TLS Encrypted Client Hello
draft-ietf-tls-esni-07
tls E. Rescorla
Internet-Draft RTFM, Inc.
Intended status: Experimental K. Oku
Expires: 3 December 2020 Fastly
N. Sullivan
C.A. Wood
Cloudflare
1 June 2020
TLS Encrypted Client Hello
draft-ietf-tls-esni-07
Abstract
This document describes a mechanism in Transport Layer Security (TLS)
for encrypting a ClientHello message under a server public key.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Encrypted ClientHello Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. The "encrypted_client_hello" extension . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. The "ech_nonce" extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.1. Incorporating Outer Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Client Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.1. Sending an encrypted ClientHello . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.2. Recommended Padding Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.3. Handling the server response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.3.1. Accepted ECH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.3.2. Rejected ECH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.3.3. HelloRetryRequest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.4. GREASE extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. Client-Facing Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9. Compatibility Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
9.1. Misconfiguration and Deployment Concerns . . . . . . . . 18
9.2. Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10.1. Why is cleartext DNS OK? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10.2. Client Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
10.3. Optional Record Digests and Trial Decryption . . . . . . 20
10.4. Related Privacy Leaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
10.5. Comparison Against Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.5.1. Mitigate against replay attacks . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.5.2. Avoid widely-deployed shared secrets . . . . . . . . 21
10.5.3. Prevent SNI-based DoS attacks . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.5.4. Do not stick out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.5.5. Forward secrecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.5.6. Proper security context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.5.7. Split server spoofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.5.8. Supporting multiple protocols . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.6. Padding Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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