustive |
+ search attack by commercial attackers. Implementations of this |
+ document SHOULD disable them by default if they are supported at all. |
+ A future version of this document may remove them entirely.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+A. Protocol constant values
+
+ This section describes protocol types and constants.
+
+A.1. Record layer
+
+ struct {
+ uint8 major, minor;
+ } ProtocolVersion;
+
+ ProtocolVersion version = { 3, 1 }; /* TLS v1.0 */
+
+ 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 content[TLSCompressed.length];
+
+
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+
+ 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(60),
+ protocol_version(70),
+ insufficient_security(71),
+ internal_error(80),
+ user_canceled(90),
+ no_renegotiation(100),
+ (255)
+ } AlertDescription;
+
+ struct {
+ AlertLevel level;
+ AlertDescription description;
+ } Alert;
+
+
+
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+
+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>;
+
+
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+
+ } 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;
+
+ select (SignatureAlgorithm)
+ { case anonymous: struct { };
+ case rsa:
+ digitally-signed struct {
+
+
+
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+
+ 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: DiffieHellmanClientPublicValue;
+ } exchange_keys;
+ } ClientKeyExchange;
+
+ struct {
+ ProtocolVersion client_version;
+ opaque random[46];
+
+ } PreMasterSecret;
+
+ struct {
+ public-key-encrypted PreMasterSecret pre_master_secret;
+ } EncryptedPreMasterSecret;
+
+ enum { implicit, explicit } PublicValueEncoding;
+
+ struct {
+ select (PublicValueEncoding) {
+
+
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+
+ 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
+ 1.0.
+
+ 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.
+
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5 = { 0x00,0x01 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA = { 0x00,0x02 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x03 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 = { 0x00,0x04 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0x00,0x05 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x06 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x07 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x08 };
+ 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.
+
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+ 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, which 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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0B };
+ 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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x0E };
+ 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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x11 };
+ 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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x14 };
+ 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_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 = { 0x00,0x17 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 = { 0x00,0x18 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x19 };
+ CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x1A };
+ CipherSuite TLS_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00,0x1B };
+
+ Note: All cipher suites whose first byte is 0xFF are considered
+ private and can be used for defining local/experimental
+ algorithms. Interoperability of such types is a local matter.
+
+ Note: Additional cipher suites can be registered by publishing an RFC
+ which specifies the cipher suites, including the necessary TLS
+ protocol information, including message encoding, premaster
+ secret derivation, symmetric encryption and MAC calculation and
+ appropriate reference information for the algorithms involved.
+ The RFC editor's office may, at its discretion, choose to publish
+ specifications for cipher suites which are not completely
+ described (e.g., for classified algorithms) if it finds the
+ specification to be of technical interest and completely
+
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+ specified.
+
+ 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, idea }
+ BulkCipherAlgorithm;
+
+ enum { stream, block } CipherType;
+
+ enum { true, false } IsExportable;
+
+ enum { null, md5, sha } MACAlgorithm;
+
+ /* 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;
+ IsExportable is_exportable;
+ MACAlgorithm mac_algorithm;
+ uint8 hash_size;
+ CompressionMethod compression_algorithm;
+ opaque master_secret[48];
+ opaque client_random[32];
+ opaque server_random[32];
+ } SecurityParameters;
+
+
+
+
+
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+B. Glossary
+
+ 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).
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
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+ 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]
+
+ 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]
+
+
+
+
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+ 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].
+
+ RC4
+ A stream cipher licensed by RSA Data Security [RSADSI]. A
+ compatible cipher is described in [RC4].
+
+ RSA
+ A very widely used public-key algorithm that can be used for
+ either encryption or digital signing. [RSA]
+
+ salt
+ Non-secret random data used to make export encryption keys resist
+ precomputation attacks.
+
+ server
+ The server is the application entity that responds to requests
+ for connections from clients. See also under client.
