Remote Procedure Call Encryption By Default
draft-cel-nfsv4-rpc-tls-01

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Network File System Version 4                               T. Myklebust
Internet-Draft                                               Hammerspace
Updates: 5531 (if approved)                                C. Lever, Ed.
Intended status: Standards Track                                  Oracle
Expires: May 23, 2019                                  November 19, 2018

              Remote Procedure Call Encryption By Default
                       draft-cel-nfsv4-rpc-tls-01

Abstract

   This document describes a mechanism that enables encryption of in-
   transit Remote Procedure Call (RPC) transactions with little
   administrative overhead and full interoperation with RPC
   implementations that do not support this mechanism.  This document
   updates RFC 5531.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  RPC-Over-TLS in Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Discovering Server-side TLS Support . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.2.  Streams and Datagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.3.  Authentication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   In 2014 the IETF published [RFC7258] which recognized that
   unauthorized observation of network traffic had become widespread and
   was a subversive threat to all who make use of the Internet at large.
   It strongly recommended that newly defined Internet protocols make a
   real effort to mitigate monitoring attacks.  Typically this
   mitigation is done by encrypting data in transit.

   The Remote Procedure Call version 2 protocol has been around for
   three decades (see [RFC5531] and its antecedants).  Eisler et al.
   first introduced an in-transit encryption mechanism for RPC with
   RPCSEC GSS years ago [RFC2203].  However, experience has shown that
   RPCSEC GSS is challenging to deploy, especially in environments
   where:

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