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Internet Research Task Force                                     Harkins
Internet-Draft                                             HP Enterprise
Intended status: Informational                        September 12, 2016
Expires: March 16, 2017

                                  PKEX
                         draft-harkins-pkex-00

Abstract

   This memo describes a password-authenticated protocol to allow two
   devices to exchange "raw" (uncertified) public keys and establish
   trust that the keys belong to their respective identities.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.2.  Notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Properties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Protocol Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Exchange Phase  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.2.  Commit Phase  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.3.  Reveal Phase  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Appendix A.  Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   Many authenticated key exchange protocols allow for authentication
   using uncertified, or "raw", public keys, for example TLS
   ([RFC7250]), or IKEv2 ([RFC7670]) Usually these specifications state
   that "establishing trust in raw public keys is outside the scope of
   this standard."  The Public Key Exchange (PKEX) is designed to fill
   that gap and enable the establishment of trust in public keys that
   can subsequently be used to faccilitate authentication in other
   authentication and key exchange protocols.

1.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

1.2.  Notation

   This memo describes a cryptographic exchange using sets of elements
   called groups.  Groups can be either traditional finite field or can
   be based on elliptic curves.  The public keys exchanged by PKEX are
   elements in a group.  Elements in groups are denoted in upper-case
   and scalar values are denoted with lower-case.  The generator of the
   group is G.

   When both the initator and responder use a similar, but unique, datum
   it is denoted by appending an "i" for initiator or "r" for responder,

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   e.g. if each side needs an element C then the initiator's is Ci and
   the responder's is Cr.

   During the exchange, one side will generate data and the other side
   will attempt to reconstruct it.  The reconstructed data is "primed".