+
+
+
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+ 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, which 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 180-1. 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
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+C. CipherSuite definitions
+
+CipherSuite Is Key Cipher Hash
+ Exportable Exchange
+
+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_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 * RSA_EXPORT RC4_40 MD5
+TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 RSA RC4_128 MD5
+TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA RSA RC4_128 SHA
+TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5 * RSA_EXPORT RC2_CBC_40 MD5
+TLS_RSA_WITH_IDEA_CBC_SHA RSA IDEA_CBC SHA
+TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA * RSA_EXPORT DES40_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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA * DH_DSS_EXPORT DES40_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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA * DH_RSA_EXPORT DES40_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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA * DHE_DSS_EXPORT DES40_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_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA * DHE_RSA_EXPORT DES40_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_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 * DH_anon_EXPORT RC4_40 MD5
+TLS_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 DH_anon RC4_128 MD5
+TLS_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA DH_anon DES40_CBC SHA
+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
+
+
+ * Indicates IsExportable is True
+
+ Key
+ Exchange
+ Algorithm Description Key size limit
+
+ DHE_DSS Ephemeral DH with DSS signatures None
+ DHE_DSS_EXPORT Ephemeral DH with DSS signatures DH = 512 bits
+ DHE_RSA Ephemeral DH with RSA signatures None
+ DHE_RSA_EXPORT Ephemeral DH with RSA signatures DH = 512 bits,
+ RSA = none
+ DH_anon Anonymous DH, no signatures None
+ DH_anon_EXPORT Anonymous DH, no signatures DH = 512 bits
+
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+ DH_DSS DH with DSS-based certificates None
+ DH_DSS_EXPORT DH with DSS-based certificates DH = 512 bits
+ DH_RSA DH with RSA-based certificates None
+ DH_RSA_EXPORT DH with RSA-based certificates DH = 512 bits,
+ RSA = none
+ NULL No key exchange N/A
+ RSA RSA key exchange None
+ RSA_EXPORT RSA key exchange RSA = 512 bits
+
+ Key size limit
+ The key size limit gives the size of the largest public key that
+ can be legally used for encryption in cipher suites that are
+ exportable.
+
+ Key Expanded Effective IV Block
+ Cipher Type Material Key Material Key Bits Size Size
+
+ NULL * Stream 0 0 0 0 N/A
+ IDEA_CBC Block 16 16 128 8 8
+ RC2_CBC_40 * Block 5 16 40 8 8
+ RC4_40 * Stream 5 16 40 0 N/A
+ RC4_128 Stream 16 16 128 0 N/A
+ DES40_CBC * Block 5 8 40 8 8
+ DES_CBC Block 8 8 56 8 8
+ 3DES_EDE_CBC Block 24 24 168 8 8
+
+ * Indicates IsExportable is true.
+
+ 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
+
+ Effective Key Bits
+ How much entropy material is in the key material being fed into
+ the encryption routines.
+
+ IV Size
+ How much data needs to be generated for the initialization
+ vector. Zero for stream ciphers; equal to the block size for
+ block ciphers.
+
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+ 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
+
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+D. Implementation Notes
+
+ The TLS protocol cannot prevent many common security mistakes. This
+ section provides several recommendations to assist implementors.
+
+D.1. Temporary RSA keys
+
+ US Export restrictions limit RSA keys used for encryption to 512
+ bits, but do not place any limit on lengths of RSA keys used for
+ signing operations. Certificates often need to be larger than 512
+ bits, since 512-bit RSA keys are not secure enough for high-value
+ transactions or for applications requiring long-term security. Some
+ certificates are also designated signing-only, in which case they
+ cannot be used for key exchange.
+
+ When the public key in the certificate cannot be used for encryption,
+ the server signs a temporary RSA key, which is then exchanged. In
+ exportable applications, the temporary RSA key should be the maximum
+ allowable length (i.e., 512 bits). Because 512-bit RSA keys are
+ relatively insecure, they should be changed often. For typical
+ electronic commerce applications, it is suggested that keys be
+ changed daily or every 500 transactions, and more often if possible.
+ Note that while it is acceptable to use the same temporary key for
+ multiple transactions, it must be signed each time it is used.
+
+ RSA key generation is a time-consuming process. In many cases, a low-
+ priority process can be assigned the task of key generation.
+
+ Whenever a new key is completed, the existing temporary key can be
+ replaced with the new one.
+
+D.2. 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. To seed a 128-bit PRNG, one
+ would thus require approximately 100 such timer values.
+
+D.3. Certificates and authentication
+
+
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+ 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.4. CipherSuites
+
+ TLS supports a range of key sizes and security levels, including some
+ which 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.
