TCP-ENO: Encryption Negotiation Option
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Network Working Group A. Bittau
Internet-Draft Google
Intended status: Experimental D. Boneh
Expires: May 4, 2017 D. Giffin
Stanford University
M. Handley
University College London
D. Mazieres
Stanford University
E. Smith
Kestrel Institute
October 31, 2016
TCP-ENO: Encryption Negotiation Option
draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpeno-06
Abstract
Despite growing adoption of TLS [RFC5246], a significant fraction of
TCP traffic on the Internet remains unencrypted. The persistence of
unencrypted traffic can be attributed to at least two factors.
First, some legacy protocols lack a signaling mechanism (such as a
"STARTTLS" command) by which to convey support for encryption, making
incremental deployment impossible. Second, legacy applications
themselves cannot always be upgraded, requiring a way to implement
encryption transparently entirely within the transport layer. The
TCP Encryption Negotiation Option (TCP-ENO) addresses both of these
problems through a new TCP option kind providing out-of-band, fully
backward-compatible negotiation of encryption.
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Table of Contents
1. Requirements language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Design goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. TCP-ENO specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. ENO option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. The global suboption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3. TCP-ENO roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4. Specifying suboption data length . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.5. The negotiated TEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.6. TCP-ENO handshake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.7. Data in SYN segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.8. Negotiation transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Requirements for TEPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1. Session IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7. Design rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1. Future developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.2. Handshake robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.3. Suboption data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.4. Passive role bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.5. Option kind sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8. Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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