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+E. Backward Compatibility With SSL
+
+ For historical reasons and in order to avoid a profligate consumption
+ of reserved port numbers, application protocols which are secured by
+ 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 version 1.0 and SSL 3.0 are very similar; thus, supporting both
+ is easy. TLS clients who wish to negotiate with SSL 3.0 servers
+ should send client hello messages using the SSL 3.0 record format and
+ client hello structure, sending {3, 1} for the version field to note
+ that they support TLS 1.0. If the server supports only SSL 3.0, it
+ will respond with an SSL 3.0 server hello; if it supports TLS, with a
+ TLS server hello. The negotiation then proceeds as appropriate for
+ the negotiated protocol.
+
+ Similarly, a TLS server which wishes to interoperate with SSL 3.0
+ clients should accept SSL 3.0 client hello messages and respond with
+ an SSL 3.0 server hello if an SSL 3.0 client hello is received which
+ has a version field of {3, 0}, denoting that this client does not
+ support TLS.
+
+ 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 1.0 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.
+
+ 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 };
+
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+ 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 };
+
+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;
+
+ 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
+
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+
+
+ 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. |
+
+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.
+
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+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
+ 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
+
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+ 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 that 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 may be either 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 or
+ DSS 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
+ 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
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+ 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
+ can 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.
+
+ 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 so 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
+
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+ 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 be using 40-bit
+ encryption keys anyway. 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. Because many implementations will support 40-bit
+ exportable encryption and some may even support null encryption or
+ MAC algorithms, this attack is of particular concern.
+
+ 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.
+
+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
+
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+ 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.
+
+ 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. 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
+
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+ 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.
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+G. Patent Statement
+
+ Netscape Communications Corporation (now America Online) has a patent |
+ claim on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) work that this standard is |
+ based on. The Internet Standards Process as defined in RFC 2026 |
+ requests that a statement be obtained from a Patent holder indicating |
+ that a license will be made available to applicants under reasonable |
+ terms and conditions.
+
+ Secure Socket Layer Application Program Apparatus And Method
+ ("SSL"), No. 5,657,390
+
+ Netscape Communications has issued the following statement:
+
+ Intellectual Property Rights
+
+ Secure Sockets Layer
+
+ The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("the PTO")
+ recently issued U.S. Patent No. 5,657,390 ("the SSL Patent") to
+ Netscape for inventions described as Secure Sockets Layers
+ ("SSL"). The IETF is currently considering adopting SSL as a
+ transport protocol with security features. Netscape encourages
+ the royalty-free adoption and use of the SSL protocol upon the
+ following terms and conditions:
+
+ * If you already have a valid SSL Ref license today which
+ includes source code from Netscape, an additional patent
+ license under the SSL patent is not required.
+
+ * If you don't have an SSL Ref license, you may have a royalty
+ free license to build implementations covered by the SSL
+ Patent Claims or the IETF TLS specification provided that you
+ do not to assert any patent rights against Netscape or other
+ companies for the implementation of SSL or the IETF TLS
+ recommendation.
+
+ What are "Patent Claims":
+
+ Patent claims are claims in an issued foreign or domestic patent
+ that:
+
+ 1) must be infringed in order to implement methods or build
+ products according to the IETF TLS specification; or
+
+ 2) patent claims which require the elements of the SSL patent
+ claims and/or their equivalents to be infringed.
+
+
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+ The Internet Society, Internet Architecture Board, Internet
+ Engineering Steering Group and the Corporation for National Research
+ Initiatives take no position on the validity or scope of the patents
+ and patent applications, nor on the appropriateness of the terms of
+ the assurance. The Internet Society and other groups mentioned above
+ have not made any determination as to any other intellectual property
+ rights which may apply to the practice of this standard. Any further
+ consideration of these matters is the user's own responsibility.
+
+Security Considerations
+
+ Security issues are discussed throughout this memo.
+
+References
+
+ [3DES] W. Tuchman, "Hellman Presents No Shortcut Solutions To DES,"
+ IEEE Spectrum, v. 16, n. 7, July 1979, pp40-41.
+
+ [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.
+
+ [DES] ANSI X3.106, "American National Standard for Information
+ Systems-Data Link Encryption," American National Standards
+ Institute, 1983.
+
+ [DH1] W. Diffie and M. E. Hellman, "New Directions in
+ Cryptography," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, V.
+ IT-22, n. 6, Jun 1977, pp. 74-84.
+
+ [DSS] NIST FIPS PUB 186, "Digital Signature Standard," National
+ Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of
+ Commerce, May 18, 1994.
+
+ [FTP] Postel J., and J. Reynolds, "File Transfer Protocol", STD 9,
+ RFC 959, October 1985.
+
+ [HTTP] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and H. Frystyk, "Hypertext
+ Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0", RFC 1945, May 1996.
+
+ [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.
+
+
+
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+ [MD2] Kaliski, B., "The MD2 Message Digest Algorithm", RFC 1319,
+ April 1992.
+
+ [MD5] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321,
+ April 1992.
+
+ [PKCS1] RSA Laboratories, "PKCS #1: RSA Encryption Standard,"
+ version 1.5, November 1993.
+
+ [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.
+
+ [PKIX] Housley, R., Ford, W., Polk, W. and D. Solo, "Internet
+ Public Key Infrastructure: Part I: X.509 Certificate and CRL
+ Profile", RFC 2459, January 1999.
+
+ [RC2] Rivest, R., "A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption
+ Algorithm", RFC 2268, January 1998.
+
+ [RC4] Thayer, R. and K. Kaukonen, A Stream Cipher Encryption
+ Algorithm, Work in Progress.
+
+ [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.
+
+ [RSADSI] Contact RSA Data Security, Inc., Tel: 415-595-8782
+
+ [SCH] B. Schneier. Applied Cryptography: Protocols,
+ Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Published by John Wiley &
+ Sons, Inc. 1994.
+
+ [SHA] NIST FIPS PUB 180-1, "Secure Hash Standard," National
+ Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of
+ Commerce, Work in Progress, May 31, 1994.
+
+ [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] R. Zuccherato, "Methods for Avoiding the Small- |
+ Subgroup Attacks on the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method |
+
+
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+ for S/MIME", RFC 2785, March 2000. |
+
+ [REQ] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate |
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
+
+ [TCP] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol," STD 7, RFC 793,
+ September 1981.
+
+ [TEL] Postel J., and J. Reynolds, "Telnet Protocol
+ Specifications", STD 8, RFC 854, May 1993.
+
+ [TEL] Postel J., and J. Reynolds, "Telnet Option
+ Specifications", STD 8, RFC 855, May 1993.
+
+ [X509] CCITT. Recommendation X.509: "The Directory - Authentication
+ Framework". 1988.
+
+ [XDR] R. Srinivansan, Sun Microsystems, RFC-1832: XDR: External
+ Data Representation Standard, August 1995.
+
+Credits
+
+ Win Treese
+ Open Market
+
+ EMail: treese@openmarket.com
+
+
+ Editors
+
+ Tim Dierks Eric Rescorla |
+ Certicom RTFM, Inc. |
+
+ EMail: tim@dierks.org EMail: ekr@rtfm.com |
+
+
+ Authors' Addresses
+
+ Tim Dierks Philip L. Karlton
+ Certicom Netscape Communications
+
+ EMail: tdierks@certicom.com
+
+ Alan O. Freier Paul C. Kocher
+ Netscape Communications Independent Consultant
+
+ EMail: freier@netscape.com EMail: pck@netcom.com
+
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+ Other contributors
+
+ Martin Abadi Robert Relyea
+ Digital Equipment Corporation Netscape Communications
+
+ EMail: ma@pa.dec.com EMail: relyea@netscape.com
+
+ Ran Canetti Jim Roskind
+ IBM Watson Research Center Netscape Communications
+
+ EMail: canetti@watson.ibm.com EMail: jar@netscape.com
+
+
+ Taher Elgamal Micheal J. Sabin, Ph. D.
+ Securify Consulting Engineer
+
+ EMail: elgamal@securify.com EMail: msabin@netcom.com
+
+
+ Anil R. Gangolli Dan Simon
+ Structured Arts Computing Corp. Microsoft
+
+ EMail: gangolli@structuredarts.com EMail: dansimon@microsoft.com
+
+
+ Kipp E.B. Hickman Tom Weinstein
+ Netscape Communications Netscape Communications
+
+ EMail: kipp@netscape.com EMail: tomw@netscape.com
+
+
+ Hugo Krawczyk |
+ IBM Watson Research Center |
+
+ EMail: hugo@watson.ibm.com
+
+Comments
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